Inspirational Poetry for Coping & Closure

Healing Grace is a self-forgiving embrace that gives you the strength to reclaim the parts of you that have been erased.

If you are on a healing journey from heartbreak, adversity, and personal trauma, Healing Grace's inspirational collection of poems, affirmations, and meditations may be the sage you need.

This book offers healing words of comfort and encouragement for the strong souls working to overcome adversity and trauma.

I am painstakingly
making my way through
the emotional ruins
of a life of resistance,
climbing over broken
pieces of myself
to reassemble
a more durable existence.

–Broken Pieces

The paperback version includes photographs by the author of places and images that evoke healing. The book is organized into three Chapters of comfort and guidance for working through the process of emotional healing.

  • Coping offers soothing solace when acknowledging and responding to the loss of relationships, lifelong adversity, disruptive and hurtful memories, or self-inflicted pain.
  • Restoring provides soothing meditations and encouraging mantras for reclaiming ourselves.
  • Closures hares sage wisdom and uplifting affirmations as guidance on the continued path to achieving full healing.

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Excerpt from Healing Grace © Copyright 2023 Michelle G. Stradford

There are times when the hurting rushes in too fast
for our shattered hearts to contain.

The heightened level of pain proves too vast
for our hollowed words to name.

Hollowed

Long after swallowing the biting hurt,
I choke on the aftertaste of regret.
Searing moments come roaring back,
refusing to allow me to forget.

I gulp down glasses of bitter lies,
then pack my gaping wounds
with merciless vows
and fistfuls of defiance.

Denial is key to my survival.

Coping

Prolonging your agony for someone
who does not see or feel you,
nor believe you are worth their trouble,
will never evoke enough joy
to justify your pain and struggle.

Your Agony

Each desperate hour
stumbles over the next
while time collapses.
I gasp for another breath,
lungs drunk from racing,
competing with myself.

Wrestling, then chasing,
I am defeating these demons
at their rigged life test
before my sun is ready to set.
My heart will beat life into me
until not one dream is left.

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