When author Jacqueline Sewell was five years old, she witnessed a traumatic event. Her father ferociously stabbed her mother seven times. Though her mother survived, that event affected Jacqueline's life in many ways for years to come. In Detachments, she shares important and impactful stories from her life, beginning with this early event, where she learned the painful lessons of detachment.

The universe has its own peculiar way of shuffling our lives. When our true self, our soul, sleeps in the false reality created by the ego, by the forces of our physical body, and through it...