Photo credits: A PRAIRAT FHUNTA (pixabay), A REPIC STUDIO (PIXABAY), ready made (pexels), Daniel Absi (pexels) Edited by Vaishali Title: Heal. Author: Hana Kopernik Publisher: Self Published Publication Date: December 2021 Genre/Themes: self-help, self-love, spirituality, poetry/prose Poetry thrives at its simplest and most honest, and healing often begins with the uncomfortable-made-comfortable aloneness of the self, unable to hide when we sit with the felt experiences that have been us, become us and born from us this person who hungers to be rescued. That secret, sacred place that streams and surges with the salt at the bottom of the sea, that we can find when we drift without resistance, when we let loose our bindings, and suffering then finds a new form in something that feels so much like the truth and so much like creation. It's when poetry, a lack of perfecting life and experience through the many avenues we seek to perfect it and letting the existential part of us free to feel what we become so masterful at unfeeling that we can trust that healing is not so far from our reach. And Hana Kopernik makes it a personal principle to trust the self in coming to feel free with it in her book Heal. But additionally, she extends much more than words on a page. She opens with a poetry project debut that proffers nothing short of a study in empathy. Written with the intention of guiding herself through her own deeply personal experience with ache and hardship, and like all who want to live more openly, acceptingly and lovingly with tending hands, Hana shares in the presence of wanting to place her own on the backs of anyone else seeking the same. In Heal. she gently and gracefully chaperones in lessening and softening the burdens of everyone in need of shedding their own weight. Of feeling together-ed. This book's namesake speaks to the author's core purpose, and as a full stop marks the end of a sentence, healing assumes a statement of its own, and suffering becomes not the end but a trial and an opportunity to feel different. Published in December of 2021, visual artist and journalist Hana Kopernik's self-helping poetry-prose collection poses refreshing reminders and briefly spaced healing eloquence that helped to heal and open up a different experience in its own author, a collection that any wandering reader can look to inspire some healing in their own life. Whether you find yourself on a transformative peregrination of your own, love connecting with healing in art form, enjoy letting your poetry-loving self swing from one poetry book to the next to collect remembered wisdom from empathetic literature or want an encouraging entrance into self-helping composition, Heal. would be a great resource at your fingertips. And that's why I'm so very delighted to have had the chance to collaborate on an author interview where Hana Kopernik's Heal. gets some love in conversation! One where its author truthfully shares how her first published book came to be and how she hopes this personal reflection poses a servitude to others who might need it for some daily hope. Rarely do most of us travel towards adulthood and adult life untouched by suffering or personal trauma, and Hana's sanative sentiment and familiarly twisted pithy gateways an opening to foster trust within ourselves. In this interview she says writing Heal. was like setting her soul free, so join the discovery (and the interview just below!) where you might feel encouraged in setting something free of yourself. Vaishali (V.L. Book Reviews): Hello Hana! Tell us about yourself and your poetry-prose collection ‘Heal.’...
Vaishali: Sum up in a sentence or two how you feel about what you've created as a creator with this bind-up...
Vaishali: What was your hope for ‘Heal.’, and did your desires, feelings and personal impulses change throughout the time it took to write it?
Vaishali: ‘Heal.’ circles with themes of self-growth, self-love, transformation, nurturing hope and personal movement within and without. How do you find that you've moved through (and with) these spaces in your own life?
Vaishali: How do you think ‘Heal.’ compares with other self-helping, self-supporting collections out there?
Vaishali: Are there any number of written pieces in this selection that you wish had existed for you to read through the many pinpoints in your life; and if so, in what you've written, what struck most closely and resonantly?
Vaishali: What was the energy experience like in putting this book together?
Vaishali: How do you think ‘Heal.’ would make for helpful healing material for everyone's poetry collection?
Vaishali: Is there any writer or poet you have in mind that has one of the most resonant takes on poetry or prose?
Vaishali: How has your creative art practice influenced your self-expressive writing style?
Vaishali: Does poetry have a general rule of thumb for you or is your approach individualised to you and when/what you can best release?
Vaishali: Referenced by Plato 'Poetry is nearer to the vital truth than history' - how does that sit with you as someone who now has a collection written and published?
Vaishali: What sort of consensus are you picking up so far from readers who have already had the chance to read ‘Heal.’?
Vaishali: Leave us with one of your favourite lines from ‘Heal.’?
HEAL. - B Y H A N A K O P E R N I K |
Heal. is a collection of poetry and prose focused on the transformative journey of healing both mind, body and soul. This book is about self-growth, self-love, diving into our inner worlds and learning to transmute our outer worlds through the present moment. The purpose of Heal. is to help you let go of the past and your old self. To uplift the state of mind and to help you regain hope, even in the darkest times. * * * |
A big thank you to Hana Kopernik for getting in touch and participating in this interview! You can find out more through all of the social/purchase links below. And don't forget to buy your own copy of Heal.!
W H E R E Y O U C A N F I N D H A N A K O P E R N I K A N D H E R W O R K
● Website: https://www.hanakopernik.com
● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanakopernik/
● Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/
● Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hanakopernik
● Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heal-Hana
● Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/8057032472
● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanakopernik/
● Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/
● Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hanakopernik
● Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heal-Hana
● Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/8057032472
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