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May 1, 2025 • 41 mins
In this episode of the Reluctant Medium Podcast, host Dr. Maria Rothenburger welcomes Krystal Perry, also known as the Blossoming Medium. Krystal shares her journey into mediumship and Reiki, discussing how intuition is felt below the neck across various chakras. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing and trusting one's intuitive abilities, offering tips on developing these skills. They also explore the differences between psychic abilities and mediumship, the role of spirit guides and angels, and address misconceptions about nefarious energies. Krystal's warm and insightful perspective provides valuable insights for anyone interested in spiritual growth and connecting with the spirit world.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When I teach intuition, I say your intuitive abilities are
from your neck down. It's not in your head at all.
You're going to feel every sense, every bit of your
chakras is where you're going to fill Your intuition is
below your neck. Pay attention. Am I getting in my
sacral plexus or my solar plexus or my root chakra?
Am I getting it in my heart? Where am I

(00:20):
feeling that hit? And maybe you don't even know, I'm
but to start to pay attention.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome to the Reluctant Medium, where we cover the gamut
of out there conversations with an open mind and a
curious heart. We want to talk about it all, from
psychic phenomena and energy medicine, to beings from other star
systems and out of body experiences. You'll find a great
balance between grounded, science backed topics and others that science
hasn't quite caught up to yet. I'm your host, doctor

(00:48):
Maria Rothenberger, a psychotherapist by trade and a reluctant spirit
baby communicator. And hey, even though I'm a medium, I'm
not buying everything folks are selling.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I just have a.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Voracious appetite to know more about what I call the
world of the weird. Join us on your favorite podcast
platform or watch on YouTube at the Reluctant Medium.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'll see you there.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Reluctant Medium podcast. I'm
doctor Maria Rothenberger, your host for the podcast, and we
have Take two with Crystal Perry today. You never got
to see Take one because it was a shambles. My
end of the recording never got recorded. Therefore, here we are.

(01:42):
Yea Crystal generous with her time. Welcome, thank you for
coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh I'm happy to be back. Thank you for having
me back.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm looking forward to another conversation. And we agree that
there must be something today that people are going to
hear that they wouldn't have heard before.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
So right here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
So first, if you can just say who you are
and what you do and how did you come to
do what you do.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's a loaded question.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I know, I'm just kidding them.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm Crystal Perry. I call myself the Blossoming Medium. I
teach classes and help other people blossom. So I teach reiki,
I teach mediumship. I teach how to connect to your
guys and angels and what your intuition is, so I'm
always teaching. I do lots of readings. I came into
this work knowing all my life that there was something more.
I just didn't know what it was, didn't have the

(02:31):
family that was can do it to Hey, go check
that out.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
It wasn't until I really was in high school and
I knew things that was just happening over and over
and could tell my teacher's not going to be here today,
or my friend's not going to show up, or just
kind of that premonition kind of feeling. And I was
always accurate, and so I would just play these games
with myself because I'm not telling anyone, you know, And
then kind of just sat with that, read every book

(02:56):
on mediumship and the afterlife, and I was just drawn
to it. This was, oh my gosh, the eighties, in
the mid eighties, so it was always there. About eleven
years ago, I got into reiki energy healing, and that
kind of just flung the doors open for me. They
call it the gateway drug to spirituality, right, So I
went down that road and then I started my own

(03:17):
home business, did reiki after work, did reiki on the weekends,
and about six years ago, I really got into mediumship
and just I haven't looked back. Just once you're in
the woo woo world. It's nice and cozy and lovely.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
You just stay here, You're speaking to the reluctant medium.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm like, is it though, Evan, You're stuck here, You're
stuck here with us.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Suck and I do love it. That's in jest, right,
there's when I get to hang out with people like you,
it's like, Okay, I'm not crazy, I'm not and I
am can we go back? I'm curious about how it
was for you growing up. I grew up in a
very Christian family. Even now, my mom was like, no,
we don't, I won't talk about that, or how was
that for you? They weren't were They like, clearly I didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Tell any of my family un till I got at
a mediumship six years ago and then told them kind
of tiptoed into it and was just like, well, I'm
in so accepted or not. Nobody gave me any grief,
no friends, no family, There was no flak.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
And I was like, what was I so stressed out about?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Nice thing?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
So yeah, and then it just got stronger and stronger.
So the more I do, the big bigger it gets.
I think for me, the easier readings are. It's like
any muscle. The more you practice, there you go. And
I call myself an evidence based medium because I'm bringing
in evidence. This is your person. You know, maybe grandfather
had a watch that passed on through the family and

