How can I make whole the world I see when for me something is missing?
This question lies at the heart of human struggle. Whether it manifests as addiction, poverty, codependency, trauma, relationship patterns, money shame, or any other form of lack—the experience of “wanting,” of feeling that something essential is missing, touches nearly every life.
The Healing the Wanting series offers a comprehensive framework for understanding, healing, and transcending patterns of lack. Through fifteen volumes (and growing), this series provides both the foundational knowledge everyone needs and specialized guidance for specific struggles.
THE VISION
What began as a single manuscript has evolved into something far more comprehensive: a multi-volume series that addresses wanting from every angle—personal and systemic, psychological and spiritual, individual and collective.
Each book serves a specific purpose in the journey from recognition through healing to sustained freedom. Whether you’re struggling with addiction, abuse recovery, codependency, poverty, trauma, or simply the pervasive sense that something is missing, this series provides a pathway toward wholeness.
The work honors both individual healing and systemic awareness. We heal personally AND we recognize the cultural forces—capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and other systems of oppression—that create and maintain patterns of lack. Both matter. Both are addressed throughout this series.
THE SERIES STRUCTURE
The series is organized into four tiers, each serving a specific purpose:
TIER 1: THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY
Essential for Everyone – Start Here
These three books form the core framework that makes all other healing possible.
BOOK 1: What You’re Really Hungry For
Recognizing the Wanting That Drives You
Learn to identify wanting in all its forms—obvious and hidden—and trace its roots in both personal history and systemic forces. Recognition is the first step toward freedom.
BOOK 2: From Shame to Dignity
Making the Shift That Changes Everything
Discover what healing actually requires and begin the essential journey from shame to dignity. This is the core transformation that makes all other healing possible.
BOOK 3: From Grasping to Gratitude
The Practice of Living Whole
Build practices for maintaining freedom from wanting long-term. Learn to keep desire healthy rather than toxic, and sustain your transformation through life’s inevitable challenges.
Healing The Wanting Foundation Trilogy: Box Set
Books 1-3
TIER 2: ADVANCED TOOLS & DEEP DIVES
Choose What You Need
After completing the Foundation Trilogy, these books offer specialized knowledge and practical tools for deeper work.
BOOK 4: The Dignity Codes
Interrupting Patterns That Keep You Stuck
Master specific, actionable frameworks (Codes) you can apply immediately when you find yourself caught in patterns of wanting. Each Code offers step-by-step guidance for interrupting the pattern and choosing dignity instead.
[Publication status: Early 2026]
BOOK 5: Enough
Money, Shame & the Dignity You Deserve
Deep exploration of the relationship between money, worth, shame, and dignity. Addresses both personal healing and the systemic economic exploitation that creates poverty.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 6: The Victim Trap
Breaking Free and Reclaiming Your Power
Navigate the complex territory between systemic oppression and personal agency. Learn how to acknowledge real injustice without getting stuck in victimhood.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 7: Manufactured Scarcity
The Cultural Forces Behind Your Wanting
Comprehensive analysis of how systemic forces—capitalism, patriarchy, racism, religious control, media manipulation—create and maintain patterns of wanting across populations. Essential reading for helpers, activists, and anyone seeking systemic understanding.
[Publication status: Planned]
TIER 3: RECOVERY-SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS
Find Your Path
These books apply the complete framework to specific forms of wanting. Choose the ones that match your experience. While they can be read standalone, they have much greater impact after you’ve completed the Foundation Trilogy.
BOOK 8: Healing the Wanting in Addiction
Breaking Free from the Emptiness
Addiction—to substances, behaviors, or processes—is wanting at its most desperate. This book applies the complete framework to addiction recovery, addressing the core emptiness that fuels all addictive patterns.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 9: After Abuse
Healing the Wanting for What Was Stolen
Abuse creates profound wanting—for safety, for the childhood you deserved, for justice, for the person you might have been. Deep, compassionate guidance for healing from all forms of abuse.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 10: Codependency & The Wanting
Finding Yourself in the Mirror
Codependency is wanting disguised as love—wanting to be needed, wanting to fix others, wanting external validation to fill internal emptiness. Break free from enmeshment and discover your autonomous self.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 11: Healing the Wanting in Poverty
Dignity Beyond Scarcity
Poverty creates wanting on every level—material, emotional, social, spiritual. Reclaim your dignity regardless of financial circumstances while understanding the systemic forces that create economic inequality.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 12: PTSD & The Wanting
When Safety Becomes the Deepest Hunger
Post-traumatic stress creates wanting for safety, for peace, for the life you had before trauma fractured you. Specialized framework for healing trauma’s deepest wounds.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 13: Healing the Wanting in Limerence
Breaking Free from Obsessive Love
Limerence—obsessive romantic attraction—is wanting masquerading as love. Learn to distinguish between healthy attraction and compulsive longing, and develop capacity for authentic intimacy.
