July 28, 2025 • 34 mins
Ever wonder if a loved one’s quirks, humor, or even their stubborn streak survive beyond death? In this eye-opening episode of Spirit Speakeasy, we explore what actually happens to our personality after we die.
As a professional psychic medium with thousands of spirit conversations under my belt, I’ve seen time and again how distinct, recognizable personalities show up from the spirit world—complete with jokes, sass, and sentimental streaks.
Whether you're healing after loss or just deeply curious about the continuity of consciousness, this episode will help you:
- Understand what does and doesn’t shift after we cross over
- Hear real stories and examples of spirit people communicating with their own sense of humor, quirks, or preferences
- Discover why personality in the spirit world matters for healing unresolved relationships
- Learn how the essence of who we are shines through in readings—even decades after passing
✨ This isn’t just a philosophical chat—it’s grounded in firsthand experience, surprising messages directly from loved ones in the spirit world and a few moments that might just make you laugh.
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Joy, hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit
speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni,joyful medium. I'm a working
psychic medium, energy healerand spiritual gifts mentor. This
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might even learn that you havesome gifts of your own so step
inside the spirit speakeasy.
Hey, beautiful soul, welcomeback, or welcome in to another
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episode of spirit speakeasy.
Have you ever wondered if wekeep our quirks, our sense of
humor, or even our stubbornstreak after we cross over to
the other side in today'sepisode, we're diving deep into
a question that often lingersquietly behind the bigger ones
about the afterlife, whatactually happens to our
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personality after we die? As aworking medium, I've had 1000s
of conversations with the spiritworld, and let me tell you,
personality doesn't just vanishin a puff of white light. In
fact, it's often one of theclearest, most validating parts
of a reading. Whether it's a dadcracking a sarcastic joke from
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the other side, or a grandmainsisting that I am very clear
about the way she wants to bedescribed, the essence of who
they are still shines through.
So today I'll be sharing somereal stories from sessions that
just show how distinct andsometimes how hilarious spirit
personalities can be. We'llexplore what seems to remain
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consistent, what softens orshifts, and why this matters so
much for our own healing,closure and even forgiveness. So
if you've ever wrestled with acomplicated relationship with
someone who's passed, or if youjust want deeper understanding
of who we really are beyond justthis physical body, this
episode's for you stillthemselves. Do we keep our
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personalities after death? Let'sdive in part one, I want to just
touch into this idea of, do wekeep our personality after
death? I want to explore alittle bit our identity beyond
just this physical body. Ifyou've been here for any length
of time, you've probably heardthe phrase, we are humans. We're
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a soul in a physical body,having a human experience. You
might have also heard it as weare not human beings having a
spiritual experience. We arespiritual beings having a human
experience. It all boils down tothat we are a soul in a physical
body. It's just more. It's morethan just a poetic idea. It's a
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powerful truth about who wereally are. At our core, we're a
soul, eternal, expansive andmulti layered, and only a
portion of that soul is what Ilike to think of as, quote,
unquote, live streamed, so tospeak, through our physical body
while we're in human form. Thatportion expresses itself as our
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personality, our sense of humor,our preferences, how we show up
in relationships, even ourhabits and our flaws, but the
larger part of our soul, whatmany refer to as the higher
self, or the soul self, remainsoutside the body, existing in
full awareness. Our soul selfholds far more wisdom and memory
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than our human mind can accesswhile we're in physical form.
That higher self, that soulself, contains every thought,
every word, everything we'veever spoken or done, every
emotion we felt. It holds theessence of how we've shown up in
every relationships, moment bymoment, not just in this
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lifetime, but in any lifetimeour soul has ever experienced.
It's like a mystical, limitlessdatabase that knows us
completely, even if we don'tconsciously remember all that we
are right now in any givenmoment. So when someone passes,
they don't disappear. Becomesome vague, formless, mystical
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puff of white light. They returnto that fuller version of their
true selves, the expanded soulself. They don't lose who they
are here, it's quite theopposite, their personality,
their quirks, their emotionalpatterns often can be
communicated even more clearlyin spirit than they did in life.
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Why is this? Because thosequalities aren't just being
filtered through pain, illness,our complicated human egos.
What's left is the trueenergetic fingerprint or. More
energetic stamp of the person,and it often shows up in these
vivid, unmistakable ways as amedium, I found that personality
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is one of the clearestvalidations in a reading like I
was saying, whether it's a dadthat wants to crack a joke about
his daughter having a lead footas a driver, or that grandma
insisting she's not a gossip.
She just likes to knowinformation. The Spirit world's
constantly reminding us, Hey,I'm still me. We're still us
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over there. And as a personwho's lost a loved one, I found
that the signs that they shareoften tie into their
personality, their sense ofhumor, or something that's
really unique to them. Forexample, after an old friend
passed, I started finding dimesin the most random and strange
places, under my car seat, inthe dryer at the gas station,
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and even once randomly inside anAmazon package. I definitely
didn't order a dime. He wassomeone who always had, like, a
little coin trick that he coulddo or a witty joke. He even
collected coins, not thevaluable kind, just the ones he
seemed to find on the ground,wherever he happened to be. So
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when I find dimes now, it's ait's it's not all the time, but
when they do pop up, it alwaysfeels like it's just his playful
way of saying, I'm still lookingout for you kid with that same
old wink in his voice, theiressence doesn't vanish. It
shines through. And even when,what's even more beautiful is
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that they're able to bring amuch broader understanding from
their perspective on the otherside, with access to their full
soul awareness, they often aspart of that life review, they
reflect on their life withinsight, with clarity, with
compassion, in a different waythan maybe they did when They
were here. So this expandedperspective allows for growth
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and even healing on the otherside. So while they're still
their same self, they've alsoreturned to the version of
themselves that holds all thewisdom of their entire journey,
not just this lifetime. It's oneof the most comforting truths
that I've come to through thiswork, and sometimes that
personality doesn't just show upin memories or moments during a
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session, it shows up in theirhumor. Which brings us to
something that often surprisespeople about the spirit world. I
often get asked, do loved oneson the other side have a sense
of humor? And the truth is,there is a lighter side to the
afterlife. Believe it or not,this might not surprise some
people listening, but the spiritworld has a lot of humor. Not
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only do our loved ones retaintheir personality, but many of
them in a reading can helpcommunicate through the same
wit, the same sarcasm or playfulcharm even that they had here,
sometimes even more clearly,because they're free of all that
stress or pain or heaviness orcomplicated emotions that they
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may have carried in life, one ofthe most common ways spirits
lets us know that they're okayis through laughter. And let me
tell you some of the things thatthey bring up during sessions
are downright hilarious. I'vehad a mom cracking jokes about
her own funeral arrangements andhow the funeral home that they
used had styled her hair in away that she considered like
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totally unacceptable. Did looklike her, was really funky, and
her daughters couldn't stoplaughing in the reading as the
mom was helping me express howgrateful she was as they were
scramblingbehind the scenes at this
funeral home with this, like,little drugstore hairspray and a
little comb to try to, like, fixher hair, to make her
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presentable, because They hadmade some version of, like a
helmet head, is what she wassharing, which that was really
funny and and even though it wasso poignant to hear from their
mom, the way she was expressingthis just made them cracking up
with laughter, because they werelike, Oh my gosh, we knew she
would hate her hair like that.