(04:42):
he's bringing that in and only you would know, and
and that sort of thing. Can't say. I always get names.
I'm hoping to one day, but the evidence is usually
what blows me away. Yeah, they're bringing me. You can't
make this stuff up.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
And I have to actually share something with you because
this happened after the last time we well, take one
of our podcast recording because we were talking about evidence
evidence based mediumship, and I, through talking with you, realized,
oh man, that's kind of what I do. But I

(05:18):
still am so not. I still am. I'm very skeptical.
I suppose.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
So I got myself.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
This book and I now write down everything that's evidence
so that I can even look back and be like, beautiful,
that happened, Maria, that happened. And you're right, I don't
get I don't get names often either. It's pretty you know.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I've asked Spirit about that, and what they've said is
it doesn't matter. We're all one light and we're communicating
as one. It's you humans who want that evidence, want
the name, and want the street, and want the age
and want the detail, and it's the ego that gets
wrapped up in it. So I've said, okay, I'll just
let that go.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, And there's plenty of other evidence that is, you know,
if you had those those clients, those people that you're
reading that are like, how did you know that? And
you're like what I just said, Turtle, Like why is that?
Why is that important? But it's so meaningful for them,

(06:27):
that's so great.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
So there, and there's so much. It's so impactful when
Spirit gives me something that I know I would never
think of, but I'm explaining it to them and it's
making clear and precise sense to them. I'm like, oh,
we're onto something.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I am curious what you think about other folks
being able to do this kind of work, because I
recently spoke with somebody who was like, Nope, only special people,
or this is a gift, or this is a you know,
your show, and to do this and I'm just curious
about that. What's your opinion on people being able to that?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Is not my opinion at all. Absolutely everybody can do it.
Everybody can do this. I mean I train people, I
teach people how to do it. There's all you have
to do is really listen to the subtle nudges. And
you've been doing it all your life. And when you
look back and say, I have been doing this my
whole life, oh, you realize we're all born with it.
It's when I teach my intuition class, I say, it's

(07:27):
like a garden hose. You're turning on the water and
it's flowing one way right, It's coming from source to you.
It's not like you can jab the water back up
in there and say no thanks, I don't want it,
or I'll just leave the hose off. You can do
that and not receive it.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
But you have it.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
You already have the hose, you already have the water.
Receive it and use it and trust it.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah. Yeah, I think everybody has the gift.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Do you think everybody has the gift of mediumship? Or
how do you decipher between intuition and mediumship or other
psychic phenomenon.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Mediumship is those two. This is how I start every reading.
Mediumship is those talking to the spirit loved ones that
have crossed over, including pets that have come through. A
psychic is someone who's picking up what I call current events,
what's going on in your life right now. For example,
if you went to a tarot card reader, they're flipping
over a card and they're saying, Oh, you're about to
get a new job, or you're about to move out

(08:23):
of state. So there's a difference in that. A medium
is going a little realm higher, tapping into those that
have crossed over that are giving you information. And I
think with enough training, because I was clearly trained to
do this, I wasn't talking to the dead. I didn't
see the dead growing up. I knew the phenomenon was there.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
I felt it.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I knew I'm just like but no one's doing anything
about it. So I have my nose in it all
the time, fascinated, how do I do this? How do
I do this? And it wasn't until I took some
major training to do it. And I think everybody can
do it with training, just like push ups and sit
ups anything with training.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Completely agree with you. But I love different points of view,
and when people say, you know, they disagree with me,
that's that's great, and that's fine. I'm just curious. I'm
so curious about that, and I'm aligned with you. I
really feel like, folks, perhaps there's a spectrum, right, Like
I can play the piano, but I'm certainly no juopan,
and you know there's a spectrum. But I feel like

(09:22):
everybody has disability. We're all created that way. So are
there things that obviously not your entire repertoire of teachings,
but are there like maybe two or three things that
people can start doing now that you would recommend to
start tapping into that?

