A House of Indigo™ Program
You decide what that looks like.
There's a part of your story that has never had a voice. Not the version you've processed. Not the one you tell people when they ask how you're doing. The other one. The one with teeth.
You have been so good at holding it together.
So good at doing the work. Saying the right things. Being the person who healed gracefully, who found the lesson, who showed up anyway. That version of you is remarkable.
She can rest now.
Because there's another version of you that has never had a safe place to exist. The one that wanted to set his house on fire. That rehearsed exactly what she'd say if she ever got the chance. That knows, in the most primal, instinctive part of her, that justice should have looked different. That has a rage she's never let all the way out because there was nowhere safe to put it — nowhere that wouldn't cost her something.
This is that place.
In other times — other cultures, centuries ago — that impulse wasn't something you hid. It was something you acted on. You avenged what was taken. You didn't perform okayness. You didn't do the work and then do more work and then thank the universe for the lesson.
We don't live in those times. But that part of us didn't get the memo.
She's still in there. And she has something to say.
This is where she gets to say it.
I know this because I've lived it. I know what it is to hold it together in public and rehearse the version where I got to burn it all down in private. This isn't theory to me. This is the container I needed and built because it didn't exist.
She didn't evolve away.
She's been waiting.
Narrative alchemy isn't a metaphor. It's a mechanism.
You've heard the advice to just write it out a hundred times. This isn't that. This is using the act of writing to actually change your relationship to the story — not journaling it, not processing it into a tidy lesson, but transmuting it. Taking the version that was done to you and writing the version you author instead.
2020 is when I learned this the hard way. Surgery. My sister losing her partner. A Lyme diagnosis that came with neurological symptoms that hijacked my mood, my memory, my relationships — everything that should have felt like the best years of my life, being a mother, building the publishing company I'd dreamed about, instead spent fighting something invisible. My brother-in-law. My aunt. Our family dog. A friend of over twenty years. Most of it sudden. Loss stopped arriving one at a time. It just kept coming.
And then my brother was killed. That's the one that undid everything else.
I didn't get better by processing that gracefully. I got better by finding a place to put what I actually felt — the parts that weren't gracious, weren't evolved, weren't ready for a room. This program is that place, built for you the way I had to build it for myself.
You've done the healing. Now you're ready to do the writing.
Stop being careful.
Six months. Your story. A published book at the end of it.
Happily Ever After is a group healing, writing, and publishing program. A space to set down the nice girl and let your warrior step out — and then put what she has to say in permanent print through House of Indigo™.
You'll write your chapter — personal narrative, flash fiction, a revenge fantasy, a rewritten ending, the version where you burned it all down — and it gets published in a multi-author anthology.
This is not a writing workshop. Not a grief group. Not another container asking you to process and integrate and arrive at acceptance. This is the place where the part of you that never got to speak gets a microphone. And a book.
The Clearing
We drop the performance first. Group energetic work, distance clearings, activations, rage sessions. We get out of the story you've been performing and into the one that's actually true.
The Writing
Guided containers to write your chapter. Personal narrative, fiction, fantasy, hybrid — whatever form the truth needs to take. The only requirement is that it's real.
The Publishing
Editorial, design, full publication through House of Indigo™. Your story. In print. Permanent. Exactly as fierce as it needs to be.
I built this because I needed it to exist.
I'm Jess Verrill — USA Today bestselling author, publishing strategist, and founder of House of Indigo™. Two decades at the intersection of story, healing, and what it actually takes to put something real into the world.
At the time my brother died, I was producing another author's book — the true story of an Indigenous woman who avenged her brother's death. I found myself fantasizing about what that would look like for me. What it would feel like to right the wrong the way it felt like it deserved to be righted.
I want to be clear: I never wanted to actually hurt anyone. But the pain was so unbearable that I understood, for the first time, how a person could get there. How human that impulse actually is when grief has nowhere else to go.
What I found instead was the page. A place to put the rage, the grief, the fantasy of righting the wrong — fully, honestly, without judgment — and let it move through me instead of staying stuck. Not as the survivor telling what happened to her. As the one who gets to decide what happens next.
That's where Happily Ever After was born.
I'm not here to hold your hand through it. I'm here to hold the container while you finally stop being careful — and write the thing you actually came to write.
One price. Everything included.
$3333 — the clearing, the rage sessions, the writing, the community, the book. No add-ons. No tiers. All of it.
The women who are already in are done being careful. They're ready to reclaim their power — and you're welcome to join them.
Scholarships may be available. If cost is the only thing standing between you and this and you know you're supposed to be here — reach out. We'll figure it out.
"Writing my chapter for a multi-author book was the step that helped me find my voice again — and feel ready to be visible in the world as a bestselling author."
— Sarah L. Wayne
"I felt completely understood. Jess made the process peaceful and nourishing — a graceful cresendo and release, not something to brace for."
— Shawna D. Smith
The women who are already in are ready to reclaim their power. Your story — finally, fully told, on your terms. In print.
Claim Your SpotScholarships may be available. Reach out if needed.