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Last night's surprise in the grocery store

5/19/2026

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...and my audience reading online is this Saturday - included is a code to get tix for $22

As soon as she answered the phone, extremely loud feedback noise blasted through the intercom system at Whole Foods last night. I was just trying to remember the name of an energy bar she’d recommended but I could hardly hear her. I got the info and the moment I hung up, the sound stopped - the EXACT moment. Which prompted me to realize that it was in fact the EXACT moment the call started that the noise started. I’d just come from a very powerful group session for three women. There had been a lot of energy moving through the room for each person and many loving spirits and healing frequencies were moving through the vessel of my body to reach them.

The store attendant who was nearby, came closer as the sound stopped and commented to me that he’d never experienced that. Interesting. Why do you think he he was drawn to me, and drawn to share that? 

I’ve had technology go a bit haywire due to spirit connection before. Usually that is during a session when spirit connection is actively happening. A light flickers, the phone line gets wonky and we actually hear someone else’s conversation, the computer glitches out in a stand-out way. But I’ve never had something so major happen and certainly not while I’m not actively in session. 

This is a wild week of spirit connection though. I had an audience reading for 50 people the night before last, followed by the small group last night, four sessions I’m about to jump into today and more to come including another online audience reading this coming Saturday. That is a lot of group sessions in one week. I wouldn’t have planned it that way but life unfolds in mysterious ways and this is how it landed. So perhaps the energy is just really potent right now and continuing to reverberate through. 

I’m off to play in the realm of spirit for some lucky folks in a bit so will leave you with an invitation to jump into this abundance of spirit connection this Saturday with me. Here are the deets:

This SATURDAY! 🌈 Online Live Audience Reading 
5/23/26 10:30am ($22 with code ⬇️)​
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Here I’m helping bring through messages from a loved one in spirit for someone in the audience. We never know who will receive the messages and whether you receive directly or are witnessing, it is deeply moving and special.
Come experience a live virtual gallery style audience reading with me on May 23rd 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 6:30pm GMT. I’m excited to connect with you and your loved ones in spirit! If heart says “YES!” allow yourself to receive and come on the journey with us!

Pay only ⭐️ $22 ⭐️ with code: LOVE

Thank you for reading my friends. Lots of love and bright beautiful energy to you my loves,

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Mother: A poem for today

5/10/2026

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You, you are mother. 

Your luscious dream of ripples and rhythm, the splash and the breath of life gifting cool and warm to our skin and tongue: Aqua, Water, Agua, Eau, Tirta

You my love, your pungent sweet smell of minerals, rock, life upon life. The bed from which sleeping seeds rise into magnificence; your ever abundant show stopping magic: Terra, Earth, Tierra, Terre, Dewi Partiwi

You, keeper of the dancing secrets, holder of the silence in the collective knowing, the one that is many and all that is one. Bringer of the unseen, gently kissing our cheeks and gracing our throats as we take in the miracle of the leaves you flutter: Aria, Air, Aire, L’air, Udra.

And you. The igniter of vision and desire. The wind on which our creativity and collaboration dances and grows. Your warmth and spark fueled by the essence of life itself: Fuoco, Fire, Fuego, Feu, Api.

Mother. 

Thank you for all you bring to each of us, your caring trust of our ever evolving mission to become and for holding us in all our phases of belonging. 

Thank you. 
I love you. 
We love you.

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I awoke this morning with this poem wanting to be born as a gift to our mother, and to you. May we all remember the mother we are, that we see in each other and in all of life.
Love,
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She believed her intuition wasn't safe

4/17/2026

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The moment I got off the call, I knew in every fiber of my being that this client session contained a kind of special medicine meant for many. I could feel the potency of our conversation reverberating and was so grateful when Terra agreed to bravely share her experience with all of you. I am incredibly excited to present this to you in my debut episode of “Muses of a Medium”, the podcast!
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Mediumship and spirit connection has a way of drawing the deepest truths out of us, of returning us to what we already know but have been too distracted, afraid or unseen to trust. It knocks my socks off over and over again to facilitate and witness its medicine.
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I have known for a long time that what happens in these sessions doesn’t belong only to the people in the room. This podcast is me fulfilling a request from the spirit world to begin to share their wisdom, healing and validation with the world. 
My child self knew the truth of this work. She could feel stagnant energy and pain in people and knew she could help them heal. But as I got older, I was swept up in a powerful and exciting wave that led me right into the heart of the fashion industry. I followed the energy and listened to my intuition, as I always do, through some significant and rare successes. So when mediumship came knocking at my door, even though it was a surprise, I could feel my inner child’s excitement at my return to the deep well of knowing and healing that had been patiently awaiting me. 
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The story below illustrates my exciting and wild journey into creating one of the first sustainable high-fashion brands and how that led to where I am now. I hope it inspires you to trust your intuition and find your way through your own journey of desires, challenges and belonging. (but first scroll down, there’s something I want you to see below)

Flight to Paris

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“At the time, I didn’t realize I was launching what would become my fashion company, I was just following the inspiration and energy of the invitation to participate and lean into what I was passionate about. I had no idea that poem and canary would become the guiding light and icon of my brand, I was just trusting and following my intuition..."
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You, my love
A continued return to the deep well of knowing and healing is waiting patiently for you too. It has been beautifully unfolding in your life in both big and subtle ways. Have you noticed? 
Your unique energy signature has its own loving, trusting truth that lives within you. Here’s an invitation to close your eyes or focus on nature and take some rich full deep breaths with a smile to your heart. Soften your jaw, shoulders and belly and breathe in a warm “YES” to allowing this knowing to unfold into your consciousness in brighter, more recognizable ways as you continue on your journey. ✨
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Live Gallery Reading Demonstration (virtual) 🌈 5/23 - $22 with code
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Here I’m helping bring through messages from a loved one in spirit for someone in the audience. We never know who will receive the messages and the witnessing is just as amazing as receiving direct messages.

​Come experience a live virtual gallery style audience reading demo with me on 
May 23rd & June 13th 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 6:30pm GMT. Though I’ve done both audience readings in person and small group sessions for up to six attendees on zoom for years, I’ve never done an audience reading on zoom. I’m excited to connect with you and your loved ones in spirit! Tickets are limited and these will fill, so if your heart says “YES!” get them now. 

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Pay only ⭐️ $22 ⭐️ with code: LOVE when you book your ticket for this first go around! (Normally $33)
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​If you are feeling drawn to one on one work like you witnessed in the podcast
, where we go deep into your story, those are incredibly magical and different every time. They can also lead into a beautiful journey together if you are drawn to continue to work with me through my intuitive life and leadership coaching.
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​If you’d like to receive my 
monthly transmissions with channeled messages and activations to power up your system, your projects, and to help you remember the truth of who you are and why you’re here, consider upgrading to a paid subscription. I’d love to connect with you.
Muses of a Medium

​Thank you for watching, listening and reading. I hope you welcome these offerings into your heart and feel a greater sense of belonging in the world.
Lots of love,
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My dream after yesterday's article

4/8/2026

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In my dream I am FINALLY standing in the spacious house I’ve been trying to locate. I thought we secured it in some other realm, but I haven’t been able to find it in my dreams or memories or anywhere and I’ve been craving to be in this space. Suddenly we are there, standing in the kitchen, giddy with excitement. The big windows feel expansive and as I look around I can feel that we are going to actually be occupying this space even though the things from the previous owners are still there. I think to myself, “I hope I’m not dreaming, I’m so excited to finally be here!” and I look down at a ball that is rolling the wrong way and I know this is proof that I’m dreaming but seem to ignore it or just move on - too much excitement! 

I realize, much to my delight, that there is another big room off the side that I had sensed before but couldn’t see. I am filled with excitement and can’t wait to use it, imagining all the ways we can bring life and creativity to that space. And then I realize that we have access to the attic this time which I couldn’t somehow get to last time. We journey up a ramp, almost like an old narrow stone hallway in a castle, and when we get to the top I am both delighted with the steepled roof and windows on either end and disappointed to see that the beautiful space won’t be able to be built out or lived in because the ceiling is too low. Then I see that the person with me is not standing on the floor but rather standing on thousands of vertically stacked window blinds which are about five feet tall, left from the previous owner who manufactured them. I am beside myself with excitement realizing that instead of a cramped room, this is an enormously spacious room with really tall ceilings! The story goes on in much the same way.

This dream coming on the heels of the article I posted yesterday about releasing my fears of exposure after my fashion industry adventures, which I highly recommend you read, feels like an amazing validation of this transition I am moving through. 

We are all so interlinked. I appreciate your participation in my unfolding journey and I’m delighted to be part of yours. 
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So here’s the info for my upcoming Gallery Style Audience Reading. Yesterday I gave you a coupon code that someone thankfully let me know wasn’t working, so here it all is and it’s functional now!
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Working on a mediumship connection for someone in the audience. We never know who will get direct messages until we begin. The process of both witnessing and receiving directly is truly healing and amazing.
 ⚡️NEW!⚡️VIRTUAL Live Gallery Style Audience Reading Demonstration 🌈 5/23 - Tickets $33! 
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I am excited to announce that I am offering a LIVE gallery style audience reading on May 23rd, 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 6:30pm GMT. Though I’ve done audience readings live in person for years and small group sessions on zoom for years, I’ve never done an audience reading on zoom. It’s time! I’m excited to connect with you and your loved ones in spirit and to say yes to expanding the healing container in this way.

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Pay only ⭐️ $22 ⭐️ with code: LOVE when you book your ticket for this first go around! 
​Bring your people and spread the word if you think this would be healing, inspiring and fun for others in your life.
Thanks loves and keep DREAMING BIG!!
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The permission I didn't know I needed

4/7/2026

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Plus: NEW! Live Gallery Style Audience Reading Demonstration with Anna Blossom Sat. May 23rd!

I used to believe giving everything was the same as showing up fully. It took losing myself along the way to discern the difference.

