Opened By Life with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

About this episode

An intimate conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on grief, love, and the art of saying yes to life as it is.

An intimate conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on grief, love and the art of saying yes to life as it is. What does it mean to stay open to life when the heart has broken? In this conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, we step into the sacred terrain of grief, love, paradox and poetry. This is not a conversation of tidy answers. It is tender, raw and luminous. Rosemerry reminds us that joy and sorrow are companions, that poetry and friendship can help us carry what feels unbearable. If you are grieving, or if you are living with a broken heart, this episode is a kind of medicine. Rosemerry's new book is entitled The Unfolding - and you can find out more about her work at wordwoman.com .

People in this episode

Host: Jono Fisher

Guest: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Topics covered

• grief
• love
• poetry
• sorrow
• joy
• art of living

Keywords

• grief
• love
• poetry
• heartbreak
• sorrow
• joy
• art

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: wordwoman.com

Books & works: The Unfolding

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