I’ve always been able to remember and to ‘see’ my soul family from the life between lives, the one that came before this current incarnation…and I missed them terribly. They had been with me since my birth into this family I was now a part of.
As a young child I knew they were always with me, watching over me and gently protecting me but I didn’t quite understand how to communicate with them which I found really confusing.
In fact I was communicating with them all the time, I just didn’t understand until later that it wasn’t through physically hearing their voices, I was telepathically understanding what they were telling me and feeling it in my body. Over time I came to understand that I am predominantly clairsentient and telepathic.
I also understood that although these souls were my family, the structure wasn’t the usual structure of a family – mum, dad, sibling/s, rather these souls were separate souls working together to mimic family structure for my benefit.
But just knowing there was a soul family alongside me in my current life served the purpose of providing the constant love, support and guidance that I so needed in my current life. It’s not that my current life and childhood was especially traumatic, rather that I ‘knew’ things that I was constantly trying to understand, and my current physical family didn’t have any knowledge of those things so even if they’d wanted to they couldn’t help me understand.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest gifts that has been given to me in this current physical life, is the respect and acceptance I received from my mum, when as a young child I would talk to her about ‘my other family in the sky.’
I talked to my mum all the time about these souls and, bless her, she would listen intently and ask questions. Her love and attitude during these conversations gave me permission to fully be myself without judgement. At that time she knew nothing about past lives and soul incarnations but her loving responses to my experiences and trust in me, provided validation and in turn, the confidence to trust myself.
I didn’t realise that not everybody was having the same experiences as I was so I assumed all my friends were. It was kind of shocking to me when I finally realised that none of my friends knew what I was talking about, or in fact had any interest. When I spoke about souls between lives, past lives and reincarnation I was usually met with blank or confused looks and complete disinterest. This made me feel quite separate in a way, like I was in this world but not of it, a feeling that continued until my mid teens.
Souls that walk with you are not the same as guides, the guides you have in spirit will often change depending on the level of learning and development you complete. As your understanding and knowledge evolves so too will you need different guides at different stages. You will often have one or two who will be with you always but as you grow, so does the guidance you need.
My mum had started exploring stories about past lives, reading about people who’d had near death experiences and reincarnation. Communicating with non physical souls became a thing we talked about…a lot. I came to understand that part of my purpose here was to help her get in touch with her own abilities. And it was incredibly comforting to finally know that I wasn’t alone in my experiences.
This was long before the internet was born and connected so many of use through experiences we had in common.
Mum and I would often start our day in the kitchen, over breakfast she would ask me about my dreams and I would tell her in great detail, sometimes it wasn’t about the dreams, sometimes it was where I’d been when astral travelling, the places I’d visited or who I’d met up with during those soul journeys.
By that stage I had experienced many spontaneous astral travels so my consciousness, my self awareness and my understanding of metaphysics were expanding. I now understood that I was clairsentient and clairvoyant, that I could see and feel the energy of other people and situations and I used those abilities as my compass in life, my constant guidance. This was very helpful since my parents weren’t great at setting boundaries, I had to set my own.
Without those boundaries I could have easily found myself in some scary and potentially dangerous situations but I intuitively knew a good situation and/or person, from one to stay away from. Those times when I’ve made poor decisions which had poor outcomes are the times I’ve gone against my intuition, ignoring the clear guidance I was being given. It has never worked out well. Following your intuition will always lead you to making good decisions, it won’t lead you astray.
So meaningful was my mum’s willingness to listen and understand that I made it a key part of my parenting toolkit while raising my own kids. Curiosity kept the lines of communication open, and that’s still the case today.
Sometimes all you need is one person to really hear you and believe in you.
As an intuitive medium I use my abilities to help people get in touch with souls they’ve loved who have passed, and with their guides and with their soul families from between lives. With that communication comes understanding and resolution, very often taking people from unrest or agitation to a place of peace and calm.