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Spilled: Poetic Confessions of Drinking, Self-Discovery & Recovery
A raw and powerful collection of poems traversing the gray areas of problem drinking and alcohol addiction into the freedom of sobriety, exploring themes of regret, shame, forgiveness, self-acceptance and ultimately self-love.
Spilled is an unflinching, introspective journey through the complex terrain of addiction and the path to sobriety, offering raw honesty and vulnerable reflection through intimate confessional-style poetry in seven phases: Drowning, Seeking, Seeing, Breathing, Falling, Flying, FREE.
Written for anyone who has struggled with alcohol or knows someone who has, the author offers her own poetic experiences to give us solace, insight, and a profound understanding to the often inexpressible emotions and hidden struggles that arise when seeking the way to a sober life amidst a booze-soaked world.
Accessible, relatable, and refreshingly honest, these poems invite us to think about alcohol differently, and inspire us to embark on our own unique paths of recovery with renewed determination and insight.
Ultimately, this book stands as a testament to the liberating and eye-opening power of poetry when delving into our personal journeys toward healing from any addiction and forgiving ourselves for our pasts.
In this transformative and powerful book you will read about:
In this transformative and powerful book you will read about:
Overcoming regret and shame.
Before we find forgiveness for ourselves, we often must sit with the many layers of regret and shame that can haunt us in our first steps into sobriety. The author gets vulnerable with readers by exploring these emotions in a real and relatable style.
Forgiveness and self acceptance.
This book takes a painful look at the demons of the author’s past and becomes an offering of forgiveness in a journey to embracing who she has become sober. We travel with her on this path as she also faces insecurities and introversion to find a place of self-love and self-confidence, shining light on how we can find the way in our own lives.
Finding courage in sobriety.
In Spilled, we learn to face sober life head on, experiencing the author’s emotional growth that comes after the hard parts, found by stepping into bravery, instead of running to a drink to cope.
The rebellious spirit of sobriety.
Running commentary and exploration on social and cultural norms in our drinking culture invite us to question the current thinking around alcoholism, AA, moderation, relapse, gray area drinking and other hot topics for those in recovery - all in poetry.
Inspiration and hope.
Many of the poems were written from the perspective of the author’s present sober self talking to her past self that was drinking. This book then becomes a conversation with anyone that is feeling trapped by their their addictions and habits and seeking a way out.
Spilled is a must-have for any poetry lover seeking to hear more about a women's path to quitting drinking in a culture dominated by alcohol, as well as an essential for any avid reader of quit lit books seeking too deepen their understanding and experience of recovery, whether from drugs or alcohol, or any kind of addictive behavior.
Spilled is an unflinching, introspective journey through the complex terrain of addiction and the path to sobriety, offering raw honesty and vulnerable reflection through intimate confessional-style poetry in seven phases: Drowning, Seeking, Seeing, Breathing, Falling, Flying, FREE.
Written for anyone who has struggled with alcohol or knows someone who has, the author offers her own poetic experiences to give us solace, insight, and a profound understanding to the often inexpressible emotions and hidden struggles that arise when seeking the way to a sober life amidst a booze-soaked world.
Accessible, relatable, and refreshingly honest, these poems invite us to think about alcohol differently, and inspire us to embark on our own unique paths of recovery with renewed determination and insight.
Ultimately, this book stands as a testament to the liberating and eye-opening power of poetry when delving into our personal journeys toward healing from any addiction and forgiving ourselves for our pasts.
In this transformative and powerful book you will read about:
In this transformative and powerful book you will read about:
Overcoming regret and shame.
Before we find forgiveness for ourselves, we often must sit with the many layers of regret and shame that can haunt us in our first steps into sobriety. The author gets vulnerable with readers by exploring these emotions in a real and relatable style.
Forgiveness and self acceptance.
This book takes a painful look at the demons of the author’s past and becomes an offering of forgiveness in a journey to embracing who she has become sober. We travel with her on this path as she also faces insecurities and introversion to find a place of self-love and self-confidence, shining light on how we can find the way in our own lives.
Finding courage in sobriety.
