WRITE THE BOOK OF YOUR HEART
Writing from the Deeper Self:
book development through deep listening & guidance
NAOMI ROSE, BOOK DEVELOPER & CREATIVE MIDWIFE
Encouraging your flowering
Guiding Women over 50,
Healers, Creatives, and Spiritual Seekers
to birth books that heal from within
and ripple outward
TOGETHER, WE WILL BRING FORTH THE BOOK OF YOUR HEART
BY LISTENING TO WHAT WANTS TO BE KNOWN FROM WITHIN YOU
Inside you, a creative universe awaits,
sending out shoots of inspiration so that one (or more) may take root in you. The same great and potent forces that bring about creation on the scale of forests, rivers, planets, stars also stir in you. You don’t necessarily call it this but, still, you sense it. And this stirring — this call — comes to you as the perhaps surprising realization: “I could write a book!”
And so a birthing process begins. Something in you wants to be known, more fully than just as thought, more tangibly than just as inner reflections. A glow of potential opens up and spreads. A feeling of profound accompaniment . . . of being called.
And then comes
the fear, the confusion, the uncertainty —
“A book? But . . . me? But how?”
— the grabbing for a template, a map, an outline — some sure thing.
You try to remember how you wrote papers in college, or for work: what were the experts looking for? What got you a good grade, a promotion, and so on? What worked? Soon you are speeding through your mind for answers, your pregnant heart forgotten.
But wait. There is another way. There is already something in you that knows, that is alive, that is native to you. That is what you need to connect with. That will guide you true. I call this other way, “Writing from the Deeper Self.”
What does this mean?
It means that you already have within yourself everything you need to write a book that rings true: true to the subject, true to your readers’ deepest needs, and — most importantly — true to you. There is a creative nature in you all your own, a unique instrument that can be tuned to the deeper “music” your heart is equipped to play.
You may already have experience with this. Or this may be your first encounter. Either way, you have what you need to write the book of your heart in a way that is:
Authentic,
Inspiring,
Healing,
and even
Beautiful!
So that’s what happens when we work together to develop the book of your heart. We listen for your “music” — the soundings from within that are yours, that are alive for you in the moment. We listen to find your own reliable way(s) of creating.
So maybe you don’t start with an outline. Maybe you begin by receiving “glimmers” and jotting them down, then weaving them together to see the bigger picture. As revealed in my book on A Right-Brained Alternative to Outlines, there’s a more “bottom-up” way of going about creating a Table of Contents.
Or maybe you are more logical and logistical, and want to start with an outline. In that case, we collaborate to find the you in the outline.
So you are never at the mercy of other people’s ideas about how to write a book. Instead, you let the universal creative life that has seeded your desire to write a book reveal what wants to be known in ways that are organic to you.
“I was a Hidden Treasure, and I longed to be known,” God is said to have said. Writing a book by listening to yourself all the way through means you don’t have to eclipse yourself to get a book done. You can be deeply present throughout, discovering more and more of yourself throughout the process, and emerge not wrung dry but sprouting, blooming, flourishing.
Because it's not how many pages you write.
It's how much of you comes onto the page.
"Naomi has provided unwavering support and profound mirroring, gently guiding me, again and again, to write from my true and authentic self. In the process, I have come into relationship with my deepest creative self, after a lifetime of longing and disconnection from it. Anyone who has the pleasure of working with her will encounter the joy of discovering many hidden gifts and treasures in their work and, perhaps more importantly, in themselves."
— Dr. Shoshana Fershtman, PhD, author, The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal (Routledge)
AND A TASTE OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE FOR YOU
Before many of my clients became published authors, they were often — perhaps like you now — a bit unsure as to whether they actually had it in them to write a book, especially one that fulfilled their longings.
Turned out, they indeed did. And so do you.
THE BOOK
HOW THIS WORK FEELS FROM THE INSIDE
In our sessions, you don't need to arrive knowing what to say or where to begin. You only need to show up — with whatever is alive in you about your book that day.
I listen — not only to your words, but to what hasn't yet found words. To what wants to emerge through you. And in that listening, something begins to move. Your book's direction clarifies. Your authentic voice surfaces. The next step reveals itself — not because I've told you what it should be, but because you've heard it in yourself.
Nothing you bring to a session is off-topic. Your life and your book are not separate things. They inform each other constantly, and our listening together is what makes that visible.
This is not a methodology. It's a way of being with you and your book that I've cultivated over more than half my lifetime — as an editor, a writer, a creative midwife, and an ordained Healing Conductor in the Sufi Inayatiyya tradition.
Depth is what I'm made for. Depth is what your book deserves.
THE BOOK
THE BOOK
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1 : 1 ongoing book-development sessions
For those ready to commit to the full journey, 1:1 Ongoing Book Development offers twice-monthly sessions of sustained creative companionship — listening your book into being, over time, together. I bring half a lifetime in the publications field and a healing orientation to guide you from wherever you are now toward the book that's calling to be written.
