Safe Passage: Eyes on Sunrise

By Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

Seeking solace from lifes daunting challenges, therapist, author, and speaker Robyn Bridges offers
portraitures of the inner landscape of mindfulness and the necessary tools to complete a successful journey.
Astute and insightful, these poems chronicle the heights and depths of answering the call of our own lives as a great adventure. Through Bridges poems, we realize how to allow sorrow to transform into a life rich in soul. We become capable of hearing our own truth and discovering a heart full of self-compassion.
Safe Passage provides a template for navigating the unknown by seeking safety within it, while keeping eyes on sunrise. Through it all, we emerge with clear vision and a realized hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781504387866

Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

Robyn Nygumburo Bridges, M Ed, has authored several books encouraging human interface with the natural world. The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude is her second of five books of poetry. After 25 years of private practice as a Body-Mind-Spirit Counselor, she now continues to write, speaks at inspirational conferences, and travels in order to research and appreciate new landscapes. Robyn is the author of three “Medicine” books: Moose Medicine: Healing Wisdom from the Natural World, Two-Legged Medicine: How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist, and Turtle Medicine: The Art of Swimming Sideways. Now, her second book of poetry, The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude, follows her first, This Way to the Kiva: Poems for the Journey Home. Explore link or link and order through your local bookstore, Balboa Press, or link

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SAFE PASSAGE

Eyes on Sunrise

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-8785-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8786-6 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 12/27/2017

With gratitude for the gifts of consciousness

Which are so capable of safely guiding us through every passage.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART I. FIRST STEPS

The Journey Begins

Raven Wings

Your Suffering

Thresholds

Hesitance

Nothing Left

Whispers

PART II. IT’S PERSONAL

He Is Not for Me Anymore

Waiting for the Biopsy

The Wheel Turns

In the Company of Whales

Handsome Tree Calling

Rubbing Up

In the Quiet Spaces

PART III. ALONE AND TOGETHER

I Wonder

This Black Hat

Before Coffee

Sweet Pea

The Verdant Desert

A Woman at the Turn of the Century

Come All the Way Home

PART IV. HELP FROM THE ANCESTORS

Ancestors

Messengers

Animal Totems

The Related Shaman

It’s Just How We Live

Old Indian Flute Music

The Un-Owned

PART V. THE MARVELOUS PSYCHE

When Psyche Comes Calling

Can You?

Stress

Re-Entry

Coming Home

Only If

Healing

PART VI. TO EVERYTHING A SEASON

Dreaming Winter into Spring

Three Days in the Mountains

Vision Quest Aftermath

Adjustments

Darshan

Old Cathedral Walls

PART VII. REDEMPTION

Injustice

Almost Summer

All the Light We Do Not See

Open Hands

Tracks*

PART VIII. WE CELEBRATE

We Celebrate

Lone Moose

From Unseen Realms

Rapture

The First Dragons

PART IX. FACING FUTURE

Aging

Help Is on the Way

In Gratitude

Miracles

Homeward

The Wisdom Keepers

Your Best Dream

Surrender

Quantum Magic

INTRODUCTION

When we consciously experience life as a journey, we are privileged to embark upon a life-long adventure full of twists, turns, and surprises through which we have the opportunity to develop trust, purpose, and meaning. Though passages from one phase of life to another are seldom easy, they carry cargoes of depth and character. By squarely facing that which daunts us, we voyage into a soulful wisdom gleaned from navigating rough waters. Sailors