If you’ve felt the pull to write your story—whether it’s fiction or nonfiction—HeARTspace is a place made for that journey. Founded by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, this community holds space for those who are healing, using art and storytelling as pathways toward wholeness.
In these writing workshops, seminars, and one-on-one coaching sessions, Tracey serves as a kind of creative midwife, gently guiding you as you bring your story to life. She knows firsthand how powerful it can be to turn pain into art, to find threads of joy and healing in the process. If you're ready to tell your truth, Tracey is here to help you shape it—one word at a time.
"Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts wields curiosity like a scalpel, revealing shards of liberation and unexpected heterotopias while loving us ferociously.” —Kiese Laymon, Author of Heavy and Long Division
“Part memoir, part mediation, part manifesto, [Tracey's writing] has the character and skill of poetry, the brilliance of grace, the mystery of Black wisdom, and the illumination that the world we have been given is not all that there is to life. This book is affirmation. It is witness. It is lush. It is liberation. It is fire. It is spirit. It is testimony. It is gospel.” — Danté Stewart, author of Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle
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As a writer and thought-leader, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts offers those who read her work and hear her speak an authentic experience; an opportunity to explore the intersection of culture, identity, wellness, and faith/spirituality at the deepest levels. She is the host of the podcast, HeARTtalk with Tracey Michae’l, and founder of HeARTspace, a healing community created to serve those who have experienced trauma of any kind through the use of storytelling and the arts.
As a writer, Tracey has published 25 books including several collaborations with numerous high-profile authors. Calling herself a “literary midwife,” this New York Times Bestseller author is a highly sought-after ghostwriter/collaborator whose work includes Feeding the Soul and I Did a New Thing by Tabitha Brown, Better Not Bitter by Yusef Salaam, Sideshow by Rickey Smiley, and many others.
In 2021, Tracey became one of 20 writers who contributed to the groundbreaking book, You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience edited by acclaimed researcher, Brene Brown, and founder of the MeToo Movement, Tarana Burke.
In 2022, Tracey’s critically-acclaimed book, Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (Gallery/Simon and Schuster) was published and in 2023, Black Joy won the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional and has received rave reviews from celebrities like Kerry Washington, literary authors like Kiese Laymon and Deesha Philyaw, and media outlets like Good Morning America, Essence Magazine, and USA Today. Tracey’s most recent book, Then They Came for Mine: Healing from the Trauma of Racial Violence (WJK), examines the source and impact of racial violence against Black people in all its forms and offers a blueprint for the way the Christian Church can help facilitate healing. Then They Came for Mine has won the 2023 Wilbur Award, the highest honor given by the Religion Communicators Council, for excellence in the communication of religious issues, values, and themes, in public media.
Most recently, Tracey’s dynamic journal/daily devotional, The Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight released on October 29, 2024.
Tracey has spoken on a number of platforms around the country on topics related to social justice, healing, and faith/spirituality. Additionally, her freelance work has been published in print and online publications such as Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Essence Magazine, The Guardian, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Ebony Magazine, TheRoot.com, and more.