I see, in the reflection of my computer screen, the silhouette of a bird briefly land on a branch, the sky behind it brilliant blue with sparse clouds drifting across a sliver of sky while this southern wind kisses my skin. The tall trees above are ancient guardians, knowing more than any of us as they gently, patiently watch our joys and sorrows pass beneath them. 

Later I will board the plane back to Portland. In the meantime, I’ve been making my way through the cobwebs of resistance to growth and change that have slowly been surfacing. Having some spaciousness here in Austin, TX, time and availability of thought to journey into the duality of excitement and discomfort has been lovely and necessary.

I’ll soon be launching Muses of a Medium, the podcast. I’ll be sharing powerful client sessions and meaningful conversations and I’m so excited. For years I’ve known this has been coming. Another medium friend told me about 8 years ago this was a direction for me, yet something in me wasn’t ready. It has been an interesting growth edge these recent months to expand the energetic container of my work and my own personal readiness as I wade through my feelings about the potential of inviting more visibility. 
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When I was in the fashion industry, my journey got a LOT of attention and it was intense. During that journey I was riding on the energy of excitement and the world saying “YES” through all the incredible synchronicities and forward momentum.

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Here, my Havana Suit from Spring/Summer ‘08 Anna Cohen collection. The theme of the collection was inspired by Cuba in the 50s; I loved Cuba’s ability, by necessity, to find value in reuse, from a sustainability perspective. From an aesthetic perspective I found the raw beauty of their color palettes and textures irresistible.

In the process of all that excitement, attention and momentum, my dreams blended with all the wishes and dreams of many. Less knowledgeable about reading energy then, I gave myself entirely over, taking more responsibility than was mine for trying to save the world as best I could. I was doing this through being an early influencer in the fashion industry, bringing sustainability actively into the forefront of the conversation through high fashion design and branding, which hadn’t yet been done. Though this was a noble cause and I was using my talent and experience for something I was truly passionate about and the world was ready for, I gave more of myself than was sustainable and I paid the price. 
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I stopped salsa dancing, one of the most joyful things my body and spirit loved to do. I stopped doing yoga, or my morning running routine. I stopped making time for friendships. I gave all my money to my business and other’s money too. It just felt so incredibly important, like the universe was asking me to step up to this incredible opportunity and be this change agent to help heal the natural systems that we all depend upon and I willingly and excitedly did it. It felt WAY more important to respond to Vogue or NY Times or WWD (that story here) who wanted me to send samples in a few days, or to jump on a plane to show my collection somewhere, even though I wasn’t ready yet, which meant working mad hours to show up and deliver.
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A sampling of the press I was getting in those days. You can see my dress on the cover of WWD in the center. I wrote about that magical experience here.
When that rollercoaster ride of incredible momentum downshifted, even though my work life still was really cool, I had a deep desire to hide away, repair and rebuild myself. Don’t get me wrong. It was INCREDIBLE. I was living a dream for sure. But along the way I gave up too much of the core of what sustains me and it took a long time to rebuild and learn the valuable lessons being offered from that journey. I also felt responsible for showing up for other people’s dreams and desires who were watching my journey and cheering me on. That had its own flavor of intensity.

When mediumship unfolded in my life, it was clear that in order to facilitate spirit connection, I needed to be in right relationship with the vessel of my body and spirit. No over giving. No doubting. I could not take on responsibilities that didn’t belong to me. It literally wouldn’t work. I learned that the quality of my spirit connection is dependent upon the balanced system of my life, energy, my own spiritual connection. Making sure my joy is prioritized, that the vessel of my body is cared for. That my family is cared for and that I am in a loving relationship with nature and with community.

So this time, as I come into this new chapter of sharing more and casting my net wider through this upcoming podcast and in other ways (see below), I’m staying present, grounded and clear. I’m prioritizing joy. Moving my body, playing with my kiddo, communing with the trees, staying connected to my spirit team and I know that will provide an even more rewarding and powerful container for all who touch this work.

And now for you, my love. At the beginning of group sessions I often ask attendees to make sure to prioritize caring for themselves, explaining that if you need to stand, sit on the floor, use the restroom, cry, shake, close your eyes, please do it. Honoring whatever it is that you desire and need to do will actually help sustain and enhance the energy of our spirit connection. The opposite is true as well. If you compromise your wellbeing (for what you might mistakenly think is a benefit to the group), it will actually create a less activated and aligned energy for you individually and for the whole.

My friends, this is true of LIFE in general. But many layers of our culture have trained us to sacrifice ourselves in order to serve the whole. Can anyone relate? And yes, a reasonable amount of giving is necessary in community when we agree to support and sustain each other. But we often over-give or hold on tight and don’t share what we could. FEAR, in its many forms, being the underlying reason. If we are paying attention and we are brave enough to look inward and feel, we know when we are about to cross an internal line. So instead of allowing fear to lead and breaking trust with ourselves by crossing it, let’s do this…

Can we all give ourselves 🌈 PERMISSION RIGHT NOW ⭐️ to smile when we feel the edge of that line, thank ourselves for the valuable internal nudge and HONOR it? Let’s give ourselves permission to just go ahead and DO the thing that feels right or don't do what doesn’t feel right. Reminding ourselves that doing that is ACTUALLY what is in alignment for ourselves and everyone else.

​Okay, ready? Here’s an invitation: Take a DEEEEP breath in, smile, and exhale, feeling the collective energy of this intention of PERMISSION to HONOR your KNOWING across the hearts of all who are reading this around the globe. It doesn’t matter that the timing may be different. It will all blend and activate and power up all of us as we feel into that collective loving energy from everyone. Say hello to all your fellow travelers from your heart and give them and yourself a loving smile and gratitude for showing up on this journey together. 

Your intuition is at the center of your authenticity, it is your most true voice. Breathe into your heart and be in your own beautiful unique signature of energy. If it feels right, commit right now to following it in all the ways that feel most aligned for your life path. 

Now fill your heart with one more smile and one more breath of sparkling, healing love. Feel that? I’ve put a little extra activation in it for you. ✨ 😉 ✨ Now check this out…
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⚡️NEW!⚡️VIRTUAL Live Gallery Style Audience Reading Demonstration 🌈
5/23 - Tickets $33!


I am excited to announce that I am offering a LIVE gallery style audience reading on May 23rd, 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 6:30pm GMT. 

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Though I’ve done audience readings live in person for years and small group sessions on zoom for years, I’ve never done an audience reading on zoom. It’s time! I’m excited to connect with you and your loved ones in spirit and to say yes to expanding the healing container in this way.

Pay only ⭐️ $22 ⭐️ with code: LOVE when you book your ticket for this first go around!
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I would be remiss if I didn’t thank my spirit team for guiding these words out of my fingers, all the circumstances that led me to connect with each of you in this way. I feel so lucky and grateful for the opportunity. Thank you for engaging. I hope you see yourself reflected in this story in some way and empowered too; that you feel a bit more connected, safe and at home in the world.
If you haven’t already done so, consider upgrading to a paid subscription to receive my monthly transmissions, channeled activations to power up your projects, help you connect deeply with yourself and remember your reason for being here.

You can find more at www.blossomintuitive.com and book one on one sessions here. 
That’s all for now my loves!
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The Dog in Spirit Knew Exactly What to do

3/23/2026

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I never know who I’m going to land on next.
In group sessions, I move through the circle intuitively, feeling my way toward whatever or whomever wants to come through for each person. Sometimes that means walking around the room. Sometimes it means pausing and listening. Sometimes it means following an image that flashes into my mind and trusting it completely, even before I understand it.

Lately, the animals have been showing up.
In one recent session, I was walking around the circle of six people when I saw brand new shoes in my mind - pristine, still stiff. I said it out loud, and a woman across the table smiled. She was wearing them for the first time that day. That’s how I found my way to her.

I knew nothing about her. But once I landed, I could feel a dog, or dogs. She confirmed it. Then the puppy feeling came in strong, and I couldn’t shake it even when she said no, there was no puppy. We stayed with it, talked around it, and then she remembered: one of her dogs had just been diagnosed with autism. He acts like a puppy, she said with a laugh. I knew we’d landed.

Then another image arrived: a broken toe, two toes taped together. Her eyes went wide. Her dog had just broken a toe that morning and was taped to the one beside it. The room laughed. That warm, full-body kind of laugh that happens when something lands so precisely it becomes funny. It was incredible evidence that blew me away too because that wasn’t the reason I was aware of for receiving that image. 
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What I was seeing was her dog in spirit, the darker medium-sized one I’d felt earlier, that she’d confirmed. He was showing me the taped toes as a metaphor of what he was doing: taping himself to the dog with autism. Anchoring there. Saying, I’ve got him. I’m helping him learn how to be in his body, in this lifetime, in this family. It was so tender, and everyone in that circle got to feel it.

In another recent group, a fluffy, regal cat came through the moment I turned toward his person. He was magnificent and he absolutely knew it. He was prancing, proud, practically preening. His person started laughing immediately because yes, that was him, completely. At the end of the session she pulled out a photo, and the whole room recognized him at once.
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That same session brought something new for me. For the first time, I offered energy work to every single person in the group. I’ve worked with energy for years, but this was the first time it was so clearly what each person needed, one right after the other, fitting perfectly with what was relevant for each of them on their journeys, all the way around the circle of six people. When I shifted how I was moving with the energy for the woman whose cat had come through, my fingers I felt suddenly needed to flutter, she gasped with her eyes still closed. “Your ability is incredible, Anna.” She said. To be witnessed while offering something I love and feel so honored to be able to do, is its own kind of gift for me too. I can feel what is happening and how this energy is changing and healing people and it is so validating when someone who is receiving this can feel it and when others are witnessing the experiences both directly and indirectly.
 

And then there was the man who knew he needed to go last. He was attending his first group session, navigating a significant career transition as a leader in the medical field, with many potential paths in front of him. He watched everyone else receive before he let himself open. By the time I reached him, something had settled. What the session gave him wasn’t an answer. It was something more useful: a deeper trust in his own knowing.

