Tell yourself you're awesome!

I Tell Myself I'm Awesome is a new poetry collection by Joshua Seigal - find out why we should all tell ourselves we're awesome!

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Hello there! This is Joshua Seigal, the poet behind I Tell Myself I'm Awesome. I am so glad the book is now finally out in the open.

I was inspired to write the book because sometimes I actually don't feel so awesome. Sometimes I feel sad, blue, anxious. You probably feel like that sometimes too. So the poems in the book are supposed to help us when we are not feeling awesome; they're intended to help us see that, if we look hard enough, we might be able to find some glimmers of awesomeness in amongst the muck. It helped me feel a little bit awesome to write the book, and I hope that reading it helps you to feel a bit awesome too!

I've worked hard to include a mixture of different types of poems within the book. Some of the poems are just very silly. Some are hopefully quite funny, and some will hopefully make you stop and think. A few of them are autobiographical. They all have the same aim - to bring a bit of joy to your life.

I hope the collection raises the important issue of mental health, and encourages us to see that reading (and writing) can be very beneficial. What do I hope readers get from the book? Joy, awesomeness, expanded awareness of life's limitless possibilities, and sausages. Lots and lots of sausages.

Joshua Seigal

You can find Joshua at: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk; Bluesky: @joshuaseigal.bsky.social; Insta: https://www.instagram.com/joshuaseigal/