Chris Gilbert, MD, PhD
Write Your Book to Expand Your Practice
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 10am - 10:30am
2026-03-17T10:00:00 - 2026-03-17T10:30:00
Chris Gilbert, MD, PhD is a physician, writer, speaker, and radio personality who has pioneered innovative techniques in holistic and integrative medicine, described in her book on mind-body medicine, The Listening Cure. Dr. Gilbert, who had private practices in France and California and served with Doctors Without Borders in Africa and Asia, is also a certified specialist in Hyperbaric Medicine and served as medical consultant to TV and motion picture productions. Dr. Gilbert is the Thursday night medical news commentator on Coast to Coast AM radio and has a monthly blog on Psychology Today.
Gift for all attendees
A 10-minute Zoom session with Dr. Chris Gilbert, where she'll show you how to tune into the messages your body is sending you.
Sherry Sidoti
Writing Your People onto the Page
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 10:30am - 11am
2026-03-17T10:30:00 - 2026-03-17T11:00:00
Sherry Sidoti has twenty-plus years’ experience as a yoga teacher, mentor, and healing arts facilitator. She is an award-winning author and steward of memoir writing experiences internationally. She believes that writing is a spiritual, sacred, and brave practice of self-awakening with great potential for healing. Her debut memoir, A Smoke and a Song (She Writes Press/Simon & Schuster, 2023) received the 2024 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Non-Fiction/Inspirational, 2023 Living Now Book Awards Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir, 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize Honorable Mention and Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Prize, and 2024 Finalist for National Indie Excellence and Story Circle Network’s Women’s Sarton’s Awards. She lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, cats, chickens, and adult children (when they decide to pop home for a visit).
Gift for all attendees
An audiobook chapter of A Smoke and a Song, Sherry’s memoir exploring transgenerational maternal bonds, attachment, and healing through yoga and mysticism.
For All Access Pass Holders
$55 off Sherry’s next Embodied Memoir Writing Program. This is a sacred and brave communal space to re-imagine your stories with creativity, courage, and compassion. (Full tuition is $555.)Value: $55
Carol Abrahamson
How Book Awards Can Be a Game-Changer for Visibility and Credibility
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 11am - 11:30am
2026-03-17T11:00:00 - 2026-03-17T11:30:00
Carol Abrahamson founded Book Award Mastery, the industry-leading research, planning and application service for authors seeking book awards. Her service takes the stress, expense and overwhelm out of applying and for and winning book awards. A former McGraw-Hill top executive and book awards judge, Carol started helping authors pursue the right awards 20 years ago. She has won a remarkable 75% of the quality awards she pursued for 40+ nonfiction books. She also helps high-profile organizations worldwide create their own book awards programs. Her next book will be about how awards led to life-changing benefits for 200 winners.
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A practical guide packed with 22 free and nearly free promotion tactics used by the pros. These are srategies you can start using before you even finish writing your book. From Carol Abrahamson, a book awards expert who has helped hundreds of authors monetize their expertise.
Judith Sherven, PhD
Moving Past the Hidden Fears That Hold Authors Back
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 11:30am - 12pm
2026-03-17T11:30:00 - 2026-03-17T12:00:00
Judith Sherven, PhD is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, and bestselling author who often coaches alongside her husband Jim Sniechowski, PhD. Together they are the authors of nine books, including Overcoming the Fear of Being Fabulous: 33 Keys to Creating Your New Life by Leaving Your Old Stories Behind, the Non-fiction Winner of the 2023 San Francisco Book Festival. Having discovered the core issue that holds people back, Judith focuses on the Unconscious Loyalties—Allegiances and Forbiddances—that are deeply causal in preventing optimal success in any area of life. Her transformative executive coaching has attracted a loyal corporate referral base including LinkedIn, Credit Karma, Unity Technologies, Blackbird Integrative, MeetAva, and many others. As guest experts, Judith & Jim have appeared on over 3,000 television and radio shows including The View, Canada AM, 48 Hours, MSNBC, and CNN.
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Watch Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski, PhD's inspiring "You Are A Miracle" video — a powerful reminder from this husband-and-wife psychology team with over 70 years of combined experience in executive coaching and overcoming the hidden fears that hold us back.
Mary Reynolds Thompson
Write for the Readers Who Are Ready for Your Message
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 10am - 10:30am
2026-03-18T10:00:00 - 2026-03-18T10:30:00
Mary Reynolds Thompson, CAPF, CJF, is an award-winning author and international speaker working at the living edge of language, landscape, and imagination. A certified poetry and journal facilitator, she coined the term wild language—words that emerge when human and Earth voices entwine. Her work invites people to step out of cultural domestication and into their untamed knowing, where creativity, truth, and vitality arise through deep relationship with the living world.
