Guardian Angels: Guidance and Inspiration for Happiness & Healing, by Jacky Newcomb
CICO Books, 978-1800653726, 144 pages, September 2024
With Guardian Angels: Guidance and Inspiration for Happiness & Healing, author Jacky Newcomb shares everything you need to know about these heavenly creatures, including stories and experiences from other people as well.
Known as “The Angel Lady,” Jacky Newcomb specializes in angels and the afterlife, including near-death experiences, past lives, and psychic children. An award-winning author, her numerous books have been translated into multiple languages. She loves to connect with people from all over the world to share her love of angels and paranormal activities. Newcomb also conducts workshops and classes around the UK. You can learn more about Newcomb on her website.
What interested me most about this book was the focus on guardian angels. I have always felt that I had a guardian angel and have felt their presence and seen evidence of their guidance and protection in my life. Newcomb also shares this belief, and she begins this book with a brief look at her life story, weaving in the role angels have played. She shares:
“My life mission was fixed. I instantly knew that my role was to document these angel experiences and spread the word. I planned to write a book of angel stories.”1
Newcomb goes on to explain that one book became two and then four and soon she had written many, many books on angels.
Guardian Angels utilizes an easy-to-follow design. There’s seven chapters on angels and a final chapter for your own journaling activities–she even includes lined spaces for writing. Newcomb begins with an introduction to explain her view of guardian angels and then goes into more detail in the first chapter.
She uses a type of Q & A format to answer questions about angels. In each chapter, there are beige note sections, marked with a pen that sports angel wings. These graphic devices pose personal questions for the reader, which can be answered in the special journal section in Chapter 8. She also includes a “Tip” every few pages. These tips tell you practical advice or give you an activity to do to get closer to your angels or share your own angel stories.
Next, Newcomb discusses the history of angels, followed by information on the specific angels for healing, guidance, and protection. On page 52-53, she shares a chart of eleven archangels, with the name, meaning of the name, and a brief passage about each one.
The book goes on to present information about signs from angels, angel meditations and exercises, altars and rituals, and angel stories. The list of angel feather colors on page 70 was truly amazing! My favorite chapter was the one entitled “Angel Meditations and Exercises.”
“To reach out to your guardian Angel using meditations is simple. . . Let me share some wonderful meditations and exercises with you; They are designed to bring you closer to your guardian Angel.”2
As in the previous chapters, Newcomb includes tips, notes, and questions to guide you through the material. The one called “Guardian Guidance” was a beautiful meditation that I recorded and then enjoyed on a quiet morning. She advises having water close by and recording some of your impressions in your journal afterwards. “Practice this exercise a lot,”3 Newcomb recommends.
In addition to sprinkling angel experiences throughout the book, Newcomb also uses the seventh chapter to present “True Stories of Angels in Our Lives.” The story about the woman who found a feather on the roof of her garage after praying for her husband’s recovery after surgery was beautiful!
The artwork that accompanies the pages of the book is a combination of beautiful angel images and graphic accents. The artwork was created by Jane Delaford Taylor and Trina Daziel. Each chapter opens with a full page of angel artwork on the left and a lighter, softer version of the same artwork on the right-hand page where the chapter title and a brief introduction to the theme is shown.
Some of the artwork is simply stunning, such as the depiction of countless angels surrounding the earth on page 10-11. Their wings are outspread and their hands hover over the globe in a mode of healing and protecting the earth and its inhabitants. There are other full-page, full-color illustrations throughout the book, not only of angels, but also of people. There are also lots of simple illustrations on most pages. Some are one-color line drawings, while others are more intricate graphic designs. The illustrations break up the type and add interest and variety to the book.
The two-page index is perfect for finding a passage later or looking up a specific sign or symbol. For example, I looked up “feather” and saw that Newcomb has five references to feathers in the book. Additionally, I like how the book is a paperback with a cardstock cover that features flaps on both front and back, so you can use each as a bookmark.
Guardian Angels is perfect for anyone who is interested in learning more about guardian angels and fostering a better relationship with their own angel. Most people over the age of thirteen would benefit from the material and activities in this book due to its easy-to-read style and Newcomb’s compassionate way of relating to the reader. She shares this quote from St. Francis de Sales in the introduction:
“Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; For without being seen, they are present with you.”4
PJ Spur is an author, intuitive, spiritual mentor, astrologer, and hypnotist. She does tarot & oracle card readings, natal chart readings, grief coaching, and relationship healing. She also has hosted a weekly “Coffee & Cards” event with her Soul Compass Community for the past four years. Her book Navigating Grief with Grace is available on Amazon. Learn more at www.dearpj.com