Joy Brisbane - Spirit Alliance: The Connection Between Mind, Heart, and Soul

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When Do The Tears Stop?

First published Author House 2010

Second edition Kingprint 2014

ISBN: 978-1-4520-6403-1

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Spirit
Alliance

The Connection Between
Mind, Heart, and Soul

Joy Brisbane

Copyright 2017 Joy Brisbane.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 09/20/2017

CONTENTS

Thank You

To my dear friend and editor

Dallas Kinnear

For the many hours you have dedicated to this book,

For the way you have challenged me,

For your belief in me

And

For your love.

Also

I dedicate this book to Mary Salopek and Lynne Saunders.

Thank you for your wisdom, patience and love.

Thank you for helping me to heal.

Without you this book could not have been written.

I have known since the age of seven I have had an alliance with the realm of spirit. My abilities as a psychic medium continued to develop through my years at school, nursing training, and my training in counselling. My alliance with my spirit guides has helped me through many challenging times.

My battle with grief after the death of my second husband in 2002, and my experiences of making contact with him through the spirit world, brought me to the realisation that my gifts and training could combine to help other people move through their grief. I began in a quiet way to reach out to other people, sharing my gifts as a medium and my training as a counsellor to help others reclaim happiness in their lives. My clientele quickly increased.

I have researched and studied the realm of spirit extensively, seeking to understand my gifts as a psychic medium. I have also had two near-death experiences, the result of anaphylactic reactions after insect bites. During my out of body experiences, I caught a glimpse of the beauty, the splendour of the realm of spirit, validating my research and the visions I had been receiving since a child.

Through the written word, I hope to touch the lives of others and help them to find the joy and peace I have found in my own life.

Joy

I was brought up on a farm in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. It was there I first became aware of the importance Mother Nature plays in our existence. It was also there I first became aware of my gift as a psychic medium. But at that time, sadly, psychic ability was treated with great suspicion, condemned as being the workings of dark forces, or totally disbelieved. For my parents, it was a mixture of disbelief and fear of the darkness.

I quickly learned not to speak of the beautiful beings I was seeing. They popped in on a daily basis to say hello, my lovely ones, my guides, keeping the communication between us intact. I, at that stage, had no understanding why they were with me; no understanding that these beings of light were assigned to this less than perfect individual to help me on my lifes journey. For me, they were just my mates with whom I held important conversations (out of earshot of my mother).

As the teen years filled my head with ideas of romance, how to overcome pimples, and how to get out of study but still pass school exams, the unseen ones gracefully and quietly waited for me to grow up and evolve into womanhood.

At seventeen, I began training to become a nurse. Throughout my years as a nurse, I began to realise there was a lot more to my guides presence in my life than just good mates. It was not only a time of training in becoming a healer; it was also a time of discovery in psychic phenomena. I had many strange experiences during that time.

Then I married and had two children. My first marriage was eight years of struggle; it ended in divorce. But the one thing my husband and I had in common was the ability to see UFOs and to experience the paranormal. It was the first time I had been able to speak openly of some of the experiences I was having. Apart from the precious gift of two children, I now know it was a time of validation for me, something for me to hold on to as the years ahead brought many challenges. During this time, I trained as a Lifeline counsellor, Australias national phone counselling service.

Lifeline was begun to help those in need of instant counselling, such as people who were suicidal. Later it expanded to include people isolated by distance, such as in the outback parts of Australia, for those who are struggling financially, and for those with issues that arise in the middle of the night when all other help organizations are closed.

My second marriage was a happy one, but my husband, Jeff, did not believe in my gift as a psychic medium or share my beliefs about the afterlife. His objections were so strong that I could not talk to him about my experiences. We lived on seven acres of isolated land, surrounded by thousands of acres of eucalyptus forest. A gentle stream ran through our property just fifty metres from our house. It was here I first discovered my ability to see the energy of wildlife. Communication with birds and animals led to a powerful period of awakening and growth in my abilities. But it was in some ways a lonely journey; there was no one I could fully trust to share my insights and experiences.

When Jeff died in 2002, I had no one left to appease or answer to. I decided the time had come for me to take the risk and allow the gifts with which I was born to fully develop. I came out of the proverbial closet and fully stepped into my truth. It was a scary journey, requiring a lot of strength and courage (at a time when grief filled my heart), but through it all my lovely ones in spirit held me in their love. Friends turned away from me. But in return I gained a sense of peace and stillness that, at long last, I could be truly me ! Many beautiful friends have since replaced the ones who no longer have contact with me.