WHEN THE HEART SPEAKS
Love Letters to Humanity
126 poetic transmissions distilled from a life lived, loved, questioned, broken open and continually begun again.
I wrote these pieces over years of living—through relationships, motherhood, awakening, loss, travel, creativity, questions of God and consciousness, moments of extraordinary beauty and the very ordinary work of being human.
Each began somewhere in my own experience.
I lived something. I wrestled with it. I listened. And eventually, something remained.
These poems are what remained.
That is what I mean by poetic transmissions: the wisdom I could carry forward from what life had shown me, distilled into a page or two.
You can read the book from beginning to end. Or you can open it anywhere.
Read one piece. See what meets you there. Return when you need another.
And then we let the readers take over.
HOW READERS LIVE WITH THE BOOK
Over time, women began telling me they weren't only reading the book from beginning to end. They were keeping it close, opening it intuitively, and allowing a page to find them—almost like an oracle.
I love that.
There is no right way to read this book. My hope is simply that something in these pages helps you hear something within yourself.