{"product_id":"perfect-reflection-9798996177400","title":"Perfect Reflection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect Reflection is a raw, intimate poetry collection that explores the fractured realities of mental health, motherhood, memory, identity, and survival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThrough moments of heaviness, dissociation, emotional intensity, tenderness, and hard-won clarity, Destany Stevens traces what it means to search for answers while living inside a mind that often feels unfamiliar. Moving between vulnerability and resilience, these poems examine the quiet battles we carry within ourselves-the thoughts we cannot silence, the versions of ourselves we grieve, and the ways we learn to continue despite it all.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlending lyrical imagery with deeply personal reflection, Perfect Reflection invites readers into an emotional landscape shaped by exhaustion, longing, healing, self-doubt, love, fear, and transformation. Themes of womanhood, emotional survival, anxiety, and self-perception weave throughout the collection, creating a body of work that feels both deeply personal and universally human.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRather than presenting healing as linear or clean, Stevens allows emotion to exist as it truly does: messy, cyclical, overwhelming, beautiful, and unfinished. The poems move through moments of collapse and reconstruction, asking readers not to seek perfection, but honesty.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese poems do not offer perfection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey offer truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, unseen, exhausted, emotionally fragmented, or in the process of finding their way back to themselves, Perfect Reflection serves as both a confession and a companion. It is a mirror held gently to the human experience-a reminder that even in our most fractured moments, there is still something within us worth recognizing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wild Hearts Write Differently\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996177400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Destany Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774323191989,"sku":"9798996177400","price":11.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/perfect-reflection-9798996177400","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}