My Rating : 4🌟

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you"

This book is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. Its is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss and femininity.

Trigger Warning : If you are easily triggered by physical/emotional violence & abuse, please do not pick this book up.

This book is split into four chapters, with each chapter serving to heal a different heartache. First, I was really surprised by the way how the author has approached the topics that were discussed in the book . Sexual abuse, violence and mental health are such sensitive topics, and the way the book deals with them, with both verse and the little illustrations were amazing! The words were really powerful and will definitely help anyone who is going through difficult times like these.

Sometimes the lines can be a little intimidating, and can be difficult to wrap your head around but it definitely created a powerful impact. One thing i really loved about this book is how every difficult topic was paired with a closure as ending. It gives that full circle of any issue. I listened to this book as an audio book read by the author herself, and it really gave the book a different perspective. Even though the book was really good, i couldn't connect with the emotions the book dealt with. It might be because of the fact that the book had too much hype around it, and i went in with such great expectations. It did not disappoint me, but it did not exceed it either. So that is the only reason i am giving it a 4 star.

I definitely recommend this book if you are someone who wants to get that inspiration to help you with understanding what happens around people dealing with abuse/ abuse in their personal or professional life. Be it family, friends, love or anything. This book has the potential to help you through them definitely!