From Despair to Hope and Healing: One Woman’s Journey in Poem is a compilation of poetic narrations of the struggles and triumphs of Barbara K. Mezera in her battle against depression. In her journey toward healing, she translates her two decades of intense undertakings of winning over anxiety, shyness, and self-doubt, the effects of her depression. Her poems about struggle to find meaning in her family, career, and relationships are written in a series of dark and illuminating pages of poetry as she eventually finds a new hope and healing in her life. She goes out of her comfort zone to share her story as her way of touching the lives of her readers who are going through the same pain.