Tears welled up in her eyes as this question that weighed heavily on her heart surfaced at the end of our session. She was deeply concerned that it was disrespectful in some way; that it would disturb their peace or harm her loved ones to connect through mediumship. She had clearly struggled with the decision to move forward with booking a session and now, after receiving loving connection, evidential messages and healing from them she needed to address this last concern.

This is not uncommon and when it came up this week I was inspired to share some clarity and perspective. 

I have observed that this kind of question often has two parts, varying in intensity with each individual. The outer, more conscious part is worried about disrupting their loved one’s peace or disturbing them in some way. But there is often another, more subconscious part that is afraid. This part is often attempting to protect the person from pain and rejection. Likely this pattern has shown up in other ways in their lives and therefore they are not experiencing as much love, connection, fun, ease and abundance as they potentially could.


Here is my answer: NO. It is NOT harmful to our loved ones to connect with them through mediumship. It is, in fact quite the opposite in my experience! If you are feeling a pull, a tug, a longing, and or desire for connection with loved ones in spirit through mediumship, there is love and healing being offered. Those feelings are the INVITATION to reach out and RECEIVE. There is often healing needed for both sides. Your loved ones in spirit may sense that you are ready to evolve and they can help you release from stuck patterns and emotions in order to access more love in all its forms. 
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I hope this clarification helps those who have been craving yet resisting the love, resolution and healing they seek from loved ones in spirit. If you’re ready, you can book a session here.

A story and reflection about this week’s pink full moon…

I’m not sure about you, but this week has been intense for me! I imagine the beautiful pink full moon has had something to do with it. I want to give a shout out to my spirit team for helping me stay grounded and connected. I managed to spill water on my computer a few days ago and we’ve had illness in the house. My son was up almost the whole night with an intense stomach bug this week (which meant we were up all night too). It feels like I’m navigating a stormy sea of overwhelming feelings which is unusual for me.

Can anyone relate?

Then something special happened. On Thursday at the grocery store, I stood in a long checkout line and a lovely man, who shared that he is 81 years old, stepped in line behind me, his bright eyes full of vitality and appreciation of life. He easily started up a conversation with me and I fell in love with his energy right away. We created an immediate, deep and unexpected connection. As he was starting in on a story from his life, I felt the energy shift around him and I knew something spirit-led and magical was going to unfold. He proceeded to recount how just before his first child was born in the 60s, something special happened. He had been watching television to pass the time, since husbands were sent away in those days when a mother was giving birth. He and his wife had chosen a female and male name since in those days they didn’t know the baby’s gender until birth. An advertisement came on and it stated the name they had chosen for a boy and clearly said, “Josh is coming”. Minutes later he got the call that they had a son. He was blown away at the timing and accuracy of the clear message. He lit up with excitement as he shared this story with me. He had no idea about the work I do.

People often gravitate toward telling stories like this to me, not knowing I am a medium. I remember when on a whale-watching tour a few years ago, the guide told us that right after her father passed, a resident whale she knew well, came up closer to the boat and leapt higher out of the water than ever before. She said she felt that was a message in honor of her father. She felt compelled to share that story even though she said she rarely talked about the experience. My friend and I just looked at each other and smiled. 

I told my grocery checkout companion what I do and that this happens around me all the time, and his eyes lit up. He shared another astounding story of synchronicity and as he was doing so, I remembered that he said he needed to get back to his wife whom he was caretaking, so I ushered him in front of me in line. We exchanged such warmth in those short five minutes or so. With my eyes full of love, I told him that our conversation had made my day, and he said the same. 

As I was thinking about this exchange after dropping my son off at school Friday morning (thankfully he was better), I felt flooded once again by the warmth of the connection I shared with my grocery store companion and how my spirit team must have been involved - it was just what I had needed in my overwhelmed, sleep-deprived state. During that thought, I looked up to see a 33323 license plate in front of me. Whoa! That’s 333 and 323 (my birthday) - my signs from my sprit teams which I take to mean: Hello! We love you! You're on the right path! We hear you! We’re here with you! Yes, we did that! 

I have proceeded to see many triple digits since and even left a voice note for one of my coaching clients that was, I realized in delighted disbelief, exactly 3.23 minutes long. Amazing.

So again, thank you spirit team for bringing light, magic and connection in the midst of the tricky moments of life. And thank you full moon for shaking things up so we can release and renew again. Some patterns have surfaced into my awareness this week that I’m ready to shift out of and I am grateful for the ability to see them. How about you?

Love to all, Anna Blossom

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Every once in a while a theme emerges in this intuitive work that I do. It feels like an undercurrent of yearning in the collective human experience. I trust that the reason I am picking up on this is because it is my role to listen and create something to meet this need and desire. 

