Marital abuse and mind games drove Suzanne Haslam to a full-scale nervous breakdown. She thought she would have to abandon the nursing job she loved and would never again be able to enjoy a normal social life. Yet eventually, through sheer grit and determination – and encouragement from the spirit world – she managed to rebuild her life.

Journey towards the light, just published by Memoirs Books, is Suzanne’s story. The book tells of her years of oppression, manipulation and psychological torture at the hands of her domineering, control-freak husband. When she turned to her family for help, they accused her of imagining her problems. Her workmates began to spurn her. Finally, close to despair, she managed to pluck up the courage to walk away from the marital home with nothing but her beloved dog and a suitcase full of clothes.

Suzanne had been gaining comfort from meetings with a local medium and occasional visits to her local spiritualist church. Now, in an attempt to heal her psychological scars, she flew to Majorca and sought sanctuary in a remote monastery, where she discovered an extraordinary gift for second sight and a talent for communicating with the spirit world.

Suzanne’s spiritual experiences ultimately gave her the strength to recover from her ordeal and find new happiness, security and professional success. Today she is happily remarried with a young child, has been promoted and has even gained a BSc degree in Public Health. She has written Journey towards the light to reassure other women enduring similar experiences that they are not alone – and that they can survive, prosper and triumph.

CHAPTER 1 The end of a marriage Page 1
CHAPTER 2 Leaving Page 15
CHAPTER 3 Spiritual Awakenings Page 20
CHAPTER 4 Aftermath Page 29
CHAPTER 5 Majorcan sanctuary Page 37
CHAPTER 6 The Puig Page 41
CHAPTER 7 A helping hand from Spirit Page 55
CHAPTER 8 Making contact Page 64
CHAPTER 9 Positive and negative Page 72
CHAPTER 10 Escaping from the past Page 82
CHAPTER 11 A fresh start Page 89
CHAPTER 12 The journey home Page 99

Suzanne Booth was brought up in a normal, happy family in the north of England. When she married a man who turned out to be an obsessive control freak, she found herself constantly humiliated, manipulated and bullied. Her husband was clever enough to make sure her family and friends never saw what was going on, and because the abuse was not physical there were no scars which she could display as evidence. Her family accused her of imagining it all and even allowed her husband – who was working in the family business - to worm his way into their favour as the one who had been wronged.

After seven years of misery, Suzanne managed to pluck up the courage to divorce her husband. However, the stress of coping with the abuse and the tension with her family drove her to a full-scale nervous breakdown and she was forced to take extended sick leave from the nursing job she loved.

She sought sanctuary in a remote Spanish monastery, where she experienced a series of vivid psychic events which ultimately showed her how she could rebuild her life. Over the years that followed she was finally able to recover her strength and confidence and find new happiness, security and professional success.