Excerpts From the Medicine Cabinet

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Everybody comes with baggage. It doesn't matter if it's physical emotional spiritual-we all have a past of some sort that we carry with us every single day and that past has worked hard to influence the person we are today. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Excerpts from the Medicine Cabinet</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explores the idea of past trauma and its effects on identity formation through the lenses of mental health LGBTQ+ violence and religious trauma. This poetry collection aims to answer every why with a raw but honest truth leaving readers to realize that the past can't always stay in the past no matter how hard you work to forget it.</span></p>