LIFE IS WORTH LIVING: Healing From Within

TRIUMPHANT SPIRIT, CELEBRATING THE PASSAGE TO PERSONAL INTEGRITY....LIFE IS WORTH LIVING: Healing From Within, is an extremely hopeful and uplifting book. It offers the reader compelling evidence of the existence of a natural healing process contained in the human spirity. Residing within each of us is a creativity that lies dormant until brought forth by determination and hard labor. It is said that a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesichness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. Nowhere is this more true than in this, Jim Bruns' exquisite volume of poetry. In this collection, Jim beautifully describes his hourney of self-discovery and how he was able to transform a life once filled with pain, suffering, and anguish, to a life filled with love, joy and a deep sense of worth and value. These poems compel the reader to experience a wide variety of emotions: despair, fear, loathing, helplessness, but also hope, forgiveness, compassion and love. Jim invites us into his world and shares with us his past, thereby honoring both it and the reader, and infusing the rader with the assertion that yes, it is possible. Obstacles can be overcome, challenges can be faced, and love can be found, but only if one is willing to dedicate onself to the pursuit of truth and is willing to offer unconditional love to oneself as well as to others.