Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Release: Healing Him Journal

A Message to My Nestlings: From Rae Jordyn

Before we step into this sneak peek together, I want to pause and speak directly to you. If you’ve been with me since Healing Her, then you already know this space is built on softness, truth, and the kind of honesty that sets us free. And if you are new here, welcome. Set your burdens down. You are safe.

Every time I sit down to write, I imagine you reading these words somewhere quiet, maybe at the end of a long day, maybe before the sun even rises. I imagine you breathing a little deeper as you make room for your own healing and your own becoming. You have trusted me with your stories, your wounds, your breakthroughs, and your growth, and I hold that trust with great care.

The Nestlings are not just readers. You are a community. You are women and men choosing to heal in a world that often teaches us to hide the parts of ourselves that hurt. You show up with courage, even on the days when courage feels fragile. You choose hope even when your past says you shouldn’t. And you keep stretching toward wholeness one breath, one page, one truth at a time.

As I worked on Healing Him, I thought about you constantly. I thought about the brothers, partners, fathers, sons, and friends you’ve prayed for and cried for. I thought about the men in your life who are carrying battles no one sees. I thought about how many times you’ve said, “I wish there was something like this for him.” And I heard you.

This journal is an offering — not just to the men who will use it, but to the Nestlings who have been holding space for them.

So before we dive deeper, let me say this:

Thank you.
Thank you for healing out loud.
Thank you for letting me walk this journey with you.
Thank you for believing that softness is strength and that growth is possible for all of us.

And thank you for being here.
Your presence matters.

Now, Nestlings… let’s step into the heart of Healing Him together.

There is a moment in every man’s healing journey when silence becomes too heavy to carry. A moment where the weight of unspoken expectations, old wounds, and inherited burdens starts to crack from the inside out. Healing Him: A Guided Journal for Men on the Journey to Wholeness was born inside that moment.

For months, I’ve been quietly shaping this journal behind the scenes, listening to stories from men who want to heal but have never been given the space or language to do so. I’ve been crafting prompts, writing reflections, and building a space where Black men especially can breathe, release, and rebuild without judgment. Today, I want to give you a first look into what is coming soon from TrailHawk Publishing.

This is not just a journal. It is a companion, a mirror, and a soft landing place for men who want to rewrite their inner narratives. And I cannot wait for you to meet it.

What Healing Him Is All About

The purpose of Healing Him is simple. It offers men a safe place to unpack everything they were told to hold silently. For generations, many men have been raised to be strong but not vulnerable, responsible but not expressive, protectors but not protected. This journal challenges that old framework and invites men to step into a more whole version of themselves.

Inside, readers will find exercises, guided reflections, affirmations, and soul level questions that meet them where they are. The journal acknowledges trauma without dwelling on it, and it invites transformation without forcing perfection. It offers structure without pressure and wisdom without judgment.

Just like Healing Her, the tone is gentle, encouraging, and rooted in truth. But this time, the lens shifts toward the lived experiences of men who are often expected to “figure it out” without help.

A Glimpse at the Themes Inside

Each section of the journal is designed around a core pillar of emotional wellness and personal peace. Here is a preview of what readers can expect to explore:

1. Reclaiming Identity

Many men carry labels they never chose. Provider. Protector. Stoic. Unshakeable. The journal begins here, inviting readers to step into who they are instead of who they were told to be.

2. Healing Old Wounds

Whether emotional, generational, or relational, this section offers reflective prompts that gently guide men toward finally acknowledging what they have survived and how it shaped them.

3. Emotional Language and Literacy

This section helps men name feelings, understand triggers, and embrace emotional awareness as a strength. It also includes a chart of emotional vocabulary Black men often say they never had access to growing up.

4. Rewriting the Inner Dialogue

Here, readers learn to interrupt negative self talk and rewrite core beliefs using reframing exercises and affirmations.

