July 12, 2023 • 30 mins
Amanda shares her personal journey developing her gifts of mediumship this week- including the first time she connected with a spirit she knew, receiving a beautiful message from her grandmother!
Although Amanda knew she had a connection to the spirit world from a very young age, it took some of the most painful moments of her life for Amanda's gift of mediumship to become clear.
Amanda’s struggle with alcoholism, addiction, & depression lead her on a journey through a dark night of the soul where she learned she could also be a channel for darkness if her immune system wasn’t intact and she wasn’t physically and mentally well.
However, God lifted her up, giving her strength and the message that she was meant to live and love which allowed her to heal her body & mind and become sober.
Amanda started receiving joyful messages from spirit and realized that she is a channel - which could be for darkness, tragedy, and fear, but also for brightness and light!
She learned that we are sovereign and we have the ability to set boundaries with what we’re able to communicate with. Mediumship doesn't have to be a scary thing if you set the intention that you are only looking to connect with God’s love and energy.
We each have the ability to protect and keep our energy safe whether you’re wanting to connect with your loved ones who have passed, or looking to harness positive energy in your daily life.
Amanda shares tips on how to find a medium, how to make it a successful experience, and how long to wait after a death to make that connection.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi, everyone, It's Amanda Rieger Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Thank you for joining me. I hope that you have
been enjoying our conversations. The tools, resources, information insights we
have offered, I've offered through guests, through my own insights
and experiences. We are just laying the groundwork and the foundation.
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And that's why I've really led with intuition. Because we
all have the gift of intuition. We all have the
ability to continue in that development. And I hope you
recognize by beginning to incorporate tools and resources and practices
that are accessible and resonate with you, you're starting to see
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a deeper meaning within yourself. You're starting to find deeper alignment,
deeper truth. Yes, this takes dedication, It takes deliberate practice, intention, repetition.
More than anything, it never stops. We never stop growing
and evolving. That's how I look at intuition. One of
the things I am excited to talk to you about
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today and lead into is something many of you are
interested in. It can be a little bit controversial, so
I want to debunk some of the controversy and the
fear around this topic. It's mediumship of course, many of
you know, I am a medium first and foremost, I'm
a clear cognizant and precognitive, meaning I receive downloads of
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information and insights from the past and I see into
multiple future probable outcomes, different trajectories, different probabilities, lines of
time that can play out, and they usually they being
the soul, the collective, the energy that comes through when
I connect personally with someone with a business or an organization,
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I can see the consciousness and the energy and it
shows up, so multifast is that I call it they,
So that's they. But when I communicate that that is
my primary gift. That's what I've had since I was
a little girl, and of course it has developed and
become a foundational ability for me, a sensory ability that
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I use in my work and my avocation. But I
also have the gift of mediumship, the ability to connect
with loved ones, people on the other side who have died,
who have crossed over, and sometimes mediumship extends to spirit guides, angels,
other beings or entities on the other side. And I'm
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using the word entity. I don't want to frighten you
with that word, but there are light beings there are
rays of light, beings of energy. We have such a
confluence of intelligence, energy, love, frequency of support, and guidance
on the other side that it's almost unfathomable from a
human standpoint. And usually when I can with someone, not
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only am I able to connect with their soul, their
higher self, the part of you, the part of that
person that is connected to God, to the Divine and
whatever path you find to God, whether it's through your
Christianity and through Jesus, whether it is Judaism or Buddhism,
whatever way you find God's source spirit. We all have souls,
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and our souls re seeded from the Divine. It's connected
to our higher consciousness. But we also have all of
this intangible support resources, tools. And I say tools because
if we can use our guides, our loved ones, as
a tool to even deepen our intuition, our knowing, our trust,
our meeting with ourself, that is rich. So mediumship connecting
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with your loved ones on the other side. My first
experience with this, with connecting with the loved one who
I knew was my grandmother, my father's mother. I think
I was in or fourth grade, and she was sick.
She had Alzheimer's. We lived a couple of hours away
from her in Louisiana, and she had Alzheimer's. She was
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in an assisted living a nursing home actually at the time,
and I didn't know that she was imminent, that her
death was imminent, that she was actively dying. My parents
hadn't discussed that with me. I knew that she was
sick and deteriorating, and certainly had deteriorated mentally. If you've
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dealt with Alzheimer's and dementia, I know everyone out there
can be very familiar with that, and it's a hard
and a debilitating disease, not only for the person but
for the loved ones. So that had been happening for
a while. Her disease had been progressing, but I didn't know,
you know, at third or fourth grade, my parents hadn't
shared she was active. I'm not sure that they knew
she was active. But anyway, I was feeding some neighbors cats.
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They were out of town and I was feeding their cats.
So I was over in their house feeding the cats.
And we lived on this river shout out the Chafuncta River.
We lived in a neighborhood called boshin This is on
the north shore of New Orleans, so if you know,
you know, I was feeding their cats and they had
this my neighbors had this gorgeous bay window. And I
remember finishing up and I was about to walk down
the stairs and I looked out the bay window onto
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the river, and all of a sudden, I saw kind
of like a mirage. I mean, remember I'm in third
or fourth grade, but almost the image of my grandmother's
face in the river. I mean I was just kind
of staring and I saw her, I felt her, and
she just communicated with me. And it wasn't scary or frightening.
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It was loving and all encompassing and divine. I wouldn't
have been able to articulate that to you then, but
it but looking back and remembering how I felt, it
was transcendent. It was mystical. But she communicated to me.
She says, I'm no longer here, I'm not here in
my body, but I am well, I am safe. And
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also what I remember most poignantly about that, apart from
her her mirage, a period in the river. I mean, hello,
that was you know, that's pretty jarring. But also what
I remember was she was articulate. She was of sharp mind,
and she was communicating clearly and directly, so I knew
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it was her. I knew it was the spirit of
the woman. I knew the grandmother. I called her Grande Ed.
