Mediumship, Nuns and Callings

The title of medium is something that one really earns. Like any skill, it's something that develops and improves with time. For me, being a medium isn't like flipping a switch. My spirit doesn't leave or hover over my body allowing a ghost to enter my vessel. The few times I did experience this, walking and talking with someone else's voice...it was very unpleasant. Negative entities and mean spirited ghosts with boundary issues are the worst offenders. The purpose of the work I do is to help convey specific messages for loved ones, help people to discover their limitless nature and healing potential, and occasionally to help spirits cross over by listening to what it is they need to express for them to find resolve before crossing over. While, many of the messages from our spirit guides, friends and loved ones are playful, being an amusement park for the disembodied is not my idea of a good time. And if a spirit makes you feel like a puppet, they have crossed the line.

When I translate messages, usually one of three things happens: one, either I hear very clearly, non audibly, but verbally specific words that are often phrases which were used by the departed; two, I get messages as thoughts or ideas that I then put words to; or three, I get images or feelings that tell a story. Although, my ego isn't commanding the ship, my brain is processing. Sometimes I get words which are not part of my vernacular, the diction I use varies from disembodied person to disembodied person, and mostly reflects the personal essence which I am translating into human terms. If someone had a potty mouth in life, they often have it in death. If someone was poetic, intellectual, sarcastic, whimsical, or outrageous, those elements come through.

Not everyone who passes over or becomes a guide maintains the same personality they had in life, sometimes seem to adopt a personality from a former life, while offering convincing evidence they are who they say they are. Sometimes, the personality is obscured, by a loving light oversoul, that just exudes kindness and angelness. It is always such a pleasure to convey specific information that pertains to both the lives they lived, and the lives they are living now, and the difference and influence they are trying to make in their current incarnation as guides. Every time, I am so eager to do these folks justice. Every time I hope for the best, and endeavor to do my best to convey that which presses on their spirits. It is liberating to be able to bridge the worlds, but it takes so much energy and soul muscle. It really uses so much of my brain and heart, intuition and clarity. Blessed to have had this occupation find me.

Here is a list of the careers I wanted to have when I grew up, in chronological order. Because it amuses me. What did you think you were going to me when you grew up?
Actress
Dance choreographer
Lesbian
Nun
Botanist
Professor of Philosophy
Poet
Novelist
Fine artist
Playwright
First grade teacher
Screenwriter


Who knows? Maybe some of these are still in my future, although I'm pretty sure the nun thing wouldn't work out anyway...Hear my interview with poet, novelist, and playwright Jeannette De Beauvoir (a.k.a. Jeannette Angell) http://www.womr.org/podcast/jeannette-de-beauvoir/

We talk nuns, domestic violence, special friendships, PTSD, veterans, and millgirls.