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And it was a whole thing. I hada husband come through or
communicate in a reading thatthey had loved to travel
together, and he was sharingthat his wife had an upcoming
trip as part of the validations.
He was sharing, you know, thatthey trips that they had taken
and adventures they had had, andthat they still had things that
they were looking forward to ontheir list that they he hadn't
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got to participate in due to hisuntimely passing, but he was
explaining that his wife was myclient, had a trip coming up,
and he even was teasing herabout not taking too much
luggage, and she just bust outin laughter. Yeah, and she was
sharing like, oh my gosh, Ican't believe he's still teasing
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me about my packing from theother side. But it was so
specifically him, because theway she was saying it, it's
like, every one of these tripsthat they went on, she would way
over pack. He would give her ahard time about it, and then
when they were on the trip, it'dbe too much luggage, and he
would give her a hard time aboutit. So this was like a running
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joke between them that Icouldn't have possibly known,
but meant so much to her,because he did have that
teasing, light heartedpersonality with her,
particularly around travel. Ieven had a charismatic, very
charming younger brother who washelping me deliver a sarcastic
kind of like a one liner to hissister, who was my client, about
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how very handsome he is, whichbrought her to laughter. And she
was saying, Oh yeah, that'sdefinitely him, because as part
of the reading, and he wastalking about memories they had.
And he was also helping meexpress some of the photos that
she still had of him that shestill really liked. And then he
just kind of chimed in, wantingher to know that he's he's still
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as handsome as he ever was, andhe's still the most handsome one
in the family. It was like thosetypes of jokes. And she was
like, Oh my gosh, that'sdefinitely him. That's so him.
So it really could be in so manyways that these little droplets
of humor infused really remindus of exactly their personality
and who they are. There was onedad that communicated in a
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session, and as part of thereading, he was reminiscing
about how active he was in hisdaughter's life. His daughter
was my client, and he wasparticularly reminiscing about
when he was teaching her how todrive, because they were just so
close. They did so many thingstogether, and he really tried
hard to teach her as much as hecould, and this driving thing
was like a really big story intheir family and in their
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relationship. And then he wasteasing about her driving and
helping me understand that fromhis perspective on the other
side, he just wanted toacknowledge that she still has
that lead foot and that shestill drives like she's trying
out for NASCAR and she was shehad been tearing up because of
the poignancy of him sharingwhat a wonderful dad he was, and
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how involved he was and and howhe was really taking so much of
his time, even after long daysof work to teach her to drive.
And then she went from beingtearful to like, cracking up
laughing because she's like, Ohmy gosh, he always teased me
about driving too fast andstopping too hard, and it was a
moment that that shared humorreally just cracked her open
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emotionally, and it let her feelhis presence in a very real and
familiar way, and helped hervalidate and know that even
though, yes, she did feel likehe was with her in the car a
lot, because they'd spent soMuch time driving together over
the years, just in general, buthim making that joke about her
still driving too fast andhaving a lead foot really
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validated for her that, yeah, heis still spending time with her
in the car. He is still therewith her. He does know that
she's still driving this way,and it just somehow cracked
everything even more wide open,which is really beautiful.
Another time, a lady who wasknown in the world as a
wonderful, warm hostess, but shethis other part of her
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personality, she was veryparticular and specific with her
taste and as part of hercommunication and expressing
that this was her personality,she was essentially joking that
at her funeral, it was like toostuffy, like it wasn't like
loose enough people were havingenough fun and not enough
snacks. Was, was the commentthat she had me make and then
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shared. But she really loved allof the photos that they chose.
They did this, like, reallyspecial picture montage, and so
she said, and they had pictureslike created specially and
placed all around, and it wasthe pictures themselves kind of
told a story, so it was like asignificant thing for them. So
she said, like, not enoughsnacks, but I really loved all
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the photos and the stories andwhat that was as part of the
memorial, and she helped meshare, and then they also played
her song, and that meanteverything. And her kids, who
were my clients, started lookingaround, kind of cutting eyes at
each other around the room, andkind of cracking up laughing,
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and confirmed that, yep, theirmom was always about the snacks,
the hostess with the mostest andhaving, like the perfect snacks,
the perfect amount of snacks.
And yes, they made sure toinclude her favorite song, which
happened to be somewhere overthe rainbow, in the service. And
that kind of really. Specifichumor can cut through our human
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doubt like nothing else, andit's not just about making us
laugh. Humor is deeply healing.
