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Love Letters is an intimate audio journey exploring the various facets of love through handwritten letters to different aspects of human emotion and connection. Host Ashish Bagrecha, drawing from his experiences as a poet and storyteller, crafts deeply personal narratives that resonate with anyone who has ever loved, lost or yearned for connection. Each episode is a carefully penned letter, blending poetry with raw emotion, examining everything from first love to familial bonds, from heartbreak to healing.

Following the heartfelt success of Season 1, Love Letters returns with an even deeper exploration of human emotions and experiences. Host Ashish Bagrecha, known for his soul-stirring poetry and raw honesty, writes intimate letters to life's most profound moments, struggles, and revelations. While Season 1 laid the foundation of vulnerable storytelling, Season 2 delves deeper into the complexities of modern existence - from mental health to digital-age disconnection, from personal growth to universal human experiences.

Featuring a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing “Essential. . . . It is nonpolemical, lucid, and speaks eloquently not only to the victims of acquaintance rape...

A wonderfully written account of a father's relationship with his troubled son, as told through his funny, tender letters. In 2007 Michael Maitland left home for university, and in the years that followed he developed depression, OCD and, almost fatally, anorexia. It was only when Michael was taken to hospital in 2012, his body shutting down and his organs failing, that the family realised exactly what was happening.

Letters from a Better Me is a transformational guide igniting the powerful woman inside us that we’ve suppressed for too long. Discover how holding onto anger, fear, hate, and separation traps us in an ongoing cycle of destruction. Now is our time to become the best versions of ourselves and have a lasting effect on the world. The journey starts with taking a trip into our own darkness. We take off our blinders and see how these attacks on our womanhood affect us on deep levels. Once we are aware, we accept what is and heal from the past.

In 2012, The Recovery Letters was launched to host a series of letters online written by people recovering from depression, addressed to those currently affected by a mental health condition. Addressed to “Dear You,” the inspirational and heartfelt letters provided hope and support to those experiencing depression and were testament that recovery was possible. Now, these letters have been compiled into an anthology for people living with depression and are interspersed with motivating quotes and additional resources as well as new material written specifically for the book.

It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider.