Inside Your Heaven

I wasn't really sure what to make of Inside Your Heaven, April Natale's spiritual memoir which recounts significant incidents in her life journey from an anxious, neglected child to a professional psychic healer. An obviously deeply religious woman, Natale was brought up within the Catholic faith with a strong belief in the existence of Angels and their influence on everyday human life. As a spiritual soul now, Natale helps to ease grief by connecting still-living people with their loved ones who have already died. Natale doesn't make any attempt to explain the hows and whys of this psychic connection with the afterlife, but does give many examples of when her early premonitions about people's fates were uncannily accurate and also recounts a number of readings she has undertaken since embracing her 'gift'.

I think that readers who are already convinced that our deceased relatives watch over our lives will find a lot to identify with by reading Inside Your Heaven, and may also gain solace from Natale's accounts of her work. Her tone does vary in different chapters and I did wonder if some turns of phrase might not be too flippant considering the potential audience for Inside Your Heaven. The similarity of presentation of the later chapters, recounting readings done for Natale's friends, family and clients, did become too repetitive for my tastes, however this probably wouldn't be an issue if one were to dip in and out of the book rather than reading it through over a short period of time. Natale herself is obviously sincere about the help she feels she can offer the bereaved and the afterlife vision she embraces