When a loved one on the otherside brings through their jokes
or helps the medium tocommunicate their timing, their
Sass, their sense of humor, itreminds us that they're still
with us, and they're actuallyokay. They're still themselves,
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they're still participating,just in a different way, and
that humor becomes almost a partof the medicine that we so
desperately need when we'regrieving a loved one. It helps
people to release and rememberand reconnect in a real way. And
sometimes it's not just what thespirit person helps me say in a
session, but it's the signs thatthey send after they've passed
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that carry their personality andsense of humor. Loud and clear,
one of my favorites was a signfrom a grandma who had or a
grandpa, sorry, a grandfatherwho had a very dry and sarcastic
sense of humor and he hatedcountry music, was part of the
story that he was expressing inthis reading, and after he
passed, his granddaughter keptgetting in these ride shares and
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taxis and hearing the same liketwangy kind of country Songs
that her grandpa used to haveall these sarcastic comments and
totally make fun of. And thekicker was, one of the drivers
turned around to her and said,like, this one must be playing
just for you. I don't evenlisten to this station. And she
just started laughing in the wayshe told me the story, because
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she said she knew it was him,like, there's no way he was
still teasing her from the otherside and still eye rolling at
this country music. And so itwas at just that tiny moment was
so meaningful to her. Oneclient, I had had a dad that
always joked that he wanted todecorate the yard with pink
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plastic flamingos. I don't knowwhat those are, but they're
those, like lawn ornaments, likea fake Flamingo. And he would
always joke with the family,with his wife, with his kids,
and he wanted to put them allover the yard, like, just to
piss off the neighbors. Andmostly the mom would, like,
never let him do it, just likewe're not doing that, like
you're not starting this feudwith the neighbors. And after he
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passed away, his daughter, wentfor a walk one morning, and as
she turned the corner in thisneighborhood, she after she
turned the corner, she went tofind a house in this
neighborhood that never haddecorations before. She was just
like walking around theneighborhood. She, you know,
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turns the corner most peopledidn't decorate their lawns. And
as she turned this corner, shesees a full display of pink
flamingos. But it's the, it'slike the Christmas light style.
So it's these hanging lights allover the outside of the house
that are these pink flamingohanging lights. And she she had
sent me an email about it, andshe said it was like, he finally
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got his way, she said. And shewas like, Really, said she was
laughing and crying, and shesaid it felt exactly like
something he would have done.
And it's those it's thosethings, those magical moments of
their humor and theirpersonality really validating,
like I'm still with you, I stillsee you, I'm still myself. I
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still have jokes over here.
Another client told me that herlate grandpa had a serious soft
spot for animals. He was such ananimal lover, but not in a
gentle way. He was the kind ofguy that,
like, pretended to be gruffbecause he was, like, just a
tough personality, but had thishuge soft spot for animals. So
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he would like, you know, put onthis, like, serious face, and
was very like, he doesn't wantall these birds leaving a bird
mess out on his back patio. Andhe was just a little bit of a
grump about it, but secretly, hewas putting out these little
peanuts for the squirrels andthose birds that he was
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complaining about. The birddroppings. He was out there
talking to them in the yard, buttalking to them like they were
annoying neighbors. So it's likethey'd they'd chirp, and he'd
grump back at them, and they'dchirp more, and he'd grump back
at them, and it's like he wastalking to these annoying
neighbors, but it was just thebirds out there, but he had such
a soft spot that he was the oneputting the peanuts and the bird
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food out there, despitecomplaining about it all the
time. And after his passing, shekept having run ins with this
one very bold blue jay. Italways kept landing right
outside her window, and likesquawking at her, like it had
something to say. And the wayshe explained it to me is one
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time it even, there was even ablue jay that, like, tapped on
her windshield in a parking lot,and she was was laughing, and
she was like, it was so. Him. Hewas this bird was loud and pushy
and, like, weirdly charming,like, just like my grandpa. And
it made her laugh every time shesaw one of these birds, because
she felt like it was, it wasalmost like it was him, in his
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own way, still showing up topester her and most of the
family in like, a really lovingway. So it just felt so
quintessentially him. Anotherwoman shared that after her best
friend passed away, she startedseeing her friend's name
everywhere, not justoccasionally, but like pretty
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constantly, daily, many times aday, she was seeing her friend's
name. There was a street signshe never noticed before. There
was a waitress with the name,same name on her name tag. There
was a character in a random showthat she decided to binge watch
her she'd never seen before thathad that name. But the funniest
moment, she said, was when sheopened her inbox one morning to
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find a promotional email, like amarketing email that said, Dear
so and so her friend's name,dear friend, you're invited. And
it was her friend's name cominginto her email box, and she said
she like startled and laughed atthe same time, because she said
the way, she said, it was sofunny. She said, I felt like she
was like, RSVPing to my life. Sojust these little funny droplets
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of ways that they can still showtheir personality and that they
could still let us know that,like, I'm still me, because I
know that that's a really bigfear and concern for some
people. When we lose someonethat we really care about, it's
so common that people arewondering, like, Yeah, but
eventually, when I see themagain, when I cross over and
when we're reunited one day waydown the line, is it still going
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to be them? Are they still goingto be themselves? Is my mom
still gonna, you know, laugh theway she did and and joke the way
she did, and am I still going toknow her? And I love these ways
that they communicate this,because it's so validating that,
like, no, they're stillthemselves. So yes, those in the
spirit world absolutely have asense of humor, and when it
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comes through in readings,whether it's a one on one or a
group reading, it often becomesthe bridge that brings so much
comfort, validation and evenmore joy in the middle of grief,
even just in moments. But notevery connection with the spirit
world is light hearted or easy.
So what happens when the personon the other side wasn't kind or
funny? What if the relationshipwas complicated or even painful
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for you? That's what I want totalk about next. What if they
weren't a great person? Thereare complicated people that we
have loved that are on the otherside. Of course, this is one of
those topics that doesn't gettalked about enough in spiritual
circles, because it's not shinyor feel good, but it's real and
it really matters, especially ifyou are someone who has had any
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difficult relationship in yourlife ever. Here's something
important to understand abouthow mediumships work. Readings
are really based on a need, theneed of the soul. It's not about
who can shout the loudest to themedium from the other side. It's
not about the underlyingfrustration or difficult
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memories. It's about theunderlying emotional need, the
healing, the peace, the closure,release, clarity, love, things
like that. These are often thetypes of needs that help build
the energy for the spirit personto communicate, especially in
complicated or painfulrelationships. Spirit
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communication at its heart issoul work. It's not always easy,
but it's always meaningful.
Sometimes the person whocommunicates or quote, unquote,
comes through wasn't kind, theyweren't emotionally available,
or in some cases, they weredownright harmful in our lives.
