Recently, I was asked to review Debra Landwehr Engle’s book Let Your Spirit Guides Speak: A Simple Guide for a Life of Purpose, Abundance, and Joy.

I saw that she was offering interview time, so I took her up on her kind offer – so this book review is also a podcast where Debra and I get to discuss the nature of our Spirit Guides, how to let them speak, build relationships with them, and more.

If you are interested either in beginning to connect with your Spirit Guides or wanting to create a stronger relationship with them, you will learn something from this podcast and also from Debra’s book

Let Your Spirit Guides Speak: A Simple Guide for a Life of Purpose, Abundance, and Joy.

One of the questions I asked Debra was how she first came into contact with her Spirit Guides.

She answered that it was both a gradual process where comfort and presence were available to her in several different situations – then when Debra went to see a Past Life Regressionist, she was taken to a time before she came into this life.

During the Past Life Regression, Debra saw her whole team of guides – she sensed intuitively, or knew somehow that these people were her Spirit Guides – dressed in white jogging suits!

This really validated an experience of mine, because often my Spirit Guides like to not only speak, but to disco dance across my vision or generally act in a funny manner. Mine usually wear robes and flip them around – dare I say they also flip them up sometimes too to make me laugh. It’s quite an entertaining sight.

Debra calls this the ‘Snoopy Dance’. When you do connect with your Spirit Guides, you will feel a sense of joy, so do celebrate the moment!

Imagine your guides as nearby neighbors…perhaps living in a house with a different vibration, but still very nearby. Invite them over in your mind for coffee, even pizza.

Imagine your guides as nearby neighbors…perhaps living in a house with a different vibration, but still very nearby. Invite them over in your mind for coffee, even pizza.

Debra recommends connecting with your guides on a regular basis, even at a regular time of day. Chat, think about, or even make time to write down insights from your guides.

Do this regularly, and you will create stronger connections with your Spirit Guides, and they will appreciate the focused time you can spend together. When your spirit guides speak, take note of their guidance and messages.

Think of the guides as family members who are always around. You wouldn’t ignore them or leave them out of a meal or coffee if a family were in the house, so make sure you include the guides in your activities in some part of your day, too.

Debra’s writing guide, Ella, ended up contributing quite a large chunk of content to the book, and you can read her quotes throughout. I let the energy pick a quote, and this one came up

Your capacity to know and understand yourself may be the most important by-product of partnering with your guides.

One of the main reasons to connect with your Spirit Guides and create some kind of relationship is that our guides can help us to: –

Our Spirit Guides can contact us in several ways, some you may not expect or even realize until later.

Here are some examples: –

Sometimes we get disconnected from our guides. Perhaps it’s a time when we just can’t take anything else on in our energy field. Maybe we just need a break to be in the body. When that happens, remember we will reconnect with our Spirit Guides at some point.

We also discussed Spirit Envy on the podcast. Have you ever experienced that? Why do some people hear and feel their guides speak while others can’t? Why can some people see auras and others can’t? We discuss the phenomenon of Spirit Envy and how to deal. Enjoy the podcast!

Debra Landwehr Engle is also the author of The Only Little Prayer You Need: The Shortest Route to a Life of Joy, Abundance, and Peace of Mind, workshop facilitator, and regular blogger at Patheos. She is also a long-time teacher of A Course In Miracles and a widely traveled inspirational speaker. She lives in Madison County, Iowa.

One way to grow your ability to connect with your Spirit Guides, and even hear them speak, is to begin to work with your Akashic Records. This expands the connection to your Soul through your Higher Self (aka your intuition).

If you are interested in an Akashic Records Reading, I always recommend starting with the Soul Star Reading.

This reading gives you 3 different immersive experiences of the Akashic Records: –

If you’d like to know about the different readings I offer on this site, start here>>