Publications by Astra
Astra has been writing for as long as they can remember, from childhood sci-fi stories to becoming a professional copywriter then published author.
They write about God, faith and unconditional love through a trauma-informed lens. Their aim is to explore compassion, suffering and emotional intelligence in an accessible, inclusive way that steps outside the puzzling dogma handed down through organised religion and New Age gurus.
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Astra’s work is characterised by clarity, poetic storytelling, humour and an unflinching yet compassionate truthfulness.
Upcoming Publications
Healing The Heart Wounds
Drawing on their years as a coach and educator, Astra examines the six core wounds that mark the blueprint of your soul and how they can be healed.
Coming soon
Calling: Meeting God and Learning Your Path in Life
Astra explores the steps of the spiritual path and how through closeness with God you can determine your life’s calling.
Coming soon
Current Publications
The Soulful Pricing Playbook
Written for holistic practitioners and healers, in this book Astra teaches you how to confidently price your offerings with repeatable, easy-to-use frameworks drawn from their decade in business.
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Finding Your Professional Purpose: 10 Questions to a Fulfilling Career
Written under Astra's birth name, this book helps you discover your professional purpose by introducing you to 10 powerful questions and exercises that encourage you to challenge what work and fulfillment mean to you. Commissioned by Bookboon.
Academic Publications
The Industrialisation of Arts Education
Astra’s chapter in this edited book from 2022 explores the role of art educators at a time of climate crisis, focusing on how to pivot institutions and teaching into more emotionally intelligent practices.
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture
Astra’s lighthearted piece, “My Life In Jumpers”, was published in this journal in 2014 as part of the publication’s series New Young Writers On Wool.
Global Fashion Conference Poland, 2021
Co-author of “Problem-based learning as ethical enquiry in fashion branding and communication”
International Visual Methods Conference: Decolonising Design, 2021
Co-author of “A Simple Vista – Cultural Variability as a Dialogue Between Students”
Global Fashion Conference London, 2018
Co-author of “Residencies’: mixed methods research investigating fashion through place”
Global Fashion Conference Stockholm, 2016
Co-author of “Luxury brands and their role in eco-innovation diffusion”