As it starts to come into my awareness, I listen actively to my intuition and the wisdom and guidance of my spirit teams. This inspires me to continue to serve toward the highest good and facilitate ways to access healing and abundance for all. I have fun building and creating and before I know it, things line up bringing a vision into form. This process often leads to the creation of a new offering. 
If the energy is aligned, syncronicites and affirmations often immediately follow. This validation is so rewarding - it helps me trust that my new offering will be the right thing at the right time. When I listen and follow in this way it can seem like a dance with energy. The energy of the people I will serve, the energy of their spirit teams and mine and the energy of general desire of life to evolve.
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In fact, that’s how I started writing these weekly posts and have created many offerings. Even concepts that reach into uncharted waters, such as bringing intuitive training and coaching to organizations. That seed of an idea in fact has grown into an exciting facet of my business - working with companies large and small, including currently supporting leaders and teams at adidas. If I hadn’t listened to these stirrings in my heart, if I didn’t trust the intuitive nudges, if I didn't notice the desires welling up in me, I (we) may have missed out on some truly profound experiences.

I want those profound experiences for you! For all of us. They are not exclusive to only a few. The key is to listen to your inner compass, following what feels good and trusting when the time is right to take action. Even the tiniest action can lead to an intriguing turn in a conversation, an idea, an opening in your thinking. I find that not getting too serious, having fun, listening and following what my body needs in order to be able to be present keeps me in tune. Like riding on the tip of the wave of life, balancing your own desire with the needs and desires of the energies you are interacting with. This is part of the soul evolving process we are here to experience in this lifetime.

I get to help people find that balance and release stagnant cultural and familial belief patterns, continuing to learn to trust themselves and the world in unfolding layers. I do this in my regular sessions to a degree, but really dive into this work in an intuitive coaching capacity, another seed of an idea that surfaced in tandem with my spirit team.

This week I worked with a new coaching client. I always love this process because it is SO magical to support and guide someone into the process of unwinding their mind and heart and looking together at what we find. We see with clarity in this safe container what they truly desire, what might be blocking them, and what needs to be acknowledged somewhere deep inside them in order to release and shift into alignment with receiving. It was really clear when we were having our first mediumship session, that working with her in a coaching capacity would be very powerful. She felt it too: a strong pull to continue the magical experience of intuitively-led guidance and for her to participate more directly and consistently in the process. Here’s what she said right after our first coaching session a few days ago:

"After our first intuitive coaching session I was able to articulate and validate my desired direction for my life. Anna helped me open myself up to patterns, interconnections, and history in a way I haven't been able to do by myself. She gave me simple ways - non scary - to be more mindful about my life in service of connecting all the dots that will lead me in the direction my heart and spirit have been yearning for. 
Thank you, Thank you. I am so excited for all of the everything!"

You can probably see why I LOVE doing this work! What I get to witness and participate in is so transformative and awesome. I want that love for life and work, feeling of safety, trust and fun for you, too. I want you to feel like you can show up in your life authentically. So I’m inviting you to lean into trusting that you ARE safe to show up in the entire truth of who you are. I’ll back you up! And when you do this, the world will align around you to support you too. So wear that bright colorful thing… Reach out to the person you’ve been thinking about... Write that letter… Do that thing you’ve been dreaming about… Follow that intuition! And if you notice a feeling of fear or resistance when you lean into the idea of saying yes to the things you desire to experience, you might benefit from some support.

We could make some really cool things happen together in your life or organization. Let’s talk about how. :) 

Happy life-surfing and thanks for reading! Lots of love and abundance to you,
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Anna Blossom

Crying on the playground used to be thought of as weak. The men in our lives, mostly in previous generations, would try to help the boys toughen up and hold back tears to show they were strong. Why on earth did this become so normalized? 

We have had to do a lot of unlearning. I am raising a boy and I want him to feel. I want him to see his vulnerability as a strength and a superpower. I don’t want him to shut his feelings down, even when it can be difficult for me to be around them. So I’m walking a parental tightrope between the old way, and the new way. It takes balance to help him learn to function in a world that still holds onto outdated value systems and to provide the spaciousness and support for him to feel safe to sense and express his emotions. Ideally he can fully experience his feelings so he can be at home in his body and confident in his self knowing, creativity and authenticity. My hope is that with this self awareness he will have more empathy and compassion and therefore more desire and capacity to use his power and privilege in ways that benefit the community and the world. I wish this for all our children and all of us - especially those who identify as boys and men since they have been stripped so often of the freedom to express emotion.


