Breaking free from the chains, one word at a time

“My blogging business is carved out of the places I nearly didn’t walk away from. It’s a sanctuary built from scar tissue and sheer will. A place where brutal honesty drags itself into the light and soft vulnerability learns to bite back. I write for the ones who carry storms in their ribs, the ones stitched together by grief and grit. This space is for the survivors—the quiet, the broken, the rising—who need to see their darkness turned into something that breathes.”

HEALING THROUGH WORDS

For the girl who learned to whisper long before she learned to speak

Grief Blogs

"They say you’re safe beyond the blue,
Where skies are endless, pure, and true.
But still I ache for what won’t be—
First steps, first laughs, your eyes on me".

Trauma Blogs

"Every insult, every strike, every lie,
Taught me how to shrink, how not to cry.
A ghost in my own life, barely alive,
Yet somehow still learning how to survive".

Hope Blogs

"You are not what tried to break you;
you are what kept you breathing.
And that strength will carry you
into a future full of open doors,
new beginnings,
and victories waiting with your name on them".

Addiction Blogs

"They saw a lost cause, a ghost in the skin,
Didn’t see the war I was fighting within.
Addiction’s a thief with a sweet, deadly tongue,
Tells you you’re nothing, then proves it’s not wrong".

Meet the Author

My name is Regina, and I write from the raw edges of a life that’s taken me through hell more than once. I’m a mother shaped by grief, a soldier carved by discipline and loss, a survivor of addiction, illness, and the kind of heartbreak that rewires a person from the inside out.

For years, I carried my stories in silence—tucked behind strength, behind service, behind the mask of someone who just keeps moving. But the truth has weight. And eventually, it demanded to be spoken.

This space is where I let that truth breathe.
Where pain becomes language.
Where trauma becomes testimony.
Where survival becomes art.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Welcome to Unchained Ink Poetry
    This is a space born from scars.
    A place where survival meets honesty.
    Where grief, addiction, heartbreak, and transformation
    are not whispered about, but shouted into the void
    until someone hears.
    Here, you will find words that sting,
    words that linger in your chest,
    words that remind you that pain
    is not something to hide —
    it is something to honor,
    to write through,
    to let bleed onto the page until it becomes art.
    This blog is for the ones who carry storms inside them.
    For the hearts that have been broken,
    for the minds that have wrestled demons
    and refused to surrender.
    You are not alone here.
    Every poem, every reflection, every raw piece of survival
    is a reminder that being unbroken does not mean being untouched.
    It means facing the darkness
    and still daring to reach for the light.
    So read, write, feel, and stay awhile.
    Let the words unchain you.
    Let them remind you that even in the deepest hurt,
    there is power, there is resilience, there is life.
    — Regina Bonnell