Rooted in landscape archetypes and nature as mirror and guide, Mary shows how aligning with the Earth restores clarity, courage, and a fierce sense of belonging. She is the author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul (winner of a Nautilus Award) and The Way of the Wild Soul Woman, with her forthcoming book The Wild Scribe launching in fall 2026. Through her books and global communities, Mary guides writers and Earth-creatives into a more rooted, imaginative, and fiercely alive way of living.
Rooted in landscape archetypes and nature as mirror and guide, Mary shows how aligning with the Earth restores clarity, courage, and a fierce sense of belonging. She is the author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul (winner of a Nautilus Award) and The Way of the Wild Soul Woman, with her forthcoming book The Wild Scribe launching in fall 2026. Through her books and global communities, Mary guides writers and Earth-creatives into a more rooted, imaginative, and fiercely alive way of living.
Gift for all attendees
Take the Wild Soul Woman Archetype Quiz to discover which Earth archetype is strongest in you right now, and learn how that understanding can unlock your creative process.
After you take the quiz, you will receive follow-up videos from Mary exploring the meaning of the archetype most alive in you now.
After you take the quiz, you will receive follow-up videos from Mary exploring the meaning of the archetype most alive in you now.
Melissa Fulgieri, LCSW
Writing as a Wounded Healer
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 10:30am - 11am
2026-03-18T10:30:00 - 2026-03-18T11:00:00
Melissa Fulgieri, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist, professor, and author known for her radically honest and deeply compassionate approach to healing. With over a decade of experience guiding people through the layered aftermath of childhood trauma, Melissa helps her clients dismantle perfectionism, self-abandonment, and people-pleasing so they can build lives rooted in authenticity, self-worth, and embodied truth. Founder of Melissa Fulgieri Therapy and an adjunct professor at Fordham University and Long Island University, Melissa weaves together psychodynamic therapy, somatic practices, and real-talk mentorship. Her book, Healing Relational Trauma: Move Beyond Painful Childhood Experiences to Deepen Self-Understanding and Build Authentic Relationships (New Harbinger, 2025), explores how our earliest wounds shape our adult love stories and offers a path toward liberation.
Gift for all attendees
Downloadable worksheets from Healing Relational Trauma (New Harbinger, 2025), Melissa's evidence-based guide to understanding how childhood wounds affect your relationships. These tools help you identify triggers, build self-awareness, and cultivate deeper trust and connection with the people in your life.
Arielle Schwarz, PhD
How to Stay Grounded While Writing Through Trauma
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 11am - 11:30am
2026-03-18T11:00:00 - 2026-03-18T11:30:00
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, E-RYT, is a licensed psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker and a leading voice in the field of trauma recovery. She is the author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, Dr. Schwartz offers an integrative, mind-body approach to trauma treatment that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga. She works in collaboration with world-renowned institutions including the Polyvagal Institute, Psychotherapy Networker, PESI, Sounds True, The Shift Network, The Embody Lab, Yoga International, YogaUOnline, and the Cambridge Health Alliance. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, Dr. Schwartz offers an integrative, mind-body approach to trauma treatment that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga. She works in collaboration with world-renowned institutions including the Polyvagal Institute, Psychotherapy Networker, PESI, Sounds True, The Shift Network, The Embody Lab, Yoga International, YogaUOnline, and the Cambridge Health Alliance. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Gift for all attendees
A downloadable chapter from The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience and Awaken Your Potential. Sign up for Dr. Schwartz’s newsletter to receive your free chapter.
Zach Beach
Writing Your Way to Deeper Wisdom and Compassion
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 11:30am - 12pm
2026-03-18T11:30:00 - 2026-03-18T12:00:00
Zach Beach is a therapist and love coach who has helped thousands of couples and individuals deepen their love and connection. He is the bestselling author of The Seven Lessons of Love and three poetry collections, founder of The Heart Center love school, and host of The Learn to Love Podcast. His newest book, Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans, guides readers on a spiritual journey to awaken the heart of compassion.
