The Marvelous Contentment of Belonging - by Darci Meyers (Paperback)

About the Book

Through a collection of poetry, prose, reflection, and writing prompts, somatic therapist and grief guide Darci Meyers extends a gentle hand to support you in navigating grief and learning to live with loss.

Book Synopsis

Writing Through Grief & Loss - A Creative Path of Transformation

Disoriented. Bereft. Numb. Untethered.

If you've recently lost someone you love, these words may describe your inner landscape. You may find yourself in a world that has radically changed, wondering how to live when the life you knew has ended.

You are not alone. Through a collection of poetry, prose, reflection, and writing prompts, somatic therapist and grief guide Darci Meyers extends a gentle hand to support you in navigating grief and learning to live with loss. Drawing from her own experience after the death of her husband, Meyers invites you to discover the healing power of writing as a pathway toward meaning, connection, and belonging.

Inside these pages, you'll find poetic inspiration and guidance to:

- Transform grief and loss through creative writing

- Deepen your connection to the seasons and animate world as companions on your healing journey

- Express and integrate your unique experience of grief

- Cultivate a deeper capacity for presence, tenderness, and joy

- Rediscover hope, connection, and love after loss

Review Quotes

"Darci Meyers writes from the raw center of loss with the eye of a poet and the heart of a healer. Moving through four seasons of grief following the death of her beloved husband, she offers us a tapestry of reflection that is shattering, beautiful, wise, and profoundly alive. In haiku, sonnet, and prose-spare as winter branches and radiant as desert light-she bears sacred witness to the journey of grief, inviting readers to do the same. This book is a companion for all who love deeply and therefore must one day grieve-which is to say, all of us."

-Joan Borysenko, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

"At midlife we inevitably come face-to-face with loss. In The Marvelous Contentment of Belonging, Darci Meyers offers a tender, courageous, and deeply honest view into grief, inviting readers-through poetry and creative exploration-to transform their own experience of loss. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking meaning, connection, and a wiser relationship with grief."

-Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Learning to Love Midlife and founder of MEA (Modern Elder Academy)

"Grief isn't optional. We will all know it at one time or another. How we navigate it depends, in part, on how we understand it. In her poems and prose, Darci Meyers describes her grief with deep insight, fearless integrity, and great compassion-for herself, for a home in the high desert that offers hope and healing, and for her readers. Grief is wild. It has its own gravity. We can't escape it, but we can learn to live with it. For that, it helps to have an ally who knows the territory. Read this book and you will find one."

-Peter Anderson, author of First Church of the Higher Elevations

"In Darci Meyers' The Marvelous Contentment of Belonging, grief is not a static state but a 'rewilding' -a feral, untamed movement mirroring the shifting seasons. Meyers crafts a poetic prayer recognizing the sacred interplay between nature and the 'somatic legacy of loss'. Her poems move through 'patterns of four', aligning the stages of mourning with the natural world's cycles. The poems are a relatable, raw, and emotional journey into the heart of loss, reminding readers what it means to truly belong to the sky and to each other."

-Crisosto Apache, author of Ghostword and is(ness), 2026 Poet Laureate of Colorado

"Darci Meyers' The Marvelous Contentment of Belonging is a tender and powerful guide for the human heart. With grace and honesty, she offers a blueprint for navigating grief-not as something to overcome, but as a sacred passage that gently leads us back home to ourselves. This beautiful book reminds us that even in our deepest loss, there is a quiet invitation to remember who we are, to soften, and to belong again-fully, deeply, and without apology."

-Cynthia James, bestselling/award-winning author of I Choose Me and Does My Voice Matter?

"In this profound and beautiful book, Darci Meyers shares the interior of her soul with us and allows her experiences with death and grief to become a powerful reflective mirror into a deeper understanding of our own experiences of loss. Within these pages, we experience the tenderness, the fury, the aching, the transformation, and the divine alchemy that all occur within the grief journey. This book is a balm for the soul."

-Stephanie James, psychotherapist, transformation coach, and author of Your Big Fat Juicy Life (and Everything After)