"My Journey as a Psychic Medium: How Spirit Found Me"

'It is always the simple that produces the marvelous' is a quote that lives very close to my heart and is the recurring thread that has endured since the beginning of my own spiritual unfoldment.

I wanted to write this blog because I want my journey to be real, not strategic, sharing the gradual and often subtle changes that have brought me to where I am now.

If you have ever felt different, overwhelmed by your sensitivity, or wondered if there is more to life than this material world, if you've sensed that life continues on once the physical body is gone, this is for you.

I Never Chose This Path

Someone once said to me that no one wakes up and says 'I want to be a medium' and at the time all I could think of to say was, 'No, I never woke up and said I wanted that either', and that in a nutshell is the truth, this wasn't a career choice, it's a very clear and humbling calling that unfolds. I'm sharing this because if you've never had a grand revelation about becoming a Medium, you're not alone. This path reveals itself gradually, especially when you commit to awakening your self awareness.

Childhood Awareness

I can't remember exactly at what point I started to have an awareness of the spirit world but my childhood was littered with experiences that ranged from seeing, hearing and feeling things, although I had little to no understanding of how or why this happened.

I was lucky enough to be brought up in a loving home that was open to Spiritualism and Healing, my Great Uncle worked at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain as a Medium and Healer. This was discussed openly within my family it was simply part of my childhood, woven into the fabric of normal life.

And that in itself is the most important part not to be accepted by others but to be accepted by yourself. There lies the very foundation of your development journey.

I was the youngest of three daughters and my parents originated from the East End of London and I was brought up in outer London and Essex.

Spirit found me long before I was ready to acknowledge its existence, it stirred deep emotions, sensitivities and knowledge that were way beyond my years.

I had awareness of energy both physically and spiritual from a very young age, making me feel painfully awkward and self conscious.

My younger years were spent in innocent fantasy worlds and imagination where the weight of the physical world relented and I could feel light and happy. Even without knowing it, I created and manifested easily.

To be honest it all felt a little uncomfortable at times, like there was no ceiling on my sensitivity, I was often overwhelmed and anxious but that really was my 'normal'.

Labelled as shy and sensitive I had little to offer in the popularity stakes and so I was content with my inner world and never really thought anymore about it, Pre-internet, information was not readily available something I am deeply grateful for now, as the commercial wheels turn quickly within the spiritual movement today, promising instant gifts and weekend certifications. Traditional unfoldment doesn't work that way, it can't be rushed, packaged, or sold as a quick fix.

I was solitary with few friends and I struggled academically which deeply affected my confidence, but the things I loved and excelled in were English language, Literature and Reading, finding ease in these subjects, looking back, I can see that expression has always been my calling.

When Fear Closed The Door

Spirit found me at night, waking me and showing me visual representations of themselves, I remember it would always appear when I turned over, I would see spirits enter the room and come towards me, I remember it would always appear when I turned over I would see spirits enter the room and come towards me.

One night, I saw a soldier moving towards me, laying on his stomach and using his forearms to propel himself forward. I felt mixed emotions dread, fear, but ironically also acceptance that it was happening and that it was natural. It happened regularly, waking me with the pressure of energy above me.

I would hide, pulling up the covers and squeezing my eyes shut, talking to myself before bed and praying that the visions wouldn't come, but they did, they always did.

That was the first time I began to fear what I was experiencing, closing down the very thing I struggled to rekindle when my development started, because the visions were vivid and sometimes uncomfortable, soldiers and war scenes, prophetic dreams of accidents and unrest, I believe at that point the fear began to over ride the wonder.

I heard voices too, my name being called, externally and in my head and stomach churning feelings of intensity when my intuitive senses came into play.

The Quiet Years

I understand so much more now than I did then, how fear slowly closed the door on the spirit world and the noise of the human experience led me forward.

I lived and was having a very human experience.

I kept my interest alive with the Tarot and other forms of Divination like the pendulum and felt relief and comfort in escaping into my imagination when I felt overwhelmed and seeking solace.

I continued to have awareness but this was very much on the parameter of my everyday life, in truth my life was chaotic and my priorities changed when I became a single mum with all the responsibilities that it holds, there was barely any time for myself, let alone the development of spiritual awareness.

The Hollow Awakening

My development did in fact begin quite late in life, I was 45 and I had lost both of my parents in a short period of time, both passed within two years of each other.

With them I also lost the family I knew through distance and disagreements, grief has a way of walking beside you accompanied by fear and vulnerability, like a cavern that cannot be breached a chasm with no bridge in sight. Although I had remarried, I felt disconnected from my blood family and isolated once again.

After four years of my mums passing I hit a period of numbness, nothing in particular was wrong, in fact, I was happy, but I just felt hollow, there was an enormous hole that became more and more prevalent to the point where I realised I not only needed more, I wanted more, more substance, more connection, just more life.

And it was then, at that point that I realised the material world was not enough, I felt and knew that there was far more to this life so I started a journey that took me in a direction I never thought was possible and its this journey I want to share.

When Spirit Found Me Wanting

Spirit found me long before I was ready and spirit waited until the time was right for me to unfold, when spirit found me wanting 

• Wanting direction

• Wanting connection

• Wanting more

• It came and took me on a journey, a journey that continues to this very day.

  
  

Every experience I have ever had has led me to this place of complete faith and certainty that spirit is very much part of the human experience and that unfoldment is not something that happens quickly or even spectacularly, it happens naturally, it unfolds because it is already there, the tight bud that gradually unfolds when the environment nurtures the process, a beautiful synergy of birth and renewal.

Spirit found me wanting and it has given me the greatest gift of awareness.

If you are reading this and something resonates, if you have felt that hollow ache, that knowing there is more, that sensitivity that makes you feel awkward in the physical world, know that you are not alone. Your unfoldment has already begun. The question is not whether you are ready to nurture the environment they need to unfold.

This is what I am here to explore with you, the patient, sacred, authentic path of spiritual development.

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