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Sometimes it takes only one person to change your life. One who is there for you, encourages you and believes in you. If you haven't yet met this person, be this person for someone else.

What is RISELiftingOthers?

RISELiftingOthers is a home for words that hold space—poetry, reflection, movement, and thought.


It’s a space for those who feel deeply, think boldly, and refuse to shrink their humanity.

A sanctuary for the misfits, the soft rebels, the ones who carry the world quietly but still choose to love it loudly.


Here, movement means path and presence—the quiet way we step through life with kindness.


Every piece is an invitation to breathe, to remember yourself, and to rise—again and again.



Available Now: Digital & Print Editions

Whispers of Healing

A book for those rebuilding themselves slowly, gently, and truthfully.

These pieces speak to the quiet ache of becoming—offering softness, courage, and the kind of honesty that helps you remember your own strength.


Every Shade of Human

A collection for the ones who feel everything.

It explores the beauty, chaos, humor, and heartbreak of simply being alive—and gives you language for the moments you’ve never been able to name.


Ready to meet you wherever you are in your journey.

Whispers of Healing (Digital Edition) Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry on Survival, Boundaries, and Choosing Yourself
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Special seasonal pricing to support your healing journey this winter


This isn't poetry. It's survival disguised as softness.


Nothing scripted. Nothing polished. Just truth.


In the spirit of Milk and Honey meets I Need a Therapist but I Have a Notebook, Whispers of Healing is for the ones learning to breathe again after the storm—those rebuilding quietly, forgiving loudly, and finding themselves in the small, unphotographed moments of peace.


What's Included in This Digital Edition:

EPUB format – Read on any e-reader or device

📄 PDF format – Exact replica of the print edition with original typography and layout

💬 18 exclusive digital stickers – Quotes and thoughts from the book for journaling, sharing, or personal reflection


What Readers Are Saying:


"It felt like someone finally put my unspoken thoughts into words."


"It's not about being fixed—it's about being honest."


From family wounds to spiritual resilience, from laughter that masks pain to the courage of walking away, Serenite Hope writes for those who've carried too much and kept going anyway.


This collection moves between story and poem, humor and heartbreak, sacred and human—all held together by a single promise: healing is not linear, but it is possible.


This Isn't Your Traditional Poetry Book


There are no chapters. No tidy resolutions.


Just moments—real, raw, unfiltered—arriving the way healing actually does.


Inside These Pages:

  • Quiet reflections on loss, grief, and forgiveness
  • Honest depictions of family dysfunction, emotional neglect, and the courage to leave
  • Gentle reminders for empaths and over-givers learning self-preservation
  • Stories of burnout, resilience, faith, and finding laughter again
  • A poetic manifesto about pants, self-worth, and freedom (yes, really)

For Readers Of:

Rupi Kaur • Morgan Harper Nichols • Cleo Wade • Amanda Lovelace • Alex Elle • Brianna Wiest


Perfect If You're Searching For:

  • Poetry about healing and emotional recovery
  • Books about letting go of toxic family and narcissistic parents
  • Poems about resilience, faith, and spiritual growth
  • Poetry for empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP)
  • Self-love poetry for Black women and women of color
  • Poetry about burnout, boundaries, and self-care
  • Books for trauma recovery and inner child healing
  • Poems that feel like conversations with a trusted friend
  • Digital poetry books with bonus content

This Book Will Speak to You If:

  • You're the one everyone leans on, even when you're breaking
  • You've learned that silence can be sacred
  • You're tired of mistaking pain for loyalty
  • You've begun to see that healing doesn't mean returning
  • You see through people's performances and it's exhausting
  • You're learning that self-preservation isn't selfish

No trigger warnings. No content disclaimers.


Just the full, unedited truth of navigating life as someone who feels everything and sees clearly.


Genre & Categories:

Poetry • Self-Help & Personal Growth • Women's Studies • African American Literature • Memoir • Mental Health • Family Relationships • Inspirational & Motivational • BIPOC Authors


Topics & Themes:

Healing • Boundaries • Self-Love • Trauma Recovery • Family Dysfunction • Narcissistic Parents • Toxic Relationships • Emotional Intelligence • Inner Child Healing • Empaths • Highly Sensitive People • Black Women's Experiences • Cultural Commentary • Spiritual Growth • Emotional Abuse Recovery • Codependency • Setting Boundaries with Family


Download instantly. Heal at your own pace.

Every Shade of Human (Digital Edition) Raw Poetry and Prose on Identity, Trauma, and the Unfiltered Human Experience
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🎁 WINTER HEALING BUNDLE | Special pricing through March

The book + 25 digital stickers. For your journal, your wall, your heart—wherever your humanity fits today.


