Encapsulated Emotions, by Rha Arayal. 

Well, how should I start? I think that first of all, I have to say thank you, to the author Rha Arayal for letting me read the book in exchange for an honest review and to the web NetGalley. 

I must say, before I start, that I am a true lover of poetry. I'm a huge consumer of poetry books, and this book that talks about pain, hurt, mental health, heartbreak, depression, traumas, and love, among other topics which whom I'll talk about later in this review, caught my attention immediately.

I was so excited to read it. I read it today, I couldn't wait any longer! 

The author writes so beautifully, though in my opinion I'd wished some poems would have been deeper. I also really enjoyed the details! I love when a poetry book comes with illustrations inside, and in this one we can find a lot of them so exquisitely designed. I found them so sweet and pleasing, indeed. 

The poems are fresh, and full of emotion and feelings, thoughts, everywhere. 

If I had to define the book in one phrase, I would quote from the book itself: "𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑚 𝑖?"

Encapsulated Emotions is about who you really are, and how some things, some moments, some people, affected your life. How a survivor you are. It’s a journey to find your true self, to love yourself as much as you deserve. 

It is about sadness too, and loss, anxiety and our inner struggles. But, as I've said before, and as I've read it, it is about getting self-love, self-acceptance. It is about our inner development. It is about struggling to reach our own validation, to learn how to value ourselves.  

It talks about relationships, such as lovers, friends, or family, too. The importance of the family, the happiness lovers give, and the heart warm of having your friends by your side.

Finally, it shows the great impact that has social media on us, and how some things can affect our journey to self-love. This author takes the courage to write about the comparisons that are always being made, about some little things that can cause us anxiety or can make us feel the most embarrassing insecurities to us.

This is a book that I highly recommend if you love poetry. I’m pretty sure you’ll love it. It is a book that gives us a glimpse of the journey we still have to do if we want to win our demons, if we want to be happy, if we want to love ourselves as much as we would love any other person close to us, if we want to heal.   

Encapsulated Emotions comes out on 7th of July 2021, so stay tuned!

I leave with one of my favorite poems: 

❝𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔

𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔

𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆, 

𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆❞

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