Do You Believe in Mediums?

“Butterflies hover and feathers (and pennies) appear whenever lost loved ones and angels are near.”

Last Friday, I had an appointment with a medium. I needed to find out how my loved ones are doing in heaven. Some of you non-believers are rolling your eyes and are ready to shut down your computer. Please bear with me and keep an open mind. I had a wonderful reading and will share exactly what happens during this experience.

What is a medium and what do they do? A medium has the ability not only to read the energy around you, listen to the divine but is also able to reach your loved ones who have passed to bring you a sense of peace, knowing that you are never alone. How is this accomplished? The medium uses his or her psychic or intuitive abilities to see past, present and future events of the person by tuning into spirit energy surrounding the person who is being read. They rely on the presence of non-physical energy outside of themselves for information relevant to the person in front of them.

How does it happen? Spirits impress the mind and body of the medium with thoughts and feeling that come in the form of “clairs”. She hears (clair audience) sees (clairvoyance), knows (clair cognizance) and feels (clair sentience) messages from spirits. The medium then acts as the bridge between the spiritual and physical world with the intention of healing both worlds.

You take the plunge and make an appointment. What happens during a reading? The medium will describe the first person stepping forward, giving details about how the person looked, their relation to you, the age of passing, how they passed, giving evidence so that you know exactly who the medium is speaking with.

The second part of the reading is sharing with you memories of the relationship you both shared with events only you would know about. Next, the medium ends the reading of that person who has shown up for you by asking what they would like to say from their heart to you. This is the most emotional part of the reading (half a box of tissues gone)!

Before ending, the medium will ask them to tell her a sign they have been sending to you to let you know they are close. The medium asks them to show their version of heaven, who they are with and what they are doing in heaven. They will give the medium information of what you have been doing recently so that you know they are truly by your side.

Let me tell you specifically about my experience. It was awesome. My mom Betty and mother-in-law Janet came forward first arguing about who was my mother. My mom Betty was always jealous of my relationship with Janet (who also came forward as my mother). Betty said I was closer to Janet than to her (which was kind of true, since she and I were similar in personality and she understood me better than my mom).

My twin sister Jill came forward to make fun of my gray (I call it silver) hair. In life, her long dark hair was her crowning glory and her security blanket. Jill had said she would never go gray. When she lost her hair during chemo, she was devastated. Now she told me her hair grew back, long and flowing and dark!

The medium, Lisa, advised that heaven is like a big hotel with different rooms. My dad was in the lobby greeting people (always the salesman with his jokes and songs), looking dapper and stylish as in life.

My sister, however, was not occupying any room, because she prefers to do her own thing (typical) and is so often down here on earth with me. She knows I am writing a book and is actually my co-author, she told the medium. Jill is with me always and I do feel her presence and see pennies she leaves for me in random places!

My boyfriend Rich’s mom who passed in April of this year of Alzheimer’s disease came forward to let me know her mind is perfect and she has reunited with her divine soul connection, her boyfriend and has never been happier. She thanked me for making her son happy. Corinne also now remembers how to cook; she had sadly forgotten how to do this when she was sick.

Finally, my true mom came back at the end to discuss some unfinished business that was weighing on her soul. Betty was ashamed of how she had treated me at the end of her life and needed to apologize. The medium described my mom with her head down, very ashamed. My heart hurt when she died because she was angry and took it out on me. She said she wasn’t ready to go. Mom asked me for forgiveness and wanted me to be able to move on with my life and learn my life lessons without the anger and pain in my heart. Of course I said I forgave her. This was so helpful to me because my mom never apologized for anything to either my sister or me during her lifetime. I guess she was learning her life lessons in heaven.

This was very cathartic and emotional for me and I am happy to let go of the ill feelings and enjoy my time here on earth, which according to the medium will be long and healthy.

Finally, it felt wonderful to connect with my beloved family members and know that they are together, happy, still with me, very much a part of my life. If you would like to read more on the subject, I highly recommend George Anderson’s Walking in the Garden of Souls: Advice from the Hereafter for Living in the Here and Now and Lessons From the Light. Both are reminders that love never dies and we all remain connected.