Brave Healer Productions Releases Healing-Curious Humans

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Brave Healer Productions is proud to announce the release of Stories, Tools & Community for Healing-Curious Humans, a book that helps readers turn their innate inquisitiveness into their transformative superpower.

"Curiosity leads to transformation. It's like gravity. You don't have to understand how it works," the Reverend Doctor Ahriana Platten writes in the foreword. "You just have to know that it does, and that resisting it only makes the landing harder. That's where this book comes in. It doesn't claim to have every answer. It doesn't wrap things in pretty bows or pretend healing is linear. Instead, it invites you into a more meaningful kind of dialogue where your body, spirit, and intuition get to speak. It tasks you to meet yourself with wonder instead of wariness, explore instead of escape, and breathe instead of brace. Healing isn't something you conquer. It's something you befriend. And curiosity is how you get introduced."

The philosophy of the book's lead author, Natalie V. Petersen, is that people aren't broken, merely becoming. Petersen is the creator of Healing-Curious Humans, a growing movement that explores personal transformation, non-religious spiritual practices, and radical self-reclamation. Under the name Natalie P, she hosts the "Think Out Loud with Me" podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms. Sober for seven years, Petersen shares with readers the raw details of her own road to self-transformation, including the pain of living through her father's suicide and the resulting challenges of family instability, and her own battles with alcoholism and perfectionism.

In the book, Petersen has put together the wisdom of 20 contributors who address topics like the gratitude that can accompany heartbreak, the liberation of doing less and trusting more, using creativity to create self-love, using breath and sound to reset one's nervous system, and learning how to heal anything. Contributing to the book were Lisa Boate, Sue Bruckner, Sharon Cassidy, Laurie S. Cossar, Kim Louise Eden, Amanda Fuel, Tina Green, R. Scott Holmes, Leah Johnson, Dr. Tiffany McBride, Falyn Hunter Morningstar, Ian Morris, Patty Nagle, Ruby Raja, Madisen Rose, Susan Schiller, Nancy Terry, Mandy Webb Hancock, and Silen Wellington.

Praise for Healing-Curious Humans

"What makes Healing-Curious Humans so profound is its authenticity: a diverse community of voices daring to tell the truth, equipping us to face our pain with curiosity instead of fear. This isn't a manual—it's a mirror, a candle, and a compass. Read it slowly, breathe deeply, and let it remind you that your story, too, is worth healing and telling." — Dr. Oliver T. Reid, international best-selling author, speaker, writing coach, publisher, and ghostwriter

"Healing-Curious Humans, like my books, is raw and real—reminding you to stop performing and start feeling. Lean into these stories for inspiration and ideas for creating your own curious life. Grab this book, grab these tools, and be boldly you." — Colleen Avis, life coach and award-winning author

About Natalie V. Petersen

Natalie V. Petersen is a communications strategist, best-selling author, speaker, spiritual misfit and mentor with a rebellious heart and a reverent soul. With a background spanning media, marketing, storytelling, and mental health advocacy, she has spent more than 25 years helping people name their truth, own their voice, and live lives that fit. She believes that healing doesn't happen in a vacuum and that wholeness is a community project. Her own story is a fierce and tender reckoning with generational conditioning, religious programming, mental health cycles, and what it means to live fully awake in a world that prefers you asleep.

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