‘Her arrows’ deals with themes of shame from childhood to adulthood as a woman. I thought about how shame is a feeling unlike anger, sadness or happiness.
Shame is placed upon us. The catalyst is almost always external. Dialogs, words, even actions get lost or pushed away somewhere in our memories, but the body always remembers how we felt. As I’ve grown older, I found shame to be the hardest feeling to shake. It nessels it’self deep in the gut and it’s roots are strong and entangled. I thought the messiness of the roots were a good place to start.

I reflected on what I remember to be my earliest exposure to the feeling of shame. 
As a child I had a ‘naughty corner’, and when I did something my parents disagreed with or were displeased with, I would be made to stand in the corner of the room, facing the wall.  

This pattern was consistent and reoccurring in many avenues of my life and regretfully, universal amongst women. I intend to further research the patterns that are created for us, or the ones we are exposed to in our early stages, and how they present in our adult lives.