Name: Where Hope Comes from
ISBN: 9780306826405

Nikita Gill

Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

Where Hope Comes from

Coley T

The universe had to fall apart into dust first to become its majestic, infinite self.

What makes you think this trauma, this devastation, won't be the making of a more powerful you, too?

There is no better time to learn how to love yourself than the mirror that silence gives you.

This is the time to reflect on all those things about yourself that no one has ever taught you how to love.

Jen Estrella

How do I even breathe? Thank you, Nikita Gill. 
  Prayer in Lockdown
Some mornings the weight of your sadness will be too heavy for you to get out of bed. Some afternoons will be spent in the arms of sorrow instead of tenacity. Some midnights you will remember every mistake you ever made, try to hold yourself together, and fail. This is shattering. This is coming undone in the most brutal ways possible. You are suddenly a void. You feel like an empty planet battling your own core. A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this? A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That's just what being human is. Fearless has always grown best in unknowing hands. That is what fearless is. Not knowing what is going to happen next and facing it anyway. Reminding yourself at the end that you are worth saving. When the pieces of you spill out of your hands, picking them up once again. And perhaps today is not the day that you face the harrowing. Perhaps today you just sit there, on the floor, counting the broken pieces of yourself.

I loved the entire collection, but these are the ones that hit the hardest: 
1. Stay
2. After the First Death
3. Prayer in Lockdown
4. Letter to My Younger Self in Times of Turbulence
5. Spring Cleaning
6. Across
7. I Wonder What They Would Put in a Museum for our Times 
8. On my Government-Mandated Walk

Isidora Vatali

Skyla Jones

Krys C

juliette :) 

Renee Delcourt

Taliah OConnell

Morgan Moeller 

Madison Craft

Kayla

Written against the backdrop of global crisis, Nikita Gill's new collection Where Hope Comes From shines a light into the darkness as we begin our journey back to hope. Weaving words that explore our collective trauma, her poetry takes us on a journey through the five stages of grief to the five stages of hope through the life cycle of a star. The collection features her most popular poems to date Love in the Time of Coronavirus and How to be Strong, alongside new material and beautiful watercolour illustrations. If you, or someone you know is mourning the loss of a loved one, or a way of life; let Nikita's words help you through the process to heal.

Where Hope Comes from Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light