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Episode FORTY-THREE: Megan Mary's Magical World of Witches, Spirituality, and Self-Publishing
**Note the my audio is a bit off but the episode is still fantastic*
This episode features Megan Mary, author of "Witches of Maple Hollow," who shares her journey of transforming dreams into captivating stories. We discuss the creative process, overcoming self-doubt, and the significance of drawing inspiration from our unique experiences.
• Insight into the Witches of Maple Hollow series and its themes
• Exploration of the inspiration behind "The Dream Haunters"
• Importance of dreams in creative writing
• The writing process and overcoming self-doubt
• Advice for aspiring authors on creativity and consistency
About the author: Megan Mary is an award-winning metaphysical author and dreamworker that specializes in the analysis of women's dreams to promote transformative personal growth and enlightenment. Founder of Inner Realms Publishing, Women's Dream Analysis and the Women's Dream Enlightenment podcast, she is an intuitive, introvert and mystic. After being diagnosed with three chronic illnesses, she experienced a spiritual awakening. She now works with women all over the world offering dream interpretation, transformative journeys and enlightened guidance. She holds a BA and an MA in English Literature, certification in British Studies, is pursuing her PhD in Metaphysical Sciences and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lives in Idaho with her husband and two cats.
Book Blurb: Hannah Skye, a young woman in search of meaning, receives a cryptic letter from her missing and eccentric Aunt Jewelia. Her experience of a recurring powerful pumpkin patch dream unfolds into a spiritual journey to a mysterious island of eternal autumn, Maple Hollow, where she discovers the mystical Skye Manor and her magickal family legacy.
Haunted by shapeshifters bent on trapping people in their nightmares, Hannah, with the help of wise villagers and feline companions (including a talking cat dream guide), must solve the riddle, unlock her powers, and dive into the dream dimension to save her aunt by Halloween night, when the veil between the worlds is thinnest.
Escape into this metaphysical mystery of magick, where spells, music, and dreams converge in a vortex of secret societies and spiritual inheritance. Travel beyond time and space into a world of unexpected portals, ancient traditions, and dreamscapes.
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Welcome to Bookshop Chats. I am your host, victoria Hopkins. Bookshop Chats is the perfect podcast for authors, readers and writers alike. In these episodes, we chat with a variety of authors from all kinds of genres and help demystify and show you that writing a book is well, not necessarily easy doable. So grab a coffee and get ready to add a whole bunch more books to your TBR and let's dive in. Oh hey, it's Victoria, your host of Bookshop Chats.
Speaker 1:Before we dive into today's episode, I'm going to share a little bit about what's going on in my world. So currently, my books are open for developmental editing. If that is your jam, if you need a book edited, come reach out to me. Free samples for the first 1,000, 1,500 words, just to make sure that we jive with each other, because that is a very, very important thing. When you are looking for a developmental editor, you want to make sure that you guys jive with each other, because that is a very, very important thing. When you are looking for a developmental editor, you want to make sure that you guys jive, that the feedback is given is going to be what it is that you are indeed looking for, and if you are a busy writer like me, we need all the help we can get when it comes to planning. And if you are maybe a little bit more of a pantster, let me show you the power of having some kind of outline. So this is kind of the premise of the five minute planner that I put together for busy writers. So in there you will find a huge character sketch to really like dive into your characters and also a really simple planner outline that you can map out what you need to write each day. So this is a really great way to help kind of get clear of what direction you need to go, whether it's a scene or whether it's a chapter, and you can even utilize this throughout your whole book. It's really simple to use.
Speaker 1:I put it together with the intention of it being like a five to 10 minute kind of thing that you do maybe before you write, just so that you are maximizing the time that you have to write. Especially if you are low on time like me, we need all the help we can get. And finally, I also put together the Writer's Haven is a bite-sized audio training for the busy writer. So I put these little bite-sized audio clips together with the intention of you being able to listen to them on demand, as you need to, and they're really great for helping with things like, maybe, writer's block or you're feeling a little bit stuck on how to manage your busy life and fit writing into it.