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So the question becomes, whathappens then? Can those spirit
people still come through? Andif they do, what do we do we do
with that? The short answer isyes, complicated. Spirit. People
do sometimes communicate in thereading not always and
definitely not on command. But Ihave absolutely had sessions
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where a parent, a sibling, apartner, for example,
communicates from the other sidewho had a difficult or painful
relationship with the personsitting in front of me as a
medium, my job isn't to makeexcuses for the loved ones on
the other side. It's not todress up their behavior in
spiritual language. It's to behonest and create a safe space
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for the communication and letwhat needs to be shared. Be
shared. Sometimes that includesa spirit person acknowledging
their harmful actions. I've hadspirit people communicate things
like, I didn't know how to loveyou, or I was cruel because I
was in pain, or even just I'msorry, and different versions of
apologies, not every message is.
About glowing, happy memories.
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Sometimes it's aboutaccountability, accepting
responsibility, and finally,sometimes it's about offering
emotions they never could inlife, or even just acknowledging
that truth. For somerelationships, the heaviest,
most lingering question thanactual need is, do they know how
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much they hurt me? That's somepeople's really heartfelt, deep
question. I remember one womanwho had been estranged from her
father for many, many years, andin the session, he made me aware
of him and communicated and theenergy or the emotion was quiet,
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almost humble. Emotion was sodifferent from the harshness
that she remembered of him whenhe was here, but he did express
that. That's who he was when hewas here, harsh, difficult,
challenged, angry, and he didn'tdefend his actions. He simply
acknowledged them. He brought upenough specific details to show
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her that he did truly understandthe impact that he had on her.
He acknowledged that she feltabandoned. He shared the emotion
of I see now what I couldn't seethen, and he offered what felt
like a deeply sincere, heartfeltapology. Of course, it didn't
fix everything, but it crackedthe door open just a little for
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her to begin her own healing ina new way. I also thought of
another client that had beenemotionally and verbally abused
by her older brother, and in herreading, she wasn't expecting
him to communicate at all, andhonestly, she wasn't even sure
she wanted to hear from him aswe started working with him, but
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when he showed up, the emotionthe presence of him was calm,
not forceful. He didn't try tojustify anything. He simply
communicated that he was angry,that he was depressed, that he
took it out on her, and that hedeeply understood and was able
to see and accept all of it nowfrom his perspective, and really
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wished that he hadn't treatedher like that and hadn't put her
through those things, thatsimple moment, just
acknowledgement without excuses,was the most powerful part of
that session for her. It was avery short segment of her
session, just just a few, just ahandful of minutes with him, but
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she told me later she didn'teven know she needed that, but
she deeply did, and it reallyhelped her let go of some things
and move forward in a new way.
And then there are times whenjust the person's presence from
the spirit world is the message,a way of saying, I see you. I'm
here if you want to engage, butI honor your space if you don't,
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because even on the other side,souls are still evolving. Growth
doesn't stop after we pass, justlike in life, not every soul is
ready to take fullaccountability, and not every
person that comes in for areading is ready in that moment
to hear about it. And there arestill some learning being done.
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On the other side, some lovedones that we've had really
challenging relationships, ifit's not time for that
communication to happen, willlet themselves be known in a
reading, but will stay quiet,and sometimes that too is part
of the healing process and partof the message. As mediums, we
have a responsibility to betrauma informed and heart aware
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in how we deliver these messagesto our clients. Not everything
needs to be said. There aredefinitely things that I become
aware of in a reading that Idon't say specifically.
Sometimes the greatest gift isour discernment as a medium of
what we need to express onbehalf of that spirit person, so
that our recipient knows forsure that it's them and that
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they know what happened, but notso much so that we re traumatize
them. That's the power ofdiscernment. It's a gentle
truth, or even just saying thisperson is here, but we don't
have to go there, unless you'reready. Actually had this happen
with a man whose session wasfocused mostly on his mom and
sister, who were on the otherside. His dad was present from
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the spirit world. So I wasworking mostly with mom and
sister in spirit, and then I wasaware of dad, and it felt like
he was standing just behind themin my awareness, his
dad had been a difficult man,and the relationship had been
strained and painful in life,and I was aware of that Father's
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presence, but also of the deephurt that he'd caused for my
client. I let the client knowthat his. Dad was standing
respectfully at a distance, notpushing in, just holding space
and offering a message, if youwill, of I'm here, and when
you're ready, I'll be ready too.
At that time, that client didn'twant to engage with his dad. He
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didn't want to hear from him inthe reading. And that was
perfectly fine. His mom andsister continued communicating
with loving, beautifulvalidations. And a couple of
years later, I had the honor ofreading for this gentleman
again, this time, he was moreready, and his father was there
from the spirit world and readyto share. And although it was a
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brief part of that session, heshared some really hard but much
needed truths. He expressedregret and offered quiet but
clear apology, because not allmessages are about rainbows and
reunions, some are aboutliberation and honoring the
truth of our experiences, eventhe hard truths of the hard
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experiences. And I think we allknow by now that healing cannot
be rushed, and I don't believethe spirit world wants to
pressure us, but they arepatient. They're willing to
wait. They're willing to meet uswherever we are with a new
perspective, a deeperunderstanding, and from a place
of truth and love and a soullevel compassion. So whether our
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loved ones were warm andhilarious, reserved and very
particular or complicated andeven hurtful, their soul still
carries the essence of who theywere and the expanded wisdom of
who they're continuing tobecome, and when they reach out
from the other side tocommunicate, it's not random.
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It's rooted in support, inhealing, in love. Personality
doesn't get erased when we crossover to the other side. It
becomes part of the way ourloved ones can still remain, can
still remind us, can stillvalidate for us that they're
with us, they're stillthemselves, they're still
growing. I hope today's sessiongave you maybe a deeper sense of
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just how much life continuesbeyond this physical body full
of quirks and truth and laughterand yes, even reconciliation and
if someone you've lost is onyour mind lately, trust that
they may be closer than yourealize, just a heartbeat away,
not just spending time with youfrom the spirit world, but
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living on with you in yourheart, in your memories, in the
signs you receive through yourlaughter and your healing. And
what I've come to discover isthat, yes, they do know that
really hard thing. They probablyhave come to accept it, and they
are working on everything theycan from the other side to
understand why they expressed incertain ways and not others,
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what they could have donedifferently, what we actually
needed versus how they showedup, and so much more. So
hopefully, as you continue toreceive these signs, you'll
continue to allow yourself toopen up a little bit more, to
receive not only laughter, buthealing and depth of
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understanding yourself. Thanksfor listening, beautiful soul.
