How to Be a Healer

I have started writing a new book called How to Be a Healer, which I will publish in 2027. Here is the introduction.

How to Be a Healer: Introduction

This book is not about healing techniques, although it does include some technique. It is about being the kind of person whose presence heals. 

We all have the ability to help other people heal, grow, see more clearly, and reconnect with themselves. Some people do this as psychologists, medical personnel, or complementary therapists. Others do it as parents, teachers, artists, or as kind human beings. In essence, healing is not a profession. It is a way of being.

If you are drawn to this book, you must already know, at some level, that you are a healer. You might not have used that word about yourself before or considered turning it into a profession, but you want to ease suffering and bring more peace into the world. You care.

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Enanika: Anu Answering to Anna

Enanika is the visionary fiction I’m currently writing. Enanika follows Anu, a female from an advanced planet that resembles Earth. She comes here on a mission and must live within the density of our dimensions while maintaining her Nanik consciousness.

Alongside her is Enlan, also from Enanika. Unlike Anu, he adapts quickly to life on Earth. He works, relates, and lives as people do here. They were not meant to be on Earth at the same time — yet life had other plans.

Enanika: Visionary Fiction—The Earth Crossing

A rainbow crossing, a chai, and a familiar face — Anu’s first real steps on Earth begin.

We’ve spent the beginning five chapters of Enanika travelling with Anu through the fascinating, vibrant world of Enanika—watching her prepare for her first solo mission, learning about Contact Callers, and witnessing the mystic power of the Seed-of-Life sculpture, the living geometry capable of carrying a being from one realm to another.

Now, in Chapters 6 and 7, Anu steps into Milkwood—a thriving rural town of mineral springs and rainbow crossings, a haven for artists, healers, LGBTQ+ folk, and colourful nonconformists. Here, she begins her Earth-life in earnest, navigating some very human challenges and meeting someone she never expected to find on this planet.

The Flat (Book 4 of Nanima Series): Paperboy (Chapters 1 to 2)

Here is the beginning of The Flat (Book 4 of the Nanima Series).

PAPERBOY

Chapter 1: Happy Dreams

“Happy dreams,” said Luna as he opened the bedroom door for Iggy to enter. 

“Sleep well,” said Maliyan as she headed for the bathroom. 

“I will,” said Luna. “The night is so quiet at your house that I feel like I’m in a cocoon.”

He was used to the hustle and bustle, traffic and horns, yelling and late-night laughing of inner-city life.

At the end of his Christmas holiday break, Luna was ready to tell Maliyan that he never left for the northern city and was still in the southern one near her. When he initially decided to move back north, he gave notice on his flat. By the time he decided that he was no longer going, his flat had been leased to someone else, so he was homeless. Maliyan offered him her spare room, assuming he wouldn’t take it. He did take it. The last time they lived together was summer, two years ago, in Nanima, in the shophouse of Luna Tiks.

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Foxie: the Contact Child—Cha Chu Pani

A novel by Donna Goddard and her granddaughter, Aisha Bailey,written for 7 to 12-year-olds. Together, they draw on imagination, family stories, and the beauty of life — both the mundane and the extraordinary — to create tales for children.

Foxie is no ordinary child. She comes from Cha Chu Pani, a peaceful world where children grow in glowing bubbles, creatures live in harmony, and everyone communicates through thoughts. As a hybrid Contact Child, her first solo mission is a big one — Earth.

After a secret night landing in Tanglewood, Foxie is taken in by Aunty Em and Uncle Harry, who believe she’s simply a lost girl with no memory. But Foxie knows exactly who she is…

Earth brings many surprises: new foods, strange customs, powerful emotions, and a maddening foster girl named Maddie.

A magical, uplifting adventure about understanding, listening, courage, love, and seeing Earth through new eyes.

Chapter 1: Cha Chu Pani

My name is Foxie, and I come from a long way away. A very long way away. Much farther than you’ve ever imagined. 

My planet is called Cha Chu Pani. In our language, cha means one, chu means two, and pani means dancer. Cha Chu Pani has a twin planet, and we cha-cha around each other like two dancers. A year is longer here than on Earth. It takes us 454 days to get around our sun. It only takes you 365 days…

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Writing: A Spiritual Voice Has Been Updated!

Writing: A Spiritual Voice has been UPDATED with lots of new material and a new layout and cover.

“When I write fiction, I need a lot of ongoing mental space to maintain the energised creation of a whole other world. The fictional world you have created doesn’t stay alive and thriving by itself. It needs your energy. You have to throw yourself into it and the lives of its characters as you do your real world. Energetically speaking, your fictional world is a real world. You are making a yantra, a powerful energy construct that vibrates with life-force.”

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Sonder (Book 3 of Nanima Series) has Been Published!

Sonder (Book 3 of Nanima Series) has now been published! It is available as an e-book and paperback, and the audiobook will soon be published.

When you are closest to making a breakthrough in your personal growth, your fear throws up the greatest intensity. It will do whatever it can to deter you from moving ahead. That is the nature of human consciousness and growth. If you succumb to its frightening and treacherous threats, pick yourself up and try again. With perseverance, your fear will exit the scene, and you will be standing in a sparkling new world. The problems encountered by those closest to Maliyan intensify as their paths intertwine more densely and their individual journeys traverse sinuous inner terrain. The rhythm and beauty of the natural environment around them comforts and pushes them ever onwards.—Sonder

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