Welcome to The Soul-Driven Author Summit Archives

Laurin Wittig is an intuitive energy worker, Reiki Master, Shamanic practitioner, and the founder of HeartLight Wellness and the HeartLight Women’s Circles. She also hosts the Curiously Wise: Practical Spirituality in Action podcast and is an award-winning fiction author with over 600k books sold. Most of her stories straddle the genre line between historical romance and spiritual awakening weaving the two together into what is now known as Magical Realism. 
Laurin’s unconventional journey from poor health to robust wellbeing awakened her to her own healing gifts and sparked a passion to assist others to travel their paths with less pain, more joy, and a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.

Dr. Linda Ann Westman is a chiropractic doctor who brings together practical scientific understanding with spiritual insights about healing and personal growth. Linda's approach combines her expertise in brain integration and energy work with accessible, practical wisdom about how we can create joy in our daily lives. She is passionate about helping others recognize their inherent worth and teaching them how to clear the unconscious patterns that prevent them from fully loving themselves.

Linda's understanding of human potential is grounded in both clinical experience and her own journey of learning who she is as a joy-filled being capable of inspiring happiness. As a chiropractor, she has helped thousands of people from all walks of life release old patterns and transform their lives through connecting the body, mind, and spirit. In the present book, Come Home To Yourself, she shows how we can break free from limiting beliefs.
An advocate for conscious living and personal empowerment, Linda remains actively involved in her healing community, sharing her knowledge through her writing and speaking engagements. Her work demonstrates that at any stage of life, we can create lives filled with joy, purpose, and authentic self-expression.

Lisa Tener is an award-winning book writing and publishing coach. Her clients have secured 5- and 6-figure book deals & won numerous book awards. She is the author of the award-winning book "Breathe. Write. Breathe.: 18 Energizing Practices to Spark Your Writing and Free Your Voice" which offers ancient mindful movement and breathing practices to access a state of creative flow at will.  Its 9 book awards include the Bronze Stevie Award for "Book of the Year." Lisa’s previous book, "The Joy of Writing Journal" won 5 book awards, including the Nautilus & Ben Franklin.

Lori McDowell is a best-selling author, coach, and speaker known for her heart-led, spiritual approach to helping women redefine success and fulfillment. Through her award-winning book The Reinvention Mindset, coaching, retreats and transformative workshops, Lori guides women to overcome limitations and create lives of purpose and joy.

Mark Longhurst is a writer and “ordinary mystic.” He is a member of the new monastic “Community of the Incarnation." A former pastor, he served United Church of Christ churches for ten years and worked as a faith-based social justice activist in the Boston area for ten more. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a longtime yoga practitioner, Mark lives in western Massachusetts with his family.

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.

Known for helping business owners become bestselling authors and get positioned as experts, Melanie Herschorn wants to help you step into your spotlight as an authority. As a publisher and book marketing strategist, she’s on a mission to empower new authors to make an impact and grow their income with their signature book.

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.

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.