Healing Grace: Inspirational Poetry for Coping & Closure

By Michelle G. Stradford

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.
• Closure shares sage wisdom and uplifting affirmations as guidance on the continued path to achieving full healing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sunurchin
• Release date: May 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781957087047

Book preview

Healing

Grace

Inspirational Poetry

for Coping & Closure

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Copyright © 2023 by Michelle G. Stradford

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author except for use in reviews or articles.

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ISBN 978-1-957087-04-7 (ebook)

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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and events are the product of the author’s imagination or are used factiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or living or deceased persons is coincidental.

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Published by Sunurchin

Healing

Grace

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Inspirational Poetry

for Coping & Closure

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Michelle G. Stradford

Also, by Michelle G. Stradford:

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I’m Rising: Determined. Confident. Powerful.

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Rise Unstoppable

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Self Love Notes II: Affirming Poetry

& Prose

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Self Love Notes: Uplifting Poetry, Affirmations

& Quotes

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Waves of You: Love Poems

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When Love Rises

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DEAR READER

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Welcome to Healing Grace, a collection of poems, affirmations, and meditations that offer comfort and inspiration for your healing journey from heartbreak, adversity, and personal trauma. This book is organized into three chapters, Coping, Restoring, and Closure, providing a gentle guide for those embracing the healing process. My hope is that you will discover yourself in these words and allow your troubles to escape while reading passages silently or speaking the affirmations out loud.

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Please note that Healing Grace may contain descriptions that could trigger uncomfortable responses for those who have experienced abuse. Nonetheless, the collection aims to empower readers with the tools to navigate their healing journey.

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May these pages provide solace and healing for your beautiful soul and inspire you to finally lay claim to the undaunted you.

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Sincerely,

Michelle

DEDICATION

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To all who embrace your healing journey

despite the ache, you are deserving of grace.

Contents

COPING

Hollowed

Coping

Unbreachable

The Bleeding

Flirting with Flames

The Rescue

Non-Reciprocal

The Seeds

Grandly Illuded

Finding Peace

An Ocean

Noble

Time Thieving Relic

Unwitting

Sullen Silence

Racing Time

Clear Message

Hard Pass

Protracted Lies

Negative Energy

My Worth

Your Agony

Burning

Not Love

Too Demanding

Self-Punishment

Gaslit

Transgressions

Battles Waged

Claim Your Courage

Resentment

I Feel You

Hidden Doorways

Grievances

Nearest Exit

Wild Spirit

No Room

Bitter Poison

Estranged

Torn Pretenses

Triggers

Fire Beneath

No Witnesses

Wayward

Veil of Denial

Processing Pain

Wholeness

Blazing Red Flags

Unchained Wrath

Assess the Damage

Betrayal of Trust

Unlivable

Non-Negotiable

Broken Pieces

Enough

Deep Cleansing

RESTORING

Time Collapses

Taste of Regret

Gravity

Remedy

Full Span

Time to Part

Simmering

Sweet Solace

Reckoning

My Wildfire

Sunrise Ends

Breakthrough

Pretense

Authentic Peace

Price of Sacrifice

Cathartic

Ambivalent

Beauty Embodied

The Folds

Escapism

For the Win

Regrowth

Below the Surface

Strength Prayer

Sediments

New Season

Renewal

Long Game

Rebound

Glass Jar

Beacon of Love

Never Quit

Sharpened Vision

Fighting Spirit

Joy Germinates

Eager Sunflower

Forward to Freedom

Your Torch

Simple Joys

Commanded Action

Safeguarding

Blinding Future

Helium Journey

Confrontation

Anchors

Hold On

Dawning Possibilities

Forgive You

Overprotect

Which Face

Full Healing

Dismantle Burdens

Brokenness

Exhale Fear

High Stepping

Oblivion

No Promises

Press On

CLOSURE

Wise Whispers

I Choose

Bleed Freely

Still Unbroken

Reclaiming You

Worth the Trouble

Life Affirming

Shatter Souls

Definitions

Emotional Needs

Woman of Endurance

Valiant

Dance of Life

Growth Portal

Your Manuscript

Neutralized

Gut-Wrenching

Crucial Lessons

Seasoned People

Perpetual

Numbed

Restoring

A Mountain

Ice Princess

Silent Cries

Mismatched

Unlearning

Imperfect Vessel

Illuminated

No Secret

Undaunted Spirit

Enduring

Treasured Prize

Your Splendor

My Vault

Muscle Memory

Principles

Grant Grace

Punctuated

Balanced Growth

Bold New Start

Breach Walls

Intended Blessings

Happy Tears

My Moment

Peaceful Reservoir

Remain Whole

Culpable

On with Living

End of Weeping

Head On

Indifference

Nothing Better

New Meaning

Kinetic Moments

Detach

Your Aura

Survivor

Eclipse the Horizon

Triumphant

Face the Sun

New Ending

My Greatest Love

Resolute

Lioness

Worthy Human

Unmovable

From the Ashes

Healing Grace

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I will never surrender

to life’s rage and ire.

My resilience is stoic,

my spirit unshakeable.

Like the hardest diamond,

raw and unpolished,

I remain unbreakable.

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Unshakeable

COPING

Hollowed

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.

Coping

Long after swallowing the biting hurt,

I choke on the aftertaste