Words While We Walk Together

About the Book

Words While We Walk Together is a collection of poems and prose exploring themes of light and dark, love and loneliness, and the fullness of life uplifted by family and friends. All of those themes are given unique and powerful expression as individual voices are blended into this collective work.

This collection is a book about healing. It is about the need for and possibilities of continual, deep, life changing healing. Written by poetry therapist Tonia Teresa Healey this work is a part of her vocational calling and personal witness to the power of poetry to assist with our everlasting need to heal the mind and spirit.

About the Author

Tonia Teresa Healey is a retired Psychiatric Nurse, living in Narragansett, Rhode Island. She is a certified Poetry Therapist of the National Association of Poetry Therapy. After becoming a nurse, she attended Brown University where she did an independent concentration, titled Poetry as a Therapeutic Process. She is also an "Army Brat," having grown up all over the world with her dad.