"The Spirit of a Bear" is a collection of poetry by Kathryn Cloward revealing her journey through love and loss, trauma and transformation, and healing and hope. Cloward alchemizes her experiences through poetic and lyrical storytelling, offering an opportunity for resonance to anyone exploring expansive levels of self-love and uncontained personal liberation. Through her poetry, Cloward demonstrates how our growth is not linear but rather a constant ebbing and flowing through life as we experience ease and joy mixed with struggle and heartache. "The Spirit of a Bear" provides a vantage point of life's landscape, providing readers with an invitation to transform and release what is heavy and unspoken in their own lives and align with their personal truths to shine vibrantly.