Hello, my name is "Gwen," with a unique spelling that has its own story. I have worked in the healing arts all my life, as a psychologist and more recently a spiritual intuitive. A book about afterlife communication has been bouncing around in my head since my 12 year-old son died in 2011. He intuited his death repeatedly before he died from a fall from his horse. The irony is that his words gave me incredible strength, certainty, and peace through unimaginable loss, and showed me a spiritual connection that exists beyond life and death. I finally have the time and so many signs from him that the time is right to write the book. My hope is that my story will bring healing and peace to others who long for connection with loved ones who have passed. Thank you Sierra for your patience and support.

This weekend is the Summer~Solstice... one of those pinnacle moments... (in the Northern hemisphere) the longest day of the year... the climax of the season... As we always look at the creative cycle and how it is echoed in nature... I want to reflect on the SOLSTICE and how it plays out in my INNER WORK 👇 HOW IS YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?👇 (asking because I really want to know) 🔥 Is the summer encouraging or conflicting with your creative practice~? 🔥 Do you have a season that supports your writing/creativity more than others? 🔥 What is your favorite part of summer? 👇 Share in the comments.👇 @Sierra Melcher's update. I have rediscovered an old love. I met an old manuscript that I have remembered for years like an old crush, more like a missed connection in the newspaper... we almost got together (this story and I) in 2006, but it didn't work out. We are getting another chance to make sweet magic. Every night last week, I stayed up late with the manuscript, first reading, then rewriting missing bits. I am ~ EXCitified. Excited + Terrified. all the potential. all the emotion. all the anxiousness and all the fear that I am the only one who will ever read it, who will ever love it. I reached out to a friend of mine who is an agent because I want to share this story with her, but so far, I have been too afraid to say more. What if she loves it... scared of that. What if she passes on it? ... Scared of that. I will be heading to BOSTON in July for the BOOK THINKERS Conference... I will give you the Cliff Notes on that next month. RED THREAD BEHIND THE SCENES 5 books in production: 📚 Dr. Selen Turner, Unique Belonging, 📚 @Colin Zhu Empowered Kitchen, 📚 Dr. @Widian Nicola-Jacobo The Heart Truth, 📚 @Summer Jean Align, 📚 @David Jackson & his mom Jill Jackson, Heal Through Food ✍️ Authors drafting manuscripts: @Sabine Quaritsch @Joanie Lawlor (working with me closely)

This week “Passion Isn’t Enough” surpassed 1,000 books sold. Like many of you, writing a book was a huge undertaking with many ups and downs. What I didn’t fully realize, was that producing the book was only 1/2 the journey. Marketing and selling the book is another animal altogether. In the early weeks after the book came out, I set a goal of reaching the 1,000 books sold plateau. And now 18 months after launch the book has cleared that hurdle. It took 20+ podcast appearances and numerous in-person events to get there but it is now a reality. Life is hard sometimes. Celebrate the wins whenever you can!

OPEN TO FEEDBACK... 👉 What are you learning from the process? 👉 What can I improve on my pitch? 👉 Is one stronger/more intriguing than the other? Lost on Purpose A When a 24-year-old teacher boards a one-way flight to China with no phone, no map, and no plan home, she wants to disappear into a life so foreign it erases the one she's failing to live, because she doesn't yet know who she is underneath the roles she's been performing — daughter, teacher, girlfriend, good girl — but she must first survive being stripped of every language, custom, and certainty she's ever relied on — collapsing into a depression so total it lands her in a hospital bed in a country where she can't even ask for help — before she can fall in love (with a man she can't keep, a culture she can't fully enter, and finally, haltingly, herself) and walk back into her own life finally able to say what she actually feels. B When a newly arrived American teacher gets dropped into rural China with nothing but a Lonely Planet and her own naivety, she tries to simply survive the year, because she signed up for an adventure without understanding what "foreign" actually meant, but she must first stumble through weddings, hospitals, night markets, and a hundred small humiliations that strip away her assumptions about herself, before she can realize that getting completely lost was the only way she was ever going to find out who she is.