Her name was Edna Edna Lewis, Edna Lewis Reager, but
Grandi Ed and it was Grandi Ed. But it was
her essence, it was her energy, it was her voice,
and it wasn't audible. I didn't hear it audibly. It
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just I heard it in my soul. So I you know,
I'm kind of stunned by this experience. And then I'm
also denying it a little bit because I didn't understand
and I didn't really think much. And then I remember
getting out, going outside, locking their house, getting on my
bicycle and thinking, well, this is really weird. I don't
think I'm gonna tell my parents. Maybe I made this up.
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And that's where most of us go in mediumship, so
important everyone is Maybe I made this up. Either nobody's
gonna believe me. Maybe I made this up. Maybe my
imagination just ran wild. And I'm a child. I'm third
or fourth grade here, so of course my imagination was abundant.
At that time. Anyway, I get home and when I
walked in the door, my parents said, hey, can you
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come sit down on the sofa. We need to tell
you something. And I had no clue what they were
about to say, but they said sit down on the sofa.
So of course I thought I was getting in trouble.
I thought I haven't done anything today. And they sat
me down and they said, we need to tell you something.
It's about your grandead. And I said, oh, she's she died.
She's no longer with us. And both of my parents
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just looked at me and they said, well, yes, like
she's she's gone. She's gone to heaven, she's gone to
be with her Lord. She's peaceful, she is no longer
with us. And they they looked at each other and
I don't remember if they said how did you know that?
Or I don't remember the exact dialogue, but they were
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both stunned. And I said, I know she told me that.
She told me she was gone, and they both smiled.
Neither one of them shut it down, but they didn't
ask me any more questions. And that's what I remember most.
And that's one place where, especially with children, you know,
and as a parent and learning how to communicate with
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your children if you're open to it, to their intuition,
to what they see, what they feel. I wish, and
this was not my story at this time, but I
wish my parents would have said tell us more. But
they were also grief stricken and trying to communicate this
with me, so but they didn't ask any questions. And
then I think I put it aside. You know, I
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filed it back away in my mind as this happened,
I knew, and then I just pushed it down. I
had multiple spirits that had come to me before that.
I remember, specifically in my room at a younger age,
maybe two years prior, feeling some beings in my room.
I remember putting my stuffed animals around myself in the bed.
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I wasn't afraid of them, but I was afraid. And today,
if you know me, and my mind and my heart
is pretty dark and open, because I have had a
multitude of outstanding and awesome experiences with myself and with
other people around beings and experiencing beings coming through and
communicating messages. But I do believe that those beings that
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came through were very multi dimensional and very advanced from
an advanced civilization. So I will go ahead and share
that with you. More to come at another point. And
it was validated through working with a child years later
in my work, and she was being visited by the
same beings and I was able to describe them, and
she reflected those back to me in turn, and it
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was validating for me. You know. Twenty five years later,
she and I had both experienced the same beings, and
I knew better what they wanted and what it was for,
and I was able to help her. I was able
to help her mother setting some energetic boundaries. I hope
you recognize here too that I'm setting the stage for
everybody out there to know that we are sovereign. We
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have the ability, through our beliefs, through our energy, to
set boundaries around what we are available to communicate with.
And if it comes from our light, if it comes
from love, if it comes from the heart, and if
we believe that we are worthy of that sovereignty, that safety,
that security, then we're setting a boundary, a clear boundary
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with energy that we are available for the light, for
energy to flow through to communicate, and not all of
us need to or have to do this stuff. This
is if you're interested, if you're wanting to connect with
a loved one, or you're wanting to open your heart
to connect with greater intent elligence, whatever may be out there.
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We all have this gift and ability. And even if
you're reaching out and wanting to connect to a medium,
and I can give you some tips around doing that,
how to set intentions and really ensure that the space
and the energy and the messages delivered really are safe
and of the highest light. You want those ethics and
that integrity. But this is about knowing our beliefs are imperative,
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that your energy, your intention, and your belief really can
withstand so many circumstances or scenarios that are sometimes hard
to explain. So let me go into this a little
bit further later down the road. Like I said, I
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would have visits from other beings. I wouldn't share these
with other people. I wouldn't know how to communicate them
for a very long time. I do remember when my
father passed away. I was eighteen years old. He passed
away very tragically in our home from a cardiac event,
and it was painful. It was really painful to watch.
And I do remember while the EMTs were there, and
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my mom and my dad, and I was standing one
foot on their carpet and their master bedroom and one
foot in the hallway. And I remember this so so
profoundly because it was like I was standing but in
this doorway, you know. And I think of it as
like standing between the worlds because I was in trauma
and shock and fear, and you can just imagine all
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the things rushing through me and witnessing this, and it
was It wasn't an easy death for my father. It
was quite painful, and it was very painful to watch.
But I remember almost disassociating or floating out of my body.
And I heard my father say and he wasn't able
to communicate. He hadn't been able. He was basically and
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sys graphic. But this is what happened. He was drowning
in his own fluid his body. His heart was not
able to pump fluid off of his lungs, and so
his body was swelling. He could not verbally communicate his
facial expressions, which were going blank. He had no oxygen
pumping into his body, so he couldn't verbally communicate. But
I remember literally standing in that doorway and my consciousness
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floating above my body, disassociating from my physical body and
my being, and there's all this chaos, so to speak,
in the room with the EMTs, the doctor that we had,
a doctor that lived next door to us, that was there,
with my dad, my mom. I mean, it was just
a it was insanity. But I heard my father say,
you know, I'm out of my body. And I heard
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him say, do not let them intubate me. I do
not want to be intibated, meaning he did not want
life support. He knew what that entailed. He did not
want life support. And one of the EMTs walked by
me and I just said, don't intubate him. I'm eighteen
years old. This is nineteen ninety nine. Maybe I had
seen a few episodes of R at the time, you know,
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that's what was popular then, so I might have known
some of those words. My mom was a nurse, my
dad was a pharmacist. I came from a very medical family,
so those things were familiar. But I said to the EMT,
I said, do not intubate him. He doesn't want to
be intubated. And the EMT looked at me and he says,
how do you know what intubation is. And my mom
immediately says, she knows what this is, and she's right,
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he doesn't want to be intubated. And she was a
nervous wreck at the time, but it was almost like
she needed me to say that so she could articulate
that to them. Because he did end up they officially
coded him at the hospital, but I'm pretty sure that
he died in our home. But if they would have
intubated him, we would have had to remove life support.
