Returning to My Bones

Returning to My Bones is a quiet, powerful spoken word piece about coming home to the body after trauma.
 
This piece moves gently through the distance that can form between self and body—the numbness, the tension, the instinct to leave when things feel unsafe—and the slow, deliberate journey back. It honors how the body holds memory, not as weakness, but as protection… as survival.
 
There is no rushing here.
No forcing healing into a timeline.
Only a steady return.
 
Each word softens the space between breath and bone, between past and present, allowing the body to be felt again—not as a place of pain, but as a place of grounding, of truth, of belonging.
 
Rooted in lived experience, Returning to My Bones is both a reclamation and a reconnection. It speaks to the courage it takes to feel again, to listen inward, and to rebuild safety from within.
 
This piece is for anyone learning to trust their body again.
For anyone finding their way back after dissociation, after survival, after silence.
 
Because healing doesn’t always look like moving forward.
Sometimes, it looks like returning—
to breath,
to presence,
to the quiet strength that has always been there.