Heart Medicine

By Roxanne Simpson

Heart Medicine is about the power of turning trauma into healing, conflict into growth and fear into love. No longer being victim to the suffering but working out the lessons needing to be learned, to be able to break old habits and patterns.

Tending to the wounds which became torn open.
The ebb and flow of emotions, welcoming them at the door and allowing them all in.

A mix of writing from the heart and poems as a form of expressing the journey of heartbreak, motherhood and becoming a single parent. Leaning into the pain and transition, letting go and moving on.

Bare, raw and unpolished.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Fern Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005296858

Roxanne Simpson

Roxanne began writing when she became a new mum. Writing became her solace, and a way to express herself while navigating the lonely world of motherhood.After a year of working through heartbreak, a new project was born. She decided she wanted it to reflect her beautiful energy, to share and inspire others to do the same.So that is how Sparkle+Shine came into the world.

Book preview

Part 5 M y T ruth

○ N ot E nough

○ Part 1

○ Part 2

○ N ature

○ F reedom

2

Heart Medicine - Copy PART ONE

HEART MEDICINE

1

It’s not until something breaks you that you really start living, really start to get to know yourself. T his is why it is so important to put yourself out there. T o be hurt, to be broken, to feel pain, to feel the neglect, the abandonment, the trauma.T o be able to feel all that and still get up and keep trying takes guts. It’s what makes us human after all.

W hat is this life if we get everything right?

Perfect? M ade no mistakes whatsoever?

It’s just unrealistic and not something we should strive for.

3

Heart Medicine - Copy O bviously we want to create be er lives for ourselves but if we don’t mess up a few times along the way then where’s the learning? T he teachings?

H ow about we turn those stories of pain into something more beautiful. Instead of playing victim to the suffering, let’s be grateful for the lessons it taught us.

T o go deep into the depths of the darkness takes courage. N o one volunteers for that though.

T hat stuff just gets dumped on you.

M aybe you could have done things differently, maybe you couldn’t. It doesn’t ma er, you’re in it, knee deep, like it or not.

M y heart medicine is writing. It’s not perfect and I didn’t train to be a writer. I just needed something. A way to express myself. A way to just scribble a load of words onto paper. L et out all the shit you need to stop ringing down people’s ears, that people will just politely let you dribble on and on, until they can’t take it any more and you lose a friend to turn to.

Paper won’t do that to you.

W hen you return to your bit of venting/writing a year or so later and you realise how cringy those thoughts were, you can just burn them. A s if it never happened.

M ost importantly though, it’s an opportunity to release the old and bring in the new. N othing is wasted time.

E verything is valuable!

E verything is a learning opportunity.

4

Heart Medicine - Copy M any books of scribbling later, some of it rhymed and I thought hold on,