Little by Little - Couverture souple

Arora, Taj

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1949759342 ISBN 13 : 9781949759341

Editeur : Thought Catalog Books, 2023

Synopsis

From Taj Arora — London-based self-love coach, and travel photographer (@tajaroraa on Instagram). A certified transformational life coach who works with women and creative entrepreneurs using cognitive-behavioral coaching, positive psychology, and mindfulness practices. Her coaching practice grew from a deeply personal reckoning: she spent years traveling the world trying to find herself, came home feeling more lost than ever, and discovered that what she had been searching for externally had been inside her all along. Little by Little is her debut poetry collection.

The book's central premise is captured in a single distinction that sets it apart from most self-discovery writing: this is not a journey toward a new self. It is a journey back to who you have always been. Arora's frame is excavation rather than construction — the belief that what we lose in the process of living, performing, pleasing, and surviving is not gone but buried, and that the work of self-love is the slow, patient clearing of what's covering it. Hence the title. Not overnight. Not a transformation. Little by little.

Little by Little is a collection of poetry and prose that moves through the terrain of self-love, self-acceptance, and healing — not as three separate subjects but as three movements in a single arc. The poems sit with the difficulty of staying open when openness has cost you something. They address the habit of carrying other people's burdens at the expense of your own. They name the way we lose ourselves in relationships and in the performance of what others need us to be. And they offer, poem by poem, a path of return — not to a fixed destination but to the ongoing practice of choosing yourself.

As Arora writes in her own preface: "I hope the words on these pages give you the courage you need to keep your heart open — to feel the heights of light and feel the depths of darkness." That invitation — to stay open to both, not just the light — is the emotional register of this book. Not relentlessly positive. Not promising resolution. Honest about the depths, and honest about what it takes to stay present in them.

The form is accessible and warm — poetry and short prose pieces written for someone who may not read poetry regularly but who will recognize themselves on every page. Readers across backgrounds and levels of poetry experience have noted the same quality: a feeling of being seen in the specific loneliness of self-doubt, and reminded, quietly, that they are not alone in it.

Perfect for:

• Women and creative entrepreneurs in a season of self-discovery — particularly those who have looked for answers in external change (travel, new relationships, new jobs) and found themselves returning to the same interior questions
• Readers who want another warm, accessible voice in the encouragement-poetry register, written from lived experience with the specific struggle of self-doubt and self-worth
• Anyone who identifies as a recovering people-pleaser, chronic overthinker, or someone who has consistently put others first and is learning, slowly, to turn that care inward
• Gift buyers looking for something tender and specific for a friend who is working through a difficult season of self-reckoning — not a workbook, not a self-help framework, but poetry that holds space for both the difficulty and the possibility

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thought Catalog Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1949759342
• ISBN 13: 9781949759341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
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