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We first “met” Isabella Dove around the time we started our blog in February 2009. She lived in Thailand with her young daughter, Naa\u2019ila. Back then, she was teaching yoga and she and Naa\u2019ila moved around southeast Asia as new yoga gigs surfaced.<\/p>\n
I was always impressed by their relationship – mom and daughter, a nomadic duo.
\nBut in October 2014, Isabella\u00a0 lost her eleven-year-old daughter while they were living in West Africa. I still remember the night I came across Isabella\u2019s post about Naa\u2019ila\u2019s death. I cried.<\/p>\n
In 2015, Isabella sent us a string of synchronicities related to Naa\u2019ila that appeared to be spirit communication. She considered them to be deeply healing. We included some of them in Secrets of Spirit Communication.<\/em><\/p>\n Hello Trish, this is the story.<\/em><\/p>\n Or one of the stories. There have been others but this one I feel has a huge meaning.<\/em> I was told that\u00a0 in India some people who are on their way to other side, actually try to wait to pass away on that day. So when I was in India, people were telling me in how lucky she and I were that she passed on the day she did. She was freed from burden and went straight to the light and this has invaluable significance for my own karma.<\/em><\/p>\n We lived in Laos for 4 years so I organized a Theravada Buddhist ceremony at the main temple in Vientiane and decided to put her ashes in the wall of the temple, as per practice. So a plaque was needed.\u00a0 The best way was for me was to keep it simple, creative and not too expensive. So I took the picture of her that I love with the writing on it (image above) went to a printing shop, and had it made on an acrylic support which would be covered with glass and sealed. Three more copies were made\u00a0 as I wanted to keep one for me and I also sent one to my brother.<\/em><\/p>\n The post in Laos is reliable, yet you can never guarantee what happens. Anyhow, it cost me four times the price of the four acrylic 4 plaques to send them to Europe.\u00a0 This was done around January 20, 2015. Since I couldn\u2019t find any bubble protected envelope, I put the plaques in a simple envelope and thought I would be lucky if the package arrived at its destination in one piece.<\/em><\/p>\n I never really bothered to check but after about a month, my brother told me the package hadn\u2019t arrived yet. Then, on March 10, 2015, he was writing me a happy birthday email and announced the package had arrived that very day, on my birthday. Like a present. \u2028So my lovely daughter\u2019s presence was in both places at the same in Europe with my brother and with me in Thailand, wishing me a happy birthday!<\/em><\/p>\n I have other stories like this in my notebook. I also wrote a few posts on my blog. I am slowly getting my normal life back, but it will never really be normal again.<\/em><\/p>\n Lot of love,\u2028Isabella<\/em><\/p>\n And now Isabella\u2019s memoir about her journey with Naa\u2019ila through physical life and beyond, has been published. \u00a0Everything Is Fine, Mama: The Way of the Mango Girl<\/em> is a beautiful story that tells us as much about Isabella as it does about her special daughter, Naa\u2019ila.<\/p>\n As a parent, I can\u2019t imagine anything worse than losing my daughter. But Isabella not only survived it, Naa\u2019ila\u2019s death became became the fulcrum for her spiritual growth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We first “met” Isabella Dove around the time we started our blog in February 2009. She lived in Thailand with her young daughter, Naa\u2019ila. Back then, she was teaching yoga and she and Naa\u2019ila moved around southeast Asia as new … Continue reading
\nMy daughter passed away on the 23rd of October 2014. She was 11 years, 9 months and 9 days old. The day she died was the Diwali Festival, as they call it in India, the Festival of Lights. It\u2019s a day when many people apparently wish they could pass away\u00a0because the Festival of Lights represents the ultimate liberation from life\u2019s burdens. It occurs every year around the end of October.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/naaila.jpg?resize=423%2C440&ssl=1\")
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