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It was already traumatic enough. He was not going to
come back to and be healthy and well, so a
multitude of decisions, traumatic decisions would have ensued after the fact,
and he didn't want that. But I heard him say that.
I just heard it. I heard him say that to me.
So that was a turning point, you know, and I
remember it now. My mom and I got to discuss
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that at later points, and she remembers she said to me,
she said, yeah, I remember the e T looked at
me and he said, how does she know what intubation is?
And and she said, and it snapped me into reality
of making sure that they didn't intubate him, you know,
there in the room or in the ambulance or when
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we got to the hospital, and so you know, things
like that can come through where I didn't look at
that as mediumship. I just looked at it as being
present and knowing and listening and saying and speaking. And
then again we would flash forward years before I really
got a dose of my abilities as a medium as
a channel to be able to channel information from the
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other side, and it's a little bit darker, and I
want to share this with you because it's important and
it's also how I can explain to you why I
know we have the ability, through our beliefs and through
our sovereignty to really really take care of our energy,
to protect and keep our energy safe as far as
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what we're available for in this arena, also in life,
in life in general, you know, around twenty eight, twenty nine,
thirty thirty one, thirty two, that timeframe that's really and
if many of you know, I've shared my story in
different places, and I'm not sure I've gone into it
too much in the podcast, and I'll go into it
a little bit here, But at that phase of my life,
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I started to struggle with alcoholism and then addiction, and
those were things that had been a propensity of mine
for a while. I'm a need for speed kind of person.
I'm all or nothing. When I'm in, I'm in. When
i'm out, I'm out. And with alcoholism, I started to
drink too much and a lot of it. What for
me was sometimes drinking not to feel, sometimes drinking to
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feel to be angry because I would suppress and repress emotions.
I've told you all, I'm a lead. I can be
a people pleaser. So saying yes and acquiescing is something
where I have a lot of opportunity to learn, to
really learn my boundaries and my truth and my voice.
But my alcoholism got very dark and I would suit
up and show up for work every day. I had
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a job that I loved and I was very dedicated
to it in healthcare. It was also very stressful. I
often worked six or seven days a week, and I
was contributing and productive. I didn't have the greatest personal
relationship and home life. I also was just losing myself.
I wasn't happy, I couldn't find myself, my meaning, my purpose.
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I really had a lot of struggles going on, and
I was also battling depression. I didn't know it at
the time, and sometimes it's kind of horse and cart
dialogue in the sense that you know, was it the
alcoholism that caused the depression, the depression that caused the alcoholism?
There was, it was just both. It was what it was,
and so I had a depression and alcoholism. And one
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of the things that I know today my being in
recovery really stepping into my sobriety and understanding the absolute
importance for sobriety for me, because I do have the
disease of alcoholism and it is something that I treat
each and every day, and I'm pretty open about and
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it's not easy, and sometimes it is it's but it
sure is rewarding and for me it is of the light.
But when I was in my lowest, in my darkest,
my immune systems were down. Mentally, my immune system was tanked.
I just I was not mentally clear, healthy or well. Emotionally.
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I was drained, exhausted, I was erratic, I was up
high to low, up and down all over the place.
And some of that was just my own lack of
well being, and then also the substances that I was
putting in my body that were keeping me out of whack,
and that leads to my physical immune system. I was
physically not well. I'd developed some stomach ulcers, I had
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issues left and right. It was malnourished because of my
own disease and what I was doing to my body
through my alcoholism and addiction, and then also working lots
of hours and living two different lives and the insanity
of it. It was a really tough time and I
am so grateful to be alive. I live on borrowed
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time today because there are a number of instances and
scenarios in that story where I should not be here,
I should not be alive but for the grace of God.
And also I do believe my guides, my loved ones
on the other side, angels, anything that you relate to,
they were all there rooting for me. God was holding
me up when I couldn't hold myself at my lowest
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time and through so much that of that pain, and
I've shared this before, is where the breakthrough is, where
the treasure is. It's just for me. It was my willingness,
openness and really getting honest that I was sick and
I wasn't well. But in that dark time, back to
the mediumship piece, there were multiple instances where in the
middle of the night, I would wake up and I
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don't remember waking up, but my mom reflected this back
to me. Sometimes I would spend the night with her
or be with her, and she witnessed this. I would
wake up or I would be in a blackout state
induced by my own alcoholism and addiction, and I would rage,
I would be violent. But I also and this is
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what my mom explained to me, and I remember it now.
I just saw it through her eyes. I would go
into a really dark state. My eyes would shift and
almost she said, they were almost all black. And then
I would speak emphatically and articulately, articulately in some other tongue,
in some other language that she said was dark. It
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was scary, it was demonic, she said, Amanda, it was
as if you were possessed. And what would happen in
those instances. I would wake up the next morning or
come to and I would not have remembered what happened,
and my mom would be in shock or terror. Or
the guy that I was dating at the time, he
also was privy to this and subject to it multiple times.
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But I would say, what what is everybody so upset?
About what are you mad about? Yeah, I drank too
much last night, and I'm sure I misbehaved. I mean,
that's where you know, and that's the mind of an alcoholic,
so that's where that goes. But I also really had
no clue. And they would reflect back to me, well,
you weren't just out of it, you were not you.
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And they would reflect back to me, well, you weren't
just out of it, you were not you. Something was
coming through you, something heavy, something dark, something that wasn't you.
And this started happening repetitively to the point where in
my waking state, when I would get up, get dressed,
I go to work, I might not be feeling well.
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But I was also starting to really backslide into feeling
overwhelmed and overtaken by something darker, heavier, and more powerful
than me. And it was not God, it was not source,
it was not of the light. It was of utter darkness.
