We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Anne Klaus a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Anne, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

I was 5 or 6 years old when I got my first diary. It was covered in pink and blue hearts with a sticky laminated cover and a little latch & key for privacy. But I was thinking of my writings as anything but private. I got it in my head that I was going to be discovered as a writer after I died (I’m sure my mother had been reading Emily Dickinson to us).

I made sure to include every detail of who my crushes were, arguments I had with siblings, and discoveries I found. Full names, location, ages…all so that whoever found my writing later would be able to sort it out without too much trouble, and get it published right away. It makes me smile how sure I was.

I wanted to be a journalist.

I did study Creative Literature in college, but I didn’t really believe in myself by the time I was entering the working world. Side jobs in restaurants became full-time management, marketing, human resources and eventually I found quite a lot of interest in Organizational Development.

I will never forget when my last supervisor — Donna Desilets, who I adored — said to me, “Anne, whatever you do next…it should be writing.” That was all I needed to zoom back to that memory of my sticky, first diary and my sheer confidence of my life’s purpose. A writer.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

At the same time, there was another story unfolding. As a sensitive, intuitive, little-ball-of-energy child, I kept getting sick and being thrust into the harsh recommendations of doctors.

Racking cough, again? Spoon her some opioid codeine.
Tonsillitis, again? Cut those tonsils out.
Ear infection, again? We’re going to do surgery on your ears!

My little heart heard those words and knew I had to start dealing in miracles to get out of those invasive assaults to my person. I am defined by a persistent belief that if somebody tells me it’s impossible, there has got to be a way. And according to my mother, I never had another ear infection after that day at the doctors. (It was my first dance with mind over matter.)

As life went on I added other doctor-led experiences that I wanted to avoid: excessive antibiotics, skin prick tests for allergies, painful Tetanus shots, expensive medical bills, expensive medicines, and child birth!

Every time I found “a miracle” around these experiences, I collected them and shared them voraciously with other sensitive souls like myself.

But I often found that no matter how hungry others were for gentle, respectful and inexpensive solutions, there persisted a nagging fear preventing my American friends from even trying.

After living in Austria and Germany, I realized how readily accepted alternative methods of healing can be right alongside with conventional western medicine. And I set out to help melt away the barrier to holistic medicines and therapies in the States.

As a result, I have become an internationally celebrated storyteller, under the pseudonym, Jolene Joy Moss.

I am changing the story of energy healing in America.

Emmalina Books have been listened to as audiobooks over 50,000 times around the world with wonderfully enthusiastic reviews. In 2020, I listed Emmalina and Papa’s Healing Hands on the international streaming audio platform for mindful listeners: Insight Timer.

Members on the app wrote message upon message thanking me for sharing this three minute story and saying “your voice was lovely like the angels.”

In December of 2020, Insight Timer featured Emmalina & Snail Visit the Chiropractor in their TOP 20 TRACKS FOR YOUR KIDS playlist.

And in the following year, Emmalina and the Bee Sting Remedy was featured 7 times on the PARENT FEATURE list, delighting listeners around the world.

Every time I wonder if the stories have finished their lifecycle, I get messages from listeners saying, “I love your stories about Emmalina! Please make morrrrre!”

One by one, the stories are becoming picture books, ebooks and animated read-alongs on Amazon and YouTube that you can enjoy at home.

In 2019, on the heels of a call-in to my spirit guides for “a little help here,” the Marianne Oberg Foundation for Spiritual Art contacted me and offered a special grant award to fund the professional illustration of the first Emmalina Book, Emmalina and Papa’s Healing Hands.

In 2022, an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign resulted in a small group of supporters raising a mighty ILLUSTRATION FUND to bring Emmalina and the Bee Sting Remedy to life as a picture book, which was recently published in April of 2024.

These stories are loved because they speak gently to the subconscious of mindful Americans, normalizing energy healing for kids in America.

The audiobooks are currently available for listeners on Insight Timer:

* Emmalina and Papa’s Healing Hands
* Emmalina and the Bee Sting Remedy
* Emmalina Visits the Chiropractor
* Emmalina’s Best Tea Party Ever
* Little Jack and the Jonja Virus
* Little Jack Needs a Miracle

And the picture books are currently available in paperback & ebook on Amazon:

* Emmalina and Papa’s Healing Hands (2019)
* Emmalina and the Bee Sting Remedy (2024)

Even with the support for illustrations and the few dollars each month from Insight Timer, Emmalina Books is a venture that loses money year after year. It is fueled by this clear and (almost hilariously) stubborn vision I hold for these books, and for their future as an animated children’s series.

I don’t want kids in America to doubt any more whether it’s possible to be healthy in America.

I want the stories of their childhood—the ones they hear over an over—to be about these healing experiences.

And I want the pictures to be so beautiful and the story to feel so soothing and exciting, that kids pull the book out over and over to read with their grown up.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

“Create what people will pay for.” This is a message that I have heard repeatedly through life by well-meaning entrepreneurs and mentors.

There is good thinking in that model when your craft is your business.
I had to relegate my craft to a “hobby,” after years of negative cash flow. I was stubborn against it at first. I thought it made my craft seem less.

Until I finally realized, that this craft needs to come out of me. I believe it is here for a reason, and my job is to make it available. “Get it out there before I die,” right? So let it be my hobby, let it be my costly adventure, (better this legacy than new clothes or kitcheny things). And when the time is right, the unseen forces will get it where it needs to be.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I look forward to NFTs and similar modalities becoming more user-friendly and accessible. When Emmalina Books gains traction in the United States, I plan to use NFTs to manage the financial quality of my content.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.emmalinabooks.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmalinabooks/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jolenejoymoss
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emmalina-books/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@jolenejoymoss
• Other: Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/jolenejoymoss

Image Credits
Anne Klaus