At AuthorsWiki, we are privileged to have had the opportunity to connect with Sharon Diotte, a Author from Michigan, USA, whose unique voice and creative spirit shine through in their latest work, Te’ora. Their book, already making waves across leading platforms, invites readers into a world shaped by imagination, experience, and purpose.
Sharon Diotte is a writer whose work explores the intersection of trauma, healing, and embodied spirituality. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, feminist study, and lived experience as a survivor, she writes with rare honesty about the journey from survival to wholeness. Sharon invites women to reclaim their voices, their bodies, and their spiritual agency, contributing to both personal transformation and the healing of a patriarchal culture.
In this conversation, the author opens up about the deeper motivations behind their storytelling, their personal and literary journey, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Whether you’re a fan of thoughtful writing or someone looking to understand the creative process, this interview promises valuable insight and inspiration.
AuthorsWiki : Apart from writing, what is your occupation for livelihood?
Sharon Diotte : I have had three successful careers over the course of my life. I worked as a Registered Nurse, served as a teacher in the Focus on Women Department at Henry Ford Community College, and later became the creator, owner, and operator of Te’ora—a small hotel on Easter Island that was voted #1 on TripAdvisor and recognized as a “My Pick” by Lonely Planet.
Alongside my professional journey, I raised two wonderful children who have become good citizens, and I am now a proud grandparent to three grandchildren.
Currently, I am enjoying retirement with my husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I will be turning 78 in a few months—a truly delectable phase of life.
AuthorsWiki : Tell us something about your first book.
Sharon Diotte : “Te’ora. From Vulnerability and Wounding to Wisdom and Freedom” is a memoir written in the form of a novel. My intercultural journey takes place in Canada, the USA, Pakistan, and Easter Island.
For decades, my body held trauma memories that my mind could not access. That memory finally surfaced during an urgent tsunami threat while I was living on Easter Island. As I raced to higher ground, terror rose through my body, and with it, something long-protected began to open. When the memory finally surfaced, it set me on a difficult mission through vulnerability and grief to truth-telling, and ultimately to freedom.
AuthorsWiki : Would you like to tell us about your published books?
Sharon Diotte : The delayed awakening of this memory did not exist in isolation. Starting in my childhood, my nervous system had learned to live with danger and heartbreak—my father’s anger, my mother’s alcoholism, her eventual suicide, the catholic church taking my newborn from me because I was an unwed teenager. Those early experiences taught me how to survive by becoming vigilant, adaptable, and silent. I learned how to bury what was too painful to feel.
Dissociation became a protective tool against the accumulative weight of so many wounds. “Te’ora” traces my path of reclaiming the truth my body held for decades and transforming layers of shame into self-agency.
AuthorsWiki : Where did you get the inspiration for publishing books?
Sharon Diotte : I knew as early as my 40s that I was called to write my story. During some heavy passages in my life, I had been supported mightily by women who wrote their stories of surviving and thriving. But I was not yet ready to tell my story. Shame and fear shackled me. I could not risk letting anyone see behind my protective mask. Also, I wanted my book to be uplifting. I wanted to write through the lens of healing, not through the lens of wounding. I needed more years of living under my belt.
In my early 70s, the emergence of #MeToo inspired me to join the rising chorus of women who were coming forward in a global, grassroots effort to break the silence around the patriarchal culture of violation. Writing became a sacred assignment—one I needed to answer for my own evolution and for something larger than myself. By telling my truth, I was not only reclaiming my voice, but participating in the slow, necessary healing of a patriarchal culture that has long required women to endure in silence.
AuthorsWiki : How do you manage your time to write a book?
Sharon Diotte : By the time I finally sat down to write, I had already retired. Even without the responsibilities of work and childrearing, the book took four years to complete. Three times I had to set the project aside, when secrets ripping free from their hidden places in my body manifested as serious illness. There were moments when I wanted to shelve the work forever. Yet I sensed that my body could no longer bear the weight of memories held in silence for so long. Writing was not optional—it was essential to my healing journey.
