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From the poet behind Good Grief , a brand-new collection of poems and prose offering a glimpse into the mind of a highly sensitive person, or empath. I have a bellyache from constantly absorbing all this pain. I''d ask you to refrain from telling me, but your eyes already have. In a world that has become increasingly more difficult to navigate--physically, mentally, and spiritually--the ability to have empathy is now more important than ever. But what if you have a highly sensitive mind? With the expanded capacity to feel not only one set of emotions but also that of others, highly sensitive people, or empaths, experience life more deeply than the average person, which leaves them more susceptible to nervous system dysregulation, emotional trauma, and abuse. Divided into three parts of Body, Mind, and Soul, this intimate collection of poems by Brianna Pastor invites us inside a highly sensitive mind and explores what it''s like to both discover neurodivergence in adulthood and live life through an empathetic lens. And hopefully, by chasing this understanding of sensitivity and how it affects others, we can get one step closer to a more connected, healed world.
About the author
Brianna Pastor is a queer writer, empath, and advocate from New Jersey. She began sharing her work on Instagram in 2014, to cope with the personal pain in her life and begin her healing journey. Journaling and introspection have always been at the forefront of her being. She writes about the raw, the uncomfortable, the overlooked and conveys that at the root of all things, is love. Brianna hopes to write and inspire those in a way that she, herself, needed when she was younger.