Speaker 1:I've also added some meditations to help really support your inner artist and really just tap back into your creative spirit, and it is all available for you. I'll link it in the show notes if that is something that is your jam. Like I said, it is a super low cost $9 to hop in and the intention is I'll periodically add in a couple audios here and there throughout the year and it's kind of an ever evolving thing. So once you grab it, that's it, it's yours and you get access to any bonus things that I add in. Okay, friends? Well, I think it is about time that we dive back into today's episode. So grab a cozy beverage and let's add some more books to your TBR.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to Bookshop Chats. In today's episode I am chatting with Megan Mary. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3:It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2:I'm yeah, I'm so excited to chat with you this afternoon, so we're just going to dive right in and I would love for you to share all about your, your book or books. I know that there's a few in the works here.
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely Excited to share.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Well, let's dive in to the first one that is currently out in the world.
Speaker 3:Yes, so first I'm going to introduce the series. So the series is called Witches of Maple Hollow and the book one is called the Dream Haunters, a Metaphysical Mystery of Magic.
Speaker 2:So that tells you a lot right there. Yes.
Speaker 3:Mouthful and basically it's let's see, it's a combination of mystery and fantasy I like to call it a mysticy, which I invented that word, I think, maybe and it's of the speculative fiction genre supernatural, metaphysical of course, but also leaning into the women's fiction area, and it spans across the age ranges from young adult to new adult to adult. I think it really would appeal to all of those age groups. It does fit into the cozy category because of a lot of elements about it, but it's also in the visionary metaphysical category as well, so a lot of spirituality intertwined in the story.
Speaker 2:Amazing. I'm already hooked. I'm already into it. I love that. That's so cool all right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can go on. There's a lot more.
Speaker 2:Yes please let's go. I want to hear all about it well obviously you know what you can share, because we don't want to give it all, yeah, so first I'm going to cover the what we call the tropes.
Speaker 3:Right in the writing world it's kind of an easy way for people to say, oh yeah, I love books that are about that. So some of the tropes that are involved in book one are found family, good versus evil, time travel, discovered powers, spiritual awakening, secret societies, fated destiny, destiny talking cats and dream interpretation. So the way I like to say it is if you like harry potter and charmed and coralline and you like going to metaphysical stores, this is the book for you that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I definitely, yeah, I I feel I already feel like the cozy vibes too, which is so interesting. It kind of gives me that like that's the energy that I'm picking up from okay, from this book.
Speaker 3:So I'm going to read you sort of the description that's on the back, if you were to pick it up, and I know the viewers can't see it, but just so you can have a visual of the cover. So Hannah Skye is a young woman in search of meaning. She receives a cryptic letter from her missing and eccentric Aunt, julia. Her experience of a recurring, powerful pumpkin patch dream unfolds into a spiritual journey to a mysterious island of eternal autumn, maple Hollow, where she discovers the mystical Sky Manor and her magical family legacy. Haunted by shapeshifters bent on trapping people in their nightmares, hannah, with the help of wise villagers and feline companions, including a talking cat dream guide, must solve the riddle, unlock her powers and dive into the dream dimension to save her aunt by Halloween night, when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. Escape into this metaphysical mystery of magic where spells, music and dreams converge in a vortex of secret societies and spiritual inheritance. Travel beyond time and space into a world of unexpected portals, ancient traditions and dreamscapes.
Speaker 2:I'm yes, yes, I don't have any other words, but that is amazing. I, I love this. Okay, so how the heck did you come up with this idea? Like I always find that so fascinating to especially like, especially, fantasy books, like I feel like that's just, it's so different than than others, for for me, for whatever reason, yes, so the idea came to me in a dream, of course. Obviously a dream of course, obviously yes.
Speaker 3:So it was actually 10 years ago and my husband and I had just returned from my bucket list trip to Scotland and Ireland and I was feeling rather inspired, having reconnected with my roots, and I had a dream about a talking cat. That was just so real and it wasn't one of my cats, but it was this other cat named Wixby. He said, hi, I'm Wixby. And he said it with a lisp and it was just like this very real, vivid dream and I was like, okay, I have to write this down, I have to save this. You know, I don't know what I'm going to do with it and I started kind of writing what at the time was a short story and it was really about Wixby and time travel and the pumpkins, but it was more almost like a middle grade short story and I wrote 10,000 words and then I set it down and I didn't touch it again for probably, I would say, nine years. And then I was going through a lot of personal medical issues. I ended up being diagnosed with three different chronic illnesses. I had a lot of stuff going on and I started to do a lot of spiritual healing and introspection and, in the course of that really experienced what some would call a spiritual awakening or a spiritual remembering, and started to listen to my dreams again, started to connect with the dream world overall and realized that it was time to revisit that short story.
