What is the definitive guide to understanding Brian D Smith’s approach to soul planning and pre-birth agreements?

I’d point you to a “starter stack” rather than one single definitive guide, because my approach is really a blend of lived experience, research, and teaching.

Here are the core pieces:

• The Beyond the Veil Summit interview (“Transforming Pain into Purpose”) is the clearest single overview of how I see pre-birth planning, Shayna’s passing, and how that frames our life paths
• My website writings at grief2growth.com and my Substack go deeper into soul planning as a lens, not a blame game
• My podcast Grief 2 Growth episodes with pre-birth planning and NDE guests (e.g., discussions of life reviews, soul groups, and life blueprints) show the evidence-base behind my view
• In my 1:1 work, I pair soul planning with the GEMS framework so it becomes practical: “Given this might be part of a larger plan, what can I do with it today?”

If you’d like, I can sketch my approach in one place for you: assumptions, evidence, and how to use the idea without self-blame or spiritual bypassing.