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""Dr. Redmer's experiences as a physician, mother, and life explorer have allowed her to beautifully express what it means to be human in all of its messiness . . . Her writing is a light that peaks from the openings that our difficult times gift us."" -David Rakel, M.D., author of Integrative Medicine and The Compassionate Connection ""This debut poetry collection assembles a chorus of voices and narratives to sing of the evolving ways in which we inhabit-or attempt to escape-our bodies across a lifetime. Like the bird that dies throwing herself against her own reflection, the speaker risks 'the price of her own self-examination, ' looking at shame, depression, pain, and aging head-on . . . Dr. Redmer explores how dissociation might ultimately reveal a deeper connection to ourselves, each other, and the world."" -Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Exploding Head ""In these poems, we find Mr. Rogers and prayer, Little Debbie Snack Cakes and shame, mid-life crisis and climate change, longing, reclamation, and so much more. 'I share these words, ' Dr. Redmer writes in the Introduction, 'not to tell you about who I am but, rather, as a deeper invitation into your own story.' She has certainly succeeded in presenting readers with this invitation to be more present in our own bodies and stories."" -Katie Manning Ph.D., author of Hereverent and Tasty Other ""Jacqueline Redmer invites us into the vulnerable and painful moments in life when all that we love is unraveling in ways over which we have no control. She invites us to linger with her in delicate attentiveness so we can begin to discern a sacred presence that never passes away."" -Jim Finley, Ph.D., author of The Healing Heart and The Contemplative Path ""Jacqueline Redmer writes with an exquisite precision that opens space for the reader to feel-not just think. Her voice is intimate, lucid, and brave. She invites us to enter our own narratives-those threadbare and luminous strands that define a life-through her own deeply embodied reflections. Her poems make visible what often goes unseen-shame, longing, memory, hunger, dissociation, resilience-and they do so with astonishing craft and grace."" -Julie Tallard Johnson, MSW, LCSW, author of The Clue of the Red Thread

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Jacqueline S. Redmer m.d. practices family medicine and palliative care in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin. She is also the mother of three school-aged girls. She started writing poetry during the Covid pandemic to steady herself during the brief pauses of a busy life. Her writing has been published in Examined Life Journal, The Intima Journal, Bramble, Wisconsin Poets Calendar, and Kevin MD Blog. She recently completed the Columbia University Narrative Medicine CPA program and has pursued creative writing courses through Stanford University Continuing Studies Program. Her favorite place to write is in the backyard sauna.

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