As a Medium, Psychic, Healer, and Teacher my journey began as a young child when I was aware of spirits and energies. I have to say, without understanding and support from the grown-ups around me it scared me more than anything. I was aware of several presences in our old NYC home, though I was told it was just my imagination at the time. I was most keenly aware of a friendly presence who I later learned was my grandmother who died before I was born. In fact, by age 4 I was able to describe her to my parents and point her out in pictures. In rare cases I would see or sense people who weren’t physically there around house guests or strangers on the street. One time after my favorite Nursery School teacher returned I had an overwhelming sense and just had to say to her “don’t be sad your daddy says he’s very happy in Heaven”. I can’t say I remember actually seeing the young lady’s dad but it was more like the words uncontrollably blurted out of me to which she froze for a second and then gave me a big hug. Unbeknownst to me at the early age of 4 my future path was already being revealed.
As I got older I really didn’t remember having any special abilities other than a keen sensitivity to people’s energies. This made me shy and withdrawn. Every time a show about a psychic or a “real witch” came on TV I had to watch with utter fascination and the spark of interest. Fifteen years ago, after doing a series of regression meditations, I started to recall my life before age 5 when I was interacting with Spirit on a regular basis.
It wasn’t until I got to my college years that I started realizing that I had a “gift.” Being a small kid, I thought it was a good idea to study the Martial Arts. At that time when I was exploring the different systems of Martial Arts, I happened to come across a teacher who taught an eclectic blend of the Arts akin to Bruce Lee’s teachings who also taught from a very spiritual perspective. Through the training, I learned about meditation, Yoga and Tai Chi. After a few months of training, I started to see colors and auras around things and started developing premonitions. Most commonly I would think about someone out of the blue when I woke up, often people I rarely saw, and then I would run into them during the day.
As I continued studying the Martial Arts, I realized the movements and exercises were opening up my awareness and a profound intuition and spiritual insight which I always possessed but had long forgotten. I was feeling waves of intense energy and “quakes” moving through my body. At first when it started happening I literally thought I was experiencing genuine Earthquakes. When I finally got the courage to approach my teacher about it, he laughed and very matter-a-factly replied “You’re starting to awaken.” This led to a mission, if you will, to learn more about Spirituality to which I was particularly drawn to Eastern Mysticism as well as Native American wisdom. The awakening was exciting and kind of took over my life to the expense of my collegiate studies (though I did manage to graduate…somehow). I experimented with different tools and avenues of spiritual awakening to the point of “Divine Obsession”. On the flip side, I was starting to see into people much more, realizing how complicated humans really are and how they keep so much hidden from the world and even from themselves.
I started to feel the emotions of those around me and it became very uncomfortable at times. I did not yet possess the tools to deal with all this and became very withdrawn, limiting my exposure to people and spending much of my time in the woods. The world of energy, Spirit Guides, Nature Spirits, etc. was opening up at an accelerated rate and things were happening. Wonderful and even physically “impossible” things were happening just through channeling my energy through different breath techniques, but without the knowledge of spiritual grounding and shielding, it all got way too overwhelming and I had to stop meditating. I had to figure out what was happening to me. Finally a powerful Spirit Guide came to me and told me, “You’ve gone as far as you can go for now. Now you must go back into the world.”
For the next year I have to say I systematically “fell”, feeling like I had descended into the “belly of the beast” with nothing but my will and wits to pull me back up. Everything from financial to health to legal problems developed as well as homelessness. Though I remained very Spiritual through it all, it seemed all of the inexplicable phenomena and magic I had become a part of suddenly stopped and I found myself in a struggle to survive in the late 20th century world.
It was when I was 24 that I agreed to move in with and help a good friend teach a self-defense class at Oklahoma University. That is where I met Psychic Ann Barella. She was my friend’s roommate where I was staying. Ann was a Palmist, a Tarot Card reader, and an Oklahoma City based Psychic of extraordinary accuracy. I became fascinated with the Tarot and she must have caught me peeking around the corner when she was doing a reading because that night she gave me a deck of Tarot Cards, a book and told me to start studying. I actually stayed up for 48 hours straight totally obsessed, reading, studying, putting cards together etc. Afterwards Ann actually gave me a few Tarot clients because she was more into doing Palm readings. When I protested that I could not possibly do readings she told me that I read cards in a past life and to just trust my intuition and much to my surprise the readings turned out remarkably accurate.
Later on, I moved back to New York City and started doing Tarot Readings professionally out of a small shop in the East Village in 1994. In 1998 my brother died tragically and about a week later his spirit came to me. Up until that time I was always able to sense spirits but never had the ability, nor the desire to communicate with them. My brother came in one night and I knew he was there and exactly what he was trying to communicate.
Today I am internationally recognized as an Evidential Psychic Medium and Channeler, fully embracing my gifts that I am blessed to share around the world and no longer afraid because Spirit is all around us as well as within us. I am a bridge, a seer, a spirit communicator.