Poet and prophet, traveler in the realms between the worlds—the here and the greater there—Donna Stoneham is our guide to the landscapes and the inscapes of grief, loss, and the quickening of the human heart. Through this potent telling, she mentors and helps us renew and recover the connection with the love and spirit that never dies.”
— Jean Houston, PhD, cofounder of the Human Potential Movement and best-selling author of The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved, and A Passion for the Possible
Stoneham’s poignant poems and prose can offer hope and challenge for anyone living with and trying to process grief at the loss of a loved one.”
— The U.S. Review of Books
An intimate and sometimes-profound chronicle of grief.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Catch Me When I Fall is an intimate collection of poetry that shows how even in the most difficult of times, love finds a way to pierce the darkness and bring joy into our lives. This is not just a collection for poetry lovers, but a book for anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one.”
— Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review – Highly Recommended
Meet Donna Stoneham
Donna Stoneham, PhD, is a poet, executive coach, workshop facilitator, and author of Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing and The Thriver’s Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live Love and Lead.…
A Welcome from Donna
I’ve always been a spiritual seeker, doing my best to fulfill my mission to “heal the wounds that separate” in everything I do. I’ve been writing poetry since I was a little girl growing up in the panhandle of West Texas. It’s always been a vehicle for me to express my experience of divine love, to recount the exquisite beauty I see in nature, and to seek to make meaning of the suffering in the world that can be difficult to process and understand.
My new poetic memoir, Catch Me When I Fall, is a love song to my mother, and of the gifts of wisdom she’s shared with me, following her death. Mama passed away unexpectedly in 2018, and the letters and the poems in this book are a chronicle of the deepest loss I’ve ever experienced—a grief journey that has transformed me at my essence as I experienced a depth of a love between us I never knew was possible, and that despite our fraught history, I came to trust would never die.
When Mama was alive, I was her teacher, and since she’s transitioned to the other side, she’s become mine. This book is the story of my journey of grief, and how, as I allowed myself to fully enter its portal without resistance, it rendered me better, not bitter, as Mama once told me it would. It is my fervent hope that this book will be a healing balm for all who seek to heal a difficult relationship with a parent or for those who’ve experienced the loss of someone dear and are struggling to make meaning of that loss.
I look forward to meeting you virtually or in person and am honored and grateful you’ve joined me here to today.
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