Writing a Personal Growth or Spiritual Book or Memoir with the Right Support
Many people feel a quiet—or insistent—call to write a book that carries meaning and embodies the message they uniquely came to explore and share with the world.
Often the soul call comes first.
Then the world may rush in with its noise. You may begin wondering or feel pressure to consider how you’re going to position and sell the book, whether anyone wants to read your book, what publishing route you should take, how you’ll build a platform, and more.
This is a little like finding out you are pregnant and then focusing your energy on whether your kid will someday make the varsity team or become a doctor. These aren’t very supportive inquiries for your present moment conditions.
All of this noise from the world and inner forces of resistance can crush that tender whisper of your soul, who knows what matters and it worth doing.
To write a spiritual or personal growth book from your soul, you have to create a sovereign energetic space where you can listen for what wants to come through and write from your deep center — not what is trending, most logically strategic, or what some imagined or real “expert” suggested you do.
If you want to root your book in lived experience, genuine integration of the gifts and lessons you’ve alchemized in your life, and the true transformation you’ve embodied, you have to write on your own terms.
And with support that is aligned with your design and your deepest intentions.
You don’t need a book coach or author mentor that is going to force you to write fast or by formula.
You don’t need someone who is going to override your nervous system and intuitive knowings.
You don’t need a conveyor belt of productivity.
Instead, you need a soul companion who knows the landscape of authorship intimately and has devoted their livelihood to guiding others through the terrain.
You need someone who is deeply versed in the psychology of authorship, who understands the initiations underway, and who can hold space for your unique journey, without imposing external metrics and pressures on your process.
If you’ve found yourself wondering who can help me write a personal growth or spiritual book or memoir, you’re not alone—and you’re asking the right question.
Writing spiritually rooted work requires a different kind of support.
Writing from the inside out
Writing a Spiritual Book is not the same as Selling a Marketable Idea
There are two directions you can come at writing a spiritual book or memoir.
You can come from the outside in—by centering market trends, formulaic approaches, pleasing a publishing house, or niching just right inside your market.
Look, none of these considerations are wrong — but if you lead with those questions you are going to write the book you think others want from you, rather than the book you are actually here to write. That risks emptiness.
In the other direction, you approach your book from the inside out—you:
focus on the somatic and intuitive intelligence within you
trust your unique voice and perspective on what matters to you
look to your lived experiences (personal and professional) to establish your authority
give yourself the time and container that best allows you to listen for the book that wants to come through you and how it wants to be brought into form
The right book for us doesn’t always emerge cleanly and clearly as some sparkly and polished marketing hook. The seedlings for these books begin as a result of:
Life transitions or initiations
Years of practice, inquiry, or inner work
Experiences that reshaped identity, belief, or direction
Because of this, writing a spiritual book isn’t about extracting lessons quickly. It’s about honoring the pace at which meaning becomes language.
Writers working in this terrain often need:
Space to listen before structuring
Guidance that respects both craft and inner process
Support that doesn’t rush insight into product
What is a Spiritual or Personal Growth Memoir and nonfiction? What does writing one require?
A spiritual memoir, teaching memoir or non-fiction book rooted in personal growth is not a chronological life story, an encyclopedia of concepts and information, or some hype-y platitudes that garner quick hits on social media.
These books ask you to share — with clarity, confidence, and cohesion — a meaningful message you’ve culled from the depths of your own personal path.
These books ask you to go within and dig deep.
Spiritual and personal growth books are initiations into a deeper embodiment and integration of your gifts, lessons, and soul medicine.
They take you on another transformational journey (I know this is not your first).
They recalibrate you into someone who can hold the frequency others need to receive from you and your work.
The process of writing spiritual and personal growth books starts within, asking you to explore your lived experience to understand:
what happened
what your experiences asked of you
how your experiences have shaped you
what meaning you’ve shaped from your story
who you have become
what wisdom you’ve gleaned
the arc of your inner transformation
how your specific journey maps to a more collective experience of being human
how you might share the insights and embodied wisdom you’ve gained
building a bridge that facilitates others’ growth and expansion
connecting your journey to the journey of others on a similar path
This is an inquiry and integration process that takes time, patience, attunement, and companionship — not one that needs to be forced along, put into some formula of productivity, or homogenized into some easy 5-step process.
And listen—if this feels like pressure or a lot to ask of yourself, let’s take a breath here and not get too serious about this process.
Let me remind you that this work of inner transformation is native to your soul. And if you are feeling the call to write a book, you absolutely have everything you need within to do so.
Writing a book from the inside out is actually one of the most empowering and enriching experiences you can undertake. The process is meant to feed, support, nourish and grow you. And it will, with the right approach and support.
Why Many Writers Get Stuck Without the Right Support
Many writers attempting spiritual nonfiction or memoir struggle because they are given tools designed for:
Fast publishing timelines
Formula-driven narratives
External validation over internal coherence
OR they are not given any support at all.
While writing is inherently a solitary act and only you can cull your depths for the messages and stories that want to be told, you are not meant to create alone and without support. Just look at any acknowledgements section of a book—no successful book is written without abundant support.
Without the right support writing a personal growth book, writers may:
Lose trust in their voice
Overexplain or under-explain spiritual experience
Feel pressured to “teach” before understanding what they know
Get overwhelmed in the logistics of writing and publishing
Focus on the wrong things at the wrong time
Force a book into form before its ready
This is where the right kind of book coaching matters.
Book Coaching for Spiritual and Personal Growth Writers: What to Look For
If you are writing:
A personal growth book grounded in lived experience
Spiritual nonfiction shaped by practice, inquiry, or transformation
A spiritual memoir that values reflection and authentic expression
You will benefit tremendously from having the right companion and mentor on the path.
Book coaching for spiritual writers is not about outsourcing your authority. Rather, it’s about being accompanied as clarity emerges. Effective coaching in this realm offers:
Structural guidance after meaning is clear
Help discerning what belongs in the book—and what doesn’t
Support holding complexity without diluting it
Respect for timing, identity shifts, and creative cycles
Both strategic support and personal process facilitation
Most importantly, it recognizes that the book is not separate from the person writing it.
Who is the Right Guide for Writing a Spiritual Book or Memoir?
The right author mentor and guide is someone who understands how to guide someone through a long-form creative process, without hurry, expectation or pressure, while also facilitating supportive strategies that move the process forward at a good pace.
The right book coach puts your experience at the center, honors your intuitive and organic process, and helps you work through creative resistance and challenges that will inevitably arise along the way.
The right book coach knows the landscape of authorship well—the seasons and cycles of the process, the common roadblocks and challenges, the initiations and changes that occur, and the skills and presence required.
Author Mentorship at Whale Song
Whale Song works with writers who want thoughtful, psyche and somatic reverent guidance while writing personal growth or spiritually rooted nonfiction or memoir—books shaped by lived experience, reflection, and transformation rather than quick results or publishing hacks.
Our founder Jaime has 20 years of experience as a guide to writers and has devoted her life’s work to supporting fellow sensitives, visionaries, healers, channels and creatives through the authorship adventure.
She has published two books on the process of writing about personal growth, transformation and spirituality and has helped hundreds of authors write meaningful books in the genres of personal growth and spirituality.
If you are interested in discovering how we might support you, please complete our Inquiry Form.
