Soulful Alchemy: Transformative Poems for The Soul by Jenny Garufi~Book Review&Author Interview

“Poetry has also been my therapy. It has helped me process some of the grief after losing my mom as well as helped me integrate some life lessons.” ~ Jenny Garufi

I love how from the beginning of this book, Jenny’s poems nudged my heart to grow bigger and warmer. The positive loving energy of her poetry is transformative to the heart and soul…and such a welcome gift in a world where vulnerability and authenticity is seen as a weakness rather than a strength.

“Gratitude is the seed
That helps our joy to grow
It plants love and appreciation
Connecting us to flow.
People tend to focus
On negativity and what is wrong
But that feeds disempowerment, weakness
Instead of feeling empowered and strong.”
a few lines from the Gratitude poem by Jenny Garufi|Soulful Alchemy

Jenny’s poems cover topics like gratitude, grief, healing, oneness, chakras. energy and self worth. Each poem more beautiful than the other and each deeply moving and inspiring.

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9 Healing Life Lessons from Rumi

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Rumi, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic who, and in my personal opinion, wrote some of the most beautiful and most profound words that were ever written.

Rumi’s poetry is a series of spiritual and mystical experiences. It is a reflection on Divinity, on nature’s beauty, a song and dance, an intense feeling… anything that stirs our soul.

He is among the poets that show us the importance of every experience, be it good or bad.

Rumi’s words, his verses and his poetry has always inspired me. Its moved me at the soul level. Its made me understand so many of life’s truths that sometimes when I sit to soak in his words, I am astounded by what they reveal. You can read the same poetry a hundred times over and each time you will come to understand another layer of the wisdom it offers. Amazing right?!

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How Joy and Sorrow are Inseperable

How Joy and Sorrow are InseperableAs the month of May with its sun and colours is upon us, I can’t help but think of all the opposites our life is full of.

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one” ~ Rumi

Light and dark, night and day, happy and sad, negative and positive.

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