When I first printed Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself, I thought the process was complete.
It wasn’t.
11 of 13 copies remain.
Not a marketing number. My number.
When they're gone, this chapter closes for good.
Something about the mass-printed version felt unfinished — too clean, too resolved, too polite for a story that was ANYTHING but.
So instead of discarding them, I alchemized them.
Each remaining copy has now been hand-altered or marked by me, transforming it from a product into an artifact — a record of lived healing, interruption, and truth.
I call them The Final 13.
This edition marks a moment in time — before the series expanded.
It is not being recreated.
The augmented reality may evolve.
The book itself will not.
It remains a physical record of what happens when someone stops believing the lie that their body is broken — and listens instead.
Because when the body is heard, it heals.
No two are the same.
No copies will be added later.
This is a closed chapter on the first year of Every Phase.
Yet it continues to evolve as we approach year 5 of 13.
Like all of my work, it exists to be experienced — not consumed.
It’s alive, and it bleeds…
Released during Mercury Retrograde in ♓, March 2026
🌑 Mercury Retrograde Is the Period of the Universe.
And we are in one now.
Retrogrades are not for launching something new.
They are for re-turning.
Re-viewing.
Re-writing.
Re-membering.
This re-release of Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself arrives during the menstrual phase of my Every Phase series — the phase of truth, integration, and blueprinting.
Just as the body sheds what it no longer needs, this edition sheds what no longer fits.
Mercury retrograde asks us to slow down.
The menstrual phase asks us to listen.
This book is both.
Learn more about the Every Phase Series here
More info on the Menstrual phase hereAll Menstrual Phase Art Pieces here
🜂 WHAT THIS BOOK HOLDS
This book was named a Finalist in Art & Illustration by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, recognizing it as a work that bridges art, biology, and truth in a way that resists conventional categories.
It documents six full cycles — created between April and December 2021, the first year of the Every Phase series before it expanded into its ongoing 13-year arc (currently in year 5).
You may have heard of “everyday” projects — a sketch a day, or Beeple’s Everydays, where one image was created everyday, for 5,000 days.
That framework mirrors how our world is built around testosterone and the daily rhythm of 24-hour constant output in our 9-5 western world.
Every Phase was created as a refusal of that model, and a feminine response to Beeple’s record-breaking sale.
Women do not complete themselves in a day.
Our completeness lives in cycles.
The infradian rhythm — the 28-day hormonal cycle — moves through four distinct phases, each with its own chemistry, energy, and truth.
This book includes writing, imagery, and augmented reality elements that document the lived process of healing.
It is a mirror.
(literally)
AUGMENTED REALITY: THE LAYER THAT LIVED
This book was created with augmented reality elements — selected images that came alive beyond the page, blending the physical and digital worlds.
The AR was a metaphor.
Just as healing happens across layers — body, psyche, shadow, truth — the work lived across formats.
When I released this book, I said the AR was a living layer, not a permanent guarantee. That some experiences may shift or fade over time, just as phases do.
That phase has completed.
During its life, the AR earned this book a Finalist recognition in Art & Illustration from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a dedicated case study from Overly, the platform that powered it.
What remains is what was always constant: the physical artifact, the imagery, and the truth it holds.
The tech was a layer. The medicine was never in the app.
🤌 Fingerprints on the cover can be gently wiped with a damp cloth and allowed to dry.
This book was made to be handled, not preserved behind glass.
💲A NOTE ON VALUE
I am not discounting these copies.
Not because they are perfect —
but because they are true.
Only 13 copies of this edition exist, available exclusively through my Substack as part of my living ecosystem.
Once these relics are gone, this version of the work closes permanently.
There will be no reprints.
No recreations.
$111 · The Final 13
Each copy includes a signed first-edition book that no one else in the world will have with custom hand alterations (drawing, mixed media, gold leaf, or interruption — each unique).
🜃 THIS IS FOR YOU IF…
you’re tired of being gaslit by doctors.
you want to stop gaslighting yourself & became friends with your shadow.
you’re done living a lie.
you want your cycle to become your superpower.
you feel called to art as medicine.
you want to break toxic cycles in your life or family.
you want to heal endometriosis by honoring biology and the cycle.
you want to become a galvanized empath & heal from narcissistic abuse.
This book doesn’t fix you.
It remembers you.
A perfect gift for The Great Awakening.
♦️ To Those Who Purchased the Original Edition ♦️
If you are one of the early supporters who purchased the first printing— thank you. You were part of the raw beginning.
You held this work before it evolved. You trusted the process before refinement.
This new hand-altered edition does not replace your copy. It builds upon it.
You are part of this lineage.
And if you’d like to add it to your collection, reach out directly — I’ll take care of you.
🩸 The Healing Blueprint Behind the Book
Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself tells the story of how I healed.
But if you’re asking:
What exactly did you do?
What modalities?
What science?
What supplements?
What practices?
What biohacks?
I have a Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself Podcast AND….
I created a free companion guide.
From Pain to Power is my curated toolkit of the modalities, supplements, science, and practices that helped me heal what Western medicine told me was “impossible.”
The science beneath the sovereignty.
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Art that does not just hang on a wall. It lands in the bloodstream.
To my friends, my enemies, and everyone in between…
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for walking this path with me.
And remember—
You don’t need permission to heal.
You just need the courage to remember how.
Face your shit,
Heal yourself.
— Meredith