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    Your Soul Is a River
    Your Soul Is a River
    Your Soul Is a River
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    Your Soul Is a River

    By Nikita Gill

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    This best selling poetry book by Nikita Gill is about the journey of healing from trauma and becoming whole again. Join thousands of readers who have been moved and inspired to heal by Nikita’s words.

    Directions: apply to your soul gently, whilst sitting under the stars.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThought Catalog Books
    Release dateJun 12, 2016
    ISBN9780996487139
    Your Soul Is a River
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    Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River, Your Heart is the Sea, Wild Embers Fierce Fairytales and Great Goddesses. She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published on National Poetry Day 2020.

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    • 5/5
      Good for the quotes in my life during this time
    • 5/5
      Amazing book the words flows in .. one of the books that I’ll keep reading it always
    • 5/5
      Nikita Gill is an extraordinary writer, putting words to the feelings we all deal with in one form or another. She inspires and empowers me,and makes me feel seen and heard and understood.
    • 5/5
      Broke me into a million pieces and put me together again
    • 2/5
      There is a thing called "toxic positivity" and this book radiates it with such power it's almost blinding.

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