Launch Day!

I am excited to announce to all of you that my OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY for “Healing Tree: An Adoptee’s Story of Hurting, Healing and Letting the Light Shine Through,” will be WEDNESDAY, MAY 4th, 2022!!!!

This book is filled with my heart, my soul, and the light that shone through as I wrote and re-wrote each word. I’m so happy to share my heart with you in this form!  I began this project in March 2020, right after the pandemic hit, when suddenly the rhythm of my life had come to a screeching halt.  I knew in my gut it was time to write the book that had been brewing in the corners of my mind for over 10 years.  It was an intense feeling of then or never!!

Thankfully, I had this blog to help me begin.  I copied and pasted every single post into a word document, then went through them one by one, deleting, adding and editing, until finally I could begin to see a book take shape.  In July of 2020, once I had my first draft put together, I started working with my most wonderful writing coach, Bonnie Taschler, whose support was immeasurable.  Away we went!

“Healing Tree” took several different shapes until finally morphing into what is called a “teaching memoir” – a term that many people are not familiar with.  I learned it from a woman named Kelly Notaras, who owns kn literary arts. “kn literary arts is a mission-driven, woman-owned company focused on helping authors get their transformational wisdom into book form. [Their] underlying mission is to help magnify positive change in the world around us, through the medium of books.” – knliterary.com.   As soon as I heard about this company, I knew they were the ones I wanted to work with.  However, this wish did not come at a cheap price.  So, I created a GoFundMe, to which many of you donated, and some of my close students made very large donations, all of which allowed me to be where I am today – with a beautiful finished copy.

Again, “Healing Tree” can be categorized as a teaching memoir. Simply-put, this means that the first half of the book is my memoir.  Although I wrote it in the form of small chapters connecting to one another, I consider the first part to really be like vignettes about my life: my childhood, my relationship to my adoptive family, re-uniting with my biological mother, my treacherous inner world and how it came completely undone after that reunion, finding Body & Brain, and the beginning of my healing journey.  The second half of my book is the “teaching” part.  I share energy practices and principles that aided me towards healing my mind and heart, I lay out the eight steps of Self-Mastery, and I include recommended exercises as well, to give people a chance to practice some of what I’m talking about, if they so choose.

This is just a very brief description, but I wanted to share a little bit of the background story to my blog readers who are so precious to me.  You have given me much inspiration over the years, confirming again and again how much sharing love and light with other souls fills my heart with joy.  As hard as I’ve searched, I really don’t know what could make me happier in this life.

I will be emailing the Amazon link to those of you on my mailing list first thing on Launch Day!!

Thank you, always, for your support and love.  Please know that, to me, you are all part of my Healing Tree! I look forward to continued growth and healing as, together, we become a lush forest full of Healing Trees, covering the Earth with hope and light 🙂