The Creation Journey to Exhale & Connection to Audiobook Breath by James Nestor

In the final month of editing, perfecting, rearranging, and even writing some more (eek!) in my newest book in the collection, Exhale,I found myself wanting to run through Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor again. I requested it as an audiobook after searching through all titles containing the word breath or breathe, but the hard copy book feel into my possession and I voraciously lapped it up becoming more inspired; I’d read it by the time my audiobook copy came through, so I returned it to the library and kept on in my pulmonaut research. But as the final editing days came through I ran through the audiobook in a little over twenty four hours (9/2–3/2021) and at the end I found pretty much what I’d been writing on.

Exhale has been in the works since October of 2020, when, in preparation for my first NaNoWriMo (successful), I took some smaller personal challenges to write 1,000 words per day for 7 days. I was successful for 6 consecutive days and felt inspired. What was coming through on a few of those days were guided meditations. But only about 3,000 words which doesn’t amount to much in audiobook time. So I thought, I could hire a ghost writer. I did. It was terrible. What they first sent me was promising but upon final project delivery the language was so bad, there was so much repetition, and it didn’t speak to me. What had come to me through writing almost felt like a divine down pouring of information and this felt cheap and full of BS. So I started…