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Who Am I?

Well, that is a really good question.  I still to this day have trouble saying out loud, “I’m a medium.”  As I sit here, trying to put my thoughts and ideas and feelings into words I wonder if this is what it feels like to be at your first AA meeting.  Nervous and anxious, but yet, relieved to finally confess your deepest, most precious secret.  “Hi, my name is Ailish and I am a medium.”  Although I think in my case instead of a jovial “Hi, Ailish!” that you would stereotypically get at an AA meeting, my audience’s reaction would be more filled with smirks, eye rolling and probably a “Who is this loon?”  I know that’s how I would react if someone said that to me.  But I guess that’s why I kept this a secret for almost 40 years.  I don’t want to be judged any more than anyone else.  And to be honest, I’ve worked really hard during this life to appear normal.  If you saw me at the supermarket you would think “Total Soccer Mom.”  But only a select few knew what was really going on in my head.

I’ve had voices in my head for as long as I can remember.  I knew as a young girl that I was talking to angels.  I just knew that’s who they were.  I thought everyone had voices in their heads.  So they never scared me.  I didn’t know any different.  They were just always there.  It wasn’t until I was in my 20s - when I started to know stuff before they happened - that I started to freak out about it.  I knew that definitely wasn’t normal.  I began to slowly realize that not everyone had these people talking to them in their heads, and it would probably be best if I just kept quiet about it.  So I did.

But over time, I got married (it’s pretty hard to hide visits from dead people when you live with someone) and developed strong friendships with people who I could trust.  And my secret eventually leaked out.  So, oh, about 20 years later, here I am.  Now don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t like one day I woke up and said, “Today, I am going to talk to your dead Aunt Bertha!”  It took me years of studying and practice - not to mention the need to muster up the courage to say out loud “I am a medium”.  I slowly perfected my techniques, practiced on some great friends, and now I am able to bridge the lives here with the lives there pretty easily. And it’s pretty fricken magical!

Today is a HUGE step for me! I am announcing my website and writing my first blog!!! I am completely stepping out of the shadows of fear and insecurity that I have hid behind for so long.  Today is the day that I start my new chapter.  It might even be a new book, who knows.  But I am confident enough to take this new journey as the person I am meant to be.  I am a medium.  I speak to people who no longer exist here as we know it.  I can hear them, see them, and feel them.  And I am really good at, too. I’ve been very blessed to have developed a great group of clients over the years, but I knew I was supposed to do more.  So, with the help of an amazing friend, I created my website and blog to reach out to those who need my help with contacting their loved ones who have crossed over.  It’s called  www.thesimplemedium.com.  I called it “The Simple Medium” because that’s pretty much who I am.  I like to keep things simple, and I think my clients do too.  I am so very proud of it!!!

Thank you to all of you who have held my hand and supported me over the last few years!!!  I love you all!!!

Till next time ~