Tag Archives: Julia Delaney poetry
Finding Authentic Spirituality (in a world full of spiritual manipulation)
Finding Authenticity When Everyone’s Selling Enlightenment Let’s talk about the spiritual marketplace – because that’s [...]
You Loved Her (when love becomes vulnerability)
the first instant of love comes bundled with the first instant of loss-awareness
Snakes and Zero Solutions
The body holds contradictions better than the mind. Your mind wants one feeling at a [...]
A Meeting Point
Explore the powerful connection between writing and human emotions in this thought-provoking piece by Julia [...]
Why People Follow Bad Leaders (even when it’s destroying them)
Why We Defend Bad Leaders (even when they’re destroying us) “If only Stalin knew.” That’s [...]
Unlearning Devotion & Meeting the Sunrise
A true story of spiritual awakening told through prose and poetry. Based on my real-life [...]
Stitched to Me (when grief won’t go away no matter how far you walk)
The walks started after. I didn’t decide to start walking. I just found myself at [...]
Unsent (she just left the room)
She just left the room. You thought the conversation went well. She was smiling, laughing [...]
Craving Silence (when you’re full of everyone else’s noise)
Sometimes it’s not depression. It’s not antisocial either. It’s just being full. Too full of [...]
Beyond the Echo Chamber
I’m naturally kind to others. It’s just what comes easily – patient with the slow [...]
Why?! Why is This Happening to Me? Why Me? (searching for meaning)
“Why?” I screamed it at the ceiling at midnight. “Why, fucking, why?” Wrote it in [...]
Step by Step (moving through when grief is overwhelming)
The clock clicks. The fridge keeps its low chant. A glass on the counter wearing [...]
When Someone Says, “This is exactly how I feel”
The first time someone messaged me saying my words described something they’d never been able [...]
Between Salvation & Subjugation (spiritual manipulation)
You think you’d see it coming. The control. The manipulation. The cage. But that’s not [...]
The Vocabulary of Chains
This is how it starts: they take words you’ve known your whole life – freedom, [...]
Just There (will it ever stop hurting?)
Everyone wants to know when grief ends. When you’ll be “over it.” When you’ll stop [...]
To No One (the love you carry whether you want to or not)
You carry it like a burden, like a gift, like a curse, because even when [...]
Re-Defined (how they get you from reasonable to everything is your fault)
This is how they make you blame yourself for your own abuse. Not over years. [...]
The Lie Grief Tells (why you feel guilty when you’re not sad anymore)
Grief tells you that pain is proof. Proof that it mattered. Proof that it was [...]
The Lens
Sometimes I forget that the world I'm looking at isn't the same one you see.