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    Taste Your Emotions
    Taste Your Emotions
    Taste Your Emotions
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    Taste Your Emotions

    By Damien Marie AtHope

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    Taste Your Emotions ~unplugged~

    This is the second revised and expanded version of the earlier work Taste Your Emotions a book containing poems only each telling a story of the struggle for physical, emotional, and spiritual sobriety. The poems inside this book express a variety of emotions taking you through an experience from deep pain to the joy of emotional freedom. Attempting to balance between a short memoir written in a creative way, self-help book of sorts, as well as grouped enlightened writing trying to lead others in embarking of self freedom. Thus this book is simply not a book of poems and writings it is a dark journey of pain, confusion and addiction leading to a bright awakening of the heart and mind. The poems and writing are both heavy, raw, thought provoking, even forceful in there convictions at times and they are also light and touching in there innocence at other times, culminating in a moving expression of strength and determination. You will not just read these poems and writings you will experience them think about them, be moved by them and maybe if I am lucky even be some what changed by them.

    What was changed from the first edition was some poems of lesser relevance where removed. More back ground to the author his life and experiences behind the poems was added which makes the read much richer and deeply connecting. Likewise there is added writing on the thinking and philosophies which brought about his ever evolving and life enriching change. One mantra he lives by now which he created is: KNOW yourself, LOVE yourself, & BE yourself.

    Comments from Past readers:

    Well-organized and powerful/life-affirming works ~ Chris Massey

    A compilation of life's struggles and victories ~ Timothy Talosi

    Fascinating Read ~ Pat Sturt

    The poems are very emotional, touching to the heart ~ Tonya Graham

    The title is right on. As I read this book I experienced deep feelings and emotions. Most books don't touch my soul the way this one does ~ Becky Sedgwick
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 23, 2006
    ISBN9780595828135
    Taste Your Emotions
    Author

    Damien Marie AtHope

    The measure of a person is not the absence of fear; it is the mastering of it. I wish to always show fortitude of character in standing when others sit down. I feel my life came from a hard seed of hate but through a willingness to change grew in to a sturdy tree of love and integrity. I had grown up in two broken homes both trying to push their tired, follow the rules morals and brand of religion on me. My father was from a religious cult and my mom's church was the kind that danced in the aisles with flailing arms around in the air and chanting. All that to me was embracing and weird and seemed far removed from any idea of love and respect I was looking for. BOTH parents like their faiths said they believed in loved but gave little love. These people that were supposed to love and care for me, yet, did nothing of the sort. I learned to hate and to hurt. I became a juvenile delinquent and more. No one is going to tell me anything and where was this god as my parents put me through hell. I felt the world asked too much from me and gave too little. I had a hard heart toward everything, people, society, and religion. I was rebellious to a notion that anyone had charge over my life but me. My mom and step dad showed me somewhat of a better life with less trauma than before but the seed of hate was already planted. I became bigger as I grew. I was young, big, and tough. I could do anything I thought and hated everyone. I had forgotten the desire to love and never learned to love. At 13, I was drunk for the first time, a bad idea in a long line of bad ideas. At 17, after much pain, addiction, and almost dying in a rehab, I realized I needed to know myself, love myself, and be myself. And doing that has been a life’s journey to see beyond what is seen, heard, and felt. I embrace change to be better and help others. Now I desire to improve the world around me and be the person I would be proud of :) I now have a loving relationship with my mom and stepdad but not my father who I have not talked to in almost 2 decades.

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