Milk and Honey: The Healing Review

Hey guys!  This is the final chapter and if you don’t know already it’s called the healing. As I mentioned last week the last two chapters have been my favorite cause I related to a lot of them, but I’m only going to share my absolute favorites and tell you a little bit of a reason as to why I enjoy them.

#1

I love feeling things whether it be love, pain, sadness. It makes me know the balance of what makes me happy, what hurts me, or what I shouldn’t do anymore.

#2

I always had a problem with going back to people once they hurt me because I felt the need to make things right all the time. But when it came to relationships and friendships I learned that somethings as well as some people just need to be let go. That it’s perfectly okay to not go back to certain people and the situation if I don’t feel comfortable enough to do so.

#3

Its crazy how much I see people taking things and others for granted or expecting to be given something from someone at all times. I think things need to be taken away from you for you to appreciate everything you have or everything that is being given to you. You should never expect anything from anyone, but when they do give you things you should always be grateful for each and everything no matter how you feel about it.

#4

I can’t stress the feelings I have about this enough. It brings back to one of the relationships that I had and where it currently stands. I wanted an apology or something for so long but it never came and now all of a sudden recently I’m being told by our mutual friends that he’s always wanted to apologize but is afraid too. But here’s the thing if this person truly knew me for as long as we’ve known each other, he’d know that no one should ever be afraid to apologize to me or talk to me. I will literally talk to anyone despite my feelings on them or whatever we are going through.  I never turn my back to anyone. But the fact he can talk about an apology to everybody else but can’t talk to me about it makes me realize that when the apology does come it’s not something I want to or need to hear anymore. There was a time and a place for it and the time ran out.

#5

I posted this on my instagram the moment I read it because I loved it so much. There really is no explanation as to why I like it so much. Just read the words and that’s why  I like it so much.

#6

I touched on how I felt about these things back on #3 and it’s the same for this one.

#7

This is so true! It’s sickening how much people need to put each other down in order to make themselves feel superior. I really wish people would stop that but I know that’s asking for what to much in this world today.

Well there you have it guys my final chapter review for milk and honey. I can’t believe that it’s over. I really enjoyed giving you guys an insight on my feelings in certain situations and now that this is over I’m going to work on getting the relationship posts out there and I hope you guys enjoy them. Thank you guys for sticking through this, and as always comment down below your thoughts on these poems. I look forward to hearing from you guys and if you don’t want to comment it down below but still want to talk about it you can email me through the contact page. Whatever you feel comfortable with.

Milk and Honey: The Breaking Review

Hi guys! I can’t believe that after this I only have one more chapter. I’m sorry if you felt like this was way to long or you didn’t like the breaking up of all the chapters. I think if I ever do this again for some other poetry type book that I’ll take two or more at a time depending on how many poems I like in the chapter. This one is sort of a long one the way it is, and I know the last one I liked a handful of them. I related to the final two chapters way more than the first two so I’m really excited to share these with you guys. So let’s get started.

#1

I love this for a few reasons but the main one is that I went through this feeling before. Where I was in a relationship with my best friend at the time and I realized that it was something we probably shouldn’t have done. But I genuinely wanted to give it a try even though afterwards it felt like it was more so the fact that we listened to our other friends who wanted us together. But he ended up being so distant when we started getting into the relationship aspect and I didn’t see the changes that were happening right before my eyes but when they happened, they stung. I was thinking about making a relationship based post on things I’ve learned so I’ll talk more about it in there.

#2

Once again there’s more to this in a relationship aspect of my life that I feel like would be better in another post cause I learned a lot from 2 relationships, and those things let me grow as a person and look out for things more instead of just a he or she likes me type of thing. They definitely made me more cautious when choosing certain things in my life.

#3

All of these poems reflect aspects of the same two relationships over and over which is why I mentioned wanting to create a post or two dedicated to it. Since they were two very different types of relationships, that I hope someone would benefit something from.

#4

This was a very long poem that I absolutely fell in love with. It made me feel a sense of empowerment about making the choices that I did when it came to ending those relationships and moving on with my life and the things that I wanted to do.

#5

Because honesty has and will always be the best policy no matter what. Which is one of the biggest things I’ve learned in relationships. I don’t think you should hold anything back when it comes to anything just because you want to protect something. I think you learn more about yourself and your partner that way.