And I have a light, bright heart. I am loving,
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I am kind, I'm compassionate, But in my alcoholism and
addiction and through whatever else was running through me energetically, mentally, emotionally,
I was unkind, I was angry. I was a version
of myself. That was frightening and destructive and also extremely
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intentional and demanding. So whatever it was was much more
powerful than me, and it was not it was not light.
And fortunately through that I was able to have a
breakdown and know that I wanted to get well, you know,
and I think there was God and the sunlight of
the spirit shown through me one morning and said, you
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can't live like this anymore. You don't need to. There
are bigger things out there for you. You are meant to live,
You were meant to love, You were meant to share
and be, and people love you and people want you
to live. And it was like all of that flooded
through me, and you know, as scary as it was,
I surrendered and said, okay, I'm ready. I need help.
And that story and journey is beautiful. But what happened
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down the road is once I got sober and once
my vessel was clear and I started to come to
and my mental faculties were becoming more conscious, more coherent.
With better sleep, my body was healing. My body was sober,
it was getting the nutrients, the exercise, the rest, all
the things, the hydration it needed. My emotions I was
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doing immense process work therapy to work through past traumas,
my addiction, my alcoholism, with a lot of professional support
and recovery support. So using all these tools, all of
a sudden, my gifts, my intuition started waking up. And
that's when spirits started showing up. I mean, and I
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can name them off. I mean, I ended up in
a sober living home. I lived in a sober house
after I got out of alcohol and drug treatment, and
we had a ghost in our sober home. Two of
them actually a man and a wife, and that was
confirmed by the neighbor once I saw them, and they
were loving and they were happy that we were there
because the woman had actually died from alcoholism and she
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was so happy that all these sober women were there,
and the neighbor communicated that to us. I mean, the
list goes on, because all of these spirits would come
through with joyful messages, with light messages. And I remember
as this was flooding through and I was starting to
try to understand my gift, communicate my gifts, sharing this
with my mother, and she would see me when I
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would talk about these things, or I started doing these
videos years ago talking about it astrology and energy. And
she said, I was watching your video, Amanda, and she said,
do you remember how, you know, a couple of years
ago when you were so sick and everything was going on,
and I would tell you that your eyes were turning
black and it was like you were speaking some demonic
or some dark, you know, dark language, and it wasn't you.
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She said, watching you, she says, your eyes shone bright.
They were light. Light beams were coming through them. She says,
your eyes were illuminated. And when she said that, it
was like, Oh, I am a channel, just like any
of us out there. We are a channel for darkness
and tragedy and pain and fear, and we are meant
to experience some of those things in our human condition.
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But we are also bright, intelligent vessels, channels of light.
And when she reflected that back to me, I said, oh,
my goodness. She said, I'm healthy, I'm well. You know,
my sobriety, my health, my wellness, my well being, my
physical body, mental body, emotional body, energetic body. All of
that is a non negotiable because I know I can
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be a vessel of the darkness or of the light,
and I choose the light, and that is something I
live by each and every day and why I'm sharing
this with all of you just in talking about and
introducing mediumship, and we've got a great dialogue coming up
for you next week with Lindsey Marino. She is a medium,
and she and I dive into tools and resources and
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practical ways to access mediumship connecting with your loved ones
on the other side, because it is profound. It is
awakening and healing and validating and comforting, and also it
just creates this wholeness that is undeniable when we get
those messages, and whether it is through a medium, through
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someone who has a gift and stands in their light
and stands in their truth. And that's something I encourage
all of you to look for if you do want
a medium ship reading, if you do want to connect
with someone, just ensuring that it feels right, it feels good.
The messages you see from that person, whatever they put
out there, are the way that it aligns. It feels
light and bright and set your intentions. You know, it
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is my intention that this interaction is for healing, for growth,
for evolution, for clarity, meaning purpose and all in the
highest aim. That's where your power and Your sovereignty is
in your voice and your intention, and that's where mediumship,
to me has the potential not to be scary or
sacrilegious or uncomfortable, but the ability to heal, to connect
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us with our loved ones, to know that they are
with God, they are infinite, they see things brighter, they're
working on their lessons on the other side and working
to help us even if they have hurt us. There
are so many fruitful things that can come through, but
also it's imperative that we approach it from a healthy state.
And one thing I do want to share, and I
share this often with people that who will reach out
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is when you have someone pass away, when you have
someone die. I usually encourage people to wait a bit
before reaching out and getting a reading, getting a medium
ship reading, because the natural inclination is to reach out immediately.
I need messages. I need to know that they're okay
or I'm not feeling them anymore. And I certainly, you know,
losing my mother recently, I know how that feels. But
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we're very susceptible in that state of grief. There's acute
grief going on and bereavement, and we can be very
susceptible those immune systems that I talked about, you maybe
mentally or just not as charged up because you're hurting.
You're in pain emotionally, energetically, physically, So giving yourself a
little time and knowing they're always going to be there.
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The messages are going to be there when you need them.
It will be divinely aligned and you don't have to
rush it. It will come to you and the right
medium or the right sign or messages message from someone
at the grocery store out of the blue. They will
divinely help orchestrate that and it will be of the
light if your intention is and if you trust and
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have faith. So I've got a great blog, it's medium
Shit one oh one blog which will help just with
general tools and resources that will give you a little
bit more information on how to tap into connecting with
your loved ones on the other side. And we've got again,
like I said, this great dialogue coming up which I
think will dive in more. I've got a couple of
live readings that we will showcase, and I'd love to
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hear from you as far as questions and what questions
you have around mediumship, what fears you have debunking some
of that. So this gift, this ability to communicate and
connect with our loved ones, is from source energy, from
God's love, from God's energy, and not something to be
afraid of, but knowing how important it is to set
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our energetic boundaries, our intentions, and our beliefs around light,
light energy, because I do know that the dark is
out there and it exists, but so much of it,
so much of it falls back to our own integrity,
our biology of belief, and our ability to know that
we are empowered. We are empowered through our higher consciousness
and our huge unconsciousness, but we get to connect with
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what is beyond the other side, and our loved ones
are waiting to communicate with us and support us in
ways that are so infinitely beyond our thinking that it's
mind blowing. And it also is a big old shot
of raising your vibration. And I will tell you that
it shoots your vibration up in an extraordinary way. So
I hope you all have enjoyed this. Please send me
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your questions and your feedback. I look forward to connecting
with you soon and sharing these upcoming podcasts. Thank you
for joining me. I'm Amanda Rieger green talk soon
Hi, everyone, It's Amanda Rieger Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Thank you for joining me. I hope that you have
been enjoying our conversations. The tools, resources, information insights we
have offered, I've offered through guests, through my own insights
and experiences. We are just laying the groundwork and the foundation.
