Emotional Health – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Co-Claimant

March 5, 2026March 5, 2026 Eloise Waters

Emily resisted going to bed. She wasn’t ready for the onslaught of thoughts waiting behind closed eyes. She typed his name into the search bar. This time, the top result wasn’t his LinkedIn profile. It was an obituary. Colon cancer. Four months ago. Four months. He’d been dead for four Read more

Self Sabotage

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 Elisabeth Horan

We fight ourselves off every day The temptations for self hatred Gather ‘round for sentencing at the Crown Court We go into battle eyes to God, hand to Chest Young boys drum For the new citizenry Stopped in tracks by musket balls Worse bayonets Worse hand to hand combat with Read more

She Became the Silence

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 Linea Ashford

Before the rising, there was excruciating silence. A million deaths beneath the skin—unnamed, insistent. Felt keenly, ignored. Then came the cracking—full, unrelenting—no gentle undoing. Only the collapse of all self-abandonment once held together. She watched, relegated to the back seat as mind and soul retreated from the noise. Choosing solitude Read more

I Do Not Want to Be Told

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 Katy Luxem

These are the best days of my life, while I long for sleep and my daughter eats only scrambled eggs for two weeks straight. I was so young when the economy crashed I had nothing to lose, and still, I had everything. Have you ever cried it out? I have Read more

Umbrella

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 Alina Ayoub

I am the shadow outside the circle, the extra seat no one needs. I pull it close anyhow. So, my hands have learned how to smooth the air before it becomes smoke. I smile so wide and holy that it pains me. I become their favorite candy and feel pride Read more

Never Enough

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 Jahan Taganova

For some, you will never quite be enough: “Too smart, too bold, too tough, Too thin, too flat, too nice, too meek, Too loud, too wild, too flawed, too weak.” Like leeches, their words drain the joy from your soul, Stripping self-love, leaving you unwhole. “To fix the body, to Read more

Remission and relapse.

October 17, 2025December 14, 2025 Hope Elizabeth

Remission & Relapse Historians tend to refer to continuity and change, the mainstay interpretations of what has happened and what it means (at least at A-Level). I wonder if Doctors (of mental illnesses) are as concerned with continuity and change, their obsession with relapse and remission being an inevitable legacy Read more

Sleepwalking Through the Fire

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 DB Maddox

Maddie woke up around 10 am in a panic. She had totally overslept, and she was an hour late to sign on for work. She stumbled over to her laptop and quickly surveyed her emails and chats, figuring everyone on her team was probably looking for her and wondering where Read more