this is how you live

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