Since childhood for reasons she couldn’t understand, Chloe was drawn to the dark and all that lived there. Seeing and feeling things that others couldn’t or wouldn’t, she was forced into a lonely life. The lines between “good girl” and “bad girl'”quickly became her guidebook, making her shove parts of herself into hiding. Life took her on a fiercely adventurous journey that led her to discover the unexplainable perfection of the wild. To find herself and her magic, she had to meet her ancestors, face her fears, and learn to walk alone in the darkness. This is a story about an intuitive who spends half of her life running away from her gifts, and the rest of it running towards them. In telling a different story about the dark, she invites the reader to examine their own imbalanced relationship with darkness and intuition. A coming of age story about a girl who learns to claim her power and her voice by befriending the dark. It is courageously vulnerable, honest, and raw. You will find yourself, and your memories in the pages of this book.
Everything I got from this book I threw in the mental garbage when I got to the 2nd to last chapter. Of all the things Chloe Elgar thinks people would judge her for, she apparently has no qualms getting a dog from a breeder while other dogs die in shelters. Nope, not taking spiritual advice from this lady.
Technically I did not finish this book because there was no point in reading the last chapter after that.
Chloe has a way with words and articulates so beautiful how and why we must lean into the darkness in order to find our light. You don’t have to be a psychic to appreciate her memoirs - it’s well written and flows so naturally. Understanding how Chloe overcame her shadows and came to embrace her gift is truly inspiring