Have you ever met someone who felt familiar almost immediately? You talk for an hour, but it feels as though you’re picking up a conversation you started years ago.
Having guided hundreds of people through past life journeys, I’ve worked with clients to understand why certain relationships feel so familiar—and why others bring up feelings they struggle to explain.
You care deeply, yet the same tension keeps showing up. Some relationships are brief, yet leave the biggest impact on our hearts.
Could there be more to these relationships than the history you remember?
Biya’s Story
How does a young girl recognise people she says were once her husband and children?
Swarnlata Mishra was a child in India when she began describing another life. She said she had been a woman named Biya, with a husband and children of her own.
Researchers located a family whose circumstances matched several of her statements. When the families met, Swarnlata recognised people she identified as Biya’s husband and two sons.
The story brings us to the question at the heart of reincarnation and soulmates: what happens when we meet again, but our roles have changed?
Madeline’s Story
Madeline came to me in tears. After constant fights and arguments, her relationship with her sister, Rebecca, had become so strained that they hadn’t spoken a word to each other for a year.
“My sister thinks I’m interfering in her daughter’s life. I love Anna like she’s my own child. I’m constantly worried about her, and I don’t understand why.”
She was heartbroken. Her concern for her niece had become so intense that it had cost her the relationship with her sister.
As I listened, she described the arguments. Anna’s diet. Her father gifting her a car. Driving to university. Staying out late. Madeline questioned and commented on all of it because she was afraid something would happen to Anna.
Rebecca felt she was overstepping. She wanted to make decisions with her daughter without her sister getting involved every time.
The disagreements had escalated until the sisters stopped speaking altogether.
Yet even after a year of silence, Madeline struggled to step back.
I wanted to understand that fear with her. Why Anna? Why was the possibility of losing her so frightening?
The Backstory
During the regression, Madeline experienced a lifetime in which Anna was her daughter—a child she had lost young to illness.
What hurt most was feeling she had failed to save her.
Then she recognised Rebecca as her son in that lifetime. He had loved his younger sister deeply and cared for her until her last day.
For Madeline, the recognition was powerful. These were her two children, now her sister and her niece.
We worked through the grief of losing her daughter and the feelings of abandonment that came up during the session.
Recognising Rebecca as the son who had cared for his younger sister brought her real comfort. She saw how much he had loved her in that journey. It helped her look differently at Rebecca’s relationship with Anna today.
She began to feel less need to supervise Anna’s life. She could love her niece without commenting on every decision. She could also respect Rebecca’s place as Anna’s mother in this lifetime.
By the end of the session, Madeline was overwhelmed with emotion. She cried with the joy of recognising the children she felt she had lost—and finding them both in her life again, as her sister and her niece.
The grief, anger and constant fear shifted to relief and gratitude. She understood her feelings differently and saw a way to enjoy these relationships without holding on so tightly.
What Madeline said at the end stayed with me: “I wish I had done this sooner. Everybody should experience this.” She left with a different perspective on the relationships that had caused her so much pain.
Exploring Your Own Past Life Connections
I believe a past life journey is one of the greatest gifts you give yourself—a chance to understand the root of recurring fears and relationship patterns, and see your life with fresh eyes. Exploring a lifetime, including its death scene, brings what matters today into focus.
You cannot change the past, but changing your perspective on it gives you more choice in how you live now.
Ready to Explore Your Own Story?
Is there a relationship, fear or repeating pattern you want to understand more deeply?
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Sonia Kapasi is based in Ontario, Canada and offers sessions online globally as well as in person in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and Mumbai, India. All sessions are by appointment only.
Behind this perspective
Sonia’s experiences and personal observations with clients align with ideas expressed in the work of Dr Brian Weiss, Dolores Cannon and the Seth teachings recorded by Jane Roberts. Sonia brings her training and experience guiding hundreds of people through past life journeys to her practice.
The opening draws on the Biya–Swarnlata Mishra case documented by Dr Ian Stevenson.
Madeline, Rebecca and Anna’s names have been changed to protect their privacy.
