Your Truth. Your Story. Your Books.
Every page tells a story- yours, mine & ours!
Books That Breathe is a living collection of stories born from reflection, courage, and truth.
These are not just books to be read—they are books to be felt.
Each page holds breath, pause, and permission.
Permission to release. Permission to remember. Permission to become.
This space honors writing as a companion in healing, growth, and becoming whole. The stories here rise from lived experience—quiet moments, hard seasons, brave breakthroughs—and remind us that words can hold us when nothing else can.
Because stories don’t just sit on shelves.
They breathe.
And so do we.
These are not just books to be read—they are books to be felt.
Each page holds breath, pause, and permission.
Permission to release. Permission to remember. Permission to become.
This space honors writing as a companion in healing, growth, and becoming whole. The stories here rise from lived experience—quiet moments, hard seasons, brave breakthroughs—and remind us that words can hold us when nothing else can.
Because stories don’t just sit on shelves.
They breathe.
And so do we.
Writing has the power to make you feel great again!
Lessons Taught & Lessons Learned is a reflective character study designed for adults who want to slow down, think deeply, and reconnect with who they are becoming.
Through six powerful voices—a lioness, a queen bee, a Levite, Deborah, King David, and Joseph—this book invites readers into a quiet mirror. Each character speaks in the first person, sharing a life lesson rooted in one of the Seven Resiliencies: insight, independence, relationships, initiative, creativity, humor, and morality.
These are not stories to be rushed. They are monologues intended to be read slowly, aloud if possible, followed by guided reflections that help readers examine their own lives—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
As you move through each chapter, you may recognize parts of yourself:
It is about understanding the lessons life has already been teaching you.
Perfect for personal reflection, small groups, retreats, and guided discussions, Lessons Taught & Lessons Learned offers a thoughtful and meaningful reading experience for anyone ready to pause and listen to the wisdom within.
The lessons have already been taught.
This book helps you see what has been learned.
Through six powerful voices—a lioness, a queen bee, a Levite, Deborah, King David, and Joseph—this book invites readers into a quiet mirror. Each character speaks in the first person, sharing a life lesson rooted in one of the Seven Resiliencies: insight, independence, relationships, initiative, creativity, humor, and morality.
These are not stories to be rushed. They are monologues intended to be read slowly, aloud if possible, followed by guided reflections that help readers examine their own lives—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
As you move through each chapter, you may recognize parts of yourself:
- the part that is always “on” and needs rest,
- the part that endured betrayal but remained whole,
- the part that overgives in relationships,
- the part that needs space to think,
- the part that needs to feel and express,
- the part that quietly chooses to do what is right.
It is about understanding the lessons life has already been teaching you.
Perfect for personal reflection, small groups, retreats, and guided discussions, Lessons Taught & Lessons Learned offers a thoughtful and meaningful reading experience for anyone ready to pause and listen to the wisdom within.
The lessons have already been taught.
This book helps you see what has been learned.
Reconstruction: The Art of Rising Again is a facilitator’s guide designed for educators, mentors, counselors, and community leaders who hold space for growth, healing, and transformation.
Rooted in Social Emotional Literacy Learning (SELL), this guide supports participants in learning how to read, name, process, and express their emotional experiences through reflection, dialogue, and writing. Reconstruction honors the belief that literacy is not only academic, but emotional and relational—an essential skill for navigating life with awareness, intention, and integrity.
Organized around four core themes — Reconstruction of Self, Reconstruction of Relationships, Reconstruction of Choices, and Reconstruction of Legacy—this guide provides a structured yet flexible framework for use across classrooms, community spaces, and healing environments. Each session follows a consistent rhythm centered on emotional safety, student voice, and agency, while remaining adaptable to the needs of diverse groups.
Designed to be used alongside a RAW Writer’s Notebook, Reconstruction invites participants into a process of reflection, activation, and writing as tools for self-discovery and growth.
Vocabulary development, fluency texts, poetry, and guided writing experiences are woven throughout to support both emotional insight and literacy development.
This is not a workbook and not a scripted program. It is a guide for facilitators who understand that transformation is not rushed, forced, or fixed, but supported.
Reconstruction: The Art of Rising Again is ideal for:
It is about strengthening what is real.
Rooted in Social Emotional Literacy Learning (SELL), this guide supports participants in learning how to read, name, process, and express their emotional experiences through reflection, dialogue, and writing. Reconstruction honors the belief that literacy is not only academic, but emotional and relational—an essential skill for navigating life with awareness, intention, and integrity.
