Hymns of a Heart Cracked Open: Poetry on Grief, Heartbreak, & Becoming Paperback – December 27, 2025

Hymns of a Heart Cracked Open is a poetry collection exploring grief, heartbreak, devotion, and the slow, sacred work of becoming.Inspired poems written over years of loss, love, and deep inner reckoning, these poems trace the spiral path of initiation and the moments when life strips us bare and asks us to listen more deeply. They speak to the ache of endings, the courage it takes to choose oneself, and the quiet rebirth that follows surrender into the Great Mystery. This book is a low lit temple of becoming, the liminal bardo between what has been and what is becoming.This book is for anyone who has walked through grief and emerged more honest, embodied, and alive. It does not offer answers, but presence to the depths that often stay hidden beneath the surface. It does not rush healing, but honors the wisdom found in staying with that holy ache. I offer this book to the altar of what was and to the slowly returning breath of what is becoming.This is a book to return to when your heart feels cracked open and ready.An invitation to honor the grief and ache as holy,to honor what the heart is whispering,and trust that when you take the leap that there are wings awaiting to catch you.This book is for those who have loved deeply and lost something that changed them.For those who have stood at a threshold, after a breakup, a death, an unraveling, or a quiet inner ending, and felt the ache of no longer being who they were, while not yet knowing who they are becoming.This book is for the tender-hearted and the brave.For the ones who keep choosing to love even after it has broken them open. For those who are learning how to stay present with life in all its beauty, brutality, and hot holy mess.This is a book for the ones who have been told they feel too much, who cannot help but keep their hearts and senses open in this wild world.This book is for anyone who has felt the quiet rumbling grief of becoming.For the ones shedding old skins, old stories, and old identities. For those who are learning how to forgive themselves, reclaim their sovereignty, and trust the intelligence of their own timing.Written by: Grace Asharah Loughman(AI was not a participant in the creation of this book)About the Author: Grace Asharah is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, myth keeper, and Priestess of the Rose whose work lives at the intersection of art, ritual, and embodied spirituality. She has been walking this spiral path for the last 11 years, discovering and uncovering the true nature of this world and who we are as a humanity. Her work honors the initiatory nature of grief, love, feminine gnosis, and remembrance, tending the thresholds where the hearts crack open and new life begins. She lives and creates in devotion to the Earth and the remembering of the sacred feminine. Her art serves as a living prayer for a more embodied humanity and a doorway into the organic intelligence of the earth and body.Rooted in earth-based wisdom, and lived experience, her work serves as a mirror for those walking thresholds of transformation and awakening. Rather than offering answers, she creates spaces of listening, inviting others to reclaim their own inner authority, tenderness, and wild knowing from within. Through poetry, visual art, ceremony, and devotional practice, she invites a return to the body as oracle, the Earth as teacher, and myth as a living language.* Another book is on the Horizon to be Published in October 2026 with beautiful illustrations by Melissa Hagarty aka "MothaBug"Follow along for the Journey:Instagram: @Grace.AsharahPhotography Website: www.wilderosvision.comSubstack: Wild Gnosis Grace AsharahFor all offerings check out: www.wildgracealchemy.com Read more