The Rapanui word “Te’ora” means “a beautiful new life.”
Te’ora is a story of one woman’s international pilgrimage across continents, from Canada to the United States, to Pakistan, and to Rapa Nui – each landscape offering its own lessons in resilience, perspective, and, ultimately, transformation from surviving to thriving.
Sharon Diotte’s journey of reclaiming her voice reminds us that profound wounding can become a doorway to wisdom, voice, and spiritual awakening. It reflects a much larger cultural movement of women breaking silence and restoring sacred balance.
She offers her story as comfort and support for other women who might see themselves in her journey, that they may feel encouraged by their own strength and resiliency as they follow their own paths to healing, and create their own beautiful, new lives.
You can now order Te’ora through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, your favorite bookstore, and you can even ask your public library to acquire a copy!
My talk on “The Long Journey from Silence to Voice” from the 2026 Crones, Hags & Elder Wise Women Power Summit, is now out on YouTube! It was an honor to be a part of Alison Palmer’s Annual Summit. The support and resilience from the people I’ve connected with during this experience has uplifted me.…
Photograph by Yana B Photography
Sharon Diotte has had three successful careers: a Registered Nurse; a teacher at the Focus on Women Department at Henry Ford Community College; the creator, owner, and operator of Te’ora, a successful small hotel on Easter Island (voted #1 by Trip Advisor and Our Pick by Lonely Planet).
She raised two beautiful children and has two grandchildren.
Sharon and her husband, Louis, are enjoying retirement in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
★★★★★
“Sharon’s courage to tell her story inspires we readers to hold compassion for our own vulnerability and wounding, and that of others, and to set our collective compass toward freedom. Her book empowers us to know that we are all part of a great unified restoration that begins with ourselves. We are the co-creators of a new paradigm when girls and women (and all children) are safe, honored, nurtured, and respected. Sharon’s courage, honesty, wisdom, and love shine a powerful light for us.”
-Dale Allen, Author/Film of In Our Right Minds
★★★★★
“Te’ora is a raw, honest recounting of self-discovery and perseverance. This memoir is really a testament to the strength of women and how we must all fight for ourselves and what we really need out of life. Sharon Diotte teaches us that although life may grow dark at times, there is always light to be found in your friends, mentors, loved ones, nature, and most importantly, yourself. The darkness does not define your life. Sharon encourages her readers to believe that healing is, in fact, possible.”
-Patricia Fero, LMSW, Author
★★★★★
Beautifully written true story of one woman for all women. This powerful book touched me on so many levels. I resonated so much with Sharon’s descriptions of our female lives, how we are taught not to be our true selves and through wisdom and Guidance can allow ourselves to become.
-Brenda Dillen
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