I'm so grateful to have you herewith me, as always and as
always, please know that yourloved ones on the other side are
never more than a heartbeataway. They're still them, and
they still love you. Big hugs.
Lots of love. I will see yousoon for another episode of
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spirit speakeasy. You.
Joy, hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit
speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni,joyful medium. I'm a working
psychic medium, energy healerand spiritual gifts mentor. This
podcast is like a seat at thetable in a secret club, but with
mediums, mystics and thespiritual luminaries of our
time. So come behind the velvetropes with me and see inside my
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world as I chat insider stylewith profoundly gifted souls, we
go deep, share juicy stories,laugh a lot, and it wouldn't be
a speakeasy without greatinsider secrets and tips. You
might even learn that you havesome gifts of your own so step
inside the spirit speakeasy.
Hey, beautiful soul, welcomeback, or welcome in to another
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episode of spirit speakeasy.
Have you ever wondered if wekeep our quirks, our sense of
humor, or even our stubbornstreak after we cross over to
the other side in today'sepisode, we're diving deep into
a question that often lingersquietly behind the bigger ones
about the afterlife, whatactually happens to our
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personality after we die? As aworking medium, I've had 1000s
of conversations with the spiritworld, and let me tell you,
personality doesn't just vanishin a puff of white light. In
fact, it's often one of theclearest, most validating parts
of a reading. Whether it's a dadcracking a sarcastic joke from
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the other side, or a grandmainsisting that I am very clear
about the way she wants to bedescribed, the essence of who
they are still shines through.
So today I'll be sharing somereal stories from sessions that
just show how distinct andsometimes how hilarious spirit
personalities can be. We'llexplore what seems to remain
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consistent, what softens orshifts, and why this matters so
much for our own healing,closure and even forgiveness. So
if you've ever wrestled with acomplicated relationship with
someone who's passed, or if youjust want deeper understanding
of who we really are beyond justthis physical body, this
episode's for you stillthemselves. Do we keep our
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personalities after death? Let'sdive in part one, I want to just
touch into this idea of, do wekeep our personality after
death? I want to explore alittle bit our identity beyond
just this physical body. Ifyou've been here for any length
of time, you've probably heardthe phrase, we are humans. We're
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a soul in a physical body,having a human experience. You
might have also heard it as weare not human beings having a
spiritual experience. We arespiritual beings having a human
experience. It all boils down tothat we are a soul in a physical
body. It's just more. It's morethan just a poetic idea. It's a
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powerful truth about who wereally are. At our core, we're a
soul, eternal, expansive andmulti layered, and only a
portion of that soul is what Ilike to think of as, quote,
unquote, live streamed, so tospeak, through our physical body
while we're in human form. Thatportion expresses itself as our
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personality, our sense of humor,our preferences, how we show up
in relationships, even ourhabits and our flaws, but the
larger part of our soul, whatmany refer to as the higher
self, or the soul self, remainsoutside the body, existing in
full awareness. Our soul selfholds far more wisdom and memory
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than our human mind can accesswhile we're in physical form.
That higher self, that soulself, contains every thought,
every word, everything we'veever spoken or done, every
emotion we felt. It holds theessence of how we've shown up in
every relationships, moment bymoment, not just in this
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lifetime, but in any lifetimeour soul has ever experienced.
It's like a mystical, limitlessdatabase that knows us
completely, even if we don'tconsciously remember all that we
are right now in any givenmoment. So when someone passes,
they don't disappear. Becomesome vague, formless, mystical
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puff of white light. They returnto that fuller version of their
true selves, the expanded soulself. They don't lose who they
are here, it's quite theopposite, their personality,
their quirks, their emotionalpatterns often can be
communicated even more clearlyin spirit than they did in life.
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Why is this? Because thosequalities aren't just being
filtered through pain, illness,our complicated human egos.
What's left is the trueenergetic fingerprint or. More
energetic stamp of the person,and it often shows up in these
vivid, unmistakable ways as amedium, I found that personality
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is one of the clearestvalidations in a reading like I
was saying, whether it's a dadthat wants to crack a joke about
his daughter having a lead footas a driver, or that grandma
insisting she's not a gossip.
She just likes to knowinformation. The Spirit world's
constantly reminding us, Hey,I'm still me. We're still us
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over there. And as a personwho's lost a loved one, I found
that the signs that they shareoften tie into their
personality, their sense ofhumor, or something that's
really unique to them. Forexample, after an old friend
passed, I started finding dimesin the most random and strange
places, under my car seat, inthe dryer at the gas station,
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and even once randomly inside anAmazon package. I definitely
didn't order a dime. He wassomeone who always had, like, a
little coin trick that he coulddo or a witty joke. He even
collected coins, not thevaluable kind, just the ones he
seemed to find on the ground,wherever he happened to be. So
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when I find dimes now, it's ait's it's not all the time, but
when they do pop up, it alwaysfeels like it's just his playful
way of saying, I'm still lookingout for you kid with that same
old wink in his voice, theiressence doesn't vanish. It
shines through. And even when,what's even more beautiful is
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that they're able to bring amuch broader understanding from
their perspective on the otherside, with access to their full
soul awareness, they often aspart of that life review, they
reflect on their life withinsight, with clarity, with
compassion, in a different waythan maybe they did when They
were here. So this expandedperspective allows for growth
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and even healing on the otherside. So while they're still
their same self, they've alsoreturned to the version of
themselves that holds all thewisdom of their entire journey,
not just this lifetime. It's oneof the most comforting truths
that I've come to through thiswork, and sometimes that
personality doesn't just show upin memories or moments during a
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session, it shows up in theirhumor. Which brings us to
something that often surprisespeople about the spirit world. I
often get asked, do loved oneson the other side have a sense
of humor? And the truth is,there is a lighter side to the
afterlife. Believe it or not,this might not surprise some
people listening, but the spiritworld has a lot of humor. Not
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only do our loved ones retaintheir personality, but many of
them in a reading can helpcommunicate through the same
wit, the same sarcasm or playfulcharm even that they had here,
sometimes even more clearly,because they're free of all that
stress or pain or heaviness orcomplicated emotions that they
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may have carried in life, one ofthe most common ways spirits
lets us know that they're okayis through laughter. And let me
tell you some of the things thatthey bring up during sessions
are downright hilarious. I'vehad a mom cracking jokes about
her own funeral arrangements andhow the funeral home that they
used had styled her hair in away that she considered like
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totally unacceptable. Did looklike her, was really funky, and
her daughters couldn't stoplaughing in the reading as the
mom was helping me express howgrateful she was as they were
scramblingbehind the scenes at this
funeral home with this, like,little drugstore hairspray and a
little comb to try to, like, fixher hair, to make her
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presentable, because They hadmade some version of, like a
helmet head, is what she wassharing, which that was really
funny and and even though it wasso poignant to hear from their
mom, the way she was expressingthis just made them cracking up
with laughter, because they werelike, Oh my gosh, we knew she
would hate her hair like that.
