spiritual books – Creative Alchemy with Melissa Conkling

When your intuition calls, do you answer?

It’s been a while since I posted here…but not because I’ve entirely disappeared. Rather, I’ve been busy on a different creative project!!

One of the amazing, yet unpredictable, things about connecting with spiritual guidance and intuition is when it moves you in a new direction. For the first half of the year, I focused strongly on connecting with my guides and learning how to use this guidance in all aspects of my life, but most significantly, within my writing and creativity.

In September, not long after I ran the Self-Hypnosis Masterclass on Creativity, I was called to dedicate my time to a new creative project. It’s something that I had on a back burner for a bit, but by the end of September, this idea became rather impatient and insisted that now is its time.

So I’ve been busy writing…the book came together rather easily. And then finally, on Friday afternoon, I sent my book to my copy editor 🤩

This is the final piece of a project that began on a whim.It’s based on idea for a new morning routine that turned into a powerful manifestation ritual. After keeping it to myself for over a year, earlier this fall I had the idea:

Turn this ritual into a journal!! It’s part book, explaining the ritual, part journal to put the ritual into practice.

Now I’m one step closer to publishing my very first solo book, and I am so excited to be so close to finishing this project and sharing it with you!

And the process has been eye-opening in so many ways. It’s helping me become better at guiding others through my process. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that the leap from creation mode to completion mode is often the biggest test of all.

It’s when doubt and fear rages the loudest. It’s when we are tempted to stay in creation mode for longer than we need to because it’s fun and it feels good.

But we can’t keep creating one thing forever. Eventually, we have to take the next step and finish the damn thing. And then, we have to share it with the world. That’s the part where our creativity makes its impact. That’s the part when our creativity reaches its full potential.

This project’s potential would never be realized if I wrote it and kept it in my google docs to never see the light of day.

So I took that next step. I finished my edts and sent it off to my copy editor. And I know it will be published sooner than I ever realize, because this idea won’t let me hide it away anymore. It’s as though it has its own spirit and soul and personality.

I cannot wait for you to meet it!

Comment below if you want to know when it’s available!!

It’s finally here!! My very first published writing in a book collaboration on Spiritual Awakenings.

Remembering The Truth of Your Soul
Spiritual Awakenings are the pivotal moments in our lives when we remember that we are so much more than our bodies; we are infinite and eternal beings. We have always, and will always, exist.
The stories in this book share the spiritual awakenings of the authors, illuminating the uniqueness, and the shared experiences, we have as we awaken to the truth of our existence. In it, you’ll find guidance and a sense of connection to all that there is.

An excerpt from my chapter:

“Nature was always where I felt most at home. When other kids spent their weekends at slumber parties or playing video games or doing whatever the “normal” kids did, my weekends and afternoons were quite often spent with my dad at the tree farm. While my dad would be planting or mowing or shearing trees, I’d be off in the woods playing. Most often in the grove of trees my sister and I named the enchanted forest, searching for the fairies. Determined to find the source of the mysterious sounds and magical spirits I could always sense in the woods.

There was an innately spiritual element to the tree farm, though I didn’t know it as “spiritual” at the time. Rather, I saw it as magical. There was a power there that many people, especially my dad, experienced often. It revealed itself in mystical, otherworldly ways. The overgrown tree my dad would no longer shear because he saw it glowing on some evenings, though lab tests showed nothing out of the ordinary about the tree. A mysterious and irresistible force drawing him to the massive oak tree that stood at the edge of my enchanted forest that made him nervous. Events like these just happened there.

And the magic can still be felt. Visiting the tree farm last year for the first time in decades, I realized as an adult how different the air is there. It’s as though the spiritual elements of nature live actively in this plot of land. This magic lived inside me as well, as a spiritual side that grew throughout my life just under the surface. It made me feel safe, as though the world itself was always looking out for me.

At some point in what I now estimate to be my middle school years, however, the sense of safety began to give way and fear took over. Not a noticeable, anxiety filled fear. Just a cloud that wasn’t there beforehand.”
by Melissa Conkling, featured in Spiritual Awakenings: Volume 1