The Magic of a Past Life Regression (And How It Accelerated My Healing)
For most of my life, I was a rational person. Virgo Sun. Capricorn Moon. Accountant. Spreadsheets. Logic. Evidence. The kind of person who believed that if something couldn’t be measured, it wasn’t real. So the fact that a past life regression became one of the most profound experiences of my life is not something I would have predicted. And yet…here we are.
I had “done the work” prior to my regression. For five years I attended therapy, journaled, practiced gratitude and meditation, and read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I clearly understood that my difficult childhood had conditioned certain unhealthy patterns in me that I was actively working on rewiring.
All of it was helpful to some extent. But at the end of the day, I was still profoundly disconnected from myself. I moved through life unmoored and unanchored, wearing my victimhood as a badge of honor. There were certain identities that didn’t seem to fully loosen their grip on this ole’ gal, no matter how much insight I gained. Insight is powerful, but sometimes healing requires something deeper than understanding. Sometimes it requires experience.
Dr. Michael Newton came into my orbit while I was deep in the throes of grief. My brother had just died, and in a fit of desperation one night I was binging near-death experience videos, searching for some sliver of light in the darkness. One comment stood out to me: “Dr. Newton’s Journey of Souls changed my life.” Instant download.
This book blew my mind. How could thousands of people from all walks of life, with varying beliefs, in a time before you could pop onto a Reddit thread, all say the SAME DAMN THING?! There had to be something here.
Your girl was on the case. I found Alex Negrete, a past life regression hypnotherapist in my local area, and booked the first appointment I could.
A regression is typically done under hypnosis, allowing the subconscious mind to surface images, memories, and emotional themes that the logical mind keeps buried. Candidly, I was terrified. I had never been hypnotized before. Would I lose control of myself?
I was pleasantly surprised to discover I was fully aware, conscious, and in complete control, yet deeply, deeply relaxed. So relaxed that my overreactive, logical brain finally shut the hell up. About thirty minutes into the session, something shifted. A wave of full-body warm tingles washed over me. My body relaxed, and it felt like I sank deeper into the cushions. In forty years of living inside this body, I had never felt anything like it.
What followed spilled out of me, unhindered and unguarded. It felt like it was coming from the real me. A girl I had long forgotten.
When I tell people about this experience, they often ask, “How do you know you aren’t making it up?” It is hard to describe until you have experienced it, but it felt like some of the truest words I had ever spoken. There was no creativity involved or thought behind the forming of these words. They were coming from a place deep inside—a place long forgotten.
A fascinating thing about a past life regression is that you don’t have to believe in it for it to be meaningful. The subconscious mind speaks in images, stories, and symbols. Whether these experiences represent literal past lives, symbolic subconscious storytelling, or something in between, what emerges can be deeply healing. The mind finally gets the space to process what it has been holding onto for far too long.
This session forever changed the way I saw myself, and there was no going back to the Jenn before this experience. For the first time in my life, I recognized my soul. She was hiding in there all along, just waiting for us to meet again.