Speaker 3:And when I did and I started writing it again, it took on a whole new life of its own and the dreams came in and the main character, hannah, really was part of the original dream, but she became a more prominent part and it really became her journey, her spiritual awakening, with the help of the cat, the original cat. And because Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday and it's one of my favorite favorite things, I had to set it at that time and make it really a themed book, but also not with a lot of the. What do I want to say? I integrated all of the Celtic mythology and all of the history behind the true Halloween and used it as an educational opportunity to really share about that. Educational opportunity to really share about that, integrate it with my heritage as well, and so there are several instances where there's Celtic and Irish spells being spoken, things like that, which was a lot of fun with the audiobook, and so that's how it happened in a nutshell I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it. There must be something in the water in the lands over in ireland and scotland, because that is 100 where I got my book idea as well, oh, excellent it's uh it's magic, it's magic over there um and I I feel like it's so cool to weave in that history and like the traditions and mythology that is so, so deep in that country and in that whole, like land, like you could just feel it in the earth over there.
Speaker 3:Absolutely In such a profound kind of way. Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I love that. Agreed kind of way. So I love that. Agreed. I would. I would love to hear a little bit more about like the process of like what. I guess what made you decide to write this as a series. Like, was that kind of the original intention or did it kind of evolve over time? It wasn't yeah it wasn't.
Speaker 3:I was fortunate enough to have some, some around me and one of them, it turned out used to be a professional editor and said to me are you going to do this as a series, because that's really how you sell more books and that's really how you get more readers, if you're going to do it professionally or you just want it done, you just want to do this one. And I was like, yeah, I just want to do this one. And then afterwards I thought, okay, no, it's not just one. And then I immediately started just having all these ideas for more and because three is one of my favorite numbers, I just said, okay, let's. I just said let's do three. And I don't even know, maybe there might be more beyond the three, but that was going to be.
Speaker 3:The initial push was to do the three in short spans. So this one came out in October of 24. Book two is slated to come out in May of 25. And then I'm currently writing book three to come out Halloween of 25. So I'm hoping to get them all out really quick together.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. I like props to you because that is, that's a big feat.
Speaker 3:It is a lot. Oh, yes, yes. Anyone who's self published knows.
Speaker 2:Right, 100%, like it is just like. Yeah, even like writing that many books, it's, it's a process and uh, fortunately they do not write themselves as much as we wish. They did.
Speaker 3:No, it's a funny thing, though. When you're done with it you think, oh, that went pretty easily, and then you go to write the next one and you're like, oh yeah this is where I'm 100, it's so, it's so true.
Speaker 2:You just uh, when you're in it it always seems more daunting, and then uh when you, you're done you're like oh wow, okay, that wasn't so bad. I guess I could do it again yes, yes, so soon we forget, yeah right, it's so funny like that. Uh, so obviously you've got one book out in the world. Uh, I'd love to hear a little bit more about how that process has been for you, right?
Speaker 2:um, you have to you have to let go of it and give it to the world, and I feel like that's kind of scary oh 100, oh, there's so many scary things about first just getting over the imposter syndrome to actually do it.
Speaker 3:Secondly, that scary moment when you first pass it to the first person that's going to read it. And then that also scary moment when you realize, yeah, it's no longer yours in a sense. You have to separate yourself in a way, start getting all those reviews, separate yourself in a way, start getting all those reviews. And that is also a very difficult process Because you want to know what people think and if you're overly analytical like myself, you want to take into account everything anyone says and maybe consider what the truth might be in it. And on the other hand, you have to realize that you can't please everybody and that not everybody is meant to get it. And that was probably one of the hardest parts. It was like convincing myself to put it out there I thought was the hard part. But the next hard part was actually accepting the fact that not everyone's going to like it.
Speaker 2:Yes, that is very scary.
Speaker 3:It's so scary because you put your heart and soul into the books I feel like like oh, absolutely oh yeah, I, I can't like.
