Celebrated author and healing storyteller Rachel Havekost shares this encouraging and introspective guide to creative mastery.
In Write to Heal, bestselling author Rachel Havekost provides writing prompts and therapeutic techniques designed to unlock your inner wisdom and cultivate your healing voice. In this workbook, you will awaken purpose and clarity, discover the innate tools we all possess for wellness and vitality, and cultivate skills and systems for confidence and leadership, and integrate all that you've learned into a focused mission so you may write your own healing story.
Rachel brings us an innovative approach to becoming a healing artist. Write to Heal synergizes authentic leadership, vulnerable storytelling, and what Rachel calls "radically showing up in the messy middle" into a four-week methodology for healing creativity.
Write to Heal is
Writers, poets, musicians, or artists in a creative rutFolks on a healing journey looking for self-discovery & purposeAnyone wanting to turn their life story into a book, podcast, or TedTalkLeaders, entrepreneurs,therapists, or healers balancing their own mental healthIndividuals stepping into leadership positions who want to clarify their values and missionYoung content creators or influencers in the mental health nicheAnyone looking for direction, guidance, and support with writing a book
The Write to HealHeal the past, meet the present, make an impact on the future.
Clarify your why, set a vision, and meet yourself where you're atLet go of mental blocks, integrate shadow parts, process old trauma, connect with your inner child, and cleanse beliefs that are not yoursAlign with your value system, define your role as a leader, cultivate healthy entrepreneurial boundaries, and set up systems and plans for maintaining mental & emotional stabilityDraft stories and outlines of potential creative work, familiarize yourself with the communities you'd like to impact, and solidify a mission statement
Write to Heal includes topics ✓Nervous System Regulation
Rachel is the bestselling author of "Where the River Flows,” “Write to Heal,” and "The Inner Child Journal." Her latest release is "LOOK UP," a collection of poems and short reminders for navigating grief, uncertainty, and being human.
Along with her other titles, "The Self-Healer's Journal" and "The Grief Workbook," Rachel has single-handedly built an online social media presence with a combined 300k+ individuals devoted to de-stigmatizing mental health.
As a graduate from EWU with an M.S. in psychology, Rachel is excited to infuse her storytelling with an ongoing lens of evidence-based practices and research.
Courage, community, and connection are at the heart of Rachel's work. After 19+ years of therapy for an eating disorder, depression, anxiety, and grief, Rachel strives to use radical transparency in hopes that others might not feel alone.
Her current work is centered in life after suffering: asking questions about embracing humanity, living with uncertainty, and allowing for ease after periods of strife. She is quickly amassing a readership on her Substack Publication, “The Messy Middle,” where she writes weekly newsletters about living imperfectly and showing up messy.
Recently, Rachel has attended Harvard’s first Mental Health Creator’s Summit, given keynotes across the world including 988's Global Crisis Conference in Amsterdam, and received praise from New York Time’s mental health journalist Ellen Barry for her memoir. She is grateful and honored to be able to share her story and support others on their journey to joyful living.