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A BREATH FLOATS BY (Essa Adams)

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See ‘Questions Book Clubs Ask’

1. Did you fall in love with Daniel?
2. What one scene had the most impact on you?
   • The scene for me was the last one where Gooee and Sam are together.  Every single time I read that one I am so emotional.
3. Is there a scene that brought emotions you were not expecting?
4. Are you hopeful for the next novel?
   • I am considering the novel will be either an anthology or a novella of three stories.  Gooee, Heather Laurel then Lindsay’s story from after this one actually ends.
5. Do you realize the next novel brings Heather Laurel back in a way we would not expect?
6. What do you think of Gooee?  Over the top pushy?  Protective?  Psychic to the core?
   • Gooee is human.  She has  character challenges she ha not been willing to change, obviously.  Let me know what you think.
7. Did she extract what she thought her due in this story?  Was it her due?
8. Would you have done the same if you were Gooee?
9. What do you think of psychics or intuitives  as a whole?
10. Do they make you nervous?
11. Do you understand how Lindsay loved Sam?
12. Do you suppose that all Lindsay ever needed was her wife and mother role?
13. Would you consult a dream interpreter?
14. Do your dreams heal you? Or torment you?
15. Will you recommend to me, as an author, a way to improve my reader connection?
16. How did you identify with Lindsay / Clara Rose?
17. Is this a spiritual awakening novel?
18. Does this story bring answers to questions you may not have even asked?

My letter to you –

If I am a metaphysical or ‘new thought’ author you can be comfortable with….  and if A Breath Floats By is a gentle and spiritual novel that you would like to invite into your book club, I would love to hear from you.  Please email for our first contact, I will telephone you, if you request, or email back, I promise.

Discounts codes are sent to book clubs, so send me your membership number.

Deep peace and infinite blessings….

Essa Adams

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Metaphysical Fiction – Spiritual Fiction – Author Comments

Are we ready to stand up and bring our gifts? Is that willingness all it takes for the peace of past life healing?

What I am saying, the spirit world wants to know what we are bringing to the table now.  That if we focus on now, we will be healed because what we need to know from then will be revealed.  I trust this will be so.

Within this post, I share with you an author’s opinion and inspiration after her own lifetime of past life baggage.  There are some books in a slideshow below, and some stories with links.  I offer my own story through my novel, some personal experiences, and the life path guidance charts that I compose for clients based on their present lifetime.  Yes, I do believe these charts are a way of past life healing.

I do believe some conditions are related to past life, sometimes physical and health consequences or emotional and spiritual challenges, such as weight or lack thereof, birth marks, birth defects, depression, schizophrenia, suicidal tendencies, dreams, visions, fears, compulsions are all possible past life reactive that are waiting for healing and thus, soul growth.  This past life healing and soul growth is addressed in my novel from beginning to end.

Am I the character in the past life healing novel?

Past life memories bring her to her knees.

My friends have asked if I am the forty-something Clara Rose in my novel, A BREATH FLOATS BY.  Some aspects, I embrace.  Some life trials, I have been through.  Though just the same, I claim experiences I have written of Gooee, Heather Laurel, Polly, Maimee.  An author is all things to her characters.  When we suffer enough, right?  We may become a great writer.  No promises.

The past life healing of Clara Rose

Clara Rose is swept into a life challenge that forces her to face her past lives.  Perhaps you are like Clara Rose.  She has been hiding since she was a child, realizing the visions she had were from times when she had no control.  She suffered terrible consequences for bringing to the people the gifts she carried to help them.  Fear of the people she was to help has caused her suffering in present lifetime.  She hides her true self from the world.

Without the spoiler effect, since you might want to read this novel of past life healing – reincarnation fiction and soulmates, I will share that she came with a promise, this time she would once again give her life time to the sacred work she was taught.  But her fears from encountering her past life visions controls Clara Rose.  As a young girl, she actually changes her name to Lindsay which does not hide her, but her reluctance is noted by spirit, so this does give her half a lifetime to experience the family life she always wanted.  But she is not aware (or is she?) that all three daughters are from past lives she attempts to escape.  They are part of her healing, and her mothering gives the peace a woman can receive from nurturing a family who holds her in high esteem.

The Universe and Creator are patient.  She is given sanctuary within the family, though there are great sacrifices.  Then one day, the answers she has needed for her life purpose come with unrelenting force.  There is no chance to hide.

Dreams for past life healing

Past life healing for Clara Rose could result through dreams, she would be able to savor the peace of the angels, the touch of spirit guides during her sleep.  But she is so terrified of dreaming she will not allow its force in her life.  Every night begins with a prayer that the dreams never come, that she be spared.  Every night, the answer is that she will be given time.  Her nights are peaceful but her past life healing and soul growth are insignificant for all she needs to accomplish in this lifetime.

