Donna Goddard

May 20, 2026May 20, 2026

Different People Need Different Stories

Why are different readers drawn to different stories?

What We Love

I’m not a fiction reader, even though I write fiction. However, I go through stages of being interested in various types of stories. I can’t remember the last time I read a novel in the traditional way, but I occasionally listen to an audio story while driving or, more often, watch the film version of a story that interests me.

Recently, for instance, I became interested in science fiction. I loved the K-PAX and Project Hail Mary movies.

K-PAX is about a man living in a psychiatric hospital who claims he is an extraterrestrial being from another planet. His psychiatrist slowly becomes drawn into the life-changing mystery, and many of the patients begin to heal and change through their contact with the extraterrestrial man. It was not just the extraterrestrial theme that fascinated me, but the intelligence behind the story — about consciousness, mental illness, trauma, psychotherapy, hypnosis, healing, and the complexity of human beings. The story was grounded in human suffering, but it was very hopeful, buoyant, and often funny.

In Project Hail Mary, I loved the originality of the extraterrestrial being — a strange rock-like creature that felt just as real and intelligent as the human beside it. I was fascinated by the evolution of their communication. Completely different worlds, completely different biological systems, and completely different ways of perceiving reality, yet they found trust, humour, love, sacrifice, and purpose together.

May 15, 2026May 15, 2026

Sweet Dreams: Back in Town (Visionary Fiction)

I hope you enjoyed Enanika (Book 1 of the Enanika Series). I have now begun writing Sweet Dreams (Book 2).

A lot has happened in the space between Books 1 and 2.

For one thing… six years.

Here are the opening chapters.

Chapter 1: Dynamic Dancing

Six years later:

Winter moved sharply through the city streets, pushing cold wind between buildings and along tram tracks. People walked quickly, shoulders raised against it, scarves pulled close, hands wrapped around takeaway coffees.

Anu walked much more slowly, her attention moving from one thing to another, trying to orient herself to a world she had not seen for six years, and even then had not been at ease with.

May 8, 2026May 8, 2026

Never a Lack

People often say they have a problem with lack. Usually, they mean lack of money, but they may also mean lack of time, lack of love, lack of opportunities, or lack of freedom. Although certain experiences may look like lack, the issue is not really lack at all. If we understand this, the whole playing field of life will change significantly.

We are never without creative energy. We are never without life force. We are never without the ability to create experiences. Human beings are creating all the time. We cannot help but create, because our very experience of being human is itself a creative process. We have dreamed existence into reality, and moment by moment, we continue dreaming things up as we go. The problem is not that we lack the ability to create. The problem is that most people dream up their lives from unconscious, unhelpful beliefs.

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026

Two-Way Street

In close relationships, especially partner relationships, there’s a subtle but important line. On one side, it’s about standing on our own two feet — emotionally, financially, practically, energetically, and in whatever ways apply in our situation. We don’t do this out of fear or self-protection, but out of respect for ourselves and the other person. We don’t want to be a burden. We want to be a positive contribution to their life, to bring ourselves into the relationship in a genuine, giving way.

But the other side matters just as much. What is the other person actually offering us? They need to bring something meaningful into our life. It may not be meaningful to everyone, but it has to be meaningful to us. Otherwise, what are we really doing together? It’s not about blame or accusation. It’s about being honest, and caring enough about the relationship to be truthful.

April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

Enanika is Here!

Enanika: Visionary Fiction is now available.

It’s a personal and expansive story, and I’m so happy to share with you the first book in the Enanika Series — a new series, a new world.

On the peaceful, light-filled planet of Enanika, where life is guided by harmony, energy, and telepathy, Anu prepares for her first solo mission as a contact caller. Her destination is Earth — dense, troubled, beautiful, and poised for change.

In the rural town of Milkwood, she meets Enlan, another being from her world. But their paths unfold very differently. Anu remains aware of who she is and why she’s here, while Enlan becomes immersed in the human experience, gradually losing his connection to where he came from.

Enanika is not just a story about people, but about worlds… about who we are, and who we believe ourselves to be.

Available as an ebook, paperback, and audiobook (audiobook is currently available in the U.S. only).

