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    Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing
    Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing
    Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing
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    Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing

    By Donna Stoneham

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    Losing your mother is a transformational event at any age, and yet the number of books on the subject of adult children grieving a mother’s death is meager. In this moving collection of poems and letters, Donna Stoneham chronicles the healing power of love between an adult daughter and her elderly mother—across the boundaries of this world and the next, and over the course of four years—and how that connection teaches her to love more deeply, to fully forgive, and to grow into her authentic self.

    An embracing solace for anyone recovering from the loss of a loved one, Catch Me When I Fall reveals how our grief journeys can be a powerful transformative force and offers readers a courageous, healing path to the other side of sorrow’s dark passage. Through the conversations between mother and daughter that take place in these lyrical pieces, readers are provided with the opportunity to explore a beautiful notion: as long as we keep our hearts open to the mystery and transformational power of transcendent, eternal love, it will always be possible to heal and continue our most pivotal relationships—even after death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShe Writes Press
    Release dateMay 9, 2023
    ISBN9781647424299
    Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing
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    Donna Stoneham

    Donna Stoneham is an executive coach, transformational leadership expert, speaker, lifelong poet, former hospice chaplain, and spiritual seeker who was born and raised in the Texas panhandle. She is also the author of The Thriver’s Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead. When Donna’s not writing, coaching, traveling, or volunteering, she loves to hike, ski, sail, kayak, and do anything else that involves communing with spirit and nature. She, her wife, and their rescue dogs live in Point Richmond, California.

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      Catch Me When I Fall - Donna Stoneham

      November 2015

      I have so many fears as we move Mama to California. How will she adjust to living in a place that’s so different from Texas, the only place she’s ever known? What if she doesn’t adjust and she’s miserable here? What if I’m not capable of taking care of her as her dementia progresses and her needs increase? What if the burden of being responsible for her becomes too much, and the boundaries I’ve created to stay healthy become blurred? What if everything I do to try and make her happy isn’t enough and I fail to keep her

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