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Two events changed Baron's life: her mother's death in 1974 and emergency thoracic aortic surgery in 2017. This death and brush with death inspired a rededicated commitment to writing and a renewed inner drive to live her life with purpose. The subsequent intense inner spiritual journey revealed why her heart was physically clogged. Being a devotee of Jesus, God, and the philosophy that mental and psychological states can cause physical illness, she realized a concomitant emotional blockage that stopped the flow of love in her life, "not just romantic love, but love for all human beings."
In this sincere, honest outpouring, Baron reveals her journey to share love in this spiritual primer that intertwines the personal with the practical. Her experiences with rebirthing, meditation, and visualization (she once manifested a metallic blue BMW) engage. The comparison of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Eldorado" to the Buddhist concept of nirvana is a highlight. Lessons on the self-healing powers of yoga, healing touch, acupuncture, chiropractic, journaling, and lifelong learning (from womb to death) lead the seeker.
Baron credits forces that shaped her journey, including the Southeastern Spiritual Conference (formerly the Spiritual Frontiers Conference), the Social Transformation Project, her always nurturing mother, and author Marianne Williamson. Her clear, concise prose and accessible language mine precious experiential nuggets that clarify metaphysical concepts, such as how inner intuition speeds success in the creative and religious arts. Even the phenomenal event of COVID-19 strengthened intuition by forcing people to go within. Moving, inspirational, and educational, this short, well-organized memoir shares Baron's road map to the inner self, which yields the priceless discovery of knowing who she is and what she wants. Her life-threatening illness and mother's death allowed her journey into the heart of what matters: self-love, living with purpose, and being what she was created to be.