[Publication status: Planned]
TIER 4: SUPPORT SYSTEMS
For Those Who Care
BOOK 14: For Families
Supporting Someone Who’s Healing the Wanting
When someone you love is struggling with wanting in any form, how do you help without enabling? How do you support their healing without taking responsibility for it? Essential guidance for family members, partners, and close friends.
[Publication status: Planned]
BOOK 15: For Helpers
A Professional’s Guide to Healing the Wanting
This book translates the complete framework for professional application, with assessment tools, treatment planning guidance, form-specific interventions, and essential self-care for helpers. For therapists, counselors, social workers, coaches, clergy, and all helping professionals.
[Publication status: Planned]
READING PATHWAYS
Not sure which books to read? Here are recommended paths based on different needs:
THE COMPLETE JOURNEY
Books 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → [Your choice based on needs]
Best for anyone committed to comprehensive healing
QUICK START: ADDICTION
Books 1 → 2 → 8 → 4
For immediate guidance alongside foundational understanding
QUICK START: MONEY ISSUES
Books 1 → 2 → 5
For healing money shame and scarcity thinking
QUICK START: RELATIONSHIP PATTERNS
Books 1 → 2 → 10 (or 13) → 4
For codependency or obsessive romantic patterns
QUICK START: TRAUMA
Books 1 → 2 → 9 (or 12) → 4
For abuse survivors and those with PTSD
FOR PROFESSIONALS
Books 1 → 2 → 3 → 7 → 15 → [Relevant client-focused books]
For helpers who want to apply this framework in their practice
FOR FAMILY MEMBERS
Books 1 → 2 → 14 → [Book matching loved one’s struggle]
For understanding and supporting a loved one’s healing
FOR ACTIVISTS & CHANGE-MAKERS
Books 1 → 2 → 3 → 7 → 6
For understanding how culture creates wanting and addressing it collectively
PUBLICATION UPDATES
The Foundation Trilogy (Books 1-3) and Book 4 (The Dignity Codes) are being developed first, with subsequent books following based on reader need and demand.
CURRENT STATUS:
- Book 1: What You’re Really Hungry For – published 2025
- Book 2: From Shame to Dignity – published 2025
- Book 3: From Grasping to Gratitude – published 2025
- Book 4: The Dignity Codes – scheduled for early 2026
- Remaining volumes – Planned for phased release 2026+
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nancy Boyd brings both lived experience and deep study to this work. Born into poverty and marked by abuse, addiction, and profound loss, she spent decades learning what wanting is and how to heal it. What began as survival became a calling.
Nancy is creating a comprehensive framework for healing the wanting through this multi-volume series, drawing on decades of personal recovery and extensive study of healing modalities, spiritual practices, and social justice frameworks. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, and continues to write, teach, and support others on their healing journeys.
A PROJECT OF BRIGHT WINGS PRESS
Healing the Wanting is published by Bright Wings Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to soul navigation—books that help readers find their way through life’s deepest questions and challenges.
Bright Wings Press exists at the intersection of personal transformation and social awareness, publishing work that honors both individual healing and systemic understanding. We believe that meaningful change requires both inner work and outer awareness, personal responsibility and collective action.
The press takes its name from the image of transformation and transcendence—the soul learning to fly, to navigate, to find its way home. Every book we publish serves this mission.
Learn more about Bright Wings Press
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FUTURE EXPANSION
Beyond the core 15 volumes, additional books are in development for specialized audiences and topics, including:
- Guides for clergy and spiritual counselors
- Resources for medical professionals
- Materials for educators
- Support for first responders
- Explorations of grief, chronic illness, aging, and other forms of wanting
- Companion workbooks, journals, and card decks
The series will continue to grow and evolve based on reader needs and the ongoing work of healing the wanting in all its forms.
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THE INVITATION
Wherever you are in your journey with wanting—whether you’re just beginning to recognize it or you’ve been struggling with it for years—there’s a place for you in this work.
The question remains: How can I make whole the world I see when for me something is missing?
These books offer answers. Not easy answers. Not quick fixes. But real, substantive guidance for the journey from lack to wholeness, from shame to dignity, from grasping to gratitude.
The work is possible. The freedom is real. Begin wherever you are.
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