Working With Dale

Midlife Mentor & Creative Catalyst

The Messy Middle Reset Guide Memoir Readiness Quiz

Ready To Begin?

I’m Dale — a writer, coach, and midlife woman who’s lived through the messy middle. I’ve walked through burnout, betrayal, reinvention, and the quiet courage of becoming. Now I help other women do the same – with clarity, creativity, and soul-led structure.

Ways to Work With Me

Reclaim Your Wild

An 8-week journey to redirect your creative energy and bring your Heart Project to life.

This is for midlife women who feel stuck, scattered, or flatlined – and know there’s something more waiting to be made through them. Whether it’s a book, a course, a movement, or a message, your Heart Project is calling.

Over eight weeks, we use the RECLAIM Framework – a grounded, chakra-aligned, soul-led process to help you:

See where your energy has been leaking and call it home
Feel what truly wants to be created through you
Find and use your voice – no more shrinking or second-guessing
Release what’s blocking your flow and reclaim your worth
Stand in your authority and take aligned, satisfying action

This iisabout rhythm, creating from your wild heart and becoming who you already are.

Memoir Foundations:

From Idea to Outline and Ready to Write

We’ll work on:

Which bits of your story actually belong in the book (and which bits don’t)
How to organise them without losing what really happened
Where the useful stuff is hiding in your experience
How to mix story and insight without sounding like a self-help guru standing on one leg at the top of a mountain
How to turn your book into a business

A Few Things To Know Before We Connect:

I work with women who are ready to do the inner work alongside the creative work.
Whether you’re planning your self-help memoir or working on you and your heart project, this process asks for honesty, courage, and commitment.
We meet on Zoom — I’m based in Madrid (Europe time).
If your work touches trauma or deep healing, please make sure you have therapeutic support in place.
I won’t write your book or build your project for you – this is your voice, your vision, your responsibility.
My role is strategy, structure, and energetic alignment: I help you design the plan and keep your creative energy flowing; you (or your team) bring it to life.
My approach is fluid, not formulaic. If you need rigid, step-by-step instructions for every move, we probably won’t be a match. But if you want truth, rhythm, and creative momentum – we’ll get on beautifully.

Testimonials

What Others Say

Dale, you have a beautiful, gentle energy, and I learned so much more about how to get the most out of journaling and different ways to meditate and connect to the heart and heart of Mother Earth. I loved your books and ways of connecting from our soul to our journal. Dale has a beautiful way of making you feel held in loving energy. Fiona Clark

Allowing myself the time to participate in Dale’s Awakened Spirit sessions was one of the best gifts I’ve given myself.

The sessions were more than writing and listening to someone share information – they were a coming together of like minded people and being guided by Dale to tap into our inner selves.

I came away from each session motivated and inspired to write, to dream, to explore. Fiona B

Dale brings her whole self to a session. Her passion and energy is both engaging and inspiring. She shares openly of her self and her knowledge, and I definitely got triple the value I expected.

Tao Te Ching once said “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear” and this rings especially true for me after working with Dale.

I’m feeling grateful to have discovered the work she does and I look forward to what’s next.

I am truly grateful for the writing course led by the incredible Dale. From the very first session, her nurturing spirit and brilliant guidance created an environment that encouraged me to explore my creativity in ways I never thought possible. Dale’s ability to bring out the best in her students is nothing short of magical. She has a unique talent for awakening ideas and igniting a passion for writing that truly resonates with each individual. Zipa L

Jo C

I only have high esteem for Dale Darley, who not only believed in my vision but was by my side as I literally birthed my book. During our initial consultation, I knew Dale not only understood me but truly H E A R D me. She has a unique and special way of guiding you structurally and intuitively, and this skill has evolved through her vast life experience. Her insights help you expand your vision, and Dale’s knowledge allows the passage of writing and publishing a book to flow with more ease. Because Dale understands the peaks and troughs that a writer moves through, this can help curb any writer’s block and burn out. Thank you, Dale, for all your patience, understanding, wisdom, kindness and laughter that we shared through this experience.

I would never have even got halfway through writing my book without Dales help.

Jane Travis

Dale…you have truly guided me through the entire process and believed in me when I felt unsure about myself. This project is excellent, and I am sure it will touch many hearts. Thank you for your calming presence and for offering this wonderful project to all of us.

Monika Chugh

Working with Dale is a pleasure in both a professional and personal sense. I worked with her on my second book, and she made creating it with my team of co-authors an easy and creative process. This process took us all, step by step, to publishing a very special book – The F-Factor. I can highly recommend her special brand of expertise and support.

Sandra Peachey