


She basically eavesdropped and heard me talking about it, and I remember walking downstairs in the kitchen, finding my mother crying her eyes out. She overheard me on a telephone call with one of my friends kind of talking about a reading I had done. I kept this from her for months and months and months because I knew she’d be worried because of her faith and all of that. It was over the summer, I was home from college.

How did your friends and family react? My mom, she comes from a very Catholic, conservative Hispanic background, and the way she found out was like the last way you would want your mother to find out you talk to dead people ( laughs). It wasn’t until the beginning of college that I kind of came out of the medium closet. But you’re in high school already trying to deal with everything else and trying to fit in and be normal, so I really did not share it or open up with everybody about it out of fear of people thinking I was crazy. So when I started to kind of repeat what I’d been hearing, feeling, sensing, seeing, et cetera, to people, they’d start crying and be like, “Nobody knew that about my mom,” or “No one knew that about my brother, how’d you know that?” I realized, though, after it happening more and more, that it was coming from a spirit. And I was like, “Oh, that’s weird, that’s coincidence, a lucky guess.” As it started happening more and more, it would be like I would get choked up or emotional with being around certain people. When did you start communicating with spirits? I was intuitive and empathic growing up, but it really wasn’t until high school that I was like, “Okay, I am feeling and hearing and sensing and seeing things that I’m really not sure where it’s coming from.” After time with friends and acquaintances where they would tell stories of their childhood or friends who had passed, they would would be talking about them and I would hear or see the entity of the story before they finished telling it.