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February 21, 2026February 21, 2026

We’ll Be Fine: A Conversation about Reality

Recently, a friend shared his concerns about what the future with AI might hold. He spoke about control, power, greed, and the possibility that technologies could be steered by ill intent. Beneath it was a fear that the world was moving in an unsafe direction.

In the past, my response to a conversation like this would have been somewhat different.

I knew that focusing on negative outcomes draws negative outcomes.
I viewed the world as a single, shared reality we are shaping together, and so it seemed vital to encourage a collective shift.

I would have said something like, “If we approach this with care, and enough people choose that direction, then things can turn out well. In the end, good prevails.”

However, this time, I did not say that.

I placed my hand on his arm and said, “Don’t worry. We’ll all be fine.”

He looked at me questioningly. I nodded and repeated, “I know we will be. We’ll all be fine.”

As simple as the response seems, the understanding behind it is not small.

February 14, 2026February 14, 2026

Blueprint of Dreams — poem

What if this life wasn’t as real as we thought?
What if our dreams weren’t as dreamy as they seemed?

What if this life were as fluid as a dream?
What if our dreams were as real as our waking world?

What if we could dream while awake,
and wake while dreaming?

What if we could shape our waking life,
and draw from our dreams, our blueprint?

If we can become lucid in our dreams,
we can become liquid in our waking state.

If we can wake within our dreams,
we can wake when we are awake.

Wake up there.
Wake up here.

This is the first poem in the poetry book I am currently writing — Blueprint of Dreams: Poems and Disruptions, which will be available later in 2026.

February 12, 2026April 25, 2026

Cake and Courage

One of the major reality shifts I described in my last post — leaving my first marriage — contained a very ordinary moment. Yet, three decades later, I still remember it clearly. So it can’t have been that small.

The marriage involved a considerable amount of money. I needed a property settlement lawyer, so I went into the city. At thirty-three, I didn’t understand what a property settlement was or how it worked. In fact, I had no idea what would happen or what I might be entitled to. For all I knew, I could walk away with nothing. I had two young children to raise, and I wasn’t working outside the home.

I went to the lawyer, and we discussed some initial details, but it was only a first visit. I still didn’t understand what was going to happen. The lawyer’s office was in an elegant building. When the meeting finished, I went downstairs to a cafe. It was the kind of place that feels expensive — and is. I ordered a cup of tea and a piece of cake. An expensive cup of tea. An expensive piece of cake.

February 4, 2026April 13, 2026

Enanika: Close Call

When Anu woke, she stood and moved with ease. Her body, she realised, was unnoticeable — as young bodies generally are.

After several weeks of being sixty-six-year-old Anna, she had returned to thirty-three-year-old Anu during the night.

Which was just as well, because she and Enlan had decided to go back to Fat Cow Falls that day. Enlan had been feeling very Earthbound and hoped he could connect with Enanika again in the pool. The cliff would be far easier for Anu to navigate than Anna.

“Have you lost something?” Enlan asked when they met at the entrance to the falls.

Anu frowned slightly and tilted her head.

“No. I don’t think so.”

He smiled, waiting. “A few years, maybe.”

She laughed. “Oh. Yes. That. It happened overnight.”

February 1, 2026April 25, 2026

Consciousness Continuing: Many Lives in One

This is the opening chapter of Consciousness Continuing, the second book in the Consciousness Series. The first book of the series, Consciousness Rising, was published in October 2025. This chapter explores the experience of living many lives within one lifetime.

Consciousness does not improve itself over time. It relocates into realities where different versions of itself are viable.

Chapter 1: Many Lives in One

I have long felt that I’ve lived many lifetimes inside one life. I felt it before I ever heard words like parallel realities or shifting timelines, long before I encountered teachings about reality shifts. It is a lived experience. Entire worlds have closed behind me, and new ones opened — sometimes abruptly, sometimes over the space of several years — but always completely.

My life feels less like a single story and more like a series of distinct realities, each with its own version of me. Perhaps you feel this way too, even if you don’t yet have the language for it.

I’ll describe my major shifts here, as they may help you recognise your own.