Speaker 2:even now, if there's a book I don't like or it just wasn't for me, I'm like I could never, I can never leave a review like I just I know how much effort they put into it and I just like why, why would I do that?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah, it really does shock me sometimes the the gall that people have like wow, I would never do that. But then again, you know, it's just like personality too, right yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, and I think I think you made a really good point of just like learning how to separate yourself from that Because, like you said, you can't please everyone, and what's I mean? What one person loves, you might not, and even like the best selling authors will have people that are like I can't believe that they made it, like they are terrible, right, yeah, it's just how it is you find yourself saying, oh, I hate that band, or I hate that movie, or I can't's just how it is you.
Speaker 3:You find yourself saying, oh, I hate that band, or I hate that movie, or I can't stand that, whatever it is. And then you realize that you have your your same opinions, and you know that everybody has a thing that resonates with them, and that's really what it's about is putting out that frequency and gathering the people who are on that same frequency, because they're the ones who are really excited about it. And I love the theory that if you're feel compelled to write a book, it's because someone out there needs to read it and you have to get out of the way to deliver that to them.
Speaker 2:I love that. That's so. I feel like that's. I often say that, like if there's a story that's coming to you, there's a reason for it.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And you're the one who has to tell it. Somebody needs to hear it. A hundred percent, and sometimes at the very beginning, that might just be you, and you never know where it's going to evolve into. But I think, just really learning how to listen to that, especially that create like that creativity, that magic, I feel like they're so interwoven with that sort of like spiritual, like self as well, and learning how to trust that part of yourself is hard but super important.
Speaker 3:Yes, because when you go through a spiritual awakening you have to shed the ego and you have to remove all the outer layers of who you thought you were and step into the spiritual self and let go of all of those other things. And that's a lot of the author journey too, because you can't deliver if you're holding on. You have to put it all bleed on the page, as they say, and then you know, still have that, find that solace in yourself, right To do it again.
Speaker 2:Totally so. How has been? How has writing like the second and third bit, like book? How has that process been for you compared to the first one?
Speaker 3:So much easier.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 3:So much easier. Everything about the first one, particularly from soup to nuts, was figuring it all out. You know, I, even though my degrees are in English literature, I never. I only took one creative writing class the whole time and it was in poetry. So I never took a class on how to write a novel. I didn't know dialogue tags or how to punctuate it or anything I didn't know about outlining, or there was nothing that I knew about it. And I'm also not a voracious reader, I watch movies. So I didn't have a lot of any kind of reference points, really, and also just everything about publishing I didn't know anything about.
Speaker 3:So I've made all of those stepping stones from the first book and now I have it all in place, so I don't have to redo any of that. All of that was already done. So it was so much easier that I could put the second book on preorder when I launched the first, because I already knew how to do all that. So it was already great. And the writing for the second one went very quickly. I know how many words I'm trying to get to, how many words a day I need to write, and you know all the other things that need to take place, and so I just it's really about dedication to that process and consistency, just like with podcasting, you just have to keep doing it the same time every day. You have to make sure you're just continually doing it and that over time it becomes this better and bigger thing. So, um, book two, yeah, it went very quick. Book three um, in the middle of writing it now, and I'm actually had a schedule, happy to say that's amazing, that is a feat.
Speaker 2:That is a feat because sometimes it's just it's, it's. It's hard right, like writing when we have life, or just in general like it's not always something that flows as much as we might want it to um. Sometimes I find like creativity sometimes definitely um has its own mind and yes will not always work um when we want it to.
Speaker 2:So I love that you have that sort of like schedule and you know you. I think it really ultimately comes down to figuring out what works for you and what, like, creates that space so that you can can keep writing, because that like you said, it's those little um, those little steps that make all of the difference and they build on each other. Right, it doesn't matter how little, like at least you're writing right, like that's going to build and build and keep showing up and it's messy, but we're doing it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, the. I've heard that the only difference between people who are writers and people who aren't writers is that writers write. You basically just have to. You can't. Well, I'm not going to sit down today because I can't think of what I'm going to write. No, you sit down and then you start typing and then you think of what you're going to write. It's. It doesn't happen the other way around, or you won't sit down.