IS THIS FOR YOU?
You are a healer, therapist, spiritual seeker, or woman over 50 with a book that wants to be born — one whose writing could help others and reflect the full depth of what you know, have lived, and have yet to explore.
You long for a way to write that honors your whole self: not just your ideas, but your voice, your pace, your natural creative ways.
You want a book that is genuinely yours — that speaks from you and to you... and therefore, to your readers.
You sense that being truly listened to is what would make this possible.
If you recognize yourself here, you are in the right place.
"Being in this with you has been a very transformational journey. You created such a deep holding space that I felt safe to open up my heart, my being — to let myself out. I've been able to say things I didn't know I could even say, didn't know I had words for. Your deep listening was able to help me know how it wanted to emerge in me. I couldn't have done it without you."
— Shira Stone, LMFT, author-in-progress, The Sounding Heart
"What is happening, through being deeply listened to, is that I am starting to hear myself. Because of that, my relationship to writing has shifted to a level that will grow beyond the book project and inform the rest of my life. The book has become a bonus and I am grateful."
— Clare Goodwin, Psychosynthesis Therapist, author, Gifts of the Mandala: A Guided Journey of Self-Discovery
VOICES FROM THE Book-Development JOURNEY
THE AUTHOR
Jenaii Gold, PhD, MFT
WHAT THE AUTHOR HAS TO SAY:
“There was a deep knowing that there was so much I needed to express, and that urgency was called a book. [After a while] it went from inchoate to ‘This is absolutely possible. I’m going to do it!’ Naomi Rose has worked with me from the inception of this book to the finish. She has truly been a midwife to my ideas and my process, as well as keeping me afloat with affirmations of confidence and worth. We have traveled a long way together and I am grateful for our work and our friendship.”
THE AUTHOR
Doreen Downing, PhD
“I owe the present edition of my book to Naomi Rose, to whom I am indebted, an experienced editor and writing coach helping people find their own depth through self-expression. I like the idea of having my book produced with such maternal care and deep appreciation.“
—Claudio Naranjo, MD, author, Healing Civilization
WHAT THE AUTHOR HAS TO SAY:
“It always surprises me when I receive a call from someone who has said they have read my book and want to work with me. This is what pleases me the most. Without the book, I could not have reached the number of people who are now able to learn about Essential Speaking. Naomi, thank you for listening to the heart of this book. It was inside me, and you welcomed it into being. Giving birth to books that heal is certainly your calling."
THE AUTHOR
Rahima Warren, MFT (ret.)
WHAT THE AUTHOR HAS TO SAY:
“Supportive, kind, and wise, Naomi is an excellent guide and editor for developing your book and bringing it forth in beautiful shape. Highly recommended! She is so kind and supportive and gentle and appreciative, yet perceptive of the places where my book needed improvement, from commas to emotional nuances. She pays attention not only to the nitty-gritty like punctuation, word choice, sentence structure, etc., but also to the nuances of meaning and the flow of the writing. She really listens to whether the writing is connecting with the reader, and for the places where there’s disconnection.
“I worked with her over many years to revise, edit, and polish my trilogy — and always felt gracefully received and held through this 'book birthing' process. Her faith in my book was very important to me in keeping my inner critic at bay. She inspired me to honor what I have written by doing the work necessary to bring it into the coherent and beautiful form it deserves. Her support and kindness and wisdom have been worth every penny!"
For more, see Author Testimonials & Success Stories
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The Co-Writing Sanctuary
And if you'd like to write alone in the company of others:
The Co-Writing Sanctuary — Writing in Shared Solitude — offers a protected sacred space where, together with like-minded souls, you write from the inside out. Each gathering opens with a portal to bring you inward, holds you in an attuned hour of sacred writing time, and closes with a ritual to honor yourself and what you've written.
"Naomi Rose is a true artist in every sense of the word; a consummate professional, a skilled writer and editor, and a birther of creativity in those whose lives she touches. She sat me down and nurtured out of me ideas I didn't even know I had in me. She was able to show me what was in me, but to which I'd never given words or any expression whatsoever. Her passion is to help people bring forth their inner treasures in some form." — Zoe Larkin, photographer and writer
Your Next Step
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Book a DISCOVERY CALL
The most natural beginning is a free Discovery Call — thirty minutes to explore your book, sense the quality of this work, and find out whether this is the right path for you.
There is no pressure and no agenda. Just genuine listening, and the possibility of something opening.
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Deep Listening Session
If you'd like to go a little deeper before committing to ongoing work, a single Deep Listening Session ($175) offers a full hour of creative midwifery and professional guidance for you and your book — a complete experience in itself, with the option to continue if it feels right to both of us.