How Iggy Healed His Heart

By Andrea Riem

This is a story about a young swan, Soary, who really wants to help her friend Iggy the Elephant. Iggy trapped himself in his own mind, a world of grayness, and he doesn’t believe anything happy or good could come to him. Everything good in his life is taken away from him, so he would rather hide away and be alone. He experienced a terrible loss as a calf and has carried that sadness with him all his life. Then Soary meets a wonderful golden girl, and through a journey with surprising results, they find a way of getting through all the sadness in Iggy’s heart and help him see how much he is needed and loved by them and everyone around them. This is a journey from gray into light and rainbow colors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781982219628

Andrea Riem

Andrea Riem is a wife and mom of two, living in Johannesburg, South Africa. She works as an Educational Kinesiologist, Brain Gym® and Movement Based Learning Practitioner and Trainer. She has an incredible ability to interact with children and adults from a space they are comfortable and assist them to shift positively by breaking through personal blocks to enable them to reach their potential. Andrea’s writing brings a wonderful teaching element through a story, teaching life-lessons and teaching tools to children on how to cope with life challenges. Simple and practical tips that can be used by all readers young and old. Andrea has always had a deep passion for helping and supporting others, especially children. With an innate desire to make a positive difference in the lives of everyone she meets. Her caring nature and passion for her work emanates through her writing, as well as through her facilitated sessions. Andrea’s purpose is being able to help others unlock their potential and walk into a happy, loving and fulfilling life.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-1963-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-1962-8 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/24/2019

Contents

Chapter 1 Star Seed Child Arrives in the Jungle of Earth

Chapter 2 The Golden Girls Earth Name

Chapter 3 The Wonders of Earth

Chapter 4 Soary’s Story

Chapter 5 Iggy’s Land

Chapter 6 Iggy’s Own World

Chapter 7 A Way to Help Iggy

Chapter 8 Soary to the Rescue

Chapter 9 Iggy’s Journey

Chapter 10 Soary’s Rescue

Chapter 11 Iggy Gives a Helping Hand

Chapter 12 Help from Strangers

Chapter 13 Ignatius’ Story

Chapter 14 Ignatius & Evodius

Chapter 15 Iggy’s New Family

Notes:

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Special thanks and where the inspiration for the book came from.

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Chapter 1

Star Seed Child Arrives in the Jungle of Earth

From many galaxies away, a beautiful golden little girl with angel wings was flying through the galaxies one day. She felt drawn to zip through into a less light galaxy. She could see just one sun in this galaxy. Where she was from, she was so use to seeing many.

Feeling drawn by an inner voice, that a helping hand is needed in this different place. She followed her feelings and came across a world that from the outside looked so much like her home. But she felt it was a little lost in this galaxy. Something was heavy, and she had to find out why?

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Meanwhile on a planet called Earth a little swan was very sad and feeling so lost. Talking to herself, she looked up at the great yellow sun. How am I supposed to help my friend, I have tried everything I can think of? I am always happy around him, I show him all the happy things in life. But he is so lost in his own head it’s like he can’t even see me. I really really want to help him, I know deep down inside of him is some happiness. How can I help him find it?

Feeling a deep sadness in her heart she carried on swimming upstream, wondering about how to help her dear friend.

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Chapter 2

The Golden Girls Earth Name

The golden girl softly landed on a grassy field, seeing a beautiful grouping of trees ahead. She skipped towards them with glee.

Skipping and swinging her hands from side to side. Entering this beautiful space, she felt drawn to go in one direction. She was so connected with that feeling she knew it was the right thing to do. It was the only truth there was in her world.

Skipping along she reached a wonderous stream – it looked like a path made from water, well that is what she thought it was and started skipping into it. It felt a little odd skipping into this water path, then her inner voice said STOP! Go back, without any hesitation she listened and stepped back out of the water.

In a weird kind of way, she knew she didn’t have the tools to walk that path.

{What do you think would have happened if she didn’t listen to that voice inside of her?}

A beautiful creature was floating on the water path. She came up to the golden girl and amazingly spoke. Hello beautiful girl, you are lucky you stepped back when you did, this stream has a big drop just at that point.

Thank you, said the girl, I listened to my heart when it spoke, as I felt I didn’t have the tools to carry on. You have beautiful tools."

The floating creature laughed out loud in a gentle voice, Ha ha, what are you talking about tools, these are my feathers and my webbed feet, so I can float on the water and fly.

Wow, those are interesting names for you, the girl replied.

Those aren’t my names, my name is Soary, the swan, I am a beautiful white swan. And everyone loves my beauty. What is your name?

"Well actually I don’t know in your language, in

mine it’s like a song, MMMMMMmmmmmmhhhhhhh

aaaannnn" the golden girl sang an incredibly beautiful note out loud.

Wow, that’s so incredibly beautiful, I think you look like an Angel, so how about the name Angela? replied Soary.

What a beautiful name, thank you. That is how the golden girl got her earth name.

Chapter 3

The Wonders of Earth

Angela now had her own name in this strange world and when she said it, it connected to her inner tone of her own real name. What an incredible