Title: Life Without Illusion
Description: This book details the experience one woman had with a ghost that inhabited her family home and how the angry energy of this spirit effected her and her family through out her childhood.   Many things come to "light" as she sets herself to the task of renting, then selling the home after her parents pass.  Also intertwined in her story is the abuse and neglect she received at the hands of her parents and brother.   The author, being a trained therapist, also worked with a hypnotist, and spent time with her "group" of friends to strengthen their physic ability.  She used these skills to "counsel" the ghost and give him closure.  Along the way, the rose colored glasses she was viewing her family and sister-in-law through get ripped off in an unpleasant manner.  However, she sees this new perspective as a gift, appreciates the clarity, and moves herself through the healing process.  She also writes, with great clarity, pieces of her childhood she's finally able to see that she wasn't able to view before because to a small child they didn't make sense.  While she doesn't let her family off the hook, she does view them with compassion, which is a marvel since she received so little love and healthy attention from them.  Amongst all the drama, she discovers a daughter born to her father before he ever met her mother and puts a detective on the case of finding her sister.   The author writes of her own closure and great sense of relief as she sees happier times ahead which ends the the book on a positive note.