Gift for all attendees
Zach's ebook, Three Successful Things Every Couple Has
Mick Kubiak, LMFT
Making Timeless Spiritual Truths Feel Fresh and Accessible for Today’s Readers
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 10am - 10:30am
2026-03-19T10:00:00 - 2026-03-19T10:30:00
Mick Kubiak is a psychotherapist, writer, and host of the Designed To Be Awake podcast. With poetic insight and unflinching honesty, Mick explores the subject of awakening to who we truly are—the Self that lives eternally at the heart of each of our lives, beyond the reach of our limited egos. She explores what it looks like, on a practical level, to wake up, surrender to what is, and live with full presence. Her forthcoming book, Inner Housekeeping, is a meditation guide for beginners that focuses on emotional hygiene and creating inner space. Each week on her podcast, she weaves together psychology, spirituality, and lived experience, offering reflections that bring the seemingly heady experience of enlightenment down to earth.
Gift for all attendees
Read a sample preview of Inner Housekeeping: A Beginner's Guide to Advanced Meditation
For All Access Pass Holders
You’ve done the therapy, the courses, the inner work. You’re not seeking another program—you’re seeking precision. The one perspective shift that unlocks clarity and restores your natural sense of power and peace.The Deep Dive is a powerful one-hour session created for those who want to release the blockages preventing the healthy flow of life force. This immersive experience is designed to return you to your deepest knowing.
Each session is entirely bespoke. It may unfold through profound conversation, somatic attunement, or an intuitive blend of both—whatever your system calls for in the moment.
This is not coaching, and it is not therapy. It’s an energetic recalibration—a luxurious immersion that leaves you clear, grounded, and aligned.
Holly Bellebuono
Attract the Right Agent for Your Book
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 10:30am - 11am
2026-03-19T10:30:00 - 2026-03-19T11:00:00
Holly Bellebuono is an internationally known author and herbalist, with eight books published in three languages by publishers including Llewellyn, Shambhala, and SkyHorse. She teaches herbal medicine and coaches authors and entrepreneurs, especially in natural products and designing a business that aligns with your mission and purpose. Her most recent book, Once Upon a Place: Forests, Caverns and Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales and Film, explores a sense of setting in quests and adventures for writers and authors.
Gift for all attendees
Inspirational Bookmarks for Authors. Download, cut, and enjoy 8 printable little bits of inspiration to keep you motivated on your writing journey.
For All Access Pass Holders
$500 discount on Holly’s Book Proposal Coaching Package & Course. Develop a laser-focused pitch and book proposal for your nonfiction, memoir, or fiction manuscript. Work 1:1 with Holly to attract the best agent or editor for your work. Coaching package includes 8 hours of 1:1 coaching plus enrollment in the practical, online Book Proposal course. Best for authors with a manuscript in progress or nearly finished.Value: $500
Michelle Katz
How Writing Can Restory Trauma and Transcend Chronic Illness
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 11am - 11:30am
2026-03-19T11:00:00 - 2026-03-19T11:30:00
Michelle Katz is a writer, documentary producer, and story coach whose work explores the terrain where illness births initiation and story becomes a tool for soul-level transformation. She is the creator of the Broken & Healed podcast and the founder of Story Is Medicine, a platform devoted to helping others reclaim the truth and power of their own voice. Her book, Awakening In An Age of Metals, will be released in March of 2026.
Michelle lives in the mountains of Idyllwild with her wife Cate and their cat Lou, where she writes, paints, and studies the subtle alchemy of change.
Michelle lives in the mountains of Idyllwild with her wife Cate and their cat Lou, where she writes, paints, and studies the subtle alchemy of change.
Gift for all attendees
A chapter from Michelle’s upcoming book, Awakening In An Age of Metals, available as a downloadable PDF and audio recording of Michelle reading the chapter.
For All Access Pass Holders
50% discount on a first Story Is Medicine coaching session (regular price $350).If you resonated with my talk and want to experience the power of using your own voice as a tool for healing the mind and physical body, this session will be invaluable.
Together, we’ll explore the story living inside you — and the belief systems that have kept that story caged. We’ll gently uncover what your nervous system has been carrying in your cells and memory, and begin reorganizing it into truth.
Value: $175
Jay Vidyarthi
How Starting Simple Led to an Award-Winning Book
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 11:30am - 12pm
2026-03-19T11:30:00 - 2026-03-19T12:00:00
Jay Vidyarthi is the award-winning author of Reclaim Your Mind and an accomplished designer, entrepreneur, and thought leader at the intersection of mindfulness and technology. As the founder of Still Ape, he has been involved in over fifty technologies that have helped millions of people improve their well-being, including Muse, the Healthy Minds Program, Sonic Cradle, and many more. His work and ideas have been featured by Harvard, MIT, TED, Forbes, CNN, Fast Company, and Vice.
