I love you, call me back: poems - Sabrina Benaim

From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxiety, and longing--and finding peace, and even joy, in unexpected places Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks , has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness.

Now, she dives into challenging and universal territory: grief over a relationship's end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious diagnosis.

Unfurling over the course of one month in 2020, in seventy-five original poems, I Love You, Call Me Back grapples with mental health struggles and the uncertainty of the moment and beyond.

In isolation, Sabrina dares to embrace loneliness in all its permutations: the sorrow of getting your mother's voicemail when you call to say I love you; the bitter-sweetness when your dog takes up your ex's side of the bed; the joys of eating ice cream for dinner and singing badly, loudly .

In her raw and deeply relatable style, Sabrina reminds us to love our whole selves: you can't have joy without sorrow, and being anxious or depressed doesn't mean you can never be happy.

In her words, Sometimes self-care is just surviving.

And that's okay.

Sabrina shows us that there's beauty and courage in that, too.