Samantha Crilly’s first collection of poems – Hope through Poetry – was inspired by her personal experience of mental illness and recovery, and by what she had learned from friends and family. Five years after it was first enthusiastically receives, she returns with a new collection that draws on her ongoing recovery together with her work as an actor and script writer raising awareness of mental health struggles. Giving honest and relatable insights into what it means to have a mental illness and what causes and triggers may lie behind it, these insightful poems are here as comforting companions and to promote understanding and acceptance.
Contents
Foreword by Frank Bruno; Poems about family and relationships; Poems about states of mind; Poems about mental health challenges; Poems about the challenges of contemporary life; Poems about the emotional challenges of physical health issues; Poems about positivity; Resources and support
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Samantha Crilly is a drama graduate from Surrey, UK who has enjoyed writing poetry since she was a child. Having suffered mental illness during her teenage years and early to mid-twenties she now works tirelessly to promote good mental health through her poetry and script writing. She enjoys keeping fit and spending time with her close-knit family and friends whose love kept her going through her darkest times. Now in a happier place she has made huge steps along her journey to recovery and hopes that her poetry will inspire others to do the same.
