Launching January 30th, 2026!
Pre-order from November 1st, 2025
‘Sex & the City with less shoes and more therapy’
About ‘Other Lovers’
She’s committed to healing her heart, one date at a time.
Lena is back in the dating pool after nearly twenty years and hoping to find love again. But it’s not as easy as she'd thought. Because what does healthy love look and feel like?
After getting married too young, Lena discovers that she needs to heal her childhood trauma, find her independence and figure out what she needs and wants from a relationship or love will stay out of reach. And since no one has modelled this for her in the past, she’s starting from scratch. All while running a global business, this divorced mother of two must navigate the toxic middle-aged app-driven dating pool and let go of the unconscious beliefs that block her from being available to love and be loved.
As she unpacks her triggers and unhealthy relationship patterns, she discovers that she needs to be better with boundaries as well as unlock and enjoy her sensuality. Thank goodness she has an amazing circle of friends, a fabulous date-ready wardrobe and a trusty therapist. Because doing this alone? Not an option.
Join Lena’s epic journey of learning to love in this first book of the Love Sex Poetry Peace trilogy. Her relationships become her classroom. Her poetry becomes her process. And through the right friends and the wrong men she discovers the kind of love she deeply desires and deserves.
!!! Mild trigger warnings, coarse language and mid-level spice included
Expect to be challenged, moved, confronted, shocked and brought home to the heart like never before.
‘I couldn’t stop. Literally glued to Lena’s journey.’ - K
‘Natalia Rachel has captures what so many women go through, but can’t find words for.’ - T
‘Better than therapy. It’s like she was inside my heart.’ - D
‘I felt every word in my bones. Such a visceral read.’ - B
Choose your own adventure >> Stay in the world of fiction and fantasy or cross-over into your own inner work.
Heal for Love – multi-media series
Just like Lena and her besties, embark on the journey of healing past relational wounds to become available for healthy love.
Heal for Love is a complimentary philosophy and self-help experience that has been designed to inspire a re-imagining of love and relationships and support you as you engage with your own healing work.
Volume 1 explores the core themes that the characters in the book are navigating including:
Redefining love, de-conditioning from cultural norms
Power, security and freedom
Self-abandonment
Grief as essential to love
This four-part series includes:
4 x philosophical essays
4 x video author commentaries
4 x thematic poems
4 x self-inquiry questions to ignite your own personal process.
If you’re ready to delve into the way you give and receive love to support greater connection, intimacy and reciprocity… this series is perfect for you!
About the works
This women’s commercial fiction series is a point of departure from Natalia Rachel’s first non-fiction book ‘Why am I like this?’ that came out with Penguin Random House in 2022. She’s dropped the lens of a therapist or a survivor and has explore through the lens of one complex women, wondering why love seems so elusive in today’s modern world.
While the work is a narrative lead fiction, it has been inspired by the lived experiences of the author, her inner circle and many of her therapy clients. The prose that precedes each chapter was originally part of Natalia’s personal process, and has been re-assigned to the characters in the series.
In addition to the fiction work, Natalia has created a bonus multi-media experience where readers can opt to cross over from being a fly on the wall in the characters journey of healing for love, and do their own inner work. This draws on her roots as a non-fiction writer and therapist. Natalia hopes that the works speak to the masses of women who are wishing for a greater kind of love, and inspires them to walk towards it.