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Absolutely start to find out what is your strongest Claire, So,
are you clairvoyant? Do you see through your mind's eye?
Do you have vivid dreams? Are you someone who's like
a visual learner? And think back to when you were
a kid. Maybe you're clairvoyant and it's really strong for you,
but you didn't have that word. Maybe you're clear cognizant
and you just know things. I know things that are
going to happen. And I know that so and so

(10:01):
is pregnant. I know that so and so is going
to move. You just know things, start to trust what
comes in. I know what your strongest Claire is Maybe
you're Claire scentient. You feel things. I walk into a room,
this just don't feel good and I don't want to
be here and I don't know why, but I'm trusting it.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Just start there.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, that's perfect, do you. I often recommend that people.
I mean, obviously I write things down, so I ask
people to write it down, take notes, because there's your
you forget, I mean I forget. But yeah, oh it's
a great It's a great tool to notice first well.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
And I love that you start each year. I was
listening to one of your Beginning of the Year podcasts
where you're manifesting and closing out the old year and
bringing in the new and writing down your goals for
the year and just having that history of its written down,
going back year after year and writing, oh I did
do that and that did come to fruition or you know,
I'm still working on that one sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, you'd be surprised, people, I'm speaking to folks who
are listening and watching. You'd be surprised how accurate you
are and you don't even know it. It's really stinking
cool when you lean into that. So okay, paying attention
to Claire's anything else that you would recommend people do, Now.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
You can always play with it yourself.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I really started with some Zenner cards where you know,
one side's maybe an orange ball and a red square
and a blue triangle, and I'm playing with a friend.
What kind of card do I got? And we're playing
a game. If you make it fun, you start to
build that intuitive hits. I was the kid that would
sit on the corner and say, Okay, the next car's red,
the next car's yellow, the next car it's the next

(11:40):
car's truck, and just see how many you can get, right.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
But the more you do that, the more you're trusting it.
That's why as an adult, we're like, I'm going to
get a parking spot at the front, and you just know,
because you've been practicing subconsciously all your life somehow to
get there.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
I love that you just said play because I think
people get too serious. Do you find that people get
really serious lately?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
And then it shuts you down?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, because you get in your head, you get in
your logic head. When I teach intuition, I say your
intuitive abilities are from your neck down. It's not in
your head at all. You're going to feel every sense,
every bit of your chakras is where you're going to feel.
Your intuition is below your neck. Pay attention, Am I
getting in my sacral plexus or my solar plexus or

(12:25):
my root chakra? Am I getting it in my heart?
Where am I feeling that hit? And maybe you don't
even know, but start to pay attention. Everyone just thinks
it's a gut instinct. It's not always where it gets you. Yeah,
but get out of your head. That shuts you down
so much.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
That was my experience at the beginning. When I would
start seeing people, I'd be like, please don't tell me
a thing about yourself because I will get in my head. Great, yeah,
get into get out of the head.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
That's why they say it's so much easier to read
strangers than family, because you know too much history or
about your friends and all the things. Yeah, and you're
wrapped up in your head of how am I going
to give them this reading? And what am I going
to do. It's almost a little harder to to have
like repeat clientele that are asking the same questions. Well,
when am I going to get the person and you
get in your head I just saw you three months ago.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
I don't know. I don't see them yet. Yes, because
now you know too much, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, I was actually going to ask you that if
that's your experience. Even still, so now I'll say to
people I don't remember readings. I really don't. So here's
what's coming through now. And most of the time it's
very similar. But that's also a little nerve racking, right
because you're like, I don't know what I said, and.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
I hope it's the same.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh I warned them. I always say the same thing
for repeat clientele. I don't know who came through last time.
I might be telling you the same story. It might
be the same person that's coming up. Hopefully it's a
different person so you can talk to them. But I
always set the intention of the highest possible healing, no
matter what beforehand. So if it's the same person, great,
If it's a new person, it's still the highest possible

