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

The Particulars

Spike Humer is a contemplative author and poet and the founder of SoulWord Press, an independent press publishing books, meditations, and quiet practices for the interior life. He lives in Colorado, after several years in Mexico, and writes wherever he happens to be.

For decades before founding the press, he worked as a business growth strategist and performance consultant, advising companies on turnaround, expansion, and execution. He founded SoulWord Press in 2025. The two careers are not as far apart as they look: both are the work of asking what actually matters, and then doing that first.

His books are written slowly, lived with, and offered as companions rather than instruction. They are non-denominational. No god is named. Readers arriving with deep faith and readers arriving with open questions are equally welcome, and neither is corrected.

The Gift of This Day

A series of daily meditations on grace, gratitude, grief, and presence. The prayers began in 2020 and were written over years — one morning at a time, long before there was any thought of a book.

• Book One: Reflections on Gratitude, Presence, and the Miracle of the Ordinary (SoulWord Press, July 2026). Three hundred and sixty-five daily prayers. Each begins Thank you for the gift of this day. Each closes with Amen. Paperback and Kindle. ISBN 979-8-9946665-4-8.
• Book Two: Meditations for the Grieving Heart (SoulWord Press, July 2026). One hundred forty-three meditations written to sit with the reader inside loss rather than hurry them through it. Paperback and Kindle. ISBN 979-8-9946665-5-5.
• A third volume, on addiction and recovery, is in progress.

I Am Becoming

A nine-volume contemplative journal series of mantras, reflections, and space to write, written largely across 2025. Two volumes of the sequence are available. The rest arrive through 2026 and 2027.

• The Waking — twenty entries for the hour before the day claims you.
• The Standing — for the moment you realize you have been living in fragments, and are ready to gather yourself without apology.

The Companion stands alongside the series rather than inside it — 208 reflections across nineteen threads, meant to be opened anywhere and returned to.

Forthcoming

The Book of the Soul — aphorisms, declarations, and quiet lines for the interior life. October 2026.

Elsewhere

Spike’s books are available on Amazon and through his Amazon author page. He is on Goodreads. For review copies, interview requests, or anything else, write to [email protected].

SoulWord Press publishes writing that slows the reader down.