I introduce a mythic memoir that centers on reclaiming self‑trust and healing family lineage. I host Nicolette Halliday, author of The Golden Thread and the Lineage of the Light, who explains that much of the book was written in real time and was channeled through visions. She tells us the book is for people who have lost themselves in relationships and who seek a path back to wholeness. We hear an excerpt in which the narrator recognizes her role as a healer and describes how steady presence helped transform a troubled family. I note that the book is available on Amazon, will appear in other retailers, and I urge listeners to support authors by purchasing and leaving reviews. I describe my book as a mythic memoir that traces the recovery of self after living inside a confusing and toxic relationship. I explain who the book is for: people who have lost themselves in partnership, those who doubt their intuition, and anyone navigating a difficult life transition. I detail the spiritual element that threads through the narrative and emphasize the need for an open mind to receive the messages embedded in the text. I describe the book's origin as largely written in real time, often channeled, and I show how that immediacy created raw honesty. I outline the central concern of trusting inner guidance, and I invite readers to find empowerment in the process of unraveling and becoming. I also mention practical matters: the book is currently available on Amazon and will expand to other retailers. I ask readers to support authors by leaving reviews and sharing images of their purchase. The summary conveys the book's purpose, its tone of spiritual reflection, and its promise to guide readers back to wholeness.

Takeaways:

• I wrote the book for people who have lost themselves in relationships and need to trust themselves again.
• I wrote much of the book in real time while I was leaving a toxic relationship, which shaped its honesty.
• I call the work a mythic memoir because it mixes my real story with spiritual visions and channeled material.
• I show how healing can be a lineage work where one person's recovery helps transform an entire family over time.
• We ask readers to support authors by buying the book, leaving reviews, and sharing photos to help reach more people.

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I'm your host, Rich Bennett and today's guest is Nicolette Halliday, author of the Golden Thread and the Lineage of the Light.

You have two minutes to convince someone searching for their next great read that this book belongs on their shelf.

What do they need to know?

This book is for, I want to say mostly women, but I think men can actually also really relate to the message of this book.

This book is for anyone who's maybe lost themselves inside of a relationship, who or in other ways, maybe in life too, who kind of started shrinking away from their own truth.

If you ever have not listened to your intuition, if you doubted your own knowing and self trust, or if you're in the middle of some kind of tumultuous or big transition in life and you feel really confused by the process, this book is for you.

There's a spiritual element for this to this book, so I think any reader has to be open minded to the messages that want to come through, but really exploring the relationship dynamics, how we how we lose ourselves inside relationships and how trusting ourselves really brings us back into wholeness.

All right, what makes it unique besides everything else you just said in the fact that you wrote it?

I think what makes it unique is that it was a lot of this book was written in real time.

I was right in the midst of a really ending of a really tumultuous and toxic relationship that confused me in such a way that I was outside of myself and really trying to build that self trust back.

And so I was blindly following the guidance that was coming through even though it didn't always make sense.

And it was really important to me because there were so many times inside the relationship that I didn't follow that little voice.

So I was following this little voice.

And as I was following this little voice I was getting these little nuggets.

And long story short, I had a vision.

I woke up from a dream.

I had a vision.

And the next month 70% of this book poured through.

And then the rest of the 30%, really?

I kind of got to this point.

I'm like, okay, now what?

And it was revealing itself in real time.

So it was an honest reflection of the things that I was experiencing and how I was kind of understanding those.

And I think I really bring the reader into the story, and they're going to see themselves in my own reflection.

Of it and something that I really love, because I've never heard this.

And I want you to explain why.

The genre that it is.

Yes.

The mythic memoir.

So I started writing this book as a fiction because I felt like if I wrote it as a nonfiction, no one was going to believe me.

There was a lot of things that were happening outside of the relationship in that process while I was moving through that healing that were really spiritual in nature and hard to explain for a lot of people who maybe don't see the world the same way I do.

And so I started writing it in this nonfiction way.

So that.

