About

I did not set out to write a book. I set out to listen.

The words that became I Am Becoming arrived slowly, in the quiet hours — the kind of hours most of us have learned to fill with noise. They came not as teachings, but as notes to myself. Reminders. Questions I was finally willing to sit with rather than solve.

For most of my working life, I operated in the world of strategy and systems — helping people and businesses turn things around, find the next step, build the next thing. That work mattered, and it taught me much. But somewhere along the way, I began to notice that the world did not need another plan.

It needed a pause.

These books are not prescriptions. They are not a program. They are company for the in-between — the seasons when you are no longer who you were, and not yet who you are becoming.

I wrote them for whoever is in that season.

I wrote them, honestly, for myself.

And I share them now in the quiet hope that they might meet you where you are.

—Spike Humer

SoulWord Press publishes writing that slows the reader down.