This week on the I Care About You podcast, host Juliana Jay, author of Reasons to Live: An Interactive Guide to Healing and Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts and How to Help Others Survive, welcomes the incredible Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer—poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator, and poet laureate of Evermore. Her work has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS NewsHour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, The Washington Post’s Book Club, and even the stage of Carnegie Hall.

Her newest book, The Unfolding, is a powerful exploration of grief, resilience, and love. In this episode, Rosemerry shares the deeply personal journey of navigating life after the loss of her son, who completed suicide at 17. Through poetry, she found a way to meet grief, live with it, and continue loving through it. The Unfolding is a testament to the healing power of words and an intimate look at the process of working through immeasurable loss. Together, we discuss her experience, the lessons she’s learned about herself, and how writing became a lifeline.

Rosemerry also shares insights and practical tips on using poetry and creative expression as tools for healing.

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This episode is featured on Podcasthon, benefiting The Trevor Project. Please donate here if you miss Podcasthon: https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/667937/?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_source=bing&utm_campaign=generaleffort/&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&msclkid=7f2666c951881c7dc3340110bee1c2f7#!/donation/checkout

To order my book, Reasons to Live: An Interactive Guide to Healing and Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts and How to Help Others Survive https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reasons-to-live-juliana-jane-bruno/1144715706?ean=9781684816088

For more support https://www.julianajbruno.com/

For My Meet Up, Finding Ourselves: https://www.meetup.com/social-refugees-finding-ourselves-with-compassion-love/

More about Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Website: https://www.wordwoman.com/

Daily poetry blog: https://ahundredfallingveils.com/

Daily poetry app for your phone: https://app.ritual.io/rosemerry

Podcast on creative process: https://emergingform.substack.com/

Newest Books: The Unfolding, All the Honey TEDx: The Art of Changing Metaphors, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXC3-ZFkhDo

Poetry album on “Endarkenment”: Dark Praise, https://rosemerrywahtolatrommer.bandcamp.com/album/dark-praise

Evermore The Mystery of Grief: Writing into the Loss: https://evermore.org/our-poet-laureate-rosemerry-wahtola-trommer/

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