Your Main Character Rebirth Using Shadow Work, Story, and Somatics
by Rilee Astraea
Rilee Astraea, author of The Other Side of Awakening, returns with The Art of Anastasis—a pragmatic, mystical approach to personal transformation rooted in shadow work, storytelling, and somatic expression.
Her signature six‑phase framework, drawn from the same process she offers in mentorship, takes readers from cracking the code and naming the game, to feeling it fully, telling a new story, using energy as alchemy, and creating sustainable rhythm and ritual to live in alignment.
Each chapter blends raw personal narrative with clear tools for emotional clarity, identity work, and nervous system awareness. Readers learn to name what’s been hidden, feel what’s been avoided, and reconnect to truth through body‑based practices including movement, reflection, and creativity. It’s deep work without analysis paralysis—an invitation to reclaim your “main character energy” and your magic.
Part of Astraea’s Practical Magic series, where psychological insight and lived experience meet spiritual truth and creative practice, The Art of Anastasis is for anyone navigating collapse, identity shifts, or spiritual questioning. Poetic and mystical in tone yet grounded in reality, it offers a framework for the conscious resurrection of self through shadow, story, and somatic expression—and the reminder that you are the story, so you can always write a new one.
Rilee Astraea is a Poetic Author, Creative Mystic, and Somatic Identity Coach known for her genre-blurring nonfiction rooted in identity, psychology, and transformation.
Rilee Astraea is a Poetic Author, Creative Mystic, and Somatic Identity Coach known for her genre-blurring nonfiction rooted in identity, psychology, and transformation. Writing publicly as Mystic in the Matrix, she guides others through reinvention by weaving story, shadow work, and somatic expression into accessible pathways of change. A former communications strategist for Fortune 500s, Rilee spent nearly a decade shaping narratives and leading behavior-change projects before a profound awakening unraveled and reassembled her truth. Her first book, The Other Side of Awakening, is a lyrical exploration of ego death and spiritual rebirth. Her second, The Art of Anastasis, extends her poetic style into a practical framework for personal transformation. Her forthcoming titles continue this vision, blending poetry and psychology into accessible guides for soul-rooted living. Through her studio, House of Astraea, she and her husband Tim blend story, soul, and sustainability—offering books, music, mentorship, and embodied experiences that bring meaning back to the everyday. Her work is a living reminder that you are the story—and you can always write a new one.
A genre-blurring memoir of ego death, shadow work, and spiritual rebirth—for anyone who’s ever unraveled and wondered if it was the beginning, not the end.