He’s in a coaching container with me now, and what I’m watching is how quickly things move when someone decides to do this soul work. The options that were acting as bridges from one way of seeing himself in the world to another, helping him feel comfortable making a shift, are falling away with clarity. They were’t the landing place, they were part of the journey, but that wasn’t clear initially. What’s left is lit up and alive and lots of energy is building and growing in these directions with actionable results lining themselves up with delight. It’s so cool how fast this can happen.

I’m sharing these stories with you because they point to something I want you to remember: you have access to this kind of deep connection and it lives inside your heart. You are this supported. All the time.

Here’s an invitation. 

Give yourself a moment right now away from accomplishing anything else. Imagine the tendrils of responsibility releasing from you and allowing all your energy to come back home with a smile of welcome. 

Take a few slow, deep breaths. Look out at some nature if you can. 

Give your heart a smile and let yourself receive some love from your spirit team, nature, the elements, animals. Let that love fill your heart and spill out to fill your whole being. Allow this love to fuel your next decision. Let it remind you that you are not navigating this life alone, and let whatever wants to move through you, be welcome. Try trusting it before you know entirely what it means, and see what happens.

And if you’re inspired to experience a group session for yourself, I’d love to see you in the circle. My next group sessions are online 4/9 & 4/30 and in person, 3/30 & 4/27. There are six people per session and everyone receives evidential messages and healing. Spots are limited and tend to fill quickly. $111 per seat.
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​That’s it for now my loves. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next time!
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5 deaths in 4 months

2/10/2026

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Yes, it’s true and a bit shocking to see the words on the page as I am writing them. As these deaths have continued to add up over these past weeks, I feel like they have started to blur and blend. I become both numb and more awake, both tearful and overcome with love in such an enormous and somehow also mundane way. Even though it feels a little wobbly and vulnerable to share, it is a real thing that is happening in my world right now and because I support so many with connecting with those who’ve passed, it is certainly on the subject. 
I was attending a workshop over the weekend on Akashic Records reading when I learned that my second cousin, Dave, transitioned. As I laid in bed before sleep on that first night, I felt his kind spirit greet me and surround me with love. I then dreamed of Randy and Ryan, two of the other people who’ve passed recently. When I awoke in the morning my heart was shaken open by the combination of the dreams and the knowledge of Dave’s passing. My mom was able to travel to see him and sing many songs to him before he took his last breath. They were the two remaining musicians of their generation in the family. He’d been holding on for some reason, the hospice people shared, and just after the singing, he let go. So beautiful.

When I arrived at the workshop for the second day, my eyes were red and I felt tender and a little too open. So used to being in the role of leading, I observed that it was good for me to walk into a space with my vulnerability and not feel like I needed to be put together or have all the answers. I entered the room of attendees from all over the country, and my bestie, Rosemary (who’s doing something really cool 2/22 - I’ll be there, come join us), took me in her arms and held me while I cried. She smiled and said, “I had a feeling you might need this” as she handed me a coffee she’d picked up for me on her way in. I hadn’t told her anything yet, she just knew. As I began to connect with all the other powerful healers in the room with the shared experience of stepping into the portal of this new modality together, I didn’t want to be anywhere else. 
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At one point before we were breaking up into groups to practice, our teacher, Deb Haynie, talked about it being okay not to do the work if you aren’t feeling up for it. She was giving me permission. I appreciated that, and spoke up with a big smile, sharing that often spirit connection in service of others during times like this for me is one of the most pure expressions and experiences of love and home that I know and is exactly the right medicine for all involved. She beamed back at me with a sparkle in her eye. 
We had a wonderful experience in the workshop and it inspired me in many ways which will be revealed to both you and me throughout the year. Stay tuned for that, and for now know that your loved ones in spirit along with my spirit team may guide us while in session into the Akashic Records.
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Before we say goodbye to each other for now, let’s raise our metaphorical glasses to all those we have known and loved who are no longer embodied. Let’s take a moment and a few breaths with our eyes closed, a smile on our faces, heads upturned toward the sun and feel the warmth of their love. 🩷

Here’s to you Randy, Paul, Ryan, Steve, Dave and all of your people and animals in spirit too. May you (our loves in spirit) be delighted in your adventures and be singing, laughing and dancing in all the ways that bring you joy. ✨
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My dream, the Caldera plant medicine and Jim's green love

12/30/2025

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In my dream I am sitting in front of my computer, but my consciousness is connected to the vast universal flows of information. I am providing a transmission, a channeled message and gift of perspective and integration to the people on my screen.

When I wake, it is clear that this is not a random dream. The idea of providing this was not in my consciousness prior to this dream. But since my life revolves around listening to and responding positively to the energy I am engaging with and that is engaging with me, I am moving forward with this ask of me and offering it - even though I don’t know yet what will transpire. I trust though that as with all other invitations and healing nudges from the realm of spirit connection, it has healing tones, levels and ripples none of us entirely understand yet.
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Before walking into this coffee shop where I am writing these words, I sat in my car for a few moments. Plant energies have been circling in my awareness over the past couple days and I know they were somehow in my dreams recently as well, though I can’t place how. So I meditated before stepping out of my car, breathing deeply and inviting any plants to connect with me. After a very short time, “Caldera” popped very clearly into my head. I wasn’t even sure if it was a plant and was not surprised when I looked it up and saw that it is a beautiful flower the color of the pants I happen to be wearing today.
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Caldera Flowers. Photo Credit
Caldera offered her potency and vibrancy to me in that moment as we beautifully connected and she told me she can help attune your energy too. So no matter when you read this, it is the unfolding of the awareness and understanding you are experiencing right now that carries the patterns and upgrades this beautiful heat tolerant flower is providing. She invites us to bring cooling foods and appreciation for beauty into ourselves to slow the pace, even incrementally, and to invite a balancing tonality into our beings. Here is an opportunity to take a moment now to breathe deeply, close your eyes and invite her medicine and beautiful energy to be with you. Even if you aren’t sure what it feels like, inviting, acknowledging, allowing yourself to receive the offering is a wonderful honoring of her gift. As you listen more, pause more, invite more, you will also feel more.

I had written this piece yesterday and was just about ready to post it but then I had a session yesterday afternoon that changed how it wanted to become. A family came into my office, the husband of a client I’ve worked with for a few years, and his sister and mother. I’d never met them before and they entered with such a lovely kindness. Her husband commented on my pink pants and I told them briefly about my connection with the Caldera flower. About half way or more through the session, after their dad/husband, Jim, had been coming though for them loud and clear and with such beautiful evidence, the kids’ grandmother came through. I could feel blue all around her immediately and that resonated - it was her favorite color. And then I felt floral - very floral. That she was quite a gardener and was very connected with plants. This was verified and then she revealed that she had been involved in helping facilitate the connection with the beautiful Caldera plat that morning.

This is so fascinating. Often there are things that happen in my day that are related to the spirit connection I’ll be facilitating later in that day, but I never know what it will be until the session when it is revealed. This was such a lovely full circle moment for everyone. The connection went all the way back to my selection of my pink pants first thing in the morning, and went on from there in layers. Our loved ones ARE really with us and influencing the way things unfold in such beautiful loving ways. We are often not aware of this involvement but it is there, I promise!

And of course, now in this moment - I’m just realizing - that the bright green 6 oz glasses I just fell in love with at the coffee shop I am in right now, and just ordered for my home, are the GREEN color that Jim showed his family at the end of their session as a gift of energy and connection - he asked them to look for it and for his love in that color. Colors have an energetic frequency and they can be aligned with a certain person in spirit or level of healing. We realized several ways this was significant right after the session which was lovely and now this.
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I’ve been searching for just the right small glasses and hadn’t found what I was looking for yet. I’d taken a moment while writing about Jim to get a bit more hot water for my tea when I spotted them, fell in love and ordered them immediately, which is a little unlike me. Then as I was getting back to writing, I realized the connection with a mini swell of love and a tear. Thank you Jim for extending your love to your family through this moment and to me too! 🩷
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10 Years ago Today

11/3/2025

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My boys

​Ten years ago today, as placed a banana into the blender at 10:30am, I had a sudden vision: I saw myself walking downstairs and telling my husband it was time. 
And just after that vision landed, the intense wave of my first contraction (or surge as they are called in the hypnobirthing world)washed over me.

I had three more within the next half hour, about ten minutes apart. Then suddenly they were five minutes apart - only a half hour after they started! I wasn’t sure what to do - this was WAY faster than what was expected and it was my first child and still ten days before my due date. I called the hospital - I was advised once surges are five minutes apart to go to the hospital (We had decided on a hospital birth due to historical family complications with births). The women I spoke to were great, coaching me to trust my body and urged me to call my doula. Once I got her on the line, she asked me a few questions and when I answered “yes” to all of them, she said, “It’s go time,” and was on her way.

Between surges, my husband made me a meal, which I tried to eat between the waves - I would need the energy. My mom came over from work a couple hours later. I have such a memory of the beautiful afternoon sunlight streaming through the living room window, warm though golden leaves, and my mom, who birthed me holding me and smiling. 

Everything moved really quickly. Chris raced around the house gathering the last few things (for anyone in this position, learn from us and save yourself from additional stress! Don’t just have a list, have a checklist for your hospital or birthing center bag - I had been packing it and Chris didn’t know what was there, what wasn’t, and where the remaining items are.)

We had gone to hypnobirthing classes throughout my pregnancy, which I highly recommend. I didn’t want to know how dilated I was, as suggested by them. I wanted to trust my body, go with the energy of this process instead of being afraid. I met each surge like a wave, breathed through it, and stayed as present as I could.

Within a couple hours, the surges were two minutes apart. We headed for the hospital, and the fun British midwife, instead of telling me how dilated I was, said, “Well, I wish I could prescribe your cervix,” which made everyone laugh — even me, between contractions.
They got me right into the tub - this was a good sign, as it meant I was close to transition. The lights were low. Our fake candles glowed around the tub. We had lavender nearby, and calm music playing. I closed my eyes and focused on the rhythm of my breath. All those hours of practice were SO helpful.