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And that's why I've really led with intuition. Because we
all have the gift of intuition. We all have the
ability to continue in that development. And I hope you
recognize by beginning to incorporate tools and resources and practices
that are accessible and resonate with you, you're starting to see
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a deeper meaning within yourself. You're starting to find deeper alignment,
deeper truth. Yes, this takes dedication, It takes deliberate practice, intention, repetition.
More than anything, it never stops. We never stop growing
and evolving. That's how I look at intuition. One of
the things I am excited to talk to you about
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today and lead into is something many of you are
interested in. It can be a little bit controversial, so
I want to debunk some of the controversy and the
fear around this topic. It's mediumship of course, many of
you know, I am a medium first and foremost, I'm
a clear cognizant and precognitive, meaning I receive downloads of
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information and insights from the past and I see into
multiple future probable outcomes, different trajectories, different probabilities, lines of
time that can play out, and they usually they being
the soul, the collective, the energy that comes through when
I connect personally with someone with a business or an organization,
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I can see the consciousness and the energy and it
shows up, so multifast is that I call it they,
So that's they. But when I communicate that that is
my primary gift. That's what I've had since I was
a little girl, and of course it has developed and
become a foundational ability for me, a sensory ability that
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I use in my work and my avocation. But I
also have the gift of mediumship, the ability to connect
with loved ones, people on the other side who have died,
who have crossed over, and sometimes mediumship extends to spirit guides, angels,
other beings or entities on the other side. And I'm
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using the word entity. I don't want to frighten you
with that word, but there are light beings there are
rays of light, beings of energy. We have such a
confluence of intelligence, energy, love, frequency of support, and guidance
on the other side that it's almost unfathomable from a
human standpoint. And usually when I can with someone, not
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only am I able to connect with their soul, their
higher self, the part of you, the part of that
person that is connected to God, to the Divine and
whatever path you find to God, whether it's through your
Christianity and through Jesus, whether it is Judaism or Buddhism,
whatever way you find God's source spirit. We all have souls,
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and our souls re seeded from the Divine. It's connected
to our higher consciousness. But we also have all of
this intangible support resources, tools. And I say tools because
if we can use our guides, our loved ones, as
a tool to even deepen our intuition, our knowing, our trust,
our meeting with ourself, that is rich. So mediumship connecting
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with your loved ones on the other side. My first
experience with this, with connecting with the loved one who
I knew was my grandmother, my father's mother. I think
I was in or fourth grade, and she was sick.
She had Alzheimer's. We lived a couple of hours away
from her in Louisiana, and she had Alzheimer's. She was
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in an assisted living a nursing home actually at the time,
and I didn't know that she was imminent, that her
death was imminent, that she was actively dying. My parents
hadn't discussed that with me. I knew that she was
sick and deteriorating, and certainly had deteriorated mentally. If you've
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dealt with Alzheimer's and dementia, I know everyone out there
can be very familiar with that, and it's a hard
and a debilitating disease, not only for the person but
for the loved ones. So that had been happening for
a while. Her disease had been progressing, but I didn't know,
you know, at third or fourth grade, my parents hadn't
shared she was active. I'm not sure that they knew
she was active. But anyway, I was feeding some neighbors cats.
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They were out of town and I was feeding their cats.
So I was over in their house feeding the cats.
And we lived on this river shout out the Chafuncta River.
We lived in a neighborhood called boshin This is on
the north shore of New Orleans, so if you know,
you know, I was feeding their cats and they had
this my neighbors had this gorgeous bay window. And I
remember finishing up and I was about to walk down
the stairs and I looked out the bay window onto
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the river, and all of a sudden, I saw kind
of like a mirage. I mean, remember I'm in third
or fourth grade, but almost the image of my grandmother's
face in the river. I mean I was just kind
of staring and I saw her, I felt her, and
she just communicated with me. And it wasn't scary or frightening.
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It was loving and all encompassing and divine. I wouldn't
have been able to articulate that to you then, but
it but looking back and remembering how I felt, it
was transcendent. It was mystical. But she communicated to me.
She says, I'm no longer here, I'm not here in
my body, but I am well, I am safe. And
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also what I remember most poignantly about that, apart from
her her mirage, a period in the river. I mean, hello,
that was you know, that's pretty jarring. But also what
I remember was she was articulate. She was of sharp mind,
and she was communicating clearly and directly, so I knew
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it was her. I knew it was the spirit of
the woman. I knew the grandmother. I called her Grande Ed.
Her name was Edna Edna Lewis, Edna Lewis Reager, but
Grandi Ed and it was Grandi Ed. But it was
her essence, it was her energy, it was her voice,
and it wasn't audible. I didn't hear it audibly. It
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just I heard it in my soul. So I you know,
I'm kind of stunned by this experience. And then I'm
also denying it a little bit because I didn't understand
and I didn't really think much. And then I remember
getting out, going outside, locking their house, getting on my
bicycle and thinking, well, this is really weird. I don't
think I'm gonna tell my parents. Maybe I made this up.
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And that's where most of us go in mediumship, so
important everyone is Maybe I made this up. Either nobody's
gonna believe me. Maybe I made this up. Maybe my
imagination just ran wild. And I'm a child. I'm third
or fourth grade here, so of course my imagination was abundant.
