About Laura Joan Cornell, PhD

Every morning, Laura Joan Cornell rolls out her yoga mat, moves through her practice, sits in meditation, and then writes.

This is how she lives: embodied, intentional, and unwaveringly committed to the belief that the most important work a woman can do is to share the wisdom she has spent a lifetime accumulating.

Laura knows what it costs to carry a book for years without writing it. For twenty years, she held her first book inside her, Moon Salutations: Women's Journey Through Yoga to Healing, Power, and Peace, while life, fear, and a silencing inner voice gave her reasons to wait. She also knows what it took to finally write it: the right mentor, a method that included the body, and the willingness to write her way through the stories she had been most afraid to speak.

That method, Embodied Flow Writing, grew from her own decades of healing and from her training in East-West psychology and somatic practice. It is a process designed for women who have the wisdom and the will ~ and who are searching for the doorway to birth their book.

Since publishing Moon Salutations, Laura has helped more than 64 women write and publish their stories, including three best-selling collaborative anthologies she conceived, edited, and brought into the world. She has worked with psychotherapists, social workers, yoga teacher trainers, coaches, and healers who have spent 20 to 40 years becoming expert in something the world needs, and who are ready to engrave that expertise permanently on the page.

She has seen what happens when women become authors and the incredible way that they shine and glow as they cross this threshold.

Laura holds a Master's Degree in East-West Psychology and a Doctorate in Religion and Philosophy. She is a certified 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher, Integrative Yoga Therapist, and Family and Systemic Constellations Facilitator. She is also the founder of Ananda Press, a boutique publishing house for women writing in the embodied, spiritual, and healing tradition.

If you have spent decades becoming someone with something to say, and you are ready to write the book that captures it at the level it deserves, Laura is ready to walk that path with you.

About the 18 Authors

18 courageous women.
18 transformational stories.
One powerful reminder: your wisdom has always lived within you.

Some stories do not simply inspire us… they awaken us.

Radiant Wisdom: 18 Stories of Feminine Power, Purpose, and Rebirth is a soul-stirring collection of deeply personal journeys from women who have walked through loss, trauma, awakening, motherhood, illness, spiritual transformation, identity, love, and rebirth—and emerged carrying wisdom that can illuminate the path for others.

Compiled by Laura Joan Cornell, PhD, this extraordinary anthology brings together eighteen courageous voices who reveal what becomes possible when women reclaim their bodies, their truth, their intuition, and their sacred inner authority.

Within these pages, you will encounter:

Women rediscovering their divine voice after years of silence

Mothers fighting fiercely for their children

Survivors transforming trauma into healing

Spiritual awakenings that reconnect women to the Feminine Divine

Journeys through grief, adoption, illness, sexuality, identity, fertility, and rebirth

Stories of remembering who we truly are beneath conditioning, fear, and shame

These are not polished perfection stories.

They are honest stories.
Tender stories.
Revolutionary stories.

Each chapter offers a mirror for the reader—a reminder that wisdom is not something we acquire from the outside. It is something ancient and radiant already living within us, waiting to be remembered.

This collection is for every woman who has ever questioned her worth, hidden her voice, carried invisible wounds, or longed to return home to herself.

Radiant Wisdom is more than a book.


It is a gathering.
A remembering.
A reclamation of the sacred feminine power that has always existed within us.

If you are ready to reconnect with your truth, your intuition, your softness, your strength, and your deepest inner knowing… this book will meet you there.

The Power of the Divine Feminine to Make Us Whole

Betty Powell

Chapter 1: She Touched Me

Donnette Hill Walto

Chapter 2: Reclaiming My Divine Voice

The Power of Birth: Receiving and Giving a Birth Mother's Love

Wendy Willtrout

Chapter 3: The Wisdom in my Roots:

From Adoption Trauma to Love and Spiritual Wholeness

Isha Julka

Chapter 4: Fertility as a Portal:

From Proving and Fear to Surrender, Inner Authority and Trust

Stories of Inner Untangling

Sonja Mitchell

Chapter 5:

Ivka - From Morning Star to Evening Star

Katie Davidson

Chapter 6: Home is Where the Plants Are

How I Became Rooted in Myself

How We Find Ourselves Again After

the Loss of Our Mothers

Diann Cardello

Chapter 7: Love is Not Severed by Death

It is Transformed

Dakia Davis

Chapter 8: What That Year Gave Me

Caring for My Mother and Finding My Way Through Loss

Sandy Carter

Chapter 9: Making Metta - How

LovingKindess Practice Heals Trauma of Human Origin

Lioness Awakened:

Women Who Rise Up to Protect Their Children

Deanna Bordelon

Chapter 10. They Called it Medical Neglect

A Mother's Journey Through Medical Kidnapping

Jane Kleiman

Chapter 11. The Architecture of Belonging

Raising Hope - Building Dignity - Coming Home

When the Body Speaks

Jessica Jennings

Chapter 12. Untwisting Pain:

Finding My Way Back to Center

Cherie Hotchkiss

Chapter 13. Body Betrayal

My Yoga Journey with Multiple Sclerosis

Leann Benedetti

Chapter 14. Collapsing into Wholeness -

Finding Power, Potential and Magic

in Every Moment

The Courage to Heal After Incest

Tammy Wise

Chapter 15. A Child's Wisdom

A Story About Returning to Love After Incest

Lucy Horgan

Chapter 16: Healing My Womb Space

Spiritual Awakening and Kundalini

Rising in the Flesh

Hortensia Martinez

Chapter 17. And Then... I Arrived to Myself

And found the Goddess in My Yoni

Michelle Elizabeth

Chapter 18. How My Kundalini Awakening Revealed

Wonderous Life - A Story of Trust and Rebirth