Non-fiction
Date Published: 5/9/2023
Are you the wife of a professional athlete or high-profile figure ? Are your dreams on hold while you watch your husband live out his?
Sidelined No More discusses one of the greatest struggles of a wife married to a high-profile professional athlete: losing her identity. When she’s thrust into a world of fame, fortune, stress, and pressure, few can relate to or comprehend it. A woman who was once strong, confident, and sure of herself doesn’t even recognize who she sees in the mirror. Who understands? Who can sympathize? Who even sees that there’s a woman behind the shadows of her husband longing to be seen, uncertain of her purpose, and doubtful of her worth? As a former NFL wife herself, author Eileen Noyes will walk with you on a journey to get you out of the shadows and truly living again.
“I see her. I can sympathize. I understand because I was her.” —Eileen
• Find your true identity outside of being just “the wife of…”
• Understand and live out the God-given purpose for which you are destined.
• Find hope in the midst of your storm.
• Walk confidently with clarity, wisdom and strength in all seasons that come with the game of professional sports.
Interview with Eileen Noyes
What is your schedule like when you’re writing a book?
As a mom of 8 kids ranging from 5 to 20, I had set writing sessions with a group of other writers 3 times a week. One was Tuesday from 4-6 am, another was Thursday 8-10 am, and Saturday from 7-9 am. When it got close to my own goal date, I would be writing any extra moment I had… waiting for kids to get in the car from school, during sports practices, while cooking dinner, before bed. Basically all consuming at the end! ;)
Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym?
I thought about it, but I had to be true to my story and it would have been too hard to replace key parts of my book, or different places, etc. Plus, my situation was very public already in being in that high profile environment so parts of the story of what happened were already out there in the news, Sports Illustrated and other social media.
Have you ever gotten reader’s block?
Not too bad. I started to write the book in March of 2022. We then packed up from WI and moved to California in June of the same year—8 kids, a semi-truck of everything in our house and a loooong drive across the country. That kind of a move wasn’t easy: going from having all your systems in place, having a sitter, changing our whole way of living from a small town community to big busy California. So it wasn’t writers block that stopped me. It was just a lack of time. Once I found our nanny to relinquish a lot of the duties I had (laundry, getting groceries, cooking and driving all the kids around) time opened up for me again. I started back up of November and got done in March 2023.
Does your family support your career as a writer?
Absolutely! Often I would play back an audio version of my writing just to hear for errors and another method of proofreading. I could tell that my kids would be listening, and they would ask me questions, or would say, “Wow, mom, I didn’t know that about you.”
How many hours a day do you write?
Initially, it started out with an uninterrupted 15 minutes of straight writing—no going back to correct grammatical errors, no thinking about the best descriptive words or the most eloquent way to say something. It was just writing what was on my mind. Eventually those times got longer and turned into sorting out chapters and getting them in order. After that I would do more edits & more detail to make things flow. My writing times grew longer, ranging from 30 minutes to sometimes hours at a time.
If you could invite any three people for dinner, whom would you invite?
Graham Cooke, Miles Munroe and Priscilla Shirer
Would you share something about yourself that your readers don’t know (yet)?
I met my new husband online on Bumble “accidentally.” Met in November of 2020, married by April of 2021 :)
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
I honestly want to be me, approach others with transparency and vulnerability to set a tone of being relatable, understandable and approachable.
How do you celebrate when you finish your book?
Honestly, I need to work on celebrating little victories! (In this case with writing a book, a big victory.) because my book writing leads into mentorship and other writing projects, I sometimes have a checklist mentality and don’t celebrate accomplishments I’ve had. (Just being real!) I did turn a business trip to Portugal into a pleasure trip as well as a celebration for getting my book done as well celebrating my 50th birthday!
If you could be mentored by a famous author, who would it be?
Good question… I’m not really sure. I’ve had some really good mentors. I don’t know anybody specific in regards to this, but I would love to talk to a famous author who knows how to get books out quickly, as well as knowing how to promote them. ;)
If I had to choose, however, I would have to say Myles Munroe. He inspires me in so many ways!
About the Author
Author Eileen Noyes resides in California with her husband Michael and eight of their 15 combined children. Eileen, formerly a part of the NFL world for over nine years, has experienced the ups and downs of the professional sports from entering in as a wife of an NFL high-profile figure to exiting out of the game, prior to her public divorce and cult involvement.
Through her first book, Sidelined No More, Eileen shares how she navigates through her unique circumstances while in the public eye. God’s powerful presence, healing and restoration throughout her journey is displayed in her writing as well as contributes to her passion to help other wives in professional sport and other high-profile relationships.
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