What is Mediumship-Led Grief Coaching?

One of the reasons that it’s taken me so long to offer mediumship services to the public is that I’m always concerned about letting people down. Often when it comes to communicating with those in spirit, the messages I receive are muddy and difficult to decipher.

There is a very serious lack of conversation around grieving in the United States. As conditions worsen and sicknesses claim more lives than seems necessary, grief is expanding and compounding at the same time. It’s becoming exponentially larger than people can handle on their own.

Grief for the way life was, for friendships lost, illusions broken, family disagreements, the realization that we’re not as free as we were told. There are so many things we grieve, it’s human nature…animal nature…to mourn a loss.

As someone who has always been aware of the spirit world, working as a CNA then an RN on a hospital floor that had three palliative care suites felt like serendipity. I have always had a unique view of death, and I’ve never felt that it’s a permanent loss. The only time I doubted it was when I had a cancer scare of my own (I’m okay!) and was contemplating the great beyond for myself. Here and now, writing this, I continue to have only a splinter of doubt that my humanity clings to, but my soul knows that it is eternal.

Assisting families and patients through the process of death and dying, answering questions, giving people a laugh when they needed it most, or a hug when they needed it most…that was a wonderful and difficult experience for me. I knew that I was meant to work with grief, but I hadn’t found my footing yet.

I was disabled by, then diagnosed with lupus (SLE - mild type) in 2018; the year I finished my bachelors in nursing and also was in so much pain I could barely walk. It took six months for the treatment to start working, but my ability to continue to work as a nurse dwindled slowly. I’m mentioning this because I spent quite a bit of time mourning the loss of my autonomy, the loss of my future and career. I grieved for so long, so hard, and I still lament it from time to time, but I’m mostly over it. I had to move on. Move forward.

That’s what I want to do for people. I want to help people acknowledge their grief. I want to validate it, explain it, hold up a mirror, offer support, and teach people how to move forward. The fact that I’m a medium allows for the unique opportunity for me to receive intuition and insight about things that most people don’t have access to. I’m not trained as a counselor, so I’ve chosen to call this service coaching, and I’ve made it as affordable as I can.

I’m a helper. I want to help you! When you book an appointment with me, I’ll reach out via email to confirm the format you’d like to do the coaching in - we can do it as a written chat, a phone call, or a video call; whatever you’re most comfortable with. 

We will work together to get you unstuck from the grief that’s holding you back.

I have had extensive ethics and privacy training. Anything you tell me will remain private, and will never be discussed with anyone without your permission.

How does it work?!

The battle cry of the psychic seems to be “That’s not how it works!” 

So how does it work?

It seems that there are as many differences in psychic ability from person to person as there are similarities. I believe everyone is psychic; we’re all just at different levels of ability. Think about a time in traffic when you’ve felt compelled to look over, and someone was staring at you. 

The information I receive from spirit feels similar. The best way I’ve figured out to explain it is that it’s like remembering something. Seeing an image or hearing something, but just the memory of it. A little hard to see and hear, a little difficult to hold onto. When it’s a clear reference, I’ll get a clearer image, like a movie poster or a song I know that can be relevant. I can see a town on a map, or a pair of ruby slippers in a display case. 

These images almost always appear to my right. I’d say that the images come to the right side of my brain, even though that doesn’t quite make sense…what about this does? I have a close friend who receives messages in a similar fashion: the right side, the memory aspect. If you’re working on a psychic practice, how do messages come to you?

My messages also come as knowing. That happens when I’m doing a reading, or sometimes when I’m giving someone advice. I know what to say, I know how people feel, I know how to put them at ease. I just know things that I have no business knowing. My brother said to me the other day, “I have no idea how you knew what you foresaw.” after I told him about a specific scenario I envisioned, then it happened. 

Occasionally I’ll see a spirit - this is also like remembering seeing them standing in front of me. Sometimes they show me items, sometimes I can “hear” them; like remembering having heard them in the past. This happens mostly with deceased loved ones bringing messages, but also sometimes with spirit guides. 

Most often, spirit guides come to me as a memory. Sometimes they show me an image of themselves, often I just know I’m getting information from outside of myself, and when I ask who, I know that it’s a spirit guide of the person I’m communicating with. I have channeled before, but I probably don’t know enough about it to safely do it as a practice. It’s easy to be cavalier when you’re young and excited about a new talent, but older and wiser Janice refrains from practicing outside of her scope.

I sometimes know things that are going to happen, what the outcome of a thing will be, or where a missing thing is. I’ve never had occasion to use this to make money, and sometimes I wonder if I’m just very good at picking up on context clues. I do say a lot of things that I can’t know, though, and I usually end up shocking whoever I’m reading for. Don’t worry - I never try to remember what’s said during a reading and I’m genuinely a conduit; the information just flows through me from somewhere else.

I did a small variety of spooky psychic things as a child, and I ended up following my mother into some psychic development classes, where I met some of the best people I’ve ever known. I could do cool psychic party tricks like seeing auras and the world’s most useless psychometry - I could tell people about things they ate with eerie accuracy when I held an object they owned.

Haunted things are another specialty of mine. I can tell you if a place is haunted by looking at it. I don’t think hauntings are anything like in the movies, and I’d love to have an experience that proves otherwise. Or maybe not…God doesn’t give us anything we can’t handle, right? Ha ha! I have been in places with ominous energy, and there are places that I’ve refused to go into. Who knows why, though? Could it have been materially unsafe in some way and that’s the hesitation I was feeling?

To me, ghosts are energetic “fingerprints” on a location. I think that’s why I can tell a place is haunted from a photograph; it’s covered in those fingerprints of dramatic energetic events. When I was a child, I was “haunted” by the ghost of a cheerleader who’d lived in our house and slept in my bedroom; when I got older I found out she was still alive! I’d been “haunted” by the energetic memory of some big events for her that were lingering in the house. 

There’s no way to know how any of this works, but I know that some of it is real. Being a skeptic has kept me from practicing for the public for most of my life, but the world needs more helpers, so I’m here to help. If you’ve had a reading with me in the past and it was helpful for you, I’d be so grateful if you submit a message about it - there’s a button on the home page!

I’m going to be discussing so many things here. I hope you stick around and contribute to the conversation - every voice and every experience matters and adds to my ability to be the best helper I can be. I love you, and I hope you have a wonderful day!