In Spilled, we learn to face sober life head on, experiencing the author’s emotional growth that comes after the hard parts, found by stepping into bravery, instead of running to a drink to cope.
The rebellious spirit of sobriety.
Running commentary and exploration on social and cultural norms in our drinking culture invite us to question the current thinking around alcoholism, AA, moderation, relapse, gray area drinking and other hot topics for those in recovery - all in poetry.
Inspiration and hope.
Many of the poems were written from the perspective of the author’s present sober self talking to her past self that was drinking. This book then becomes a conversation with anyone that is feeling trapped by their their addictions and habits and seeking a way out.
Spilled is a must-have for any poetry lover seeking to hear more about a women's path to quitting drinking in a culture dominated by alcohol, as well as an essential for any avid reader of quit lit books seeking too deepen their understanding and experience of recovery, whether from drugs or alcohol, or any kind of addictive behavior.
180 pages, Paperback
Published February 25, 2024
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About the author
Camille St. Martin
1 bookCamille is a writer, poet, spoken word performer and advocate for joyous alcohol-free living. Through her words, she aims to give solace, encouragement, and a poetic voice to those facing similar struggles with alcohol. Camille's unique journey and world travels have informed her creative work, providing insight and inspiration for others navigating the terrain of addiction and recovery. With her roots in Colorado, she also channels her expressions through healing movement. Her spirit animal is the dragonfly, the symbol of transformation and change.
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February 27, 2024
A Truly Poetic Journey
So raw, so powerful, so consistent, and so clear. Spilled really sang this message of being truthful and accepting in who you are, regardless of any changes that will happen (and to embrace those changes, because they are the real life waiting for you).
Being able to peer into the mind of an introvert transforming with the daily demands of socializing and needs of the world around her, Spilled became less of a story of someone becoming sober and more of a woman owning her own identity, loving herself, shedding the dead weight of alcohol use (not necessarily alcohol abuse, which allowed the reader to question and accept a new norm), and developing into the person she wants to be. After reading, I started to transform myself: by listening to my needs and being gentler to myself. Spilled gave me the courage to accept myself, my feelings and understanding to walk away, sleep, or take it slow if needed. This book is great for anyone trying to understand their relationship with alcohol, but it is also for anyone wanting permission to live well.
So raw, so powerful, so consistent, and so clear. Spilled really sang this message of being truthful and accepting in who you are, regardless of any changes that will happen (and to embrace those changes, because they are the real life waiting for you).
Being able to peer into the mind of an introvert transforming with the daily demands of socializing and needs of the world around her, Spilled became less of a story of someone becoming sober and more of a woman owning her own identity, loving herself, shedding the dead weight of alcohol use (not necessarily alcohol abuse, which allowed the reader to question and accept a new norm), and developing into the person she wants to be. After reading, I started to transform myself: by listening to my needs and being gentler to myself. Spilled gave me the courage to accept myself, my feelings and understanding to walk away, sleep, or take it slow if needed. This book is great for anyone trying to understand their relationship with alcohol, but it is also for anyone wanting permission to live well.
February 25, 2024
" as a newly sober poet and lover of the arts, I am grateful I got a chance to be an ARC reader for the debut poetry book Spilled by Camille St Martin. I resonate with these words as I try to define what drinking means to me, and how it's affected me. through Camille's vulnerable expression, I am able to see that I am not alone in "grey area drinking"-- which is a new term to me. this collection illustrates the journey of a "trying girl" who becomes someone who is finally able to quit drinking. it reflected my inner questions of "when do I know this is really bad/rock bottom?" and the poem "moderation monster" is like the essence of why I can't drink. this book talks about drunk shadows that follow us into our sober selves, and all the ways we have to create ourselves when our memories are lost to the spirits. there's a lot of self love and self encouragement poems in here. there is rhyming and spoken word vibes in many pieces, and Camille plays with different lengths of poems. if you are thinking about getting sober, considering your drinking habits, or if you need a sober friend to tell you their sober story so you don't feel like an alien in a drinking world... this book will be a guiding light. "
April 20, 2024
Relatable. Raw. Beautiful. I want to print these and cover my walls with them.
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