Only two hours after arriving at the hospital, I wanted to push. I said it out loud — twice — and nothing happened. I knew I couldn’t birth my baby in the tub in this hospital. On the third time, I opened my eyes and realized it was only my mom and Chris in the room. I learned that the nurses and midwife had stepped out for a shift change, and my doula had just gone to take a break.
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I hollered, “Get the nurse!” My mom ran to find help. Within minutes, everyone was back, and they moved me onto the table. Our British midwife decided to stay on to see the birth through and twenty minutes later, this little being came out of my body.
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Nico Skye P, Born November 3, 2015 at 6:33pm, full head of hair and all!

​We didn’t know yet that he was a boy. It was a total surprise as he twisted out and into my husband’s arms — and such a relief to be done. My throat was raw from the hollering through the last stages, but I felt so alive. As soon as he was born, with a FULL head of long hair (!!) we put Hugh Masekela’s ”African Secret Society on in the background and just breathed and smiled and took in this new life.
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Eight and a half hours from start to finish. A blur of light, sound, and love.
Now, ten years later, my boy is growing into the most amazing human — creative, funny, full of energy, and endlessly loving.
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My happy, now-10-year-old boy, this morning before school.

​I’m so grateful I got to become a mother, even with all the challenges, it is an incredible adventure. 

I hope wherever you are on your journey, you take time to reflect and celebrate the big moments. Here’s to the gift that is life! 
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An Fateful Encounter, a Powerful Shift

10/6/2025

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It started as an ordinary afternoon — sunlight glinting on the surface of the pool, laughter floating through the air. My dear friend Rosemary and I were immersed in one of our magical, soul-lifting conversations, the kind that leaves your energy sparkling. I had just shared a meditation that left me deeply activated, open, and alive.

When Rosemary stepped away for a moment, she returned having spotted someone she knew — a well-known Portland personality. She began chatting with him and the woman he was with, also a local mover and shaker. As I joined them, Rosemary beautifully introduced me as one of Portland’s top mediums in the lovely way she does. Their eyes lit up, as often happens when people feel the possibility of spirit connection and intuitive healing enter the space.
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As we spoke, I sensed a shift in the man’s energy. He shared that he’d been moving through some major life transitions. I could feel the pull of spirit connection asking me to help facilitate healing. I could sense that he felt something stirring and building too. I knew I needed to place my hands on him and asked for his consent to do energy work, and he agreed.

I touched my fingers to his back, powerful energy began to flow. The clear knowing came into my awareness and this knowing was transferred through energy, telepathy and a few short words to help them ground into his consciousness. He was astonished that the words were exactly what he had been feeling and wondering in his heart. They were what he needed to hear to accept and release and fully open to the changes that were being offered to him. Tears welled in his eyes. I could feel a profound shift taking place for him right there by the pool.

The whole conversation and energy exchange lasted maybe five or ten minutes, but it left an imprint on all of us. Later, he came back to thank me deeply. I could feel his gratitude, and I knew that this moment would be a turning point for him. It was the medicine he had been waiting for, asking for and it came through because I was listening, because we were all listening.

This is what I love about living this way — attuned to the quiet (and sometimes not-so-quiet) guidance of intuition. When we’re centered enough in our hearts to trust the flow of our inner knowing, we tap into what I believe is our highest form of intelligence. This guidance is always available to us, and it connects us — to each other, to our purpose, and to the unseen support that walks with us.

🌈 An Invitation for You

​If you’re feeling yourself on the edge of a shift, or sensing that your intuition is nudging you toward healing, clarity, or transformation, know that you’re not alone. Many people arrive at sessions with me feeling exactly that — ready but unsure of the next step, or longing to feel seen at a soul level.

A spirit-led mediumship & healing session can be a powerful container for that next step. Together we listen, receive, and work with the energy moving through you so you can find clarity, healing, and momentum.
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If you feel called, I invite you to book a session with me. Let’s open that space for your own inner guidance to come alive.
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An Unexpected Vision and the Ceremony that Followed

9/11/2025

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A couple days before it happened, I saw it. A circle of women gathered in a clearing, focusing our energy toward honoring the life of someone who had just passed unexpectedly.
When I arrived at Temple of Belonging — a retreat filled with hundreds of women gathered to rest, create in community, and heal — I didn’t expect to receive a vision. It appeared so vividly: a large group of us standing together in one of the outdoor spaces on the land, weaving our energy into the center of the circle to honor someone who had unexpectedly passed in their sleep during the retreat. 
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The image startled me, not because I’m unfamiliar with such things, but because it was powerful and clear and out of context. My work as a medium connects me to loved ones in spirit on behalf of others, but rarely do I receive visions when I’m not in session with a client, and I wasn’t sure what to do with this one. I set it aside, unsure what it meant.

A couple of days later, after a beautifully prepared breakfast by the magical TOB kitchen staff, I felt a gentle nudge to approach a table of women I didn’t know. I introduced myself, and within minutes we discovered we were all healers and intuitives. Then one of them shared something that made my body still: her son had just unexpectedly passed away in his sleep while we were at the retreat.

The air seemed to shift. Time slowed. I leaned in and asked, “Did this happen two days ago???” She affirmed that it did and in that moment we both knew something powerful was happening. I told her what I had seen, and we felt the unmistakable presence of her son, who passed at 27 years old and our spirit teams guiding us into this shared experience. We felt, the four of us at that table in that moment, a deep connection form with each other and with the magic of life.

We spoke with the retreat organizer, and by that evening, a new event had been added to the schedule: “Honoring the Ancestors, A Circle of Healing”. At dinner, this mother stood before the entire retreat on stage and shared this news of her family, her love for her son, and the rawness of having just lost him. She was brave, open, and extraordinary. She also shared how profoundly she felt held in this community of women who didn’t all look like her, but who received her with love.

The next morning, we gathered in that same clearing I had seen in my vision. (See below)
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There was no plan, no script. Only a willingness and dedication to follow the energy. The revered tribal elder, Sweet Medicine Nation, spoke sacred words. My mom and I led songs. Women prayed, sang, and created ceremony together. It was unpolished and deeply moving — exactly as it needed to be.

What I carry with me most is the reminder that the spirit world is always reaching out to us. We are shown visions, given nudges, offered threads of connection. If we are listening and willing to follow, those threads lead us to moments of healing and community that none of us could create on our own.
This mother’s openness invited us to be with her in her experience and it was an honor and a beautiful exchange for all. Her son’s presence wove us together. And in that circle, we were reminded that love does not end with death — it continues to ripple, guide, and connect us in ways that defy explanation.

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After I wrote this piece, I reached out to this amazing mother and new friend, whose name is Sah’Rah Ma’at Bey. She gave me consent to share this story about her and her beautiful son, Tremayne Livingston Jr. You can see and feel the love.
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Thank you Tremayne for weaving us all together in such beautiful ways with your special touch. Including you, dearest reader, who are taking in these words. Your loved ones are here with you too. ✨

If you’re ready to experience beautiful loving spirit connection and life affirming intuitive support on your journey, I’m ready and here for you. The transition into fall as things are slowing down is a lovely time to receive. 🌈
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On the News

7/14/2025

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An interview on KATU's Afternoon Live about the power of intuition. 
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Greetings! I am excited to share that I was asked to speak about intuition recently on KATU news. It was a lovely experience and tricky to fit so much information into a short 7 minutes! This is a great overview of what intuition is and why it is so valuable! 
Ready to bring big upgrades into your life, team or organization? I help people learn about this highly valuable and underutilized skill that we all have access to. Learn more about my individual coaching here and my work with organizations here. 

Ready for a powerful session? To be seen at a soul level? To connect with loved ones and animals in spirit? See my google and yelp reviews to learn more about people's experiences and if your heart is resonating with the alignment of this invitation, book your individual session for a 1:1 deep dive or community session seat for a condensed connection and to witness the power of others receiving as well. There are 6 available each time, first come first served - my next one is in NW PDX at 6:30pm August 18, 2025). Both experiences are magical and wonderful! 
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Light Makes Right: Making Waves in the Fashion Industry

3/13/2025

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It is a Wednesday evening not long after my apparel collection is under way in 2006. I am in a meeting late in the day trying to decide which fabrics to move forward with for the next collection, when my phone rings.

The evening light is soft in my studio and there is a still in the air as a sudden surge of adrenaline hits my system when Katya Foreman introduces herself as a writer from Women’s Wear Daily!! (WWD is the most important fashion industry publication!). I’d been featured in all the local publications at this point and am starting to get a little national attention, but this is a BIG DEAL! She’d heard about my line and my fashion show featuring the Canary Dresses I’d designed that illustrated a powerful story bringing awareness to sustainability. She asks if I can send samples of my upcoming Spring/Summer 2007 collection to NYC by Friday to be shipped to Paris for a photo shoot the following week. OMG! I am buzzing through my whole body.
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Of course I say YES! But that is only two days away! I’m not sure how I’m going to deliver. It is early in the apparel seasonal calendar to be asking for samples and I haven’t designed or sourced anything yet!

Designing a collection usually takes months and involves trend research, setting the creative direction, sourcing materials, sketching, draping and pattern making. Then samples are sewn and need to be fitted usually up to three times which involves revising the paper patterns, recutting fabric, sewing and fitting on the fit model until the fit is just right. During all that, costing and pricing are sorted out and at the very end a photo shoot is done to tell the brand story and marketing materials are created to sell the products.

It takes the involvement of many people who specialize in each of these areas to create a collection and bring it to market. A designer’s role typically involves some materials sourcing and designing the collection through sketching and drawing, mostly on the computer these days. Because at this time I am the Creative Director and the CEO of a small budding fashion brand, I am driving and managing the whole system, working with several contractors and interns to create my collections.

To complete multiple intentionally designed and professionally presentable pieces in 48 hours is nearly impossible! There’s no time to work with patternmakers or sample sewers for creating my line. There’s no time to source new materials. I have to work with what I have in house and I have to do it all myself.