Speaker 2:A hundred doesn't happen the other way around, or you won't sit down 100. I feel like there's always, there's always going to be something else to do. Yep, right, like especially now there's so many distractions. So really creating that space and that time oh yes, right is a really important thing.
Speaker 3:I say as I kind of call myself out absolutely, because I'm in the middle of doing so many other things. I have my podcast that comes out every other week. I'm in the middle of doing so many other things. I have my podcast that comes out every other week. I'm in the middle of pursuing my phd in metaphysical sciences. You know, I I have my hands on a lot of things, so there's a lot of other things I could be doing, but it's dedication to the process yeah, I think that that's so true and if you've got the story to tell, like you're the one that has to tell it and you need to.
Speaker 2:I mean, sometimes it's almost like they do have a little bit of a shelf life. I feel like so, like there is that not urgency, like obviously there's that, like it, it comes out when it's meant to come out. I think there's that element of it, but I think sometimes if you ignore the pull to like actually start taking some action towards it, then then you might not, uh, it might not, get written, which is which is sad yes agreed, definitely, um, I had a question that I was gonna ask you and it just disappeared uh, something about book two yeah, something about oh no, we were lucky, it's totally gone.
Speaker 2:It's totally gone. Oh, here we go. I will definitely be editing this part. Um, you made some comments about going in with writing and not really having a lot of education in that sort of like novel writing aspect, which I always find really fascinating because I've spoken to lots of different authors and some have you know MFAs, and some are like I've never taken any writing course in my life so.
Speaker 2:I think often that kind of like intimidates people of like oh, I, should you know, take courses in order to write and I just kind of would love to hear your take on that from you know, not knowing really anything about writing when you decided to start writing a book.
Speaker 3:You are unique and you're going to come up with a concept that no one else is going to come up with and there's a community to help you get that out there. You want to hire an editor, you want to have beta readers, you want to have arc readers, you want to have other people who are going to help you with the big stuff and the small stuff. So as long as you incorporate those people, it's going to become well-rounded. You know, for me I can't say that my degrees didn't help, because of course, you know the power of the word, but that was already there, I think too, before I. That's why I pursued it. So there is obviously natural talent with that, like musicians or anything else. But on the other hand, I think that it's important for people not to feel because that's just another layer of imposter syndrome that they can't do it, because it's really about the bigger picture, the thousand foot view of the story and the message that you're trying to relay, and the words will find themselves, find their way.
Speaker 3:I mean, there's a million ways you can say something and sometimes you write it down. When I'm actually drafting my manuscript, I don't worry about oh, what's another way I can say this. I might say the same word 50 times, because I fix it later. You're going to miss out on what you're trying to say with those words if you, you know, get caught up in using that one word, and so I think that's. The other thing is just keep an eye on the larger picture, keep an eye on the kind of the emotion that you're trying to capture. What the words are delivering is more important than the actual delivery, and I say that in a way that you know readers, a lot of readers, will gloss over things sometimes unless they're very analytical in their editors themselves. They might not even notice little time loops or inconsistencies or wait a minute. That doesn't make sense because X, they just are flowing with the story.
Speaker 2:So it's important to just keep that in mind too, I think yes. I feel like that's such a important thing and I think, ultimately, the best way to become better is by writing right the more you write, the better you're gonna be.
Speaker 3:There's always opportunities to improve. It's great now that I can. Now I'm on my second one and I I know a lot more about point of view. I know a lot more about showing and not telling. I know about info dumping. I I'm learning more as I go along, things that maybe I didn't know. Obviously didn't know the first time around, and that's okay 100%.
Speaker 2:I think that's so true Because, like you, obviously you don't know what you don't know, and I think there's something kind of freeing about not really knowing like the I guess the, really knowing like the, I guess the the foundational or the mechanics of writing a story when you go to draft that very first draft, I think it just at least I found that and that I just kind of let the story do its thing and I wasn't so hung up with things and also there's not one right way to do it, okay, so you've you.
Speaker 3:A lot of people have heard about the plotters and the pansters, right, so you know I have. I'm in a lot of writing communities online on social media and I this one woman the other day said, well, I wrote two chapters today. And I said I don't write chapters. And she said what do you? Just write one long, you know diatribe. And I said, no, I just I use Scrivener, so I write in little chunks and then later I figure out what the chapters are. So I'm not a plotter by any means.
