How Writing Poetry Saved Me

Bijal A Shah
7 min readMar 21, 2018

After my transition to San Francisco from London, there were naturally many challenges as well as exciting moments awaiting.

I was 3 months pregnant when the move happened with a 14-month old toddler to look after whilst my husband and I house-hunted and attempted to ‘settle’ into temporary accommodation.

During this time, there were lots of highs as well as lows — the highs being…

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Bijal A Shah

Bibliotherapist, author, poet & founder of Book Therapy - therapy using the power of literature: https://www.booktherapy.io/ and www.bit.ly/bibliotherapycourse