THE PORTAL

Annika Hjelmqvist Sjöholm

Softcover with flap, 330 pages

Shouldn't life be more fun, more passionate, more magical, or at least somewhat meaningful? I was gnawed by the feeling that I had adapted to others my whole life and that I had lost myself along the way. I didn't know who I was or what I wanted, only that it couldn't go on.

My scream into the world began on a mountaintop in Greece. I have never been so scared, free and happy all at the same time. It was there that I made up my mind and walked through the portal to my future life. A life of close sisterhood, sensual love and magic beyond the limitations of this world. Little did I know then that a cautious gray mouse like me could become a sensually life-affirming spiritual woman and influence the world just by my being.

As an author, Annika Hjelmqvist Sjöholm writes about people on the border between the old and the new world. About pioneers with big dreams, who pave the way for the rest of us. The old truths about life are loosening their grip, while the new ones have not yet taken shape. In the space between, confusion, emptiness and resignation often arise. The portal is like energy medicine in novel form. Emotional shifts make the reader feel, come to an understanding and make their own choices.

"When you read The Portal and feel its power, the "understanding" of what heaven on earth means for us humans increases. A deeper embodiment of the light occurs. It is so beautiful, great and wonderful to be alive now and I cannot express enough the gratitude I feel that you let me read your book." Annika Döse, healer in spiritual awakening

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Reader reaction:

"This is a book full of magic and energy and hits all the right notes! I read it from the first page to the last!" /Britt-Marie Lotse

 "Thank you for a magical book that captivated me from the first page" /Saga Satu

" A book that inspires, creates new perspectives, vibrates in transformation and also creates a magical moment for the reader. Contains such sincerity, love and authenticity. It is created from the heart and gives a memory for life" /Jonas Sjöholm

"Just finished reading your book and loved it !!!! <3 <3 <3 It was so exciting, expanding and inspiring that I read through it in only a few days. Thank you for your courage to shine your light and inspire others with it<3 .”/Stephanie

" I've just finished reading your book and I can't help but be happy, laughing to myself. So much I recognize, so many emotions, commuting between the two worlds and the joy and love. It radiates!! I see you radiate in the photo. of you in the book you shine. A fabulous ending. Thinking of Anna and the message of the plants, my life tones, the fantastic light, us as light bearers and finding the way there, the doubt and the trust. You have really got everything into your book. Now to I will digest everything and see what life looks like tomorrow./ Gunnel Holm Knuutinen

"The portal is so good. Entertaining, recognizable, loaded with humor and seriousness."/Kent Gunnarsson

"The best Annika! THANK YOU for letting me read your book. I read it in a hurry until I finished it late last night . I recognized myself in Anemone's doubts about spirituality and smiled in recognition several times. There was a lot of recognition in the flower shop when Onedin came into the picture. I started writing about my memories in the Indonesian jungle where I spent a lot of time. When it was finished, I was woken up at 4 am every morning by a group who wanted me to get up and continue writing. They call themselves the Guides of the Universe. I have now written down their message and they now want me to get on stage again and convey their message to the learned men (she does not want to write men of power). I work as a lecturer but have been quiet for a few years. Enough about me. Your book has given me the strength to stop doubting, it takes too much strength."/Warm hugs Diana

"I have just finished reading Portalen by my lovely friend Annika. The book is truly like energy medicine - thought-provoking and at the same time fun to read. I am so impressed by the novel debut."/ Elisabeth Due

" Soulful feel-good that in a finely tuned but clear way highlights how one can always take a small step softly and organically in the direction of what the heart longs for. How one can slowly but surely open up to be guided by a deeper compass, the one that shows the way home. How the opportunity to listen more to the natural than the normal is always within reach, even if it may take time to recognize it and trust it. Despite the fact that the depiction of Anemone's spiritual journey is fairy-tale-like, it is not naive, but reflects in a realistic way how the choices that characterize such a path are both fantastic and at times quite arduous. I like Annika's language - nuanced, rich and often precise. The big and the small are beautifully packaged together and sheltered in different ways by the different characters in the book, forming a believable and wonderful story. I am sure that Anemone's profound journey of development will instill both hope and inspiration in many to take the next step in the direction where joy, liberation and the living "The adventure always exists." /Tove Noxfeld

"Yesterday I thought this would be a new "Eat, Pray and Love.." saw the book as a movie. Have read up to chapter 18 and the questions. Have thought/done a lot, but some is new. You write vividly, descriptively so it feels with different senses and I am sucked into the story. Sometimes I think that you wrote it when I read, sometimes I forget and am one with the characters."/ Ulrika Ericsson

"This is a book full of magic and energy and hits all the right notes! I read it from the first page to the last!" /Britt-Marie Lotse

"Thank you for a magical book that captivated me from the first page!" /Saga Satu

"Thank you very much and enjoy the rest, sun and swimming!" /Annika

"We are in a new era now. When something is created from the heart, it creates well-being and added value for others. Such products are now spreading all over the world and I have been honored to share the energy from one of them. A deep process starts in the body and opens up to the greater that we feel exists but which is not measurable for our brain. The brain that wants to measure, compare and analyze. These products vibrate higher than we can grasp and understand but their effect is great! If you are energy sensitive, you feel its power!

Author Annika Hjelmqvist Sjöholm has written a fiction novel straight from the heart, from her Truth and Power. The book is called Portalen and when you read the book you experience it in your whole body. You can absolutely read it as a fiction book, any kind, but if you instead decide to accept the gift that the book offers, your body will be completely on board and a greater expansion will occur. Your body always strives for balance between body, mind and soul and receives the energy balancing in depth that the book offers. The book opens up to completely different dimensions and I can only say that I feel rich having read it."/ Annika Döse