The Unfolding is a beautiful collection of poems, essays, and reflection questions walking through poet, speaker, and body-positivity influencer Arielle’s journey through her own unfolding, while giving women and all people permission to grow, heal, and step into the fullness of who they are.  The theme of the book comes from Arielle’s realization that her times of self-discovery, change, and growth have all unfolded through five phases: first, "Awakening" to the change, second, moving through "the Eclipse”-- a dark period where we mourn who we were and make room for who we will become, then “the Mending,” when we start to pick up the pieces and put them together in new, healing ways, followed by "the Illuminating," where we let the light into our new ways of being, an finally, "the Returning," where we return to our true selves. Like Morgan Harper Nichols meets Cleo Wade, this creative and two-color designed book shows how the process of unfolding happens over and over again, helping you to grow, to expand, to peel back the layers of who you’ve been, and step into wholeness. A sample poem: In order to let something in, you have to let some things go In order to heal, you must hurt In order to grow, you will experience discomfort and all of this is to make more room for hope less room for perfectionism and more room for simply being Less room for answers more room for questions with integrity for mystery and wonder that leads you somewhere new not right or wrong, good or bad This is the unfolding