Books by Nicole Nichols
Real stories. Real bodies. Real life, while it’s still lifeing.
Featured Books
Real Life Is Lifeing: Coming Back to Yourself in the Middle of Everything
Written from inside the mess, not safely after it, Real Life Is Lifeing is about what happens when work, motherhood, marriage, money, survival, healing, and everything else pile up, and the slow process of finding your way back to yourself.
The Body Gets A Vote: What Survival Leaves Behind
Survival does not end when the emergency is over.
In the second book of the Real Life Is Lifeing memoir trilogy, Nicole Nichols explores what remained after brain surgery, medical trauma, violence, motherhood, and years of being praised for staying strong. Raw, honest, and deeply human, this is a story about listening to the body that carried you through and finally allowing it to have a voice in the life you build next.
Strong Was Never The Goal: What It Cost To Carry Everything
She kept everything moving. Nobody asked what it cost.
In the final book of the Real Life Is Lifeing memoir trilogy, Nicole Nichols looks beneath the competence everyone could see and into the invisible machinery of survival. Motherhood, work, money, education, healing, and the endless responsibility of holding a life together.
This is not a story about becoming less capable. It is about recognizing that love does not require self-abandonment, boundaries are not betrayal, and being needed is not the same as being held.
Coming December 2026.
This Is Only the Beginning
Real Life Is Lifeing is the first book in a three-book series. Two more books are coming soon.
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Real Life Is Lifeing
The Body Gets a Vote
Strong Was Never the Goal
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All three books stand on their own while together telling a larger story of survival, the body, strength, and coming back to yourself.
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Coming Back to Yourself is the companion journal created to walk alongside the entire trilogy, with guided reflection, body-aware check-ins, and space to explore your own story. It can be used with any or all of the books, or completely on its own.
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Author inquiries: nicholsnicole57@yahoo.comÂ
About Nicole Nichols
Nicole Nichols is a registered nurse, educator, yoga teacher, wellness studio owner, writer, and host of the Becoming Her podcast. Her work lives at the intersection of real life, the body, survival, wellness, and what it means to find your way back to yourself while life is still happening.