Creative healing Blog

This page is a home for my own writing about the fears, joys, questions, and quiet moments that shape my heritage practice. These pieces are part of my healing journey and are shared here as gentle role‑modelling for reflective practice.

You’ll find a mix of emotions on this page. Some pieces explore joy, connection, pride, and meaning. Others explore fear, uncertainty, pressure, or vulnerability. Each piece is clearly sign‑posted so you can choose what feels right for you today.

You are welcome to read slowly, pause often, and take care of yourself as you move through these reflections.

Why I Share My Writing

Heritage work is emotional work. Writing helps me:

process complex experiences
understand the fears I carry
celebrate the joys that sustain me
make sense of identity, belonging, and purpose
connect with others through honesty and imagination

I share these pieces not as polished essays, but as living reflections — imperfect, evolving, and human.

My hope is that they offer companionship, inspiration, or simply a moment of recognition.

How to Navigate this Page

Each piece is clearly labelled as:

JOY — uplifting, grounding, hopeful, or affirming
FEAR — vulnerable, challenging, or emotionally heavy
MIXED — containing both joy and fear
CONTENT NOTES — brief notes to help you decide whether to read

This helps you move through the page safely and at your own pace.

Emotional Safety Note

Some writing may explore difficult themes. You can pause, take a breath, or step away at any time. Only read what feels safe for you today.

Accessibility

All writing on this page is:

available in plain text
screen‑reader friendly
high‑contrast
structured with clear headings
available as downloadable Google Docs (optional)

If you need an alternative format, contact: emily.plunkett.iknowem@gmail.com

A mountain with steep craggy slopes. Its is a promontory into a lush green grassy landscape which surrounds it.

The Mountain / Obscured Paths

CW: Themes of long‑term exclusion, systemic harm, burnout, emotional distress, and hostile professional environments. A twenty‑year climb through exclusion, resistance, and revelation — and the emergence of a new path built from rage, clarity, and purpose.

Fear

Emily Plunkett

Aug 247 min read

A tree stand alone within a sea of baked golden summer grass. The tree is surrounded by a tall wall which meets the lowest branches of the tree. There is only one gate. It faces us and reveals only darkness, you cannot see inside. The wall is set within a parkland landscape used for grazing.

Confinement Rituals / Temple of Control

CW: Themes of confinement, coercion, ritualised control, emotional distress, and oppressive power structures. Inside a ritual space of control, the narrator confronts the architecture of confinement and the systems that demand obedience, silence, and self‑erasure.

Fear

Emily Plunkett

Aug 242 min read

The image shows the shadows of trees falling onto barren stony ground. The gap between the branches/crowns of the two trees is clear.

Crown Shy in the Desert

CW: emotional harm, isolation. A meditation on survival and boundaries. A meditation on survival, boundaries, and the quiet refusal to become what a hostile environment demands.

Fear

Emily Plunkett

Aug 243 min read