Story Weaver Book Coaching
Support for Memoirists, Thought Leaders
& Creative Entrepreneurs
at the Beginning of their Writing Journey
You have a book inside of you.
More than that, you have started to fill a journal with ideas. Research materials clutter the corners of your desk. It’s hard to count all the documents you’ve started with potential first chapters.
You find yourself dreaming about this project, collecting images and phrases as you move through your day, praying you’ll find the time and the focus to get them on the page soon.
This book feels so real to you, so important.
And yet, it also feels like it might always be just out of reach. You wonder if you’ll be an “aspiring author” forever.
Before you can weave your visions into the chapters
and birth this book into the world,
you’ve got a lot of untangling and imagining to do.
You have to get clear on what you really want to say and who truly needs to hear it.
You need to find your book’s internal shape so you have a plan. And, you need to leave plenty of room for the surprises (both wondrous and worrisome) that come with the inception and development of your book.
You need to live and heal parts of the story before you put them on the public page.
To find the story, develop your craft, and navigate the confusing or painful parts of your story, you need a trusted ally and guide who can walk with you throughout your writing journey. You especially need support in the early days when your ideas are fresh, fragile, and need such careful, loving attention.
Let's untangle your story.
Let’s craft your passion, creativity, and insight into a book that’s both personal and profound.
Meet Your Writing Coach and
Sister Story Weaver
I know the combination of creative elation and overwhelm that comes with a new book project.
I know how the excitement of crafting a book can sometimes slip into “what’s the point?” despair.
I know what it’s like to abandon a manuscript. (Several, in fact!)
And, I know what it’s like to publish a book and watch it shift the path of my life. I also know what it’s like to craft short stories that weave together to become the creative project that feels like the work I am meant to do in this world.
Have we met yet? I’m Marisa Goudy. I’m a story healer and a myth worker. I’m also the author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. These days, I am devoted to re-crafting of the tales from Irish mythology and folklore for KnotWork Storytelling Podcast.
After a career in academia, I set out on my own to create a business based on my passion for healing, connection building, and my skills as a writer and communicator. The last decade+ has been full of work as a copywriter, website developer, and marketing coach for entrepreneurs.
In more recent years, I have devoted myself to nurturing writers and storytellers. My writing coaching clients include psychotherapists, spiritual teachers, and coaches of all kinds. I am also the founder of the long-running online community for creatives and writers now called the Heroine’s Knot.
What to Expect from Story Weaver Coaching
We begin with a free initial consultation call. You’ll tell me about your project and I’ll tell you more about my approach. Often, the sparks start flying in those first thirty minutes and you’ll find you’ve got new ideas and a new sense of creative direction immediately.
If we decide we’re ready to begin the book journey together, we’ll enter into a six-month agreement.
Over those six months, we’ll meet for thirteen online sessions. The first is a two-hour deep dive. Then, we’ll meet twice a month. Between our calls, you’ll send me your writing for review between sessions.
Many clients choose to renew at the end of their six months as the early brainstorming and imagining evolves into crafting and rewriting a book that’s closer and closer to emerging into the world.
Your investment in six months of coaching: $3000
Who enrolls in Story Weaver Book Coaching?
I love to meet clients in the early stages of writing or when they return to a manuscript after some time away.
Most of my clients are transformation professionals (psychotherapists, healers, coaches and spiritual teachers). They are also thought leaders and deeply creative people looking to grow their reach with a well-crafted, authentic book. Some take the self-publishing route while others seek representation with an agent and try to find a place with a traditional publishing house.
My clients are wise folks who have a great deal of life experience and professional experience who are ready to share stories an insights in order to inspire others to grow. Often, their books can be classified as spiritual memoirs or self-help memoirs.
Occasionally, if it seems like the author, the project, and I are a great fit, I will take on a client who is working on a novel. If you’re on a quest to get to know your characters, explore your themes and plot twists, and make room for fiction in a life that is often so cluttered with “real world” distractions, I can help.
What Clients Say About
Writing Coaching With Marisa
“Being in Marisa’s presence, I felt an intuitive connection with her, someone with whom I could trust my deepest self, share my soulful stories, night-time dreams and lived philosophies. Those parts of me were calling, yearning, even insisting for expression and visibility in the world. It is, through our partnership, that these yearnings have become my now-finished manuscript, which I am now submitting to agents and publishing houses.
Marisa is laser focused and gentle and I feel and hear her care and passion for the words I have written. Know that Marisa is a powerful word witch, a gentle and fierce advocate for your truth.
There is an old, old word for someone like her, from a language far away: she is a paraclete, a voice who is called to be alongside you, one who is with you, standing next, inspiring your soul to speak your vital truth, that which only you can speak.”
- Royce Fitts,
MFT, Spiritual Counselor & ProjectiveDreamWorker
Author of the forthcoming Geography of the Soul Dreams, Reality, and the Journey of a Lifetime
What I most love about collaborating with Marisa is that she is able to feel into your vision, your words and ideas, by pulling out the gold so that you can polish it and allow its brilliance to shine forth.
She brings great insight that challenges you to expand beyond your comfort zones in a way that feels exciting and uplifting because you are on the brink of revelation and break through. With her guidance I have been able to piece together my story in a way that has an ease and flow to it instead of feeling overwhelmed and stuck.
I highly recommend working with Marisa if you are in search of an authentic creative process that allows you to hone your skills and refine your visions.
- Malinda DeMurcurio,
Chinese medicine practitioner &
Sangoma Ancestral Shaman
Dragon Springs Wellness