Growing up, I experienced a variety of hap-hazard intuitive/spiritual events that sparked my curiosity towards intuition and the spiritual world. I would often have "gut feelings" that something good or bad would happen before they happened, and I found that it was always right. Sometimes images would pop into my mind’s eye that were symbolic or metaphorical relating to something I was going through, such as someone sweeping stuff under the rug when I was not wanting to face what I knew deeply to be true. Or as I imagined a future with a certain path, the images would be black and white, paired with a sense of boredom/sadness to indicate that path wasn’t for my highest good. I also received clairaudient messages when the message was really important.

On one evening, I was about to get in a pickup truck with a friend and the driver, but I heard a voice that felt like it was coming out of the right side of my head that was yelling "DON'T GO! DON'T GO!" paired with a sense of heading towards my doom. I was so stunned by this, that I told them I didn't want to go. The pickup truck, with my friend and the driver, ended up getting into a high speed rollover accident and my friend or I would have most likely died or gotten severely injured since there weren't enough seat belts for all of us.

Needless to say, these spiritual experiences with intuition had a big impact on my life.

By looking back on all these powerful experiences I could see how valuable intuitive information was. However, these experiences sort of just happened to me, I wasn’t in control of when they would occur. They also seemed to occur during potentially major life-altering events or periods of time.

Feeling the inability to reliably call on my own intuition in the everyday was one of the motivators for seeking to learn more about how intuition worked and how I could cultivate it as a tool for my life and for others.

It wasn’t until my Dad died in 2020 that I was drawn to do mediumship for others. Receiving a powerful mediumship reading from a skilled medium shortly after his passing allowed me to fully experience the healing power that a mediumship reading can offer. My family and I were left in a state of confusion of the details of my Dad’s downward spiral, and needed to understand things from his perspective. We were able to receive that through the medium and this understanding allowed me to let all that confusion and resistance go. It was a relief to be able to move forward, rather than be stuck questioning the events that led up to his passing and if we could have done anything different to avoid his passing.

Shortly after this, with no mediumship training, I was able to connect with him one night in one of my meditations, and had a dialogue with him in my mind. The skeptic in me wondered if it was just my imagination, so I asked him to give me a sign that it was real. He responded by giving me the sensation that he was tapping me on my right shoulder with his finger, then on the left continuously for the next hour. Thrilled about this connection, but still doubtful, I asked my mentor, Beverly, if she could look at that intuitively for me to help me triple validate the connection. (did I tell you I have a healthy bit of skepticism? Lol!) She said that it was indeed a real connection, and I let the doubts go after that.

Since then, I’ve honed my mediumship skills by training with various mentors and teachers to learn the nuances of spirit communication. Evidence-based mediumship involves getting “evidence” from spirit that can be validated by the client, as opposed to just generalities or vague sentiments. The idea is that to get past the inner skeptic (no matter how much faith we have, we all have some skepticism), the medium aims to receive details from a recognizable passed on loved one, that the medium could not have known or guessed. I love how evidence-based mediumship is not only healing and uplifting, but also how it gives people a sense of undeniable faith in the afterlife and certainty that our passed on loved ones are still with us.

As I look back at my life, I can see that I had been receiving communication from passed on loved ones here and there without intention to do so. As my curiosity and interest intensified, it became clear that this was something I was meant to do.