A Storm in a Shell - The Ebb and Flow of my Storm

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Storm in a Shell - The Ebb and Flow of My Storm</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is more than a collection of poems; it's a window into what it feels like to live through chaos and still keep fighting. Each poem carries a piece of Chel O'Hare's life: her struggle with anxiety addiction trauma and the quiet moments that slowly brought her back to herself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>These poems don't hide behind clever words. They speak plainly with emotion you can feel. In Don't Panic and Flashbacks Chel captures the confusion and fear that come when the mind turns against you while Addiction and The Ultimate Climb show how recovery begins shaky uncertain but brave.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The presence of love in each page of the book is hard to ignore: the love that inflicts pain the love that heals and the love that teaches you to be strong again. Through such poems as I Need You Hope's Dead and My Strength the readers are drawn to the starkness of the suffering caused by love and the contrasting support that one can find amidst such turmoil.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Storm in a Shell - The Ebb and Flow of My Storm</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is an honest and rough description of living through struggles yet still finding strength. Every verse of this book contains a part of Chel O'Hare's life her fight with mental health her quest for tranquility and her will to survive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chel is not only concerned with her own plight. In Broken Earth and Make a Difference she writes with urgency and great care about the environment inviting us to consider what legacy we leave behind.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Storm in a Shell</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is for anyone who has known what it means to fall apart and still believe that light somehow can find its way back in.</span></p>