Pleasanton, California: "Erin's humanness came shining through. Getting
to know the inner self of Erin helps to make the final chapters
of the book believable. The after-life experiences are so plausible
and even exciting. What you have written contains a lot of insight!
The medical profession needs to come to grips with their impersonal,
uncoordinated efforts that promote further suffering instead
of lessening it. Erin couldn't have shared her feelings on this
situation any better....What a commendable job you did writing
this book!"
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: "I finished reading From Erin with Love
this morning. I started it yesterday afternoon. I wanted to write
you a note to let you know how much I enjoyed the book (obviously)....The
other thing I wanted to mention was that I have been very skeptical
of butterflies. Everyone seems to take every butterfly as a sign
from their deceased child. BUT after reading your accounts of
butterfly experiences I've changed my mind for sure. Thank you
for that! The book was wonderful. I couldn't put it down. Erin
must have been a very special young woman....Your book has brought
me great joy and peace."
Seattle, Washington:
"I read it all on the same day I got it--I couldn't put
it down. She touched a lot of people in her time here and I hope
you're proud to be a part of that. I thought your book was well
balanced, with a good mixture of Erin's journals, thoughts from
her friends, her place in your life, the medical episodes and
your current views of the whole situation. I'm glad you've found
the strength and comfort to cope with such a profound loss in
this lifetime."
Arkansas: "Your
book was so enthralling, I finished it in one evening. I even
went back and read some of it to my husband. It's a wonderful
book that will help a lot of people. It's the real stuff! And
I'm glad she wrote about it and you and your husband have had
the courage to make it public. It's a special story of a special
girl."
Antioch, California:
"I attended your lecture at the Unity Center....I purchased
your beautiful book before you spoke and was able to chat with
you for only a moment during the break....I can't tell you how
grateful I am that you and sweet Erin are telling your story....I
have been able to read only a few pages each day of your story
because it's so similar to mine....I have, by now, completed
your beautiful tribute to your daughter. I looked forward each
day to finding time for it and now that it's over, I miss it.
It was like I wanted to keep going and going."
Antelope, California:
I want to thank you so much for writing and publishing From
Erin with Love. I am grateful to you and your family for
sharing your experiences. Another reason for my letter is to
let you know that Erin's story has helped me in my present life
as well. I have a friend....I am watching (as many of Erin's
close friends did) her battle with cancer. Through Erin's journals
I have been able to relate more to what...is going through. As
I watch her go through this, I feel so helpless. Erin's journal
writing has helped me through this last month. She has give me
an insight I otherwise would not have had....and I just wanted
to thank you, your family and of course Erin....Thank you so
much for sharing Erin's story."
Sebastopol, California: "It's such a beautiful example of what life
and love is all about. I've read it three times, and still I
go back to it for comfort and encouragement. It is so beautiful."
Hillsboro, Oregon:
I'm struck by how honest she is about her predicament. I like
the placement of the letters from the friends and family at the
beginning of the chapters and as a convention for a literary
break. Well done. It gives us a break from the pain, the intensity
of Erin's (and your) experience."
Jack Canfield, co-author, "Chicken
Soup for the Soul" - "Often
using Erin's own words, her mother has painted a rich portrait
of a young woman who loved life, endured the pain of illness
and who, as you soon will read, continues to live on in ways
that may astound. This is one of the most compelling and moving
stories you will ever read. I highly recommend it."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, "Real Magic",
Marcie Dyer - "This book speaks
to the human soul about our true responsibility while here on
earth. Erin Fisher agreed to be a teacher and continues to guide
us from the other side. Truth is not always what we are ready
to hear. This book changed us - no reinforced for us what our
lives are about. One word, LOVE."
Pat Rowe Corrington, "Alive Again...Again...and
Again" - "Erin's messages
to others are many. Her mother, Helen M. Fisher, has created
a spellbinding story of events that followed her daughter's death;
a healing tool for those who are grieving the loss of loved ones."
William Wharton, "Ever After" - "This is a self published book of outstanding
quality. It is brave and honest. The writer, the mother of a
lovely girl who died of Hodgkin's Disease just before her twenty-first
birthday has faced up to death and dying in a unique way. She
also offers to the reader with great conviction her reasons and
ability to sustain this loss with honor and dignity."
"Mrs. Fisher first tells us the difficulty
she and her husband, Ron, had accepting the inevitability of
suffering unreasonable pain and death with such a disease as
Hodgkin's/ The long debilitating pain and suffering the ups and
downs of the slow descent to that state to which we all must
go, called death."
"Then she reveals her own conviction
that her daughter is still with her, perhaps even more than if
she had lived out her mortal life. Her immortality in the spirit,
her heroic efforts to calm and soothe her parents, trying to
give them the knowledge she now has, as to what 'death' is about,
is very moving.
"Having recently experienced the death
of my daughter, her husband and their two children, chronicled
in my book Ever After, I find the experience of this mother
and child renewing. I, too, have had contact with my son-in-law
directly, then my daughter indirectly through the identity of
a bird. It is more real to me than most of the so called 'real'
events of life. So, it's been with Mrs. Fisher. Her daughter
appears to her as a butterfly, one of the most hopeful creatures
on this earth. In the life of a butterfly, it metamorphoses from
a creature bound to the earth, the caterpillar, which makes changes
seemingly unbelievable to all of us within the normal context
of what we know, until it is another creature entirely, a creature
of the air, beautiful and ephemeral."
"In ancient Greek mythology, the young
maiden Psyche, whose name means both soul and butterfly, is a
symbol of immortality. The Egyptians, four thousand years ago
in their wall paintings of the beauties of the ideal afterlife
have given us some hints as to the magic of this life. That this
young girl should know enough to choose as her messenger-self
communication, the butterfly, is magnificent in itself."
"For those of us who have been blessed
by loved ones who made the effort to console us as best they
can, after they've left, this book is a reaffirmation of the
spirit that transcends the physical and is in all of us."
