Welcome! Thanks for stopping by.
The day I finished reading Dr. Raymond Moody’s Life After Life in 1975, I embarked on a journey to more deeply understand our eternal nature. It has been at once fascinating, fortifying, mystifying and circuitous. But, as someone once said, ‘God writes straight on crocked lines.’ Close to a half century later, I am sharing what I have learned through my writing, teaching, speaking and clinical practice.
Uncovering your soul’s plan for this lifetime can come after a tremor or a full scale life-earthquake!
It all depends on how well you have been following the subtle clues from your higher self. What is most important is your willingness to be an active participant in your own transformation.
Imagine! What will your life be like when you connect to your soul and allow it to guide your future decisions and actions . . .
My Soul’s Plan
I discovered first-hand that my soul had a plan that differed from the one that guided my earlier life. In 2006, after a three-decade long career as a social welfare executive and advocate for human rights and safeguards, I changed careers. What had been an avocation became the new direction for my life’s work. While I happily and hurriedly went through the business of life, my soul re-calibrated my direction and executed a mid-course correction.
My first career was inspired by my passion for our individual and collective well-being, and my belief that acting together, we can transform society at large – the exterior world. My current work focuses on the interior world, promoting emotional and spiritual transformation. This work is grounded in the knowing that each person is endowed with an immortal soul which has the power to heal, liberate and transform.
Preparing for the New Direction
To follow the new path, I trained as a hypnotherapist and became certified by the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association. To pursue my interest in spiritual regression, I became certified by the Brian Weiss Institute in past life regression and The Michael Newton Institute in life between lives® hypnotherapy.
Throughout millennia, sages and mystics have reminded us that life is eternal. Like many, I hold this truth without complete understanding of the higher power that orders the Cosmos. I long ago stretched the paradigm of my early Christian heritage through study of Eastern Wisdom Traditions. Before long the mental constructs that I viewed the world also underwent major reconstruction. I found the need to augment my earlier Bachelor’s in Psychology and Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and Family Studies with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Metaphysical Ministry and a Doctoral degree with a concentration in Transpersonal Counseling.
With this expanded perspective, my spiritual counseling and hypnotherapy practice helps clients to uncover and change the beliefs that shape patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior. My teaching, speaking and writing expound on the wisdom gleaned from their afterlife journeys so that broader audiences might benefit and similarly realize inner peace and joy.
Discoveries Abound
During my first career I had great fun speaking about our external world to diverse audiences whether in a workshop or plenary setting or on radio or T.V.
Now, I have great joy teaching others about the interior world — how to differentiate between external worth and intrinsic value, how to cultivate balance, peace and joy and most excitedly how to experience Source in everyday living. Now, I am immersed in teaching others about the nature and eternal lineage of our soul and how this enriches our life experience.
Like you, the rest of my life-story is a work in progress.
Like many of you, the plan my soul has for this life continues to unfold. On a good day, I hold on tight and enjoy the ride. On a less than good day, I feel as if it was easier to pin the tail on the donkey blindfolded! I laugh as I write this, knowing that many tears have been shed engaged in this lila – the divine play of life.
Perhaps you too have shed a tear or more. Perhaps you are wondering what fork in the road-of-life lies ahead for you and worry in advance which direction you might choose. If so, let the wisdom gleaned from the spiritual regressions of others help you to discover your soul’s plan for this lifetime.
Life is meant to be full of joy!
I live life to the fullest as I hope you do!
While my work is important, so too are the people and activities that enrich my life.
When I am not exploring and sharing discoveries about our eternal nature and journeys through my writing, teaching and speaking, I am devoted to my beloved husband, family and friends. I am passionate about gardening and travel and I consider the latter one of life’s greatest gifts and teacher. Balancing all of this animation is the peace and tranquility that I find in prayer and meditation.
Joanne’s Books
Let the discoveries of those featured in the books authored and coauthored by Joanne help you to uncover your soul’s plan for this lifetime.
Awakened Soul
Awakened Soul moves readers to imagine what it would feel like to wake up feeling joyful, at peace and knowing without a doubt that they are loved.
Using excerpted transcripts from spiritual regressions she conducted, hypnotherapist, spiritual counselor and teacher Joanne Selinske relays the awe-inspiring stories of dozens who realized this dream and deepened their capacity to love themselves. READ MORE
Wisdom of Souls
Wisdom of Souls is the second of two books for The Michael Newton Institute coauthored with my three Research Committee colleagues: Ann J. Clark, PhD, Karen Joy and Marilyn Hargreaves.
Wisdom of Souls provides breath-taking evidence of the life that awaits in the spirit realms. It is filled with beautiful stories of healing and wisdom experienced by people from all walks of life who have explored spiritual regression. READ MORE
Little Book
Llewellyn’s Little Book of Life Between Lives, is the first of two books, which my Newton Institute Research colleagues and I coauthored.
The book explores the experiences of souls in between incarnations. Far from haphazard returns to human experiences, souls make detailed plans for upcoming lifetimes. These plans are designed to heal old wounds, to learn lessons, to balance karma and to serve others. READ MORE