(14:01):
healing that can come through today.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yes, what do you.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Say, Crystal to people who want a particular soul to
come through and they don't come through.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I have found that to be that person that they're
looking for has had enough closure here with them. For example,
I had a client that came in and really wanted
their mom to come through, but it was their father
that came through. Well in life, they were best friends
with their mom, and so I just explained, mom had
closure with you.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
She's here, she loves you.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
She's not stepping forward to say anything, but she had
enough closure that she's not the one that wants to
come through. Your dad's here saying whatever he was saying, right,
And I think I put a different perspective on it
for them. But when the soul's happy, they're happy, they're fine.
They're mom might have popped in and said thank you,
but she wasn't taking over the whole reading, right, But yeah,

(14:54):
you just kind of got to let him down softly.
We get in our head, I only want this and
I only want that. And I'll know it's my mom
if she brings through the special necklace that she gave
me when I was twelve, you know.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Or names?

Speaker 1 (15:05):
I mean, I had a client that absolutely was so
stuck on names, and I kept saying, I don't get it.
I'm not going to get it for you. I'll refund
your money. I don't know what to tell you, it's
not happening.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, that's a really good point. I also offer refunds
if something doesn't come through. I think that's so ethical
and I'm sure you teach that in your coursework too.
That Yeah, that is to me, the mark of a
wonderful practitioner is to offer refunds if it doesn't work
out for the person. Yeah, okay, yeah, I can appreciate that,

(15:39):
right like that. I love that wording that that person
has had that soul is a enclosure with you. I
just love that. That's really great.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, it's enough for them.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I mean, once they've had that, they already lived this
lifetime with you or whoever, and now they're in spirit.
And there's people that, let's say you work with the babies,
so miscarriages or abortions or stillborns, maybe they want to
hear from that soul again. And this little baby infant
didn't live a long life. And I'm sure, Maria, you
can tell me if I'm wrong in my readings.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
They don't have a lot to say.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
They're here, they're love you, and they're surrounding you. But
it's not going to be an hour conversation like you're
love here, yeah, and you can express that love, but
there's not like a lot of words and a lot
of details because they just didn't have the life that
maybe your grandfather that lived to be eighty tells me
about his military career and his six kids, and it's different,

(16:30):
you know.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What they can speak to is like
past life stuff or what's on the on the future,
on the horizon. They can talk about that for them,
but about their specific life, no, there isn't a whole
lot to say, is there. Yeah?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, And as the client, you just have to
be comfortable with knowing that's it, okay, and that's enough.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, you know, yeah, some of.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
You take our clients, it is some Do you take
on clients that have lost pets?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I do? I. Oh, that's a really good question for you,
because I'm curious about how animals come through to you.
Do they feel energetically similar or do they feel.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
And they'll show me.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, And because I'm clairvoyant, I'll see I'll try to
see the breed of the dog or the color of
the cat, or I've had many horses, and it's so
fun when you give someone evidence I'm like, well, your
grandfather's here and he's giving me this horse that you
know is part white and brown or whatever. They're like,
I don't know anything about it, and they'll go home
and talk to their aunt Betty and oh, yeah, he
grew up on a farm and da da da d D.

(17:38):
So that's when you know it's evidence.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yes, that happened recently. Okay, here's another question for you
that happened recently with Actually a horse came through one
one time that was red in color, and the client
was like, oh my gosh, it was one of those.
But I just said, turtle, I don't know why that's important,
but it was for her. But this is a different situation. So,
and I wondered your experience with this because I talked

(18:01):
to another medium who said she does not sometimes tell
the difference or she cannot tell the difference between a
soul who is still in a body and a soul
who has passed on. So I had this experience where
a dog came through. The baby was bringing this dog,
and it turns out the dog was there and there
she's like, we have a dog like that, and she

(18:21):
brings the dog on camera and I'm like what that's
the dog. What do you have that experience too, where
you can't tell sometimes that the soul is in a body.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Or that's where the training comes in to know from
the psychic to the mediumship to are they truly over there?
Because we're all souls and we can't all pick up
each other's soul. Can We can walk into a room
and feel if someone's looking at us like, that's our
innate ability right as we live. So it is a
little hard, but with training you can fine tune into that.

