Books
One of my favorite quotes by French actress, Fanny Ardent, begins:
“As a girl, whenever I read a beautiful passage in a book, I would run to my sister and read it to her. It is the feeling that you have to share the beautiful with someone else.”
I think of my writing as having to share the beautiful, the powerful, the mysterious—in short, my life—with someone else.
Here are some of my beautiful stories that I would love to share with you!
Part love letter to persona, part theory, part artful unraveling of identity, and part memoir, this book is a self-portrait for how to create our own transformation and become a fuller expression of who we are.
Many of us walk around in a quest for love and struggle for knowledge in our contemporary world, yet are disconnected, disembodied and cutoff from our inner power. Art has the ability to capture our imagination and open hearts to what is possible, and that openness is where we uncover the real gifts and challenges of being human. In this book, Kelsay explores the inner landscape of her body to open conversations between heart, mind and psyche, hidden aspects of self, and a healing process she calls “dialogical persona” to show readers how they can explore their own self-portraits on becoming who they are.
Dialogical Persona: Self-Portraits on Becoming Who You Are
Modern-Day High Priestess: Reclaiming Our Authority as Spiritual Leaders in Today’s World
Living in a time that is still spiritually asleep, distracted, dormant, or dead. . .the Modern-day High Priestess continuously awakens ancient wisdom into the collective consciousness.
She knows she was born with a sacred role!
In my chapter of this multi-author book on how I reclaimed my authority as a spiritual leader in today’s world, I share my latest writing on unraveling into my inner power. It has been a journey aligned with my destiny, which has come full circle this year with the entrance of my new kitten into my life. I had a vision that inspired an exploration in retelling Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” from a female perspective, and I’m really excited for you to read more. Watch my live interview here!
The book, I Love You Because / I Love Me Because: Courageous Stories Expanding The Word Love is a one of a kind collaboration already debuting as an Amazon Bestseller!
It is an interactive space to share experiences and thoughts on what this word LOVE means. The intention is to go beyond the surface and explore its true meaning from an individual perspective.
We created a coffee table style book based off of this topic, and it was born from the curiosity of the word and how we each internalize the meaning differently. Our individual stories affect how we see and feel LOVE! I’m so excited about my two video essays forthcoming in this multimedia book that opens two ways and tells stories of love through photography, visual art and writing.
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO SUPPORT 100 CAMERAS - A program that equips underserved youth worldwide with tools to process and tell their experiences through photography and storytelling.
You can participate in the Love Movement by purchasing our book and by joining our community. It is a space to share your own insights, stories and bring us all to a higher level of acceptance and understanding as we connect and build a stronger foundation in our FaceBook Group.
This LOVE movement is all about promoting more joy and happiness throughout the world.
I Love You Because/I Love Me Because
Invisible No More: Stepping Into the Spotlight
An Amazon International bestseller about saying “no more” to all of the circumstances that keep us small. These 17 incredible authors all have various perspectives and stories to share and enhance what invisibility means to them, why it has been a part of their journey and how the concept of the spotlight has existed in their lives for a while or entered into their story more recently. The intention is for the reader to enjoy and remember that you are a powerful human. Your words, perspectives, and experiences matter. Step into the light, own it, and let it soak into your being. It feels so good and will create growth beyond your wildest imagination.
My chapter called “Bold Strokes” shares my journey through Expressive Arts, and how I’ve arrived at a place where I feel free to be all of myself. . .in bold strokes.
I use two self-portraits from my experiences training in the Tamalpa Institute Life/Art Process to reflect on my younger years living my life as an object.
It’s the story of how I have come to reclaim my voice—not just on the page, but as a wholly integrated and empowered woman stepping into the spotlight.
This book is available for purchase on Kindle for only $0.99 and in paperback for $2.85! All proceeds go to World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit where chefs prepare meals to be delivered to Ukraine.
More Voices: A Collection of Works from Asian Adoptees
Twelve years after Voices From Another Place was published in 1999 to give voice to the first generation of Korean adoptees, it’s time to hear again from Asian adoptees.
In this anthology, you’ll find prose, poetry, art, nonfiction and other creative contributions about the international adoption experience by adult Asian adoptees.
My essay, “The Yin Yang: Dialectical Symbolism,” was published among many others in this momentous anthology edited by Susan Soonkeum Cox and premiering at the Holt International 55th Anniversary Forum in 2011.
