In addition to my clinical practice, I am engaged in ongoing creative writings, developing several non-fiction manuscripts on:
- Insight Meditation
- A memoir about long-term impact of family courts, judicial corruption, and institutional betrayal
- Abandoned mothers of narcissistic adult children and women’s invisible emotional labour over a lifetime
- Graceful Aging: How to embrace your age without being stuck in youth
- Embracing Infinity: A process of dying with courage and dignity
- A historical, religious nonfiction based on the last few years of Indian god Ram.
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I offer trauma-aware story writing support for women with complex life histories who want to begin shaping their experience into written form. To see if we are a good fit, I hold a Story Mapping Session costing NZD 250 for a 3 hour package. Once we feel that we are a good fit, we can negotiate a ghostwriting services.
Manuscripts
I like to write on several topics all at once. I am past the stage where I have to prove anything to anyone. Writing, for me, is joy and passion, an act of courage, creativity, a dream of immortality – for we become immortal through our written words. It is not a race for me. I do not seek recognition and/or earnings through it. And therefore, my pace of writing is leasurely – I enjoy each word I write, I savour each page I pen.
I am concurrently working on a number of books, each one at a different stage of completion.
Insight As A Way Of Life – Introduction To Vipassana Meditation
Introduction To Vipassama is a research-driven portrait of insight meditation that braids practitioner narratives, early Buddhist sources, and contemplative psychology to clarify what reliably changes (and what doesn’t), why it changes, and how practice integrates into daily life—without offering a how-to manual.
This book traces the journey of Vipassanā from its early Buddhist roots to its modern revival, then turns to the practice itself—ethics, concentration, and insight—as taught in the ten-day course model of the Vipassana Training Institute.
It then follows long-term practitioners through outcomes such as perception and affect regulation, ethics and conduct, altruism, intimacy, pain and depression coping, altered states, integration challenges, and adverse-effects reflections.
The method is qualitative and narrative (recruitment, interview design, coding/analysis, ethics, reflexivity), and the book closes by surveying peer-reviewed findings, situating constructivist meaning-making, and naming the limits of research with concrete lessons for teachers, clinicians, and institutions.
Comparative positioning & marketability.
Adjacent to Goldstein’s The Experience of Insight and Insight Meditation, Bradshaw’s Down to Earth Dharma, Sofer’s Your Heart Was Made for This, Baker’s The Wakeful Body, Shaw’s Breathing Mindfulness, and Makransky & Condon’s How Compassion Works—this project stands out by centering Vipassanā as a way of life (not just retreat technique) and offering an evidence-informed synthesis that bridges Buddhist history, psychology/neuroscience, and lived narratives.
It brings a complete ~80k-word draft, rapid delivery of a clean copy, a clear endorsements plan, and an existing platform (historic ~10k monthly readers, re-activatable mailing list, and a podcast/webinar launch plan). Credibility is underwritten by your long practice/clinical background and a thesis on Vipassanā cited ~600 times in academic literature—positioning the book for serious practitioners, clinicians, and thoughtful newcomers who want depth beyond “mindfulness-lite.”
The Science & Art Of Graceful Aging
The Science & Art of Aging is a warm, research-grounded guide to thriving in the second half of life. It blends gerontology, neuroscience, and psychology with design-for-aging and reflective practices to turn credible science into doable daily choices—sleep that restores, movement that protects, food that calms inflammation, habits that build cognitive reserve, and relationships that deepen meaning. Each chapter pairs clear evidence snapshots with micro-rituals, checklists, and gentle experiments—trauma- and culture-aware—so readers can age with agency: steadier body, clearer mind, kinder connections, and a home and routine that make the good life easier to live.
Comparative Positioning & Marketability
Sits alongside famous work like Outlive (Peter Attia, 2023), a biomarker-driven longevity, Successful Aging (Daniel Levitin, 2020), a brain science overview, From Strength to Strength (Arthur C. Brooks, 2022): purpose and happiness,, The Blue Zones (Dan Buettner), on lifestyle patterns, This Chair Rocks (Ashton Applewhite) on anti-ageism.
