LONE is a book for every one of us. We have all experienced a life-altering year during this pandemic, with isolation from our loved ones, communities and the spaces we would frequent. Many of us feel as though 2020 was a year lost, one we are still struggling to integrate and learn from.

LONE is a collection of fifty poems and reflections, paired with vibrant illustrations by the author, Jasmine Che. In this memoir, she shares her experience of navigating a year-long lockdown, spent shielding her sister Bunny. The poems shed light on the rich, wild and colourful array of emotions we as humans can experience.

The collection captures moments and realisations, ranging from joyful, to anxious, to melancholic and curates these findings to help us reflect, glean treasures from the pandemic and nurture ourselves. In processing the trauma from the year, we become more skilful with our emotions, see the beauty that arises when we sit with them and are able to embrace significant change.

Jasmine has gone through multiple career changes and house transitions, became a full-time carer and experienced heartbreak and reconciliation. Despite this loss and change, she has found greater alignment across all areas of her life: health, well-being, romantic and familial relations, prosperity, community and deeper personal joy.

As well as poetry, she shares her practices for kind ways to relate to ourselves, boost mental well-being and a SOS tool-kit - fundamental anchors for turbulent times, that she used to navigate this period and recommends as an expert in the field.

The LONE collection culminates into a reservoir of self-love, self-therapy and candid poetry, where the freedom we seek is found through the body, the present moment and our mind's state.

Immerse yourself in these raw, honest and heartfelt poems and hand-illustrated visuals, that from start to end has been self-therapy and catharsis in action.

journeys - empowerment meditations - releasing - finding freedom from trauma - ancestral wounds - intergenerational trauma - healing - inner freedom - romantic relations - inner strength - nature