Nikyla Maria

Author. Poet. Creator of The Frequencies of Eden.

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For years this story lived almost entirely inside me.

Now it belongs to anyone willing to descend beneath the surface.

Unearthing: Blood & Bone

Book One of The Frequencies of Eden

Preorder August 8.

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Publish the essay. The version of you who needed it is scrolling right now.

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My inner child isn't broken. She's just tired of being ignored by me specifically.

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I don't perform healed. I just stopped lying about the parts that aren't.

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Surviving is one thing. Still being capable of wonder after? That's the real flex.

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Therapy speak didn't save me. Telling the truth out loud did.

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My therapist and my Notes app are basically co-writers at this point.

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You don't have to earn rest by collapsing first.

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I write like someone who already survived the worst part. Because I did.

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The self-abandonment ends with me. Starting with this sentence.

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I stopped editing my pain down to a size everyone else could stomach.

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Some of my best writing started as a text I didn't send.

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I don't need the metaphor to be pretty. I need it to be true.

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Your comfort was never my job. My honesty is.

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I quit performing peace to actually go build some.

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The girl who over-explained herself is retired. Long live the one who doesn't.

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Nobody warned me healing would make me less agreeable. Worth it.

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Therapy at 2 a.m. is just me and a glowing screen negotiating for absolution.

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I write about the wound because the highlight reel already has enough authors.

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Stop calling it 'sensitive.' It's called paying attention.

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I don't do inspirational. I do honest. Occasionally they overlap.