Three Little Letters Poetry Co. is inspired by my upcoming book, “Three Little Letters: Exploring My BPD Through Poetry,” a collection of poems, short stories, and real-life anecdotes about my personal experience with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis. When I received my diagnosis at 17, I wasn’t sure what that meant. But through self-discovery, therapy, and art, I have learned to flourish with a diagnosis that is stigmatized by so many people.

I’ve always been drawn to the creative arts as a way to express myself when the spoken word has failed. I’ve been an artist my whole life. I began performing on stage at the age of six, I messed up my mom’s shag carpet with glitter glue while making greeting cards as a child, and my love for the arts carried into my teenage years, which is when I began writing and performing spoken word.

I realized that poetry makes me feel… strong. Poetry has this effect on me that fantasy and fiction never did. So down I fell into Alice’s rabbit hole of writing, trying to find my voice, my niche, my sound. It wasn’t until I wrote Three Little Letters, the title poem for my book, that I found those things. Writing about my struggles with mental health, specifically borderline personality disorder (BPD), was my own small, special corner that felt like home. That is what led to the creation of this space.