AuthorsWiki : What is your favorite writing method — the one in which you write the most?
Sharon Diotte : Writing a book happens at the computer but also in the shower, in the grocery aisle, or in the middle of a conversation with a friend. When we follow our soul’s calling the soul does some of the heavy lifting, if we ask. I often ask my ancestors to speak through me. Guides and Angels are eager to help too. I jot down the ideas whenever they download, often on my phone or on scraps of paper. When It’s time to sit at the computer, those notes get woven into the story.
When I get really stuck, I go outside. A breeze blowing through me can loosen a knot. Breathing with the trees and plants shifts my nervous system from mental freeze into flow.
AuthorsWiki : When did you start writing, and how did your interest in writing begin?
Sharon Diotte : I kept a daily journal for decades, but my first professional writing began in my 40s, when I created a wellness-for-women program that wove together my nursing experience with research in feminist studies. In that work, I explored the many factors that shape women’s health – physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. I was invited to teach the program, “A Spiritual Journey to the Divine Feminine,” through the Focus on Women department at a local college. Working with women in transition, who were just beginning to explore the possibility of self-agency, gently quickened my own spiritual awakening.
AuthorsWiki : Is there any special achievement in your life that you would like to share with us and your readers?
Sharon Diotte : Mothering my children was my earliest, dearest achievement.
I didn’t know how to be a mother, how to be a nurse, how to be a teacher, or how to build and operate a successful hotel. But because I loved what I was doing, I figured it out.
My successes taught me something important: when we engage in any task with full-hearted focus, doing the very best we can, with love, because we sense that our work has purpose, the task cannot fail. The Universe, or Source, or God (whatever you call it) is our most ardent ally. It sends our work out into the world in whichever way best contributes to the good of all.
AuthorsWiki : Are you planning to write or publish a book in the present or future?
Sharon Diotte : For now, I am enjoying that liminal space that follows writing and publishing a book. I feel accomplished, in a tender way, when I hold my book in my hands. I’m still learning that it is safe to let myself be seen without my mask, and I imagine that is a work in progress. I’m integrating what I learned from my writing. Examining and owning my life authentically showed me that I have so much more to be proud of than I have to be ashamed of. In unearthing buried memories, re-living those experiences, I discovered the inner strength and resolve that guided me through that long, twisted journey. And I discovered how Divine Guidance helped me steer the journey.
AuthorsWiki : Would you like to give a message to your readers and fans?
Sharon Diotte : Every experience in life, the ones that make us feel proud and the ones that we feel too vulnerable to admit, have all made us who we are. Secrecy around some wounds makes us feel diminished. We will never be free until we break the secrets that carry so much shame. Breaking our silence opens us to our strengths. We are all stronger than we know.
AuthorsWiki : Every writer has their own ideal. Do you also have an ideal writer? And what are your favorite books that you always want to read?
Sharon Diotte : For a “who-done-it,” I enjoy Louise Penny and Jacqueline Winspear books. Always eager for new releases.
For non-fiction, I like Marija Gimbutas, Riane Eisler, Vicki Noble, Starhawk, Alice Walker, Brené Brown, Gloria Steinam, Machaelle Small Wright, Donna Ashworth, Amanda Gorman. When we read women authors telling women stories, we all link arms and rise together.
AuthorsWiki : Apart from writing, what are your other hobbies that you enjoy in your free time?
Sharon Diotte : Daily walks in Nature sustain me. I enjoy cooking, time spent with my hubby, my kids and grandkids, women’s circles, especially Crones circles. Each stage of life has a learning curve built in. I am learning how to be an old woman with purpose: speaking out about misogynism. Inviting other old women to share the podium. Old women have walked bent over and silent for centuries. It’s time to stand straight and speak out. We’re planting our feet strongly so younger women coming along have clear footprints to step into.
AuthorsWiki : Would you like to remain in the writing world in the future as well?
Sharon Diotte : Sure. I am writing articles for magazines and journals.
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