In 2017 I was told that more than having my current business succeed to the next level financially, what I truly, deep down, desired more than anything was to feel deeply connected with and to my fellow human beings.
I grew up in Idaho and came to love the pacific northwest before college and my following adulthood led me to New York City. I’ve had multiple dreams of what my life might be centered on… playing soccer professionally, musical theatre, coaching of all kinds, a businesswoman of sorts, etc. I feel grateful to have experienced chapters where each of these loves peaked and offered me challenges, growth, fun, and joyful experiences.
During my decade + in NYC, I ran my own business as an online marketing strategist, supporting women entrepreneurs to design and create 6 figure and beyond online businesses.
Being told, by someone who I could only describe as a sort of psychic energy worker (which I felt only slightly comfortable meeting with at the time) that connection to others was my deepest desire, was not only bizarre; I found it infuriating.
By 2019 I had plans to retire my business in the 18 months that followed. All in all, it took about two and half years to shut down my online footprint from my previous work. Within that same time period my partner and I moved from NYC to Colorado, sold our apartment, bought a house, and became parents.
But there was something else at work behind the scenes that was waiting to present itself until my current life experiences prepared me to handle it, and to use it as a much greater purpose than any of the others I’d imagined. Ironically, Mediumship is undoubtedly, and finally, the recognizable answer to my deepest desire for deep connection with others, both living, and in spirit.
Shortly after my move to Colorado, I watched a Netflix series that featured a famous medium. I had a strange and never before experience of feeling that I was remembering something I knew how to do, and perhaps had even had done before.
I dove (back) into meditation; a practice that since my daughter had been born, was rarely a part of my day to day. I experienced what I’d call my first conscious visitation from my paternal grandmother and the father of a close friend. Through a series of events that I hoped would prove me sane (and quell my fear of being institutionalized) I gained the best proof I could from sitting with two other mediums. I was encouraged to try giving mediumistic readings for free, with full transparency for my sitter about where I was on my journey. (Plus, how bizarre it all seemed to me!)
I remember my first attempt at a Mediumistic Reading. I lost track of time, but what I suppose was about 30 minutes later, I sat completely dumfounded with my generous volunteer sitter and had brought through her grandmother and aunt on her mother’s side. I knew details of their passing and the timing, their connection to the family and their closest living family members. I saw objects they had left behind that were currently in my sitters home and had been kept in honor of them. I was shown memories of the end of life goodbye, and I could feel who they were and how they were.
Five weeks later I jumped on a plane to attend residential studies at Arthur Findlay College in Essex, UK. I’ve continued my studies and training through multiple tutors and teachers via weekly mediumship development circles, and online trainings with the Arthur Findlay College and with the Journey Within Spiritualist Church, plus more.