What It Means to Feel is a collection of poetry detailing moments of intense emotion. Every poem was written in truth for how it felt and as they occurred in real time (as well as hypothetical truths that have not yet taken place). What It Means to Feel veers into five specific feelings, starved, broken, loved, isolated, and alive, and how the interactions with them have influenced daily reality for the author. Trigger warnings for depression, eating disorders, self-harm, emotional abuse, realistic psychological depictions, body shaming, suicide and alcohol abuse.