Speaker 3:I don't say, okay, this is what all the chapters are going to be called, and here's my outline and this is what's going to happen in those things. I might eventually do that or I might not. I feel like that's a little restrictive. I like to just free flow it scene, scene, scene, scene. Here I am with 60 scenes and then I just put the puzzle together at the end and granted that piece, that part is a little daunting Once you're like all right, I think I have enough words now. Now I got to put it all together. That actually is the Ooh. How did I do this before part? But it does. You just stick at it and eventually the you know everything finds its place.
Speaker 2:I love that and I do like I write in Scrimmager too, and I really do love that aspect of that where you can just kind of like create these little, you know little scenes and you can drag and drop them and put them and like it. Just it flows better for my brain for whatever reason. But then, I've spoken to many other authors and they're like I cannot write out of order, like I need to write in this, very like you know, chapter one, chapter two, like that's just how my brain works.
Speaker 2:So it really does come down to that consciousness what works yeah, what works for you and what makes the most sense, and I think that's probably why there is, you know, the plotters, the planners, or maybe somewhere in between. I feel like there's someone you know in between that of needing some sort of plan, but not so much of a plan. So, yeah, ultimately your book is going to be your book and the way you write it is going to be the way you need to write it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and don't feel constrained to do someone else's method. I tried some other methods in the beginning and I thought, oh, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do what they're doing, and then then and then it'll work. You know, you're you're constraining yourself, and so I like to let it be the way it naturally comes out. And yeah, I have tons of pages of research you know that research section in Scrivener and I also have tons of pages of just thoughts at the beginning, like here's all the thematic things I want to include, and then I just go. When I sit down in the morning sometimes I just open that page and I read through all those notes that I've to include, and then I just go, and when I sit down in the morning, sometimes I just open that page and I read through all those notes that I've left myself. Here's all the things that we're going to make sure are in here. Okay, now go write a scene.
Speaker 2:I love that, that's just. Yeah, I definitely do well with that sort of approach. It just sort of I need that thing to like spark something, so then then you can create that, that scene that's been in your head and you're like, oh, that's what I needed to put on the paper for for this book. It really it just. It makes such a difference when you know I leave myself little notes and then I'm like, oh, thank goodness I was on the ball yesterday.
Speaker 3:Yep Notes everywhere. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2:I love that. Well, I would love to hear what would be one piece of advice that you would have for someone who's just starting out their writing journey.
Speaker 3:I feel like we may have touched on some things, but I don't know if there's anything else that you found really helpful when you decided that you're like, I'm gonna write a book yes, it's consistency and work on overcoming your self-limiting beliefs, which is really important for any kind of personal growth, but also applies when you're going to put any kind of creative work out into the world. Not only do you have to work on it on a regular basis, but you have to work on yourself.
Speaker 2:Yes, 100%, it is so true, because it is such a vulnerable thing. I think people don't realize how scary it is to just to put your art out into the world, um, and have people tell you that they hate it. Uh, because that's the reality and that's.
Speaker 2:it's not anything with you, uh, but it's still a scary thing, for sure yes, it is well, I would love for you to share where people can connect with you and get um, get their hands on, obviously, book one and get pre-ordered for the second book, because I feel like once you start the first one, you're like, seriously, is it going to come out soon?
Speaker 3:yep, yes. So meganmarycom, m-e-g-a-n-m-a-r-y, and there you can order the dream haunters. It is also on audiobook with narrator Pearl Hewitt and it's in all the formats. And then you can pre order the Dream Mirrors as well in all of those formats. And you can also check out my podcast there, which is called Women's Dream Enlightenment. On that show I interpret dreams live on the show and I also have women come on and tell their stories of spiritual awakening. And I also have courses on the website on dream decoding for women. So you can check those out as well, and I do one to one dream sessions also.
Speaker 2:Amazing, so fascinating. I love that Everything will be linked in the show notes so it'll be super easy for people to find you, and it was lovely chatting with you. I just I, yeah, I definitely am very, very intrigued about your book, so I have another another one to add to my list. This is becoming problematic.
Speaker 3:Yes, but that's why you do it right. It's the for the love of the story exactly amazing.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you so much. Thank you for having me, victoria.
