Salt & Honey
Mystical poems of healing, love, and transformation
A small book for the heart that has been through a long dry spell and is beginning, tenderly, to trust itself again. Four movements, one slow walk back toward love.
A stunning blend of raw vulnerability and spiritual wisdom.Mindful Magazine
What if a small poem could reach the oldest ache?
Salt & Honey lives in the tender place where love meets a wounded heart, the place most of us learn to walk around rather than through. These pages will not ask you to be finished healing. They ask you to sit down, breathe out, and let something sweet find you exactly where you are.
Some of it is salt, the grief that keeps no schedule, the brine of a season when nothing bloomed, the tears you took yourself out to the ocean to hide. Some of it is honey, the return of desire, the shock of being wanted again, the slow and unglamorous rebuilding of self-trust.
You need both to taste anything at all.
Four movements, salt to honey
The collection unfolds the way a heart actually mends, not in a straight line but in seasons. Read it front to back, or open it at random and let the page choose you.
The Dry Season
The long stretch where nothing arrives. Grief without ceremony, wanting without an object, and the strange dignity of surviving a year you cannot explain to anyone.
Coming Back to the Body
Where self-trust is rebuilt one small kept promise at a time. Poems about softening, about being tender with the parts of you that learned to armour up.
The Sweetness Returns
Desire after a dry spell, sultry and a little disbelieving. The love poems, the ones about being seen, and about staying open once you finally are.
Snacks for the Journey
Small offerings to carry with you, short enough to keep in a pocket and return to on the days the way back gets long.
You are ready to feel something again
You are coming out of a dry spell
Heartbreak, dullness, or a season that took more than it gave. You want words that meet you honestly before they lift you.
You have done the healing work
Now you want the sweetness it was all for. These poems are permission to stop bracing and let love come close again.
You keep a book by the bed
One page before sleep, one line you keep coming back to. Salt & Honey is built for exactly that kind of reading.
Emily Bauman
Emily is a Canadian author and publisher who spent years as a United Nations Communications Focal Point, writing for humanitarian programs in Haiti and Sudan before turning her pen toward the inner life. She is the author of the bestseller Born to Write, the founder of a publishing house, and a mentor to writers who have a book living inside them.
She writes from Tulum, Mexico, where she is raising her son, and where the salt and the sweetness are never very far apart.
Let something sweet find you
Salt & Honey is available now in paperback and ebook.
ISBN 978-1-0688-9412-1