While You are Healing

by Parm K.C.

While You are Healing is a moving collection of poetry and prose depicting the emotional journey from heartbreak to healing. This is a collection centered around themes of love, loss, grief, healing, and the path back to self-love. While You are Healing will be the empathy your pained heart is seeking and the catalyst to drive you towards a whole and healed version of yourself.

Genres: Poetry, Self Help

353 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2022

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This should be titled After You’ve Healed A Little as it was just a little too soon for me to read this. I felt every single word in this book. I made the mistake of reading this in public, on a plane. This is one you read at night, alone, with a box of tissues, when you can’t sleep, when you’re already thinking about them.

I’ll be coming back to read this again soon

[Monica Downe · Rating 5 out of 5]

obsessed with poetry lately. so healing and touched me very deeply 💗

[Guusje · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een keer poëzie proberen

[Roslin Sinclair · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would say almost every poem in this book (350ish) resonated with me. I dog-eared the pages of the poems that really struck a chord in my heart and when I went back and reread those pages I felt tears welling up in my eyes. I felt that this work of poems really spoke to me and there's something incredibly hopeful knowing someone went through something very similar to you and they managed to heal.

Some of my favourites poems:

when i say i'm doing okay,
i don't mean i'm doing okay.
i mean i'm not feeling
as broken as i was yesterday
-progress

the next time
i come upon love,
i hope not to plummet into it.
i hope not to jump in headfirst.
instead,
i will slowly trace my finger
along its edge.
i will dip my toe in gently.
test the waters,
make sure i see what's down there,
before i let myself fall.

as much as i wish
i could forget you,
i wish i had the power
to make you forget me.
you don't deserve me
even in memories.

i'm with me for life
and i almost gave that up
many times
for someone who consistently
disregarded me.
i owe myself an apology.

[Veronika · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book can’t be read and then it’s read, you have to read it over and over.
Beautiful.
Heartwarming.
Healing.
It brings you painful memories, you cry and you relief.
Thanks for this universal treasure.

[StephShannon Matuszczyk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a type of book you don’t ever really finish and shelve. It will or it has to me drawn me in time and time again to keep opening up the book and just start reading these beautiful sad very relatable , and reflective poems that breaks your heart but makes you realize it’s still beating and you are very much still alive inside. I recommend lots of tissues and a nice quiet place to just read and ponder over these poems. They truly do give a healing presence and I think everyone needs that in their life , a sorta refuge from a haunting past……..

“Maybe it matters less where you end up, and more where you choose not to stay. maybe moving on is less about reaching a specific place, and more about finding a way to leave the place that hurts”

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really sad and beautiful. 🖤
It will help you heal a little bit.. and let go.

"maybe it matters less
where you end up,
and more
where you choose not to stay.
maybe moving on
is less about reaching a specific place,
and more about finding a way
to leave the place that hurts."

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some lines i LOVED for sure but every poem is essentially the exact same poem and it gets v overdone v quickly

[Emma Barr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Who let me pay for this👀 I bought this when I was on my period and spiraling LOL

[Ellaryn Kraak · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to like this, but I couldn’t.

Some of the messages were very good, and KC definitely had interesting things to say, but it felt so repetitive and unnecessarily long. Almost every poem (?) said the same thing in each of the sections, and it made the collection drag. I feel like over half of the poems could have been taken out, and it would’ve been just as successful.

On the topic of the “poems”, I’m really not sure what to call them. It was the style of poetry that has become very popular where many of them just feel like inspirational Pinterest quotes. Which, don’t get me wrong, some of them were very good quotes, but it wasn’t anything syntactically brilliant.

It also felt vaguely hypocritical and contradictory. It was a tricky balance between advice and shaming others’ grief process. The last section especially had a problem with this balance making it often sound hypocritical of others who haven’t yet let go of their pain. It was also pretty contradictory in the way she experienced her grief. Sometimes she expected the breakup, sometimes she didn’t. Sometimes he just didn’t love her that much, and sometimes he was literally borderline abusive. I wasn’t really sure what to believe. And for someone who says she is completely over him and doesn’t miss or even remember him, she sure talks about him a lot. I wished she would’ve just ended on one of the poems saying “you don’t deserve my thoughts” or something similar and then focused on her self love. It felt like she tried to do that but then consistently still brought him up.

It could’ve been good, but it just wasn’t for me.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poetry is always hard for me to rate because it’s truly what you make of it and how you relate to it. This whole book was just me being like “omg yes” page after page because of how I related to it. I literally cried multiple times because of how some of the poems just really spoke to me. I annotated sooo many pages because it was just so good.

“The hardest part is wondering if the reasons you don’t love me are the same reasons I don’t love me - insecure”

“I don’t hate her anymore - the girl I was with you. I don’t think she meant to hurt me or put me through that. I think she just wanted love, but didn’t know what it should feel like.”

“Be careful. Someone who is confused about what they want can cause you to become confused about what you’re worth.”

And my favorite poem of all time…..

“Falling out of love with you was a revelation, I realized there was nothing magic about you - I loved you. And that was your best trait.”

I loved you. AND THAT WAS YOUR BEST TRAIT. Mic fucking drop.

So yeah this book made me feel some things.

[Nour Alhoda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of these book you need to reread with every new chapter you enter in life.
I haven’t reach my healing era, therefor I couldn’t put myself in some of these words, but I will reread it once I’m there.
all I need to know is that I’m on the right path to healing.

[Nour Aljadaan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of these book you need to reread with every new chapter you enter in life.
I haven't reach my healing era, therefor I couldn't put myself in some of these words, but I will reread it once I'm there.
all I need to know is that l'm on the right path to healing.

[Sarah Hinderks · Rating 5 out of 5]

When you are going through a breakup or heartbreak, this poetry book is very helpful. It doesn’t always makes it easier. You are going to cry a lot, but it makes you look at things differently and is very relatable. I would definitely recommend reading it!

[Emily McCrum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful but repetitive. Also I picked this one up blindly because I’m trying to heal from the loss of my sister. This book is while you are healing from a break up or loss of a partner or love interest.

[Kelsey Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Relatable for the heart broken and healing.

[marioncoin | coin.reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved it ❤️‍🩹
when i say i'm doing okay,
i don't mean i'm doing okay.
i mean i'm not feeling
as broken as i was yesterday.
— progress

[Abigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful poetry book divided into different phases of healing

[L · Rating 4 out of 5]

all of this but especially...

ask yourself - were you forsaken, or were you set free?

maybe everything that you thought was breaking you was actually leading you towards yourself

[Alana Barry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this. I really resonated with a lot of the poems, it was beautifully written. A lot of good reminders for everyday life as well.

[Youville · Rating 5 out of 5]

inspiring

This book is beautifully written it’s so inspirational i saw on tik tok and i read it and i just had to buy it

[Sadie]

1 day wonder - no need to rate

[Simca_rada_cte · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.6

[Brooke Kiefer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book felt like all my turmoil and everything I went through written down and expressed by someone else. It truly was healing.

[Gianna walters · Rating 3 out of 5]

Def not my fav poetry but had some good pieces. It leans more towards after your healed rather than hurt/ healing.

[Lauren Vance · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a great start to the feelings and emotions I am trying to let go of as someone newly out of a relationship. The author puts into perspective that those who wish to leave are doing us a favor and we should never be begging someone to stay.