As far back as I can remember I have had experiences involving those in the spirit realms I honestly never understood it and when I asked questions as most kids do the response was most often my goodness you have a vivid imagination or it was just a dream, I was also known to have a natural ability to tell stories both verbally and written down, I might add because of my vivid imagination. What I was experiencing was real to me and I was most often afraid of my nightly visitors. They would appear at the foot of my bed in full colour looking as solid as you or I, they never spoke to me verbally but I could feel their weight on my bed when they sat next to me.

I grew up in Scotland in a small country town, in the seventies I went to a protestant school and our church was Church of England, so as you can imagine it was a very orthodox kind of upbringing, although we were not religious as such. I was brought up with the Christian beliefs. Due to other peoples reaction to what I was seeing and telling them I decided it was best not to speak of it any more. I was about seven years old when my Grandma came to stay for the weekend, mum and dad went out and I had another night terror, when she came to speak to me I told her what was happening to me and she gave me some tools to keep me safe, and to help me feel like I had some control over what was going on. That one event changed my life. I believe that my Grandma helped me to put my mediumship to sleep until I was of an age when I could start to manage it. I know now that she was a medium herself and that it is through her that I have this ability; it really does run in families. I have spent many years working to understand my childhood and over time have come to understand that I came into this life with an open door to the spirit world. I didn’t just stand up on platform or start to give private reading sessions, but I did explore my mediumship in a bid to understand what was happening to me over a great many years. The Spiritualist philosophy was a god send to me, It opened the way to bring balance into my mediumship by developing it in a safe and structured format with teachers and supports that I could turn to when things seemed to be out of hand. The teachings were based on reasonable logic and a firm foundation and I was not expected to be anything other than who I was.

• What happens to us when we die?
• Who are we and what is spirit?

Idon’t believe I have all the answers and I am always working to develop a deeper understanding, knowing that as you grow so the next level of growth meets you. One of the most significant learning experiences that really changed my whole life pathway was when my dear friend Jane was diagnosed with a brain tumour, we were thirty four at the time, I had grown up from the age of ten with Jane we had started work together and got married, had children, she really was a sister to me. The next eighteen months were the hardest of my life watching Jane and her family fight for her life, a battle that she lost in the end. I came to a realisation over the months through and after Jane passed away, that you really could never take life for granted and that at any moment the world you know and trust can come to an abrupt halt and that everything could change, both in the greatest ways and also the hardest ways. So I sent up a prayer if you want me to truly work and use this ability then I will. Now that does not mean that I wasn’t already actively working using my mediumship it just meant that I would do exactly what was sent for me to do, even if that meant that I would be put into situations that were new or uncomfortable and challenging, that I was no longer prepared to allow myself excuses, and that to the best of my ability I would trust in the divine and the very philosophy that I had been working within for most of my adult life. It was truly a definitive moment. It’s funny that when you get that clear your life is changed to accommodate it. My partner was a committee member of the Seaford Spiritualist Church and I had resisted joining, but now I joined the committee and was asked to be the vice president with which I agreed to, in a few short months the president of the church resigned and I found myself taking on the role of president and I have never looked back, I just love it, but not in my wildest dreams did it ever occur to me that this was what I was meant to do. That’s the magic I believe of the spirit world. Life just unfolds and you are an active participant in the journey when you get clear and allow the universe to work in the majestic way it knows  how, the path of your journey opens up to you, the question is are you willing to hear that voice or allow it to touch you and guide you through your life, for me the answer is yes, because I know I open the doorway to the divine and that is a blessing I believe we are all seeking in the soul’s pathway through life. I look forward to the future with great anticipation to find out how the next chapter plays out. I’ll keep you posted.