The Creative Touchstone Sessions

In these sessions, I provide creativity counseling.

There are two options:

  • Rooted through Transition

    In Rooted through Transition, the client often is in the midst of a creative threshold. This could be anything from querying agents to starting a new book proposal to approaching a pub date or something else entirely. At these creative milestones, many feelings and questions can arise since even positive change can feel scary.

    I’ve designed this session to support you with all my knowledge and experience, allowing you to feel more rooted and nourished in this change.

  • Transmutation

    In Transmutation, the client often is in the midst of a creative death/rebirth cycle. This could be anything from a shelved book manuscript, the end of a podcast, a business going on hiatus, or another end of a creative venture. As a novelist who lost fiction for a while, I know this can be enormously painful.

    I designed these sessions to help you re-examine the narrative you tell yourself about this ending and make fresh, nourishing meaning out of the experience

If you’re looking for coaching around creativity based on your astrology, I call that offering: “Clarity, Creativity, and the Cosmos.”

You can find that here.
 
 

A little more on Shelby Bach.

You can read the full bio here, but here are some quick highlights:

  • 25+ years of writing experience.

  • 2 years working in the editorial department in major New York publishing houses (and several more working freelance for the same houses).

  • Author of the Ever Afters, a complete four-book series, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

  • The founder of the JourneyPen Project.

Add-Ons

  • Soul Story Adornment Pieces

    You may want a physical reminder of our time together, something that can help you anchor in the fresh meaning made through the process. If so, Shelby can create a one-of-a-kind, custom Soul Story Adornment necklaces or bracelets for you following the one-on-one session. (Limited to those in US & Canada only. The price of shipping is included.)

    Explore the Soul Story Portfolio.

  • The JourneyPen Voice Letters

    If you think you’ll want contact with Shelby between the two sessions and/or after the second session, you might consider purchasing a JourneyPen Voice Letter. This offering is a recorded message, which you think of as a podcast made specifically for you, one you can listen to again and again—whenever you need a pep talk. (Each recording is between 10 and 15 minutes long.)

    Learn more about the JourneyPen Voice Letters.

FAQs

  • To help you know what to expect, here is what happens for every Touchstone Session:

    a) You book your appointment through this website.

    b) I’ll send you a questionnaire.

    c) You fill it out at least 24 hours in advance of our appointment, which gives me time to review it.

    d) We meet together over Zoom.

    • You bring your situation and your optimism. I bring my experience and my thoughts based on your questionnaire, which we use as a jumping off point.

    • Unless you would really prefer that we didn’t, I record the session so that you can review + rewatch later. That way, you don’t feel like you need to take notes.

    e) After we finish up and say goodbye, I reflect and consider everything we’ve discussed.

    f) Then within a week of the session, I send you a JourneyPen Voice Letter. You can think of it as a podcast episode of your very own you can listen to whenever you need a pep talk.

    g) If you’ve chosen to buy a bracelet or necklace, I make one based on what we’ve discussed in the session, and I send it to you.

  • Yes, you definitely need to be eighteen or older.

    If you’ve gotten to know Shelby Bach through The Ever Afters, and/or if you’re still a student, that’s fabulous—this offering probably won’t serve you as much as others will.

  • Yes, but at this time, this sort of offering usually expands organically through single one-on-one sessions.