Award-Winning Author & Memoir Coach

Praise for Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing by Brad Wetzler:

“Brad Wetzler has led the very definition of an adventurous life, but in Into the Soul of the World, he gives an unflinching account of his interior adventures. Wetzler’s soulful quest, by turns anguished and transcendent, will resonate with readers around the world who struggle to find purpose and a sense of the holy in the ambient jitter of the digital age.”

Hampton Sides, Author of Ghost Soldiers

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You've been on one hell of a journey.

Writing a memoir, a "teaching memoir," or nonfiction book will heal and transform you. And it will heal and transform your readers, too.

Are you a successful businessperson, wellness thought leader, therapist, or spiritual teacher? Do you desire to write a memoir or nonfiction book that shares your experience and wisdom with the world?

Or are you an aspiring memoirist struggling to write a book about how you’ve survived and thrived in this wild, weird thing called life…and you know you have stories and wisdom to share with readers that will help them navigate their lives? 

 I would love to support you to write the book that lives inside you. I will show you how to write your story with power, grace, and radical emotional vulnerability. And more heart.

Together, we’ll make sure that you tap into the courage to tell your truth–and finally get to write the words “The End.”

When my clients write a memoir, they heal, grow, and transform their own lives–and they help their readers heal, grow, and transform, too. They also get more opportunities to impact the world.

Brad Wetzler is an author and memoir writing coach. Make this the year you complete your memoir. Schedule a free 30-minute consultation today.
Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve faced your fair share of challenges. But amidst it all, one thing can be transformative – writing a memoir. It’s a cathartic process that can heal wounds, find purpose, and connect you with others who’ve walked similar paths.
 
Embrace Your Inner Author
If you’ve ever dreamed of sharing your wisdom, words, and heart with the world, now is the time to take that leap. Don’t let self-doubt or past starts and stops hold you back. Let Heart-Centered Memoir Coaching be your guiding light.
 
Unlock the Writer Within
I understand that starting a memoir can feel daunting, but the key to writing a remarkable memoir lies in your heart. As a seasoned writer and editor, I’ve helped countless authors bring their life stories to life, and now it’s your turn.
 
Your Life Is Memoir-Worthy
Deep down, you know your life is a remarkable tale waiting to be told, and your friends agree. It’s time to put aside confusion and uncertainty and unleash your inner storyteller.
 
A Journey of Healing and Transformation
A well-crafted memoir weaves compelling stories, a strong author voice, vulnerability, action, suspense, and transformation. Emotion and genuine reflection on past experiences connect you with readers by sharing universal truths.
 
My Journey to Healing: Inspiration for You
I’ve walked the path, pouring my heart and soul into my memoir, “Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing.” It’s a story of adventure, struggle, and the quest for inner peace. And now, I’m here to help you on your journey. What’s more, I have 30-years’ experience as an experienced, professional editor and writer. Let’s do this together.
 
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Your story can heal, inspire, and touch readers’ hearts just like it has touched your own. Let me be your memoir writing coach, guiding you to create a book that resonates with others.
 
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Sign on for one of my memoir coaching plans, and I’ll help you plan, draft, and complete your memoir or nonfiction self-help book. Together, we’ll unleash the full potential of your story.
 
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It’s time to share your wisdom, words, and heart. Let Heart-Centered Memoir Coaching be the key that unlocks your remarkable memoir. Start today, and let your story take flight.
 
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Why choose me to be your coach?

I’m a published memoirist and an experienced professional editor. During the past 30 years,  I’ve worked at the highest levels of publishing: as both an editor and writer.  I’ve helped birth dozens of memoirs and nonfiction books. I’ve written and edited hundreds of magazine articles. 

My memoir, Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing, was published last March by Hachette Go, a major traditional publisher. And the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. 

Here’s what some of the U.S.’s best-loved authors had to say about it. 

Brad Wetzler has led the very definition of an adventurous life, but in Into the Soul of the World, he gives an unflinching account of his interior adventures. Wetzler’s soulful quest, by turns anguished and transcendent, will resonate with readers around the world who struggle to find purpose and a sense of the holy in the ambient jitter of the digital age.

Hampton Sides

Author of "Ghost Soldiers"

Reading Brad Wetzler’s Into the Soul of the World is like embarking on a thrilling, dangerous journey—rivering straight into the heart of what matters most—to find yourself transformed. Ever the seeker, Wetzler wrestles with dark family secrets and triggered trauma, redefining what it means to be a man and spiritual being living in the twilight of our hyper-American materialism. If Into the Soul of the World belongs on a shelf next to Eat, Pray, Love, what lingers is Wetzler’s relentless audacity to try to tell the truth, however uncomfortable—about families and lovers and our times—In hopes of setting himself, and us, free.

