How Beauty Heals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798888388167)

"Murray's poetry is not only a breath of fresh air for the soul-it is also the harbinger of gentle peace for the mind and spirit."

-Sandra Wickham, Author of Feel Write Again, Crushing Your Doubts, Write More, and the Death Coach series.

How Beauty Heals is a stunning collection...a love letter from the poet to the soothing powers of Nature and the remarkable will and resilience of human spirit. Each work reminds the reader to pause and reflect on their own ability to connect to the spirituality of the open fields, the deepness of the river, and the abundant sky. Miriam Murray opens her heart (and ours, as well) with her gift of language and mood. She dives into the most difficult of human emotions: grief, loss, fear; and breaks through the surface triumphantly joyful. Each poem will stay with the reader like a gentle reminder to pay attention to that nearly inaudible inner voice crying out for peace and calm. In closing (and to borrow the words of the poet) How Beauty Heals "would stay. It would dance in my heart forever. So much Beauty."

-Kelly Smith Fuller, Columbus Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Vice President of Talent and Workforce Development

"You could say that beauty saved my life." This powerful, healing, nourishing collection by Miriam Murray is rich with awe, surrender, and generosity. She celebrates the natural world, the comfort of silence, and the openness possible on the other side of trauma. Reading this book, I felt my shoulders relax and the doors of my heart fling open. What a gift. These poems are so full of love and wonder and beauty. I am celebrating you and your poems. Congratulations on creating such a powerful big-hearted book.

-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Author of Hush, All the Honey, The Mirac;le Already Happening Een Now, and Naked for Tea