I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home [S0006]

2025 HCDJ in Gift-Worthy condition. #1 New York Times Bestseller • A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver's hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days. I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver's own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak and healing. Her deeply personal poems address life's transitions, challenges, successes and failures. Vulnerable and deeply moving, Shriver's words are a collection of her life experiences woven into poetry to inspire everyone on their own journey. It is also an invitation for readers to write their own personal poetry, reclaiming the art as accessible to everyone and a tool to look within. I Am Maria is a roadmap for anyone trying to shed the labels, layers, and armor that holds us back from creating a wildly authentic and meaningful life. "I never imagined writing poetry would help me embark; On a journey deep into myself; I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed; Was within me all along" -from I Am Maria

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This was such a deeply personal look into a life that we all have gotten to see play out in the headlines of the news. Maria was so brave to publish this. This poetry was written as therapy to help with the anguish and betrayal that she experienced. And ultimately a way to connect with her children and grandchildren."; "What I loved most is her honesty without revelation. She showed respect for herself and her family. Yet her words evidence her pain and her vulnerability. Every poem has value. Some I deeply identify with. This is a book I am recommending to many friends."; "This book surprised me. Shriver writes with a kind of vulnerability that you don't expect from someone who grew up at the center of American power. She lays her pain bare, turns over the rocks of her own family history, and doesn't flinch from the messiness that comes with being human-even when you have every privilege imaginable. It's easy to assume that pain and alienation are problems for other people, for the less fortunate. Shriver blows that idea apart. Her honesty about family dynamics, hurt, and the ways we wound each other-regardless of who we are-feels both bracing and deeply comforting."