British poet Rachel Finch is the powerhouse behind the Bruised But Not Broken community on Facebook, which provides support and healing for trauma survivors. She is a symbol of hope and light throughout the world. She returns a year after the release of her 5-star debut A Sparrow Stirs its Wings with her second book, Conversations With My Higher Self. Conversations With My Higher Self recounts Finch’s personal experience with a near death, out-of-body life-changing event during the delivery of her eldest daughter. Written in beautiful and mesmerizing verse, Conversations With My Higher Self is a provocative book. Honest, spiritual, and cathartic, Finch gives us a tantalizing glimpse of what is on the other side- transformation, light and love. "I am outside of myself,more whole without shape andI exist as a spectra of light,nebula shining bright,I am matter and more."
This book is a book like none you've read before and that alone is a powerful testament to Finch's artistic brilliance. She executes her near death and resurrection experiences in such a way as to bring the reader with her to this incredible other-world. As Finch evolves, I felt myself evolving. "She is not quiet, the evolving is an unfolding and I am origami in the wind." CWMHS has the power to change you, the reader, to change your mindset and see yourself and your life in an entirely different light. This book is a must have for all lovers of poetry and anyone who has had or who has known someone with a near death and out-of-body experience.
-Melody Lee, author of Moon Gypsy, and Season of the Sorceress
'Conversations With My Higher Self' is mesmerizing, breathtaking, poignant, and painful, it is every single beautiful and tragic thing that turns simple poetry into something timeless.
-Nicole Lyons, The Lithium Chronicles: Volume One
Rachel Finch's Conversations With My Higher Self is brilliant and beautiful. Rachel reaches into the depth of her soul to share the journey of her time in the afterlife.
From the first page to the last word, I became immersed in her words. My heart broke when I read about her leaving her body. I felt my chest would burst with love from her time in the light. I wept when she struggled when life was breathed back into her. I smiled at the end because of her courage to share her journey with the world.
-April Y. Spellmeyer, author of Sacrifice & Bloom
In Conversations With My Higher Self, Finch takes us on a guided tour of self-perception from outside one's psyche.
It's a marvellous journey of exploration and discussion with one's own consciousness.
Asking difficult questions and receiving difficult answers, as only your own heart can give.
-Eric Sydal, author of Pantheon
