Michelle Wiegers Author

Michelle Wiegers Author I'm a poet, author, mind-body coach and creating space podcaster who takes joy in helping you connect with your authentic self and creative voice!

Our bodies are incredible communicators, constantly nudging us to notice what we may not yet realize that we are feeling...
05/29/2026

Our bodies are incredible communicators, constantly nudging us to notice what we may not yet realize that we are feeling! This poem is a little bit about that.

05/28/2026

When I use the words mind-body or neuroplastic symptoms, it may be hard to picture what I mean. When I was first recovering in 2017, I began to notice that I wasn’t the only one displaying emotions and anxiety in my physical body. Everywhere I went I saw tapping feet, hands, toes and fingers. One time, while in the waiting room of my dentist office, every single person there was fidgeting or tapping in some bodily way. I mean going to the dentist IS often anxiety producing!

So this is what happens–once you make the link between how your emotions show up in your body, you just can’t help but see it in everyone else. Maybe you know what I mean?!

In this poem, “Our Bodies Plea for Help,” I try to put this experience into words. And here I suggest that our sweet bodies simply want us to pause and to notice what we’re actually feeling–to take a minute to be present to ourselves, to our needs, to our desires, to name what we’re feeling.

This is a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) poem I originally wrote before I recovered from chronic symptoms in 2017. As I ...
05/27/2026

This is a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) poem I originally wrote before I recovered from chronic symptoms in 2017. As I was editing it recently, I was reminded again how much CFS steals away from us: the ability to make plans, to rely on ourselves and our bodies, to do simple everyday tasks.

I also want to thank a previous client who has dealt with decades of CFS symptoms and is now mostly free from her symptoms. She graciously read an earlier draft and offered a few suggestions that felt true to her experience and struggle. I know she helped improve this poem, so thank you G!

I hope those suffering with CFS will also feel seen and understood by this poem. Sending you so much hope for healing! 💜

(If you’d like to hear me read “Barely Burning Light,” scroll back a few days to find a video of me reading at my beach!)

I’m celebrating the release this coming week (on Tuesday) of the new Unlearn Your Pain book by the incredible Dr. Howard...
05/24/2026

I’m celebrating the release this coming week (on Tuesday) of the new Unlearn Your Pain book by the incredible Dr. Howard Schubiner. If you (or someone you know) deals with chronic pain or other debilitating chronic symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, depression, migraines, and much more, PLEASE get this book! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782218/unlearn-your-pain-by-howard-schubiner-md-foreword-by-kate-murphy/
(pre-orders can be a huge help for a new publication, so don’t wait.)

My entire life is different because of Dr. Howard Schubiner’s work to bring mind-body neuroscience to those who are suffering with chronic pain. If you know my story, you know I was basically disabled by almost 3 decades of chronic pain and other chronic symptoms. His previous book and teachings helped to set me free and I’m forever grateful. This new book is going to be a life changing read for anyone looking to address the true root cause of their symptoms. Because you can absolutely take your health back from chronic pain. I hope you’ll read it! I can’t wait!!

05/22/2026

My poem, “Barely Burning Light,” describes how difficult my journey with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) was for me and for so many of my mind-body clients and students too. During the many years of fatigue, brain fog and extremely limited physical activity, making plans or even participating in everyday life with my family was so hard.

In this poem, I try to express the immense challenge that living with CFS or ME/CFS can be. If you know someone who struggles with CFS, please share this poem with them! I know it will help them feel seen and understood, at least on some level.

While I was in these debilitating years, I never considered the possibility that I would be able to fully recover. But it has been almost 10 years now. TEN YEARS since I recovered!!! Pain science, neuroplasticity, mind-body medicine, emotional healing, trauma recovery and creative expression all fought for my freedom. At first I thought mind-body medicine would only help reduce my body pain, but I gained so much more!! I’m so grateful that I took the leap to try to unlearn all of my symptoms. Mind-body healing gave me the miracle I didn’t even know to dream for!

If you’re still struggling, I see you, I know how isolating and difficult chronic illness can be. There’s hope my friend, there truly is hope! Follow my Creating Space Podcast (link in bio) for more glimpses of hope and poetry too! (My podcast is launching SOON!)

05/20/2026

As I am getting ready to launch my Creating Space podcast, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we can do to make space for ourselves inside our own lives.