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And it was a whole thing. I hada husband come through or
communicate in a reading thatthey had loved to travel
together, and he was sharingthat his wife had an upcoming
trip as part of the validations.
He was sharing, you know, thatthey trips that they had taken
and adventures they had had, andthat they still had things that
they were looking forward to ontheir list that they he hadn't
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got to participate in due to hisuntimely passing, but he was
explaining that his wife was myclient, had a trip coming up,
and he even was teasing herabout not taking too much
luggage, and she just bust outin laughter. Yeah, and she was
sharing like, oh my gosh, Ican't believe he's still teasing
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me about my packing from theother side. But it was so
specifically him, because theway she was saying it, it's
like, every one of these tripsthat they went on, she would way
over pack. He would give her ahard time about it, and then
when they were on the trip, it'dbe too much luggage, and he
would give her a hard time aboutit. So this was like a running
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joke between them that Icouldn't have possibly known,
but meant so much to her,because he did have that
teasing, light heartedpersonality with her,
particularly around travel. Ieven had a charismatic, very
charming younger brother who washelping me deliver a sarcastic
kind of like a one liner to hissister, who was my client, about
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how very handsome he is, whichbrought her to laughter. And she
was saying, Oh yeah, that'sdefinitely him, because as part
of the reading, and he wastalking about memories they had.
And he was also helping meexpress some of the photos that
she still had of him that shestill really liked. And then he
just kind of chimed in, wantingher to know that he's he's still
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as handsome as he ever was, andhe's still the most handsome one
in the family. It was like thosetypes of jokes. And she was
like, Oh my gosh, that'sdefinitely him. That's so him.
So it really could be in so manyways that these little droplets
of humor infused really remindus of exactly their personality
and who they are. There was onedad that communicated in a
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session, and as part of thereading, he was reminiscing
about how active he was in hisdaughter's life. His daughter
was my client, and he wasparticularly reminiscing about
when he was teaching her how todrive, because they were just so
close. They did so many thingstogether, and he really tried
hard to teach her as much as hecould, and this driving thing
was like a really big story intheir family and in their
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relationship. And then he wasteasing about her driving and
helping me understand that fromhis perspective on the other
side, he just wanted toacknowledge that she still has
that lead foot and that shestill drives like she's trying
out for NASCAR and she was shehad been tearing up because of
the poignancy of him sharingwhat a wonderful dad he was, and
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how involved he was and and howhe was really taking so much of
his time, even after long daysof work to teach her to drive.
And then she went from beingtearful to like, cracking up
laughing because she's like, Ohmy gosh, he always teased me
about driving too fast andstopping too hard, and it was a
moment that that shared humorreally just cracked her open
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emotionally, and it let her feelhis presence in a very real and
familiar way, and helped hervalidate and know that even
though, yes, she did feel likehe was with her in the car a
lot, because they'd spent soMuch time driving together over
the years, just in general, buthim making that joke about her
still driving too fast andhaving a lead foot really
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validated for her that, yeah, heis still spending time with her
in the car. He is still therewith her. He does know that
she's still driving this way,and it just somehow cracked
everything even more wide open,which is really beautiful.
Another time, a lady who wasknown in the world as a
wonderful, warm hostess, but shethis other part of her
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personality, she was veryparticular and specific with her
taste and as part of hercommunication and expressing
that this was her personality,she was essentially joking that
at her funeral, it was like toostuffy, like it wasn't like
loose enough people were havingenough fun and not enough
snacks. Was, was the commentthat she had me make and then
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shared. But she really loved allof the photos that they chose.
They did this, like, reallyspecial picture montage, and so
she said, and they had pictureslike created specially and
placed all around, and it wasthe pictures themselves kind of
told a story, so it was like asignificant thing for them. So
she said, like, not enoughsnacks, but I really loved all
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the photos and the stories andwhat that was as part of the
memorial, and she helped meshare, and then they also played
her song, and that meanteverything. And her kids, who
were my clients, started lookingaround, kind of cutting eyes at
each other around the room, andkind of cracking up laughing,
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and confirmed that, yep, theirmom was always about the snacks,
the hostess with the mostest andhaving, like the perfect snacks,
the perfect amount of snacks.
And yes, they made sure toinclude her favorite song, which
happened to be somewhere overthe rainbow, in the service. And
that kind of really. Specifichumor can cut through our human
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doubt like nothing else, andit's not just about making us
laugh. Humor is deeply healing.
When a loved one on the otherside brings through their jokes
or helps the medium tocommunicate their timing, their
Sass, their sense of humor, itreminds us that they're still
with us, and they're actuallyokay. They're still themselves,
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they're still participating,just in a different way, and
that humor becomes almost a partof the medicine that we so
desperately need when we'regrieving a loved one. It helps
people to release and rememberand reconnect in a real way. And
sometimes it's not just what thespirit person helps me say in a
session, but it's the signs thatthey send after they've passed
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that carry their personality andsense of humor. Loud and clear,
one of my favorites was a signfrom a grandma who had or a
grandpa, sorry, a grandfatherwho had a very dry and sarcastic
sense of humor and he hatedcountry music, was part of the
story that he was expressing inthis reading, and after he
passed, his granddaughter keptgetting in these ride shares and
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taxis and hearing the same liketwangy kind of country Songs
that her grandpa used to haveall these sarcastic comments and
totally make fun of. And thekicker was, one of the drivers
turned around to her and said,like, this one must be playing
just for you. I don't evenlisten to this station. And she
just started laughing in the wayshe told me the story, because
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she said she knew it was him,like, there's no way he was
still teasing her from the otherside and still eye rolling at
this country music. And so itwas at just that tiny moment was
so meaningful to her. Oneclient, I had had a dad that
always joked that he wanted todecorate the yard with pink
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plastic flamingos. I don't knowwhat those are, but they're
those, like lawn ornaments, likea fake Flamingo. And he would
always joke with the family,with his wife, with his kids,
and he wanted to put them allover the yard, like, just to
piss off the neighbors. Andmostly the mom would, like,
never let him do it, just likewe're not doing that, like
you're not starting this feudwith the neighbors. And after he
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passed away, his daughter, wentfor a walk one morning, and as
she turned the corner in thisneighborhood, she after she
turned the corner, she went tofind a house in this
neighborhood that never haddecorations before. She was just
like walking around theneighborhood. She, you know,
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turns the corner most peopledidn't decorate their lawns. And
as she turned this corner, shesees a full display of pink
flamingos. But it's the, it'slike the Christmas light style.
