Twelve Years in Alaska

This episode is based on the book Twelve Years in Alaska; A Spiritual Journey by Melissa L. Farrell. It is a series of articles that grew out of her quest to find a way to live with being an open empath. A person with the ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual. Welcome to […]

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This episode is based on the book Twelve Years in Alaska; A Spiritual Journey by Melissa L. Farrell. It is a series of articles that grew out of her quest to find a way to live with being an open empath. A person with the ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual.

Welcome to this edition of Newsgram. 

How are you feeling? It’s an appropriate question given today’s subject matter. What do you know about empathy? I want to start out today with a quick lesson because there is a difference between empathy and being an Empath. Empathy is simply the ability to understand the feelings of others. Hopefully we all have this ability. It makes you human. However being an empath would give you the ability to tap into and take on the emotions of the people around you. Think about that for a minute. Actually being able to know physically how someone feels because you can feel it too. That’s some next level stuff. 

Empaths are highly sensitive people and while they probably make pretty good listeners they do need to choose their friends wisely because…well, feeling your feelings is great if you’re a happy person but what about anger, negativity and pessimism. These can be awfully draining. 

Have you ever met an Empath? Today her name is Melissa. 

Melissa L. Farrell – I was born an empath and I lived in San Diego county with better than 100,000 people there, and I would absorb everything of all of the people that were around me and couldn’t differentiate what was me and what was them. 

That can be a real challenge. It would probably force me to seek some professional advice.

Melissa L. Farrell – It took a lot of years, counseling and one of the reasons I got into Psychology was to try to figure this stuff out. 

And as you might expect, it would also force you to seek out some solitude which is all explained in her book Twelve Years in Alaska A Spiritual Journey

Melissa L. Farrell – The twelve years in Alaska were important because I am an Empath. My younger sister married a man that was stationed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska . We went up, my mother and my son and I went up one year to visit with her and see the place. I had decided that Alaska would be a good place for me and I absolutely did. We were driving along the number two highway in Alaska, got to this one place and my heart space opened up absolutely wide and I said to my sister Terri, “Where are we?” and she said “This is Salcha Alaska” and that’s where I ended up living. There were only nine hundred people    living in Salcha so I could hear me, I could feel  me, I could deal with my own issues in those twelve years. 

I looked it up. Salcha is about forty miles south of Fairbanks and it’s a very beautiful place. It is next to the Salcha River, a popular fishing destination but enough about that. I just wanted to give you a feeling of the serenity you could expect to see and feel and if you’re an Empath how calming this area must be. It’s no wonder she chose to stay there. 

There’s something else that you need to know about Melissa. In 1964, when she was in her twenties she was driving her mothers Corvair with her brother John when she suffered a Near Death Experience. 

Melissa L. Farrell – The near death experience changes everything so much. It isn’t a matter of growing through it  and learning it little by little. I mean you have the experience and everything is changed and I mean physically, emotionally, spiritually, your outlook on life everything changes. Coping with that is another issue. 

I was going to read you a section of the book where she talks about her experience but to be honest it is so well written that you will get the most out of it by reading it yourself. Melissa is a great storyteller. I will leave you with just the last five words in the story. “John was my first Ghost” — how’s that for an incentive? 

Melissa L. Farrell – My hope for the reader 

is that they will find something in one or more of the articles that help them to find their own private, personal path in life. That’s whet this whole experience in my life has been for me was to find the path that is right for me in life and I just wanted to give the opportunity to maybe find their own. 

Oh yes, the articles. Before I wrap up I should let you know that there are thirty different articles on various subjects where she shares her life experiences in the hope that it will give you some perspective and help you on your own spiritual journey. 

It’s probably the thing that is most fascinating about this book. Not just the near death experience, the ghosts or the things that happened to her but the way she shares it with the reader. Her unique brand of wisdom. There is no agenda. It’s just the telling of a story in hopes that you will find strength in the stories the guidance to find your path and begin to live your own story. 

Check out her blog or download your copy from her website or at your favorite online bookseller — Walmart, Barnes and Noble, Amazon or wherever you like to buy books. There are links to all of these places in the shows description. And that will do it for this Empath edition of Newsgram from Webtalkradio.com.

Listen to the full interview with the author on the Books on Air podcast with Suzanne Harris. 

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