Despite the convergences, this book is unique in that it blends culture, religion, neuroscience, depth psychology, with traditional and modern perspectives on aging. It has a wide, motivated audience: readers 45–80, adult children/caregivers, clinicians and coaches seeking an integrative, humane reference. While offering practical advice like preparing a Will, Advanced Directive, decisions on organ donations etc, it teaches the subtle art of letting go, acceptance of the unchanging, finding meaning thru everyday efforts and preparing for merger with the infinite.
Embracing The Infinite: A Contemplative Guide to Preparing for Death
Embracing the Infinite is a contemplative, research-grounded companion for meeting the end of life with clarity, connection, and peace. The writings blend palliative medicine, psychology, and neuroscience with wisdom traditions (Vipassanā and related contemplative practices) to turn a daunting subject into humane, doable steps: courageous conversations, symptom and pain basics, hospice vs. palliative pathways, legal readiness (will, advance directive, POLST/organ donation), legacy letters and rituals, forgiveness and meaning-making, and the inner work of acceptance. Each chapter pairs clear evidence snapshots with short meditations, scripts, checklists, and gentle reflection prompts—trauma- and culture-aware—so readers, families, and caregivers can prepare practically while cultivating presence, courage, and love.
Comparative Positioning & Marketability
These writings sit alongside Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) on medicine and choice, A Beginner’s Guide to the End (BJ Miller & Shoshana Berger) for practical navigation, The Art of Dying Well (Katy Butler) on decision-making, With the End in Mind (Kathryn Mannix) on hospice wisdom, and contemplative classics like Joan Halifax’s Being with Dying and Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations. Unlike any single shelf-mate, this book unites clinical wayfinding with a gentle contemplative curriculum and cross-cultural ritual literacy—equally useful at the bedside and at the kitchen table. Audience spans patients and families, clinicians, chaplains, therapists, hospice volunteers, and thoughtful readers seeking a reflective, non-dogmatic guide. Programmatic features (scripts, checklists, meditations, legacy practices) make the writings highly “shareable” for support groups and clinical handouts; companion journal/workshop options and evergreen relevance support long tail sales and referrals through hospices, therapists, and community organizations.
Erased! When Adult Children Abandon their Mothers
Erased! is a clear-eyed, compassionate look at a hidden grief of our time: mothers who poured their money, years, and whole selves into raising children—often alone—only to be erased when those children reach adulthood. This is not simply “parental alienation.” It is a wider cultural and psychological story that asks mothers to be responsible for everything, then offers little recognition, protection, or reciprocity in return.
Drawing on depth psychology and feminist thought, the writings turn certain psychoanalytic assumptions on their head: if we hold mothers accountable for a lifetime of outcomes, what do we owe them in love, respect, dignity and care?
The project is grounded in lived reality. Across countless online groups and private messages, I’ve watched women in their 50s and 60s—many “soccer moms,” breadwinners, and caretakers—age overnight from heartbreak and financial depletion. Some are now unhoused or unwell, stunned by adult children who have forgotten the very hands that built their futures.
The phenomenon appears especially acute in the U.S., where fear of the feminine (as Erich Neumann observed) meets weak social safety nets; yet it is creeping into other cultures too. By speaking the unspeakable, the book gives language and witness to a pain that has been privatized and pathologized.
Methodologically, Erased! will weave 200 in-depth interviews with mothers across the U.S., Australasia, and selected Asian and Middle Eastern communities. It combines narrative inquiry with depth psychology, social science, and a contemplative lens to map causes and consequences without blaming or shaming.
Trauma-informed ethics, confidentiality, and cultural nuance guide the work. The aim is not to harden resentment but to surface patterns—legal, economic, cultural, and psychological—that make abandonment thinkable, and to explore pathways of repair, boundary-setting, community support, and personal recovery when repair is not possible.