So it's these hanging lights allover the outside of the house
that are these pink flamingohanging lights. And she she had
sent me an email about it, andshe said it was like, he finally
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got his way, she said. And shewas like, Really, said she was
laughing and crying, and shesaid it felt exactly like
something he would have done.
And it's those it's thosethings, those magical moments of
their humor and theirpersonality really validating,
like I'm still with you, I stillsee you, I'm still myself. I
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still have jokes over here.
Another client told me that herlate grandpa had a serious soft
spot for animals. He was such ananimal lover, but not in a
gentle way. He was the kind ofguy that,
like, pretended to be gruffbecause he was, like, just a
tough personality, but had thishuge soft spot for animals. So
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he would like, you know, put onthis, like, serious face, and
was very like, he doesn't wantall these birds leaving a bird
mess out on his back patio. Andhe was just a little bit of a
grump about it, but secretly, hewas putting out these little
peanuts for the squirrels andthose birds that he was
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complaining about. The birddroppings. He was out there
talking to them in the yard, buttalking to them like they were
annoying neighbors. So it's likethey'd they'd chirp, and he'd
grump back at them, and they'dchirp more, and he'd grump back
at them, and it's like he wastalking to these annoying
neighbors, but it was just thebirds out there, but he had such
a soft spot that he was the oneputting the peanuts and the bird
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food out there, despitecomplaining about it all the
time. And after his passing, shekept having run ins with this
one very bold blue jay. Italways kept landing right
outside her window, and likesquawking at her, like it had
something to say. And the wayshe explained it to me is one
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time it even, there was even ablue jay that, like, tapped on
her windshield in a parking lot,and she was was laughing, and
she was like, it was so. Him. Hewas this bird was loud and pushy
and, like, weirdly charming,like, just like my grandpa. And
it made her laugh every time shesaw one of these birds, because
she felt like it was, it wasalmost like it was him, in his
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own way, still showing up topester her and most of the
family in like, a really lovingway. So it just felt so
quintessentially him. Anotherwoman shared that after her best
friend passed away, she startedseeing her friend's name
everywhere, not justoccasionally, but like pretty
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constantly, daily, many times aday, she was seeing her friend's
name. There was a street signshe never noticed before. There
was a waitress with the name,same name on her name tag. There
was a character in a random showthat she decided to binge watch
her she'd never seen before thathad that name. But the funniest
moment, she said, was when sheopened her inbox one morning to
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find a promotional email, like amarketing email that said, Dear
so and so her friend's name,dear friend, you're invited. And
it was her friend's name cominginto her email box, and she said
she like startled and laughed atthe same time, because she said
the way, she said, it was sofunny. She said, I felt like she
was like, RSVPing to my life. Sojust these little funny droplets
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of ways that they can still showtheir personality and that they
could still let us know that,like, I'm still me, because I
know that that's a really bigfear and concern for some
people. When we lose someonethat we really care about, it's
so common that people arewondering, like, Yeah, but
eventually, when I see themagain, when I cross over and
when we're reunited one day waydown the line, is it still going
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to be them? Are they still goingto be themselves? Is my mom
still gonna, you know, laugh theway she did and and joke the way
she did, and am I still going toknow her? And I love these ways
that they communicate this,because it's so validating that,
like, no, they're stillthemselves. So yes, those in the
spirit world absolutely have asense of humor, and when it
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comes through in readings,whether it's a one on one or a
group reading, it often becomesthe bridge that brings so much
comfort, validation and evenmore joy in the middle of grief,
even just in moments. But notevery connection with the spirit
world is light hearted or easy.
So what happens when the personon the other side wasn't kind or
funny? What if the relationshipwas complicated or even painful
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for you? That's what I want totalk about next. What if they
weren't a great person? Thereare complicated people that we
have loved that are on the otherside. Of course, this is one of
those topics that doesn't gettalked about enough in spiritual
circles, because it's not shinyor feel good, but it's real and
it really matters, especially ifyou are someone who has had any
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difficult relationship in yourlife ever. Here's something
important to understand abouthow mediumships work. Readings
are really based on a need, theneed of the soul. It's not about
who can shout the loudest to themedium from the other side. It's
not about the underlyingfrustration or difficult
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memories. It's about theunderlying emotional need, the
healing, the peace, the closure,release, clarity, love, things
like that. These are often thetypes of needs that help build
the energy for the spirit personto communicate, especially in
complicated or painfulrelationships. Spirit
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communication at its heart issoul work. It's not always easy,
but it's always meaningful.
Sometimes the person whocommunicates or quote, unquote,
comes through wasn't kind, theyweren't emotionally available,
or in some cases, they weredownright harmful in our lives.
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So the question becomes, whathappens then? Can those spirit
people still come through? Andif they do, what do we do we do
with that? The short answer isyes, complicated. Spirit. People
do sometimes communicate in thereading not always and
definitely not on command. But Ihave absolutely had sessions
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where a parent, a sibling, apartner, for example,
communicates from the other sidewho had a difficult or painful
relationship with the personsitting in front of me as a
medium, my job isn't to makeexcuses for the loved ones on
the other side. It's not todress up their behavior in
spiritual language. It's to behonest and create a safe space
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for the communication and letwhat needs to be shared. Be
shared. Sometimes that includesa spirit person acknowledging
their harmful actions. I've hadspirit people communicate things
like, I didn't know how to loveyou, or I was cruel because I
was in pain, or even just I'msorry, and different versions of
apologies, not every message is.
