A car accident. A helicopter. A trauma center. And somewhere else entirely — a warm place where light was everything, where she reviewed her life with a first-century tax collector named Matthew and was asked a single question: Are you ready?
She said yes. Then she came back.
What followed was thirty years of living on this side of the veil — raising familiars, loving people, losing them, becoming a green-eyed monster jealous of the dead for arriving home — and finally, the decision to stop keeping the light to herself.
Inside these pages
A near-death experience like no other account you've read
Jungian shadow work & quantum reckoning
Decades of grief, grace, and the people who refused to be shaken loose
A Call to Action for every Light Worker in the shadows
Seven steps — not a syllabus. A compass.
"I believe that if you are holding this book — if something drew you to it — then something in these pages is meant for you. Welcome to the space between worlds, where time bends and love persists and the light, once you have seen it, never fully leaves you." — Dr. Tiffany Solter, from the introduction
Welcome to the magic.
Tiffany Solter, PhD is a mental health professional, educator, advocate, and lifelong seeker of magic whose writing explores the boundaries between life, death, justice, and the profound connections that define us. Born into a family of mountain people spanning Wyoming and Colorado, she grew up shaped, largely, by two grandmothers who taught her, one through train journeys across the West, the other chasing shooting stars across the plains, that anything is possible.
A survivor of a near-death experience in 1996, Solter spent decades integrating what she encountered in that "warm place where light is everything" into a life of healing work, academic achievement, and fierce advocacy. She holds a doctorate with a dissertation on grace and recovery, and has worked alongside peer counselors, nurses, and mental health teams she considers among the most transformative teachers of her life.
Her advocacy voice is unflinching and deeply personal. In "Be a Man": The Violence Society Ignores, Solter turns her clinical expertise and lived experience toward a crisis our culture has long refused to see: domestic violence against men. Drawing on research, survivor accounts, and her own family history, she challenges the archetypal and institutional blind spots that leave male victims invisible, unbelieved, and without adequate resources. The book is equal parts gripping fiction, Jungian psychological analysis, and practical call to action. It is complete with resource guides for survivors, supporters, military families, and children. It is the work of someone who has sat in clinical rooms with these men, loved them as family, and refused to stay silent.
She lives in what she calls Camelot, a home she and her husband Jeff manifested in childhood whispers, surrounded by family, familiars, motorcycles, and what she simply calls the magic.
“Between Worlds” is her memoir. "Be a Man" is her battle cry.