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Explore the depths of love and loss across three generations of women

Hummingbird is a spiritual memoir about the connection between three generations of women--the author, her mother and her beloved maternal grandmother whose wisdoms taught the author how to exist in the world by following her intuition and listening to her heart. Follow Diana on a journey of more than five decades as an author, nurse, research psychologist, teacher, cancer survivor, and more. With insightful prompts, the reader is also invited to explore their own ancestral connections.

"...Raab offers poignant and thoughtful insights to help us heal intergenerational trauma. Raab rightly reminds us that our ancestors live on in us and we are invited to call on them anytime we need help..." -- SONIA CHOQUETTE, New York Times bestselling author, The Answer is Simple and Ask Your Guides

"Diana Raab knows the terrain of the human heart... she invites readers to reflect upon their own life's journeys and to use writing and journaling to navigate a pathway for healing..." -- TERRA TREVOR, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways

"Hummingbird is not only a poignant spiritual memoir, it is an invitation. Raab is accessible and authentic... She opens hearts and deftly offers insightful prompts, sweetly encouraging the reader's collaboration." -- MARILYN KAPP, author of Love is Greater Than Pain

"With disarming honesty, Raab slows down our jittery minds to share the intimacies of experiencing trauma and healing self-care in a way that they feel as normal as sleeping and eating... A safety net for the reader to explore their own path to hope." -- TRISTINE RAINER, author of Your Life as Story, and The New Diary

DIANA RAAB, PhD is an award-winning memoirist, poet, workshop facilitator, thought leader and survivor. She is the author of 13 books and frequently speaks and writes on the topics of healing and transformation. Raab is a regular contributor to numerous magazines and her work has been published and anthologized worldwide. 

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I wrote this for my children, during a particular challenging time in their lives.

A Mother's love never ends no matter how old they are.

I hope it resonates with you.

Namaste~

Tina

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Lets invoke..calling your spirit, spirit guides, Angels and loved ones to surround you in light, love and healing…we ask for your guidance, support and direction at this time…..for the highest and greatest good and so it is and so be it….amen

Find yourself in a comfortable position..seated or lying down..ask what your body needs…. Drop into your heart…center of your chest…..and tune into the breath…..notice the rise and fall…rise and fall of the chest… with each breath in and each breath out……your body is making more and more space…..quieting down from your day and falling into a peaceful place…..feel your arms and legs relax…..face melt…..shoulders soften….. Relax your jaw and lips……your eyes are heavy and falling…..relaxed and deep…..

We are a spirit in a body….when we are here on earth….when we transition….our body falls away and what remains is our spirit…….your loved one is in spirit and the spirit realm……you know what their vibration…their signal …and essence is like when they were here…. You can still connect with them now……… on the other side…..

Keeping your eyes closed…take your gaze upward.. Towards your 3rd eye….the middle of your forehead…….look out your reading screen…..

Imagine a home filled and decorated for the holidays……it feels so good and cozy….

You are standing outside of this home…it is familiar and safe…….it is a cool snowy evening…..

You notice as you walk up the front walk it is decorated in twinkly lights and red bows…..

The front door welcomes you with a beautiful wreath…..you smell the evergreen sweet scent….

As you open the door…..and walk inside……your heart quickens with excitement and joy…..feel it in your heart now…..

You hear your loved ones favorite holiday song…..a gentle smile forms as our lips turn upward…….a smile in your heart emerges as well….

The home smells like the holidays… evergreen…. spruce and pine… mixed with cinnamon and butter cookies……you haven't felt this good in a long time…..you take some long…deep breaths….

You notice all around you……decorations that take you back to your childhood….snowglobes….angels….. christmas houses and more….

As you continue to explore….you feel guided toward the fireplace and the tree…..the candles are lit and flickering a golden glow….you see the stockings hung….in anticipation…..PAUSE

Gently you turn towards the tree……your eye catches a beautiful crystal ball ornament……it is changing colors……red…green…..purple….blue……white…..you feel so peaceful in this moment…..

Listening to your inner voice…you pick up the crystal ball…….and hold it close……you close your eyes……and bring it to your heart…..

