Reaching Through the Veil to Heal

Linda Drake
Llewellyn Worldwide (2006)
ISBN 0738709328
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (10/06)

When you read “Reaching Through the Veil to Heal,” you will need a box of tissues at hand.  The author, Linda Drake, is an intuitive life path healer.  She uses her talents to help people contact those that have passed to the other side.  Her purpose in writing this book is to help people better understand life, death, grief and the healing process.  She shows you how to let go of the feelings that you have towards those of whom you have lost so that you can heal.  Drake does not limit her advice to those who are dealing with the death of a loved one; she also talks to you about the grief that you have to deal with when relationships end.  I really appreciate that she included a chapter on this because having a relationship end is really rough, even if the person hasn’t passed on.  She tells us, “For all of us, the loss of someone we care about, or even once cared about, leaves a scar, as our hearts have been wounded and be given the opportunity to heal.”  We still need to go through the stages of grief.

Mixed in with her discussions about the states of grief and how to deal with them, Drake shares stories of people she has helped heal.  In spite of the pain of loss, these stories are beautiful and inspire hope that there is more out there when we pass.  Her contact with the departed has allowed people to have closure and to get on with their healing.  The people who have passed are also able to receive closure.  She says that, “their soul is not leaving you; it is simply being released from a body that can no longer serve it.”  It is our fears of death and loss than can force these souls to linger here.  We need to let them go.  Ours souls are forever, not our bodies. 

I recommend this book to people that are either in the process of losing someone or have lost someone close to them.  Caregivers will really appreciate it because Drake acknowledges the hardships of what they are dealing with, not just losing the person, but also the helpless, hopeless feelings that some caregivers get when they become overwhelmed with their responsibilities.  Hospice workers would also benefit from the knowledge shared in the book “Reaching Through the Veil to Heal.” 

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