MEET OUR FOUNDER

jaime fleres

Jaime Fleres founded Whale Song in 2017, two decades into a long career as a professional writer, author and college professor of writing.

She has been coaching, mentoring, editing, ghostwriting, offering book proposal support, guiding creatives, publishing books and helping writers professionally since 2003.

She’s worked with hundreds of writers of memoir, self-help + personal development, spiritual and other non-fiction works.

Select highlights from Jaime’s educational and writing career:

  • Masters degree in Writing, with an emphasis in teaching writing, and a Bachelors in Women’s Studies and English, from San Diego State University. Graduated top of her class with honors and award distinctions from both programs

  • Studied at Oxford University in England on scholarship

  • Professional writing team management (decade +) in the areas of medicine, marketing, law, travel, health, yoga, art history, land conservation, birth and natural wellness

  • Professor of writing, reading and literature at San Diego State, Concordia University, and Metropolitan State University

  • Teaches writing workshops internationally (France, Greece and Costa Rica); regularly invited to speak at conferences, on podcasts and at other events

  • Served as a consultant with KN Literary Arts and Awaken Village Press, working with authors of Sounds True and Hay House, and those independently publishing

  • Author of Birth Your Story: Why Writing About Your Birth Matters (2017), the Honoring the Whole Planner (2019, 2020, 2021), and The Author Playbook, which she offers to her coaching clients. She also wrote a yet-unpublished memoir, and has several works forthcoming.


Given her unique Master’s-level expertise in writing and authorship, she is the perfect partner for mission-based, big-hearted visionaries seeking a trustworthy companion in their writing endeavors.

Jaime’s Healing Background

At her core, Jaime is an author, artist, visionary, and healer in her own right. Like you, she is a change agent on a mission of awakening consciousness on this planet, during this time of profound transformation.

As a skilled intuitive Guide, her work at its essence is to help people remember who they are and express that authentically, creatively, and courageously in the world to contribute to the more beautiful world we know is possible.

Jaime holds certifications in the following:

  • Integrative Somatic Trauma Practitioner

  • Shamanic Healing and Energy Medicine Practitioner

  • Shamanic Astrologer and Sound Healer

  • Certified Qoya and Yoga teacher

She guides others in Narrative Therapy processes, including her signature Heal A Story That Hurts program.

She has studied Internal Family Systems, herbalism and flower essences, ancestral healing, Non-Violent Communication, healthy relationships, Deep Imagery, Jungian psychology, and Soul-based depth counseling.

In addition to author support, she serves as a Transformational Coach and Mentor, specializing in Spirituality, Creativity, and Intimacy. You can learn more here.

When not engaged in writing and healing, Jaime can be found in the woods, eating tacos, sipping tulsi rose tea, traveling internationally, expressing herself creatively (singing, writing, painting, dancing), reading Sarah Maas or a non-fiction book in her latest realm of personal growth, and laughing with her daughter.

Jaime grew up in California; has resided in England, Peru and across the US; and currently lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.

ASTROLOGY

Sun and Moon in Libra. Sagittarius Rising. North Node Leo. Mars + Mercury in Scorpio. Venus + Jupiter in Virgo in 10th house of work/career.

HUMAN DESIGN

1/3 emotional generator

MEYERS-BRIGGS

INFJ

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Jaime’s background as a professor, writer, author, healing arts practitioner, and coach gives her a unique approach to holding sacred space and guiding her clients that is way beyond a traditional book coach.

I had the pleasure of working with Jaime to help birth my second book – through editing, coaching and book proposal support. Her background as a professor, writer/author, healing arts practitioner, and coach gives her a unique approach to holding sacred space and guiding her clients that is way beyond a traditional book coach. With these unique gifts, she can truly hold your work with a level of deep understanding and can ask the tough questions to bring forward your best work. Her support was instrumental in helping me produce a finished work that my Soul had been calling me to birth into the world! If you have a chance to work with or learn from Jaime as a Book Doula and Coach - take it!

MICHELLE HOLLING BROOKS, FOUNDER OF UNBRIDLED CHANGE AND AUTHOR OF THE HORSE CURE

client praise

client praise

Jaime is a great listener and an enthusiastic connector. She is genuinely interested in the people in her life and what they have to say, which makes her very approachable, safe and easy to talk to.

She has a disarming quality about her and she is trustworthy. I really appreciate her clarity in communications, her ability to express herself articulately, with both courage and humility. She is also an exceptional writer and has helped me in my professional work and book writing journey to craft compelling communications.

ALEXANDER ZIVA, Writer and Founder of NEW EARTH ODYSSEYS

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