Michael Paterniti

Author of "Driving Mr. Albert" and "The Telling Room"

In the age of toxic masculinity, Brad Wetzler’s Into the Soul of the World offers a powerful, profound, and deeply personal road map for actively cultivating a different kind of manhood. Through energetic and lively prose, Wetzler takes us inside the heart and mind of a man who refuses to conform to society’s restrictive notion of manhood and instead presents a new path for men to walk. This is not an easy path, Wetzler is clear, but we’ve never needed it more.

Emily Rapp Black

Author of "The Still Point of the Turning World"

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Are you hesitant to commit to one-on-one coaching, but still eager to kickstart your memoir writing journey? Look no further.  Join my four-week beginner’s memoir class, titled ‘Writing to Find Your Fire: A Memoir Master Class.’

In this engaging and interactive course conducted through live online Zoom sessions, I will lead you through the process of planning, drafting, and completing your memoir or nonfiction self-help book.

Whether you’re a beginner or have some writing experience, this class is designed to help you make significant progress in your writing goals. My expertise and guidance will provide the support and motivation you need to reach your desired destination with your writing.

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Into the Soul of the World is a memoir by author and memoir writing coach Brad Wetzler.

About My New Memoir:Into the Soul of the World

Brad Wetzler’s memoir, Into the Soul of the World, was published by the Hachette Book Group in March,  2023.

This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understand and heal from past traumas.

Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom of his career, journalist Brad Wetzler had nowhere to go. So he set out on a journey to wander and hopefully find himself—and the world—again.  

 

Into the Soul of the World is Wetzler’s thrilling, impactful, and heartrending memoir of healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. An adventure journalist at heart, Wetzler mixes travelogue with empowering insights about his inner journey to better care for his own mental health. Journey with him as he travels across Israel and the West Bank, before moving on to India, a candle-lit cave on a mountaintop in the Himalayan foothills, and a life-changing encounter with a 100-year-old yogi. 

 

Wetzler’s writing is full of the poignant, amusing, and occasionally heart‑breaking situations that unfold when we finally decide to confront depression (or any mental health struggle) and declare ourselves ready to heal: How do we heal our past and thrive again? What does it mean to live a good life? How can we transform our suffering and serve others?  His answer: live to tell the story and find the humility and courage to be the best human you can be.

Advance Praise for Brad Wetzler's

ADVENTURES IN HEALING: My Decade-Long, Round-the-World Quest to Overcome Drug Addiction and Cope with Trauma

In the age of toxic masculinity and “mansplaining;” in a country in which most violent crimes are committed by men, Brad Wetzler’s Adventures in Healing offers a powerful, profound, and deeply personal road map for actively cultivating a different kind of manhood. As a young journalist in the 90s, Wetzler had it all: an amazing, enviable job as a travel and adventure journalist that sent him all over the world on assignments; a home in beautiful Santa Fe; a loving marriage. At the height of magazine journalism, Wetzler’s passport was littered with stamps, and he edited and wrote features for high-profile magazines like the New York Times, George, National Geographic, and many others. He commissioned Jon Krakauer’s piece about the lost climbers of Mt. Everest that later became the international bestselling book and hit movie, Into Thin Air.

But then the demons and trauma from his childhood caught up with him, and he sunk into a depression that increasing amounts of prescription drugs could not solve, and soon found himself divorced, essentially house-bound, and physically unhealthy.

He hit rock bottom when a friend – who was on a similar cocktail of medications — died by suicide. Adventures in Healing traces his road to recovery, from a checkpoint in Palestine to the cave of a 100-year-old yogi in India. He kicks the drugs, finds yoga, moves to Colorado, and learns — through the love of friends, animals, and a hard-won spiritual awakening that can’t be put into any particular dogmatic box — to be a man that is not celebrated often enough. A man of wisdom, kindness, insight, tenderness, and sensitivity.

Through energetic and lively prose, Wetzler takes us inside the heart and mind of a man who refuses to conform to society’s restrictive notion of manhood, and instead presents a new path for men to walk. This is not an easy path, Wetzler is clear, but we’ve never needed it more.

– Emily Rapp Black

author of The Still Point of the Turning World and Sanctuary.

–Hampton Sides Author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound on His Trail, and others

As a far-flung journalist and celebrated editor, Brad Wetzler has led the very definition of an adventurous life, but in ADVENTURES IN HEALING he'll give an unflinching account of his interior adventures. Wetzler’s soulful quest, by turns anguished and transcendent, will resonate with readers around the world who struggle to find purpose and a sense of the holy in the ambient jitter of the digital age.

Brad Wetzler is an author and memoir writing coach. Make this the year you complete your memoir. Download the free "How to Tell a Great Story" e-book and schedule a free 30-minute consultation today.

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