Artist and photographer Nicole Asherah focuses on the gritty and conflicting emotional process involved with healing in her powerful and moving Best-Selling poetry book, A Life Cycle: A Guide to Healing and Rediscovering Yourself (March 14, 2022). Normalizing emotional processing, Nicole expertly knows how and when to dive into heavy topics and emotions. Her insight and perception come through clearly in the instances of hope and joy she interweaves throughout the narrative, a reminder that life is never just one thing. A Life Cycle strikingly champions the idea that life always holds the propensity for change. The daughter of a psychologist, Nicole has always been fascinated by understanding deep mental health problems to bring light and empathy to their situation. Between the ages of 11 and 16, she worked as a peer counselor for teenagers struggling with depression, anxiety, abuse, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and eating disorders. She learned through responding to individuals’ pain what connects people's experiences and uses that in her artistic analogies and vivid descriptions.