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Write Your Way Home
Write Your Way Home offers journaling guidance, tools and techniques for women seeking to understand the personal mythologies that shape their lives, combining ancient wisdom with modern sensibilities.
At times gentle, at others provocative, Write Your Way Home is for women who are serious about transforming repetitive internal narratives to maximise their health and wellbeing potential.
Write Your Way Home is a handbook for the struggling and the strong. It has been written for those who write to keep themselves well, those who long to understand their relationships, and who seek guidance for navigating challenging situations.
Here in one volume is Dr Stephanie Dale’s signature wellbeing writing program, from her time on The Write Road.
In this book you will experience:
- release of old stories from your physical body
- relief from stress, emotional pain and overwhelm
- transformation of outdated internal narratives
- enhanced problem solving skills
- strengthening the power centre inside you
- awakening your potential in the world as you know yourself to be.
My Pilgrim’s Heart
In an age when self-development is a commodity, award-winning Australian journalist Stephanie Dale does her internal journeying her own way – on pilgrimage walking 1500kms across Italy, through the Balkans and into the Middle East.
This book is a compelling voyage into the unnamed fears that shape our world, and an uncommonly bold exploration of the relationships between women and men: husband and wife, mother and adult son, a woman and the masculine world, a Westernised woman and the men of myriad cultures she meets along the road, West to East.
From blisters to menopause, Albanian hospitality and a hair-raising ride to Damascus, Stephanie’s observations are entertaining, intelligent, honest and bold.
When you are in a car, beautiful places are a moment; if you stop the car, they are a cluster of moments.
When you walk, beautiful places are an eternity carved into the soul.
From My Pilgrim’s Heart
“Your book moved me, into the dark and into the light.”
Julie Mac
Hymn for the Wounded Man
Winner! US Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Fiction, Australia/NZ.
Love and truth and death. You cannot pick and choose between them. Choose one, you get all three, every time.
Lilia is an Australian city girl who takes time out from her busy life to find her spiritual heart. She journeys to New Zealand, where she meets a man whose culture she didn’t know existed in the modern world of the 20th century. And so begins a love story that is timeless and achingly beautiful.
Hymn for the Wounded Man will ferry you into the wild places of New Zealand. There you will embark on a little understood realm in the west: the realm of the hunter, and you will return home in love with life and love, truth and death.
This beautiful book is a homecoming – if you’re willing to take the journey.
It was as if without warning she found herself orbiting another sun, as if she had woken from a very long slumber to find the world dripping with radiant sheen; as if she had traded the urban confusion of ‘what if’ for the ‘what is’ uncertainty of life’s raw edge.
From Hymn for the Wounded Man
Reviews
Write Your Way Home
“This book melted me from the beginning. It’s a book of ‘us’, not just you or me. It’s an oracle.”
Patt Gregory
“Loving your book! I’ve already I’ve dropped several limiting ideas I had about journaling that were subconsciously keeping me from DOING IT.”
Carolyn
“This book has passion, depth, humour and courage. It’s transformative, sassy, fearless and funny, a weaving of power and gentleness. It’s the kind of book that is worthy of the great masters but written for our times.”
Ali Symmons
“This book dares you, entices you, goads you into polishing your humanness.”
Mary Maher
“This is a book for our times. It’s really clever, interesting, wise, beautiful.”
Brunette Lenkić
My Pilgrim's Heart
“A journey of often painful self-discovery, as all good travel writing should be.”
Susan Kurosawa, Travel Editor, The Australian
“I loved it for all the reasons I hated Eat Pray Love. My Pilgrim’s Heart is unlike any book I’ve read before, and yet it’s strangely familiar, as if reading it has awakened in me something long forgotten.
Mary Lavers, Cosy Little Book Club
“The quality of the prose is excellent, the humour is abundant and the travel component is absolutely galvanising. This is one hell of a brave woman.”
Jeni Caffin, (now former) Director Byron Bay Writers Festival
“Every woman’s ultimate travel story.”
Anita Henderson
“I have to say that I really loved your story. I found it inspirational. The hardships and vulnerability, assessing, letting go and moving on. The writing itself is great. But I think the thing that struck me most was the honesty with which you told your story. We so often feel that the things that put us in less then flattering ight need to stay hidden. I would love to achieve this level of honesty if not with the world at large, then at least with myself.”
US reader (identity withheld)
“Like other great travelogues, the story drew me in right from the start. The path, the imagery and insights made me long for the the joys and obstacles of hitting the road with an open mind, and seeing what the world has to teach us.”
Vlad P.
“Thank you, The Lady from Downunder, who brought us Beauty, Sweetness and Light, with silent thunder.”
Dr Ira E. Harrison, poet laureate, Cascade Library, Atlanta GA
Hymn for the Wounded Man
“This is a love story, but more than this it is a story of ideas, set into a landscape that springs to life under the deft hand of a masterly observer. You’ll be astonished at the panorama. But in the end, it’s the close-ups of a relationship caught in the crosshairs that make this work echo like a gunshot in the woods.”
Susan Maushart, journalist & broadcaster
“Hymn for the Wounded Man is a lyrical, honest, fascinating story on so many levels . . . (with) beautiful descriptions of the meditative process of the hunt, the glory of nature, the hunter being connected to everything – and yet he is the wounded man. A fascinating and beautiful book.”
Mary Lou Stephens, ABC broadcaster