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Regina Louise is living proof that if you don’t get it as a little person, you can create it. When you create, it’s complicated. When you create, you inspire with your humanity. You inspire by it being honest because honest is often clunky. Regina- to have 20 min with you is to feel loved and cared for and seen.

@oprah @oprahsbookclub @oprahpodcast @hoffmanprocess find Regina! The world needs you two women in a room- speaking to us all!

Watch her life depicted on the recent Lifetime release : I Am Somebody’s Child
#readingpoetry #unladylike #ownit #lifetimemovies womeninspiringwomen

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#FREE on #KindleUnlimited! UNLADYLIKE: A MYTHOPOETIC RECLAMATION OF LOVE a #hybridpoetry by Regina Louise, is an artistic work and an invitation-to witness oneself honestly. Enter to #win a $25 Amazon/BN GC.

https://fabulousandbrunette.blogspot.com/2026/10/unladylike-mythopoetic-reclamation-of.html

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#FREE on #KindleUnlimited! UNLADYLIKE: A MYTHOPOETIC RECLAMATION OF LOVE a #hybridpoetry by Regina Louise, is an artistic work and an invitation-to witness oneself honestly. Enter to #win a $25 Amazon/BN GC.

https://straightfromlibrary.blogspot.com/2026/10/unladylike-by-regina-louise.html

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I feel honored to have learnt my spirt, my soul, the deepest depths of my existential belly button… who in fact I am, beneath all the layers—what a beautiful simplicity I see in front/ inside of me.

Wonder if it all doesn’t have to be so complicated: the negotiations, gyrations to ‘do it all right’. Imagine that you could be your truest self (silly, serious, honest, loving) AND incorporate the sweat equity (lessons, themes, boundaries) you’ve earned in to be you at all moments in your day. Holding your true spirit and your wisdom.

I received the space in time and guidance in the last few weeks to use words, slow down, to be completely self-reliant on my judgement because They ARE SOLID! Not failable, but damn reasonable until there is a moment I need to adjust.

As a human, today, I’m feeling pretty whole and dignified. No doubt this reacquainting w myself will only add beauty to everything that I touch and everyone whom I meet.

#courageovercomfort #coachingwomen #womensupportingwomen #insidevoice #cuttheshit

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🖋️🤍
Raw • Fierce • Healing

Thank you @therealreginalouise and @poeticbooktours for my gifted copy of Unladylike, out now!

📖 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲...
• Poetry about healing and reclaiming yourself
• Raw, vulnerable, memoir-style writing
• Fierce feminine voices
• Words that hit like song lyrics

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 📖✨️
Unladylike blends poetry, lyrical prose, and short reflections into one journey of rewriting your own story. Here, pain isn't a diagnosis. It's a doorway.

A collection about moving from surviving to belonging to yourself again.

𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 📖 ☕️
This collection is so intimate. Regina Louise opens her heart and lays it on the page, and you can feel that she's sharing her healing so others can find their own in her words.

What I love about poetry is that it doesn't tell a clean story. Like song lyrics, it hits every reader differently. Even if you haven't lived what she describes, you'll recognize the feelings from your own darkest seasons.
And her voice. There's so much hurt in these pages, and yet a fierce feminine strength shines through every one of them. Even while breaking down, she writes like she matters. Like her story matters. It felt like glimpses of hope and healing all the way through.

There's so much more I want to say about her voice in these poems, and it's all on the blog 🤍

𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖?

Unladylike | Regina Louise | poetry collection | poetry and prose | healing | self-reclamation | women's voices | book review | Poetic Book Tours | bookstagram

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#FREE on #KindleUnlimited! Enjoy an interview with Regina Louise, author of the #hybridpoetry UNLADYLIKE: A MYTHOPOETIC RECLAMATION OF LOVE. Discover her inspiration for the book. Enter to #win a $25 Amazon/BN GC.

https://joanneguidoccio.com/2026/10/05/spotlight-on-unladylike-by-regina-louise/ @therealreginalouise

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#FREE on #KindleUnlimited! The author of the #hybridpoetry UNLADYLIKE: A MYTHOPOETIC RECLAMATION OF LOVE, Regina Louise, talks about her writing space.

Enter to #win a $25 Amazon/BN GC.

https://jhthomas.blogspot.com/2026/09/win-25-gc-unladylike-by-regina-louise.html

#goddessfishpromotions #reginalouise #promotions #giveaway

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🌸UNLADYLIKE
✒️Poet: Regina Louise
💫Rating: 5/5

🌸Some poetry asks you to admire it. Unladylike asks you to sit down with it—and, occasionally, squirm a little. Regina Louise’s collection is raw, intimate, angry, funny, sensual, spiritual and deeply personal, but what stayed with me most was how deliberately she uses language. Nothing feels overly polished for the sake of being “poetic.” The poems often sound like someone thinking, remembering, confronting and finally saying the thing she was never allowed to say.

🌸The recurring theme of reclaiming the self is what makes the collection so resonant. Louise keeps returning to women who have been silenced, abandoned, labelled, desired, controlled or taught to make themselves smaller. In “Hope Is a Rope,” she writes, “I am / the grip, / the reach, / the spine—” and that almost childlike simplicity makes the idea hit harder. There is no elaborate metaphor needed; the woman becomes the thing holding herself up.

