Author sends healing message

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Helping others is the driving force behind Newcastle author Bernadette O’Connor.

As a practicing kinesiologist, it’s no surprise that self-discovery and healing have embedded themselves into her two works, Let’s Go Home and Beneath the Veil, which were launched just 12 months apart in February 2018 and February 2019.

“The level I work in is mostly around emotional blocks and personal and spiritual goals,” O’Connor told Newcastle Weekly.

“Both books have themes along those lines.”

Let’s Go Home follows a young woman who falls into work, alcohol and drugs in order to cope with feelings of abandonment but learns to find home within herself, while Beneath the Veil goes back to mid-20th Century Ireland where a young woman must use her inner strength to battle emotional demons.

O’Connor sees her writing as a continuation of her practice, just in a different medium.

“This is telling people how to heal, but it’s done with story,” she said.

“When people are reading the story, they are changing within themselves and that’s really beautiful.

“When we’re reading these stories there’s a vibration in the words and that stays with us.”

Launching two books in the space of the year is no mean feat, but O’Connor described the process as being natural as the story ideas just landed with her.

“I’ve always been a hard worker, but I actually think I’m working less,” she said.

“If I need to work, I work.

“I trust a lot that what is meant to be is meant to be.”

Serendipitously, Beneath the Veil was launched the same day that 50 copies of Let’s Go Home were included in the gift bags of Oscars attendees including Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres and Nicole Kidman.

That was made possible by a conversation with a public relations agent and then through O’Connor’s persistence, pushed by her belief that you need to pursue opportunities that come your way.

She hopes that with copies of Let’s Go Home now floating around Hollywood it may fall into the right hands and become a film, but said she wasn’t seeking fame – she wants the message to be accessible to more people.

“It’s not about ego – I’m a kinesiologist, I help people heal,” she said. “These books have been gifted to me to share, and I’ll do whatever it takes for that message to get to people.”

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