Organized around four core themes — Reconstruction of Self, Reconstruction of Relationships, Reconstruction of Choices, and Reconstruction of Legacy—this guide provides a structured yet flexible framework for use across classrooms, community spaces, and healing environments. Each session follows a consistent rhythm centered on emotional safety, student voice, and agency, while remaining adaptable to the needs of diverse groups.
Designed to be used alongside a RAW Writer’s Notebook, Reconstruction invites participants into a process of reflection, activation, and writing as tools for self-discovery and growth.
Vocabulary development, fluency texts, poetry, and guided writing experiences are woven throughout to support both emotional insight and literacy development.
This is not a workbook and not a scripted program. It is a guide for facilitators who understand that transformation is not rushed, forced, or fixed, but supported.
Reconstruction: The Art of Rising Again is ideal for:
- Middle and high school classrooms
- Alternative and restorative education settings
- Mentorship and youth development programs
- Community-based and healing-centered spaces
It is about strengthening what is real.
Reconstruction: The Art of Rising Again – Student Reader is a reflective literacy companion designed for adolescents and young adults navigating identity, relationships, choices, and legacy.
Created to support students who have experienced disruption, trauma, or repeated setbacks, this reader uses narrative and poetry to explore what it means to rebuild from the inside out. Each piece invites students to pause, reflect, and recognize their own capacity for growth, accountability, and resilience.
Structured around four developmental pillars—Self, Relationships, Choices, and Legacy—the text helps students:
Created to support students who have experienced disruption, trauma, or repeated setbacks, this reader uses narrative and poetry to explore what it means to rebuild from the inside out. Each piece invites students to pause, reflect, and recognize their own capacity for growth, accountability, and resilience.
Structured around four developmental pillars—Self, Relationships, Choices, and Legacy—the text helps students:
- strengthen emotional awareness and self-expression
- build vocabulary connected to social-emotional learning
- examine decision-making and accountability without shame
- process challenges through guided reflection
- envision purposeful futures rooted in discipline, hope, and agency
- middle and high school classrooms
- alternative education settings
- counseling groups
- restorative practices programs
- community-based youth initiatives
- literacy and SEL interventions
The Exodus
The Exodus is not just a book! It’s a breaking, a becoming, and a birthing.
Lifted straight from Dee’s RAW Writer’s Notebooks, these poems and writings capture a woman walking through one of the hardest seasons of her life and refusing to lose her light. What began as midnight prayers, tear-stained pages, and whispers to God became a testimony of courage, clarity, and transformation.
In these pages, Dee writes honestly about heartbreak, letting go, spiritual warfare, healing, and the cost of becoming who God called her to be. She documents the nights she cried out to Abba, the mornings she chose to rise anyway, and the moments when peace found her in the wilderness. Every piece is uncut, unfiltered, and full of the same passion that has carried her through the darkness and into her promise.
The Exodus picks up where I Need YOU to Listen ends, but this time, the voice is deeper, wiser, and anchored in a new level of purpose. This is the story of a woman who faced the mountain and kept climbing. Who watched people walk away and learned that solitude can be sacred. Who discovered that God’s faithfulness shows up even when everything else falls apart.
Through poems, prayers, reflections, and affirmations, this book invites you into a journey of:
Lifted straight from Dee’s RAW Writer’s Notebooks, these poems and writings capture a woman walking through one of the hardest seasons of her life and refusing to lose her light. What began as midnight prayers, tear-stained pages, and whispers to God became a testimony of courage, clarity, and transformation.
In these pages, Dee writes honestly about heartbreak, letting go, spiritual warfare, healing, and the cost of becoming who God called her to be. She documents the nights she cried out to Abba, the mornings she chose to rise anyway, and the moments when peace found her in the wilderness. Every piece is uncut, unfiltered, and full of the same passion that has carried her through the darkness and into her promise.
The Exodus picks up where I Need YOU to Listen ends, but this time, the voice is deeper, wiser, and anchored in a new level of purpose. This is the story of a woman who faced the mountain and kept climbing. Who watched people walk away and learned that solitude can be sacred. Who discovered that God’s faithfulness shows up even when everything else falls apart.
Through poems, prayers, reflections, and affirmations, this book invites you into a journey of:
- breaking emotional strongholds
- releasing what no longer serves your evolution
- surviving spiritual storms
- rebuilding from the inside out
- and stepping confidently into your own light
This isn’t just poetry—it’s a release.
A raw, unapologetic, spirit-led journey through love, loss, healing, and restoration.
I Need YOU To Listen invites readers deep into the soul of Denice Martin-Thompson, also known as Dee, a poet, wife, mother, and believer who chose to write through the wilderness instead of withering in it. These poems are sacred outpourings from a woman navigating the storms of perimenopause, emotional unraveling, spiritual awakening, and the restoration of a love she once thought was lost.