These are timely writings for mothers and allies, for therapists, chaplains, and social workers, and for policymakers who shape the conditions of care. Like Motherless Daughters did for daughters, Erased! seeks to transform a private wound into shared understanding—so that what felt like a solitary failure is recognized as a collective story. In that recognition lies relief, dignity, and, for many, the first step back to a life that belongs to them.
Edward Davila: The Grinch Who Stole My Life
A Memoir of Resistance Against Judicial Corruption
The writings are a fierce, contemplative memoir about what happens when a single, colored woman newly emigrated to United States faces a corrupt judge attempting to conceal the sexual, physical and financial crimes of her ex-husband.
Spanning two decades of litigation in seven courts, vanishing evidence, and conspiracy hatched between closed courtroom doors, the memoir traces one woman’s passage from trembling pro se to unflinching witness—through poverty, exile, and the quiet work of rebuilding a life, for her, and her children.
On the page, legal jargon becomes human: due process feels like breath; “procedure” becomes a weapon or a shield; labels become cages.
Woven through is a practice of Vipassanā—acceptance without surrender— and a degree in psychological understanding of sociopathy that steadies the narrator as she names what many fear to say aloud: certain judges are criminal offenders which happen to be on the right side of law. And when their criminal actions are exposed, the entire judicial system acts like a mafia and closes ranks to conceal their crimes, protect them from being held accountable. The “mob” does so by vilifying and victimising the victim.
This is a survival story, a social-justice brief written in blood and breath, and an invitation to anyone told to sit down and be quiet.
Comparative Positioning & Marketability
Shelves with justice-memoirs and system-exposés—Chanel Miller’s Know My Name (survivor vs. system), Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy (law as a battleground for dignity), Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action (procedure and power), and whistleblower narratives that reveal how institutions protect themselves.
What sets this book apart is its fusion of memoir + legal literacy + contemplative steadiness: a first-person account of a lone woman knocking on the doors of justice for twenty three years – silenced, gagged, subdued by threats, intimidation, sanctions, and violence. The book reads like a legal thriller, and a horror story straight out of the courtrooms, and exposes how power and wealth moves through paperwork. It offers a trauma-informed path to keep one’s soul intact.
Core audiences include readers of true-justice narratives, women’s rights and survivor communities, pro se and court-watch networks, law-and-society courses, and book clubs hungry for stories of courage that don’t end in easy redemption.
With natural serialisation potential (podcast/ Substack excerpts), strong talk-event hooks (access to justice; weaponised procedure; labels as silencing tools), and evergreen relevance wherever courts shape ordinary lives, The Vexatious Litigant is positioned to spark conversation, reform, and television series, far beyond the courtroom.
Ram: The God Who Was Also a Man
Every civilization dreams its perfect king into being. India dreamed Ram. She carved him from the wood of longing — a man so upright, so luminous, so unbending in his duty that the gods themselves are said to have wept when he walked the earth. For three thousand years, the Ramayana has moved through the world like a river, wearing new channels through each generation it passes, and yet always returning to the same sea: Ram is good. Ram is just. Ram is the mirror in which a civilization sees the best of itself.
But…..a mirror can be angled to hide what stands behind you.
The Ramayana is, at its root, a document of power — and power, in every age, has always known how to dress its cruelties in the language of virtue.
Sita did not choose exile. Exile was chosen for her, wrapped in the silk of her own silence and gifted back to her as sacrifice.
Later, the men who shaped this story — who copied it, translated it, embellished it, sang it — understood something that propagandists have always understood: if you make a woman’s suffering beautiful enough, no one will ask who caused it.
They gave Sita a golden halo and called it her character. They gave the abandonment and exile a name — dharma — and labelled it as voluntary, and called it her destiny.
This book begins in the ruins of that story. It begins the moment Ram learned the truth – that her exile had not been voluntary.