You say "I know you are with me…..be with me now"

3 times 

"I know you are with me….be with me now"

"I know you are with me…be with me now"

A swift breeze blows in…..it sends a familiar shiver up your spine…..and now it is quiet and peaceful……your loved one is here with you…..

Feel their graceful presence…..smell their familiar scent…

There is a knowingness…..a sense of peace and calm that envelopes you…..

Stay here and enjoy this reunion…….the music will play until you hear my voice again…..

Slowly..ever so slowly…… come back……..before you open your eyes…..a gentle smile fills your heart………..

Your mind is flooded with all the loving memories of your loved one ……

Take a nice long slow deep breath in … and a nice long slow deep breath out……..open your eyes…..

Know that your loved one is with you this holiday season and each and every day…..call them close….they are a thought away….

Happy Holidays

Many Blessings

Namaste ~

*This meditation is best listened to for sleep*

Katie Beecher, MS, LPC is a medical and emotional intuitive and Licensed Professional Counselor featured by numerous media outlets including Poosh, Miranda Kerr's Kora Organics and Goop who called her "eerily accurate". As part of her acclaimed readings, she creates a detailed, multi-page report and intuitive soul painting knowing only a persons name and age. She has over 30 years of experience helping people all over the world transform their lives and their health. 

In 1983, Katie was a severely depressed sixteen year old, riddled with anxiety and suicidal. After four years of trying to fight her eating disorder, she had decided that she couldn't go on. Binging and purging three times a day, abusing laxatives and diuretics and living in a dysfunctional family had taken its toll. 

Rather than taking her life, in the Spring of that year, what Katie describes as "divine intervention" occurred. She came home from school one day and without telling anyone, called her family pediatrician and asked for the name of a therapist. He referred her to Jean Sutherland, a Jungian psychologist who helped her save her life. 

She learned how to connect with her intuition, find self love and embrace her psychic and medium abilities which she had avoided and feared. 

Katie has been recovered for over 30 years and considers the eating disorder to be one of her greatest gifts. It taught her that with intuition, self love and self acceptance, we can heal from anything. 

During her recovery, Katie's spiritual guides told her that she would go on to help others and to write books, the first of which is Heal from Within: A Guidebook to Intuitive Wellness. 

Heal from Within is a complete guide to healing – mind, body and spirit. Using the same, exclusive techniques Katie uses during her individual readings, practical Jungian psychology and inspirational client and personal stories, she shows people how to discover their strengths and pinpoint the physical, emotional and spiritual root causes for their issues while creating a life-long, step-by-step plan to address these challenges.

Valuable for clinical professionals, intuitive practitioners as well as people wanting to improve their personal quality of life, Heal from Within helps people become their own medical and emotional intuitives, release the fear and false beliefs that are holding them back and become their most authentic selves. 

I have a BS in Biology and Psychology, a MS in Counseling and Certification in Special Education and I have been a professional watercolor artist. 

Heather tried all the approaches the professionals recommended even though they didn't feel right to her. She tried tough love, waiting for her daughter to hit rock bottom, and other traditional approaches that are confrontational and based on stigma rather than science. Those approaches caused chaos in her home, intense stress for the whole family, and destroyed her relationship with her daughter. 

Feeling desperate and defeated, Heather stopped everything that wasn't working and tried something completely different.

The new approaches that she learned from coaching and CRAFT empowered her to support her daughter based on her values as a mother. 

She brought unconditional love, stability, and emotional health to her relationship with her daughter. Heather educated herself about substance use disorder, started focusing on self-care, learned how to set boundaries and allow natural consequences, and started using positive communication skills. 

The changes she made not only repaired but strengthened her relationship with her daughter. 

It also created space for her daughter to seek treatment and start her own recovery journey. The recovery path is not a straight line though. It can be filled with many challenging twists and turns. Tragically, Heather's daughter had a reoccurrence of use and was given a deadly dose of fentanyl.

After the devastating loss of her daughter, Heather called on her tools and resilience to lean into helping more parents and using science-backed education to change the stigma around substance use. She's grateful that she worked hard on herself, learned how to support her daughter, and created a beautiful loving relationship with her.

Heather has a 1:1 coaching program for parents that is family centered, based on science, and works during recovery or active substance use. She believes that parents have more power than they realize and the best gift they can give their child is a healthy parent.