Body Memories is a powerful, soul-penetrating novel that blurs the line between fiction and lived truth. Drawing from real-life visions, ancestral trauma, and decades of spiritual exploration, Barbara Rachlin Sklar delivers a deeply emotional, psychologically suspenseful, and spiritually expansive story that will leave readers questioning what the body knows—and what the soul remembers.

At the heart of the novel is Brenda Abrams, a successful, grounded woman navigating a busy life in Los Angeles. On the surface, Brenda seems composed, accomplished, and in control. But underneath that facade is a growing storm. Without warning, she begins experiencing vivid, terrifying nightmares—flashbacks of cruelty, coldness, and chaos that feel eerily specific and disturbingly real. Overwhelming physical sensations—panic, dread, grief—emerge in places and moments that make no rational sense. The images, the emotions, and the fears don’t belong to her… or do they?

What begins as emotional unraveling quickly spirals into a soul-level reckoning. Desperate to understand what’s happening to her, Brenda seeks answers beyond the limits of traditional psychology. Her journey leads her into the world of past life regression, spiritual therapy, and somatic memory—realms where the mind may forget, but the body never does. With the help of a skilled therapist and a spiritual guide, Brenda uncovers a haunting truth: what she is remembering may not stem from this lifetime at all.

Through deeply moving and often harrowing inner work, Brenda is confronted with a soul memory of life—and death—inside Auschwitz. Though she has no known personal or ancestral connection to the Holocaust, the trauma feels imprinted in her very being. Her body holds the echoes of a life brutally cut short. And as modern-day violence resurfaces in the world around her, the line between past and present begins to blur entirely.

But Body Memories is not just a psychological thriller or a story of reincarnation—it’s a layered meditation on the nature of trauma, the persistence of memory, and the soul’s need to heal. Barbara Rachlin Sklar, a trained hypnotherapist with expertise in regression work, infuses every page with spiritual depth and emotional clarity. She writes not only from imagination but from personal truth—channeling the collective wounds that live beneath the surface of our society and ourselves.

The novel is a call to remember. To awaken. To realize that trauma does not need to be consciously known to be real—and that healing does not need to be logical to be transformative. Through Brenda’s journey, we are reminded that pain can live in our muscles, our fears, our dreams—and that liberation begins by listening to what the body has been trying to say all along.

Told with lyrical sensitivity, piercing insight, and a courageous heart, Body Memories is for readers drawn to psychological drama, mystical fiction, and stories that explore the unseen layers of human experience. It speaks directly to anyone who has ever felt haunted by emotions they can’t explain, memories they’ve never lived, or fears that seem to belong to another time.

This is more than a novel.
It’s an initiation into remembrance.
A reclamation of the silenced self.
And a testament to the timeless truth:
Even when the mind forgets, the body always remembers.