It is absolutely fascinating to me, for example, that somatic breathing exercises, like the regulating breath, the box breath, and Peter Levine’s “voo” breath actually create MORE space in our physical bodies. Because when we take deep breaths we expand our muscles by releasing the tension that keeps our bodies locked up. This is the most simplistic way I can summarize mind-body healing–releasing tension from the body. Which, of course, includes breathwork.

So here’s a beautiful poem by James Crews, called Breathing Room, where he invites us to imagine what it might be like to have a room in our homes dedicated just for breathing. A place where we can release the need to speak, to scroll on a phone, to fill every minute of our time and the space in our minds by consuming more and more and more.

Instead, I love James’s spacious idea—to give each of us a room where we can breathe. Maybe the invitation here is to let our lives be empty enough to make room for all that we need or want, to make room for our voice and creativity right inside of our everyday lives.

I’m excited to share that my new website is live! https://www.michellewiegers.com/This has been months in the making and...
05/19/2026

I’m excited to share that my new website is live! https://www.michellewiegers.com/

This has been months in the making and motivated by my shift away from 1:1 coaching towards podcasting, live events and becoming a published author. Huge thanks to my son and husband for help along the way!

Please sign up on my email list to receive updates and Creating Space Reflection Prompts.

The next big step is starting my new podcast, Creating Space with Michelle Wiegers. It is almost ready, friends!

05/13/2026

When I was first being set free from decades of chronic pain, it felt like I was walking through a mind-body miracle. But it was also incredibly disorienting. After so many years of disability and limitations, I wasn’t quite sure who I was without this constant role of symptom and health manager that I’d played for most of my adult life.

It was during this time, in 2017, that I wrote this poem I’m sharing with you today. And even now, as I weave my work into its current iteration and flow, I still feel like I’m unfolding my purpose in new ways.

05/02/2026

If you’re familiar with my mind-body recovery story, you know that it was in 2017 and 2018 when my poetry first exploded onto the pages of my journals. This was the same time that mind-body neuroscience was helping set me free from decades of chronic symptoms.

But writing, and especially poetry and memoir-like stories, became my loudest truth revealers. They introduced me to this new wild creative voice within me. This part of me I didn’t have access to before.

So in 2018, I wrote this poem, "Never Run Dry." I was regularly writing poetry, while also trying to figure out how I might want to bring mind-body healing to others. I knew I was meant to share this miraculous healing that I was experiencing and I also wanted to find a path forward for my art. Yet I was scared and intimidated by this new creative voice that was surfacing in my life. Could I trust it? Should I follow it?

In this poem, Never Run Dry, you hear me wrestling as I seek to build a relationship with my creative voice, while also feeling at times like it may be too hard to give myself fully to it. I wrote this poem in April of 2018, and it was originally published by Writing in a Woman’s Voice in July of 2023.

I'm working very consistently on my book and I hit some hard and triggering material this week. Friends, living with dec...
03/15/2025

I'm working very consistently on my book and I hit some hard and triggering material this week. Friends, living with decades of chronic pain and symptoms was HARD!!! And I found more sadness and grief coming up for me this week from those decades of illness. Which makes sense right?! Our sweet bodies, they remember.

And if you're still struggling, I am thinking about you today and want to remind you that you are a warrior and you will get through this and healing is possible!

When I got triggered by editing and going deep with a few particular poems this week my body felt it and I had a rough day of tiredness, gut aches/distress, and a crash kind of feeling. I NEEDED rest! Does that mean I'm not healed?! Nope! It means I'm sensitive and I'm human and that it's important to recognize that working directly with hard and difficult memories takes its toll.

Then early yesterday morning, as I sat in my morning writing chair looking out my small window, (I miss the bigger windows in our old house in Vermont!) I had a very strong desire to watch the sunrise over the trees. So I got up and moved my chair to the other side of the window. That small and simple shift in perspective helped me then write/speak truth to my scared and triggered part. I met her on the page, helped her remember she's no longer in danger, no longer trapped in illness and disability, that she's been set free. What relief rippled through my mind and body. All she needed was to remember what's true.

This is a huge part of our healing work, to care for and to be gentle with ourselves, to let go of judgement, shoulds and frustrations in order to speak truth and shift our perspective.

I'm thrilled for this space and time to give myself to this book and though I'm not coaching right now, I'm still holding you all in my heart as I write because this book is going to be beautiful and it's going to be for you! ♥️✍️🙏

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