A Memoir for Every Woman Who Has Forgotten Her Own Nature
This book is where my story lives in full. It took me a lifetime to write it and considerable courage to publish it. I share it not as confession for its own sake, but because I believe the truth of one woman’s experience — told honestly and without armor — has the power to unlock something in another.
It is available in print, ebook, and audiobook (read by me).
Audiobook Sample
She was raised to be the darling — accomplished, beautiful, and perfectly behaved. She married well, lived beautifully, and smiled at all the right moments. In the gleaming world of Silicon Valley wealth and status, Cindie White had everything a woman was supposed to want. And no one wanted to hear that it wasn’t enough.
Everything shifts when her hand closes around an ancient buffalo bone and electricity moves through her body. What awakens is not a hobby but a calling — a secret sacred practice of gathering bones, learning the old arts of restoration, tracking wolves, and letting the animal kingdom speak a language her civilized world had spent decades trying to silence.
Bone by bone, she pieces herself back together.
Confessions of a Bone Woman is the memoir of a woman who was given every external gift and had to fight to find her own voice anyway. It is for every woman who has been told she has no right to her own hunger — and who suspects that somewhere beneath the performance, her wild and knowing self is still waiting.
This book was recognized with multiple awards in its first year of publication.
2018 Beverly Hills Book Awards — Women’s Issues · Winner
2018 Beverly Hills Book Awards — Spirituality · Winner
2018 Living Now Book Award — Inspirational Memoir · Bronze
2018 National Indie Excellence Award — Memoir · Finalist
2018 Readers’ Favorite Book Award — Non-Fiction · Finalist
2018 San Francisco Book Festival — Autobiography · Runner Up
San Francisco Book Review · Five Stars
“With the deepest love in my heart for the animal kingdom, I donate 25 percent of all proceeds from the sale of this book to Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary.”
— Cindie White
“Confessions of a Bone Woman is a reckoning of an ancient soul making her way through the modern world.”
— Pixie Lighthorse, author of Boundaries and Protection
“A testament to wildness and womanhood. This book makes us remember the hunger and the howl we’ve spent all our lives trying to suppress, and proves that we can still be wild in a modern world. Open with caution: you may never be the same.”
— Alison Nappi, creator of The Wildness Deck
A spellbinding memoir full of poetry and grit. Taking us on a heroine’s journey, White’s story is palpable as she answers call after call to wild adventures outside of her mainstream lifestyle and suffers through harrowing tests of loneliness, courage and determination to reclaim her authentic, untamed, feminine nature.”
— Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, authors of The Enchanted Tarot
“Intuitive and spiritually engaging — a memoir like no other, leading the reader along a subjective path of wonder, opening their mind to where primal instinct and vivid dreams connect to the animal kingdom, symbolism, reincarnation, and all things metaphysical.”
— San Francisco Book Review ★★★★★
“The confessional quality makes Confessions of a Bone Woman very strong. It will endure as a teaching manual for many who are still bound up. I applaud this wild, raw courage.”
— Gail Burkett PhD, author of Nine Passages for Women and Girls
“Recounts her epic journey as a contemporary shaman, drawing us deep into her world where magic, nature, and symbolism meld with high-tech start-ups, haute couture, and homemaking.”
— Madelyn Soldner Sullivan, creator of Made by Madelyn Sandals
“An uplifting and eye-opening take on the falseness of modern life, with an intriguing revelation about what really matters at the end of the day.”
— Readers’ Favorite
“A deftly presented autobiography of an interesting life lived in interesting times — written with impressive candor and exceptional perception. A consistently engaging and inherently fascinating read from beginning to end.”
— Julie Summers, Midwest Book Review
“The trials and tribulations of this wise woman will help you on your own search for your true self.”
— Awareness Magazine
“This book is a fascinating read and will inspire many on their journeys to wholeness.”
— Bani Sodermark, BookPleasures.com
If this book finds you at the right moment — and books have a way of doing that — I hope it gives you something real to carry forward.