(18:50):
Now that said, if someone has dementia or alzheimer orr's
in a coma, I've seen them on the other side
and their.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Body's still here, so oh my god.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's when I'll ask questions in the reading. I'll say, okay,
so I'm seeing this he's saying that. Does this make
sense to you? And they'll say yes, but he's in
the hospital or he or she yeah, And then you know, oh,
that's why it feels so similar.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah. Actually, for listeners of my podcast, they'll they'll remember
that my stepdad passed away in November last year, twenty
twenty four, and I he came to me and he
told me it's time for me to go, but his
body's still in the hospital. It's like, wait, I what

(19:34):
but but there he was clear's day, it's time for
me to go. And we actually had a little argument spirit.
I was like, no, no, no, not yet, and he's like, Maria,
it's time for me to go. But yeah, it's it's
it's interesting. I could not tell with that animal, with
that dog that it was here on the earth plane.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
With pets, I find it's a little bit different. And
I think it's just because they're complete unconditional love. Oh
I'm feeling that. I'm feeling that complete one level. So
I'm with you. I've had some that are still living
that and then they bring them on camera becase it's
all just unconditional love. When we have our ego and
we've lived our life and we've been mean to people

(20:18):
and then we've been nice to people and we've had
whatever we've lived through, we kind of can differentiate the
feelings of here and there. But pets are just like one,
They're just love.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
They're just surface.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
And babies too, like before we're five or six or seven, right,
we're still that innocence love. Or if it's a nonverbal child,
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yes, true, I.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Think we're still so connected to source that it's hard
to differentiate that.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah. Yeah, I have found that to be true specifically
for animals. I don't know that I've come across that
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Speaker 2 (21:48):
And do animals come through to you in a different
vibe than humans do? How do you feel them or
notice them.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
They'll just show me.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, they'll show me a lot of like say, grandparents,
they'll be they'll suddenly sit down and I'll see this
little dog on their lap or you know, knee high
to them, and I'm like, oh, your grandpa's here and
your grandma's here, and there's a little white poodle on
her lap, and oh that must be the one they
lost ten years ago. Or I'm like, well, she's happy
because she's got her dog back.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Oh, okay, okay. And so the animals will show you
they're more like they use they utilize your clairvoyance to
express things. Do you find that they are so the
way that animals come through to me, the way that
they communicate is so direct like X y Z, where

(22:37):
humans are more like the flowery and remember when you
know it's like that. I don't know if that's your
experience or not.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well similar, but they don't have a lot to say.
They show themselves, they show who they're with, they show
who I'm talking to, and the express okay, you're going
to get another cat coming soon, or another dog can
be soon, welcoming the baby, and then it's kind of done.
It's kind of like talking to someone that didn't live
a long time. There's just not a lot more for me. Usually,
like I can't make an hour reading out of a

(23:08):
cat or a dog. Oh try, but usually everyone else's
spirit's coming through you to say something else about it.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
True, I have had an animal reading from somebody who did.
She was able to make it. There was a lot
of rich communication, and so I wonder also if that's
a spectrum of I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I'm sure you've talked to Nicole Harp the animal community.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
That's Nicole.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, and she can definitely do it, and then she'll
paint you a beautiful picture after her.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
She's amazing. Is that how I learned about you?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Maybe? Ah?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yes, okay, she was absolutely amazing. Just you know, she
can bring you to tears. Warning everyone, bring you to
tears if you go to her Nicole Harp.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Check her out.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
She's wonderful too, animal communication and beautiful artist. She also
made a painting of my grandmother and I. She'll make
soul paintings of your animals and other humans if you
would like to. She's just astounding what she does. Okay,
So I'm also curious about your work. We've talked about animals.