"This isn't poetry. It's emotional damage with line breaks. Nothing scripted. Nothing softened. Just human."


In the tradition of Milk and Honey meets The Princess Saves Herself in This One, but sharper, rawer, and refusing to perform palatability—Every Shade of Human is a collection that speaks to anyone who's ever been told they're "too much" while quietly carrying everything.


What's Included in This Digital Edition:

EPUB format – Read on any e-reader or device

📄 PDF format – Exact replica of the print edition with original typography and layout

💬 25 Exclusive stickers in PDF + PNG for your journals or your walls


What Readers Are Saying:

"The most honest thing I've read in years. I felt seen in ways I didn't know I needed."


"Finally, a poetry collection that doesn't sugarcoat survival."


From boundary-setting and emotional boundaries to healing from narcissistic mothers and recovering from toxic relationships, Serenite Hope explores the full spectrum of being human—the grief and the laughter, the rage and the rest, the self-love journey without the toxic positivity.


This isn't your traditional poetry book. There are no chapters. No neat categories. Just thoughts arriving the way thoughts actually do—messy, honest, unfiltered.


Inside These Pages:

  • Raw truth about family trauma and mother-daughter relationships
  • Sharp observations on modern dating, beauty standards, and why we confuse performance for connection
  • Stories of setting boundaries with family, walking away from emotionally unavailable men, and choosing yourself without guilt
  • Humor that cuts through the chaos (yes, there's a piece about a Nokia phone vibrating in an unfortunate location)
  • Permission to be multiple contradictory things at once—soft and sharp, forgiving and done, spiritual and skeptical

For Readers Of:

Rupi Kaur • Amanda Lovelace • R.H. Sin • Trista Mateer • Cleo Wade • Alex Elle • Nikita Gill


Perfect If You're Searching For:

  • Poetry about toxic mothers and narcissistic parents
  • Books about healing from childhood trauma and emotional abuse
  • Self-love poetry for women and women of color
  • Emotional abuse recovery and trauma healing
  • Setting boundaries with family poetry
  • Black women writers and BIPOC poets
  • Contemporary poetry collections that tell the truth
  • Honest poetry about toxic relationships and dating
  • Books about finding yourself after losing yourself
  • Poetry for empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP)
  • Digital poetry books with instant download
  • Raw poetry about identity and the human experience

This Book Will Speak to You If:

  • You're the one everyone calls when they're falling apart, but no one asks if you're okay
  • You've been called "cold" for having standards
  • You're tired of self-help that tells you to just "think positive"
  • You're healing from family trauma while people tell you "but they're your family"
  • You see through people's performances and it's exhausting
  • You're learning that self-preservation isn't selfish

No trigger warnings. No content disclaimers.


Just the full, unedited truth of navigating life as someone who feels everything and sees clearly.


Genre & Categories:

Poetry • Self-Help & Personal Growth • Women's Studies • African American Literature • Memoir • Mental Health • Family Relationships • Inspirational & Motivational • BIPOC Authors • Feminist Literature


Topics & Themes:

Healing • Boundaries • Self-Love • Trauma Recovery • Family Dysfunction • Narcissistic Parents • Toxic Relationships • Emotional Intelligence • Inner Child Healing • Empaths • Highly Sensitive People • Black Women's Experiences • Cultural Commentary • Mother-Daughter Relationships • Emotional Abuse Recovery • Identity • Self-Discovery • No-Contact Family • Dating After Trauma


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KINDWalk — Nassau Historical and Cultural FREE Walking Tour

A free walking tour through Nassau designed to open minds, spark laughter, and move hearts.

It’s not about the steps—it’s about the stories. The kindness. The connection.

Come walk with me!

Meet the Vox

Serenite | The Eccentric Vox

Tour-Guiding Author Bum™

Builder of meaning, not skyscrapers


I was supposed to be an architect.

Instead, I became a tour guide through landscapes and language—

a storyteller wandering the edges of thought,

giving voice to what often remains unspoken.


Through poetry, personal essays, and raw reflections,

I explore identity, creativity, and the full spectrum of human experience.

My words are honest, layered, and unapologetic—

a compass made of memory and metaphor.


I don’t write for prestige. I write for presence.

To laugh loud. To question deep.

To remind us that value isn’t found in résumés or rankings—

it’s found in connection.


So no, I didn’t become an architect.

I became a Tour-Guiding Author Bum with a backpack full of metaphors,

and a heart that beats to the rhythm of every story we almost didn’t tell.


This is The Eccentric Vox.

Come wander with me.