About the author

Anne-Claire Szubaniska

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; My name is Anne-Claire Szubaniska. I am originally from a small town in France called Cambrai, but after years of moving around between Canada and the United States, I settled down in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My childhood was a painful experience, but my mother&rsquo;s parents, Papi and Miman, showed me the way to happiness. They successfully made me feel loved, and my heart fluttered with joy every second I spent with them.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At 16, I sadly lost my ability to surrender to their pure love, dwelling on the unhappy events of my childhood and I became profoundly depressed.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Years later, I came upon my first self-help book. I just couldn&rsquo;t stop reading.</p> <p>I wasn&rsquo;t happy yet. But for the first time in many years, the spark of life was ignited in me again.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I read many other books and attended tons of workshops where I met people who had been through the worst, most unimaginable traumas but had found a way to let the negativity go and be happy.</p> <p>Inspired, I kept practicing, until one day, while meditating, I experienced the joyful flutters in my heart again&mdash;this beautiful ticklish emotion of joy I had only felt with my grandparents as a young child.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a miracle!</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This radiant aliveness my grandparents had helped me experienced was and would always be within me. They had shown me the way&hellip;</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus, the writing of Mystic and the Secret of Happiness was initiated&hellip;</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p>