<p>On writing the memoir Messy... Learning to love in this moment, and the next... Finding what I never lost, and losing it over and over, to find it again.</p>

On writing the memoir Messy... Learning to love in this moment, and the next... Finding what I never lost, and losing it over and over, to find it again.

(Not) Only Joy

"You cannot control the world, the country, your town, the mood swings of those you love but you can try to create around you a little bit of space that is all your own". Sharon Salzburg

Drawing insight from a life of creative and compassionate attention to the tender human heart and its solitary and relational journeys, Dr. Ahava Shira, poet, memoir writer, dancer, artist and creative midwife wanders through her stories of loss, illness, change and uncertainty, inviting us to open to the grief and love, joy and sorrow, beauty and terror we encounter day by day.

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"You cannot control the world, the country, your town, the mood swings of those you love but you can try to create around you a little bit of space that is all your own". Sharon Salzburg Drawing insight from a life of creative and compassionate attention to the tender human heart and its solitary and relational journeys, Dr. Ahava Shira, poet, memoir writer, dancer, artist and creative midwife wanders through her stories of loss, illness, change and uncertainty, inviting us to open to the grief and love, joy and sorrow, beauty and terror we encounter day by day.

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(Not) Only Joy

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