Have you ever felt like you want to write a book…but notice that you are doing everything BUT writing the actual book? Dive into a somatic perspective that will give you practical tools to tend your capacity for writing your book.

A book coach’s favorite books on writing. Includes books written by Elizabeth Gilbert, Anne Lamott, Natalie Goldberg, Louise De Salvo, Marion Roach Smith, Gerald Gradd, Cathy Birkenstein, and Steven Pressfield.

Writing has the power to help us process and heal from our big life experiences. A healing narrative, in particular, can help us mend. Here are 12 ways we can write about past traumas and challenges in a way that supports our healing.

What do a Vietnam vet, a convicted felon, a grieving daughter, and a Harvard doctor have in common? They all wrote some seriously incredible memoirs I share in this month’s Favorite Five, where I share 5 of my favorite books in a genre and why I love them. Come on over and find your next favorite read.

In this month's Favorite Five, I'm featuring five of my favorite books about creativity from authors who are champions of the authentic courageous creative voice inside each of us. I like to refer to these books when my inner author/creator is needing an encouraging pep talk to go out and bravely do the work she came here for. And as a book coach, I offer these to my clients as essential resources to support their connection to creativity.

Writing prompts can be a wonderful way to give direction to your writing but they don’t always resonate with where we are in the moment. Today I am going to offer another kind of prompting activity. To me, this one feels like collaborating with the divine to direct the course of my writing. If divine sounds too out there for you, let’s call it collaborating with our intuition or our subconscious.