Check Out Patty Tacuri’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Patty Tacuri.

Hi Patty, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My story starts in the summer of 2021 when I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. It was overwhelming and a lot to take in so I decided to restart my blog and started writing on a consistent basis. With the blog, I started to tell my story through poetry I had written since the age of 15 along with a few anecdotes. At first, it started as a scream in the void in the universe to process my diagnosis but eventually people started to like it and connect with and eventually subscribe to it. It started with 17 followers and that has increased to more than 400 followers. Also, before 2021, I didn’t consider myself a writer, much less a poet. So restarting this blog increased my confidence in myself as a human and writer. This helped to start submitting my poems to literary journals. Now, my poetry has been published in several literary journals.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It hasn’t been a smooth road because at the time I restarted my blog, I was working a 2nd part time job. I struggled a lot with time management and had to learn to be disciplined in order to schedule content every day. However, I did do it. This also happened with writing poetry which I did during lunch breaks and in between jobs and any free I could muster. It was a crazy time because I also had 2 kids in school but I was determined to keep going.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I write bilingual poetry from the perspective of a Latine Working Class Immigrant Millennial woman with mental illness who also happens to be a mom. My poetry is mostly free verse and confessional and I don’t shy away from writing about difficult and uncomfortable things. I write about any from heartbreak to motherhood to identity to mental health to the immigrant experience. I’m proud of how honest and candid I am in my writing and that it has resonated with a lot of people

What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
I think the most important lesson I’ve learned is to be true to myself and not be afraid to take risks. I’ve noticed that most of the poems that have gotten published are the ones where I was my most authentic self.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://lifeonthebpd.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patty_tacuri_81/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patty.tacuri
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-tacuri-40b23966/
• Twitter: https://x.com/ptac81?lang=en
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ptac81