As I begin, I feel overcome with gratitude for the education I received from Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York and Polimoda in Italy, the amazing schools I attended, for giving me such a solid foundation to be able to show up in this moment of my life and deliver. So I cancel everything in my schedule for the next couple days and stay up late sketching, deciding on materials, draping, cutting, sewing and patternmaking and with a big sigh of relief ship several pieces off to NYC.

As the days go by, the rush of designing those pieces starts to feel like a distant dream. I’m not sure if anything will come of those feverish efforts and there are many other things to attend to.

About two weeks later I am in the front yard of my parents house visiting with my family on a warm summer afternoon when the phone rings. It is Katya Foreman. She asks if I am in front of my computer. I’m not and she asks if I can be. I walk into the house, my anticipation cautiously building. She says she wants to send me an email and to be on the phone with me when I see it. She waits as I open my email and then she sends the file. I’m in utter SHOCK. I can’t believe my eyes which are starting to tear up.
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She joyfully says, “Congratulations, Anna! Your dress is on the cover!”
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My bamboo dress featured on the cover of WWD. You can see the description under “Light Makes Right.” There are also full page spreads of my pieces inside this the paper. What an amazing moment!
I am beside myself with awe and excitement. She explains that she called so that she could be with me to witness me receiving this news and share in the exciting moment. It is one of the most incredible validations that this vision and intention I have to bring healing into the fashion industry is working; that it is real, is valued and the world is ready to hear it.

This cover story is a HUGE deal and it catapults my brand into getting more and more attention, therefore spreading this surge of energy and healing through the industry.
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For more on my journey in the fashion industry, see Flight to Paris.
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Intentionally Allowing Yourself to Receive

2/12/2025

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Living Room Realty 2025 State of the Union facilitation
I swiveled the microphone away from my face before saying a word and started to play my singing bowls for the standing room only crowd. The hum of early morning chatter faded as the sound echoed through the beautifully designed space, reaching into every heart. I let the harmonies lead this room of unsuspecting folks through a bath of sound before directing them to their journals, followed by more exciting surprises. 
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I was doing this for the State of the Union 2025 kickoff meeting for Living Room Realty’s team of around seventy members. The company was celebrating many things and it was inspiring to see this community cheer each other on for so many wins, prioritizing taking the time and space to share authentic messages of appreciation for each other.
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Another shot from the Living Room Realty 2025 State of the Union facilitation
I just posted on IG about this concept of taking time to celebrate after the issue popped up in a couple of my sessions yesterday. We often move on so quickly once we’ve achieved a milestone or reward. We tend to critique what we think we didn’t get right and quickly leap into the next challenge. It is often hard to settle into actually receiving and it can be uncomfortable to slow down enough to fully let in the joy. 
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Many of us have been trained to value mistakes or things we got wrong more than what we got right. As Greg Bell brought to my attention in his book, “What’s Going Well”, when we were young, our wrong answers were circled in red, and there were often no marks for our correct answers. It turns out our brains are hard-wired to scan for what could be a threat at a much higher percentage than what is safe and feels good.

Our brains even prioritize storing more challenging or traumatic memories than ones that feel good and rewarding. We are therefore more oriented toward remembering and seeking out the challenges and not experiencing joy quite as much. However, we no longer need to be aware of a saber-toothed tiger and don’t need this outdated form of prioritization. We have the power to consciously shift this “negativity bias” as psychologists call it, and aim our sights on what FEELS GOOD. 

So this is my invitation for you:

Notice in your life where you can recognize a choice to either double down on the intensity and difficulty or release the belief that it has to be hard in order to be relevant or true. Allow yourself to let in the wins, the moments of reflection on what is going well and the things that feel good.

Where in your awareness can you allow yourself to receive RIGHT NOW as you reflect on what is happening in your life?

Try practicing scanning for what feels good within the situations that present themselves for the next two weeks to help rewire the baseline operating program of your brain. What do you think might happen? Notice if you have any resistance to prioritizing this focus. I’d love to hear about your experience and I am happy to help if you find this to be a challenge.

A big thank you to Living Room Realty for having me and contributing to this conversation and movement.
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An Unexpected Visit in the Grocery Store

1/30/2025

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I’m happy you’re here. Lots of shifts and changes have been happening lately both internally externally for many of us. I want to take a moment to acknowledge this and to lovingly remind us all that this takes additional energy. Here is an invitation to allow yourself to rest and reflect a little more than usual. During the day you can take a couple minutes to slow breathing, close eyes or focus low and soft, and go inward. Anchor into the truth of your inner knowing, even if it isn’t yet clear. This experience of change can feel chaotic and overwhelming sometimes so this can be a very helpful practice.

I’d like to introduce Joshua Dunn, a lovely client who reached out to share his story with me this week. I asked if he would be comfortable with me sharing it here and he agreed. Enjoy!
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This particular Saturday started like most of our Saturdays: my husband and I slept in, staying warm under the quilt as the outside world slowly defrosted. When we finally got up, we made coffee and eggs. After breakfast, I headed to the gym for my usual Saturday routine, taking extra time to relax in the sauna and hot tub after my workout.

“Should I go to Costco or Fred Meyer for groceries?” I wondered. “Eh, I don’t feel like dealing with Costco today—Freddy’s it is,” I silently decided.

I grabbed a second coffee on my way to the store, picked up a shopping cart, and headed in for the few items we needed for the week. Almost immediately after entering, I nearly dropped my coffee in disbelief. There, right in front of me, was an elderly woman who, from behind my now-cloudy glasses, looked exactly like my sweet, recently departed grandmother.

Her humble 5’4” gently rounded silhouette appeared just as I remembered from our many years of shopping together. From her white bob haircut to the baggy capri pants and even the questionably fashionable yet undeniably comfortable Crocs—her signature shoe in her later years—everything about her felt so familiar. My brain worked feverishly to reconcile my reality with what I was seeing.

It took everything in me not to run up and hug her. Should I? I thought. No, that would be weird. You’d probably scare her. I took a deep breath. Pull yourself together.

I teared up just watching her mosey near the front of the store. She even had her purse looped on her arm instead of in the cart—just like my grandmother always did. Her cane rested in the cart’s seat. How can this be? I wondered.

I eventually collected myself and decided not to startle this kind stranger. I shook it off as a coincidence, smiled to myself, and moved on to the produce section. But not long after, as I was searching for bananas, I looked up to find the familiar petite woman directly in front of my cart, her kind eyes meeting mine from behind her mask.

This time, I couldn’t help myself. “Pardon me,” I began. “You look just like my grandmother, who raised my brothers and me. We lost her about a year ago.”

Her eyes lit up. “Oh my heavens! Isn’t that special?” she exclaimed. “How old was she?”

“Eighty-two when she departed,” I replied.

“I’m 92, and I’ll be 93 this June 15. Can’t believe I’ve made it this far!” she beamed softly, placing a hand on her chest.

I was floored. “My grandfather’s birthday was June 15,” I shared, still in disbelief. “He and my grandmother were married sixty-one years.”

“Well, isn’t that special,” she said. “You know, son, I believe I’m still here to take care of my son, who struggles a lot mentally. That’s why I haven’t been called home yet. Your grandmother, though—she finished her work. It was her time to move on. And I can tell she did a mighty fine job raising you boys.”

Tears welled up again, and I thanked her.

“You take care of yourself, ma’am. Many blessings to you. I hope you live another 92 years!”
“My goodness!” she exclaimed, chuckling. “I certainly don’t!”—a response my grandmother would have given to such a bold statement. We both laughed.

“God bless you,” she said as we said our goodbyes. “Take care and have a great day.”

As she disappeared from view, I noticed the items in her cart: a small spiral ham, bakery cookies, clementines, potato chips, and Pine-Sol. Pine-Sol was my grandmother’s go-to cleaning solution for everything.

“Wow,” I thought. “What a special gift and visit.”

I tried to collect myself, pretending my emotion was just indecision over which celery stalks to take home. As I moved aisle to aisle, I found myself longing to see her again. But no matter how much I looked, she was gone.

I thought about my grandmother and all the happy and sad moments we shared—the celebrations, the struggles, and the love she poured into raising my brothers and me. I realized the next day would mark the 63rd birthday of my grandparents’ firstborn, my would-be aunt, who had departed at just five days old.

It was also one year since my first-ever mediumship session with Anna, where my grandmother had been the first spirit to visit. She’d immediately apologized for not heeding the medical advice I had begged her to follow before her departure. I’d spent hours pleading with her in the hospital to listen to the doctors, but true to form, she had smiled and said, “If it’s my time, it’s my time.”

After her departure, I wrestled with guilt. Could I have done more? Was she upset with me for pleading with her? During that session, she reassured me there was nothing I could have done differently. Her apology and validation helped me begin to heal.

As I rounded the last aisle and headed to checkout, I remembered another detail from that session: Anna had mentioned a young child’s birthday being celebrated in spirit. At the time, I couldn’t place it, but later that day, an aunt reminded me it would have been her baby sister’s birthday.

I finished at the register, took one last look at the produce aisle, and walked out to the parking lot. The sunlight rested gently on my forehead as I smiled.

I choose to believe it was a sweet visit from my grandmother’s spirit, a reminder that she’s still near. Her earthly work was complete—she had raised her slain daughter’s three boys into men. And in that moment, I felt her reminder: You’ve got this. I’m with you always. Live your life fully, as I raised you to do.

The car ride home was warm and quiet, but I wasn’t alone. Of that, I am certain.

