Bridget Boland is a Four Winds certified shamanic energetic healer, writer, and owner of Modern Muse. A former attorney, she is the author of The Doula, a novel published by Simon and Schuster in 2012. Bridget’s writing has appeared in Conde Nast Women’s Sports and Fitness, YogaChicago, and The Essential Chicago. Excerpts from her work have won the Writers League of Texas Memoir Prize, and the Surrey Writers Conference Nonfiction Award. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a JD from Loyola University of Chicago, and is the recipient of seven residencies at The Ragdale Foundation for Writers and Artists. Bridget offers individual and group energetic healing sessions, house clearings, birth and death process work, and coaching and editing for writers in fiction, creative nonfiction and business/academic writing. Learn more about Bridget and her work at www.bridgetboland.com and www.thedoulanovel.com. Learn more about Bridget at her website www.bridgetboland.com