(24:16):
We've talked about humans. Do you connect with other entities?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Angels, yes, Spirit guides and angels come in to readings.
Not every reading. It is rare when I see the guides,
but they do come in, and I see angels more frequently.
What angels have showed me is if I can see
someone and there's angels standing with them. At some point
in that person's life, they had a near death experience,

(24:41):
meaning maybe they was in a car accident and survived,
or they had attempted suicide in their younger years but survived,
and the angels are here to say it's not time.
We're staying with them till they tell the end. And
so I literally can see them. Usually there's one or two,
not much more than that with angels, but with guides,
they will show up. If someone's asking about my guides,

(25:02):
well do you see my guide? And I'm like, well,
you've got two or three here, or you've got what
do they mean? You know everyone wants that information, Well
what are they saying?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Tap in?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
You still ask yourself they're telling you, Yeah, we get
in our heads so much, and it's always the first
thing that comes to mind is the answer, and we
think it's so simple, and that's so dumb, and your
name can't be Zacharbriyah, that's just stupid or you know,
or whatever comes to your mind, and so we dismiss
it and want something else. Give me another sign, yeah,

(25:34):
you know? Yeah, And I tell people just listen.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
And then trust. Right, it's like trust that what you're coming,
what you're getting is actually accurate. It's true, that's so
completely Yeah, it's leaning into that trust. Is I remember
first doing medium shore. I don't know how this was
for you. I'm reluctant, and so I remember, this is dumb,

(25:59):
this is not real. But here I would be I didn't.
I sat on it for like seven or whatever years,
and I would be at a you know, dinner party
or something with a glass of wine and be like, ah,
you know, uncle Bob's here is like a fun party trick,
and they'd be like, that's true, Like what but it's

(26:22):
it's actually Usually the simplest response is true, it's just accurate.
It doesn't happen any of this, And.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
It blows your mind the words that come out of
your mouth and you say something and their jaws dropped
and they're like yeah, yeah, and you're like, oh, I
didn't know when I first started. I mean, I wrote
down every single session for two hundred sessions, just to
see what kind of evidence I was getting out. I'd
sit fifteen minutes before and pray and hope and cross
my figures and oh my gosh. Kay, now we're doing

(26:52):
the session and have all this evidence. And what I
found was after that many spirits like we're not giving
you information beforehand. You're just to sit with your client
and pick it up and trust that. Because I was
like dependent on that. Then I noticed call I wrote
down like sixteen different things and only one we're true.
That's weird. And so Spirit's just like, you don't need this,

(27:13):
Just go in the moment, go with the flow. And
so it's been baby steps of listening. Okay, I don't
need that. Okay, I don't need that crutch or some
people light the candles and pull out their cards and
stage the room and I've just found, oh you got
a reading, just get on it.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, you know I used to do that too, And
I had a baby tell me once, blow that candle out.
I was like, okay, so blow out the candle. He
didn't like this. I don't know what this is, but
he does not like this candle, so yeah, I blew
it out.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Wow, And then we'll leave that one out.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, okay. And sometimes now it's the opposite. I won't
light a candle, but if a baby asks me to,
I will, which is pretty rare. Yeah, it's it's really
interesting to see, even as people listen to this and
get glean some tips from you, that this isn't the
end all be all right. This is like there's evolution.

(28:08):
Just as you said, right, You used to take you know,
two hundred sessions, you'd make all these notes, and now
there's this evolution, a way of doing things that fits
better for you or that you've evolved into completely.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I just had one this last weekend where I thought
it was great reading, everything went well. The person came
back just seething and upset and mad. And I mean
I'd listened to her session over and over, and I
was like, Okay, this is a teaching moment. Don't know
what this means, but all right, I'm stepping back from it.
We're gonna just grow and be humble by it and
not be And another thing, you said this, and I
said that, and I just obviously wasn't good enough for you.

(28:41):
Here's your money back, whatever.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Let's move on.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, but you're gonna you're gonna
find some haters. I mean I have I don't know
even how many followers, and you just got to deal
with it. I know that I set out the best
intention and I go out there every day to help
and heal, and and that's all I have.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
That's all I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah. Yeah, And I will say, as a mental health therapist,
sometimes healing is delivered and it's rejected. It's like, oh
hell no, that is not what I am about. But
then it's actually what the person needs. Yeah, but to
offer a refund is awesome. I think it's great.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, if you're not satisfied, okay, yeah I did my part,
but here you go.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
But yeah, every day it is an evolution. And that's
what I'm saying in this work. Trust everything that comes through.
Trust how you're feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing. Trust your own voice.
The other thing with intuition is, let's say you want
your father to come through, or a grandfather a male
and you're a female, so it's a different voice or
opposite whatever that might be but you're hearing it in

