About me
Valley Haggard is an author, teacher, energy worker, and spiritual life coach with twenty-five + years in 12-step recovery. A Reiki master and Shamanic Reiki practitioner, she combines energy work and other healing modalities with expressive writing in sacred circles and healing narrative workshops both locally and internationally.
Prior to offering writing workshops, Reiki certifications, and transformational retreats, Valley was a Waffle House waitress, a dude ranch cabin girl, a hotel maid, a cruise ship stewardess, and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
She has received Richmond Magazine’s Theresa Pollak Prize, Style Weekly’s Women in the Arts Award, and the James River Writers’ Emyl Jenkins award.
Valley is the author of The Halfway House for Writers, Surrender Your Weapons: Writing to Heal, a memoir, There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things, and an oracle deck, The Sacred Circle Writing Oracle. You can visit her at valleyhaggard.com
