By Helena Winterbottom
Campus News
Gwen Cristaldi’s book “Uncovering Your Light Within With Grace and Courage: focuses on the core concept of intuition, and how not following the intuitive messages we feel inside us can lead to confusion and heartbreak. Her book focuses on other spiritual topics as well, but mainly is concerned with how when we reach a fork in the road, our intuition is what guides us towards prosperity and good fortune, and listening to our inner messages is what can help us in the end, not what others might say. Now living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Cristaldi grew up in Greenwich, N.Y. This is her first book. “I needed to be authentic in writing it,” she said. “My goal was to touch people on a soul level and inspire them.”
The book observes how when people experience very difficult experiences in life, they tend to withdraw and are unable to express themselves when they can’t connect with their emotions in ways they might have once been able to. “When you open your heart, you open the light within you. We all have a light to shine, we are here to shine our light,” Cristaldi replied when asked what the key message of her book is. She continued, “How I uncovered my light, how I envisioned my light.” The idea of her writing is that when people find themselves in difficult places, it took time to get them there, so it will take time to get them out of the situations, but they shouldn’t be discouraged. There are plenty of ways to better understand what they can achieve and how they are about to be in a better place than they were before.
Cristaldi has worked as a life coach for clients for up to twenty years and her experiences with her clients are what inspired her to write this book. She works with people one-on-one to help guide them on their journey towards personal understanding and growth. She had been hearing similar things from people, that they had been having similar types of spiritual experiences or had that they had been having a difficult time. “Some things can take away from your spirituality, but sometimes the lessons that are the hardest are the ones we learn from and bring us closer to the divine.”
In her book, Cristaldi expands upon her notions of intuition and what she thinks are the most important things we should know about our own intuitive guidance that we receive. “Your first gut feeling is your intuition . . . I put things in detail about how I did not listen to my intuition—I knew right away, I knew what was wrong but I didn’t pay attention. I wanted people to be able to relate. Our inner knowing knows what’s best.” She says she believes in a higher power that guides us towards a higher good. She also believes in past lives and empaths, which she describes and defines in “Uncovering Your Light Within With Grace and Courage.”
“Not everyone is an empath,” Cristaldi explained. She went on to say that empaths are people who have a deeper sense of intuition than most.
Cristaldi describes the phenomenon of how we can separate what we know is being led by our ego and our greater truth in terms of life and our intuition. She expands upon this in here book and emphasizes its importance along with how we are guided by our intuition. When asked what inspired her book, the answer was: “I went through a situation that was difficult for me, and I struggled and it affected my health on a physical level, emotionally, mentally . . . I had to learn how to get out of that. Writing the book was healing for me. It was a healing process. It helped me to get through it and love myself.”
“Uncovering Your Light Within With Grace and Courage” is available on Amazon. It is also available in select stores, including the Silo in Queensbury and Tushita Heaven in Queensbury. To access Cristaldi’s services as a life coach more information can be found about her and what she does on her website: www.gwencristaldi.com. She helps people on a spiritual awakening path and/or to help guide them with their own inner knowing. When asked if she has plans to write another book, she said: “I would like to. I’m waiting for that to come and that will come at the right time.” Ultimately, Cristaldi believes it is important to spread the message: “I need to not lose myself by staying true to myself.”
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