Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey [Paperback]

Ann H. Hughes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 23, 1999

Soul Connection is the story of a 1960's birthmother. It details her healing journey and her miraculous search for her daughter twenty-four years later. Using spiritual process, she cocreates an unforgettable and challenging search. Through a series of events, she learns that she is courageous, after all, and can count on herself to act with integrity and to love her daughter unconditionally-all things she'd discounted when she'd surrendered her child. An inspiring memoir of inner and outer discovery.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Suffering a deep loss so often causes people to get stuck in a quagmire of anger, resentment and blame. Soul Connection explores the possibility that these very losses may be part of a Higher Plan to help us grow and lead us to serve others. A deeper look at how adoption effects people and at healing through expanded spiritual understanding.

From the Back Cover

Have you ever wondered if there could be a Plan for your life? Or is it all merely random cruelty and luck? Have roadblocks ever mysteriously appeared in your path? Have closed doors suddenly sprung open? Is there a chance we're being led by the Higher Realm?

Soul Connection is about healing through expanded awareness-and about using spiritual alignment to create miracles. In 1966, a young unmarried woman must surrender her baby for adoption. Afterwards, she stumbles along a healing path that transforms her understanding of Life. She puts this new knowledge to the test in 1989 when she undertakes a search for her birthdaughter using spiritual process. An inspiring memoir of inner and outer discover.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Otto Bay Books (March 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961405325
• ISBN-13: 978-0961405328
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,643,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for any Baby Boomer or any parent!, May 3, 1999

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Diane M. Scholten (Barrington, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey (Paperback)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing Connection, April 24, 2000

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Lynne Katzfey (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey (Paperback)

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A satisfying, emotionally-charged pilgrimage., April 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey (Paperback)

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.