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Breathing in Broken Spaces

Poems on Heartbreak, Trauma, and Self- Reflection

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Pub Date Mar 24 2025 | Archive Date Jul 01 2025

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Description

Heartbreak. Trauma. Toxic love. Loss. Healing. Rebirth.

Some wounds don’t just fade—they shape us.

Breathing in Broken Spaces is an unfiltered and deeply personal poetry collection that delves into the rawest corners of heartbreak, trauma, and survival. Through piercingly honest verses, Belinda Daou lays bare the loneliness of grief, the weight of past wounds, and the quiet, aching process of piecing oneself back together after being shattered.

This book is for those who have loved and lost, for the ones carrying silent battles within them, and for anyone searching for words that echo their unspoken pain. It is a safe space where emotions aren’t just expressed—but truly seen, understood, and honored.

This collection gives voice to the devastation of toxic love, the suffocation of manipulation, and the slow erosion of self-worth at the hands of the wrong person. It speaks to the ones who have stayed too long, who have fought for love that only broke them, and who are now learning to unlearn the lies they were told about themselves.

More than just poetry, Breathing in Broken Spaces is a reckoning with the past and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. It is breathtakingly raw, unapologetically vulnerable, and deeply real. It is the brutal honesty of suffering, the messy in-between of healing, and the quiet strength it takes to keep breathing, even when the air feels heavy.

This collection is not just about pain—it is about survival. About learning to breathe again through the cracks of brokenness. About reclaiming the parts of yourself you thought were lost forever.

Heartbreak. Trauma. Toxic love. Loss. Healing. Rebirth.

Some wounds don’t just fade—they shape us.

Breathing in Broken Spaces is an unfiltered and deeply personal poetry collection that delves into...


A Note From the Publisher

Thank you for considering Breathing in Broken Spaces.

This collection is deeply personal - a heart laid bare - exploring heartbreak, trauma, and the long journey back to self. These poems were born from real moments of unraveling, pain, and quiet resilience.

I hope they resonate with your own moments of healing and reflection- that they speak to something soft or strong within you.

If they do, I’d be deeply grateful for your review - on NetGalley, Amazon, Goodreads, and social media.

Feel free to quote and tag me @bell.d.poet - I love hearing which pieces find a home in someone else’s story.

With gratitude,
Belinda Daou

Thank you for considering Breathing in Broken Spaces.

This collection is deeply personal - a heart laid bare - exploring heartbreak, trauma, and the long journey back to self. These poems were...


Advance Praise

"One of the best poetry books I've ever read."

- Amazon Reviewer 

"This is poetry for anyone who has ever lost themselves, and for anyone brave enough to try and find their way back. Raw, relentless, and achingly beautiful this book will leave you changed." 

- Amazon Reviewer

"I long to find words that resonate with me whether it’s been pages in a book, a song, or lines in poetry and wow did this resonate. I wish I had this book of poetry while going through all of my past heartbreaks it would have helped so much."

 - Amazon Reviewer

"Belinda Daou strips love, grief, trauma, and healing down to their bones and hands them back to you, trembling and alive. Every word bleeds, every line breathes."

- Amazon Reviewer 

"The prose is flowing and packed with emotion. The one line at the end of each poem throws a punch and lands with a force."

 - Amazon Reviewer

"This book is very healing to show that so many of us experience the same emotions while dealing with loss, heartbreak , self discovery, and life’s ups and downs."

 - Amazon Reviewer

"One of the best poetry books I've ever read."

- Amazon Reviewer 

"This is poetry for anyone who has ever lost themselves, and for anyone brave enough to try and find their way back. Raw, relentless...


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  • Launching on Instagram with teaser reels, poetry snippets, and aesthetic content via @bell.d.poet
  • Collaborating with influencers, book lovers, and poetry accounts for features and reviews
  • Book...

Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9798218619213
PRICE $17.99 (USD)
PAGES 188

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Featured Reviews

This was a beautiful collection of poetry on love and feelings from the time in the relationship and how reflecting on love lost makes you feel.

How so deep into the relationship you can lose who you were as you become a team, a duo, so when that ends how your life can feel so much different to before, after giving that person and relationship your everything to keep the love alive and going.

The poems touch on themes of love to hate, hope to commiserations, endings and beginnings of relationships and the feelings that leaves you dealing with and how broken that relationship can leave you to grieve and heal alone from.

If you are going through a heartbreak and need a book to show you how you feel is valid and others get how you feel in their own circumstances, this collection of poetry is easily one to pick up and find instant relatability in feelings.

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