**The renowned psychic medium and <New York Times< bestselling author of <Signs< explains how our loved ones who have passed continue to communicate with us, steering us to discover our purpose and create lives of meaning, connection, and love.
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<Who am I, really? Why am I here? How can I more fully understand my connections to others and the world around me? And how does that understanding reveal the magic the universe has to offer? <

According to Laura Lynne Jackson, to answer these questions is to live an &ldquo;illuminated life.&rdquo;

Jackson knows that her psychic gifts are not unique to her. She believes that everyone is capable of perceiving energy, identifying, and interpreting messages sent to us by the Other Side. In <Guided<, Jackson shows that our loved ones who have passed form our Teams of Light, and that they never stop sharing their wisdom with us. By embracing the connections they reveal, we are put on a path to our best life&mdash;a life that Jackson calls <illuminated<.

An illuminated life is one characterized by connectedness and creativity. It is one of alignment with purpose. It is a life of peace and confidence. And it is a life every one of us can discover for ourselves, if only we are open to the guidance that is sent our way.

In <Guided<, Jackson shares the unforgettable and moving experiences of regular people who have learned how to respond to the messages sent to them by their Teams of Light in order to discover their higher paths. Offering solace and comfort though times of grief, and full of inspiring, motivating stories, <Guided< points the way toward an illuminated life for us all.

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Laura Lynne Jackson

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**“The kind of book that stays with you.”—KIM KARDASHIAN
“A reminder [that] you’re never walking alone.”—JAY SHETTY
“Imbued with both spiritual insight and emotional clarity.”—GWYNETH PALTROW

The renowned psychic medium and New York Times bestselling author of Signs explains how our loved ones who have passed continue to communicate with us, steering us to discover our purpose and create lives of meaning, connection, and love.
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*Who am I, really? Why am I here? How can I more fully understand my connections to others and the world around me? And how does that understanding reveal the magic the universe has to offer?
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According to Laura Lynne Jackson, to answer these questions is to live an illuminated life.

Jackson knows that her psychic gifts are not unique to her. She believes that everyone is capable of perceiving energy and identifying and interpreting messages sent to us by the Other Side. In Guided, Jackson shows that our loved ones who have passed form our own Team of Light, and that they never stop sharing their wisdom with us. By embracing the connections they reveal, we are put on a path to our best life—a life that Jackson calls illuminated.

An illuminated life is one characterized by connectedness and creativity. It is one of alignment with purpose. It is a life of peace and confidence. And it is a life every one of us can discover for ourselves, if only we are open to the guidance that is sent our way.

In Guided, Jackson shares the unforgettable and moving experiences of regular people who have learned how to respond to the messages sent to them by their Teams of Light in order to discover their higher paths. Offering solace and comfort though times of grief, and full of inspiring, motivating stories, Guided points the way toward an illuminated life for us all.

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Unexpected Sparks

Every now and then the Other Side guides me to a specific place at a specific time for a specific purpose. That’s what happened in 2022, when I was guided to central Florida on a scorching summer day.

Of course, I wasn’t the only one being guided that day. There was another person who, because she was open to the forces that seek to steer us on our journeys, became a part of my story, just as I became part of hers.

Put another way—­we were both characters in the same story, only we didn’t know it.

And that story begins with a boy named Zach.

Zach Johnson-­McDonnell and his younger sister, Makayla, were raised in Minnesota largely by their mother, Karleen Johnson, after she and her husband divorced when the children were young. Zach was one of those endlessly curious boys, a question machine, forever in search of his next adventure. “Oh, he was a ball of energy, all right,” says Karleen, who lovingly called her son Scooter. “He was so full of life. He was the kind of person who could walk into a place and not know anyone and walk out with ten new friends and a plan to do something fun with them.”

Zach burst with so much energy he could hardly be contained indoors, and his childhood was full of camping and four-­wheeling and snowmobiling with his mother and family and friends. As a teenager, he took up hunting and became quite good at it. Zach’s familiarity with hunting weapons led him to enlist in the U.S. Army at the age of eighteen, after they offered him a $25,000 signing bonus to become an infantryman—­the soldiers who fight ground combat on foot. Zach wound up on the front lines of the grueling and bloody war in Iraq, often face-­to-­face with the enemy. What saved him were his courage and his fierce will to live.

“Not me,” Zach would tell himself before rushing into battle. “Not me, not today.”

What he did not know was that the worst danger for him lay ahead, away from the battlefield, waiting for him when he came back home from two tours of duty.

The things he had to do in Iraq, the horrors he saw, the unimaginable atrocities and brutality of war—­all of these “took a horrible toll on him,” Karleen states. “He never actually told me what happened over there; he just said, ‘Mom, I will always protect you because I love you so much, and there are things in life you just don’t need to know.’ ”

Zach was diagnosed with post-­traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The disorder is characterized by intensely disturbing and recurring thoughts and feelings, sometimes through flashbacks, sometimes through nightmares, the trauma of war resurfacing in ordinary life. PTSD can be devastating; it often makes the people who suffer from it feel detached, estranged, cut off from the world, unable to sleep or concentrate or even have relationships. It can lock someone inside a prison of emotional numbness from which escape seems all but impossible. The grim, horrifying reality is that PTSD is particularly paralyzing for U.S. military veterans, and an average of twenty-­two vets in the United States take their own lives every day.

Zach was determined not to be one of the twenty-­two.

“He really tried to reintegrate into civilian life, but he just struggled with it so much,” Karleen says. “Eventually he turned to drugs.”

Zach battled a gripping addiction to different narcotics for fifteen years, never quite able to free himself from a dark, despairing loop.

“The drugs,” says Karleen, “were his only way out of the pain.”

Zach’s mother and sister rallied around him at every chance, doing everything they could to pull him back into the light. Zach voluntarily entered a few drug rehab programs, with varying success, and Karleen and Makayla were always there to support and encourage him. “I kept thinking, The kid is a warrior, front lines, infantry, he’s got this new struggle and he will beat it,” Karleen says. And yet, she adds, “there was always this imminent fear of the worst happening.”…