Jessica Barcomb, the proprietor of Retreat & Renew, has finished her novel, Letting Go. She has seen both sides of trauma, having survived a near-fatal accident, coma, and PTSD before becoming a craniosacral therapist to help others heal. A writing-intensive English major from Marquette University with her master’s from Union College, she has been published in several professional publications, is a former secondary English teacher, and has been a craniosacral therapist and owner of a wellness studio for the last twenty-plus years. She lives on a farm with her husband and three kids in upstate New York. Coincidentally, in researching this novel, Jessica, like her character Rebecca, discovered her own ancestral background in Salem from the 1600’s, where her ancestors fled to Boston at the time of the witch trials.
Letting Go is Deepak Chopra meeting the Salem witches in modern America. Instead of painkillers and antidepressants, Rebecca relieves pain and heals with touch. Dismissed by critics as quackery, her ancestors were hanged as witches; but what she can do is amazing, beautiful, and life-changing.
After the death of her mother, the betrayal by her best friend and by the man she thought she would marry, Becca searches for the path to healing that we all seek: The way to let go. Not only do her gifts cross the boundaries to spirit, but will they also heal the man she’s loved the most upon his return from war?
