Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey

by Ann H. Hughes

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961405325
• ISBN13: 9780961405328
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Otter Bay Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Spiritual view of a first mother's search for her lost child

What's unique about this book, and I haven't seen anything like it in all the other books about first mothers, is the reliance on her inner spirit, astrology, and magical means to guide this mother back to her child. This mother is very aware of her spirit connections and listens to them as she searches, and successfully reunites.

Healing Connection

In reading this book, I felt myself reliving my own experience with a maternity home and the loss of a child to adoption. No one can understand the experience unless having lived it. The path towards healing and spirtual connection is the author's own, but I could feel myself taking the journey with her. My experience has been the same and different as well, yet the arrival is so similar. Through past writings of this author, I have been able to gain new insights and feel healings come to me. As a birthmother myself, I truly appreciate the author putting her experience, traumas and healing out there for all to read and absorb. As a mother who has also raised a child to adulthood, I can feel her joy in the children she was able to keep and nuture. I look forward to more insightful writings from this author.

! MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

This was a very inspirational book for me. One cannot help but gain a certain amount of strength simply reading about this Mother's determined search. I was able to work through some of my own life issues and gain greater clarity about being a Mother and an understanding of the relationship I have with my own children. It is so much more than simply a story about a woman searching for her daughter.

Great book for any Baby Boomer or any parent!

This book is way more than a book about adoption. Any of us who came of age in the 60s, or who have ever felt alienated, felt deep conflict with our parents while still loving them, or who have searched far and wide for a meaningful spiritual path will love this book. I have no kids, but I would guess any parent who has ever worried about a child's whereabouts will relate to Hughes' description of her search for the daughter she gave up as a young unmarried woman. The search itself is a real "page turner" reading at times like a mystery. I loved this book and will be buying it for others.

A satisfying, emotionally-charged pilgrimage.

It is most satisfying to read a memoir that is multi-dimentional, has an unselfish purpose and teaches something about spiritual truths. Ann Hughes has not only eloquently written of her feelings as an unwed mother who has to release her child to the adoption process of the '60's, but addresses the issues of the process itself. Especially interesting are the spiritual methods she used in her search, which should leave the reader wanting to know more...the mark of a most provocative work.