Rebelle Society

I Am the Dragon, Do You Know What That Means?

I carry eons in my claws and infinity in my teeth -- if you peel back my scales, you’ll find everything beneath. Yet… yet… I need you as much as you need me, for what is infinity without minds to grasp it? What is fire without forests to burn? What is laughter if no mountains crumble, and what ...

world

Paper Dolls, Paper Nights: Tasting The Dark Of My Shadow Self.

You cannot take the night from me, I tell them with my eyes, the doorways and the blinking neon. You cannot take my steps. Do you not know that I am my own escort?

world

The Day I Befriended My Voice.

As a therapist, I understand we play old patterns in our lives, but it is not on purpose, and we need to be careful when we discuss such situations placing too much responsibility on the victimized person rather than the ones who perpetrated the abuse.

world

What I Learned On My Vision Quest In Costa Rica.

I came undone emotionally, spiritually and physically. I never cried so much in my life. At one point, I remember I had a dream that I was home in New Jersey, and when I woke up, I looked up at my mosquito net in my own pile of sweat, and bawled my eyes out. My ego wouldn’t let me share this ...

archives, yoga

Office Worker By Day And Superhero By Night?

{poetry}

I Found My Brave.

By Carolyn RIker

troublemakers

Rewriting The Story Of Emotional Abuse.

{source} I’m pretty certain if you knew my story, you wouldn’t think what I have thought about myself for all the years since I left my marriage and for many of the years I was in it. You wouldn’t think that I was a bad mother. You certainly would not think I was one who abandoned her children ...