A Hundred Ways to Hold Her is a poetic collection of emotional self-holding, written for the woman learning to stay with herself through heartbreak, healing, and renewal. These one hundred intimate verses trace a journey of unraveling, healing, and return, offering steady companionship through life’s hardest seasons, and honouring both the woman who endured and the woman she is becoming.
Interwoven throughout the collection are periodic benediction verses written in the voice of her future self. These offerings do not instruct or rush the reader forward. They arrive as sacred witnesses, recognizing her courage in real time, honouring what she has carried, and reminding her of the wholeness that is already taking root beneath the surface.
Together, these two voices form a single devotion, one that steadies, softens, and restores.
This is not a book about physical embrace. It is about the quiet ways we learn to carry ourselves with more gentleness, to make room for breath again, and to return, slowly and faithfully, to the home within.
Work in Progress
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A Benediction
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A quiet companion for anyone rebuilding herself from the inside out, this work is both a refuge and a remembrance: a place where survival is honoured, tenderness is reclaimed, and the long road back to self is treated as sacred ground.
If you’re arriving here for the first time, welcome. And if you’ve been walking this creative path with me for a while, thank you for being part of this gentle return to writing and poetry.
As this collection continues to unfold, I’ll be sharing verses, reflections, and moments from the journey here on my blog, on Instagram, and via my YouTube channel.
If you’re just joining this journey, or would like to return to other verses, you’ll find previous and subsequent blog posts linked below.
- Returning to What is True: Poetry, Presence, and the Inner Work of Becoming
- A Hundred Ways to Hold Her: Honouring the Healing Journey Through Poetry
- Healing Through Poetry: A Benediction for Courage and Renewal
May this space always feel like somewhere your heart can rest. ♥
Natalie, xo
This space is an offering of presence.
Words shaped through listening, reflection, and reverence.
A place where becoming is honoured, and the voice remains true.
Whether you’ve arrived here for a spark of inspiration, a moment of peace, or a sense of belonging, I welcome you! I create poetry and soulful offerings inspired by emotional healing, self-expression, and the wisdom of nature. Everything shared here is rooted in the belief that creativity can heal, awaken, and bring us home to ourselves.
