Melinda Emily Thomas is an author, poet, yoga practitioner, and artist writing at the intersection of earth-cherishing contemplative spirituality, mental health, and soul care.
For anyone who has known deep loss, this joyful, honest spiritual memoir in verse is the story of getting back what matters and makes life worth living. Thank you, Melinda, for this timely, daring, and brave gift!
In the 108 poems in this collection, archetypes and memory entwine. Personified elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air weave with lived experience and first person poems to chart the sacred terrain of motherhood, mental illness, and joy. The verses move like seasons through the ache of miscarriage, the fierce bloom of pregnancy, the primal truth of birth, and the weight of postpartum depression. They hold the sweetness of a child’s laugh, the pulse of landscape, and the expansive spiral of spirit. Rooted in the sacred rhythms of the earth, these poems embrace struggle, sorrow, and joy as vital threads in the fabric of wholeness.
Melinda’s evocative landscape photography accompanies the poems.
The Journal of Elements and Seasons
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Restless
Unravel skin and sinew.
Strip me down to bone.
Make me nothing but marrow
so I can slip between the particles
of this known world and
inhabit mystery.
~ Melinda Emily Thomas, from Elements of Being
Named a Best Spiritual Book of 2020 from Spirituality & Practice
An exquisite, lyrical, and practice-oriented exploration of the path of spiritual balance. ~ Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
In Sacred Balance, Melinda Emily Thomas invites you to align body and spirit through two timeless traditions–Benedictine spirituality and yoga practice.The conversation between these wisdom practices creates a powerful integration of body and spirit–one that offers wholeness and connection to the Divine.
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