If you have a story or strong memory about your experience in session with me or something related and you get a tug to share it, please reach out! I’d love to hear from you and it may be just the right medicine for someone reading here.
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Sending warmth to all,
Anna Blossom
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Stepping into the science of consciousness

1/16/2025

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I want to shout from the rooftops about Mark Gober’s work on researching consciousness. I strongly encourage you to take the time to listen to his 8 episode podcast, Where is my Mind. I am blown away by the science that is clear and strong supporting what I see and experience in my mediumship and coaching work ALL THE TIME. I can’t tell you how validating it is to have science support and prove what I live every day in my work.
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Where is my Mind Podcast by Mark Gober - Listen HERE.
​Mark interviewed top scientists and leaders, including the former head of the psychic department at the CIA, studying the validity of telepathy, near death experiences, psychic phenomena, mediumship, remote viewing and more. He builds a strong case about the nature of how we experience consciousness that challenges our world view and invites us to expand our understanding about the nature of reality.
I have often recommended this podcast over the years to clients and just res-listened to it over the past week. I am once again amazed and inspired and can feel that we are much closer as a society to accepting this science as self evident than we were a few years ago when I first listened. He’s since written several more books which I can’t wait to read. You can learn more about his work on his website.
Take a look in the microscope, as Mark says, and enjoy the journey of learning and validating things that have likely already felt like truth, and stretching your understanding of why we’re here.
I’d love to hear from you about this. Comment below or reply to your email and let me know what you think!
Warmth,
Anna Blossom
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Intuition & Leadership

1/9/2025

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The most influential and inspiring leaders in my life have shown up with a kind of authentic grace. They are experts by way of their curiosity and passion and they have a wealth of knowledge to pull from. They trust themselves deeply to reach with confidence into the heart of what they are focusing on and are a vehicle for that subject to come alive within them and as a result they light up with infectious inspiration. They are able to adjust to circumstances and find their way through challenges or changes with humor and grace. They take responsibility for mistakes or missteps and model using them as building blocks to continue to evolve and as a result, they help the rest of us evolve too. They help us to feel safe in the world, at home in ourselves, empowered and inspired.
Whether you lead a multi national company or your household, we are all leading in one way or another in our lives. Each time a decision appears in front of us, how we respond sets a direction, a trajectory and an invitation for how we engage with the energy of the world and how it responds and aligns with us.
I don’t know what will happen each time I step into the flow of intuitive connection whether I am facilitating for an organization, on stage or in my office one on one. I completely trust that I have prepared my whole life for this moment and I have all the tools I need; this is why I have been invited to be here. I know that I will be inspired to think of, say and do what is in alignment for the highest good for everyone.
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Facilitating an intuitive training for adidas US teams.
I’ve been doing this for many years, but wasn’t fully conscious of it when I was in my fashion career. I felt that “truth beyond logic” and I believed entirely in it, almost like the wave of energy I was riding was so powerful it gave me no choice - and I didn’t want a different one. It was clearly the direction that was right and the world kept reflecting that truth back to me.
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​Back stage at a fashion show, getting my looks ready to roll.
People used to ask me when I would come home for a visit from New York or Italy if it was intimidating competing in the fashion industry. I could understand why they asked but I never saw it that way. I was following that authentic spark of intuition, that wave of inspiration and energy and I knew what I was doing was right. I was fulfilling my reason for being here. No hesitation. This lead to many layers of success and prepped me to lead in all the forms that have unfolded in my life.
These days I get to coach leaders from someone ready to step into their personal power to those who run large scale multinational organizations. No matter the level of leadership, when we allow TRUST instead of FEAR motivate and drive us forward, this is what is felt by ourselves and those we lead. This is the energy the world responds to in affirmation.
✨ Here’s an invitation for you ✨
Who are the most influential and inspiring leaders that you have experienced in your life? Teachers, parents, a boss, a mentor, a friend.
What immediately stands out to you about why they inspired you so much? Take a moment here to pause and notice which memories stand out to you and the feeling in your body and images in your mind when you access those memories.
Send a wave of respect and gratitude to them for showing you a new way to understand the world and yourself in it. Now look the other direction and take a moment to breath in the gratitude from those who you have positively influenced in your life.
Let that recognition and gratitude be fuel to inspire trust in yourself to lead your life and your work from a place authenticity.
INTUITION IS AT THE CENTER OF AUTHENTICITY, IT IS OUR MOST TRUE INNER VOICE.
​⭐️ This is a wonderful time of year to bring in fresh perspective! ⭐️ If you’re ready for some coaching support individually or for your organization, I’m ready and excited to help you reveal a new way forward!
Thanks for reading!
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The Power of Singing for Incarcerated Women

12/14/2024

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The afternoon my mom and I first walked into the Portland Intergenerational Women’s Choir, my sister-in-law was in labor with her first child. We took a brief pause from our support role, drove across town, and stepped into a light-filled room led by choir director Crystal Meneses.
We sang a song for her, just the two of us, mother and daughter. Something lit up instantly for all of us. There was no question.
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We were in.

From that night forward, every Monday became a nourishing anchor in our weeks. Women and girls of all ages gathered. Some steady in their voices, others still discovering theirs. We learned songs in ways that stretched us, comforted us, challenged us. Sometimes the learning came easily, threading voices through the room like light. Other times the process required patience and breath. But always, we were healed and changed by what we created together.
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Mom and me, bonded so much by a life of singing together.
The choir rehearsed in elder care facilities so residents could join us. We moved through different facilities over the years, and no matter the location, it became a sanctuary of community, a place where music softened the edges of our lives. We performed in hospitals, shelters and community spaces as a service to others and to ourselves.

And then we sang at Coffee Creek Women’s Prison.
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We prepared for weeks. There were conversations about what it meant to enter a prison with our voices, about the responsibility of showing up with integrity, kindness, safety. By then, my mom and I had been singing together for decades. You can learn more about that journey here, but please read on first. She had written a song called “Queen of Diamonds,” a fierce, vulnerable, powerful a capella piece we’d performed up and down the West Coast since I was a teenager. It had even been adopted by the Aurora Chorus; it had brought countless people to tears. But no one in our choir had heard it yet.
Until Crystal asked us to sing it at the prison.
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Aurora Chorus performing “Queen of Diamonds” by Connie Cohen, March 2016.
There were about fifty of the seventy or so choir members there that day. There was a rigorous check-in process in order to enter. The sound of doors unlocking again and again as we walked through hallways and rooms until we were in an auditorium on a stage, packed in tight. We sang a few of our ensemble pieces, and the power of many voices filled the room. Then, to the surprise of the choir members, Crystal quietly asked my mom and me to step forward.

I knew the song would be emotional, but I didn’t expect what happened next.

​We stood at the front of the stage, with rows of incarcerated women in front of us and our choir sisters behind us. The first lines left our mouths and the whole room was pulled into a portal of time slowing down. A few verses in, tears were flowing for women everywhere in the room.

I’ve performed this song many times. I’m used to the tears it provokes. But this was different.

You could feel something unnamed inside the room lifting, loosening, being witnessed. It was as if the music created a bridge between us: women on both sides of the stage, all carrying our own stories, suddenly connected through the power of this song.

I could barely get through the final lines. My throat tightened, and I let myself feel it, this profound, collective moment where sound became healing, where our presence together became medicine.

And when I think about that day, and all the songs we’ve shared with so many, especially now, I feel that medicine asking something of me. Of my mom. Of all of us. 
Because the world on many levels feels heavy. Fearful. Disconnected in ways that ache. And I’ve been feeling a pull - a quiet, persistent tug in my chest - to return to community singing, to the medicine it brings, to the joy it opens, to the belonging it restores.

So I’m creating something for us. 

A space to Sing for Your Spirit.

For healing. For hope. For joy.

For community. For breath. For the simple miracle of being alive together.

Why singing matters

Singing in community isn’t just uplifting, it changes your biology. Studies show that singing stimulates vagal tone, supporting emotional regulation, resilience, and a sense of safety. And singing in community increases endorphins and dopamine, lifting mood and cultivating joy.

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Here I’m warming folks up to sing at Living Room Realty’s annual kick-off event this year (they didn’t know it yet and felt wonderfully connected afterward!)
💜 Singing releases oxytocin, the bonding hormone that eases stress and strengthens connection.

💚 Group singing synchronizes heartbeats - literally bringing people into coherence with one another.

💛 Singing lowers cortisol, soothing the body’s stress response, even after just a few minutes of vocalizing.
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In other words: your body loves when you sing. And it especially loves when you sing with others. 
It’s not just what singing does physiologically. There is a spiritual resonance that happens when we sing. It clears distractions and noise, harmonizing all levels of the self and helps us remember why we’re here in this life. The vibration of your voice is like a tuning fork for your cells, bringing them into balance and literally, powerfully, healing your own body and bloodline. When we sing in community, our voices together multiply this healing; not only are we healing ourselves but our voices are medicine for each other. When we add intention to heal, this further calls into alignment deeper more far reaching levels of support and healing. And then we sing meaningful uplifting words, they carry potent patterns of resonance that become medicine as well!
Sing for your Spirit 

So here is my love and spirit filled offering for you. 

We’ll gather every 1st & 3rd Monday of the month 6-8:30pm in North Portlandstarting January 5th and sing circle songs and rounds in the oral tradition. Some will be original, many from around the world, mostly a cappella and all with uplifting meaning. We’ll weave in guided visualizations, sound healing and somatic practices to help you land in your body and soften your nervous system. And then we’ll have tea time to connect and build community. No experience is necessary, only a heart willing and ready to show up. 

If something in you is yearning for connection, for release, for joy, for a place to exhale, soften and receive… join us! Even if you’re shy about singing. Even if someone once told you not to sing. Your voice is beautiful and carries potent medicine for you and for the world. Don’t let those old stories hold you back from receiving. 

And yes, my mom, my incredible, powerful, beloved songstress mom, will be there with me. If you know her, you already know what a gift she is. If you don’t yet, you’re about to.
This is my most accessible community offering—rooted in love, healing, and the power of our shared voices.
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I can’t wait to see you, to sing with you, and to create something beautiful together.

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An offering on this post election day

11/6/2024

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On this post election day I have an offering for you.

It feels as though our political focus over these past months has been like a storm of thoughts and projections, fears and hopes brewing and multiplying in intensity. It has been easy to get swept up in its gales and find myself off center and I know I’m not alone.

