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With Adra Blake Hartley

Courses, coaching, and community for people ready to be whole, human, and deeply well.

A Kinder Course · Begins July 1

The Thriving Writer

A 12-week nervous system empowerment course for storytellers who are done letting the thing they love feel like proof they're not good enough.

Led by certified & trauma-informed book coach Adra Blake Hartley, with special guest "student" Kristin Dwyer — New York Times & USA Today bestselling author.

12 weeks · Live every Wednesday · 4PM PT / 7PM ET

Come as the main character.
Leave as the author of your life.

Understand your unique nervous system & its needs
Map your pathways to safety — and to success
Befriend your fears instead of fighting them
Heal the worthiness wound & reclaim your power
Create from wholeness, not deficit. Purpose, not pressure.

Learn More & Enroll

Enrollment closes June 28.

Every time I talk to Adra, I learn something new about my own creative process and how to better support my nervous system.

Kristin Dwyer Bestselling Author · In Time With You · The Atlas of Us · Some Mistakes Were Made

What sets this apart

Most writing courses teach craft. Some teach mindset. A few teach productivity systems. The Thriving Writer teaches something none of those do: how to work with your body, not against it. And expand your capacity for success. It's also taught by a certified and trauma-informed book coach and fellow author who gets it.

Nervous System Empowerment

Not just regulation — the capacity to move toward what you want and receive the success you desire.

Regulating Resources

Body-based tools that show your system it's safe to express yourself and be seen.

The Psychology of Being Human

Why you protect yourself the way you do — and how to work with it instead of against it.

Brain Retraining

Science-backed methods to update what your nervous system believes is safe, possible, and allowed.

Compassionate Inquiry

Tuning in to your deepest fears with curiosity — to support them, not shame them.

Permission to Thrive

The unapologetic freedom to want what you want and embrace what makes you uniquely you.

Community & Contribution

A thriving community extends beyond ourselves.

Societal health is personal. And it's good to ask: who else benefits when we help ourselves?

As a course community, we will choose a non-profit or cause to support together — and lend a hand with a 5% donation from each sale.

Free 90-Minute Class with Live Coaching

It's Not You, It's Your Nervous System

For writers who are ready to stop blaming themselves and start understanding themselves.

The procrastination (even if today's a good day to deep clean the fridge). The self-doubt. The inner critic that won't shut up. The attention span of a golden retriever the moment you open your manuscript. The absolute certainty that a new, pretty notebook is what you need. Yeah, been there.

You go to work on fixing what you think are your flaws. You try harder. Make a new schedule. Tell yourself you just need more discipline, more consistency, more something.

But the patterns come back anyway. Rinse, repeat.

Here's what I know to be true: nothing is wrong with you. These aren't personality traits. They're protective patterns — signals that your nervous system needs more support. And once you understand that, everything changes.

Join me for this free class and leave with a completely new understanding of yourself — as a writer and as a human.

Saturday, June 20 9AM PT · 12PM ET Wednesday, June 24 4PM PT · 7PM ET

Same class, two times to join. Free. Live. Replays available for limited time.

Meet Adra Blake Hartley

Adra is a certified book coach, motivational speaker, young adult author, and trauma-informed somatic practitioner — with 20 years in education and 15 spent exclusively in health and well-being.

She guides people to better understand the language of their bodies — because the nervous system governs everything: how safe we feel, how freely we can express and create, and how much we allow ourselves to receive the good in life. Adra creates every Kinder course with community and coaching included and integrated because information isn't enough. We must live what we learn, together.

Certified Book Coach · Trauma-Informed Somatic Practitioner · Motivational Speaker · Young Adult Author

Kind Words

What clients are saying

I came to Adra with major imposter syndrome. From the start, she provided a safe space and gave me her thoughtful, clear-eyed, and warm attention and support. Her feedback made me feel absolutely seen as a writer. I've never gotten feedback that felt so true, as though it came from the wisest parts of myself. With Adra, I learned so much — in what felt like a sacred place.

— Claudia

Adra is incredibly kind, understanding, and wise. She really listens and offers ideas and ways of thinking that made me feel seen and supported. I will forever be grateful for her guidance.

— Lori

Adra is incredible. The questions she asks and the experiences and journaling exercises she leads you through will lead to discoveries that are so insightful. I feel more empowered and aware of myself and my patterns.

— Stephanie

Adra has a tenderness with characters that I didn't know I needed. Her thoughtful questions and insights provided me with the opportunity to look deeper within myself and my story. Each conversation was insightful, respectful and showed how deeply Adra cares about her writers and their stories. Her comments, coaching call and reflective questioning have all made me a better writer.

— Lauren

I didn't just learn tools to help regulate my nervous system, I learned about my unique nervous system and identified what can cause activation and what helps to keep me balanced. Throughout this program, I developed a profound kindness towards myself that has allowed me to be with myself no matter what state I am in. I leave this program feeling stronger, capable, and excited for life.

— L.S.

The program Adra created is an eye opening opportunity to see one's life with hope, regardless of where you are or where you've been in your life.

— Laurie