(29:49):
your own head, in your own voice. Trust that it's
the same thing, and people get stuck on that. You know,
I'll hear it in my own voice that this is
uncle Jim and he's talking about his military days and
how he passed all of his guns on to his kids.
But this is coming in my head and my voice,
and I'm sharing that, and I'm trusting that because I

(30:10):
don't know anything about this person. This wasn't my life,
and it always lands. There's always something in there that lands.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yes, that's a really good point. Yeah, something I hadn't
thought of, but it's true. It is it is one's
own voice. Yeah, okay, next question. I recall when I
first started opening up to this and actually but like
doing some training and like, okay, let me just look
and see what this is all about. It was like

(30:40):
I was so drained because all of the people were
coming in. Do you I'm assuming you do. But how
do you teach to manage that all of the things?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, well, when I was trained, you set a pact
with your guides of this is what I want to see.
I want evidence, I want clarity. Everyone else it doesn't matter,
step away, I'm talking to this person family only one
at a time, excuse me, one at a time, so
it's clear for you. And then once secession is over,

(31:11):
then they all need to leave.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Oh nice, Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
I tell people I don't want to carry your family
or your family the minute I give you a hug
or shake your hand or get off the zoom call,
that's on you to your family. Going back to you,
I got my own life. I got to go cook
dinner and do some laundry and get back in my
real world, so I can't be carrying your stuff.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
So I've just put.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Some boundaries around that, and I have not once had
well I dig that. Back in six years I had
one young male and this was recent come to me
to give me a message to his mom, but happened
to be irrelevant, and I even told her I don't
normally do this, and I had to go back to
him and say, you know, I don't do this, but yeah,
I don't let them just come in and disrupt my
sleep or anything like that. The people that have no

(31:56):
boundaries as a medium, if you're letting all that in,
you don't don't have strong boundaries.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Oh my gosh, Yes, That's what that was me in
the beginning. I'm like, I'm exhausted these people. I'm at
the grocery store and they're like, that's my knee. I
were then to go tell her that lah blah blah,
and yeah, I had I learned real quick because it's
quite it's quite draining.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
What do you think nobody's ready for that?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well at the grocery store, did you go up to
the person and say never ever?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
And that's what I wonder what your thoughts are on? Like,
and it's sensational TV, right, but like the long oiland medium, right, Like,
what do you think of folks like that?

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I think it's teaching people that we can cross our
ethical boundaries and that's so against the morals. Spirit doesn't
really want that. It's making money. It really is making
money on TV. I'm going to buy new shoes and
oh my gosh, there's so and so and so's father
and I have to tell you this, No, you don't.
You can keep your mouth shut. Spirit's not talking to them.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yep, yep. What I usually tell And sometimes because I
have boundaries up now, very strong boundaries, but sometimes a
soul will come through and I'll say, my shop's closed,
Go find the appropriate person. You know who they are,
Go find them, and then they'll they have to they leave.
But yeah, I just find that's pretty icky, gross and

(33:17):
about the bottom line. And maybe maybe she's pretty wealthy,
but or other people are pretty wealthy. But yuck. Yeah, yeah,
but hey, to each their own right.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Who might a judge?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Okay, So a final question for you, well, who knows.
Maybe other questions will come up spirit I don't know
what about nefarious energies. Have you had experience with not
so great energies coming in personally?

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Myself?