From the ache of abandonment to the hope of reconciliation…
From battling internal chaos to rediscovering divine order…
From crying out to God to choosing herself with bold clarity…
Each poem is a lifeline, a conversation with the Creator, and a mirror for the reader’s own reflection. The pages are inked with truth, stitched with courage, and steeped in faith.
You’ll find no fluff here—just fire, freedom, and faith-filled resolve.
Whether you’re grieving, growing, loving, or letting go, this book dares you to listen:
To your tears.
To your truth.
To your testimony.
Because healing isn’t just about being heard.
It’s about listening to the version of you that’s been waiting to speak.
A raw, unapologetic, spirit-led journey through love, loss, healing, and restoration.
I Need YOU To Listen invites readers deep into the soul of Denice Martin-Thompson, also known as Dee, a poet, wife, mother, and believer who chose to write through the wilderness instead of withering in it. These poems are sacred outpourings from a woman navigating the storms of perimenopause, emotional unraveling, spiritual awakening, and the restoration of a love she once thought was lost.
From the ache of abandonment to the hope of reconciliation…
From battling internal chaos to rediscovering divine order…
From crying out to God to choosing herself with bold clarity…
Each poem is a lifeline, a conversation with the Creator, and a mirror for the reader’s own reflection. The pages are inked with truth, stitched with courage, and steeped in faith.
You’ll find no fluff here—just fire, freedom, and faith-filled resolve.
Whether you’re grieving, growing, loving, or letting go, this book dares you to listen:
To your tears.
To your truth.
To your testimony.
Because healing isn’t just about being heard.
It’s about listening to the version of you that’s been waiting to speak.
Get Your S.H.I.T. Together: A Journey of Strength, Hope, Intentions & Tenacity
Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing with Dee's powerful collection of poetry, Get Your S.H.I.T. Together. This evocative volume captures the raw and transformative moments of personal struggle and triumph. Dee explores themes of strength, hope, intentions, and tenacity through deeply personal reflections, offering readers a heartfelt glimpse into her own battles and victories. In this compelling work, Dee courageously confronts her pain, exposing the harsh truths she has faced and the emotional turmoil she has endured. Her verses are a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the healing power of expressing one's truth.
Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing with Dee's powerful collection of poetry, Get Your S.H.I.T. Together. This evocative volume captures the raw and transformative moments of personal struggle and triumph. Dee explores themes of strength, hope, intentions, and tenacity through deeply personal reflections, offering readers a heartfelt glimpse into her own battles and victories. In this compelling work, Dee courageously confronts her pain, exposing the harsh truths she has faced and the emotional turmoil she has endured. Her verses are a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the healing power of expressing one's truth.
This 1 is for U...: A Passion Filled Guide for your Writer's Notebook
This Passion Filled Writers' Guide comes with everything you need to get your ink flowing across the pages of your Writer's Notebook. It includes entries for individual and group writing sessions. The pen will truly be your weapon of choice after reading this book.
Can Girls Run The World?
Can Girls Run the World? The time has come for you to confront the challenges of your life, paying special attention to your mind, body and spirit. It is time to heal yourself of past hurts and to acknowledge that you have the power to change your life. The journey of change begins today! It may be difficult at first, but after taking small steps, the quest will become easier. I believe that we possess personal power that will help us make small choices and big changes in our lives. This energy that lives inside will inspire us to change our thoughts, actions and relationships with ourselves and others. What you will need for this journey is simple. You will need a willing heart and a pen. This journal was created for you to write freely within its pages. After it is completed, it will testify about your emotional wellness and your readiness to live an empowered life.
Now It's Your Turn
Your voice matters, and your story is powerful.
Thank you for exploring my Passion-Filled Collection. Whether you're reading for healing, curiosity, or inspiration, I hope these pages meet you where you are and remind you that you are not alone. Keep writing, keep rising, and never stop owning your truth. Your next chapter begins with one bold step—and I’m cheering you on every word of the way.
Thank you for exploring my Passion-Filled Collection. Whether you're reading for healing, curiosity, or inspiration, I hope these pages meet you where you are and remind you that you are not alone. Keep writing, keep rising, and never stop owning your truth. Your next chapter begins with one bold step—and I’m cheering you on every word of the way.
Have a story of your own?
If you're holding a story, a testimony, or a truth that deserves to be shared, I got you.
If you're holding a story, a testimony, or a truth that deserves to be shared, I got you.
Whether you’re ready to learn the publishing process or want full hands-on support, this is where your book journey begins.