About glowing, happy memories.
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Sometimes it's aboutaccountability, accepting
responsibility, and finally,sometimes it's about offering
emotions they never could inlife, or even just acknowledging
that truth. For somerelationships, the heaviest,
most lingering question thanactual need is, do they know how
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much they hurt me? That's somepeople's really heartfelt, deep
question. I remember one womanwho had been estranged from her
father for many, many years, andin the session, he made me aware
of him and communicated and theenergy or the emotion was quiet,
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almost humble. Emotion was sodifferent from the harshness
that she remembered of him whenhe was here, but he did express
that. That's who he was when hewas here, harsh, difficult,
challenged, angry, and he didn'tdefend his actions. He simply
acknowledged them. He brought upenough specific details to show
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her that he did truly understandthe impact that he had on her.
He acknowledged that she feltabandoned. He shared the emotion
of I see now what I couldn't seethen, and he offered what felt
like a deeply sincere, heartfeltapology. Of course, it didn't
fix everything, but it crackedthe door open just a little for
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her to begin her own healing ina new way. I also thought of
another client that had beenemotionally and verbally abused
by her older brother, and in herreading, she wasn't expecting
him to communicate at all, andhonestly, she wasn't even sure
she wanted to hear from him aswe started working with him, but
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when he showed up, the emotionthe presence of him was calm,
not forceful. He didn't try tojustify anything. He simply
communicated that he was angry,that he was depressed, that he
took it out on her, and that hedeeply understood and was able
to see and accept all of it nowfrom his perspective, and really
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wished that he hadn't treatedher like that and hadn't put her
through those things, thatsimple moment, just
acknowledgement without excuses,was the most powerful part of
that session for her. It was avery short segment of her
session, just just a few, just ahandful of minutes with him, but
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she told me later she didn'teven know she needed that, but
she deeply did, and it reallyhelped her let go of some things
and move forward in a new way.
And then there are times whenjust the person's presence from
the spirit world is the message,a way of saying, I see you. I'm
here if you want to engage, butI honor your space if you don't,
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because even on the other side,souls are still evolving. Growth
doesn't stop after we pass, justlike in life, not every soul is
ready to take fullaccountability, and not every
person that comes in for areading is ready in that moment
to hear about it. And there arestill some learning being done.
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On the other side, some lovedones that we've had really
challenging relationships, ifit's not time for that
communication to happen, willlet themselves be known in a
reading, but will stay quiet,and sometimes that too is part
of the healing process and partof the message. As mediums, we
have a responsibility to betrauma informed and heart aware
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in how we deliver these messagesto our clients. Not everything
needs to be said. There aredefinitely things that I become
aware of in a reading that Idon't say specifically.
Sometimes the greatest gift isour discernment as a medium of
what we need to express onbehalf of that spirit person, so
that our recipient knows forsure that it's them and that
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they know what happened, but notso much so that we re traumatize
them. That's the power ofdiscernment. It's a gentle
truth, or even just saying thisperson is here, but we don't
have to go there, unless you'reready. Actually had this happen
with a man whose session wasfocused mostly on his mom and
sister, who were on the otherside. His dad was present from
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the spirit world. So I wasworking mostly with mom and
sister in spirit, and then I wasaware of dad, and it felt like
he was standing just behind themin my awareness, his
dad had been a difficult man,and the relationship had been
strained and painful in life,and I was aware of that Father's
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presence, but also of the deephurt that he'd caused for my
client. I let the client knowthat his. Dad was standing
respectfully at a distance, notpushing in, just holding space
and offering a message, if youwill, of I'm here, and when
you're ready, I'll be ready too.
At that time, that client didn'twant to engage with his dad. He
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didn't want to hear from him inthe reading. And that was
perfectly fine. His mom andsister continued communicating
with loving, beautifulvalidations. And a couple of
years later, I had the honor ofreading for this gentleman
again, this time, he was moreready, and his father was there
from the spirit world and readyto share. And although it was a
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brief part of that session, heshared some really hard but much
needed truths. He expressedregret and offered quiet but
clear apology, because not allmessages are about rainbows and
reunions, some are aboutliberation and honoring the
truth of our experiences, eventhe hard truths of the hard
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experiences. And I think we allknow by now that healing cannot
be rushed, and I don't believethe spirit world wants to
pressure us, but they arepatient. They're willing to
wait. They're willing to meet uswherever we are with a new
perspective, a deeperunderstanding, and from a place
of truth and love and a soullevel compassion. So whether our
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loved ones were warm andhilarious, reserved and very
particular or complicated andeven hurtful, their soul still
carries the essence of who theywere and the expanded wisdom of
who they're continuing tobecome, and when they reach out
from the other side tocommunicate, it's not random.
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It's rooted in support, inhealing, in love. Personality
doesn't get erased when we crossover to the other side. It
becomes part of the way ourloved ones can still remain, can
still remind us, can stillvalidate for us that they're
with us, they're stillthemselves, they're still
growing. I hope today's sessiongave you maybe a deeper sense of
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just how much life continuesbeyond this physical body full
of quirks and truth and laughterand yes, even reconciliation and
if someone you've lost is onyour mind lately, trust that
they may be closer than yourealize, just a heartbeat away,
not just spending time with youfrom the spirit world, but
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living on with you in yourheart, in your memories, in the
signs you receive through yourlaughter and your healing. And
what I've come to discover isthat, yes, they do know that
really hard thing. They probablyhave come to accept it, and they
are working on everything theycan from the other side to
understand why they expressed incertain ways and not others,
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what they could have donedifferently, what we actually
needed versus how they showedup, and so much more. So
hopefully, as you continue toreceive these signs, you'll
continue to allow yourself toopen up a little bit more, to
receive not only laughter, buthealing and depth of
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understanding yourself. Thanksfor listening, beautiful soul.
I'm so grateful to have you herewith me, as always and as
always, please know that yourloved ones on the other side are
never more than a heartbeataway. They're still them, and
they still love you. Big hugs.
Lots of love. I will see yousoon for another episode of
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spirit speakeasy. You.
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