A Mitchell’s Bay woman has literally written the book of her dreams.
Barb Smith has authored the book “The Healing Power of Dreams; A Spiritual Process of Opening, Unfolding, and Evolving.”
“It’s a book about dreams and how if you were to pay attention to your dreams, your dream messages and journal and analyse them, you will be able to get some powerful meanings there that you can apply to what is happening in your life,” Smith said. “There are so many messages that are within dreams.”
The book was released on June 5th and can be purchased online at Balboa Press, Amazon, Barnes n Noble, Chapters, and Google. It is also available internationally in paperback, hardcopy, and ebook.
“I found that hardly anybody is able to remember their dreams,” Smith said. “I used to have a lot of fun with it, if people did remember a dream it was really rare and they would get really excited because they knew I’d be able to help them analyse it. I did that for years for friends and family.. and everyone always said I should write a book about it, that I had a natural ability to understand what dreams mean and explain it in a way that they can understand it and apply it to their lives.”
Smith said she was able to find answers in her dreams, which helped her patch up her relationship with her estranged mother.
Smith said she calls her book a “self-help memoir” which allows people to apply the concepts to their own dreams and lives.
“The book is a process of what I learned and what I went through,” she said. “I shared some of my own dreams in there and I’ve done some analysis of them. I wanted everybody to get an overview of what they could do. I like to consider my book kind of like an appetizer to something grand. Once the reader digests the information, their life will become much grander. They will have a greater awareness with a different perspective on life and relationships.”
Smith said there are several meanings and plots throughout the book.
“You can use it as a teaching tool to be able to recall your dreams,” she said. “At the back of the book, I have some journals started where you can journal your dreams and analyze them. There are lots of resources, and even aps out there, to help you analyze dreams. This is just to get people interested and make them aware that your dreams are happening for a reason and those are messages for you. If you took time, and journaled them and picked them a part, it would probably help you in your life. Whatever struggle or whatever challenge you are going through, the dreams are there to give you messages.”
Smith said she has plans to go on a book signing tour, which will include stops in Chatham-Kent, along with five target areas Toronto, Chicago, California, Vancouver and New York.
You can connect with Smith in the following ways:
Facebook “The Healing Power of Dreams – Barb Smith”
Also – here is more details about the book, penned by the author herself:
Friends have always told me, “Barb, you have got to write a book about dreams, you’re really good at it, you have a natural ability to be able to understand dreams and explain them in plain English in a way that they can understand and relate to.
So that’s when I decided that ya, I should probably do this but I wasn’t totally convinced until I got into analyzing my own dreams in depth. I had always had this question I needed answered …..and so began my Quest. I have to tell you, I was on a quest for many years trying to find my answer. And the answer I was looking for was in regards to my relationship with my mother.
We’ve been estranged most of my life, on and off for various reasons. It was through a process of journaling and analyzing my dreams that I was able to receive that powerful message that I needed to receive, and I was able to turn my life around. I was able to heal our relationship and that’s how this all started. I was sharing my dreams and insights with others and then they’d be saying “Barb you have got to write this in a book so everybody else can do the same thing.”
So that’s when how it all began.
To me Family is everything.
It’s one of God’s greatest masterpieces.
And I believe that the key to a successful and happy life is to keep family members close to your heart and part of your life each and every day.
Family is by chance not by choice but by choosing unconditional love, you can create your own beautiful dream instead of destroying everything around you.
Throughout my book I have shared a few of my own dreams.
I’ve analyzed them a bit and picked them apart so as to give people an idea of what they can do with their dreams.
I didn’t go into great detail with some of them because there are so many different layers you can analyze within a dream.
I just wanted it be an overview to get people interested.
I like to describe my book as an “appetizer” to something GRAND.
I see my book as an introduction where people can perhaps just become aware of the fact that they can pay attention to their dreams, analyze them, learn from them, change things about their lives, and heal relationships.
My goal in writing the book is that once the reader digests the information, their life will become much grander.
They will have a greater awareness with a different perspective on life and relationships.
My book, “The Healing Power of Dreams; A Spiritual Process of Opening, Unfolding, and Evolving” went live on June 5th.
It can be purchased online at Balboa Press, Amazon, Barnes n Noble, Chapters, and Google.
It’s available internationally in paperback, hardcopy, and ebook.
For those that don’t want to order online some of the local book stores are stocking it but they ask that customers call to reserve a copy.
This is the overview from the book jacket:
“My dreams were instrumental in encouraging me to continue on my quest, guiding me along and giving me validations when I was feeling doubtful.
By going deeper into that place within, I was able to find inner peace and discover the diamonds in the treasure chest of my soul.
Through dreaming, journaling and analyzing, I was able to fully understand my soul’s purpose, and I was able to find forgiveness where I thought none was needed.
Within The Healing Power of Dreams are tips and suggestions to assist you in achieving dream recall so you can receive vital information, solve conflicts, and heal your life.
As you continue to recall your dreams, not only will answers be revealed to you but you will learn more about yourself, your aspirations, your dreams, and your desires.
As you open your heart to heal your life, life itself begins to unfold—exposing more aspects of you that you didn’t know existed.
When you unlock the immense power of love within you, you begin to evolve into more of who you were truly meant to be — a great magnificent being.”
Your past can not be ignored, avoided, or pushed aside because it is a part of who you are. All your life experiences and lessons along the way have brought you to this point in your life. As you no longer refuse to face your past, you are releasing the pain of the past and discovering the diamonds in the treasure chest of your soul. ”
Please contact me via email barbsmith@ciaccess.com, if you’d like to know more.
– Barb Smith