Nico is eight years old. He could’t find his baseball hat before practice this week and had a thorough and full-on crying, screaming-at-the-top-of-his-lungs absolute melt down which of course was a challenge for anyone in the vicinity. This is “normal, natural and necessary” behavior for his growing brain, say amazing parenting coaches and twins Hannah and Kelty of Upbringing. But OMG it is tough to support him through it! It often feels close to impossible to not jump on the disregulation train and ride it to a far-off land where none of us recognize ourselves. But even still, I don’t want to shut those feelings down just because I am uncomfortable or because it makes other people uncomfortable. I want him to feel them in their entirety and continue to learn how to respond to them authentically and in a way that also fits into society. 

I remember when Nico was about one year old and I was in the Intergenrational Women’s Choir with the amazing choir director, Crystal Meneses. After a concert one evening, an elder came up to me and complimented me on how “good” (quiet) my child was during the performance. On one hand it felt nice to have that compliment, but on the other, it was off putting. The flip side of that sentiment is that a child is “bad” if they are loud. No thanks. I can’t imagine anyone feeling safe in that kind of scenario, but it is incredibly common.

This “good/bad” judgement based on a child expressing or suppressing feelings has had a powerful effect on many. This means that a LOT of children were and still are expected to mask or minimize their feelings. I want to clarify that allowing oneself to feel emotions and express them in a way that is conscientious of the spaces we share with others (more quietly for example), is quite different in my view than when one is shushed or told to stop feeling or stop crying and therefore suppresses their feelings. 

I now work with many adults who are trying to unlearn that pattern of suppression so they can connect with themselves more deeply and access their intuitive knowing to guide them into their lives - which in turn helps them feel happier and more at home in their bodies.

I’d love to remove the “good/bad” binary from our thinking about children, ourselves and each other. I want us to give and receive love and a sense of safety and welcome when we allow ourselves and each other to feel. These feelings are so rich with healing and clarity, releasing us from stagnation and pain and guiding us toward what we truly desire. 
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Many people cry in session with me and they often are quick to apologize for doing so. Why is this so common? Is the apology to keep me from feeling uncomfortable? Is it to excuse “bad” behavior from that old training? This crying is REALLY important! It almost always is a sign of reaching deep places, accessing the love and healing that has been hungered for, and the longing for connection that is finally felt. This can indicate that energy and emotion are finally moving; releasing grief and allowing in healing and beyond that, joy.

I’m giving you permission to stop apologizing when you cry. Own those powerful emotions! Your tears are the undeniable language of your heart showing you that you LOVE. That you FEEL. That you are PROGRESSING on your soul’s journey. Let them move through you with pride. 

This week I worked with a mom and her daughter who is about 11 years old. A few years ago a psychic suggested the daughter imagine curling up in a ball to block from receiving too much of other’s energy. I’m not sure if the energy of that moment moves through these words as I type them, but just for fun, don’t read the next paragraph yet. Take a breath and check in with how that suggestion feels when you imagine it for her. Does it feel in alignment to you? (You don’t need to know any other information, just trust your feeling. Then see if it matches what I felt below.)

Maybe it was helpful information at the time, but it really seemed like the opposite of what would be beneficial for her now. I could sense that she tends to energetically curl up in a ball in general and hold tight to emotion and energy in her body. I immediately wanted her to stand in a superhero pose, legs slightly apart, hands on hips, back upright. I wanted her to CLAIM her space and her body, bringing a sense of sovereignty and strength. I had the three of us stand up and do this pose as we talked about and felt the difference between curling up in a ball and the superhero pose and what that communicated to our bodies, our brains and the energies we interact with.

I’m suggesting the same for you when it comes to feeling your emotions. Be a superhero about it! They are natural and you have the right to experience them. Love them as they move through you. They are your teachers and companions. And if you identify as male or spend time with someone who does, let them know that you are an ally; that expressing their feelings is welcome and you will listen and support and love them for it. Even if it is awkward to say, the open invitation will be given and that modeling of direct welcoming of vulnerability can heal many layers for you, them and for the cultural energetic pattern connected with us all. 

Here’s another invitation for this week: make an altar in honor of your relationship with your emotions and/or in honor of a deeper relationship with emotions for those who identify as male. This can be one you create while on a walk with found objects or something in your home. Make a commitment to yourself and/or them that honors your feelings and/or theirs. You can speak this aloud, know it in your heart or write it down.

Journal or thinking prompt: A time I felt so grateful to cry was when…

(Notice what stands out that feels good about this memory and see if you can replicate some part of that experience next time you or someone else is having feelings that inspire tears.)

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Anna Blossom