Will you donate my birthday card?

I am looking for 30 lovers of my writings to spend 2€ and get my fairy tale and many other empowering essays for a good cause

My bday weekend is over and my only wish is for you to grant me your eyes on my first ever short story and mythic fairytale! I would love nothing more if you read it, re-read it, dream with it, meditate on it, journey into it. And let me know what it moved within you.

It will come our July 12th and I wondered if you - instead of spending 2 quid on a birthday card - would donate $1.99 to a grassroots children’s alliance by purchasing my story?

My birthday bouquet made by my mother (a florist).

I wrote it as a chapter for

Rebel Ma Rising

where it will be published alongside an exquisite bunch of diverse women’s stories, from a Freebirth blessed by a dragonfly in the Spanish mountains, a piece on political freedom and a Henry Miller inspired essay titled “My own little rosy crucifixion”!
Every reader will truly find something to delight in, something to widen their perspective and something to feel utterly touched and empowered by.

Some of the writers are bestselling authors, others are just dipping their toe in the publishing pond. But for all of us this was a vulnerable and intimate journey as we stripped down to our core in the last three months since we began the journey of this collaborative book project, meeting bi-weekly on live calls for rituals, archetypal embodiment practices and sharing about the process of our chapters.

And we would love to make an impact both for other women to raise their voices and gather the courage to share their stories as well as for ourselves to know our efforts don’t go unnoticed and are creating ripple effects in our communities. Hence why every purchase made will be donated (info about where the money goes further down) and we appreciate your time and effort to buy the ebook to support us in aiming for the amazon bestseller list.

Stories of women and water are as plenty as waves on the shore.

And mine is A Nymph’s Tale.

As a personal thank you I will create a 3-months coupon for everyone who made the purchase on release day to join my exclusive Substack list with which I share an audio version of my story and behind the scenes. Including my research, preparation and writing of the fairytale, why I decided to break some writing rules and how my personal story is woven in the fairytale whilst it is representative of us all in this modern day society. My inspirations, sources and some priestess practices that accompanied the journey will be shared, too. All in a monthly email until the end of the year.
Simply reply to this email or comment on the post and I will send you the link and a reminder to purchase on the day of release!

Donations go to MECA The Middle East Children’s Alliance: a nonprofit organisation working for the rights and the well-being of children in the Middle East. MECA supports dozens of community projects for Palestinian children and refugees from Syria. All funds are used to provide:

• Direct Aid: Providing food, medicine, medical supplies, clothes, books, toys and school supplies to children

• Clean, Safe Water: Building and installing water purification units in schools and preschools throughout Gaza

• Financial Support for Community Projects: Partnering with clinics, kindergartens, counseling centers, libraries, accessible parks and playgrounds, sports teams, arts and media programs.

• University Scholarships: Awarding scholarships to talented and ambitious high school graduates in the West Bank and Gaza to obtain degrees and the skills to make important contributions to their communities and their country.

Now a little update for my paid subscribers:

My birthday bouquet still brings me immense joy, but it had to be rearranged quite a bit.

Dear Regine, dear Magdalena, dear Carla,

I am so immensely grateful that you chose to support me. It is a gesture that doesn’t go unnoticed and actually has me believing in my writing and work!

This is a thank you to you all. You decided to become paid members without me even having a straight forward plan on what I deliver for this extra support. Now I would like to ask you what it is that would interest you? Would you like more personal stories and private updates (as I keep them more and more away from the general audience) or specific writings on a topic such as Avalon, leadership facilitation or seasonal living?

What I can give you right now, is an idea and shhh it´s top secret! Like literally just out of my head onto the page kind of top secret: The Avalon Way. A road to embodied devotion for (inner & outer) conflict resolution and enchanted living. It´s almost a book idea, but one that needs some time, so I thought to start beginning 2025 with releasing articles as chapters and write throughout the year, including some notes on neo-pagan seasonal celebrations (the word ‘ancient’ is often brutally misplaced) and how we can step onto the path of the mystic whilst being our wonderful flawed grounded human self.

If you like this idea I will develop it further, otherwise I might focus on leadership topics for sacred and mundane facilitation in integrity. And/or the personal insights.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

With a smile,
Laura