I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
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Description
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A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver's hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days. I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver's own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak and healing. Her deeply personal poems address life's transitions, challenges, successes and failures. Vulnerable and deeply moving, Shriver's words are a collection of her life experiences woven into poetry to inspire everyone on their own journey. It is also an invitation for readers to write their own personal poetry, reclaiming the art as accessible to everyone and a tool to look within. I Am Maria is a roadmap for anyone trying to shed the labels, layers, and armor that holds us back from creating a wildly authentic and meaningful life. "I never imagined writing poetry would help me embark
On a journey deep into myself
I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed
Was within me all along"
--from I Am Maria
On a journey deep into myself
I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed
Was within me all along"
--from I Am Maria
About the Author
About the Author
Maria Shriver is a mother and grandmother, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer. She is the author of seven New York Times bestselling books, the former First Lady of California, an NBC News Special Anchor, founder of Shriver Media, The Women's Alzheimer's Movement, the brain health brand MOSH, and the publisher of The Open Field. When she's not thinking or writing, she can be found hanging with her kids and grandkids.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"With an elegance befitting her stature, Maria ventures courageously beneath the surface of her storied life through poetry, beckoning us to meet the truest version of ourselves within this universal medium of self-discovery--the one that perseveres through life's challenges so we can reemerge stronger and brighter than before."
--Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra & host of The Rich Roll Podcast
"Maria Shriver is one of my heroes because her energy radiates grace and compassion. Her new book I Am Maria is a must-read for anyone and everyone looking to excavate their inner voice and heal their soul. Her 'reporter' poetry written from the front lines of her life is a source of encouragement and inspiration that will help people transform their lives for the better."
--Yung Pueblo #1 New York Times bestselling author "After a demanding, award-winning journalism career and tireless work as an activist on many fronts, Shriver has dedicated herself to writing and publishing books that illuminate paths to self-care. Here she shares the key to how she found a way forward after devastating losses: writing poetry. Not literary poetry, but wholly personal poetry expressing and exploring "raw, authentic" emotions... Shriver's openhearted, easily read poems, with universal feelings at their core, chart her painful yet liberating self-analysis leading to self-love. The goal of her poetry is 'to embrace the whole of life...to grow and evolve.' She encourages everyone to do the same."
--Booklist
--Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra & host of The Rich Roll Podcast
"Maria Shriver is one of my heroes because her energy radiates grace and compassion. Her new book I Am Maria is a must-read for anyone and everyone looking to excavate their inner voice and heal their soul. Her 'reporter' poetry written from the front lines of her life is a source of encouragement and inspiration that will help people transform their lives for the better."
--Yung Pueblo #1 New York Times bestselling author "After a demanding, award-winning journalism career and tireless work as an activist on many fronts, Shriver has dedicated herself to writing and publishing books that illuminate paths to self-care. Here she shares the key to how she found a way forward after devastating losses: writing poetry. Not literary poetry, but wholly personal poetry expressing and exploring "raw, authentic" emotions... Shriver's openhearted, easily read poems, with universal feelings at their core, chart her painful yet liberating self-analysis leading to self-love. The goal of her poetry is 'to embrace the whole of life...to grow and evolve.' She encourages everyone to do the same."
--Booklist
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Open Field
Pub date:
2025-04-01
Length:
352 pages
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