The Unbound Writer's Club

Episode 7: The 4 Layers of Magic That Get Activated When You Complete Your Book

Nicola Humber

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In this episode, Nicola talks about some specific magic and experiences that happen when you finish your book.


 In this episode:

  • How holding your book in your hands is an act of completion and personal achievement and trust.
  • The shift that happens in your body when you finish an UNBOUND book at the end of a creative cycle.
  • How completion and finality is so rare in our online, constantly evolving world.
  • How finishing your book clears the way for new things to arrive  and opens up space for whatever is next.
  • How you get to access a new layer of yourself from the process of writing a book the UNBOUND way.
  • The sense of loss that can happen when you experience finishing a book, and the grief that we can experience at the end of a creative project.
  • Completing the book is saying goodbye to the version of you that wrote the book.
  • Your relationship with your book changes when it goes out into the world.
  • How the process of birthing your book can be uncomfortable but a powerful experience.
  • The alchemical, liminal space of birthing your book.
  • How we are called to let go of attachment when we release our books into the world.
  • The spiritual lesson of letting fo that our books teach us.
  • How the relationship with your book changes and evolves as it goes out into the world.

Links mentioned:

Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts: http://mamagenas.co
Sheila Hay, and her ecstatic birth class: https://ecstatic-birth.com/about/
UNBOUND Writing Mastermind

Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.


Music Credit: Joseph McDade