At the age of seven, I lost my best friend in a car accident. Three months later, Marcia peeked over a cloud and said she liked her new world. My family dismissed the episode as mere imagination, and I grew up distrusting my own perceptions.Unable to reconcile this and other psychic experiences, such as precognitive dreams and seeing astral forms of living people, I became a lifelong student of the paranormal. My dream journals span forty years and serve as resources for my life and work.Find more at www.tobyheathcotte.comRepeated psychic experiences forced me to learn some coping strategies. I sat in development groups and experimented with techniques like psychometry, automatic writing, and dream analysis. As I came to a peace about my nature, I wanted to share what I'd learned to help others end mistakes, self-doubt, and concerns about their sanity.I taught high school speech and drama and college English. Now my primary interests rest in understanding my psychic abilities and writing projects that incorporate that learning. A mother of two and grandmother of three, I live in Arizona where I served as president of Arizona Authors Association