About

Hello! I’m Rahima Warren—an expressive artist, eclectic mystic, and a third-generation native of California.  I reside with my husband in Northern California, where I periodically chase squirrels off the wild bird feeders and deer away from my roses.  My life-long love of fantasy is my parents’ fault: they left sci-fi and fantasy magazines with fascinating cover art lying around the house. Naturally, they were the first things I picked up to read.

For 20 years, I was a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. Drawing from my experience with my clients, and from my own inner journey, I wrote The Star-Seer’s Prophecy from a place of compassion, emotional and spiritual authenticity–and surrender to the creative flow, as detailed below. I retired in 2006 to focus on my expressive painting and spiritual studies, and to devote myself to the writing of this powerful healing story.  

How My Hero Turned Me Into A Writer

Once upon a time, I was a psychotherapist, minding my own business, and seeing my clients. Then one day in December 1999, I wrote a little story in my journal. The idea was to write down this inner character’s story so he’d stop bugging me. Big mistake!

That little story opened the floodgates. Seventeen years later, I’ve retired from my practice, and have written a dark, deep, spiritual and healing fantasy trilogy, entitled The Star Seer’s Prophecy.

How’d this happen, you ask? It wasn’t my idea! The hero of the trilogy—his name is Kyr, by the way—had quite a journey to go on. The only way he could do it was to take over my life and turn me into a writer. When those floodgates opened, a rush of intense, exciting creative energy poured forth. I surrendered to the current and it swept me along.

Fortunately for me (and perhaps unfortunately for my clients), I didn’t want to do anything but write Kyr’s story. I had no plan. I just went with the flow and wrote what Kyr showed me. His story started out so dark that I was sure I would never show it to anyone, ever! But it was so much fun to write, I had to keep on going. It was the only way to find out what happened next!

From a certain angle, it seems like my whole life was preparation to write Kyr’s story. In one version or another, he has been lurking in my fantasy life since I was in the second grade. After decades of personal growth work; after becoming a transpersonal counselor and working with clients for twenty years; after writing journals full of reflections, poetry and dreamwork; after many adventures, vision quests and spiritual awakenings; and finally, after becoming an Expressive Arts therapist, I was ready. I’d learned to trust the creative process and my soul’s hidden wisdom, and was able to allow Kyr’s story to pour forth without censoring or editing.

Once the first draft was done, I understood what the story was about, and reshaped it quite a bit. Then I realized that I’d written an entire fantasy trilogy! With the help of my editor and now publisher, Naomi Rose, I refined the still rather raw draft, improving and revising until The Star-Seer’s Prophecy trilogy was born.

Though the initial flood of creativity and inspiration has waned somewhat—I’m not staying up until 2:00AM writing these days—I’m having fun writing my blog, Inner Views, with posts offering inspiration for your journey on the hard path of psychological growth, creativity, and spiritual discovery.