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Embolden is One!
Embolden, the third and final book in my Soul-Seeker Collection, is ONE year old. In honor of this Book Birthday, I’m sharing part of the journey I took when writing these poems, as the collection reflects my personal experiences.
Embody, book one, was about exploring my feelings and allowing poetry to come to me. I hadn’t been a poet prior to writing the collection. Embody captured my internal journey, particularly my emotions and their physicality, and thus, it’s about chakras.
Embrace, book two, was about accepting where I was in life, including accepting I am a poet. I was going through a lot of life changes at the time, and in that stage of flux, I recognized nothing lasts forever. Embrace is about cycles.
By the time I wrote Embolden, I had consciously decided to bring poetry into my writing. The poems in Embolden are about honoring my creativity and letting it flow.
Embolden is about signs and our place in the universe. The poetry has a lot of symbolism because at the time, I felt nature, objects, numbers, and other items were communicating with me, and it inspired me. Embolden is about moving beyond what we’ve experienced. If we allow ourselves to see we are connected, we realize everything happens in support of us. Negative and positive experiences are part and parcel of our journey. We realize our experiences are connected to…
