Crafting a life is messy and magical…

A life is made from small things: seashells gathered at the beach, the color of your grandma’s eyes, the soft-inner lining of the pocket of your favorite coat. And it’s also made from big things: the place you call home, the way your best friend laughs, an unexpected illness, a sudden presence… or absence.

From all these bits and pieces, we weave a life. It is, I think, our greatest creation. Our true purpose, this crafting. If, in our weaving, we are willing to layer in myth and story and metaphor, to bind up our lives to the cycle of the seasons and the circling of the moon, we end up doing something magical: we thread ourselves into a larger tapestry and find new paths to wholeness and resilience.

This takes a bit of experimenting and exploring. It takes the ability (and a safe space) to figure out our truths.

Hi, I’m Maia Toll, author of six award-winning books including The Illustrated Herbiary, The Night School, and Letting Magic In. Each book is doorway into a room I’ve explored and lived in for a while. They are truths I’ve explored and spent times with. They are spaces that have fed my soul and sustained my spirit.

Tell Me Something True is meant to be the same: a doorway into thoughts and spaces that are nourishing, a place to reconnect with the timeless aspects of the human spirit in a way that’s useful and meaningful in our modern lives.

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Hi, again! Still Maia, an award winning + best selling mind, body, spirit author best known for the Night School and the Wild Wisdom series which includes The Illustrated Herbiary (as of this writing, The Illustrated Herbiary has sold over 130k copies worldwide… which blows my mind).

After pursuing an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and a master’s at New York University, I apprenticed with a traditional healer in Ireland. I’m often asked, how do you become a person who can walk away from a career and a mortgage to study with a witch in Ireland? How do you get that kind of brave? Thinking about the answer to this lead to my first memoir, Letting Magic In. I’m loving the memoir format and have another in the works as well as a middle-grade version of the Night School (August 6, 2024).

Besides authoring (is that a verb?), I co-own of the retail store Herbiary, with my life and biz partner, Andrew. When not crafting sentences, I’m working my way through a huge TBR pile, hanging with my dogs, or huffing and puffing up and down the mountainous trails near my home.

Find my books, links to podcasts and other speaking gigs, and info for media on my website! Need a question answered or have a thought you want to share? Email team@maiatoll.com.

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