About Jeanne McElvaney

If I was a book, these would be my chapters.

Chapter 1

Discovering Delightful, Surprising, Enlightening Things About Myself Through Others

One friend declared I was from the “planet of feelings”... and she loves me inviting the tears that take her to new choices.

A psychic told my son his mother “was strange” and he readily agreed, giving me a big smile and hug as he shared the news. Recently, in learning about the life map on my hands, I was told my potential to see the abstract and complex is strong. Maybe that explains my unique take on every day things.

In an Energy Insight retreat, I was told I am passionate about self awareness and empowerment for others. That’s true. If you’re ready, if you dare to go, I can guide you to your spirit connection, tap into your self awareness, and invite your intuition to be a powerful ally. Like the characters in my books, I recognize the most life-changing, empowering self help comes from within each person.

Though I resisted, others have turned to me until I've become a voice of empowerment for the many who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.

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Chapter 2

What My Dog Thinks

I love sitting on the porch with you. Can we do it again? And again?

I wish you wouldn't comb my hair while I chew on my morning rawhide.

Walk? Let's run!

You are the safest place in the whole world.

No, no! Don’t get dressed! I like you in your jammies because that means you’re staying home and writing.

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Chapter 3

Sometimes I Can  Hear The Mirror Shouting Messages of Empowerment

I’m ageless. I’m still two-years old, curious, and full of potential. I’m ten-years old with courage and curiosity. I’m twenty and trying to figure 'it' out. I’m forty and intuition is helping me embrace my confidence. I’m sixty and filled with wonder. I’m eighty and sighing as my personal spirit soars. I’m one hundred and fascinated by change and faeries. I’m ageless.

Little choices all day long feed my health and well-being. Either/or aren't my best self help guides. Nudging myself in the direction I want to go feels more empowering.

I can’t be happy in the future by struggling to get there. Steps that dance with my spirit and honor my intuition today are creating my experience tomorrow.

Everything is energy. My sweet challenge is to release old beliefs about how things work so I can embrace the empowerment of quantum energy insights. When I'm talking to energy, my days are filled with riotous, intriguing, insightful, guiding, astounding conversations that hover on the edge of magic.

My childhood sexual abuse gave me challenges. My healing journey showed me the gifts.

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Chapter 4

Readers Write Back

Self Improvement: I feel like you take me to another window on the world. You turn concepts into experiences… Emjay

Self Awareness: When I finished the book last night I didn't want to put it down. I caressed it, flipped through the pages, reread the editor’s note, looked at all the pictures again, spoke to your picture on the cover...and....just held the book close to my heart for a few minutes… Pamela

Women and Empowerment: I love your courage and your resiliency. I think you are a beautiful woman with a beautiful soul that just shines through and touches all those with whom you come in contact. Abby is in angel, just as you are, my friend:))) With love and light always… Laura ♥♥♥

Being Happy: What a beautiful sentiment. You must never stop writing... Sandy

Change Your Life: You validate me... Petunia

Childhood Sexual Abuse: You make it clear that emotionally devastating as it is, our selves, our inner spirits, take care of us and help us not just survive but thrive... Joel

Personal Development: Your writing takes me to reflection and insights… Kate

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Chapter 5

Music is a Language of Personal Spirit

My son’s personal ring on his cell phone for me is "I just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in". It’s perfect.

"Wild Thing" truly does make my heart sing.

Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” still makes me tingle.

Leonard Cohen’s lyrics stop my world… every time. His music shimmers under my skin.

The Beatles stand alone… as ageless as me.

I melt when my husband sings “O Holy Night”. I cry when he shares “Autumn Leaves”. And I fall in love all over again when he sings a ditty he created on a road trip many years ago… “I love you. And you love me. And we are all together.”

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Chapter 6

I Am A Time Traveler

I first landed in Jane Austen's Regency England where I spent years meeting intriguing characters. These friends showed me that journeys of empowerment to celebrate our potential, intuition, and courage exists outside time. The inner wisdom of personal spirit is a powerful guide whether I'm using candle light in Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers, Time Slipping, and Harrietta's Happenstance or fluorescent bulbs in Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story.

And I have traveled in the choices and power of quantum energy fields where I am reminded everything is energy. This place of no time and distance was introduced to me on a walk in 1970 and, since then, I've been an active explorer of energy insights and self awareness.

My journeys have taken me on the empowering path of healing from childhood sexual abuse. This is where I learned the many layers of self help that are now woven into my books.

Warmed by family connections and rich friendships, I am a muse to many and learn some of life's greatest lessons from my grandchildren. My awesomely supportive husband and delightfully distracting dog share life with me in California where we live in possibilities. If faeries hover around me, they are rarely seen by others.