Why I Write
Writing is where I stop performing being fine long enough to tell myself the truth — the truth of what shaped me, of what motivates me, of the hurts sitting inside me, and mostly of what I want. It is where the version of me who doesn’t bend or shrink to accommodate anyone gets to come out and play and it is the place where I feel most free and liberated.
I didn’t start writing to create books. I started writing to get to know myself. Getting to know myself helped me learn to love myself. Learning to love myself has shaped every part of my life for the better – including getting the guts to share this part of myself. Honestly, I don’t know how I ever navigated life without it.
Love, Sex and Codependence
My first book, Love, Sex and Codependence, came directly out of this kind of digging. It isn’t a guide to manifesting your dream partner or fixing your relationship in five steps. It’s an honest, sometimes uncomfortable look at how I actually show up with men, and why — the patterns I didn’t know I was repeating until I finally slowed down enough to see them.
Living an Intentional Life
Writing is how I sort out what’s in my heart and mind and how I find grace for both. I am committed to living a creative life that is dictated by truth. These are the contemplations that keep me faithful to that. They just might inspire you to live a more intentional and creative life too.
Poetry
Poetry has a way of taking complex ideas and convoluted emotions and making them crystal clear and obvious. Sometimes a three line poem can describe things far more thoroughly than any essay. I don’t know how that is, but it’s true. While I love a sprawling, consider-all-sides, essay, I also truly love a poem that can shatter me and put me back together differently.
These are some of the poems that have been sitting hidden in my laptop folder.
Dawn Evans 