The Synchronicity of Love: Stories that Heal, Transform, and Awaken by John David Latta – Review by Ayla Phipps

The Synchronicity of Love: Stories that Heal, Transform, and Awaken by John David Latta
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Eye opening. Before this book I had never heard of John David Latta and honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from his first book. The title is what drew me in as June is personally a very hard month for me. This year marks the third anniversary of my Irish twin’s death and people are never prepared for the longer lasting devastation that loss leaves on your mind, body, and soul. Be it physical loss, or the loss of a marriage, the lasting effects of seldom talked about beyond the materialistic or more so the loss of the connection to the relationship.
Quickly I realized that this was much more than just a book or even a memoir, it is a physical book on accepting that everything is not okay. That you can feel like your world is falling apart and as habit human beings cling to what they know. Order, to do list, tight schedules. The author mentions these early on how he found a type of comfort in the rigidity of what he knew. Until one day he finally took a chance on what he was being told in his groups, he is good at “doing” but he needs to learn how to “being”, to slow down and just be in the moment. Achieving this he finds a deeper connection to his son, and an understanding that the women telling him to do so might be onto something with it. Like David I find comfort often in keeping busy, having a list, and completing it but seeing the glimpses of my sons’ growing up faster than I emotionally can handle sometimes I have learned to take a break and let myself just enjoy the little moments. I have always been good at using the phrase but in recent years I have been slipping on living by it.
In reading this book over the past several days when given a chance to sneak in a couple of chapters I have begun to focus more on myself in the quiet moments after bedtime. Not just for myself but for my two little boys that deserve to have a fully present mother that can let go of the things that shouldn’t be poison inside my mind, body, and spirit. The three seeds David mentions in chapter one were planted within me and I look forward to seeing how they grow and what other insights will come from the book as I reread it again not just reading the words but processing them deeper and finding how I can become more entuned with myself and learn to love unconditionally in all things to let go of the argumentative, competitive and deep anger for my pain that I hold so tightly within.

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