Heather weaves her wisdom as an adopted person, author, teacher, and guide to support adopted people and women who have seen through the veil — helping them reclaim agency and belonging, and develop the skills to walk forward into a new way of living.

Her work on the page reveals a deep reverence for the natural world and for the power and wisdom of older women as she weaves personal narrative with universal truth, guiding readers to question old beliefs, reclaim their voices, and step into stories of belonging and agency.

She loves speaking to groups large and small about coming home to our birthrights of belonging and agency, connecting to inner wisdom, and adoption from the perspective of an adopted person. Her TEDx talk, “Letting Go of Expectations,” which centers around her adoption and reunion, is linked here.

Her first novel, The Thorn Tree(MP Publishing 2014) crosses continents, flowing between America and Scotland as it follows the lives of a teenager coming of age, a mother reckoning with mid-life, an octogenarian great aunt in the last years of her life. This novel explores family, women, the natural environment and how these intersect.

With themes of adoption, identity, sexual orientation, and intergenerational grief, When the Ocean Flies, (Vine Leaves Press2024) is a novel about longing and love, of abuse and survival, and of finding the strength to uncover your authentic self.

Between Sea and Sky is a collection of short stories: tales of outsiders, of survivors connecting deeply with the natural world—with seas and skies and what lies between. As they battle fear, abuse, mental illness and oppressive societal norms, each offers hope and a guide to ways of claiming our fullness even in the most challenging circumstances. (Forthcoming: Vine Leaves Press, February 2026; now available for preorder).

Heather’s workshops blend mindfulness, gentle movement, and writing to guide women and adopted people in creating deep connections with universal truth, developing a clear-eyed view of old blocks and limiting beliefs, and reclaiming their agency as authors of their lives, writing their way forward in truth and belonging.

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