What This is All About
Why I started a newsletter on writing, healing, and the challenges facing our world
Welcome!
My name is Zoë Ferraris, and I’m a writer and a healer.
I’m the author of an award-winning series of novels, the Jeddah Trilogy (soon to be Quadruplets). They’re international bestsellers and have been published in 45 countries. You can check them out here.
I am also an energy healer. I specialize in biofield healing, but my real interests lie in healing much larger, social wounds—the trauma of colonialism, materialism, and environmental catastrophe. I share my insights on healing here.
I’ve created this newsletter to share two decades of knowledge and experience with you.
Writing. I share my insights from twenty years of practicing—and a lifetime of experiencing—the principles of storytelling.
These are not just insights for writers, they’re concepts for everyone, because we all tell stories all the time.
My perspectives on storytelling are simple and universal and their applications are infinite and life-changing.
My insights also come from years of investigation into the unconscious mind, from a profound attention to the workings of our inner selves, and from my own spiritual awakening.
I’ve written about all of this in my forthcoming book, Make the World Your Cathedral, but there is so much more here.
I also share updates on my novels, my writing practice, and writing-related things that thrill me.
Healing. I’ve spent twenty years studying medieval European medicine and discovering just how phenomenal it really was—a natural, holistic, mind-body practice that has been wrongly denigrated in the West.
I share what inspires me about this medicine—energetics, plant medicine, traditional healing techniques, and the incredible power of nature—as well as the techniques that I use in my own practice.
Understanding why this medicine has been denigrated can also help us heal much larger wounds—global traumas that affect every one of us.
If you’re interested in exploring more, I invite you to dive in!