How My Third Book Found Me With the Help of Angels

I wrote and self-published a tiny illustrated book about a gentle dance with my Higher Self

Dance is sacred to me. I experienced profound healing and fulfilling joy from exploring various dance genres and connecting with dance communities early last year. Journaling publicly about my sacred discoveries through dance on Medium felt so satisfying that I soon wanted to write a dance memoir early this year.

All sorts of insecurities about my writing and dance journey seeped through as I tried re-reading my past articles and rewriting them into my memoir, with patient guidance and help from my talented and kind writing coach, Pam Sourelis. It was incredibly hard, so when faced with more urgent issues with my children, I put my book project aside for a few months and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

I never expected to find another book about dance looking for me with such sweet kindness in the form of my friend, Yuanhui Chen.

Yuanhui Chen is my soulful friend, my children’s creative writing teacher, and the illustrator for my first two books: Empower Your Life With Gentleness and From the Womb of Gentleness. While my kids were learning a fun and therapeutic art activity from her sometime during the June school holidays, she shared with me a series of artworks she created about a girl with a magical blue lotus flower. When she invited me to write a story describing her visual story of this girl with the blue lotus, I felt the potent magic of that invitation.

My Higher Self recognized this as an answer to my prayers. Which prayers? I didn’t know. My ego panicked like hell. Would I disappoint her with my words? She reassured me that she would not be judging my story. It was a gift and invitation to co-create if I chose to accept.

More signs came through:

• I took George Kao’s Blog-to-Book online course a few weeks before this. I wanted to write and publish the second edition of my first book — Empower Your Life With Gentleness, but I got stuck because I needed to take care of my kids during their June school holidays. The intention to publish a new book lingered in my mind.
• I bought and started using a beautiful bling pen I designed from another friend, Ping’s new online shop. My bling pen — Dancing Fairy, reminded me to keep writing and dancing.
• I purchased a personalized bottle of flower essence from my fellow business mastermind, Tracy O'Meara Smith | a Holistic Therapist from Australia. Taking it twice daily helped me express my creativity more easily again.
• My friend and writing coach, Pam Sourelis, had finished writing her memoir about her horse guide, Nikos. She invited me to be her beta reader. Reading her book draft felt more like a powerful and loving energetic transmission. I sobbed and felt so incredibly moved. This happened right before Yuanhui invited me to write my blue lotus story.

These signs were so tangible that I couldn’t ignore my Higher Self’s ‘assignment’ for me. One night, after my kids had fallen asleep, I sat on my bed and meditated on Yuanhui’s Blue Lotus Flower. The message was gentle, playful, and clear. This flower was telling me to keep dancing. Dance is my sacred magic. It was time to write a story about it to remind myself and other dreamers and creatives.

I found a gentle way to write my story with minimum pressure and gather some public feedback. As the artworks were not fully completed, I wrote little snippets of my story and shared them in a few daily posts on my personal Facebook profile. Soon, my story gathered some interest from friends, and Yuanhui felt energized to complete the artwork.

This story was written like a simple fairytale for adults. I intuitively asked Pam to help me edit my story and, later, the entire book. I’m immensely grateful to her for helping me write a much more potent version than my original draft. Even though my family and I had COVID while trying to get my book published, I still spent little pockets of time and energy nurturing my book baby. It brought me so much joy!

My book was self-published on Amazon Kindle last Monday, just in time to celebrate my nation, Singapore’s National Day, last Tuesday. This Monday, I checked my book ratings on Amazon and was delighted to see it ranked as #2 in Self-Help 2-Hour Short Reads New Releases!

The rankings get updated every hour, so my ranking has dropped since then. But it was still fun seeing it rise to #2!

Final Thoughts

Publishing this book is one of my dreams come true. It is a massive calling for me to stay open as an HSP and Empath and to keep creating my magic through dancing and writing.

There is so much chaos in the world that can push us into a constant problem-solving mode or victim mode. I used to think that my little dance videos were useless. Now I can see how I’m shining my light whenever I choose to dance and write, and my Light attracts more Light. We, the HSPS, Empaths, dreamers, and creatives, need to feel safe and free to keep co-creating our desired reality.

I feel incredibly blessed to be supported by many ethereal and earth angels to publish this book. Thank you, all!

Perhaps my story here will inspire and motivate you to keep doing whatever brings you joy. Thank you for reading🤗