Every sleeping queen wakes up in her own time. Yours might be now.
The crown was always yours.
This book is the map back to it.
Awakening the Sleeping Queen by Nathalie Cordell
"This book is an invitation to remember who you really are, to trust your inner wisdom, and to live authentically not according to someone else's expectations, but in alignment with your deepest truth."
There comes a moment in every woman's life if we're lucky enough to reach it when we grow tired of the quest. We've built the career, ticked the boxes, kept it all together. And yet something still feels missing. The questions keep rising: Is this it? Who am I, really?
Awakening the Sleeping Queen uses the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale as an unexpected map for the journey every high-achieving woman eventually faces: the journey inward. Weaving memoir, depth psychology, and spiritual wisdom, Nathalie guides you through the work of reclaiming what was lost your anger, your intuition, the parts of yourself you learned to hide.
This isn't a self-help manual. It's a story to inhabit one that illuminates your own. Because the woman you've been waiting to become isn't somewhere ahead of you. She's been inside you all along.
Exactly the book I've been looking for
"A clear, concise and illuminating map to the inner world. I went from feeling lost to finding my way home."
Suzy Walker, Editor-in-Chief (Platinum Magazine)
Awakening the Sleeping Queen gives language to an experience so many women quietly carry.
"Unlike typical books in this space, it doesn't offer surface solutions. Instead, the reader is guided on an inner journey back to her body wisdom, wise woman, and sacred soul. A powerful and necessary read for any woman ready to unleash her inner Queen."
Jennifer Joy Jiménez, Co-Founder, Brave Thinking Institute
A must-read
"A must-read for any woman who's working really hard and wondering if this is it."
Rachel Power, Reader
You got me in the first page
"Nathalie has put into writing what so many women sense without knowing. Thank you for validating so many of us through your brave storytelling and deep analysis."
Karen Jones, Reader
"Brilliant, brave, bold and beautifully written.❤️❤️❤️"
"I couldn’t put it down. I had a feeling it would speak to me but wow, it’s brilliant! It just struck one chord after another. Thank you so much for sharing your story (and wisdom!) with the world."
Georgina Northern, Reader
I spent over twenty years in the pharmaceutical industry successful by every external measure, yet never quite satisfied. This is the book I needed back then and couldn't find.
Writing it meant going inward through my own story, my own carefully constructed walls, the parts of myself I'd learned to hide in order to survive. It also drew on years of training in depth psychology (Psychosynthesis), and the privilege of walking alongside many women on their own journeys.
I wrote it because I believe that what the world needs most right now isn't more high-achieving or strong women. It's more whole ones. Women who have come home to themselves.
I hope it feels like coming home to you too.
Meet Nathalie Cordell
Author of Awakening the Sleeping Queen
Step inside the story before you buy it.
Every sleeping queen wakes in her own time. Read the opening pages, or hear Nathalie read them aloud and see if this is the book you've been waiting for.
It's an invitation to come home to yourself not through strategy or framework,
but through story and inner work.
Because fulfilment isn't waiting for you at the top of another ladder.
It's waiting inside you.
- Nathalie Cordell
The crown was always yours.
This is the map back to it.
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