Embracing Change: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Healing Through Poetry

When we resist change, we resist life itself. This is perhaps one of the most challenging truths I've come to accept on my own journey—that transformation rarely arrives in comfortable packages, wrapped neatly with clear instructions.

Poetry became my sanctuary during a period of upheaval several years ago, when everything familiar seemed to be dissolving around me. I found myself reaching for words not as decoration but as lifelines, grasping for language that could hold the complexity of what I was experiencing. What began as private scribbles in dog-eared journals eventually evolved into a collection of work that helped me make sense of my own transformation.

What I've discovered is that poetry offers a unique medicine for times of transition. Unlike prose, which often seeks to explain or resolve, poetry creates space for paradox. It allows multiple truths to exist simultaneously. We can be both broken and whole, both grieving and growing, both letting go and beginning anew.

The act of writing became a form of embodied healing for me. Each poem was less about creating something beautiful and more about witnessing myself truthfully. When I write lines like "I am not who I was / Softened by storms, / hardened by truth, / I shape myself anew," I'm not crafting pretty metaphors—I'm documenting a lived experience of transformation.

For those navigating their own periods of change, I offer this invitation: don't rush to make meaning too quickly. Allow yourself to dwell in the questions rather than grasping for answers. Record the journey in whatever form calls to you—whether that's poetry, prose, or simply stream-of-consciousness journaling. The act of bearing witness to your own evolution is powerful beyond measure.

Change will come regardless of our resistance. The question is whether we will be passive in its wake or active participants in our own becoming.