Donna S. Conley

Author | Holistic Mental Wellness Practitioner | Speaker

I’m a bestselling author and holistic mental wellness practitioner whose work explores why insight alone often fails to create lasting change—and what becomes possible when healing is approached through nervous system awareness, reflection, and compassionate self-witnessing.

My earlier books, Wild Moon Healing and Wild Moon Healing Revolution, laid the foundation for my philosophy: that healing happens when we learn to live in rhythm rather than through resistance. Over time, that work has evolved through years of teaching, practice, and lived integration into a more precise, embodied, and trauma-aware approach.

My writing is informed by both professional training and lived experience with survival, recovery, and long-term healing. Rather than centering identity around diagnosis or struggle, I focus on helping people move from surviving to living—without forcing change, bypassing pain, or performing healing.

Through my books, classes, and the Wild Moon Healers® platform, I support those who are exhausted by self-improvement and ready for a grounded, compassionate path forward—one that integrates mental health, spirituality, and embodied self-awareness into everyday life.

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Welcome to Wild Moon Healers®

Wild Moon Healers® is the platform through which I share my work—offering books, blogs, classes, services, and experiences that support holistic mental wellness through nervous system awareness, lunar rhythms, and embodied self-reflection. This work is designed to move beyond symptom management and toward deeper understanding, integration, and sustainable change.

Led by my background as an author and trauma-informed practitioner, with training in energy-based healing, Wild Moon Healers® honors the natural cycles of life and the inner wisdom each person carries. It is a space for those who want to heal with honesty and compassion—without force, performance, or fragmentation.

Mission

At Wild Moon Healers®, the work centers on reimagining mental health as a journey toward wholeness—one that honors the body, mind, and spirit through compassion, awareness, and integration. This approach supports individuals in reconnecting with their inner truth, releasing what no longer serves them, and living with greater clarity and balance.

Vision

To offer a grounded, trauma-aware path to healing that moves beyond self-improvement culture and toward sustainable self-recognition, emotional regulation, and embodied growth.

Mantra

Align with the Moon. Return to Yourself.

Tagline

Find Yourself • Love Yourself • Align with the Moon

What "Holistic" Means at Wild Moon Healers

Here, holistic mental wellness means honoring the full human experience—emotional, physical, energetic, and spiritual—without fragmenting healing into separate parts. Mental health is understood as deeply interconnected with nervous system regulation, lived experience, and the natural rhythms that shape our inner and outer lives.

Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, this work emphasizes awareness, integration, and the body’s innate capacity to restore balance over time.

The Wild Moon Healers' Approach

Energy-Based Practices
Breathwork, Reiki, sound healing, and chakra-informed awareness to support regulation and release.

Lunar Rhythm Awareness
Working with cyclical time to support reflection, emotional processing, and growth.

Mindfulness & Meditation
Cultivating presence, self-awareness, and resilience.

Shadow-Informed Healing
Gently addressing subconscious patterns, emotional wounds, and lived trauma.

Spiritual & Personal Integration

Supporting meaning, purpose, and embodied self-trust.

Healing is not a performance or a destination—it is a process of alignment that unfolds through awareness, compassion, and time.

Podcast Interviews & Media

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Donna's Journey

Donna’s work grew from the intersection of lived experience, professional leadership, and long-term healing practice. While working full-time in corporate human resources, she began developing an integrated approach to holistic mental wellness—one that honors emotional truth, nervous system reality, and the complexity of becoming whole.

During this time, she launched her work as an energy healer and coach and authored the Wild Moon Healing series, a national bestseller that introduced a cyclical, rhythm-based approach to healing and self-awareness. Over time, her focus has deepened beyond transformation as a goal, toward integration as a way of living.

Donna is a certified breathwork practitioner, a USUI Holy Fire Reiki Master, a certified meditation teacher, and a sound healer. She brings more than 25 years of experience in human resources—work rooted in people, systems, and care—alongside formal training as a Duke Health & Wellbeing Coach and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus. This combination of professional leadership and embodied practice informs her grounded, trauma-aware approach.

Raised in Riva, Maryland, and shaped by summers in Reedy, West Virginia, Donna draws inspiration from nature, stillness, and cyclical time. She is the proud mother of a United States Marine and finds restoration through hiking, reflection, and the quiet presence of the moon.

At the heart of Donna’s work is a belief that healing is not about becoming someone new, but about learning to live with greater honesty, compassion, and self-recognition.

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Speaker & Interviews

Donna S. Conley is a bestselling author and holistic mental wellness practitioner who speaks on healing, self-recognition, and the limits of insight-based change. Her talks and interviews explore how nervous system awareness, reflection, and lived integration support sustainable transformation—without force, performance, or bypassing.

Drawing from her work as an author, teacher, and practitioner, Donna brings clarity, depth, and grounded presence to conversations around mental health, spirituality, and the human experience. She is especially well-suited for audiences seeking thoughtful dialogue at the intersection of emotional wellness and embodied healing.

For interview requests, speaking engagements, or media inquiries related to her books or the Wild Moon Healers® work, please contact:

📩 dsconley@wildmoonhealers.com