Well there you have it guys. 3 down, 1 to go. I didn’t realize how much I had to talk about when it came to relationships I’ve been in and I feel like it’s something I really want to share with you guys. I hope you guys enjoy it, and as always comment down below what you think and which one you guys enjoyed.

Milk and Honey: The Loving Review

Hey guys! As I told you guys before that I was separating them into 4 different chapters, I am bringing you part 2 today. Chapter 2 is all about the loving. I didn’t really connect to that many of them in this chapter so this may be short. But I’m going to try and give you guys at least 3 of them.

#1

I felt like this was always something I needed to do before I put myself in a relationship and stick to it. If I wasn’t happy with myself and the way things were going in my life I certainly wasn’t going to be happy with someone else who may or may not have their stuff together. People never really understood why I felt that way so recently and not when I was younger, truth is I’m still learning how to love myself. And maybe just maybe someone will come along and help with that or show me that I’ve loved myself a great amount and need to start sharing it.

#2

I love this so much. I don’t really have an explanation as to why I like this so much, it pretty much reflects on what I said before.

#3

This is the last of the loving poems that I liked. I connected to this because I went through a lot with friends and even family this year. Each time I tried to talk to someone about the way I was feeling they would play it off as I was overreacting or I was just too sensitive to certain things. They were trying to be like ” well if you did this and that it’d be fixed” when it wasn’t that simple. But once they started having the problems this year that sort of reflected what I was going through they suddenly thought it was like the end of the world.

That’s all I have for you guys for the review of the loving. I hope you guys enjoyed it. As always if you guys have read this book please let me know what your favorites were from the loving chapter of the book. Or if not and this was your first time reading a poem from the book did you relate to any of them? Thank you guys for reading!

Milk And Honey: The Hurting Review

Milk and Honey is a ‘poetry’ book that’s divided into 4 chapters. So what I decided to do was take my favorites from each one as well as talk about what I thought of each chapter. To save this from being an extra long post I figured I would break it up into 4 separate parts that I’ll publish every Thursday over the next couple of weeks. I don’t really consider this poetry, I mean it is in some ways. But it just seems more like someone ripped pages out of a diary and placed line breaks. Which I don’t see a problem with, I actually enjoyed it. I felt like it gave it more of a raw emotion feel too it. This book focuses on a bunch of different feelings and purpose. It deals with healing, abuse, femininity, loss,love, and trauma. A lot of people can take feelings from this book and connect them to a time in their life when they felt certain ways or dealt with certain things.

I’m going to share with you the ones that I took something away from, and give you a little insight on why I took something away. So in a way you’re learning more about me as well.

#1

My whole life I was told to be kind to people even when they weren’t kind to me cause you never know what anyone is going through in their life at that moment. And one small kind gesture can change the way the day goes. It was always common courtesy.

#2

Another thing I was told my whole life was to speak up or I was going to get walked all over. But whenever I spoke up I struggled to find the words and always got laughed at. So I stayed quiet, afraid that if I used my voice I would be shut down by the laughter or by someone who just felt the need to interrupt and shut me down completely. When we get to more parts of the poems you’ll certainly be hearing how I grew out of this and how I managed to deal with people.

#3

So many reasons behind this and so little words I really want to say at this moment. I don’t have a relationship with my father anymore due to his choices of words and his actions when it came to things with my sister and I. I learned that I have better people in my life who deserved my attention than someone who wasn’t going to change and continue to tear me down. Maybe someday I’ll share more.

#4

This is the last one in the hurting chapter that I felt an deep amount for. Once again it has to deal with the people that have always interrupted by their laughter or their words. I was like that for a good majority of my life up until 2 years ago when I finally started to speak up for myself and how I felt about the way people were treating me in my life. I’ve been much happier since than cause I knew now that some people deserved my words while the others deserved my silence. I pay no mind to people who can’t build me up and who I can’t build up. I don’t need to explain myself to anyone, if I feel a certain way all that matters is that I stick to it and never let anyone persuade my decision otherwise.

Well there you have it guys! My sort of  review on first chapter of milk and honey. Did you guys read this book? Which did you connect to the most if you did? Or if this is your first time seeing any of them, do you think it’s something you want to read? Leave your comments below, and I’d love to talk about them!