The SoulPages® Method · Rakefet Hadar

The Books

Three books that came out of thousands of real journal pages. Each one is a full course between two covers, with exercises, guided journeys and step by step processes to work through in your own journal. Open any of them at a random page and there is something waiting that you can start today, with whatever is already on your table.

Layers of Meaning, Elements of Visual Journaling, by Rakefet Hadar
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Layers of Meaning

Elements of Visual Journaling

The book that lays out the method. Intention, magical coincidence, background, images, lines, color and text: the seven elements that build a SoulPages spread. The first chapter takes you through each one with exercises and a step by step tutorial, so you are working on your own page from the very first evening. The last section opens my private journal and gives you the story behind each spread.

Stackpole Books, 2021. Paperback and Kindle.
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Color Archetypes, Healing Processes in the Visual Journal, by Rakefet Hadar
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Color Archetypes

Healing Processes in the Visual Journal

Every color is an archetype, and every archetype is holding something of yours. This book gives you the map: what each color carries, what it heals, and what changes on the page the moment you let a color lead instead of using it to decorate. Two years of writing, hundreds of women who walked the course before it ever became a book, and nine journeys built for the real things, for anxiety, for self doubt, for what is hard to say out loud. The pages inside come from my journal and from my students, so you can always see where a journey ends up before you start it.

2023. Paperback and Kindle.
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Gates of Hope Art Journal, the SoulPages method for visual journaling, by Rakefet Hadar
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Gates of Hope Art Journal

The SoulPages Method for Visual Journaling

Hope is the most important resource we have, and a life has many moments that call for it. This book is how you reach it. Seven gates, seven ways in: holding, empowerment, connection, imagination, presence, spirit and community, and every one of them is a resource you are already carrying. Each gate opens with the true story of a woman who found her own way through it, and then hands you the exact creative practice that brought her there. Nothing in it asks you to fix anything, because it does not treat you as something that needs fixing. It assumes everything you need is already in you, and it shows you where to look.

June 24, 2026. Paperback and Kindle.
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Want to try the method first?

Awaken Your Inner Child is a free mini course. A few short lessons, one page at a time, and within a week you will know whether this way of working is yours. If it is, the books will feel like coming back to something you already started.

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Rakefet Hadar holding her books

About the method, and about me

I am an art therapist, and I was keeping a visual journal long before I ever taught one. What turned a private habit into a method was watching it work on other people. A woman who could not find a single word for what she was carrying would sit down with paper, glue and color, and by the end of the session she had said all of it.

That is what SoulPages is. Seven elements and a clear structure, simple enough to follow alone at your kitchen table on a Tuesday night, strong enough for a facilitator to hold a whole group with. Since 2016 I have been training facilitators in it, and they now work with women far beyond Israel.

My intention is not a small one: to bring this method to every place in the world that needs it. It changes lives. I have watched it happen too many times to say it any more carefully than that. These three books are the method, written down, so you can begin without me in the room.

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