Brightside: Local author T. Helene turning pain into words
DELAWARE – A local Sussex County resident learned how to take her pain and trauma and turned it into a book and podcast that provides comfort and inspiration for those experiencing life’s hardest challenges. Tiffany Morman is a woman who truly looked past her pain on the bright side.
Tiffany, pen name T-Helene, is healing through words, and helping others to do the same. She tells us, like several other people, she too endured life’s challenges that shaped her. Through experiencing her parent’s divorce, drinking throughout high school, the loss of loved ones, and even toxic relationships, she says it’s all influenced her outlook on life. “There are people out there that need to know that you can get into the wrong relationship and you can realize it and you can escape it and you can move on and you can make better choices.” Morman adds, “You can get caught up in some of the wrong things like drinking as a teenager and you can get better and you can move on and make different choices.
It’s those experiences that led her on a path to writing and poetry. It’s when she found a new home in Milton, Delaware that she learned to make peace with her pain. “I would sit at the park and just sit on the bench and just write for hours.” She adds, “Being close to the ocean, it was Delmarva that kind of drew me in into myself enough to sit down with a pen and write.”
In turn, she figured out how to use it to connect with others, especially after joining a group of local writers that encouraged her to follow her passion; Publishing her first book titled, “I am Not a Poet, These Words Just Got Me Through.” Now she says her poetry is speaking to others. “Quite a few of the poems are written about dates that I had that weren’t good dates,” she says. “There’s a good amount of poems about grief because along the way I experienced the grief of losing my grandfather or my grandmother and then losing my mom and then losing my dad.” She adds, “Definitely a good read for I believe specifically women who are trying to figure out how do I move forward.”
From her poetry sprouted a podcast, “Convos from the Throne,” focused on holding open, honest conversations about making good choices and escaping toxic lifestyles. Morman says, “We’ve met a lot of people that are doing the same thing, and the idea that comes to mind for me and I’ve shared about it in other places is turning our pain into passion.”
Even in her day time job, working with the non-profit AIDS Delaware, Morman proves anyone can overcome the challenges life throws at you, it’s how you move forward that her life’s work is hoping to address. “We can get through anything, we’ve survived our worst days,” says Morman. “There’s always purpose left for us, always.”
You can find her podcast on Amazon music or Spotify, they’re currently in their 4th season.
You can also find her book on Amazon as well.
