title: Ghost Symptoms: Break The Spell And Be Well
author: Kelly Kiernan Ray
description: Kelly Kiernan Ray is the co-creator of the Claim Your Space technique. She grew up in a 300 year old house on Long Island, NY. After the deaths of both parents and subsequent dissolution of her family estate at age twenty-one, Kelly moved to California where she completed a BA degree in Social Sciences. She practices Eastern religion, which emphasizes mercy and compassion in all circumstances, and provides energy healing. Kelly is a Certified Reiki Master, Ordained minister and CoreLight Spiritual Warrior. For 14 years, she worked in partnership with a gifted psychic healer to relieve people's suffering. She is married with two children and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest. Kelly offers healings, Reiki classes including CE Contact hours for nurses, and consultations. See www.claimyourspace.org for details.
zlib_text: **Chapter 1**
  
   **Griffin**
  
    
  
  I went with Imogen to the Full Moon Party. Koh Phangan at its best. That was
  the last thing I clearly remember; everything else filters back hazy, like
  it’s been covered in a layer of gauze. I had a few drinks, a few pills, danced
  my ass off, and then woke up here, in some cramped little room on the lower
  level of a boat. I can tell it’s a boat even though there are no windows and
  the door is locked. The rocking motion. The sea salt air. Footsteps above me,
  muffled voices, and no one responds when I bang on the door. There’s only the
  thin shaft of pale light that trickles in from under the door. There’s no one
  in this room but myself, and I don’t need a mirror to know my face has been
  battered. My left eye is swollen shut and my jaw is tender to the touch. Still
  have all the teeth, though my lip is split, but that could just be because I’m
  dehydrated.
  
  I stand up, sway on my feet. The room lurches and I nearly fall, but I don’t.
  Even in this condition, 