You Were Never Broken: Poems to Save Your Life

Poems for accepting all that you are—including those parts of yourself that you wish you could disown

“Give yourself permission
to rest, and be silent,
and do nothing.

Love this aloneness, friend.
Fall into it.
(Don’t worry. You won’t disappear. I am here to catch you.)

Invite warm, curious attention
deep inside your weary bones.

Until there is no loneliness,
only radical self-love.” —Jeff Foster

“There was never anything wrong with me, and there is never anything wrong with you.”

So writes s...