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  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures
  • HOME
  • ALL CHAPTERS A-Z
  • ALL POEMS A-Z
  • IN POLISH (Wiersze w j. polskim)
    • Idź Spać Mówi Głos Rozsądku
    • Komar
    • Odeszłaś Tak Szybko
    • Wpatrzona w Głębię
    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Z Sercem Pełnym Wdzięczności
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures
The Healing Poems

The Healing Poems

Simple Poems with Psychological Depth, Wisdom, and Healing Humor
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🕊️​ The Healing Poems is an Online Literary Journal by Liliana Kohann Reflecting her 
Creative Approach to Making Ourselves and Our Surroundings
BETTER.
WELCOME to Liliana's poetic world, where lightness meets depth, where her whimsical drawings add a touch of wonder, and where her creative approach to self-improvement makes the journey more fun and engaging! Her work—a blend of Carl Jung's insight and Shel Silverstein’s wry humor—has resonated with readers globally, establishing her as a leading voice in healing and personal growth. Her site serves as a Creative Resource for Healing and Growth, offering a curated selection of poetry and reflections that inspire resilience, self-discovery, and emotional renewal. Known for her depth, compassion, and transformative power, Liliana is a poet, songwriter, and entrepreneur whose creative genius has shaped The Healing Poems—a new genre of poetry offering solace, motivation, and a pathway to positive change. Drawing on her years of experience and her Master’s thesis, Using a Creative Approach to Increasing Attention, Engagement, and Retention of Knowledge in Children Grades 1-3, Liliana brings a rich understanding of how creativity fosters connection, learning, and healing. These principles now extend beyond the classroom into her poetry and art, inspiring people of all ages to face challenges with resilience and hope. Liliana’s poetry BRIDGES hearts—a purpose that began in her childhood in Poland and continues to empower and heal today.

This journal features a curated selection of poems offering insight, self-discovery, and occasional humor, all in the spirit of "Making Ourselves and Our Surroundings BETTER." Organized by chapters, some poems include reflective questions to guide you in exploring your own experiences. Originally created to share Liliana's poetry, this Online Journal now occasionally features works by other writers. To recommend or submit a poem, click HERE.  
Discover the journey behind Liliana Kohann's poetry--read more about her vision and creative process here.
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Compassion
COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION 
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I know YOU may be suffering, I see you curled up by the wall, and the only thing I CAN do, is...
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I Had to Kill IT 
POEMS ABOUT FEAR

​Today I chose to kill my fear. And why? Well, let me see. It was an act of self-defense, as IT was ...
I Had to Kill ITVIEW >
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Anger
POEMS ABOUT ANGER

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So I noticed my anger, accepted it's rage, allowed it to speak up, wrote page after page...
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HOW POETRY IMPROVES OUR HEALTH

Reading, expressing, or reflecting on some of the healing poems can actually improve our health. Here we collect samples of supporting statements from medical doctors and scientific literature. Read supporting statements HERE. 

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​THE HEALING POEMS CAN ASSIST US IN​:​ 

  1. Finding joy and happiness in life. 
  2. Getting in shape, losing weight, and conquering the "rebel within."
  3. Getting in touch with emotions.
  4. Overcoming addiction, not only to chemical substances, but also addictions to procrastination or anything else that jeopardizes our journey to success. 
  5. Finding the courage to look into darkness or to face and understand fear.
  6. Leaving bad relationships.
  7. Finding passion. 
  8. Understanding ourselves.
... and more.
        • EXAMPLE: Self-Criticism
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​THE TWO OF ME

Whenever I fail, or say something wrong,
Eat too much or spill some tea,
I immediately feel the pressure inside,
I get embarrassed and get mad—at me.

“You have to get off your own back,”
Said my good friend, Marie.
And thus I learned why I felt so heavy,
I’ve been carrying the two of me.

                                                   ©Artpeace 2002 LILIANA KOHANN
Replacing the Inner-Critic with a Constructive Coach

As a master of self-blaming, I often put myself down without even realizing it. When a friend told me, "You need to get off your own back," I suddenly visualized the image you see above—and that’s when I drew it. Inspired by this visual, I wrote the little poem that accompanies it. In creating this, I felt a significant shift happening in my mind....  To read more click HERE.

THE WAY WE READ POETRY MATTERS

One poem can speak many different languages. It depends how it is read. I believe that every good poem has its own heartbeat. It is such a wonderful feeling when that heartbeat is found, felt, and expressed. Poems are like songs. When they are expressed, performed, and not just read like a newspaper, they can truly touch one's heart. 

I can only hope that you can find here s
omething that will bring you joy, give you an idea, move you in the right direction— the direction of sunlight in your life. Just like in the song below, let this site be "...a safe place you always can come to and rest..."
"If you were a bird then I would be a nest,
A safe place you always can come to and rest."
 
  

—"If You Were a Mountain" by Liliana Kohann
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THE HEALING POEMS ON YOUTUBE

Liliana's YouTube Channel has a playlist (under Music Videos playlist), called TheHealing Poems as a Creative Approach to Self-Mastery. Here is an example of one of the empowering poem, offering inspiration to rise above challenges and embrace our true potential.

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​I hope that you have the strength
to leave all that is unproductive, destructive, and miserable
in your life, and I hope
that you have the courage
​to welcome, to seek, and to embrace all that is good, constructive and wonderful.
 
​

—Liliana Kohann

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  • HOME
  • ALL CHAPTERS A-Z
  • ALL POEMS A-Z
  • IN POLISH (Wiersze w j. polskim)
    • Idź Spać Mówi Głos Rozsądku
    • Komar
    • Odeszłaś Tak Szybko
    • Wpatrzona w Głębię
    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Z Sercem Pełnym Wdzięczności
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures

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