The poems of author Charles Bukowski drudge through the mundane aspects of everyday life; but there is a bittersweet candidness to his observations that pull…
Poetry can provide comfort and boost mood during grief, trauma and stress. The use of metaphors, words and rhymes help make sense of the world…
Rubi Morgan’s slam poem “Therapist” details the experience of working as a helping professional while managing one’s own mental health. Morgan compares therapists to superheroes,…
Donna Masini is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. Masini’s poems reflect her perspective about the city, the sexual, the working class, among others. In…
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell says the poems he wrote were rarely addressed to anyone in particular. An exception was made, however, when a student of…
In her spoken word poem “In My Favourite Memory of Her,” Reagan Myers reflects upon the beautiful moments shared with a friend who died by…
Lisa Taylor’s poem “The Little Girl Within” bravely tackles the painful process of recovering from her experiences of childhood trauma. While the poem itself is…
We live in a society that is obsessed with thinness, which often shows up under the guise of “health” and “fitness”. So, when we overeat…
Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese Canadian educator and activist based in Ontario. She is famous for her creative writing and poetry. At the age of…
Optimism is a poem by E.C. Belli from her debut collection of poems, Objects of Hunger. True to its title, the poem is about optimism,…
“There is a Hole in My Sidewalk” is a poem written by Portia Nelson that beautifully describes the stages of transformation in a simple and…
December, though widely known as a time of joy and celebration, is also a time when seasonal depression sets in for many. Winter Song for…
The psychological impacts that occur as a result of living through distressing events is understood as trauma. Managing feelings associated with traumatic events in one’s…
“The Road Not Taken” is a classic poem written by Robert Frost and published in 1916 in his collection Mountain Interval. It is often misinterpreted…
“Where the Sidewalk Ends”, by the children’s poet Shel Silverstein, was written in 1974 and published in a book of poems by the same name….
John Keats (1795- 1821), a notable English Romantic Poet, was a central figure in the second generation of Romantic poets. Keats had bouts of depression…
Tanya Markul’s short poem Eleven is a reminder that we are not alone in our struggles. As it goes: The pain that made you the…
The poem “Withdraw all Notions of Love ” by Tionné Polin is about the concept of love and relearning how to love one’s self. The…
Cara Delevingne, actress and model, shares her personal experiences with anxiety and depression at the 2019 Women in The World summit. The video, shared on…
Published in 1855, “Maud and Other Poems” is a collection of Alfred Tennyson’s most memorable works. Tennyson tells the story of his father’s suicide following financial…
