About The Owner

My name is Isabel R. O'Hearon,

I am a twenty-five-year-old English Literature and Psychology student based in Madrid, Spain.

With a raging passion for combining all of my interests into one cocoon of artistic therapy, I lead a poetry workshop and am the author of Trauma Is An Empty Box.

TIAEB is a deeply personal collection of teenage-spirited poems touching on the trauma and dissociation pertaining to my childhood - working through the emptiness and learning to live both because of & beyond it. Creating point A and point B and filling in the gaps.

I no longer identify with this literary work, but it was key to my survival at the time. I extend my gratitude to those who take the time to keep me company by skimming through the words I once cared so deeply for.

Once, Priest Javier, with whom I used to volunteer, asked me what I thought people needed the most. Of course, while writing this book, I self-referred and said "to feel". Our job was to keep patients company. So years later, it hit me that the ability to feel is mostly triggered by bonds and community, which encompass life as we know it.

I hold the belief that art, even in its deepest most personal forms, is inherently political, too. Your views of that which surrounds you are deeply impacted by the people who control all that which surrounds you. Not only is that statement true, but it is becoming ongrowingly apparent that The People Who Control require a certain amount of disorder and individualism to thrive. Vulnerable voices are beginning to be drowned out by people in power and their threats to be way better, way bigger, way fight-ier than you. Already vulnerable voices are facing further hostility and exclusion as a consequence of the current climate.

And, here's the thing, art doesn't just amplify voices, it creates them. It trains them to project. It creates harmonies and raises decibels and children who see life as something to be collectively felt.

Basically, we're all going through it, and I wanna hear you out. Whatever your story, your history, your beliefs, whoever your people and whichever your language:

How can I help you?