Blooming Flowers

The World Values Only Parts of My Identity

Cis gendered

Age of Autonomy

Racial Majority

In my dominant community.

Ethnic majority

In my dominant community.

Occupational History – Built Up to Professional

I Must Value the Rest

Female

Youth

Melanin

Culture

Work

In the Eyes of the World

My Parents

Were Willing

And Able

To Support Me.

The World Does Not See All.

Securely Attached

To Siblings and Father.

What Happened to My Mother?

I Found

Peer Support

Elder Support

Responsive Support

Occupational Opportunity

Occupational Community

Child Care Support

Systemic Support

Medical Support for Family

Partner Support for Co-Parenting

Partner Support for Occupational Opportunity

I Gained

Access to Care that is Responsive to Self and Family

And is Specialized

and Non-pharmacological

Responsive Spiritual Support for Grief

Occupationally-Informed Parental Advocacy Success

Next Gen Engagement

Supported by Occupation

Partner and Peer Recognition

Contributing to Leadership Experience

Financial Validation

This is the type of environment

Where I have blossomed.

Temporarily.

This is where I center my vision

for my environment

that helps me blossom,

temporarily.

Sustainability.

That’s Another Story.

Seeking All that Support.

Was Exhausting.

The World.

Never Valued

All of Me.

The World.

Does Not See All.

The World.

Does Not Know All.

It’s Up to Me.

To Learn.

To Value.

All of Me.

How to Feed.

All of Me.

Sustainably.

Those Shears.

I See Them Now.

I Know What They Mean.

I Have More Life to Live.

Those Shears.

They Want to Take My Beauty.

To Another Place.

Where It Will Die.

Prematurely.