Touching Spirit: A Journey of Healing and Personal Resurrection

A spiritual healer describes her own journey of healing in this engaging, straightforward memoir. More than 20 years ago, claims Stratton, she discovered that she could soak up other people's feelings like a sponge soaks up water. With a little practice, she learned to feel in her own heart and body the sources of other people's diseases and emotional pains, and she could see images from their past life (or lives). Soon, Stratton developed the warm, healing hands of a natural empathic healer and discovered that she could heal all kinds of ailments with touch. Even before Stratton set up shop as a healer, however, a psychic warned her that she would have to learn to control her extraordinary sensitivity to others. Stratton found that, before she could care for others, she had to learn how to love and to heal herself--and also how to practice ""psychic self-defense."" She left a dominating marriage and, working on herself body and soul, came to cherish the primal wellsprings of her own energy, her ""rage for life."" Psychic and spiritual energy is as real to Stratton as are bricks or flowers. Readers to whom they're not will find much to sneer at here, even beyond the excessive detail that can bog down the narrative. But those in tune with Stratton's worldview will feel illuminated by this heartfelt tale of one woman's path from an extraordinary but involuntary sensitivity to self-awareness and self-liberation. Simultaneous Simon & Schuster Audio; author tour. (Oct.)