Sometimes, after an intensive experience, our nervous system remains slightly activated even after our mind has made sense of it. It's as though the body says, "I'm not quite convinced we're finished yet. #nervoussystemregulation #traumarecovery #cptsd

Art by Hannah Cole

Wellspring of Hope. by artist © Lauren deSerres

Today, on the first day of August, we stand at a threshold. A new month arrives quietly, inviting us to pause, not to rush toward what comes next, but to acknowledge how far we have traveled. #summer #August

old toy box holding onto sleeping lions #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

‘ rain i open the patio door to nirvana . #haiku #senryu #senryusunday

slowing church bells entering a portal to my youth #SenryuSunday #3lines #senryu #micropoetry

tugging me back to the pond lotus flower #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu

at the beach on dad’s shoulders #7syllablesentence

quiet river-- a willow leaf joins the current #haiku

warm stone-- a lizard blinks at the sun #haiku

an old shoe — my foot finds its familiar curve Fatma Zohra Habis #haiku #HaikuSaturday #senryu #senryusunday #inkMine #writercommunity

#haiku the hens drive the cat away from his dinner

garden pond~ that's where we saw a robin #haiku

in the dark ahead the clattering of deer hooves-- Buck Moon #haiku

hot afternoon-- a glass of lemonade on a dotted tea towel #haiku

robin redbreast a nodding acquaintance on the garden spade

Our nervous systems learn through experience. 🕊A moment of rest without guilt. 🕊A breath that doesn't need to be earned. 🕊Joy that is allowed to exist without waiting for the other shoe to drop. 🕊Self-compassion offered to ourselves exactly as we are. #nervoussystem #cptsd #traumarecovery

I am particularly susceptible to song lyrics.

safe as goldfish circling a glass bowl day after day we stopped dreaming of the sea #TankaThursdsy #TankaPoem #safe #acryliconcanvas #abstractart 🎨 mine

moon knows my unfinished s e l f #7SyllableSentence #moon #haiku #acryliconcanvas 🎨 mine

Enough is the quietest revolution I’ve ever started.

Healing isn't about finding the perfect answer. It's about giving our bodies repeated experiences that gently contradict old expectations. #healingjourney #nervoussystemcare

Live version of wildflower waltz 🌾💛🌾

summer fields humming with warmth wildflower waltz #haiku

she wears every word they ever gave her some carry light some f r a c t u r e i t some are shadows pressing their weight against the soft soil of her lungs #poetry

layers of clouds borrowing different shades of night the earth still in anticipation sky dancing with stone before the storm #SenseWrds #prompt243

along the dry-stone wall the ripest blackberries all out of reach #haiku

the morning begins Odilon Redon, Beatrice (1897)

Thought it all over, Never expected to meet A happy ending. #BedroomEyesPrompt #HappyEnding #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @matthew-ds9.bsky.social