After the bestselling I Wish I Knew, Donna Ashworth has now produced an extraordinary three-volume collection of poems that will touch and inspire every reader in the ups and downs we all face in love, in life and in loss. A friend recommended this book to me and it is one that will stay on my bookshelf to be picked up time and time again. I have bought hard copies of them because sometimes you need to listen to them and sometimes you need to dip in and read whatever resonates.

Lose Someone Once, by Donna Ashworth You Don’t Just Lose Someone Once, by Donna Ashworth

Put the lessons learned in a file marked ‘done’ and give yourself a pat on the back for the things you got right. I needed to be reminded that I am loved and will always be loved because I will always have myself and never abandon myself.And yet I am still thinking about you pretty much all the time, which is strange because I didn’t know you at all, in real life. Donna Ashworth has such a gentle, yet firm, way with words, that help with healing and comfort in a time of loss.

I Wish I Knew Funeral Poem - Funeral Guide

Share the love you felt for that person with all the other special people in your life, for it is limitless. A short but uplifting funeral poem by famous Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, about saying goodbye to a loved one. This collection is about dealing with those feelings, dealing with the trauma of loss, accepting the status of loss, healing the wounds, the scars and scabs left by loss. You see, when the world is in crisis (and it is), your soul becomes weary with the weight of collective grief. It’s become quite apparent to me that poetry is the love of my life and helps me to constantly process myself and the world around me.There comes a day, somewhere in the middle of every woman’s life, when Mother Nature herself stands behind us and wraps her arms around our shoulders, whispering “It’s time. And as the years abound and you read your story back it will suddenly appear that your life was right on track. But I think I’d have to say seeing my name in Fearne Cotton’s latest book, as a source of inspiration to her, was the pinch-me moment. You are snaking a shimmering pathway full of love and joy sincerity and kindness companionship and loyalty and you-ness all over the place and you don’t even see it.

Love and Loss | Donna Ashworth | 9781785304538 | NetGalley Life, Love and Loss | Donna Ashworth | 9781785304538 | NetGalley

Donna Ashworth is such an astute observer of life, and so skilled at capturing the emotions we all feel through her words. Without the lights, the sets, the music – suddenly you see the whole production for what it is… a show. Watch your words they can break down walls and build bridges but they can just as easily break a beautiful spirit. Take the love you shared with me and spread it out with gladness my life will not have been in vain if you can fight the sadness Take the love my darling it’s yours to carry on grow that love forevermore and then I won’t be gone.

Because I’m not used to reading a lot of poems, I never know what to expect from a poetry collection when I pick them up. Has not been reading much poetry since being in my early 20s, but this book is so powerful, I keep getting back to re-read some poems to find comfort and inspiration to love yourself. Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-acceptance and inspiration on the days we feel worn down, helpless or sad.

Donna Ashworth Quotes (Author of I Wish I Knew) - Goodreads

As her global community builds each month towards a million followers, Life, Love and Loss is a collection of poems with something for everyone. From familial ties, motherhood, parenting, friendship and toxic relationships, these poems show tenderness as a powerful force - even towards yourself. Seeing Jane McDonald on the beach, relaxing with my book, on her Caribbean travel show recently, was a thrill and I’m delighted to count Lisa Snowdon as an ally in our fight to make ageing a joy, and not a dread. I recommend this book to anyone who is confused about their grief, who struggles and wonders how long it will hurt.You see, if you choose to accept your body, you will soon start to love it, admire it, look after it. Perhaps because I’m a mom and also a daughter, some poems really spoke to me more than others and made me very emotional in ways no poems ever did.