In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick, author of her newest book, The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares insights into how to understand and utilize The Universal Laws of Energy to open one’s heart and mind to a higher awareness of Life Spirit and our Human Potential. Sheryl welcomes Dr. Susan Allison, a transpersonal therapist, a non-fiction writer and poet, and author of Conscious Divorce: Ending A Marriage with Integrity, Empowered Healer and the book we will discuss today, Our Spirits Dance: Poetry of Soul Mates co-authored with her late husband Thomas Hickenbottom.
Dr. Susan Allison (http://empoweredhealer.com) will share how she fulfilled a promise to her friend and husband to share the poetry they wrote that expressed love in a multi-dimensional view of eternal soul life and the joy of soul mates. As a transpersonal psychologist Dr. Susan Allison helps her clients and readers to heal from the loss causes by divorce as well as heal physically and emotionally from major illnesses using a holistic approach helping individuals see themselves clearly as spiritual beings having a physical life. Dr. Allison has a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology is an energy healer, hypnotherapist, ordained minister and shamanic practitioner.
Sheryl believes we come with a life plan or destiny to meet the people who are important in our spiritual development and to have the experiences we may have signed on for even before we came into this physical world.
On a full-moon light Susan and Thomas met at a writer’s group, had tea afterward and not believing in love at first sight, was star struck and went home, stayed up all night and wrote full-moon poems to share at the next group. Their poems has the same title and similar message…they continued to write love poems through three separations caused by fear over the intensity of their feelings.
Before their wedding in Santa Cruz, California, they wrote poetry to celebrate their love with three recommitment ceremonies and kept writing poetry to each other for the 17 years that they were married. Commitment is probably the most important element in forging trust and continued closeness in a relationship. I have just finished reading a book “Song of the Heart” by an amazing healer and toward the end of the book and her very tumultuous marriage though she gave her all to the marriage with a loving heart she always felt separated from the true affection of her husband of 39 years..and she wrote,” In a moment of true harmony with him… she told him “I haven’t felt loved or emotionally supported in our marriage and I have always felt alone. Her husband looks down and all around and tells her she is not wrong…he has not been a hundred percent committed to the marriage…His commitment he tells her has been to his own personal comfort as he wants to live as long as he can….”
Sheryl says, “I would venture to say that that is the case in many modern day relationships today burdened by the pressures of a technological fast moving society where instant gratification is demanded and also because fear or the traumas and hurts from our childhood patterns discourage trust and intimacy even though most people say that is what they most desire….
The first year or Susan and Thomas’ relationship was based on the importance of having faith, being tenacious and committed inspiring readers to have courage to keep their hearts open and love more deeply no matter what. They knew they both had to work on themselves first and become the highest and best they can be and continue to attract each other in an evolved frequency of consciousness.
Many people discuss the word soul mate or twin soul . Susan says the term soul mate has become a cliché, “At first I hesitated to use it but it describes our union well. Both of us had the feeling from first night we met that we were twins, mated spirits in the flesh,