As we are shifting into landing on one side of such an intense, politically polarized experience, I invite us all to focus inward and ANCHOR. We are exhausted from the power of the magnetic pull and repel, no matter our individual orientation. Many of us have been giving a significant amount of our energy to this and it will help to rebalance us and each other to bring it back home. (See my post about our energetic relationship with news and media for more on this concept, but stay with me here first.)
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Here is my invitation:
  • First, let go of doing anything else for a few moments and take a break from meeting anyone else’s needs.
  • Bring your awareness to your breath, slowing and quieting the external noise and chaos of words, images and imagined potentials and instead focus on being RIGHT HERE IN YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW.
  • Soften your jaw and your shoulders.
  • Breathe deeply through your nose noticing the rising and falling of your chest. See if you can bring a little more breath to your belly than your chest.
  • Feel the air, slow and cool, as it enters your body, comforting and warm as it releases.
  • See or sense the sharp definition of external influences fading from your system into the background, away from your body and mind on each exhale until you feel it receding, for a couple or few breaths.
  • With your inhale bring the ribbons or tendrils of your own energy back home to rest and recover inside the deep resonance of your heart. Know that your energy is cleansed and neutralized as it renters your system.
  • Smile to your heart and breathe here in this space until you feel yourself soften and your energy shift.
  • Find some nature to connect with through a window, in your space or outside. This nature will continue to carry on expanding and striving to become regardless of the changing winds of leadership, and we will continue to do this too.

As we focus inward in this way we assist in grounding the nation and the world in all our likeness and differences. We are each expressions, facets of the energy of life, continuing to learn, grow, remember, release. The more we can anchor, the more we can feel safe and settled and this allows us to connect with the greater truths of being alive.

May your breath and heart lead you toward the frequency of love in all its forms.
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The Truth

8/27/2024

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I drew the “Black Egg” just now in a co-working session I am attending. It is the final card in the Wild and Unknown Spirit Animal deck. “Speaking from Authentic Voice, the Truth”, it says.
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From the Wild Unknown Spirit Animal Oracle Deck by Kim Krans.
I own this deck too, yet I don’t feel its power fulfilled unless I draw the cards when in community with others. There are 10 of us sitting at this table and wow, its potency is felt in this moment. Before I knew what the card was representing, I said to the group that my intention was to write. Here’s what it says:

"The black egg contains one of life's most essential treasures - the truth. Inside of it resides no confusion, excuses, small talk, noise, or lies (not even white ones). This living breathing vessel harbors only that which rings truly. When this essence is in balance, we speak slowly and clearly. We are drawn to activities like writing, reading, teaching, singing or perhaps public speaking."
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I took this to be a pretty clear and direct invitation to write from my most true voice and to validate what I had just experienced. So I disregarder the piece I started writing a few days ago and started fresh to honor and work with the essence of energy presenting itself right now.
I was feeling out of sorts before leaving my house to join this co-working group I am sitting in right now. It was after some hours of meeting most of the needs of my eight year old and less of my own. It didn’t occur to me that my discomfort wasn’t the clutter in the house or endless job of summertime parenting, the laundry that needs to be done or the clutter that continues to breed in my house. Though it did present as that at first.

Once I got out the door and on the road, the tears came as I realized that so much of what I was feeling was actually the vulnerability and mortality of my sweet amazing 82 year old dad who had surgery this morning. It was amazing to me that it hadn’t occurred to me that this would be the main cause of my discomfort, but sometimes it takes an unfolding process to recognize what is happening. Especially when one is parenting! (Anyone relate?) Once these feelings had a chance to be recognized and honored, the tension slipped away and my system opened. I felt so much better. I called my mom to see how he was doing. She reported that he was just out of the surgery, that it went really well and he was having some jello. Whew.

After this experience, I was able to shift into preparing for what I plan to do in these coming days, starting to focus again on myself and my work when Nico returns to school tomorrow. I put music on to help me with the transition and once I arrived at my destination, I parked and sat for a few minutes to help me slow down and remember the TRUTH:

The most important thing right now is to connect with my spirit.

I have all that I need.

I am arriving at the right time and in the right place.

I can SLOW DOWN to pivot intentionally toward what is meaningful and depth provoking; toward what feels anchoring and nourishing.

I closed my eyes and breathed in the relief of this knowledge. Then I gathered all my energy from everywhere it has been in the last couple days, sent roots down and walked in.

So here I am, so much more myself from taking those few minutes to anchor into my soul, into my truth. Much more present and ready to be with you in these words. I know you will receive them some time after I’ve written them and they will continue to hold the energy signature of intent, emotion and invitation that they embody as they come into form through my finger tips. No matter when or how many times they are read.

With these words I am now turning to focus on you. I am inviting you to also slow down the rush of perceived external needs and remember what is most TRUE for you right now. Give yourself permission to feel into what your emotions and the feelings in your body are communicating to you and listen. What would be most nourishing, most true to your spirit and most authentic to your body? Allow the unfolding knowing that surfaces to be a wonderful GIFT to yourself. (rather than being afraid of it - which we often are). Then, honor that information and the ask from your body and spirit. Nourish it, love it and do what would be most loving and kind and supportive. Then, if you feel called, open and share your truth with the world. When you do, it models and opens the path for others to show up in their authenticity which helps our hearts heal and makes us all have a more joy filled experience.
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So, even though I was feeling discomfort on my journey to get here, that discomfort had gifts for me and provided an opening for me to connect more deeply with myself and with you. It has also helped me to be energetically accountable, inspired and supported in this co-working space. Just like in group sessions, the energy is amplified when we come together. Our nervous systems co-regulate. Our intentions amplify and our sense of pleasure and safety grows.
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A Priest and a Medium

7/30/2024

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Several months ago I was doing a group reading for six people on a warm spring evening when one of the attendees shared that they were a priest. Of course this was new information - I rarely know anything about my clients before they work with me. Because of what I had perceived about this person, it warranted them sharing this with the group. A quiet fell over the room as we all took in the significance of this spiritual leader who had opened to mediumship and was being seen so deeply.
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They (I’m using they/them pronouns to honor their privacy) felt powerfully connected to the experience and proceeded to join my coaching program. Each month as we have sat together in my office, we have experienced a wonderful, profound unfolding journey of perspective, healing and discovery. 
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At the end of our most recent session, there was a quiet pause as we were moved to talk about how we could invite additional and diverse spiritual leaders to gather, support and inspire each other and the people we serve. Neither of us quite know what that looks like yet, but there was a tangible potency to the conversation. The room suddenly felt charged with energy, like a palpable invitation waiting to be brought into form.

This feeling immediately transported me back to when I was starting my sustainable fashion company. A few of us new and emerging brands who were focused on incorporating sustainability practices into our organizations formed a group we named the “Sustainable Design Alliance.” We partnered with The Natural Step, a non-profit with a robust sustainability framework. The alliance members supported each other as we were building our businesses in a different way than had traditionally been done in our respective industries. The process forged relationships that strengthened each of us individually and collectively led to great things. One of which was a 2008 documentary film, "A Passion for Sustainability" highlighting the sustainability movement in Portland, Oregon. Mine was one of 14 featured companies including Nike, OMSI, Gerding Edlen and others. Here is the segment on my company from the film:
I didn’t grow up with a religion. My South African Russian Jewish dad was hungry to be far from structured social systems after growing up in the grip of Apartheid (pronounced in my family: apart-hate.) He was a bit of a happily rebellious young person, needing to carve his own way through the world. He used the ancient Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes for several years. As a young girl, this was my first introduction to the concept of an oracle or divine influence in the form of prompted actions and the wisdom of a spiritual book. My mom was born in California and as a child regularly attended a church with her family that is now called "Center for Spiritual Living" - a New Thought Church in the vein of Unity and Unitarian. These organizations take an inter-religious approach to spirituality. As a teen I attended Unity Church with a close friend’s family and would look forward to their semi-annual Youth of Unity regional retreats. That group of people and the structure of those gatherings helped me experience a deep sense of community, unconditional love and support, agency and fun in a way I have always appreciated.
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Both my parents were (and still are) devout creatives, communing with the divine through their love of nature and art in many forms. My mom is an award-winning watercolor painter and musician who worked in the tech field for many years as a web application developer for the City of Portland designing access to data for the 9-1-1 center. My dad was an exhibit design engineer at OMSI for many years, and is a talented painter and sculptor. Both are creative thinkers and open to exploring ideas big and small. Growing up with that open approach to understanding the world has helped me find my way into many areas of my life, including mediumship.
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A beautiful watercolor by my talented mom, Connie Cohen
I love that I get to work with many different people that have varying belief systems and that the healing energy of spirit connection can expand beyond the limitations of structured belief systems. All people possess the ability to reach across barriers to understand in our own way what someone from a different background, culture or religion might be communicating. My mom shared that when she was little and was trying to understand the concept of God that her dad said she just needed to add another “o” and it would make sense: “Good.” I think we can lift ourselves up to see that we are all a lot more alike than we are different and that the “good” in each of our hearts is what drives us forward toward healing and thriving within ourselves and our communities. 
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I’m hopeful that with the potency I felt in my conversation with the priest that day, there might be some momentum and energy behind the concept of coming together across belief systems; that something we couldn’t have foreseen individually might have the opportunity to be nurtured and to grow. 

So here is an invitation: Are you a spiritual leader? Do you know one? If so, do you feel drawn to exploring the idea of a new kind of connection, inspiration and support that transcends our respective structures of spiritual connection? Please reach out or share this post if you feel your heart resonating with this idea. I’d love to hear from you. 

I’ll close this part with a heartfelt thank you to the priest who bravely opened their heart to receive through a different platform of spiritual connection, and to all who trust me and the unique medicine I am so honored and amazed to be able to provide. 

Now for a final note. 

