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You’ve walked through fire.
Your wisdom could light up someone else’s path and show them what’s possible in the world. But sharing your story feels vulnerable as hell.
You’re a woman who has been on a hugely transformational journey – maybe an uncomfortable one – and this feels like the time to stop, breathe, and realign. This is your sign.
You don’t have to burn it all down to begin again. All you have to do is remember who you really are and create something that really matters.
You already know how to write (you may think you can’t—you can). What’s stopping you isn’t technique. It’s the deeper work of trusting your voice, claiming your story, and believing it matters enough to put into the world.
It does.
Using a blend of creativity, intuition, and practical tools (including AI if you want it), I help you tap into what you really want to share and write the book that’s calling you. There are no formulas, no forcing – just your real, raw story told your way.
Where memoir art meets practical wisdom and your wild heart.
And the good news is your book doesn’t have to stop at the last page. Once it’s written – hell, long before it’s written – you’ll start seeing what else wants to grow from it. Workshops that emerge from your chapters. Circles where women gather around your themes. Offerings that extend your story’s reach. We’ll cover that too. Not because you need to turn your pain into a business plan, but because your wisdom wants multiple ways to serve.
What's Actually Stopping You?
But most memoir teachers won’t tell you this:
The reason you haven’t written your book yet has nothing to do with not knowing how to structure a chapter or craft a scene. You can learn that from any writing course.
What’s actually stopping you is deeper and harder to name:
The belief that you need to be “healed” before you can share your story.
That your transformation needs a neat arc with a pretty lesson at the end. That your pain should come gift-wrapped in gratitude. That readers need you to have it all figured out before you’re allowed to offer wisdom.
F**k that.
Your messy middle -the place you’re in right now, still figuring shit out, still healing, still becoming that’s your authority.
Other stuff that might be stopping you:
You’re trying to fit your spiral transformation into someone else’s linear formula. You’re not writing honestly and waiting for permission to claim that your lived experience counts as wisdom. It does – it does…
Or maybe you’re just scared. Scared of being too raw, too much and too honest. Scared that if you tell the real story – the one with rage still in it, with questions unanswered, with wounds not yet beautiful – people will think you’re not evolved enough to teach anything.
Let me tell you something:
The women who need your story don’t need your performance of enlightenment. They need your truth – messy, ongoing, imperfect truth. They need to know they’re not alone in their own messy middle. They need permission to stop performing, too.
That’s what your book gives them. Not a roadmap to perfection, a before-and-after transformation. Just your honest accounting of walking through fire and what you learned in the flames.
What You Might Just Need
Not another writing technique course, or guru promising a foolproof formula.
You need:
Structure that honours non-linearity – Your transformation didn’t happen in neat chapters. Your book doesn’t have to either.
Permission to write from your scars – Not your trophies, “healed” self and your gorgeous still-becoming self.
Tools that organise without sanitising – Ways to shape raw truth into shareable art without betraying what’s real.
A framework flexible enough to fit YOUR story – Not one that forces you into someone else’s shape.
Someone who gets that your body knows more than any expert – Your wild heart is the ultimate authority, not my system.
That’s what The Wild Heart Journey offers.
How We Work Together

Phase 1: Unearthing - Get It Out of Your Head
We start by unearthing your experience. I’ll ask you questions designed to bypass your gremlins. You’ll brain dump everything—memories, body sensations, contradictions, and the stories you’ve been avoiding.
This is messy work. You’ll free write, follow what has charge, and let your body tell you which scenes matter most. There will be no editing or prettifying pain, just raw material. Voice memo the stuff you can’t type. Notice where your body contracts or expands.
I’ll help you recognise patterns and identify where you’re still letting the dratted gremlins eat you alive.

Phase 2: Structure - Map Your Story
Once we know what wants to be told, we map it to The Wild Heart Journey’s eight phases. Your story determines which phases need multiple chapters, which can combine, and where to put the most weight.
You’ll look at your raw material and see how it fits the phases. I’ll help you see your transformation arc, question what’s missing, suggest structure options that serve your story.

Phase 3: Write - Chapter by Chapter
Using chapter frameworks and specific prompts for each phase, you draft. One chapter at a time. Following the energy, not forcing the timeline.
Each chapter has questions to unearth the material, structure guidance to organise it, and prompts to weave story and wisdom together. You’ll write your chapters, use AI prompts if they help organise your thoughts, and send me drafts.
I’ll read with fresh eyes, tell you what’s working and what’s not, help you stay true while shaping it into something shareable, and point out where you’re hiding or performing.

Phase 4: Refine - Trust Your Body
We polish what needs polishing and leave raw what needs to stay raw. Your body checks every edit – does this feel true? That’s what matters.
You’ll rewrite based on feedback, body-check every chapter, cut anything that contracts you, keep what expands. I’ll help you strengthen without sanitizing, question any prettifying of pain, ensure teaching emerges organically from story.

Strategy First
Tools: Chapter frameworks, AI prompts for organising (not writing), body check-in protocols, voice recording when writing feels stuck.
Timeline: Your pace. Some women write fast, some need months between chapters. Both work.
Support: Email feedback on drafts, monthly check-in calls, access to chapter frameworks and AI prompt library.
The book you’ll have: Memoir that’s both beautifully written and practically useful. One that gives readers permission instead of prescriptions and honours your messy middle as the authority it is.

Beyond the Book (When You're Ready):
Once you’re writing, and sometimes before you finish, you’ll see what else wants to emerge: the workshop hidden in Chapter 5, the circle that could gather around your themes, ways your story can reach people who won’t read a book.
We can explore that when it feels right. Not as forced “ecosystem building” but as a natural extension of your wisdom wanting multiple ways to serve.
“You’ll come in feeling ‘help, I can’t do this’ and walk away with your best book for right now – and the clarity to see how it becomes part of your bigger story.”
Choose Your Memoir Path
Foundation - Get Your Story Out of Your Head
8-Week Group Programme
Unearth your raw material and map your transformation to The Wild Heart Journey’s 8 phases before you write extensively. You’ll walk away with a complete chapter-by-chapter outline and clarity about which book you’re actually writing.
Writing - From Raw Truth to Finished Manuscript
6-Month Group Programme with Limited 1:1 Support
Write your complete hybrid memoir with weekly accountability, feedback on every chapter, and monthly private calls to work through resistance. Six months from outline to finished first draft.
Beyond the Book - From Manuscript to Movement
3-Month Implementation Programme
Explore what wants to emerge from your finished manuscript – workshops, circles, or offerings that extend your wisdom’s reach without forcing ecosystem building. For women with completed manuscripts, ready to see what’s next.
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