Unveiling the Different Phases of Her Heart

by Chelsea Hernandez | November 4. 2022

Many use music or art to help them through the challenges and difficulties; for poet-author Chelsea Elias-Hernandez, she draws the power of words and verses to help her steer out of what she’s going through. Her first book of poetry, Phases of My Heart, is a collection of all her poems that became her voice at certain moments in her life when she struggled to speak what she felt.

Phases of My Heart follows the angst and bliss of persevering to self-love through the expression of poetry. It is a compilation of poems that was transcribed primarily as a cathartic release of emotion, written over a span of seven years from twelve to nineteen years of age. She invites readers to journey through the phases of all the love and heartache it takes to find self-actualization. The raw emotions will draw them in to love and cry with the author, as she gradually navigates through her depression to learn what it means to find happiness.

As readers immerse themselves in the seven phases of the author’s heart, they will find themselves reminiscing their own loves, heartaches, pains, emotions, and more. They will learn to acknowledge and recognize their own experiences.