Sacred Archives is a collection of love letters between you and someone meaningful in your life.
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Some relationships carry you through your entire life.

You may think of a best friend.
Or someone who showed up for you when you needed it most.

She’s the one who listens when everything feels heavy.
She sits with you when you feel broken.
She celebrates with you when life feels bright again.
She reminds you who you are when you forget.

Sacred Archives is your opportunity to honour that kind of connection.

A chance for you to say thank you.
A chance for you to put into words the love and gratitude you feel for the woman who stood beside you through it all.

Sacred Archives is being created to raise funds for 

For many women, leaving an unsafe home is the hardest step they will ever take.

When they arrive at a shelter, they often leave behind almost everything.

Their belongings.
Their routine.
Their sense of stability.

This book is meant to meet them there.

Inside its pages they will find you, alongside 149 other women, offering encouragement, friendship, and hope.

All of you letting this special woman know she is not alone.

How You Can Participate..
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Sacred Archives will feature 150 women, each sharing a story of connection.

If you’re joining with someone, you’ll appear on facing pages, each of you sharing a photo and a letter to one another.

If you’re contributing on your own, you’ll have your own dedicated page to share your letter and your message.

Your words might be written to someone you love, someone you’ve lost, or someone who needs encouragement right now.

When she opens this book, she will meet you plus 149 other women standing beside her.

Even though she may never meet you in person, she will know you are quietly rooting for her behind the scenes.

Stay Connected to the Story

Sacred Archives is more than a book.
It's something you're a part of. A growing circle of women supporting women.
Leave your email to receive updates on the project, the impact you're helping create for Halton Women's Place, and when the book is released.

Your Contribution.
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Participation in the book is through a tax-deductible donation.
$300 per participant
You are welcome to pay in full today or pay in instalments of your choice between now and September 30, 2026.

All proceeds directly support Halton Women’s Place. (Design, production and print co-ordination time is donated by White Lightning Communications. Printing is at a low charitable rate) 

Each participant will receive a charitable tax receipt* for the full amount + a printed copy of the book.
Additional copies will be printed for Halton Women's place.
Additional copies for your local shelter will be able to be ordered from Amazon, details and links will be available after the book launch, Nov. 13, 2026.
*Charitable tax receipts are issued under Canadian guidelines and may only apply to Canadian income tax filings. Please check with your local tax authority regarding eligibility in your country.

IMPORTANT: Donation Instructions

Clicking the button below will take you directly to the Givergy site, this is the platform Halton Women's place uses to collect donations.
To pay in full:
Once on the page, please scroll to the bottom and click the 'Sacred Archives' button ($300). To pay in instalments:
Scroll to the bottom and fill in the 'Custom Donation' button and enter your custom amount.

Once you have made your donation, kindly email amy@amybell.ca your receipt.

I will then add you to my master list of contributors and will send you further instructions.
 

If you would like to support the project but prefer not to be featured in the book, simply use the same Donate button and scroll down to the Custom Donation option.

Step 1
Make your $300 donation or your instalment and send your receipts to Amy Bell, amy@amybell.ca

Step 2
Send a high-resolution photo of yourself to Amy Bell, amy@amybell.ca

Step 3
Send your 300-word letter to Amy Bell, amy@amybell.ca
(Please use MS Word to give you word counts **If you are joining with your best friend, kindly keep your letters private until the book launch!)

Step 4
A proof of your page will be sent to you for approval before printing.

Book Launch.
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What Participants Receive.
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You Receive:

• Best friend pairs receive: A double-page feature in Sacred Archives
• Joining on your own: A single-page feature in Sacred Archives
• A professionally designed page you and one for your best friend
• A printed copy of the book
• The opportunity to support women rebuilding their lives
• A charitable tax receipt for your donation

Additional copies will be printed and donated to Halton Women’s Place.

Additional copies will be available for purchase on Amazon if you would like to donate copies to your local women's shelter.

Why I Created Sacred Archives.
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My name is Amy Bell. I have had a passion for design, writing, and publishing for more than 30 years. Twenty-two of those years were spent in the corporate world.

In 2017, that passion led me to start my own boutique branding and publishing house.

The transition from a steady paycheque to being my own boss was not easy. I struggled with many parts of running a business. The administrative side felt overwhelming, and the constant question of where the next paycheque would come from was exhausting.

To be honest, I was getting discouraged.

In 2020 I joined a Facebook group called From Wallet to Wealth, founded by Whitney Hammond. I was never really a Facebook group person, but this one felt different right away.

The women were supportive. The conversations were engaging. And everyone seemed genuinely interested in helping one another succeed.

I joined just before their annual gala, which was held online that year due to lockdown. I remember being completely blown away by the speakers and by how many people stayed on the call for the entire event.

Over the next year, I became more and more involved in the community.

When restrictions finally lifted, many of us met in person for the first time at a vision-boarding session led by Kirsten Frey and hosted at Whitney’s cottage.

I was more than a little apprehensive. Lockdown had turned me into a bit of a homebody, and here I was driving two hours to meet women I had only ever spoken to on Zoom.

But that weekend did more than introduce me to a group of women.

It quietly pulled me into something much bigger than I expected.

And over the next few years, that connection would lead to an idea I never saw coming.
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Fast forward to 2024. Whitney introduced the Wallet to Wealth Ambassador program, which invited women to give on a new level. Participants commit to donating $5,000 of their own money and raising an additional $5,000 over the course of the year.

In return, we were invited to attend a monthly mindset mastermind with Dave Conway.

Over time, I began helping the team behind the scenes with design and administrative work to keep the community running smoothly.

Then, during the ramp-up to the 2025 gala, I kept asking myself the same question.

What could I create with the skills I already had that would actually make a meaningful difference?

AI had no idea that the answer was about to arrive on one very difficult evening.
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Right in the middle of preparing all the marketing for the gala, I found myself having a meltdown of monumental proportions one evening. The kind of sadness that only a best friend can pull you out of.

So I did what many women do.

I called mine.

She listened. She reassured me. She helped me find my footing again.

After that conversation, I started thinking about how powerful friendship really is.

Having someone who believes in you can change everything.

And then another thought appeared.

What about the women who don’t have someone to call?

What about the women who arrive at Halton Women’s Place, facing one of the darkest chapters of their lives?

Was there a way to combine the gratitude I felt for my best friend with my desire to raise funds for women who were going through something unimaginable?

That is when the idea appeared.

What if best friends wrote love letters to one another… and those words could also encourage a woman walking through the hardest chapter of her life?

That question became Sacred Archives.

My goal is simple.

To feature you + 149 other women all showing up for one another in 
a collaboration book of encouragement and hope
helping raise $45,000 for Halton Women's Place.

Join the Sacred Archives
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Invite your best friend.

Write your letters.

Stand beside women rebuilding their lives.

Stay Connected to the Story

Sacred Archives is more than a book.
It is a growing circle of women supporting women.

Leave your email to receive updates on the project, the impact we are creating for Halton Women’s Place, and when the book is released.