The Healing Collection
She was a phoenix, rising from her own ashes—unknown
This deeply personal poetry collection illustrates the rise and fall that is the healing journey. Angela claims that healing is not a straight line but instead, “we circle around it gradually rising until one day we are looking back at where we once were.”
This collection exposes vulnerable moments on that journey. It highlights the resilience—much like the fire of the phoenix—that fuels the courage to keep moving forward. Click on the “My Book,” tab above to learn more about life lessons captured in excerpts in her book, EMPOWERED.
Dark Night of My Soul
Sometimes the shadow is the greatest gift because when we finally see a shred of light, we know which way to go.
After my car accident, I faced a wall of pain. My body, my heart, my soul were all tied up in grief. Loss of the life I had. A full stop to the world that I knew. Choosing to honor that grief through artistic expression allowed me to begin to heal.
Rebirth
When feeling overwhelmed—from circumstances, feelings, or evaluating my life—I tend to recoil inward.
It is my body trying to self-regulate my nervous system, which is actually a good thing. What I learned is that sometimes the best next steps is simply visualizing myself in the life where I experience what I crave—peace, love, travel, adventure. From that first step, any small action supports that visualization and step by step I build a bridge from where I am today to the future I visualize.
Love, For My Mother
“…stories present the knife of insight…the courage to stand what one sees without looking away, the fragrance of the wild soul...” They allow us to, “grieve hard, and come out of it tear-stained…. deepened, fully acknowledged and filled with new life.”
—Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes