MG: The collection offers transformative perspectives, including shifting from fear to love, resistance to surrender, and isolation to community. KL: How would you describe the main themes of the collection?

But in addition to feeling these feelings, I offer my own transformative shifts forward so that I could design a life that wasn’t based in fear, but that was instead based in love. The beauty of these poems is that they aren’t just about making yourself happy and choosing positivity-half of the poems are very much about feeling intense, difficult feelings.

It was my coping mechanism to make sense of the dramatic changes we’ve all endured and the uncertainty of what the future would look like. Melody Godfred (MG) : I wrote The Shift during the pandemic. Kara Lewis (KL): What inspired you to write The Shift ? Godfred talked with Read Poetry about her writing process, her experience recording an audiobook, and more. In The Shift, Godfred’s second poetry collection out September 27, Melody Godfred, the Self Love Philosopher, takes these themes to a new level, reflecting on the emotions the pandemic awakened and how to more concretely incorporate self love into daily life. No one understands that better than Melody Godfred, a poet and entrepreneur who has spent the last decade exploring the concept of self love and raising awareness about its importance. Whether you read a pair of poems a day, or consume the entire book in one sitting, The Shift will be your trusted companion as you bravely navigate the great unknown that lies ahead in the months, years and decades to come.Self love is a continuous, ever-evolving journey. The Shift’s unique poem pairings uplift the soul by offering a hopeful salve for our collective burnout. Each seemingly simple poem instantly elicits a profound reset, and is coupled with beautiful line drawings that awaken not just the mind, but also the heart. The right side offers a shift in perspective that lovingly illuminates the new. The left side of every spread is dedicated to the old way. From Melody Godfred, author of Self Love Poetry: for Thinkers & Feelers, comes a collection of poems designed to reframe how we see and move through this brave new, post-pandemic world.Įach pair of poems inspires a shift from the old way of thinking to the new: from guilt to gratitude, resistance to surrender, and fear to love. The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective embodies the best of who we are now. The world has changed – but thankfully so have we. Now I know 2020 was the year I appreciated everything I have.”įrom the author of Self Love Poetry comes a new collection of transformative poetry focused on reframing thoughts and seeing post-pandemic life through a rich, new, kaleidoscopic lens. “I thought 2020 would be the year I got everything I wanted.

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