I have been asked for many years to teach the energy healing process that I practice in my work. Because I have been taught to do this while in session, being shown what to do by my spirit team and my client’s spirit teams, it hadn’t yet been clear to me how to help facilitate others to learn. I have been feeling a growing pull to teach this and as I was putting together my upcoming fall retreat, I got a big and clear message that it is time. So I am FINALLY providing this long awaited offering to the community at my next retreat!
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NOVEMBER 9-11 in Hood River, OR we will gather for a powerful, community focused fun, depth filled experience at my next Spirit Rejuvenation Retreat! Learn, play, practice, heal, love and be loved! 
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Registration opens this Friday August 2nd! Register by 08/08 and receive your special discount of $88.88!!
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Intuition is your superpower

7/11/2024

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My interview about intuition in leadership on the Marli Williams Podcast!
I was interviewed about intuition in leadership last week and it was a fantastic conversation! I highly recommend that you give it a listen - and please let me know your thoughts or inspirations. There’s also a really great offer for listeners for first time organizational or 1:1 coaching.

​Thanks for reading and listening and I look forward to connecting soon. Happy summer fun to you all!
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Anna Blossom
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Surrender

6/14/2024

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This morning I’m up quite early in the quiet of the house on the last day of school before we transition into summer. I’ve missed you all as I’ve been journeying through these weeks post car accident. The spaciousness I have usually had for writing (among other things) has needed to be allocated to attending multiple appointments each week and managing the still unbelievable amount of paperwork from the accident. I just counted up and it is about eight hours a week I’m spending on all this! I’m happy to say that I am feeling much better overall, thanks to time and many helpful treatments from great healers. 
I geared up to run my Spring Rejuvenation Retreat just one and a half weeks after my crash. The night before it started, I walked across the street on the verge of tears and asked my mom if she could help me think through what to bring. I was having a hard time using my brain for that task which surprised me and it was really helpful to just have someone else to help me think it all through and take action. And yes, my mom and dad live across the street from us, and next door to them are my brother, sister in law, niece and nephew. We’ve got the family compound here, which is pretty amazing.
It was an interesting journey for me to run and facilitate a weekend retreat when I wasn’t 100%. I learned something profound and beautiful from the experience. The energetic and physical “holding of space” I have done for years for such events wasn’t possible for me in my current state and I had to be present and engage as well as let go and surrender. What happened was an opening - an opportunity for the beautiful energy of the attendees to step in and co-create that space holding energy. The result was an amazing and beautiful experience of community in a new way that sparkled with authenticity and deep connection.
I am grateful for all the wonderful connections, revelations, spirit connection and fun we shared together. If you want to experience this in your life, reserve your early spot for our Fall Retreat here! 
A couple days after I arrived home it was time to build the flow for the facilitation experience I was putting together for adidas teams the following week. I could sense that something on my walk with a friend early that day would initiate the flow of energy that I would engage with to create a relevant and intuitively led experience for them. As we were walking, I was drawn to pick up a piece of bark at the base of a massive redwood tree. The moment I touched it, I was amazed by how incredibly light and soft it was and immediately knew this was the theme for the approach: a light soft touch; unwavering strength in the gentle approach. 
And that’s my message for all of us right now. Surrender into a light touch. Let it be soft and gentle knowing that the massive size of our trunks the and strength of our roots will more than hold us steady and will allow space for all the magic of life to blossom.
I’ll write more as I am able. In the meantime, I appreciate your patience as I navigate through all the amazing work I get to do, my focus on parenting and my healing process. Thank you, all of you who have sent kind and supportive messages and healing my way. 
I do have one more message to share with you. I am absolutely LOVING the coaching work I am doing right now. The energy is incredibly potent at this time and amazing things are happening for people. If you’ve been considering engaging in coaching with me and your heart is asking you to say YES, invite me to join you on your journey. It is magical and powerful! I’m offering in-person coaching now too. Learn more here. 
Lots of love,
Anna Blossom
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My car crash a week ago

5/22/2024

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My son and I were in a three car pile-up on highway 26 a week ago. We were slowing due to an accident that had just occurred about 7 cars ahead of us, though we didn’t know it at the time. There was plenty of space in front of us and I wasn’t alarmed by the slow-down but as I was slowing I saw out of the corner of my eye some motion in my rearview mirror. I looked up just in time to see and hear a car skid, swerve into the oncoming lane and smash into the car behind me (that was also trying desperately to slow down). That car hit us. Nico’s beloved bike was on our attached trunk bike rack which absorbed a lot of the impact so our car wasn’t as damaged as the others. All other cars in both accidents were clearly totaled. 

When people hear that I’ve been in an accident, they ask right away if I’m okay. It is a natural caring question. But interestingly, I’ve been feeling an odd pressure to say that I am okay. I have found that I often do - which is true. But it is also true that I am not okay. I’ve also noticed that it seems like the physical symptoms are what I gravitate to talking about first, almost like culturally there is more space for and understanding of the physical pain as evidence of the trauma that one can see or directly speak to. Although the physical symptoms have been present, what has been far more significant and disruptive to my wellbeing so far has been the emotional intensity and mental fatigue of the shock and trauma.

​A couple visiting from the east coast had stopped to help the first accident then turned to see ours happen. The woman came running up to us just afterward, helped us out of the car and put her arms around both me and Nico and held us telling us we were safe. We were shaking badly and Nico was crying and her calming presence and immediate physical loving touch was amazing medicine. She sat with us (particularly Nico) while I ran around connecting with the other parties, EMT, Fire and State Troopers. I am so incredibly grateful to her and I vow to pay that favor forward if ever I am in a similar situation.

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An off duty fire fighter who happened to be just behind the crash (in the black tank top) checking in with Nico while the very helpful witness sat with him.
My husband Chris was on his way to meet us and bring Nico back to Portland, and I would return to the beach for the treasured solo time I had planned and had desperately needed. It was a relief to see him and after about two hours we were able to connect with the State Trooper for the accident report and go our separate ways.
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As the trooper was explaining the report and next steps, Nico showed interest and began asking him about his role. Even though the officer had serious issues to deal with and several people to attend to, he bent down and really connected with him, answering his questions and making him feel comfortable and important. He said that he could see that one of the most important things we needed to do was to get him a silver badge sticker and went to fetch some from his vehicle. When he returned with three, he also showed Nico his old TROOPER patch. Since he was a new supervisor, he didn’t need it anymore and wondered if Nico would like to have it.
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He offered it to him with a sparkle in his eye. Nico was over the moon and I could see that he felt really honored. It was so healing to see the heartfelt kindness and sense of safety this public servant provided to an eight-year-old kid who just went through something difficult.

Relieved to be leaving, I got back in my car and drove about an hour back on that same highway. It was hard to do. I was tense and on the edge of my seat, not wanting any distraction whatsoever. I was still in shock and the whole first night was challenging to navigate. I reached out to friends who gave me some great advice and energy work which helped a lot. My friend Danielle Savory, an expert in the fields of neuropsychology, mindfulness, sexual pleasure and intimacy shared with me that if you’ve just been through a trauma, it can help a lot to shake your whole body thoroughly, often and as any emotions come up. She said that this is what animals do when they’ve been through a trauma and it helps to discharge the energy and complete the stress cycle. I got the boys on the phone and we wiggled and shook together for a bit while they were in the middle of tickle cuddle time and it was good medicine for us all.

It seemed like I was recovering and feeling a bit more balanced by the second day. But the moment the naturopath/acupuncturist touched my wrist to take my pulses I burst into tears. Wave after wave of tears released the trauma from my body during her expert acupuncture, massage, craniosacral and reiki treatment. That was more emotional release than in any past treatment I’ve ever had. 

Though I’d had visions of taking myself out for a nice dinner or walking to get coffee during my solo time, I needed to be on my own to heal and recover during those first couple days. After her treatment, I decided to take myself out for lunch in town. While waiting in line at Wild in Manzanita, a fire fighter came in. A few seconds after being in his presence, gentle but persistent tears started to roll down my cheeks. He went in the other room and I followed him and thanked him for the work he does. I explained that I knew it wasn’t his team, but the firefighters that supported us were wonderful and so helpful. I could not stop crying and got in my car and sobbed as I drove back to the house.

I had been planning to rest, write and work on my next exciting adidas facilitation project but I was just too raw and in shock to focus. I played my singing bowls often, took long walks on the beach and bike rides through the nearby state park. Toward the end of that day, I decided that I needed to go home early. I wanted to be with my family and to drive on the roads early in the morning, when they were likely to be more empty. I treasure my rare solo time when I can take care of my own needs and desires without hesitation. Never in my eight and a half years as a mother have I left early from such a trip. But this was so very different. 

Though I have been able to show up with brightness for a few things this past week, I have generally been tender and have had little capacity for much. At one point I tried to push myself to attend Nico’s last baseball game of the season even though I felt like I needed to rest. I ended up unable to cope and was tearful as I left, only a few minutes after arriving. I’ve needed to sleep more and spend most of the energy I do have on being present in the client work I’ve been able to do, parenting and the shocking amount of hours required to organize logistics, scheduling and attend treatments from the crash. For example, the paperwork, chiropractic treatment, scheduling and picking up the rental car took about 3.5 hours yesterday. 
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I hope that finding the words to share about my experience will help validate the realities of what trauma can look like for all of us. I imagine many of you can relate. What I’m learning from this is to give myself the space to be real about what’s happening for me and resist the temptation to “be fine” when I’m not yet fine. I’m also getting all the healing treatments my body and energy system are asking for and I highly recommend this to you too - always.
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One big theme through this chapter is how much I have felt held by the people on scene, the healing practitioners I have worked with so far, and my community in general. Thank you too for the space you are holding for me by witnessing this experince through reading these words. 

Remember to take the time to heal, no matter what you are healing from or how long ago it happened. It is easy to get busy and fill time with others’ needs and your bigger goals. But now is a great time to slow down with a few intentional breaths, ask yourself what you need and then see how you might prioritize making it happen.

Lots of love,
Anna
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Does connecting through mediumship harm my loved one in spirit?

4/28/2024

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and some full moon reflections from this last week
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.
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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

Ps. Almost last call for my Spirit Rejuvenation Retreat! Feel your stress melt away, priorities shift for the better and lean into your intuition. May 24-26. Sign up here!

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