5. Rebuilding Healthy Relationships

A section dedicated to communication, boundaries, love languages, and healing after heartbreak.

6. Becoming Whole

The final section brings everything together and focuses on alignment, peace, forgiveness, and building a new future rooted in self respect.

A Brand New Exclusive Exercise for Blog Readers

This activity will be included in Healing Him, but with an extended version. Today, I want to share a preview you can try right now:

“The Mirror, The Memory, The Man I Am Becoming”

1. The Mirror
   Write down one belief about yourself that you know is holding you back. It can be something someone told you, something you witnessed, or something you internalized.

2. The Memory
   Describe the earliest memory or moment where this belief took root. What happened? Who was there? How did it make you feel?

3. The Becoming
   Rewrite the belief as if you are stepping into your healed identity.
   Example:
   Old belief: “I have to handle everything alone.”
   New belief: “I am deserving of support, connection, and rest.”

This exercise alone has sparked emotional breakthroughs for men who never realized how deeply their identities were shaped by a single early memory.

Affiliate Tools That Helped Bring This Journal to Life

I used a variety of tools and services while creating this journal, and many of them are perfect for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs:

✔ Publisher Rocket for researching keywords and categories for better book discoverability

✔ Book Bolt for interior brainstorming, niche validation, and keyword ideas

✔ Creative Fabrica for decorative elements and journal inspiration

✔ Scrivener for drafting and organizing journal sections

✔ Fiverr for occasional design support

✔ Upwork for outsourcing specialized tasks

✔ Miblart for cover designs and other services

✔ Bookshop.org for curating recommended healing reads

✔ Printful for testing potential merchandise related to the Healing series

Use these tools to support your own writing or publishing journey, especially if you are building a wellness focused brand or guided journal series.

Why This Journal Matters

Black men deserve softness, guidance, and emotional freedom. They deserve spaces that honor everything they have survived and everything they dream of becoming. This journal recognizes the weight they carry and the strength they often show in silence, but it also reminds them that strength can look like softness, honesty, and vulnerability.

For many men, this may be the first time they have written down their feelings. The first time they have named their trauma. The first time they have seen themselves fully on the page. Healing Him makes that possible.

Who This Journal Is For

• Men healing from trauma

• Black men navigating generational pressure

• Men ready to understand their emotions

• Men redefining their identity as adults

• Men healing father wounds or relationship wounds

• Men learning to set boundaries

• Men ready to become whole

This journal can also be used in therapy sessions, men’s healing groups, church groups, or private self reflection.

Final Thoughts: He Deserves Healing Too

When I wrote Healing Her, I heard from countless women who said, “I wish there was something like this for the men in my life.” Healing Him is the answer to that request. It is the safe space he never received but always needed.

This journal is coming soon, and I cannot wait to place this tool in the hands of the men who have been carrying their stories quietly. Healing is not just for her.

Healing belongs to him too.

With love, from Rae

Nestlings, as we close this moment together, I want you to take a breath with me. A slow one. The kind that reminds you that you are here, you are worthy, and you are becoming more whole with every step you take. Healing is not a destination. It is a rhythm. Some days it hums quietly, and on others it roars through you with the force of truth demanding to be felt. Both are sacred.

Thank you for walking with me, for trusting me with your stories, and for allowing my words to sit beside you in the places you do not always show the world. Healing Him was created with intention, prayer, and the hope that men everywhere would finally have a space to breathe and unravel in tenderness. And knowing that you are here reminds me that every hour, every revision, every tear shed in the making of this project mattered.

As you continue forward, hold this close: you are not defined by the wounds that tried to quiet you. You are defined by the courage it takes to rise anyway. Let the pages guide you, let the exercises stretch you, and let the silence between the lines speak to the parts of you still waiting to be acknowledged.

I am grateful for you. I am proud of you. And I am cheering you on as you step into your own wholeness, one honest word at a time.

Until next time, Nestlings.

With grace and light,