There are ways we learn to protect ourselves that no one else sees. Not loud or obvious, but practiced over time, until they become a quiet way of being we no longer question. It can look like a softening of expression, a careful choosing of what to show, a quiet holding back of what feels too ... Read More about A Hundred Ways to Hold Her: Poetry About Self-Protection and Becoming
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Where Peace Finds Us
Sometimes the heart needs softness. Sometimes it needs a wider view. This new series of one-word reflections has grown in the space between two collections I am writing now, A Hundred Ways to Hold Her, rooted in healing and self-compassion, and Tapestry of Voices: When Nature Speaks, rooted in ... Read More about Where Peace Finds Us
A Hundred Ways to Hold Her: A Healing Benediction on Resilience and Becoming
There is a version of you who already lives beyond this chapter. Not untouched. Not unmarked. But steady. The benedictions woven through A Hundred Ways to Hold Her speak from that place. While the majority of the collection traces the lived journey of heartbreak and healing, these ten ... Read More about A Hundred Ways to Hold Her: A Healing Benediction on Resilience and Becoming
A Hundred Ways to Hold Her: Poetry About Resilience and Keeping Your Light
There are chapters we never would have chosen. Chapters that asked more of us than we believed we could give. That reshaped us quietly, slowly, sometimes painfully. And yet, there is something sacred about surviving them. Not because they didn’t hurt.Not because they were easy.But because ... Read More about A Hundred Ways to Hold Her: Poetry About Resilience and Keeping Your Light
