Support, Soul Care, and Releasing Hermit Mode Healing

The Patterns of Summer that Remain in My Keep Healthy Tool Box, Even Though I Do Not Teach High School Anymore

Hello, sunwalkers, lovelies, soul bards, hearties, friends, fans, readers, you people standing in the back, and more:

Welcome to Soul Writer’s Side Quest. Some of you have been here since the beginning—way back when this was a tiny little list before we moved to Substack. Some of you reading this have known me before this journey started—and some of you know far more about my characters years before readers ever will.

No matter where you fall on the spectrum. Thank you for being here. Thank you for walking along this journey with me. The last few years have been a wild ride, and I am so excited to see where we go in the future.

I’ve learned that knowing who my supporters are—not the people who are simply in my circle to blow smoke up my but as a distraction of ego or the people who pretend to be supporters for their own benefit—and to lean into them during the recharge I go through from the last week of June to around the middle of July. My true supporters go out of their way to protect the healing hermit mode I use during this time, and I don’t even realize they are doing it half the time. They’re some of the reason why I really toned things down the last few weeks, too. When three people tell me in a week that I look more like a vampire in complexion than ever, and I’ve been spending more time in the sun than I have since the previous summer? And its June?

Yeah, that is my hint I need to be hermit healing. That level of soul care helps so much. Even though I have not been posting daily chapters to Ream Stories since last week? I am still writing daily. I am editing daily. I am spending time coaching clients daily or building coursework for them. I am loving my business at a slower pace as much as I am at a faster one. The fast lane is coming again, yet the recharge has been more than worth it.

I’ve been reading more. Watching old movies and anime more. Playing video games again—and really deciding on whether or not Soul Bard Gaming is going to be a thing in the future as the drops of new add ons to both Dragon Age and the Sims loom in the ever-forthcoming future. I’m walking and working out and drinking so so so so much less coffee—GASP AND SHOCK—and trading it for more water. I crave and devour salads like it is lunch time’s part time job. All the good habits I lost in the shuffle of two moves in two years? They’re all coming back, baby!

Now, we are back fully to the grind for the quarter. I am going to be making some big decisions about the books in the coming weeks. The Kickstarter is still on-going!

If it does not fully fund to at least $2000, then I am still releasing or re-releasing books 1-5 as appropriate, and the Side Quest spin off books will follow. VITAELANGICA, which runs parallel with Season 2’s Books 6-10 are next on the list. I really want to also shift some focus over to my teaching memoir, Unschooling Soul Writer. I have more ideas that I add to the brainstorm for it each day, and I can hardly wait to talk about how literally writing has unschooled all of my life’s traumas one chapter at a time. Sounds weird to want to talk about that, but I know so many other educators will find healing in the words—and so will I as I write it.

I am considering leaving Ream Stories. There are multiple reasons. I have long wanted The Merna Annals to have its own website, and if I move what Ream Stories does and will do with the book box to a merna-only website and off www.jennathesoulwriter.com to thrive on its own? I have decisions to make. For those of you over on Ream Stories, we have almost 100 followers. I would love to see all of my readers here and there to find a common place to call home. It would be your own newsletter about solely reading things—and not so much my services side of the business. Thoughts? Please share. I want to include all of you in this growth and growing pains period as much as possible—so the future is more about what you want out of it as a reader experience.

Writer friends, I see you. I have another post for you all in the future. Thanks for patience and waiting for it!

Thank you for continuing to support all I do around here. I could do what I do without you. Please feel welcome to check out the Kickstarter by clicking here. The Merna Private Collection’s Tiara Book Box will be launching March 6, 2025, regardless of the Kickstarter’s passing or failing.

Let’s keep healing journeys and stories alive, no matter how dark the tale?

All my love,

Take care of yourself,

You’re worth it,

Jenna OM
~Your Soul Writer

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No matter how far apart we are, I am always with you. No matter where you are, I will come to you.

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