Before Candace Raynes ever put a word on a page, she was sitting across from women who were exhausted in ways they couldn’t fully name.
As a Naturotherapist and Somatic Practitioner, and the founder of Woman UnWound, Candace has spent years working directly with women navigating the complicated terrain of nervous system dysregulation — the chronic tension, the hypervigilance, the exhaustion that sleep doesn’t touch. She understands this territory not only because she read about it, but because she works in it. Every day.
And her two latest journals — that we’re also announcing today — grew directly from her practice.
Not Self-Help. Practice Tools.
That distinction matters to us just as much as it does her, and to those she guides. Soften and UnWound are not motivational reads or simple collections of wellness tips. They’re structured, practitioner-designed tools — daily guided journals built around the same principles Candace brings to her practice with her clients.
Soften: A 12-Week Daily Journal for Women Who Are Tired of Holding It All Together gives readers twelve weeks of daily morning and evening reflections, gently guiding them toward the kind of release that has nothing to do with giving up and everything to do with finally putting down what was never theirs to carry.
UnWound: A 10-Week Nervous System Regulation Journal for Women Coming Home to Themselves goes deeper into the body’s own language — helping readers understand and work with their nervous system responses rather than fighting them. Fight, flight, freeze, fawn — Candace brings the same compassionate, informed lens to the page that she brings to her practice room.
The woman picking up either of these journals is getting something that was genuinely built for her — at the moment in time she’s meant to find it — by someone who has sat with women exactly like her when they needed someone most.
On Signing Candace
DENNER Media exists to publish voices that have something real to offer — practitioners, coaches, educators, and guides whose work deserves to reach beyond their immediate community. The authors we hope to continue working with aren’t simply people who want to write a book. They’re people who have already been doing the work — in their practices, their communities, and their own lives — and who’ve reached a point where the page is the natural next step.
We are a small house by design. That means we’re selective, not because we want to close doors, but because the authors we take on receive our full attention, and full attention is something we refuse to spread thin. Every title we publish carries the DENNER Media name, and we take that seriously. That said, we genuinely want to hear from you. If you are a practitioner, a coach, an educator, a guide with a body of work and an audience that is ready to hold a book in their hands, or any other aspiring author — we want to know about it. We review every inquiry that comes to us, and even when the timing or fit isn’t right, we try to say so with the same care we’d want someone to extend to us.
If that sounds like a conversation worth having, reach out. The worst that happens is we get to know each other a little better.
Speaking of such authors; Candace Raynes is exactly that. Her journals don’t perform wellness. They practise it. They guide. And they do so with the kind of quiet authority that only comes from someone who has done the work — with clients, and within herself. You soften. You find yourself unwound.
We’re proud to publish her — and proud that Soften and UnWound are where DENNER Media officially begins in its journey as a boutique, indie publishing house.
Find Candace
Both journals are available now in paperback and hardcover through Amazon worldwide.
Learn more about Candace’s practice and the Woman UnWound community at womanunwound.com.
Her full author profile and both titles are at amazon.com/author/candaceraynes.
A Note on Being First
Every publishing house has a first author. And given the extraordinary connect between she and our Founder, we could NOT be happier that our first official author is Candace!
It sets a standard we intend to keep.
— DENNER Media, Fredericton, New Brunswick