Learning How to Breathe Again is a poetry trilogy written as letters across time. Through reflections addressed to the past, present, and future, Jalisa M. Carter explores survival, healing, faith, grief, love, and the quiet work of becoming.
The first collection confronts what shaped her before she had language for it. The second lives in the present, learning how to exist with boundaries, rest, and peace. The third looks forward with grounded hope, trusting what is ahead without urgency or fear.
Written with emotional restraint and spiritual depth, these poems do not rush healing or demand resolution. They honor truth, presence, and the courage it takes to keep moving forward.
This book is for anyone learning how to breathe again, how to live in that breath, and how to trust what comes next.