emotional health – Page 27 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Fun Facts

April 18, 2017September 18, 2018 Raegan Gonzalez

Did you know that a mantis shrimp has 12 different types of photoreceptors in their eyes Meaning they can see colors That don’t meet the human eye I say we take the spectrum for granted As if the rainbow is black and white Going through everyday misinterpreting The gift of Read more

After Death of Birth

April 18, 2017September 18, 2018 Kundai Muringi

I found my death when I gave a life, but life played a trick on me. She brought back my ghost to live in a body that talks and thinks, of skeletons that breathe; a body that can not make sense of what I say, then collapses in the exhaustion, Read more

Bitches Brew

April 7, 2017September 14, 2018 Julie Anderson

Her mind is confused. Her thoughts bubble up from unconscious literature, written in dreams. Her ideals, a compilation of conflicting truths. Her heart pumps red, squeezing drops through the constricting black membrane of rage. She drinks from the well of insanity, smiling to hide the riddle inside. She remembers, a movie Read more

Loneliness

March 28, 2017April 15, 2017 Natasha Alexander

There are different sides to loneliness. Like a lover, with two faces. Sometimes it creeps up while you driving in a silent car. Other times you feel it when you walk through a park, Noises everywhere around you, but none of them belong to you. A lot of times loneliness Read more

A Widow’s Gift to Me

March 24, 2017September 14, 2018 Jacqueline Jules

In October of 1988, a neighbor of mine lost her husband in a freak car accident. I first heard the news in a conversation with my son’s teacher. “Did you hear about that accident the Friday night before Halloween? The most bizarre thing—a deer hit the car and went right Read more

The Widow

March 16, 2017September 13, 2018 Victoria Addesso

Every early morning she leashes her old dog, walks down to and through the forest to the lake. She looks younger than her fifty-six years, although she feels older, or rather, as if she has lived far too long already. Her dog, an Aussie boy, a handsome black tri-color, walks Read more

Oxidization

March 15, 2017September 16, 2018 Rebecca Charlotte

I need to feel bad, It’s been so long, long enough That time has started the process Of oxidizing my heart Rusting it through and through Spreading a poison of guilt and self-hatred From my aorta to my brain. “Should I go downstairs and apologize?” Running running running “I’m a Read more

Suicide and the Sensitive Heart: Why It Is Time for Us to be Vigilant

March 7, 2017May 7, 2019 Susan P. Blevins

I go to a women’s gym five or six days a week, and always at 8 a.m. so that I can meet up with my buddies. We exercise our tongues as much as our bodies (more), and we call ourselves The Women’s Support Group. We share each others’ problems, offer Read more