We get to be a part of many wonderful people’s book journeys. This week we’re celebrating the birth of HEROINE Victoria Coster’s memoir in poems, We Make Diamonds, by sharing a poem from the collection.

We get to be a part of many wonderful people’s book journeys—whether through book coaching, editing, publishing—or all of the above, which is how more practical dharma, came to exist.

This week, we’re so excited to share a chapter from our client Dr. Jeffrey Fracher’s recently published second nonfiction book, More Practical Dharma: Pragmatic Strategies for Everyday Challenges. This post is an excerpted chapter, originally titled “Are We Bound By Our Stories?.”

We’re sharing the book-writing experiences of some of our past members here on the blog.

Tessa completed the first draft of her Shirley Jackson–inspired novel at 96,000-words, and with time to spare! We asked her a few questions about The Heroine Collective (formerly Ambitious Authors’ Mastermind) experience.

When it comes to exploring the embodied lifestyle, a coaching relationship is a great way to begin or deepen your practice. But there are so many “trailheads” and ways to explore somatic experiencing, trauma healing, embodiment, and more—and the best way into any new realm of exploration is by picking the trailhead that most interests and excites YOU. So, I'm sharing 12 different ways in to your next exploration of embodiment. What speaks to you?

It is truly possible to write the complete first draft of your novel, memoir, essay collection, nonfiction manifesto, or other—in six months.

I know because that’s what I do. I help writers and would-be authors like you—the ones lying awake at night aching with the pain of a creative idea (or three) not yet realized—to write the book that’s begging to be born from them.

As a somatic healer and self-liberation and book coach for neurospicy women + femme writers, artists, mothers, creators, and creative entrepreneurs, I help my clients heal the wounds of their past that are creating internalized barriers in their present, so that they can create the audacious visions for their future life, work, and art inspired directly by the calls of their heart and soul. These 9 Realms of Embodied Living are the pillars of my coaching teachings, and of my sacred embodied business.

Whilst you’ve likely heard the term thrown around on your Instagram feed, in wellness circles, or even during a therapy session, ‘somatics’ is the kind of word that can feel intimidating; overly technical, generally vague, and therefore easy to file away in the brain under “forget”.

But I don’t want you to forget! Because, to put it bluntly, somatics saved my life.

In this post we’re sharing just a few of our clients’ stunning embodied transformations and life transitions. Each case study is rooted in each woman’s own deeply personal journey into the wisdom of their most authentic Self.