Read full review on aliveshadow.com.

#bookpost #bookstagram #bookreview #booksbooksbooks #trending

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JUST DROPPED!! 🎙️✨

After months of conversations, tapings, laughs, stories and a whole lot of behind-the-scenes work and tech issues, CALL ME WYLLISA is officially here — a new episode just dropped! 🎉September is Literacy Awareness Month, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with wonderful authors like @ReginaLouise.

She is the author of her best-selling memoirs “Somebody’s Someone” and its follow up “Someone Has Led This Child to Believe.” Her life story of resiliency caught the attention of Hollywood with a film adaption of her life, titled “I Am Somebody Child: the Regina Louise Story.”.
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Now, Regina is back with her third book — this time, a book of poetry, titled “Unladylike: A Mythopoetic Reclamation of Love.” In “Unladylike,” she revisits the wounds, betrayals, abandonment and emotional landscapes that shaped her, but she does so from the powerful vantage point of a woman who is no longer defined by what happened to her. Through poetry, prose, reflection and mythopoetic storytelling, she transforms personal history into a radical act of self-reclamation. I can’t wait for you to hear her recite her poetry on the show! What a treat!
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Her language is fierce, sensual and unflinching. She excavates the past not to remain imprisoned by it, but to understand it, name it and ultimately reclaim the parts of herself that trauma forced into silence..
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CALL ME WYLLISA is officially in the world! 💋🎙️ The podcast can be found on all major platforms. Plus, you can listen to the episode at WyllisaBennett.com.

Press play. Binge the episodes. Then CALL ME! 😉
#CallMeWyllisa #WyllisaBennett #publicistdujour #BlackPodcasts #ConversationsThatMatter

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SEPTEMBER IS LITERACY MONTH! I can’t think of a better way to celebrate literacy month than with wonderful authors like @therealreginalouise. If you’re up, catch her on @kbla1580 today w/ @diprimaradio at 8 am PT. It will probably be on @YouTube, too.
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Regina is the author of her best-selling memoirs “Somebody’s Someone” and its follow up “Someone Has Led This Child to Believe.” Both books chronicle her journey through foster care. Her debut memoir, “Somebody’s Someone,” was adapted into a one-woman stage production, and nominated for two NAACP Theatre Awards. Her life story of resiliency caught the attention of Hollywood with a film adaption of her life, titled “I Am Somebody Child: the Regina Louise Story.”.
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Now, Regina is back with her third book — this time, a book of poetry, titled “Unladylike: A Mythopoetic Reclamation of Love.” In “Unladylike,” she revisits the wounds, betrayals, abandonment and emotional landscapes that shaped her, but she does so from the powerful vantage point of a woman who is no longer defined by what happened to her. Through poetry, prose, reflection and mythopoetic storytelling, she transforms personal history into a radical act of self-reclamation. It’s fire! 🔥
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Her language is fierce, sensual and unflinching. She excavates the past not to remain imprisoned by it, but to understand it, name it and ultimately reclaim the parts of herself that trauma forced into silence..
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Unladylike is about what happens when a woman stops asking permission to become whole.. She had an emotional poetry reading at @octavias_bookshelf that left many of us in tears!
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Pick up a copy of “Unladylike” today. #authors #authorsigning #poetry #poetryreading #reginalouise

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THANK YOU! Just a quick shout out to @TheRealReginaLouise! 💕Thank you for asking me to participate in your wonderful event last night. 💕💕.

Regina held her first poetry reading for her new book, “Unladylike,” and I was tapped to do the Q + A with her. Regina is fire! Regina is fierce!! Her words are electrifying! Raw emotions poured out last night as we heard this poet recite her own words out loud. .
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Regina, it was great to be in your company and act soooooo unladylike with you. THANK YOU!.💕💕💕
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More BTS to come, but I just wanted to thank @TheRealReginaLouise for a wonderful night! .
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Oh, and pick up your copy of “Unladylike: A Mythopoetic Reclamation of Love” today. Available where books are sold.

#unladylike #ReginaLouise #Wyllisa #publicistdujour

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📚✨ AN EVENING WITH REGINA LOUISE AT OCTAVIA’S BOOKSHELF ✨📚

Some books tell a story. Others open the door to a deeper conversation about survival, healing, identity and reclaiming your voice.

Join acclaimed author @therealreginalouise at Octavia’s Bookshelf for a poetry reading, booksigning and intimate Q&A moderated by me! 💕@octavias_bookshelf

Regina returns with her powerful third book, “Unladylike,” a fierce and lyrical reflection on trauma, resilience and what it means to reclaim your life on your own terms.

Regina and I will sit down for a candid conversation about the woman behind the pages—the experiences that shaped her, the courage it took to tell her story, and why being “unladylike” can sometimes be an act of liberation.

📖 Meet the author.
🎤 Hear the story behind the story.
💬 Be part of the conversation.
✍🏾 Get your copy signed.

Regina Louise x Wyllisa Bennett
A conversation you won’t want to miss.

TODAY!
📍 Octavia’s Bookshelf
📅 September 1, 2026
⏰ 6 to 8 p.m.

Bring your questions. Bring a friend. And come ready for a conversation that goes beyond the book.

#ReginaLouise #Unladylike #OctaviasBookshelf #WyllisaBennett #CallMeWyllisa

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