At that time. Anyway, I get home and when I
walked in the door, my parents said, hey, can you
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come sit down on the sofa. We need to tell
you something. And I had no clue what they were
about to say, but they said sit down on the sofa.
So of course I thought I was getting in trouble.
I thought I haven't done anything today. And they sat
me down and they said, we need to tell you something.
It's about your grandead. And I said, oh, she's she died.
She's no longer with us. And both of my parents
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just looked at me and they said, well, yes, like
she's she's gone. She's gone to heaven, she's gone to
be with her Lord. She's peaceful, she is no longer
with us. And they they looked at each other and
I don't remember if they said how did you know that?
Or I don't remember the exact dialogue, but they were
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both stunned. And I said, I know she told me that.
She told me she was gone, and they both smiled.
Neither one of them shut it down, but they didn't
ask me any more questions. And that's what I remember most.
And that's one place where, especially with children, you know,
and as a parent and learning how to communicate with
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your children if you're open to it, to their intuition,
to what they see, what they feel. I wish, and
this was not my story at this time, but I
wish my parents would have said tell us more. But
they were also grief stricken and trying to communicate this
with me, so but they didn't ask any questions. And
then I think I put it aside. You know, I
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filed it back away in my mind as this happened,
I knew, and then I just pushed it down. I
had multiple spirits that had come to me before that.
I remember, specifically in my room at a younger age,
maybe two years prior, feeling some beings in my room.
I remember putting my stuffed animals around myself in the bed.
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I wasn't afraid of them, but I was afraid. And today,
if you know me, and my mind and my heart
is pretty dark and open, because I have had a
multitude of outstanding and awesome experiences with myself and with
other people around beings and experiencing beings coming through and
communicating messages. But I do believe that those beings that
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came through were very multi dimensional and very advanced from
an advanced civilization. So I will go ahead and share
that with you. More to come at another point. And
it was validated through working with a child years later
in my work, and she was being visited by the
same beings and I was able to describe them, and
she reflected those back to me in turn, and it
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was validating for me. You know. Twenty five years later,
she and I had both experienced the same beings, and
I knew better what they wanted and what it was for,
and I was able to help her. I was able
to help her mother setting some energetic boundaries. I hope
you recognize here too that I'm setting the stage for
everybody out there to know that we are sovereign. We
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have the ability, through our beliefs, through our energy, to
set boundaries around what we are available to communicate with.
And if it comes from our light, if it comes
from love, if it comes from the heart, and if
we believe that we are worthy of that sovereignty, that safety,
that security, then we're setting a boundary, a clear boundary
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with energy that we are available for the light, for
energy to flow through to communicate, and not all of
us need to or have to do this stuff. This
is if you're interested, if you're wanting to connect with
a loved one, or you're wanting to open your heart
to connect with greater intent elligence, whatever may be out there.
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We all have this gift and ability. And even if
you're reaching out and wanting to connect to a medium,
and I can give you some tips around doing that,
how to set intentions and really ensure that the space
and the energy and the messages delivered really are safe
and of the highest light. You want those ethics and
that integrity. But this is about knowing our beliefs are imperative,
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that your energy, your intention, and your belief really can
withstand so many circumstances or scenarios that are sometimes hard
to explain. So let me go into this a little
bit further later down the road. Like I said, I
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would have visits from other beings. I wouldn't share these
with other people. I wouldn't know how to communicate them
for a very long time. I do remember when my
father passed away. I was eighteen years old. He passed
away very tragically in our home from a cardiac event,
and it was painful. It was really painful to watch.
And I do remember while the EMTs were there, and
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my mom and my dad, and I was standing one
foot on their carpet and their master bedroom and one
foot in the hallway. And I remember this so so
profoundly because it was like I was standing but in
this doorway, you know. And I think of it as
like standing between the worlds because I was in trauma
and shock and fear, and you can just imagine all
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the things rushing through me and witnessing this, and it
was It wasn't an easy death for my father. It
was quite painful, and it was very painful to watch.
But I remember almost disassociating or floating out of my body.
And I heard my father say and he wasn't able
to communicate. He hadn't been able. He was basically and
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sys graphic. But this is what happened. He was drowning
in his own fluid his body. His heart was not
able to pump fluid off of his lungs, and so
his body was swelling. He could not verbally communicate his
facial expressions, which were going blank. He had no oxygen
pumping into his body, so he couldn't verbally communicate. But
I remember literally standing in that doorway and my consciousness
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floating above my body, disassociating from my physical body and
my being, and there's all this chaos, so to speak,
in the room with the EMTs, the doctor that we had,
a doctor that lived next door to us, that was there,
with my dad, my mom. I mean, it was just
a it was insanity. But I heard my father say,
you know, I'm out of my body. And I heard
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him say, do not let them intubate me. I do
not want to be intibated, meaning he did not want
life support. He knew what that entailed. He did not
want life support. And one of the EMTs walked by
me and I just said, don't intubate him. I'm eighteen
years old. This is nineteen ninety nine. Maybe I had
seen a few episodes of R at the time, you know,
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that's what was popular then, so I might have known
some of those words. My mom was a nurse, my
dad was a pharmacist. I came from a very medical family,
so those things were familiar. But I said to the EMT,
I said, do not intubate him. He doesn't want to
be intubated. And the EMT looked at me and he says,
how do you know what intubation is. And my mom
immediately says, she knows what this is, and she's right,
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he doesn't want to be intubated. And she was a
nervous wreck at the time, but it was almost like
she needed me to say that so she could articulate
that to them. Because he did end up they officially
coded him at the hospital, but I'm pretty sure that
he died in our home. But if they would have
intubated him, we would have had to remove life support.
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It was already traumatic enough. He was not going to
come back to and be healthy and well, so a
multitude of decisions, traumatic decisions would have ensued after the fact,
and he didn't want that. But I heard him say that.
I just heard it. I heard him say that to me.
