Rupi Kaur: milk and honey, the sun and her flowers, home body

Another day, another Target find, another book-box, another thing(s) I've been meaning to read for years. Rupi Kaur's poetry books. 

"milk and honey"
["Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them -- because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look."]

"the sun and her flowers"
["A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom."]

"home body"
["Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself – reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here."]

It's about trauma, falling in love, falling into a toxic cycle, and finally healing.

It's about family, tradition (good and bad), rock bottom, learning to love yourself again, and finally blossoming. 

It's about depression and anxiety, about learning to fight again, and about reconnecting to yourself.

It's about the simple luxuries in life (milk, honey). It's about nature and nurture (sun, flower). It's about overcoming (being at home in your own body).

These collections were beautiful, haunting, healing, cathartic, empowering, and so. much. more. There's a reason these were such major hints all those years ago. I highly recommend reading them if you haven't already.

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