IS THIS YOU?
book development guidance & creative midwifery for:
*women over 50
*healers
*creatives
*those on a spiritual path, &
*others with a book awaiting in their heart.
naomi rose, book Developer & Creative Midwife
healing conductor in the Sufi tradition of Hazrat Inayat Khan
is this you?
Are You Someone for Whom the Inner Life Matters?
And Are You Wanting to Bring That Out in a Book?
Are you:
A woman over 50?
A healer?
A creative?
An artist?
An explorer of the inner realms?
Perhaps all of the above?
would you like writing a Book
to help you further develop and express these beautiful capacities?
If so, you’ve come to the right place.
As a Book Developer & Creative Midwife,
I help you birth the book that’s waiting in your heart.
If your inner life is central to your sense of self and to the world you want to inhabit, the Writing from the Deeper Self approach will fit hand-in-glove with your path.
If you already are dedicated to listening to yourself, recognizing inner guidance, and following it, our working together will help reveal the landscape of your book and the map for reaching it.
If you are someone who doesn’t need a template so much as encouragement to find what feels true in your writing, and support for your native creative ways, then together we can bring your hidden treasure out from its secret places. Then, once you have your footing, you and your writing can fly.
if healing is on your radar screen
If you are in a healing profession, or feel a call to healing in some form that fits for you,
the Writing from the Deeper Self approach lets you not only write a book about healing but also transmit healing to your readers through your presence on the page.
As a healer, you:
Care about wholeness and harmony
Seek the underlying unity that allows the separate parts to cohere
Value the integration of mind, body, feelings, and spirit that constitutes true health.
Whether your interest in healing concerns mainly your own life,
or extends into the actual work you have chosen to do,*
you know that wholeness is possible. And you seek to bring this understanding to humanity in the way that’s yours to contribute.
I too am a healer, ordained as a Healing Conductor in the Sufi Inayatiyya Healing Activity. I know how to bring one’s whole self into writing a book, so that it becomes a deep support for all of you, and even transmits your healing presence onto the page so that your readers can receive it and be brought closer to their own. (Note that your book does not specifically have to be about healing to be healing.)
If creativity is important to you —
If you are a creative, an artist in some form, and/or someone who enjoys the process of exploration for its own sake as well as the outcome, the Writing from the Deeper Self approach lets you bring all that into your writing process so it shows up on the page as well as in you.
Whether you already experience yourself as creative —
Or you don’t, but would really like to —
then coming into book writing with an attitude of curiosity and an urge to make something meaningful out of what calls you — as beautifully and authentically as you can — makes the journey its own reward, and the completed book the outcome of this worthwhile process.
This way, you write because you love what you unearth and what flowers. Then your readers are enlivened, as a natural outcome. As your Book Developer & Creative Midwife, this is the kind of listening, encouragement, and guidance we explore together.
if you are a woman over 50 —
with life experience to share, passions to pursue, and meaningful things still to find out —
then book development from the deeper Self with a Creative Midwife can speak to all these things.
Midlife and beyond is a fabulous time for women to be writing a book! Doing so helps you distill the past, come into the aliveness of the present, and move towards a desirable future — not only through the writing, but in your life as well. I have worked with many women over 50 who have found creative fulfillment — personally, sometimes also professionally — in writing a book in the way I help you go about it.
The feminine qualities of receptivity and intuition (among others) that characterize the Writing from the Deeper Self approach seem to be a good fit for women who value these qualities in themselves, and who may not have had the chance until now to bring them into creating a written work that truly reflects them. Perhaps this awareness is new to you — or you come from an academic setting that inherently requires a certain level of intellectual rigor at the expense of a deeper, unquantifiable knowing.
there is room to open to the discovery of the not-yet-known — whether in fiction, narrative nonfiction, even nonfiction and memoir. Because if you already fully knew what you were going to say, what would be the pleasure in saying it? Leonardo da Vinci was known for not finishing many of his paintings after doing scrupulous under-paintings, because he had already worked them out so exactingly in his head that he found actually doing the painting boring.