So that was a turning point, you know, and I
remember it now. My mom and I got to discuss
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that at later points, and she remembers she said to me,
she said, yeah, I remember the e T looked at
me and he said, how does she know what intubation is?
And and she said, and it snapped me into reality
of making sure that they didn't intubate him, you know,
there in the room or in the ambulance or when
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we got to the hospital, and so you know, things
like that can come through where I didn't look at
that as mediumship. I just looked at it as being
present and knowing and listening and saying and speaking. And
then again we would flash forward years before I really
got a dose of my abilities as a medium as
a channel to be able to channel information from the
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other side, and it's a little bit darker, and I
want to share this with you because it's important and
it's also how I can explain to you why I
know we have the ability, through our beliefs and through
our sovereignty to really really take care of our energy,
to protect and keep our energy safe as far as
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what we're available for in this arena, also in life,
in life in general, you know, around twenty eight, twenty nine,
thirty thirty one, thirty two, that timeframe that's really and
if many of you know, I've shared my story in
different places, and I'm not sure I've gone into it
too much in the podcast, and I'll go into it
a little bit here, But at that phase of my life,
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I started to struggle with alcoholism and then addiction, and
those were things that had been a propensity of mine
for a while. I'm a need for speed kind of person.
I'm all or nothing. When I'm in, I'm in. When
i'm out, I'm out. And with alcoholism, I started to
drink too much and a lot of it. What for
me was sometimes drinking not to feel, sometimes drinking to
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feel to be angry because I would suppress and repress emotions.
I've told you all, I'm a lead. I can be
a people pleaser. So saying yes and acquiescing is something
where I have a lot of opportunity to learn, to
really learn my boundaries and my truth and my voice.
But my alcoholism got very dark and I would suit
up and show up for work every day. I had
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a job that I loved and I was very dedicated
to it in healthcare. It was also very stressful. I
often worked six or seven days a week, and I
was contributing and productive. I didn't have the greatest personal
relationship and home life. I also was just losing myself.
I wasn't happy, I couldn't find myself, my meaning, my purpose.
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I really had a lot of struggles going on, and
I was also battling depression. I didn't know it at
the time, and sometimes it's kind of horse and cart
dialogue in the sense that you know, was it the
alcoholism that caused the depression, the depression that caused the alcoholism?
There was, it was just both. It was what it was,
and so I had a depression and alcoholism. And one
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of the things that I know today my being in
recovery really stepping into my sobriety and understanding the absolute
importance for sobriety for me, because I do have the
disease of alcoholism and it is something that I treat
each and every day, and I'm pretty open about and
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it's not easy, and sometimes it is it's but it
sure is rewarding and for me it is of the light.
But when I was in my lowest, in my darkest,
my immune systems were down. Mentally, my immune system was tanked.
I just I was not mentally clear, healthy or well. Emotionally.
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I was drained, exhausted, I was erratic, I was up
high to low, up and down all over the place.
And some of that was just my own lack of
well being, and then also the substances that I was
putting in my body that were keeping me out of whack,
and that leads to my physical immune system. I was
physically not well. I'd developed some stomach ulcers, I had
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issues left and right. It was malnourished because of my
own disease and what I was doing to my body
through my alcoholism and addiction, and then also working lots
of hours and living two different lives and the insanity
of it. It was a really tough time and I
am so grateful to be alive. I live on borrowed
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time today because there are a number of instances and
scenarios in that story where I should not be here,
I should not be alive but for the grace of God.
And also I do believe my guides, my loved ones
on the other side, angels, anything that you relate to,
they were all there rooting for me. God was holding
me up when I couldn't hold myself at my lowest
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time and through so much that of that pain, and
I've shared this before, is where the breakthrough is, where
the treasure is. It's just for me. It was my willingness,
openness and really getting honest that I was sick and
I wasn't well. But in that dark time, back to
the mediumship piece, there were multiple instances where in the
middle of the night, I would wake up and I
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don't remember waking up, but my mom reflected this back
to me. Sometimes I would spend the night with her
or be with her, and she witnessed this. I would
wake up or I would be in a blackout state
induced by my own alcoholism and addiction, and I would rage,
I would be violent. But I also and this is
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what my mom explained to me, and I remember it now.
I just saw it through her eyes. I would go
into a really dark state. My eyes would shift and
almost she said, they were almost all black. And then
I would speak emphatically and articulately, articulately in some other tongue,
in some other language that she said was dark. It
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was scary, it was demonic, she said, Amanda, it was
as if you were possessed. And what would happen in
those instances. I would wake up the next morning or
come to and I would not have remembered what happened,
and my mom would be in shock or terror. Or
the guy that I was dating at the time, he
also was privy to this and subject to it multiple times.
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But I would say, what what is everybody so upset?
About what are you mad about? Yeah, I drank too
much last night, and I'm sure I misbehaved. I mean,
that's where you know, and that's the mind of an alcoholic,
so that's where that goes. But I also really had
no clue. And they would reflect back to me, well,
you weren't just out of it, you were not you.
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And they would reflect back to me, well, you weren't
just out of it, you were not you. Something was
coming through you, something heavy, something dark, something that wasn't you.
And this started happening repetitively to the point where in
my waking state, when I would get up, get dressed,
I go to work, I might not be feeling well.
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But I was also starting to really backslide into feeling
overwhelmed and overtaken by something darker, heavier, and more powerful
than me. And it was not God, it was not source,
it was not of the light. It was of utter darkness.
And I have a light, bright heart. I am loving,
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I am kind, I'm compassionate, But in my alcoholism and
addiction and through whatever else was running through me energetically, mentally, emotionally,
I was unkind, I was angry. I was a version
of myself. That was frightening and destructive and also extremely
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intentional and demanding. So whatever it was was much more
powerful than me, and it was not it was not light.
