Self Transcending

Noela Paraschiv's debut book, Self Transcending, is a modern, relatable, and thought-provoking poetry collection about life and all of its phases.

Divided into 3 chapters, the book takes readers on a journey filled with lessons and experiences, a metaphorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, and the different emotions they depict.

With this book you will learn that although humans are weak creatures by nature, fragile moments in time, cursed to feel pain at least once, we can learn as we go and heal as we grow. And although suffering has many facets and it is a scarier and more intense part of life, happiness can vary too, and, oftentimes, it can completely wash away the ache from the past.

But we are meant to experience both the ugly and the beautiful parts of life in order to transcend our limitations. We have to acknowledge our pain, feel it, then heal it, so we can understand and, then, be able to really embrace the peace and joy that comes afterwards.

Or, as Dante Alighieri more accurately put it, "The path to paradise begins in hell."

Depression, Anxiety and other mental illnesses

invited me over for a drink.

This is Hell,

but I'm a guest,

so I'll behave.

They keep insisting

that I should stay for longer,

but I don't wanna anymore.

We had a fight

and I barely left that place alive.

When I left, I heard behind me,

"See you tomorrow!"

but I'm never getting back in there,

at least I'll try.

Still wearing the scars from the battle,

but healing.

Purgatory.

I'm getting to know my self;

she's a pretty cool individual, ordinary,

but improving.

There are days when I remember my old friends.

I can see them from above,

but I'm not coming down,

in an elevator going upwards,

and finally at the gates of Paradise,

I enter.