Echoes of a Restless Soul : Poems on Love, Loss, Mental Health and the Courage to Keep Going
Overview
Some feelings have no name until someone writes them down.
Echoes of a Restless Soul is a debut poetry collection from Paul Stiling - forty poems that move through the full weight of a human life: the love that saves you, the loss that breaks you, the darkness that sits quietly in the corner of every room, and the stubborn, defiant hope that refuses to leave.
Drawn entirely from real experience, these poems do not perform emotion - they live inside it. Stiling writes the way a confession sounds at 3am: honest, unguarded, sometimes raw, occasionally funny, always human. Whether he is writing about heartbreak or anxiety, about the moments that hollowed him out or the ones that slowly built him back, the voice throughout is the same - someone trying to make sense of the world by putting it into words.
The collection is arranged across five parts. The World Inside opens in the interior - the restless mind, the unnamed aches, the static of modern life pressing in. Love, Loss and Longing moves into the territory of connection and its cost: what we give, what we lose, what we carry. Betrayal and Breaking Free is the collection at its most unflinching - poems about trust broken, about the aftermath, about finding the door and walking through it. Resilience, Defiance and Rising is where the tide begins to turn: not easy optimism, but the harder, quieter courage of someone who has been down and chosen to get back up. The Bigger Picture closes the collection with its gaze lifted outward - love and loss in the wider world, the threads that connect us all.
This is poetry for anyone who has ever felt too much and wondered if that was a flaw. It is for the people who lie awake at night carrying things they have never said out loud. It is for those who have loved badly, been hurt deeply, and somehow found their way to the other side of it.
You are not as alone as you think. These poems are proof.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798250317139
- ISBN-10: 9798250317139
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: February 2026
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.17 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.46 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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