How to Write a Nonfiction Book: The Idea. FREE MINI COURSE.

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“Ideas are in the air,” Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company once said. When you’re ready to write your natural health self-help book, this is a good thing. In the beginning you want as many viable ideas as possible.  

But after the fun of brainstorming ideas and even titles for the book you want to write, the big question that you need to ask yourself is:

Does your book idea solve a problem or a pain point for your ideal reader, whether it’s anxiety, unhappiness, diabetes, heart disease or something else.

Here are a few clues as to whether the idea you have can be an actual book.

Your book idea is: 

1.     Connected to your area of expertise. For example, if you’re a therapist or an integrative health practitioner, your idea should be grounded in the positive work you do with clients. You need to be an authority on the subject matter, whatever it is.

2.      Based on a method or plan that you use with clients or patients that has a positive impact. This means that when the people you treat follow your method or plan, they get measurable results. They feel better in either mind, body or spirit, or maybe all three. The results are also replicable.

If you’re an herbalist, for example, your method to treat anxiety could include things like specific supplements and herbs, mindset changes, meditation and yoga. My book Natural Remedies for Mental and Emotional Health (Inner Traditions) with herbalist Brigitte Mars features all of these modalities.

3.      Transformational for the reader. Your book takes your ideal reader from Point A (the problem) to Point B (the solution).  By the time that readers finish reading your book and following the steps of your method, they are, in some way, transformed. They will feel or see things differently. 

How to Define Your Idea  

My new free mini course Write Your Natural Health Self-Help Book Faster & More Easily​​ will help you get more clarity on your idea, your method and the structure of your book.  

​​​​1-2-3 is a powerful way to channel the passion you have for the natural health work you do each day and the knowledge you have in your head into a self-help book.   

​Download the 1-2-3 FREE workbook and you’ll get:

​​🗺️Three Steps: Learn about the three steps, idea, method and structure, how you can use them to ditch drudgery, organize your content and ignite or re-ignite your passion for your book project. 

​🎬 Three Instructive Videos: Watch as I discuss 1-2-3 with Cara Metz, the author of The Menopause Metabolism Fix: The Over-40 Woman's 4-Week Program to Recover Your Strong, Sexy (and Sane) Self in 15 Minutes a Day (Fair Winds/2025) and how she used it to write her book. Get inspired by Cara’s story and use that energy to write your own!

​✍️ Six Interactive Exercises that will help you define your idea, method and structure and turn it into a Table of Contents to power you forward.

Get your copy of 1-2-3 Write Your Natural Health Self-Help Book Faster & More Easily here: https://www.thenaturalhealthbookcoach.com/free123minicourse