I’ve always been sensitive to words and sounds — they carry frequencies that resonate through my body. For me, they’ve been a doorway into self-inquiry. Since childhood, I’ve felt drawn to spontaneous and raw expression. But over time, I learned to hide that sensitivity in order to fit in.

Motherhood brought those buried parts of me back into focus. It lit up the shadowed corners where I struggled among different roles: mother, daughter, wife, and working woman. In that tension, I felt the painful realization that I had lost touch with myself.

Shadow and Light began as a personal reckoning with my maternal lineage, a call to honor the past and bring long-silenced stories into the open. It has since evolved into a broader journey between spaces: between life and death, fear and love, silence and voice, strength and vulnerability, mind, body, and soul.

I believe the way we’ve been taught to divide things—light from dark, right from wrong, strength from softness keeps us from fully accepting who we are and things as they are. My writing explores what it means to live in a more feeling-based, death-neutral way, so we can stop fighting against ourselves, each other, and the pain we carry across generations.

Right now, life is guiding me to explore my paternal lineage and to study systemic bodywork and sickness constellation. Once again, I feel the call to listen through my body, uncover the stories that need to be felt, and create new spaces for spreading the work of compassion.