It doesn’t have to be like this for you with your book!
Part of the joy — certainly, the creativity — of writing a book, even one based on what you know, is finding out new things. New understandings, New perspectives. New ways to weave things together. Even brand-new visions about things you thought you already knew, which bring new life to your understanding and sense of purpose.
Writing a book in midlife and beyond is a profoundly self-caring way to come to know yourself more deeply and truly — whatever the subject, however well you already know it, or even if you have no clear idea yet but want to explore and find out.
And — it’s healing!
Women’s sensibility needs more mirroring in our culture, and books are a powerful way to do this. Writing from the Deeper Self helps you bring forth not only your thoughts and ideas, but also your subtler sensibilities onto the page. This then awakens and affirms similar qualities in your readers.
Many people believe that writing a book means you have to already know it all before you begin. But while this may be true for certain nonfiction books (for example, based on the work you do),
As for the demographics —
such as where you live, what your work is, your marital status, your hobbies, and the rest —
I really don’t think that matters as much as the inner motivations for writing a book, such as:
How you hold your inner life
Your relationship to your creative nature
Your openness to healing and to contributing to healing (your own and the world’s) through writing a book.
The inner attunement matters more, for this purpose, than your outer details.
(Although I’ve had such a wide variety of outer-detailed clients over the years — from ecologists to artists to Reiki masters to Jungian therapists to former nuns to mothers and grandmothers to . . . you get the idea.)
This is why my approach as a Book Developer & Creative Midwife focuses on your inner landscape first.
The outside has infinite variety.
The inside is the place of oneness where we meet.
Meet a few women over 50 whose books I’ve midwifed
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doreen downing, phd
Author, The 7 Secrets to Essential Speaking: Change Your Voice, Change Your Life
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Jenaii Gold, PhD, MFT
Author, The Moon, the Hare, and the Pearl: An Intuitive Guide to the Therapist-Client Relationship: A Companion for Therapists and Others Who Are Drawn to Their Inner Life
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Rahima Warren, MFT (ret.)
Author, The Star-Seer’s Prophecy: a fantasy trilogy of the healing journey
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Shoshana Fershtman, PhD
Author, The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal;
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Marianne Rothschild, MD
Author, Dancing with the Rhythms of Life: A Holistic Doctor’s Guide for Women
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Barbara Hanneloré
Author, The Moon and You: A Woman’s Guide to an Easier Monthly Cycle
To learn more about these authors and their books and their experience of working with me as their Book Developer & Creative Midwife, see Author Testimonials & Success Stories
Your Next Steps
STEP 1:
If you recognize yourself in what you’ve read here,
then you are a very good candidate for our working together.
STEP 2:
So if there is a longing to write a book in you
(despite your doubts and fears, which would tend to arise for pretty much anyone),
consider working with me.
Together, we can listen the book of your heart into reality — for your own sake and the sake of your readers.
Your book is calling - shall we listen to you together?
STEP 3:
Take me up on my offer of a Gift Session. It’s identical to an actual client session,
except there’s no expectation you’ll become a client.
(Though many do.)
We’ll listen to you, together.
STEP 4:
Ready to explore more ways to connect? Visit the bottom of my Home Page to discover additional resources and next steps, including:
Reading my books on the creative process,
Signing up for my newsletter (or scroll down to the footer to sign up),
Booking a 1:1 consultation,
And more ways to begin your book journey.
The path to your book starts with a single step.
Which one calls to you?
If you're resonating with what you're reading on this page but have questions about the process, check out my FAQ page, where I address common concerns about getting started, working with someone new to book writing, what makes this approach different, and more.
You’ll also find helpful writing resources, writing meditations, and curated healing resources (think flower essences for writers) to support your creative journey. See the “Hidden Treasures” just below.