this is how you live is the long-awaited followup to award-winning poet Rachel Toalson's debut poetry book, this is how you know. Delving into the depths and mystery of mental illness, Rachel examines what it means to wrestle with depression, daily life, and, ultimately, hope.

Written over the course of a tumultuous year, this is how you live is an honest documentation of life shaken by major depression that culminates into a celebration of life. Divided into three sections—sink, sleep, rise—Rachel's words lift above the despair to produce a work of phenomenal beauty, vulnerability, and triumph, showing readers: this is how you live.

Masterful, vibrant, and emotional, this is how you live is Rachel's fifth book of poetry.