Freshly out of the exhilarating and transformative weekend retreat in Sedona, this is an opportune time to answer a question I’m frequently asked:  “What are your retreats like for you?”Each retreat has a unique personality, path, and destiny, so for me, every retreat is like going down a very familiar road for the first time.All of us on retreat, myself included, receive a bundle of unexpected, life-changing and enlightening surprises.With hundreds of hours of webinars, interviews, prep work, itinerary reviews, calls, emails, and meetings that we collectively put into each retreat, finally being together in this sacred space is like unwrapping presents at a big birthday party or major holiday.Certain stretches of each retreat are soul-rattlingly exhausting. Particularly during the early hours of the first full day when, collectively, the authors are releasing their own deep stuff. During this time, my physical training and regimen as a spiritual being is [...]

Each one of us, to one degree or another, has an obsessive, resistant mind (ORM). What is it resisting? Our ORM is resisting releasing into life, our deepest, truest, most connected spiritual selves, which comes through when we write in our individual Divine Author Within (DAW) state. We cannot blame our ORM for this. So many of the most heartfelt, connected souls that permanently brought this state into life met with less than pleasing conclusions to their time on this planet. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. Jesus Christ was crucified. An assassin’s bullet took down Abe, Gandhi, John, Bobby, and Martin. Can you blame your ORM for being a little scared for you? So I suggest approaching your ORM with compassion and appreciation. For it has kept your DAW safe until it was meant to be born, which might be now, as you read this piece.  Your [...]

This year marks the thirty-second year that I’ve been working with aspiring authors. I’ve been privileged to share these writing methods with more than 80,000 writers on an individual basis, in top university lectures, and in my beloved workshops and retreats. Together, we go to the core, the soul of ourselves, as writers and as human beings. The individuals who participate are guided to remove blockages that have thwarted their ability to live their potential as both human beings and authors. It’s exciting and humbling to know that thousands of books have been birthed in this communion with Spirit. Having accomplished so much over a long period of time, I regularly ask why I still feel called to teach. I usually receive answers like these: First, I don’t feel that my work is complete. With the world opening up in so many ways, I honestly feel that I have just [...]

Approximately a year and a half ago our sixteen-and-a-half-year-old puppy, Jada, transitioned to the other side of life, and we all missed her from the moment her essence no longer embodied form. My loving, ten-year-old daughter, Skyla, especially missed her.After Jada passed, Sky and I just held each other and cried.Finally, in an effort to ease my daughter’s seemingly endless pain, I asked her, “What would make you feel better?” Through tear-streaked eyes my little girl responded, “If I could just talk to her again and whenever I wanted to.”It was then that an author I had the pleasure of working with, Luna Star Van Atta, came to mind. Besides knowing Luna personally as a very heartfelt and loving soul, I was familiar with her work as a remote viewer for a company that was routinely employed by the CIA.So I called Luna, explained the situation with Sky, and asked if she [...]

Okay, let’s say you have released your divine action plan through the suggestions made in last week’s writing, and in no way, shape, or form was anything addressed about you authoring a book or writing yet another book.Congratulations! There must be something else, another special gift, that you are meant to release and enjoy.If you haven’t already done so, go back and ask – of course through your writing – what that is and what you are being led to do.Do it now.A wonderful thing about these action plans is that they represent a collaboration between you and your Spirit. That means you have more than equal say about how they are composed and eventually how they will be initiated.So use your writing, while in the necessary connected state, to dialog back and forth with your Spirit, who is more than willing to work with you, on any objections or alterations [...]

I’m not going to tell you what to do. Noooooooooo way; I’m not going there! Hh-uh. But I am an expert at leading you to whom you should be listening – which, of course, is Spirit.Even if you have already written a book and become a best-selling author, the following check-in can be just as beneficial for you, if not more so, than for the newbie.Start out by picking a specific time and place, where you will be undisturbed, where you can have this most important of all meetings. A minimum of an hour is recommended.Don’t delay. Do it now.Next, if you haven’t done so already, download my complimentary writing audio, “Transitioning Back to the Author You Were Meant to Be,” from the Free Gifts page on my website.Complimentary Writing Audio DownloadsYou’ll notice that there are two tracks to the Complimentary Writing Audio Downloads. The first is a relaxation exercise and the second is subliminal in [...]