On Tuesday, KelseaBallerini releases her first book FeelYourWayThrough, a collection of poems chronicling her 28 years of life so far and lessons learned along the way.
In"Half of My Hometown," Ballerini sings about a sense of connection she will always feel to her hometown. Since releasing her debut album, singles -- and as a writer on every song on her albums, her music has become more intimate and personal with each subsequent release, whether she's writing about a new romantic crush or finding courage to choose vulnerability over perfection .
One line from the poem reads,"His name was Ryan and he died on the cafeteria floor from a gunshot wound to the chest/ I can't be too sure but I think I saw him breathe his last breath." The poem details the ongoing impact of the loss of her classmate, with Ballerini expressing gratitude to have survived."But I'm alive," the poem ends,"and because of a boy named Ryan I know what a gift that is.
In"Kangaroo," Ballerini addresses her freshman year in high school, when a cruel comment from a boy, which coincided with her parents' breakup, intensified Ballerini's struggle with body image. In the poem, Ballerini describes using diet pills in an attempt to lose weight -- an attempt that would soon become a cycle of purging, bingeing and overexercising.
"I think the most powerful thing in the world is a community of people that are healing together and growing together. The first step of that is just talking about it, so this is my step of talking about it," she says. “I am a peacemaker, a people pleaser. I get scared to piss anyone off,” Ballerini says. “That is truly at my core of who I am, but when you do that, you don’t stand up for anything. I think the more that I grow up and the more that I find my beliefs and what I want to stand up for, I feel like I have a responsibility to do so. That doesn't mean that I'm always going to do it right.
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