Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Melissa Alvarez, author of Your Psychic Self, 365 Ways to Raise Your Frequecy, Animal Frequency, Believe and Receive, and the new Simplicity of Cozy. Living a cozy life is much more than just making your environment comfortable and warm, more than the materialistic, and more than rushing through the day just to get things done. It is much, much deeper and more powerful than the things that we do. The spiritual side of living a cozy life is when we allow our connection to our soul essence and our spiritual path to become a priority in the way we live, the way we interact with others, and in our beliefs. When you're aware of your own

For so many of us, our pets go beyond an animal presence in our lives; they are our children, extended members of our family who bring our soul love and nourishment while with is in this life and continue even after they've crossed the Rainbow Bridge. To celebrate our pets this National Pet Day, I wanted to take a look at some of the books that we have that can help us strengthen our bonds with our fur-ever children. Animal Lessons, by Danielle MacKinnon All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus—if you pay attention. Each animal we encounter in our lives has a message for us, if only we listen (my fifteen-year-old cat Buckley, for instance,

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Robert Kopecky, author of the new How to Get to Heaven (Without Really Dying). This is a crazy world, where crazy things happen all the time. It can be very difficult. In fact, sometimes it seems like it’s too messed up to ever straighten itself out…but then again it may be fine, just as it is. It’s possible the craziness just grows out of the way we look at it. Perhaps we needlessly suffer from a matter of simple misperception. Being human means taking part in an unavoidably persistent set of illusions that we’ve all bumped into at one time or another. A lot of the time, nothing seems magical at all, but how else can we explain

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Kristy Robinett, author of Messenger Between Worlds, Forevermore, It's a Wonderful Afterlife, Messages from a Wonderful Afterlife, the new Tails from the Wonderful Afterlife, and the forthcoming Journey to the Afterlife. Most have lost a loved one. There is typically a standard grieving process, which may come with several days off at their job, flowers, cards, and compassion. There is often a funeral or memorial service where there’s time to give and receive support and love, and moments to say a goodbye to their deceased. Losing a pet is difficult, too, but it rarely comes with the same end-of-life formalities, which can cause