OUR STORY
We built Resilient Heart Press on the idea that modern tools can expand what an author is able to imagine, make, and share without diminishing the human story at the center of it.
Great storytelling should have room to evolve.
We sit at the intersection of timeless storytelling and modern creative technology, with a simple goal: to give ambitious creators more freedom to bring their ideas fully to life.
Rather than treating new technology as a threat to creativity, we see it as another set of tools in the creator's hands. Used thoughtfully, modern technology can make it possible to explore ideas, refine a vision, and achieve a level of creative polish that might otherwise be out of reach for an independent artist.
That doesn't replace the writer, the designer, or the editor. It gives them more ways to create.
We want creators to have the freedom to use those tools thoughtfully, experiment with their craft, and remain at the center of their own creative process.
We are an independent, author-led publishing house dedicated to thoughtful storytelling, ambitious ideas, and the people behind them.
We believe technology should expand a creator's possibilities without replacing the human heart of the work. The story always comes first. The tools simply give it more room to become what its creator imagined.
Joelle founded Resilient Heart Group
because she wanted something every creator understands:
the freedom to make the work she imagined.
FOUNDER
Joelle Habbaki is a Lebanese-Canadian author, songwriter, music producer, and the driving force behind Resilient Heart Group. She created Resilient Heart Press, Resilient Heart Records, and Resilient Heart Media as distinct creative homes for her publishing, music, and visual media work, all united by a larger idea: that creators should have the freedom to build, experiment, and explore without having to fit their process into someone else's definition of how art should be made.
Fluent in English, French, and Arabic, Joelle brings that same creative independence to every project she undertakes. She oversees her work from concept to release. Writing, designing, producing, editing, and directing it herself.
From writing her award-recognized contemporary romance novels, Surrender and Love Lies, to designing her own book and music artwork, producing video trailers, and releasing bilingual music across more than 25 global platforms, she has built her creative practice around doing as much of the work herself as possible while using modern tools to extend what she can achieve.
She has learned firsthand what it takes to execute an ambitious vision from the ground up.
“Creativity has never stood still, and I don’t believe creators should have to either. I built Resilient Heart because I believe creators do their best work when they’re given the freedom to explore, to follow an idea wherever it leads. Write it. Film it. Record it. Use new tools without apology to create the work you see so clearly in your mind. Because in the end, the tool isn’t what gives the work its soul. The person behind it does. Technology will keep changing. The human need to create will not.”
— Joelle Habbaki
OUR SYMBOL
Our logo is inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. It began with a simple idea at the heart of Joelle's fiction: stories about people who are hurt, tested, changed, and ultimately made stronger by what they survive.
Over time, that idea grew beyond the books themselves. Resilient Heart became a broader philosophy about creativity: the belief that what challenges a creator does not have to diminish them, and that the marks left by the process can become part of what makes the finished work meaningful.
The gold-mended heart therefore represents both sides of Resilient Heart: the stories we tell, and the freedom with which we create them.