“My sacred desire is to reveal the grace, beauty, and love alive in prayer, transforming prayer from a thing you do to the way you live.”

“My sacred desire is to reveal the grace, beauty, and love alive in prayer, transforming prayer from a thing you do to the way you live.”
My Writing Life
I stumbled upon deep soul writing on April 23, 1997, in the midst of trying to navigate a terrifying divorce. That morning my Great Dane puppy somehow pulled my untouched copy of The Artist’s Way off a bookshelf in my office and dragged it down a long hallway to me.
Startled out of ceaseless sobbing, I wiped off the drool and opened the book. A few pages in, I learned that when Julia Cameron has a problem she can’t solve, she goes to the page for help. I threw down her book, grabbed an untouched journal, scribbled hello, and begged for guidance. Guidance came.
That day and every day since.
Divine guidance carried my son and me safely through three chaotic years of trauma and loss.
Divine guidance lifted me out of bankruptcy in an impossibly fast sixty days. And divine guidance opened door after door after door to this beautiful life of writing books and gathering soul communities to explore the fields of the soul.
Early in 1997, an astrologer told me April 23 would be the most important day of my life. That day came. And went. Nothing happened. Twenty years later, as I prepared to celebrate two decades of deep soul writing, I opened my first journal to the first page dated April 23, 1997.
Janet's Story...

2009
Guidance led me to write Writing Down Your Soul (Conari Press, 2009) which transforms journal-writing from self-reflection in the alpha brainwave state into divine dialogue in theta. Writing Down Your Soul shot into #1 in the journal-writing category, sold out in eight months, and is now in its ninth printing.

2011
Shortly after Writing Down Your Soul was published, I was blessed to create My Soul Pages, the first journal designed for deep soul writers. It, too, sold out and is in its 2nd printing.

2012
My next book, The Lotus and The Lily (Conari Press, 2012), and it's companion journal transforms manifestation from asking for anything to living the soul conditions that naturally produce the beautiful life you are here to live.

2013
In 2013, I created The Soul-Directed Life radio show which has been downloaded over 230,000 times. From 2008 to 2017, I also led six global deep soul exploration courses each year.

2015
In 2015, Soul Vows introduced a mystical prayer practice that gathers the Presence of the Divine in and through and as you.

2016
In 2016, I was blessed to co-create The Soul Discovery Coloring Book with the brilliant artist Christine Pensa. This very unusual coloring book invites you to explore five fun ways to access your soul's wisdom.

2017
Find Your Soul’s Purpose followed in 2017, guiding the reader along a mystical spiral to remember who you really are and why you chose to be here.

2018
I accepted the call and have become a Prayer Artist. Mystical, beautiful prayers flow through me, and I find great joy in sharing these prayers through my writing, intensives, and prayer performances. (This is the sign for love).

2019
Praying at the Speed of Love Podcast launches in February. Each week, I interview guests about prayer. It's real conversations. With Real people. About Real prayer.
I stepped into 2018 expecting to continue writing and teaching and hosting the radio show.
But something happened that changed the trajectory of my life—and perhaps of yours.
Everything has changed.
Prayers have been arriving ever since. But they don’t look like standard issue prayers. Nor do they look quite like poems. But if they’re not prayers nor poems, what are they?
On March 14, “Do You Feel That Breeze” arrived whole and unbidden. This is the prayer that taught me what prayer is. Here’s a stanza that grabbed me by the heart:
You are not moving
You are being moved
You are not singing
You are being sung
You are not praying
You are being prayed—
Prayed at the speed of love
I read “Do You Feel That Breeze” aloud and found myself swaying.
That was the moment I finally understood: These prayers are lyrics. Prayers are love songs.
This is my definition of prayer now:
“Love songs of your personal, intimate, embodied communion with the Divine.”
Everything about prayer has changed for me.
So everything I do lined up for change, too. I’m now:
- creating a whole new genre of prayer
- leading radical new prayer intensives
- partnering with other artists to create a new genre of YouTube videos—prayer videos
- creating multi-media interactive prayer performances
- developing a new podcast “Praying at the Speed of Love”
- writing my first Artist Statement
And of course, my website had to change, too.
Here are some exciting new things you can do here:
- explore the prayer resources
- watch prayer videos and download the PDFs
- listen to the new podcast (coming February 2019) and join the conversation
- join a live prayer intensive
- join The Creation Choir monthly prayer community
- purchase On Demand prayer intensive recordings
- peruse upcoming events
- invite me to perform prayers for your community or home concert
- subscribe to my YouTube channel
- subscribe to my Sunday Notes from the Field newsletter
I hope everything I offer helps you, too, live and create and pray at the speed of love!
Artist's Statement

“I am a writer. Today I write.”
Those are the opening lines in the Writing Blessing I have spoken every day since May 15, 2007. My Writing Blessing made me a writer. And for eleven years I have loved every minute of being a writer.
But now I am called to be a prayer artist.
I still write. I write words every day. These new prayers come to me in the form of words. But I also see them as videos and movement and performances. I hear them as love songs. I feel them deep in my body as sacred communion.
And each day I fall even more in love with life.
Artist is a new word for me, so I ask myself: What makes an artist an artist? An artist surrenders her hands, her heart, her whole body to her medium—be it words, paint, food, music…—and something happens, something emerges, something that did not exist before—something not even she could predict.
What, then, is my medium?
It’s still words, but it’s also images, emotions, movement, color, music. It’s rivers of mystical messages flowing through me, whether I recognize them or not.
My medium is my life. All that I am. All that I have been given. All that I shall ever be. My medium is my ancient longing, my divine purpose, my beating heart, my sacred love.
My medium is the Beloved expressing in and through
and as me.
My medium is me. I have become prayer.
Where is prayer taking me next? I don’t know.
But I want to go there.