Narration performed by Carla Atherton; Vocals in the lullaby performed by Carla Atherton; Music Created by the great Federico! Name to be released soon when we release the full song!

7 Books; audio and written experience...

Whenever I give instruction on how to write a good story, I remember what my teachers have told me, and that I am sure their teachers also shared with them: show, don’t tell. I do both to paint the picture with words instead of reporting on the scene. Have your reader feel the heartbreak or joy rather than telling them to feel heartbreak or joy.

So, in writing this series, I don’t want to orate or evangelize a better world or how we should live, but tell a collective story with compassion, insight, and grace. Although Veil’s Edge reflects on our current society, it is not a story of how we should be–it’s a story of what we could be. The meaning code of my work is embedded in the metaphor and in the mythology that resides in every one of our stories. My books are not a forced bitter pill but an enlivening ember of possibility...

Although it can look like business as usual Inside the Veil–people going to their jobs, to school, entranced by whatever task is on their schedules for the day, whatever is on the airwaves, on their social media feeds–life in the Western Realm is collapsing. All around them wars rage. The streets are unsafe. Families and relationships unravel. Poverty and injustice are everyday realities. And like an old, crackling radio, they can tune out the noise–because when they tune in, it’s too loud to bear.

The Western Realm is a disconnected existence of fear and battle, numbness and discontent, noise and distraction, scarcity and lack, sorrow, grief, and regret. There are plenty of riches, but they are of the wrong kind. For those living there, there is never enough, and they survive by stealing, hoarding, or hiding from the next blow, from the struggle, from the reality they created.

The Western Realm is a world imploding on itself.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carla Atherton is a prolific writer and developmental editor, poet, workshop facilitator, compulsive creator, Deep Wellness/Holistic Health Empowerment Coach, Dream Teacher, & Experiential Healing Program Facilitator illuminating how to move from dis-ease into Deep Wellness through her Inspired Shift Method, one-on-one & group coaching programs, professional training program, & creative work. She is a master of synthesizing information, curating transformational experience, facilitating integration, & inspiring people to uncover their own unique genius--the mythology, the metaphor that is YOU.

She holds a Masters in English Literature, and is also the Director of the Healthy Family Formula and the HECT Practitioner Training Academy, Host and Producer of the Children’s Health Summit, Author of Family Health Revolution, Mountains Rise from Earthquakes Writing Experience and Your Unique Genius Writing Experience Facilitator (since 1998), Co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the now laid to rest Cahoots Magazine,  Host of Your Health Revolution Podcast, Your Unique Genius Podcast, and Writing from the Edge of the Veil Podcast, Youth Wellness Coach, Youth Wellness Coach, Holistic Family Health Consultant, Yoga Instructor and Mind/Body Facilitator, and Health Advocate. 

Carla has 3 grown children, a husband, & lots of cats and writes/reads/creates from a home office in the Canadian prairies.

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