And it did give me this kind of vulnerability and openness to be more honest and open in ways.

By the time I got to the end, I was ready to claim this story as my own.

But I include mythic because there is.

There's deeper spiritual meanings and undertones to the things that came through.

When I was channeling this book, I really considered that.

I channeled it.

It came through in that way.

And so it's not just a memoir that you read, and it's just kind of.

Okay, yeah, this is the concrete thing.

There's.

There's things that are left to the reader to kind of interpret and understand on a deeper layer.

All right, now, this part I'm really looking forward to.

All right, so let's hear the excerpt you actually brought for us today.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Take your time.

Settle in.

Read it at your natural pace.

And don't look.

You may see me close my eyes.

It doesn't mean I'm sleeping this way.

I'm.

I love to just hear it.

Yeah.

I'm letting you.

I'm painting the picture in my mind.

I appreciate that.

Let me rephrase that.

You're painting the picture in my mind.

Yeah.

That's what makes it so good.

Okay, thank you.

This is actually chapter 17, and it's called To Heal.

We left the cabin early the next morning.

The mountains felt too vivid, like the volume had been turned up on everything.

The evergreens clung to the cliffs like they were holding on for dear life.

The river below churned white.

The sun pressed down hard, relentless, as if it meant to burn away what had happened the night before.

But it didn't.

Inside the car, the air was thick.

At first we drove in silence.

Then.

Then the word started tumbling out.

We circled the night over and over, layering memories, searching for meaning, trying to name what had unfolded.

As if saying it out loud might loosen its grip.

Some truce returned to me right away.

Before we even left the canyon, something long buried stirred inside me.

I remembered.

I'm a healer.

I had spent years chasing every form of understanding I could find.

Astrology, numerology, Tarot meditation.

I wanted to understand life, why we're here.

How people break, how we repair.

But I'd always seen myself as a seeker, a student.

I thought that the title of healer belonged to someone else.

Someone older, more credentialed, more spiritually evolved.

But that morning I saw it clearly.

I always had been.

I hadn't seen how deeply my own unraveling had prepared me to hold others in theirs.

Or that healing.

Healing lineage was part of why I came here in the first place.

That morning it settled deeper.

I wasn't just someone who could hold space for transformation.

I could hold families through it.

I could meet their shadows without flinching, extend grace for their failures, and offer a vision for what they hadn't yet dared to imagine.

And though I didn't consciously remember the golden thread, something shimmered at the edge of my awareness.

A sense of gold woven through everything, waiting to be remembered.

I turned to Sylvester, the words already forming before I'd fully examined them.

I can hold space for your family's healing.

And it wasn't the first time.

I finally saw the 24 years I had spent inside my ex husband's family with clear eyes.

The celebrations, the crisis, the everyday rituals that quietly bind people together.

I had witnessed it all and helped reshape it.

When I met Tom, his family was splinter.

Every single member was stuck in cycles of addiction, dysfunction or instability.

Tom himself was staring down the possibility of prison.

But he said yes to 12 month rehab program.

And that yes changed everything.

I stayed beside him while he healed.

I enrolled in college.

We grew side by side.

And the healing didn't stop with him.

One by one the family shifted.

His father found sobriety.

His sister stabilized.

His brothers married.

They built homes, created new futures.

I still remember the moment his mother designed and built her house.

A single story home with textured wallpaper and a wraparound porch.

She cried when we helped her move in.

She said, I never thought I'd have this.

That was the beginning.

I wasn't the reason they changed.

But I had been part of the soil that made change possible.

The steadiness I created with Tom gave the family something to rise from.

And somehow, in that strange sacred cabin, it all came rushing back.

Sylvester saw it too.

He saw it in the way I stood up to his uncle and how I helped untangle the trust, anchored him in the chaos, reminded him what was real.

He looked at me with something like wonder, said, I think you were sent here to show all the demons that heaven really exists.

And part of me believed him.

But I also felt something darker, lingering.

The energy in the cabin was heavy with secrecy, mistrust, moving beneath tight smiles and half spoken truths.

