Mark Anthony - Never Letting Go: Heal Grief with Help from the Other Side

About the Author

Mark Anthony has practiced law for over twenty years and has been a regular guest legal commentator on the Fox News Network. As a medium who studied at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College for the Advancement of Psychic Science in England, he has combined his intuitive gifts and his legal expertise to share insight and guidance with people coping with the aftermath of a life-threatening, life-changing, or life-ending trauma.

A member of the Florida Bar, US Supreme Court Bar, Washington DC Bar, and the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Bar, Mark graduated from Mercer University Law School with honors and studied law at Oxford University in England. Through his numerous lectures and call-in media interviews, he has helped thousands of people better understand the afterlife. He lives in Florida. For more information about Mark Anthony, visit his website at www.healgriefwithbelief.com.

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Never Letting Go: Heal Grief with Help from the Other Side 2011 by Mark Anthony.

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This book is dedicated to my beloved mother, Jeannie,

a woman who made a positive difference in so many lives when she was here in the material world and who
continues to do so from the Other Side.

Thanks, Mom, for teaching me that love
really does transcend physical death.

Contents

To Heal Grief, Start with Belief

Doubt Is Part of the Journey

Finding the Right Path Through Grief

How Spirits Contact Us

Its Nice to Know We Are Never Truly Alone

From a Physical to a Spiritual Relationship

How to Reach Out to the Other Side

Rescuing SpiritsSometimes They Need Our Help

Receiving Forgiveness from the Other Side

Forgiving Those on the Other Side

Gratitude and Consolation from the Other Side

Acceptance and Inner Peace

Let Go of Sorrow, Hold On to Love

Grief is the price of love. You grieve as deeply as you loved

Love is the great experience of life itself.

Father Sonny

The Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand;

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

To Heal Grief,
Start with Belief

When you die, you really dont. The body may cease to function, but the soul is an immortal living spirit that continues to exist beyond physical life. Even with this understanding, coping with the death of a loved one is extremely painful. Spirits are aware of this and know bereaved loved ones here in the material world are suffering. That is why spirits will come to our emotional rescue by communicating with us.

Contact with a spirit can be an incredibly healing experience because it teaches us to let go of the sorrow caused by the death but hold on to the love for the person who died. Spirit contact also helps us understand that God exists, the Other Side exists, the soul is immortal, and we will be reunited with our loved ones when it is our time to leave this material world.

Im often asked how I can be so sure of this. I certainly dont have all the answersno one doesbut I do have some insight. I am a psychic medium who was born with the ability to communicate with spirits.

Im also a criminal defense and personal injury trial lawyer. Ive represented thousands of people, many whose lives have been shattered by the deaths of loved ones. As a lawyer, I advise people that you cant change the fact someone you loved has died. What you can do is change your perspective on death. And with the help of spirits, that is what I do as a medium.

Many people seek my services as a medium to establish communication with the spirit of a loved one. Those who do have progressed to the point in their journey through grief where they believe it will be healing to communicate with the Other Side. In several instances, though, it is the spirits who choose the time and place of the contact. Sometimes, this occurs when you least expect it, as I discovered one day in my capacity as a lawyer during a jury trial.

I was representing a client who was accused of assault and battery. Jury selection is the beginning phase of the trial, which occurs before evidence is presented. The objective is to question a panel of prospective jurors to determine if they have any bias so both parties can obtain a fair and impartial jury. As I stood at the podium before the panel of jurors, I had an uneasy feeling about one of them. Prospective juror number nine was a nervous, middle-aged woman with a beautiful olive complexion, whom Ill refer to as Juror Nine. My intuition about Juror Nine was confirmed when I became aware of a female spirits presence near her. While it isnt unusual for me to perceive spirits, this wasnt the ideal time and place for a connection with the Other Side. I tried to ignore the spirit and continued on with my questioning of the jurors.

Since it was my obligation to seek out potential bias against my client, I asked Juror Nine, Have you, or has anyone in your family, ever been the victim of a crime?