Summary: Women's issues of illness, aging, friendship, love, identity changes and healing trauma and physical ailments are among the dynamic issues Deena Metzger has explored in her many books. Deena Metzger is a healer, spiritual activist, world travelled and when a friend is in need, she is there. To find out more about Deena Metzer look up deenametzger.com; Blog is Ruin and Beauty Blog at deenametzger.wordpress.com Some of her books included: Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; Grief to Vision: A Council; Feral; La Negra y Blanca; Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn; The Other Hand; Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems.