This is Theresa. Theresa doesn’t like talking about herself in the third person, so she’ll change over to I now.
Hi! I’m her. The bleeder of ink. The drinker of coffee. The one who writes the stories and poems that end up on this site. I am a Pisces moon and a Gemini Mercury, and for those of you that don’t speak astrology, in essence what that means is that I feel deeply and am endlessly curious (and fast-paced curious – think of an intellectual squirrel and that’s essentially my brain at work). When I think of how to describe myself, the obvious this-is-what-you-say-to-pleasant-strangers-at-a-party stuff comes to mind, but so does my heart and soul, my experiences, my passions, and my interests. |
How do I list all of that on an About Me page?
The ideas come rushing forth and bottleneck so severely that I am left with a blank page.
So let’s just hit the highlights, shall we?
I am a writer, wife, mom, student, thrift shopper, maker, and diy-er.
I’m fairly weird and not most people’s definition of fun. I like to talk about things like would your morals slip if you were a 500-year-old immortal? What have you found in your shadowlands lately? What is your favorite tarot card and why? And do you think our natal charts are blueprints for our lives?
I am a reincarnated phoenix many times over; an esoteric, other-worldly being that doesn’t like spiritual labels because they confine me in boxes that never feel like home. What does feel like home? Astrology, tarot, Astrotheology, ancient knowledge, goddesses, crystals, and energy work, to name the majority.
I have a love for things that are morbid and macabre, though only to a certain extent. Think Edgar Allan Poe, Tim Burton, Persephone, and the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series. You'll see this reflected in my work, though I likely won't make you light-headed or cause you to pass out like Chuck Palahniuk has been known to do. This is likely because I don't deal with real-life blood and gore very well at all. Nonetheless, cutting-my-heart-out-of-my-chest and emerging-from-a-skin-suit metaphors suit me.
Speaking of Tim Burton, I’ve always loved Sally from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Perhaps this was because when she fell from the tower, she stitched herself back up and wasn’t afraid to let her stitches show. I related to her in this way, because I stitch myself back together, too, no matter how messy or painful it is. I want my scars and stitches to show like Sally's so others know they aren’t alone in their struggles. This is one of the reasons this site is here. It's one of the driving factors not for why I write, but for why I share my work and my experiences.
A large part of what I share will have to do with shadow work and all that entails: the painful disarray of healing, the conversations I have had with my demons, and the phoenix metamorphosis moments that aren't just about spreading wings and soaring, but are about hiding away in a cocoon, alone, and turning to goo and realizing when those wings are dried in the sun that holy shit the idea of flying is scary.
Shadow work is a huge part of my life. It is a huge part of me, and of my writing. Words escape me when I try to relay how important it (and the healing that comes from it) truly are. “Love and light” have plenty of space here, but when the sole focus is on “good vibes only” the darkness and the beasts that created it get larger and hungrier, despite best efforts to keep them tucked away. Shadow work, aka the uncomfortable practice of dragging your demons into the light and figuring out what makes them tick, is the only way to truly defeat all the uglies lingering in a heart and soul.
Well folks, that’s me in a nutshell, as long as coffee is involved. And the occasional Chuck Norris joke.
The ideas come rushing forth and bottleneck so severely that I am left with a blank page.
So let’s just hit the highlights, shall we?
I am a writer, wife, mom, student, thrift shopper, maker, and diy-er.
I’m fairly weird and not most people’s definition of fun. I like to talk about things like would your morals slip if you were a 500-year-old immortal? What have you found in your shadowlands lately? What is your favorite tarot card and why? And do you think our natal charts are blueprints for our lives?
I am a reincarnated phoenix many times over; an esoteric, other-worldly being that doesn’t like spiritual labels because they confine me in boxes that never feel like home. What does feel like home? Astrology, tarot, Astrotheology, ancient knowledge, goddesses, crystals, and energy work, to name the majority.
I have a love for things that are morbid and macabre, though only to a certain extent. Think Edgar Allan Poe, Tim Burton, Persephone, and the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series. You'll see this reflected in my work, though I likely won't make you light-headed or cause you to pass out like Chuck Palahniuk has been known to do. This is likely because I don't deal with real-life blood and gore very well at all. Nonetheless, cutting-my-heart-out-of-my-chest and emerging-from-a-skin-suit metaphors suit me.
Speaking of Tim Burton, I’ve always loved Sally from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Perhaps this was because when she fell from the tower, she stitched herself back up and wasn’t afraid to let her stitches show. I related to her in this way, because I stitch myself back together, too, no matter how messy or painful it is. I want my scars and stitches to show like Sally's so others know they aren’t alone in their struggles. This is one of the reasons this site is here. It's one of the driving factors not for why I write, but for why I share my work and my experiences.
A large part of what I share will have to do with shadow work and all that entails: the painful disarray of healing, the conversations I have had with my demons, and the phoenix metamorphosis moments that aren't just about spreading wings and soaring, but are about hiding away in a cocoon, alone, and turning to goo and realizing when those wings are dried in the sun that holy shit the idea of flying is scary.
Shadow work is a huge part of my life. It is a huge part of me, and of my writing. Words escape me when I try to relay how important it (and the healing that comes from it) truly are. “Love and light” have plenty of space here, but when the sole focus is on “good vibes only” the darkness and the beasts that created it get larger and hungrier, despite best efforts to keep them tucked away. Shadow work, aka the uncomfortable practice of dragging your demons into the light and figuring out what makes them tick, is the only way to truly defeat all the uglies lingering in a heart and soul.
Well folks, that’s me in a nutshell, as long as coffee is involved. And the occasional Chuck Norris joke.
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