TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING

So every once in a while on TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I’m DOING , we share a SPOTLIGHT and feature brief chats with an individual from the community about a special topic or cause. On this spotlight episode, I wanted to magnify self-discovery through poetry, and so I was grateful to share a conversation with Nilam Patel, the author of “Finding Her Being Her: A Journey of Poems”, a collection that was released this past summer. Nilam is an artist who through poetry, invites her readers into a world of profound introspection and self-discovery through her unique voice. Her empathic tone and narrative allows one to halt and explore thoughts and emotions, speaking directly to women in various phases of life and igniting purpose and reflection for everyone. Through her poetry, Nilam’s personal navigation of success and trauma evoke a spirit of solace, healing, beauty, solidarity, and empowerment . As we started chatting, I wanted to know how Nilam perhaps found this artful transformative voice particularly through poetry…