Book cover for How to Craft a Patchwork Hope. Lessons Learned from Hopelessness, My Art of War for Mental Illness. Image of heart shaped spool of thread.
Section label: 8 steps for crafting a patchwork hope.
Steps 1 through 4. Step 1 Hoist Your Colours. Feelings color your world. Listening to the purpose of feelings so you can rally them to your cause of healing, and so you don't shoot the messenger. Step 2 Unravel the Thread. Time is the simplest element that composes your life. Understanding time's fundamental role in the message of sadness, to learn when to fight versus surrender. Step 3 Cut the Pattern. The right perspective helps you sew meaning into your pain. Redesigning the story around your experiences and wounds with care. Step 4 Forge the Needle. Narrow your focus to positive thoughts, like the discerning eye of the needle. Leveraging mind over matter, to address mental causes of negative emotions.
Steps 5 through 8. Step 5 Weave the Fabric. The body of your hope. Leveraging matter over mind, to address physical causes of negative emotions. Step 6 Armor With Your Thimble. Guard against bloodstains. No frills emotional coping when you are in the trenches of survival. Step 7 Steady Your Hand. Your hands have crucial work to do, so only open them to the helping hands of others. Keeping healthy boundaries with people as you heal. Step 8 of 8 Stitch the Seams. Fortify your patchwork hope against fraying. practical insight on making new health habits stick.
Section label: 5 principles for emotional art of war.
1: Surround them. Approach mental illness from all directions. Mental health is inseparable from all other layers of health.
Mind map with "Layers of Health" at the center. Examples include: emotional, neurological (as in the brain's motives & structures), mental (as in thoughts), beliefs (as in thought patterns), social, and physical (as in hormonal, digestive).
2: Do not fight, befriend. Most suffering is from feelings about your feelings (hating that you love someone, fearing your fear). Don’t just keep your enemies closer ; choose to have no enemies.
Mind map with "Foe to Friend" at the center. Examples include: enlist demons, work with neurology, pacify painful feelings, reconstruct destructive mindsets, harness time's power, and reconcile opposing subconscious parts.
3: Don't shoot the messenger. Personify antagonistic feelings, beliefs and selves. Communicate directly in the “messenger’s” own terms and motives.
Mind map with "messengers" at the center. Examples include: triggers, self-talk, inner child, emotional disorders, bodily symptoms, and nervous system.
4: Redirect all weaknesses. Nothing is created or destroyed. Positively redirect the flow of all vices, demons and diagnoses.
Mind map with "redirection" at the center. Examples include: redirect OCD into radical thoughtfulness, redirect vanity or impatience into motivation, and redirect chronic pain into kindness.
5: Expect the unexpected. Adopt a paradoxical perspective to sire the opposite of what ails you. Find the 6th principle at the end of the book.
Mind map with "paradoxical perspective" at the center. Examples include: light is born from darkness, hope lives in hopelessness, you must go in before coming out, we are built to break, go against instinct, and lean into the sword.
Section label: 5 Activities to make hope a verb.
Activity 1 of 5 Note to Self. Involving self-talk and parts work. Because opposing feelings, beliefs, or motives must be made allies in order to move forward.
2 Redirect. Funneling the unproductive into something more productive. Because nothing is created or destroyed, the course of something unhelpful can only be improved, not stopped.
3 Journal Prompt. Investing causes of struggles within yourself and your life, gaining perspective. Because change can't truly happen without addressing the roots.
4 First Aid. Taking the first step towards well-rounded bodily health. Because mental health and physical health are inseparable.
5 of 5 Redesign. Addressing support systems and habits that give structure to your life. Because outer conditions need to facilitate inner work.

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Intro

Battling mental illness since childhood, I’ve painstakingly patched together the wisdom and knowledge I needed to heal these human instruments of heart, mind, and body.

Now that I see the light, I’m coming back for you.

While my poetry champions the spirit of hope, this book delivers direct guidance on how to embody hope in your life so you can take back your soul from your demons and diagnoses. 

If you’re ready to rise, let your heart break– for only from its broken pieces can you sew your wings.

Then patch by patch, we will craft your wings of hope.

 

 

 

Teasers

Compass Rose

“Maybe you can’t find happiness,
because it’s not the thing to find,
it’s the directions.”

 

 

Primordial Memory

“We are keepers of the night.”

 

 

Every Demon Was First Damned

“You must lean into the sword
Let it impale you inch by inch
Embrace the demon holding its hilt
and kiss away its tears.”

 

 

 

Structure

Each of the 8 Steps of crafting your patchwork hope represents an area of wisdom or knowledge that empowers you to start healing your chaotic emotions. 

Within each step are bite-sized chapters, each with their own lesson. 

Each step is actionable, so you’ll have your own war strategy by the end of this book. 

There are 7 of my poems woven throughout, to better demonstrate different lessons. 

This book is not just poetic, but practical: expect to find both eloquent wisdom and functional fact.

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Purpose

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Consider this an introductory manual to your human instruments. How to…

✔️ feel feelings that aren’t rabid animals.
✔️ think thoughts that aren’t death by a thousand cuts.
✔️ believe beliefs that don’t keep your future small.
✔️ deal with people who don’t know how to deal with themselves.
✔️ not stab your body in the back.

As a child who didn’t understand why I didn’t want to live, I scavenged the wastes of the interweb for all the interdisciplinary, holistic guidance that healing required. After over a decade of therapy, research, and experience wrangling my demons, I offer you my “how to” of hope.

 

 

 

Features

  • 7 Poems (3 poems are exclusively in this book)
  • ✨Audio: Poems read by the author (5 of 7)
  • ✨11 Affirmations
  • ✨Credible sources referenced with Chicago style citations
  • ✨Page Count: 106 pages of content
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  • Trigger warnings– hopeless themes, (pre-specified) suicidal feelings & self-harm. Maturity rating 18+
  • I am not a doctor or mental health counselor, and all content is for entertainment and education only– it should not be used to diagnose, treat, or prevent any illness, or relied on in crisis.
  • My poetry is mythological, not religious.
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