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Echo Bodine Books in Order

Explore Echo Bodine books in order, with quick summaries, where to start, and a clear guide to her work on intuition, healing, ghosts, and the afterlife.

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Hands That Heal

by Echo Bodine

1986

Bodine explains how she understands spiritual healing, from what happens in a session to the ethics and emotional blocks around it. Case studies and simple exercises make it a grounded introduction to laying-on of hands work.

This revised healing guide tackles emotional pain, addiction, illness, and the habits that keep people stuck. Bodine mixes spiritual ideas with practical reflection, encouraging readers to look honestly at their lives and begin deeper inner repair.

After praying for deeper understanding, Bodine describes an out-of-body journey through death and beyond. The book blends vision, reflection, and spiritual teaching into a hopeful picture of the soul's life after this one.

Part memoir and part casebook, this book follows Bodine as she accepts her abilities and starts helping haunted households. The stories range from funny to eerie, with practical advice for dealing with restless spirits.

Here Bodine turns to intuition, asking what that inner voice is and how to hear it more clearly. She looks at the fear, guilt, and outside noise that can drown it out, then offers ways to listen again.

Built around readers' questions, this book collects haunting cases, ghost stories, and Bodine's advice on what strange activity might mean. The tone is calm and conversational, even when the experiences themselves are unsettling.

Bodine's approachable guide explains what psychic ability means in her worldview and how readers can begin developing it. She covers common fears, the different psychic senses, and simple practices for opening up while staying grounded.

A more hands-on follow-up to The Gift, this book breaks psychic development into clear lessons and exercises. Bodine focuses on intuition, interpretation, protection, and the boundaries that help readers practice without getting overwhelmed.

Part memoir, part spiritual reflection, this book follows Bodine through strange, painful, and often surprising episodes from her life. She uses those stories to show how faith, recovery, and a search for goodness shaped her path.

This collection gathers Bodine's ghost stories, from confused spirits to more disruptive hauntings, and explains how she tries to help them move on. She also includes straightforward steps and prayers for readers facing activity at home.

Bodine explores death, grieving, and the soul's journey with stories from her work and her own losses. She also offers simple guidance for being with the dying and staying connected to loved ones who have passed.

For readers thinking about professional psychic work, Bodine shares practical lessons from decades in business. She covers boundaries, ego, advertising, appointments, money, and the day-to-day realities that rarely make it into more mystical guides.

Bodine looks at why some spirits stay earthbound, drawing on ghost investigations and stories of souls with unfinished business. Each case points toward a bigger question, how do we live now so we can let go later?

Where to start with Echo Bodine

If you want intuition first: A Still, Small Voice → The Gift → The Key
If you want healing work: Hands That Heal → My Big Book of Healing
If you're here for ghosts: Relax, It's Only a Ghost → Dear Echo → The Little Book of True Ghost Stories → How to Live a Happily Ever Afterlife
If you want her afterlife and memoir side: Echoes of the Soul → What Happens When We Die → Look for the Good and You'll Find God

Echo Bodine collections, short stories, and related book types

Collections

  1. Book cover for "The Little Book of True Ghost Stories"

Standalone Echo Bodine books

  1. Book cover for "Hands That Heal"

    Hands That Heal

    by Echo Bodine

    1986
  2. Book cover for "My Big Book of Healing: Restore Your Body, Renew Your Mind, and Heal Your Soul"
  3. Book cover for "Echoes of the Soul: Moving Beyond the Light"
  4. Book cover for "Relax, It's Only a Ghost: My Adventures with Spirits, Hauntings and Things That Go Bump in the Night"
  5. Book cover for "A Still, Small Voice: A Psychic's Guide to Awakening Intuition"
  6. Book cover for "Dear Echo: Answers to Your Questions about Ghosts, Hauntings, and Things That Go Bump in the Night"
  7. Book cover for "The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities"
  8. Book cover for "The Key: Unlock Your Psychic Abilities"
  9. Book cover for "Look for the Good and You'll Find God: The Spiritual Journey of a Psychic and Healer"
  10. Book cover for "What Happens When We Die: A Psychic's Exploration of Death, Heaven, and the Soul's Journey After Death"
  11. Book cover for "Things I Wish I'd Known When I Got Started: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Professional Psychic"
  12. Book cover for "How to Live a Happily Ever Afterlife: Stories of Trapped Souls and How Not to Become One"

Author bio

Echo Bodine grew up in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, in a family where unusual spiritual experiences were part of everyday life. Several relatives shared what she would later describe as psychic abilities, and that made her work feel rooted in home rather than in some far-off mystical world. That mix of ordinary Midwestern life and unusual perception has shaped her writing ever since.

The turning point came when she was 17.

After one of her brothers saw a spirit in the family home, their mother contacted a psychic. That reading, Echo has said, changed her life. She was told that she had psychic abilities and a gift for healing, and instead of brushing it aside, she and her mother started studying and paying close attention.

She spent two years taking psychic development classes and another twelve years practicing on friends and family before she felt ready to do the work full time. Along the way, she also learned healing through prayer, meditation, and hands-on experience. She has said those early years taught her not only how to open up, but how to stay clear and grounded.

It was not an overnight leap.

Before she made a living as a psychic, she went to college for a couple of years, held regular jobs, and worked as a barber. In 1979 she left barbering and began a full-time practice as a psychic, healer, teacher, and ghostbuster. She has spoken openly about how hard that choice could be in a time when psychics were often treated with suspicion or fear.

By 1981 she was teaching classes on psychic development and spiritual healing, work that became the backbone of her career. Over the years she appeared on national television and radio, hosted a radio show in Minneapolis, and taught around the country. Since 2003 she has run a teaching center in Richfield, Minnesota, and she later expanded into online classes as well.

Her books carry the same practical streak. Hands That Heal explains spiritual healing in plain language. A Still, Small Voice, The Gift, and The Key are often where readers start if they want to think more carefully about intuition and psychic development. Others come for the ghost and afterlife titles, especially Relax, It's Only a Ghost, Echoes of the Soul, and What Happens When We Die, which pair unusual experiences with a calm, matter-of-fact tone.

She writes like someone sitting across the table from you.

That may be the clearest through-line in Bodine's career. Whether she is talking about healing, grief, ghosts, or faith, she keeps coming back to the same idea, stay calm, pay attention, and trust the quiet inner nudge. She still works in Minnesota, continues to teach and do readings, and has also hosted the show Enough is Enough. Readers who pick up Look for the Good and You'll Find God will probably recognize that voice right away.

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