Soul groups enable past life healing

In the end, past life healing for Clara Rose comes through the sweeping encounter with the entire soul group that she has worked with eternally.  And they need her more than she needs them.

That is why I say that life purpose in this lifetime is part of our past life healing.  When we do our work as we promised or as we believed would be best for us before we come to this incarnation, then we are able to touch other lives in a healing that gives healing to our own.  It is true, whenever we touch another,we heal ourselves and move forward in a good way.

The soul group in A BREATH FLOATS BY are a reflection of the soul group I have encountered in this lifetime.  No character is one person.  They were an intimate group of women who brought out the best and worst in me.

The worst?  That is a blessing, to see our worst side, or the side we never want to become a reality is exposed briefly or through an enactment to us, so we can realize how to avoid actually living that character.

Soul groups do that to us.  In a way, this is a past life healing because there is possibly that character in the past that we do not want to revisit.  Yes, it is still us.  A festering, an itch, a personality trait best left as a lesson learned.

The soul group around us reflects a past life healing if we only will listen to what is happening in our life.  There are really no consequences.  Life is spirituality and spirituality creates life.

All we need to do is listen to the Secrets of the Divine.

Soulmate specific support

The soul mate within Clara Rose’s soul group is Daniel, who happens to be the best friend of her husband.  He has not known her as she truly is, and he watches her past life healing with no judgment, but he also does not feel even a curious surprise at who she unfolds to become.  Because a soulmate just knows.

The soul mate is a person or animal who complements and upbuilds the soul growth and peace of the one connected.   The soul mate does not necessarily end as a love interest or a passionate sexual relationship.  Soul mates in past life healing can be our sister, mother, brother, a beloved pet (mine was a dear wild skunk that gave me everything a heart could feel) or a friend, and yes, definitely a lover.

The past life healing experienced through this soul mate is due to their bond that enables them to support you for who you are, even when you do not know who you are.  I must say that sometimes my own words stop me because this is who my husband is to me, a person who has enabled me to put in my 10,000 hours of “base labor” in my professional gift to get where I am going, wherever.  By reaching that gift which I then offer others, I am experiencing the healing of past lives, the heartaches that I have carried, the fears I have allowed to burden my efforts.  I release the “what if” of life.  Now I realize those ‘what if” fears are often based in past lives and I know the consequences of then are held in the heart.

For me, past life healing is one foot in front of the other as I become all I have believed would be best for me to be today.  Here are some books I enjoyed, a few I cherish.

Past Life Healing Books

Reincarnation and Memories – Enabling Healing from the Past Experiences

I believe if there are visions or memories from past lives and these are haunting or frightening us, then there is a deep healing that can take effect and make all the difference in soul growth.  Reincarnation can be reassuring, it can be frightening.  Reincarnation is a belief or a hope that supports past life healing.  When we get to the point that we can say, ‘Okay, this was what it was and I am now as I am….” then we are free to life our life purpose now.

My Past Life Experience

Without giving endless detail, I have several life glitches that make me think they come from past life experiences.

• My size, which is based back several lifetimes and I have not decided what is the root.  I have been told the size is a carrying of the goddess energy, but I know of many goddess-types who are small women.  Perhaps I am representing something different in the goddess line.  In the novel, A BREATH FLOATS BY, Lindsay, Gooee and Heather Laurel are all larger women, and I know they represent a goddess energy that is serving the good of all.
• The fallen arch I was born with, along with foot pronation and hip dysplasia like a large dog would carry, all on the same side.  I belive these are consequential representation of my lifetime where I walked half this nation, not once but four times, and back to my home.  But that is another story I hope to live long enough to write.
• The traumatizing visions of a wild creek bed and mud, they stop me cold when I am exposed to these natural elements.  The same with a lake or ocean, those those are consequence of different experiences, and I do not know what they were.  But the creek bed, I do know, from beginning to end, which was very healing.
• The dreams that carry on night after night after year after decade.  I feel as though I am trapped in a dramatic soap opera and cannot recall a milli-second of the dream.  I just wash away with those dreams the second I relax or fall asleep.  I do not know how many times I have said, I do not want to go to sleep, I hate sleeping.  But I believe these carry me to healing.  We are here to eat, sleep and dream.

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Books in past life healing slideshow

Karmic Healing: Clearing Past-Life Blocks to Present-Day Love, Health, and Happiness / Author Hypnotherapist Djuna Wojton  link

A Breath Floats By / Author Life Path Consultant Essa Adams  link

Healing the Eternal Soul: Insights from Past Life and Spiritual Regression / Author Andy Tomlinson  link

Bringing Your Soul to Light: Healing Through Past Lives and the Time Between / Author Dr. Linda Backman  link

Other books on past life healing that I have not read… yet.

