Contributor submissions are insights and real life experiences of  real women. That might be a personal experience where you found yourself feeling frustrated, angry, or oppressed because of your race or gender. A listicle of things you’ll tell your future daughter someday. How you healed your relationship with food. Something crazy that happened on the last date you went on. What happened when you quit your job to travel the world. Or how you harnessed your sexual power. What you’ve learned by surviving past trauma in your life. Or a story about your ever-evolving relationship with your body. 

The most popular posts on Healing Is The New Sexy all have the following things in common:

1. They are heart-centered and deeply personal. They don’t give vague ambiguous details of the writer’s experience, but keep it real – drawing the reader in emotionally and paint a relatable real-life experience with all the details that give the reader an honest peek into the writer’s life and perspective and how their views were informed through real experience.
2. They focus on a key point or a concept they want the reader to understand and should inspire action and encourage a shift in mindset and perspective.
3. They are informative, educational, relatable and actionable, when applicable. Not all posts need a list of things to do; in fact, some posts are simply thought pieces and provide a perspective to think about. However, if action steps are provided, they should be clearly articulated so that anyone can walk away from the article and be able to implement some aspect of your perspective/guidance into their lives if it makes sense for them.
4. They have a tone of personal storytelling. Posts should not feel mechanical and robotic. We are a community of real people, with real emotions, navigating real life challenges. The content should feel relatable and like something people will be glad that they found and are excited to read about to learn and expand their perspective.
5. They feel genuine and authentic, like a warm friend. Write in your voice. This is a safe space where everyone is encouraged to show up fully as themselves.
6. They are insightful and thought provoking, enabling readers to understand themselves and the world on a deeper level.

Our mission at Healing Is The New Sexy is to help women of color navigate self-discovery and healing more informed and with ease so they can live more consciously, mindfully and soulfully.

When considering what to write about for a post on Healing Is The New Sexy, consider:

1. Topics that support the mission and goal of Healing Is The New Sexy that are important to you and stem from real-life experience that you want to share with wellness seekers and enthusiasts.
2. Reflect on your process of personal growth, development and healing and share personal stories that speak to that experience. We want to encourage women to embark on the journey and oftentimes many just don’t know what to expect or where to begin. So helping the community understand the process and what it really looks like from your personal experience supports that goal. Consider your processes and things you did that supported your healing journey. **This is not an exhaustive list, but just an idea to push you to reflect on your own processes of healing that helped you be successful in transforming your life.
   • Self-care routines
   • Inner work practices
   • Coping methods for dealing childhood and other trauma healing
   • Role of spirituality in your journey
   • Changes made to diet and nutrition
   • Fitness journey
   • How you made certain mindset shifts
   • Helpful books and podcasts
   • Journaling practices
   • Staying motivated
   • Achieving personal goals & pursuing passions
   • Relationships and dating changes 
   • Navigating motherhood
   • Tackling fears, stress, or anxiety
   • Money mindset shifts, etc.
   • Career changes
   • Travel & Leisure experiences
3. A personal experience with intimate details that taught you a lesson or two.
4. A valuable insight no one else can offer.
5. The pros and cons about a wellness practice or modality or anything else controversial.
6. Educating the Healing Is The New Sexy community about a new modality, practice, tool or tip tool that can help.
7. Topics related to the Healing Is The New Sexy monthly theme.

• Articles should be 500-800 words (longer, if the subject merits it).
• Start with a catchy headline. To get organized, consider making an outline for yourself of the key points you plan to talk about (for example 3 key points you plan to make: Discussion Point 1,Discussion Point 2, Discussion Point 3) and of course you would plan for a catchy  introduction and closing paragraph that leaves the reader with something to think about.
• Limit your introduction — get to the point, but make it engaging.
• Provide original, personal, and honest work. Original means your post has never before been published anywhere, including your own blog, and does not include any sections taken from a previously published post.
• Offer insights and practical tips to help readers overcome similar challenges you’ve experienced.
• Offering advice or tips? Provide an odd number of takeaways (5, 7, 9, 21) takeaways. Or a nice round 10 always works.
• Anecdotes help provide color and make your article unique.
• Use simple, direct prose and active verbs.
• If you pull something from an online source, link to that source, and put quotes around any material taken directly from the source. Paraphrase a resource, be sure to attribute it and link within the text.
• If you quote someone directly, attribute properly, and mention how this information was conveyed do you. Was it a phone call, an email, a text, social media, etc.? It matters in the editing and fact-checking processes. It never hurts to send screenshots of relevant conversations to your editor, along with any PDFs, links, images, etc. for fact-checking purposes.
• Every writer needs an editor. We are here for you, but it never hurts to have someone else put a read on your work before submitting it to your editor.
• Don’t be nervous about your writing. Not everyone is a pro, but if you have great insights from your lived experience, we’ll get you there.
• Avoid referencing your blog, coaching practice, book, or speaking career in the body of the post. You may work in the personal development or mental health and wellness fields, but your post should be more about your shared humanity and not be used for self-promotion.

There are many great benefits of guest posting on Healing Is The New Sexy.

• A chance to share your real-life experience and what you have learned to further your own healing and help shift the collective toward a healing lifestyle centered on wholeness and wellness.
• Your post will receive broad exposure, promoted to our audience and community on our social media channels. 
• Engagement with our Healing Is The New Sexy community that is highly responsive through comments on the site and the social networking pages, creating a rewarding experience all around.
• Every post includes a bio with links back to your site. Featuring your writing on Healing Is The New Sexy is an opportunity to help increase traffic and subscribers to your blog.
• Opportunities to promote and highlight work you may be doing in the wellness space.

• Advertorial content.
• Endorsements for your company, product, team, or service — or for a company, product, or service for which you have consulted or been paid to promote. (No commercials for you, your company, your client’s or family/friend/loved one’s company, please! If you wish to publish a sponsored article or other sponsored content, please contact [email protected] for rates and further details.)
• Overt critiques or attacks.
• Contributions that rely heavily on math, data, or claims that Healing Is The New Sexy editors cannot research and independently verify.
• Surveys or data that have not been published publicly elsewhere.

1. Submit an article for publication in plain text, not HTML in a Microsoft  Word Document here.
2. Upload a photo of yourself at gravatar.com (so your photo can show next to your bio). **IMPORTANT: You will need to include the email address you linked to your gravatar account with your guest post submission.

1. If your post feels like a good fit for our blog, you will receive a response within two weeks from the date submitted. If you don’t receive a response, please feel free to try again with a different post.
2. You may be asked to revise to make your post stronger or clearer, and your proposed title may be changed before the post goes live.
3. Your post may be edited for clarity, grammar, and overall style. If there are any major changes made, you may be asked to review.
4. Healing Is The New Sexy Reserves the right to accept or decline use of any post submitted.
5. All writers who submit a post agree to the Contributor Terms & Conditions.