A meditation practitioner for over fifteen years, Jay is as comfy on a silent retreat as he is challenging his son to epic video game battles. On days off, he can usually be found making music, enjoying screen time, or out for a walk somewhere near Lake Ontario.
A meditation practitioner for over fifteen years, Jay is as comfy on a silent retreat as he is challenging his son to epic video game battles. On days off, he can usually be found making music, enjoying screen time, or out for a walk somewhere near Lake Ontario.
Gift for all attendees
Read a chapter from Jay's book Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully when you subscribe to Attention Activist, his Substack newsletter with monthly insights on how mindfulness, technology, and design relate to clarity in everyday life.
For All Access Pass Holders
Stay grounded through the creative process with a one-on-one mindfulness coaching session from Jay Vidyarthi. Pay what you can.Value: $200
Laura B. Fox
Gifts from Your Host
Thursday, 26 March 2026, 10am - 11:30am
2026-03-26T10:00:00 - 2026-03-26T11:30:00
As a writing partner and book coach, Laura B. Fox has a passion for helping wise teachers and holistic healers who have a soul-driven message create books that bring their profound insights to the world.
She has ghostwritten bestselling books on natural and spiritual living, holistic health, and self-confidence. Her life writing has been featured in Halfway Down the Stairs and The Dark Mountain Project. She is the author of The Soul-Driven Author's NonfictionBook Planning Guide and a co-author of Beyond Coincidence: Visionaries Unlock the Mysteries of Synchronicities and Success.
Laura was listed among 15 Book Coaches to Follow in 2024 in the San Francisco Examiner.
She has ghostwritten bestselling books on natural and spiritual living, holistic health, and self-confidence. Her life writing has been featured in Halfway Down the Stairs and The Dark Mountain Project. She is the author of The Soul-Driven Author's NonfictionBook Planning Guide and a co-author of Beyond Coincidence: Visionaries Unlock the Mysteries of Synchronicities and Success.
Laura was listed among 15 Book Coaches to Follow in 2024 in the San Francisco Examiner.
Gift for all attendees
Book title workshop: Your Reader's Name All Over Your Book
Not sure how much you love your working title?
Your book's title has a big responsibility. It needs to rise to the top of searches while creating just the right intrigue, telegraph exactly who your book serves while hinting at the transformation inside, and feel utterly inevitable, all while being completely unique.
In this focused 90-minute workshop, we'll move beyond "good enough" to discover what makes a title feel utterly inevitable to those you're writing it for.
Together, we will craft book titles that balances searchability with soul. Titles that build a bridge between your deepest wisdom and your reader's searching heart.
Craft a strategic subtitle based on insights into what's working in the body-mind-spirit space and what will make your book stand out.
Bring your working title, even if it's still "My Book About Healing" and leave with clarity, confidence, and quite possibly the title that will soon be printed across the cover of your book!
*** Use coupon code TITLE100 ***
Not sure how much you love your working title?
Your book's title has a big responsibility. It needs to rise to the top of searches while creating just the right intrigue, telegraph exactly who your book serves while hinting at the transformation inside, and feel utterly inevitable, all while being completely unique.
In this focused 90-minute workshop, we'll move beyond "good enough" to discover what makes a title feel utterly inevitable to those you're writing it for.
Together, we will craft book titles that balances searchability with soul. Titles that build a bridge between your deepest wisdom and your reader's searching heart.
Craft a strategic subtitle based on insights into what's working in the body-mind-spirit space and what will make your book stand out.
Bring your working title, even if it's still "My Book About Healing" and leave with clarity, confidence, and quite possibly the title that will soon be printed across the cover of your book!
*** Use coupon code TITLE100 ***
For All Access Pass Holders
Full Manuscript ReviewLaura will read your manuscript and deliver a written assessment covering its strengths, its development opportunities, an analysis of the conversation your book is a part of, and a publishing and next-steps recommendation tailored to your book and your goals.
Value: $200
These are some of the books summit speakers have mentioned in their talks, some of my favorite books they've written, and books that soul-driven authors will find inspiring and useful. Enjoy!
The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma
Pull Back Your Power: The ground-breaking code to unlocking profound confidence and soaring success for aspirational women
The 2025 Spiritual Business Playbook: Marketing Trends for Sacred Success
The Listening Cure: Healing Secrets of an Unconventional Doctor