Becoming to Being

By Sofy Brinister

Becoming to Being is a series of poems and accompanying illustrations that show the raw and rough side of teenage life living in a small-town suburbia and the subsequent spiritual journey. Through trauma, tragedy, and tough luck, we find gratitude, greatness, and the goodness of all. She exemplifies the empowerment of pain and emphasizes that through the greatest grief, we will find our greatest selves.

Come on a journey of chaos and crying to find the future flowering on the other side. Learn about the love of everything in life even if it is not, by our definition, what we call love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532046155

Sofy Brinister

Sofy Brinister, a Massachusetts based multimedia artist, has bold dreams to bring all things art into the realm of everyday reality. She has creative experience from photography, to drawing and painting, to printmaking, and of course writing, for upwards of six years. To her, creativity and the everyday go hand in hand, and embracing everything unique and strange has been the only way to truly stay sane. In her poetry book "Becoming to Being" she recounts her history of traumas and mental illness and the realizations that ultimately led to her recovery.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-4614-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-4615-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018905744

iUniverse rev. date: 05/11/2018

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BECOMING to BEING

SOFY BRINISTER

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Dedicated to all the dreamers.

I never met God until I looked under my skin.

CYCLES

hard times, high triumphs

lessons of loving before knowing love

ethereal earth, glorious gaia

positive affirmations and validations

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PREFACE

We all have feelings and I’m of the firm belief that our emotions hold more knowledge than our minds ever could. I have a rich emotional history, but for a long time I kept my feelings in a closet. I would detach completely, and