Bright Wings Press

Sometimes the best way to create the resources you need is to build the company that will publish them.

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I have an announcement that’s been months in the making, and I’m absolutely thrilled to finally share it with you.

Bright Wings Press is officially live.

For those who know me, this might seem like a natural evolution. For newcomers, let me explain why a Soul Mechanic decided to become a publisher – and why this matters for anyone trying to navigate life’s challenging terrain.

The Story Behind the Press

Over the past few months, I’ve been doing what I like to call “productive hermiting” – disappearing from regular communication to focus intensely on building something substantial. While some of you might have noticed my quieter presence, I’ve been laying the groundwork for something I’ve envisioned for decades: the missing piece of the foundations I’ve been building since 1999.

When I founded Bright Wings, Inc. 25 years ago as an empowerment company to serve people who are up to something good, I knew we were working toward something comprehensive. The company has evolved greatly since then, as have I. But the books and resources I needed to create didn’t fit neatly into traditional publishing categories. They weren’t quite self-help, not exactly spiritual guidance, and definitely more practical than academic. They were something entirely different: soul navigation manuals.

So I did what any determined Soul Mechanic would do when the existing systems don’t serve the vision: I built my own publishing house.

What Bright Wings Press Represents

Bright Wings Press isn’t just another publishing house. It’s the newest division of Bright Wings, Inc., and represents the missing piece of foundations I’ve been building for 25 years. Our mission remains rooted in our original vision: to serve people who are up to something good by helping them understand that their minds are their superpowers.

The name “Bright Wings” has always been about the idea that we are all smarter than we think. When we understand that our minds are our superpowers, we have the power to soar to unimaginable heights. We’re redefining power at both personal and collective levels, learning how to create the kind of world no one needs to recover from.

The Press extends this mission by publishing practical resources that help people take the wheel of their lives before they go over the cliff. For now, we’re focusing exclusively on works generated in-house – resources that align perfectly with our comprehensive approach to conscious navigation. Once the major pieces of our planned ecosystem are in place, we may consider adding other authors’ work.

The Ecosystem Vision

Bright Wings Press is one part of a larger ecosystem that’s been decades in the making. While I can’t reveal everything today (this week is full of announcements!), I can tell you that we’re building:

• A complete library of navigation resources covering every aspect of conscious living
• Practical workshops and maintenance programs for ongoing skill development
• Community platforms and learning academies where navigation mastery can be developed and shared
• Assessment and diagnostic systems that help customize everything to your unique operating style
• Support networks and specialized programs for different aspects of personal and collective transformation

Each piece works with the others to create something unprecedented: a comprehensive support system for people who want to live authentically, navigate consciously, and contribute to creating the kind of world no one needs to recover from.

What This Means for You

If you’ve ever felt like you’re driving your life on autopilot, if you’ve noticed yourself approaching the same edges repeatedly, if you’re tired of making decisions that take you further from what you actually want – Bright Wings Press is being built with you in mind.

We’re not interested in one-size-fits-all solutions or generic advice. We’re creating resources that help you understand your unique navigation style and work with your authentic design rather than against it.

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Published Titles from Bright Wings Press

I am deeply grateful for the energy that allowed me to complete these essential books:

Coming Back to Yourself: A Living Truth Model for the Life You Already Know How to Live You are functioning well — and quietly disconnected from yourself. This book is for the thoughtful, self-aware person who knows something is off but can’t quite name it. Not a program to implement. A practice of returning — again and again — to what’s actually true for you.

Lessons From the Edge: Taking The Wheel Before You Go Over The Cliff – Your soul has been trying to warn you. This practical navigation guide helps you recognize warning signs before crisis forces a reckoning, providing tools to understand your unique warning system and maintain your authentic direction. Lessons From the Edge has received excellent reviews on Goodreads—search for the title and author Nancy Boyd to read what readers are saying.

100 Fun Things To Do In Oregon: A Season-by-Season Guide to the State’s Best Adventures — Discover the soul of the Pacific Northwest through 100 unforgettable Oregon adventures. Uniquely organized by the emotions each experience evokes—wonder, exhilaration, tranquility, and connection—this guide takes you beyond tourist trails to the true heart of Oregon, from rugged coastlines to ancient forests, high desert plains to the Cascades.

Unblockable: The Last Writer’s Block Book You’ll Ever Need – Every writer gets blocked. Most advice doesn’t work because different blocks have different causes. This book teaches you to diagnose what’s actually blocking you—Process, Energy, or Critic—then apply the right solution. Discover 15+ practical strategies and build your personal toolkit to become unblockable.

Code of The Soul: A Practical Guide to Upgrading Your Inner Operating System – When your personal operating system is outdated, everything glitches—success feels empty, patterns repeat, and something feels off. This groundbreaking guide from “The Soul Mechanic” Nancy Boyd offers fifteen practical practices to upgrade from ego-based living to soul-based consciousness, creating real, lasting transformation in your daily life.

Coming Back To Yourself: A Living Truth Model for the Life You Already Know How to Live
A grounded, practical guide to returning to your own inner knowing. Coming Back to Yourself offers a Living Truth Model for trusting yourself again — for thoughtful seekers who would rather be real than loud.

A Living Truth: A Practice for Becoming — Despite Turbulence and Chaos

There are two things most of us do when the ground shifts under us: numb out, or react on a loop. This book offers a third way. Drawing on fifty years of sobriety, survived coercive control, and a lifetime of coaching, Nancy Boyd names what safety actually requires — five conditions most of us never had to think about until they started disappearing — and offers a practice for growing it back, on purpose, even now.

Healing The Wanting: The Foundation Trilogy – A comprehensive 15-book series addressing the root causes of persistent emptiness and wanting. The Foundation Trilogy includes:

• Book 1: What You’re Really Hungry For: Recognizing The Wanting That Drives You
• Book 2: From Shame to Dignity: Making The Shift That Changes Everything
• Book 3: From Grasping to Gratitude: The Practice of Living Whole
• Also available as a complete trilogy box set

More are in process, including the additional dozen books that complete the Healing The Wanting series.

2026 promises to be another significant year for Bright Wings Press, as we enter the next phase of getting these important titles into print.

Why Now?

After 25 years of building Bright Wings, Inc. and working with people one-on-one, watching the same patterns repeat across different lives, I realized we needed scalable solutions. We needed resources that could help people before they reached crisis points. We needed an entirely new approach to conscious navigation.

Bright Wings Press isn’t just my answer to that emerging need – it’s the missing piece that gives me a solid foundation to build from, expand, and evolve everything we’ve been working toward for decades.

Join the Journey

Whether you’re new to the concept of soul navigation or you’ve been working with these ideas for years, Bright Wings Press is designed to meet you where you are and help you develop the skills you need for whatever comes next.

This week’s announcements will give you multiple ways to engage with what we’re building. But today, I simply want to share the excitement of this launch and invite you to stay connected as we reveal what months of focused work have created.

The foundations are solid. The vision is clear. And the first resources are ready to share.

Welcome to Bright Wings Press. Welcome to a new approach to conscious navigation.

More announcements coming soon…

A New Direction from Bright Wings Press

Because sometimes the most important navigation happens before adulthood.

Bright Wings Press is expanding into children’s literature with a new cozy mystery series for young readers aged 6–10.

Stinkerton Detective Agency Mysteries introduces Jerry Stinkerton — a young, grumpy, blackberry-obsessed detective in the woodland village of Berryville — and the cases that keep him (reluctantly) busy.

Funny. Warm. Just mysterious enough to keep young readers turning pages past bedtime.

Learn more about this series here