The family moved around each other like chess pieces, Every word calculated, every silence loaded.

It wasn't just the people in the room.

It was the lineage itself.

Something older was present, not just in the people, but.

But in the pauses between them.

Those who had inherited wealth without wisdom, power without accountability.

The kind of legacy that hollows people out.

Wow.

Damn, that was good.

That was good.

Why did you choose that particular excerpt?

I was kind of open to what wanted to come through and I opened up to that chapter when I was preparing for this interview and really?

So yeah, I kind of just trusted it.

What are you hoping that readers feel after they finish reading this?

I hope they feel empowered in the messiness that life can kind of create for us and, and knowing that they're so supported by seen and unseen support, that a lot of times that unraveling is giving opportunity for the becoming.

And I think that's something that a lot of people kind of misunderstand in the process of things falling apart is.

It's like put your head down and just let's get through this instead of really choosing intentionally who you're becoming through it.

All right now this is a very hard question.

What is next for Nicolette as an author?

Well, right now it's just sharing more of this book and we kind of touched on it earlier.

You know, marketing and getting books in readers hands is a big challenge oftentimes for authors, especially new and self published authors.

So I'm really committed to sharing this with as many people as I can.

Getting out there and just giving the book an opportunity to be received in a way that I had intended when I wrote it.

And before I ask you this last question, you're the first person I've asked this too on this podcast.

Is there anything you want to add, especially about the book?

I think I would just like to add.

That supporting authors, artists.

And people in the creation process is Such a gift to humanity and it reminds all of us that we are co creators in this reality.

And so not necessarily about this book specifically, but just about the idea of creating.

How are we supporting the people who.

Are, you know, kind of putting themselves.

Out there and doing things that are.

Hard and vulnerable and especially at the beginning when, you know, support isn't just rampant.

How are you supporting those in your immediate circle who are crazy?

How are you supporting like, I think if all of us kind of have the heart of like that question, then just lands a little easier for those doing it.

Yeah.

So where can people purchase your book and also follow you?

Yeah.

So my book is currently on Amazon.

It will be available on like Barnes and Noble and Target and Walmart, all the big boxtail retailers online.

But it's not quite there yet.

So I'm not sure when this will come out, but it likely will be there by then.

But currently, Currently Amazon.

Well, just because of what you shared.

Currently, amaz.

Or on my website, which I know.

You are going to share in the show Notes.

So check out my website and yeah,.

Check out my website.

I have a listing of my book and some of the other things that I'm doing as far as supporting other.

Authors and follow her on Amazon as well.

So this way, when she does write her next book and release it, you'll be notified right away.

Yes, there you go.

And leave me a review.

If you read my book and something.

Touches you or moves you or inspires you, please, please, please leave a review.

It's such a great currency for authors who are sharing their book.

You stole my line.

Oh, great minds, great minds.

That's something I always push.

I tell people, and don't just leave a review on Amazon.

Leave it.

Leave a review everywhere that you can leave a review.

Yes.

And something that another author told me and I think this is very smart.

When you purchase Nicolette's book, take a picture of the book with you holding it and put that on social media and tag.

Oh my gosh, I love that.

That means that would mean the world to me.

And it's such a good idea.

Yeah, that's great feedback and insight right there.

Yes, I heard that.

And I was like, that's a great idea.

Yes, absolutely.

And it's such an easy thing to do.

Right?

Yeah.

And as I say this, I'm looking at all these totes of books that authors sent me.

Oh, you got some pictures to get done.

Yes, I know,.

I hear you.

I know you come.

You're.

You, you're.

You're I I I can imagine.

Well, Nicolette, I want to thank you so much.

When the next book is out, you better contact me first and come on here and pitch it.

I absolutely will.

Thank you so much for having me.

This was fun and great conversation and yeah, I love the work you're doing.

Well, thank you.

Thanks for listening to the author pitch.

I'm Rich Bennett.

And until next time, keep turning pages and discovering new voices.