And I Felt It All

By Lisa Annabel

Sometimes in the darkness of our pain we are given a gift. 

A gift that forces us to stop, reflect, learn and grow.

A gift to feel it all.

And I Felt It All is a collection of soulful poems and essays that serve as an important reminder: Where there is pain, there is opportunity for growth and healing. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: Jul 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9781977266699

Lisa Annabel

With Latina roots deeply instilled in her soul, Lisa Annabel writes from a place of love and grief—a place where only the brokenhearted go. She hopes that her words will remind the reader they are not alone in their pain.  

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And I Felt It All

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Table of Contents

Prologue

love

loss

lessons

moving through emotions

making meaning

reflection & healing

Dedication

Prologue

To feel it all is to sit with yourself and allow all the unresolved grief pour out from your soul. Grief that you didn’t realize was dormant and waiting to be healed. It means to try to allow yourself to be open to the possibilities that come after love. I don’t mean another person, I mean the possibilities of reinventing yourself. Of growing. Of letting go of who you were and becoming a more healed version of yourself.

What I have learned from my grief is that I am no longer the person I once was before the heartache. A part of me dies with the deep love I have for someone when they are gone.

This is my healing story through poetry and essays. My writing helped me discover a version of myself that I didn’t know could exist. That I didn’t know needed help unraveling the grief that was tangled within me.

Feeling all of my emotions has taught me to live for myself in a way that I can gently walk through this world.

We are faced with many challenges, and those challenges will bring heartache. Through these challenges our heart will require us to lean inward and repair our wounds. How we repair, how we heal, will be reflected in how we interact with the world afterward.

Healing is not