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I Am Maria Book

I Am Maria

My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
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I Am Maria Book

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.

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“I read this book on a rainy day, sitting in my window seat, and I wept. I wept because I’ve known Maria since we were in our 20s, and in this book she has opened her soul and allowed all of us—anyone who has ever experienced feelings of loss or grief or not being enough—in. Maria’s poems lead us to the open field, a place of self-love, healing, and home. It is an astonishing work and I am so proud of my friend and the woman she has become.”

Oprah Winfrey

“With an elegance befitting her stature, Maria ventures courageously beneath the surface of her storied life through poetry, beckoning us to meet the truest version of ourselves within this universal medium of self-discovery—the one that perseveres through life’s challenges so we can reemerge stronger and brighter than before.”

Rich Roll , bestselling author of Finding Ultra & host of The Rich Roll Podcast

“Maria Shriver is one of my heroes because her energy radiates grace and compassion. Her new book I Am Maria is a must-read for anyone and everyone looking to excavate their inner voice and heal their soul. Her ‘reporter’ poetry written from the front lines of her life is a source of encouragement and inspiration that will help people transform their lives for the better.”

Yung Pueblo , #1 NYT Bestselling Author

“I am a better leader, a better friend, a better son, brother and uncle because of Maria Shriver. Most importantly, I am a better version of myself. Maria is able to give advice and offer a perspective in words that I am able to hear. I smiled when I read I Am Maria because the poems are exactly the way Maria talks to me. Reading her book felt like she was sitting right next to me. And now she can sit right next to you too.”

Simon Sinek , Optimist, New York Times Bestselling author of Start with Why and host of the podcast, A Bit of Optimism

“Shriver’s openhearted, easily read poems, with universal feelings at their core, chart her painful yet liberating self-analysis leading to self-love. The goal of her poetry is ‘to embrace the whole of life . . . to grow and evolve.’ She encourages everyone to do the same.”

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“I love I Am Maria for the same reasons I love Maria Shriver: her courage and honesty, depth, wisdom and charm. These reminiscences and poems are so fresh and personal, about the joy and heartbreak of one woman’s life, the hope she has found in the dark times, and the abiding light of love.”

Anne Lamott

“It takes enormous courage for anyone—let alone someone who has always lived under public scrutiny—to reveal her own inner journey into pain, healing, and peace. Maria Shriver has that kind of courage. This book is a map of her own awakening, offered in the hope that each reader can also learn to look within, tell the bald truth, and dissolve layers of ego until nothing is left but the true, quiet, joyful self. I Am Maria is a gift to all of us, from its author’s heart of hearts.”

Martha Beck

“As inspirational as it is illuminating the human journey toward wholeness, I Am Maria is a gift for each of us as we search for ways to discover, uncover, and recover the riches within us.  Maria Shriver’s life stories, shared here in powerful poems of clarity and courage, reveal an inner dimension of all of our lives as we try to make sense of the past to free us to live fully in the present and create the future lives we long to lead… What a wonderful gift for humanity.”

Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. , New York Times bestselling author IntraConnected, Mindsight, and Brainstorm Founder, Mindsight Institute

The “I Am Maria” Book Tour:
Conversations with Maria Shriver & Friends

Join Maria for an evening of Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home

May 3

Summerland, CA Godmothers
In Conversation with Oprah Winfrey

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May 7

Dallas, TX
Center for BrainHealth
In Conversation with Sarah Jakes Roberts

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Join Maria and Her Friends:

Ana Navarro

Anne Lamott

Anthony Shriver

Anthony Shriver

Bob Roth

Bob Roth

Bobby Shriver

Bobby Shriver

Chip Conley

Chip Conley

Devi Brown

Devi Brown

Elizabeth Lesser

Elizabeth Lesser

Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb

Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield

Kate Baer

Kate Baer

Karen Skelton

Karen Skelton

Lee Herrick

Lee Herrick

Martha Beck

Mark Shriver

Mark Shriver

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Rachel Platten

Rachel Platten

Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson

Sarah Jakes Roberts

Sarah Jakes Roberts

Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek

Tim Shriver

Tim Shriver

Yung Pueblo

Yung Pueblo

About Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver is a mother and grandmother, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer. She is the author of seven New York Times bestselling books, the former First Lady of California, an NBC News Special Anchor, founder of Shriver Media, The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, co-founder of the brain health brand MOSH, and the publisher of The Open Field. When she’s not thinking or writing, she can be found hanging with her kids and grandkids.

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