Invisible Roots: How Healing Past Life Trauma Can Liberate Your Present by Barbara Stone link

Life Without Guilt by Hazel M. Denning, Ph.D.  link

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**Some of these conditions are very serious and I believe must be addressed by a medical professional, though an understanding of oneself in this lifetime and of one’s dreams will also benefit.

Also we could consider friendship among women to be a possible soul mate connection (soulmates) because, in many beliefs soul mates do not require a sexual connection or passionate love interest.  Soul mates are a connection of the heart, in these beliefs, therefore a connection could be mother-daughter, brother-sister connection, or friend-friend.

The list of novels below includes most in the above slideshow. If you have suggestions for this list of friendship fiction for contemporary women’s fiction, please send an email, or better yet, use the comment box below. To order one of the novels, use the link to each in the slideshow for now.

Essa Adams

Author, A Breath Floats By

Friendship fiction novel, eternal friendships between women and men.
Life and death. When it counts most to be able to trust.

THE LIST – FRIENDSHIP FICTION

The Mermaid Chair

Seeking Sara Summers

Husbands May Come and Go But Friends Are Forever

The Beach House

Around Every Corner

A Breath Floats By

The Murderous Urges of Ordinary Women

The Season of Second Chances

The Castaways

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

The Help

But Not for Long

First Wives Club

Red Hat Club

Hot Flash Club

A Year On Ladybug Farm

At Home On Ladybug Farm

The Forgotten Garden

The Beach House

How to Make An American Quilt

Quartet of Autumn

Every Last Cuckoo

Winter Solstice

Beach Trip

Libby’s Ashes

The Friday Night Knitting Club

How Close We Come: A Novel of Women’s Friendship

The Wildwater Walking Club

Circle of Friends

The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love

A Woman of Independent Means

The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship

Thursdays At Eight

Essentially every story is driven by the issues of women worldwide.  Keeping our children safe.  Supporting our friends.  Traveling well.  Making love.  Understanding our dreams and how to reach the goals that represent them.

There are a myriad of life slices for each reader to find exactly what they want in women’s fiction.  With the new genres for spiritual, paranormal, mystic, new age, reincarnation, visionary, lesbian, inspirational,  mystery, women of a certain age, family, relationships, marriage, and of course, romance, the possibilities are endless.

More and more, present day fiction encompasses spirituality and inspirational philosophies.  How to deal with divorce with a more spiritual and loving answer.  Where to find the inspirational momentum in contemporary fiction for parenting, for the loss of a spouse or friend, for dealing with one’s own cancer.

Within contemporary women’s fiction we meet friends who tell us the truth because, in life itself, fiction writing is where the edge of truth is honed.  Since nothing holds more truth than fiction.

These pages and posts on Women’s Fiction Blog will explore the books and movies of contemporary women’s fiction.

I encourage readers to email me with their reviews on favorite books and movies in the contemporary women’s fiction, especially inspirational, divorce, friendship, mature women’s fiction.  I will be posting.

Essa Adams, Author

Contemporary women’s fiction.

Divorce. Friendship. Death. Cancer.

Relationships that transcend a lifetime.

A Breath Floats By

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One man proposed that though he does believe in reincarnation, all this talk of soul mates gives him concern that the divorce rate will rise.  He thinks people will be scrambling to get to the one person they believe is only suited for them.  Therefore, he did not want to allow this reincarnation love story on his book list.  My opinion?  Personal fears he may be dealing with for now.  It’s all right.

I think that in writing reincarnation fiction, and giving thought to this for years, I am guessing the chance of getting with your soul mate is one in a hundred.  Why so easy?  Well, to my way of thinking, we seldom get out of our soul group.  And I think our soul mate or soul twin preference is within that soul group. 

A soul group is like a task force to me.  Everyone has their job to accomplish and all are needed to pull it off.  Some do not want to get to work.  Creating more challenges for the others.  But there is love.  There is intimacy that is not understood but appreciated.

Divorce being a part of finding one’s soul mate is unfortunate.  But I will personally stay clear of that arena.  Except to say that people do have reasons to stay together, even when they know they are not with their soul mate.  People also have reason not to pair with their soul mate, especially if that soul mate is dealing with character and moral challenges in a lifetime.

What I am saying.  Love is not enough.

What I am also saying.  We can love more than one person, differently but genuine, just the same.

A Breath Floats By proves that deep love.  Speaks of the spiritual energy we, as a whole, are responsible to maintain for this world and those within.

Do divorce being the answer to getting with one’s soul mate?  Not unless everything falls in place with love.  Then love is enough.

Essa Adams is author of A Breath Floats By and develops life path guidance charts.