this is how you live

this is how you live is the long-awaited followup to award-winning poet Rachel Toalsons debut poetry book this is how you know. Delving into the depths and mystery of mental illness Rachel examines what it means to wrestle with depression daily life and ultimately hope.Written over the course of a tumultuous year this is how you live is an honest documentation of life shaken by major depression that culminates into a celebration of life. Divided into three sections--sink sleep rise--Rachels words lift above the despair to produce a work of phenomenal beauty vulnerability and triumph showing readers: this is how you live.Masterful vibrant and emotional this is how you live is Rachels fifth book of poetry.