And fortunately through that I was able to have a
breakdown and know that I wanted to get well, you know,
and I think there was God and the sunlight of
the spirit shown through me one morning and said, you
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can't live like this anymore. You don't need to. There
are bigger things out there for you. You are meant to live,
You were meant to love, You were meant to share
and be, and people love you and people want you
to live. And it was like all of that flooded
through me, and you know, as scary as it was,
I surrendered and said, okay, I'm ready. I need help.
And that story and journey is beautiful. But what happened
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down the road is once I got sober and once
my vessel was clear and I started to come to
and my mental faculties were becoming more conscious, more coherent.
With better sleep, my body was healing. My body was sober,
it was getting the nutrients, the exercise, the rest, all
the things, the hydration it needed. My emotions I was
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doing immense process work therapy to work through past traumas,
my addiction, my alcoholism, with a lot of professional support
and recovery support. So using all these tools, all of
a sudden, my gifts, my intuition started waking up. And
that's when spirits started showing up. I mean, and I
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can name them off. I mean, I ended up in
a sober living home. I lived in a sober house
after I got out of alcohol and drug treatment, and
we had a ghost in our sober home. Two of
them actually a man and a wife, and that was
confirmed by the neighbor once I saw them, and they
were loving and they were happy that we were there
because the woman had actually died from alcoholism and she
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was so happy that all these sober women were there,
and the neighbor communicated that to us. I mean, the
list goes on, because all of these spirits would come
through with joyful messages, with light messages. And I remember
as this was flooding through and I was starting to
try to understand my gift, communicate my gifts, sharing this
with my mother, and she would see me when I
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would talk about these things, or I started doing these
videos years ago talking about it astrology and energy. And
she said, I was watching your video, Amanda, and she said,
do you remember how, you know, a couple of years
ago when you were so sick and everything was going on,
and I would tell you that your eyes were turning
black and it was like you were speaking some demonic
or some dark, you know, dark language, and it wasn't you.
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She said, watching you, she says, your eyes shone bright.
They were light. Light beams were coming through them. She says,
your eyes were illuminated. And when she said that, it
was like, Oh, I am a channel, just like any
of us out there. We are a channel for darkness
and tragedy and pain and fear, and we are meant
to experience some of those things in our human condition.
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But we are also bright, intelligent vessels, channels of light.
And when she reflected that back to me, I said, oh,
my goodness. She said, I'm healthy, I'm well. You know,
my sobriety, my health, my wellness, my well being, my
physical body, mental body, emotional body, energetic body. All of
that is a non negotiable because I know I can
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be a vessel of the darkness or of the light,
and I choose the light, and that is something I
live by each and every day and why I'm sharing
this with all of you just in talking about and
introducing mediumship, and we've got a great dialogue coming up
for you next week with Lindsey Marino. She is a medium,
and she and I dive into tools and resources and
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practical ways to access mediumship connecting with your loved ones
on the other side, because it is profound. It is
awakening and healing and validating and comforting, and also it
just creates this wholeness that is undeniable when we get
those messages, and whether it is through a medium, through
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someone who has a gift and stands in their light
and stands in their truth. And that's something I encourage
all of you to look for if you do want
a medium ship reading, if you do want to connect
with someone, just ensuring that it feels right, it feels good.
The messages you see from that person, whatever they put
out there, are the way that it aligns. It feels
light and bright and set your intentions. You know, it
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is my intention that this interaction is for healing, for growth,
for evolution, for clarity, meaning purpose and all in the
highest aim. That's where your power and Your sovereignty is
in your voice and your intention, and that's where mediumship,
to me has the potential not to be scary or
sacrilegious or uncomfortable, but the ability to heal, to connect
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us with our loved ones, to know that they are
with God, they are infinite, they see things brighter, they're
working on their lessons on the other side and working
to help us even if they have hurt us. There
are so many fruitful things that can come through, but
also it's imperative that we approach it from a healthy state.
And one thing I do want to share, and I
share this often with people that who will reach out
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is when you have someone pass away, when you have
someone die. I usually encourage people to wait a bit
before reaching out and getting a reading, getting a medium
ship reading, because the natural inclination is to reach out immediately.
I need messages. I need to know that they're okay
or I'm not feeling them anymore. And I certainly, you know,
losing my mother recently, I know how that feels. But
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we're very susceptible in that state of grief. There's acute
grief going on and bereavement, and we can be very
susceptible those immune systems that I talked about, you maybe
mentally or just not as charged up because you're hurting.
You're in pain emotionally, energetically, physically, So giving yourself a
little time and knowing they're always going to be there.
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The messages are going to be there when you need them.
It will be divinely aligned and you don't have to
rush it. It will come to you and the right
medium or the right sign or messages message from someone
at the grocery store out of the blue. They will
divinely help orchestrate that and it will be of the
light if your intention is and if you trust and
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have faith. So I've got a great blog, it's medium
Shit one oh one blog which will help just with
general tools and resources that will give you a little
bit more information on how to tap into connecting with
your loved ones on the other side. And we've got again,
like I said, this great dialogue coming up which I
think will dive in more. I've got a couple of
live readings that we will showcase, and I'd love to
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hear from you as far as questions and what questions
you have around mediumship, what fears you have debunking some
of that. So this gift, this ability to communicate and
connect with our loved ones, is from source energy, from
God's love, from God's energy, and not something to be
afraid of, but knowing how important it is to set
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our energetic boundaries, our intentions, and our beliefs around light,
light energy, because I do know that the dark is
out there and it exists, but so much of it,
so much of it falls back to our own integrity,
our biology of belief, and our ability to know that
we are empowered. We are empowered through our higher consciousness
and our huge unconsciousness, but we get to connect with
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what is beyond the other side, and our loved ones
are waiting to communicate with us and support us in
ways that are so infinitely beyond our thinking that it's
mind blowing. And it also is a big old shot
of raising your vibration. And I will tell you that
it shoots your vibration up in an extraordinary way. So
I hope you all have enjoyed this. Please send me
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your questions and your feedback. I look forward to connecting
with you soon and sharing these upcoming podcasts. Thank you
for joining me. I'm Amanda Rieger green talk soon
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