Speaker 1 (33:47):
No, okay, other people have told me that they have them,
They've done some work, they've tried to clear it out.
I will send them to other people. That's not my forte.
I don't even get involved in it. I've never once
this is all my doing. I've never once believed in it.
I think that the white light is more powerful than
anything else. Go to source, go to God, go to
touch your base of whatever you believe in, and bring

(34:09):
that in and clear that energy out. I don't believe
there's entities. I don't believe they get stuck on people.
But again, these are my words. Yeah, there are people
that have had some issues, but for me, it has
not been a problem. Knock on wood, and I set
that in touch and every day with God, let me
be your voice, your spirit for the highest and best good,
and keep all other things away, and so it just
doesn't affect me.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
I love it. I heard that or I read that
if lower energies exist, that they literally cannot sense or
see or touch base with somebody who is vibrating higher.
It's like radio station, right, It's like they just can't
do it. I was just curious about your experience with that.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, and luckily I know some people in my local
town that do all that kind of thing and clearing
and house clearings, and yeah, you can go over there.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Oh that's so cool.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
So you have some ass Do you set up some
boundaries before you do your readings of hey, like only
light and love kind of deal.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, And like I said, sometimes there's like people will
our souls will will come through, like at the grocery store,
and I'll be like nope, bye. So yes, I do.
I do set those boundaries. I suspect that they're I
don't know what happened there, but I suspect that there
was something that I needed to be aware of or be.

(35:28):
I don't know yet what the lesson was in that,
but I always feel like it happens for some kind
of reason. But yeah, it was. It was fascinating, and
it hasn't happened since. So, yeah, there is always a
high vibration in My boyfriend comes over my house and
he's like, I just love your office space. It's so

(35:48):
like magical and warm and calm. And I'm like, yep,
that's the vibration in here. I mean, I am addicted
to crystals over vice.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
And when I do my reading side too out of
a room in my home or on zoom. And so
when people come into my home they say it still
so good in here, and I say, well, after someone leaves,
I'm clearing that room and I'm shutting the door, like
my pet, don't go in there. This is sanctuary, sanctuary. Yes,
it's a high vibration. It's your office. It's like this
is the palace, a palace that you're not coming in here.

(36:20):
The energy stays here.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
It is sacred. It is sacred space for sure. It's awesome. Well,
I'm curious about the work that you're doing now. Any
projects that folks can follow up with and where do
they find you.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Last summer, I put out my first book called Trusting
Your Intuition and Connecting to the Spirit Within. So you
can find that on Amazon or you can find that
on my website, Blossoming medium dot com. I also put
out a deck of oracle cards. They're kind of fun.
They have like little nature scenes and they'll talk about
the clayers talk about your intuition in there. So I've
just have some little fun things that have come out.

(36:56):
I do group readings right now. I've got some events
classes on my website that people can sign up to.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
I like doing them.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
One zoom I talked to a lot of people out
of state so they can get the recording afterwards.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
So that's fun.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
We've got a retreat coming up in Hawaii in January.
Oh me and my sweet friend we're going to put
on a week in a whoo and so a couple
of things on the agenda for now.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
A college your website, and I'm like, dang, girls, she
is busy.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Yeah, I just let spirit lead me.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
I really have. I've surrendered into that. I mean, when
I quit my full time job. It's been a year
of February that I got out of the corporate world
to do this, and I just held my hands up
and said, I surrender and let you lead me. And
people will call me out of the blue, people I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Come be on this, come do that? All right?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Fine, I'm being led. Yeah, just walking into that surrender
of spirit. This is how we're This is how we
are as children. We're three or four or five and
just walking down the hallway toddler and b and oh
I want Grandma. Oh, I want the sucker, and I
want this teddy bear, and I want and I want
and I'm getting what I want and I'm just being led.
We forget that as we grow up, and it has

(38:08):
to be tough, and it has to be structured and
has to be hard.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Hit the dead lions, yep, and planned. It has to
be planned, right, Like, I love that you just said surrender.
Just just surrendering, and that's really what kids do. Oh sorry,
hang on a second. I've got a dog who is
in my space and vomiting. That's awesome. We're probably going

(38:34):
to edit that part out.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Surrender Forria. Just surrender, okay, Bobby.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Oh, he's looking at me like it's innocent. Face. Feel
better now, yeah, maybe he'll feel better in a second, buddy.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Poor little thing.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Okay, Hey, stuff happens. Keep rolling.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Maybe maybe I will leave this in there. I think
that that's awesome. You know. I like surrender to the
life circumstances. It's kind of like, okay, this is what
it is.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
The dog's gonna vomit. They're gonna vomit.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
The dog's gonna vomit. That's what they do.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
You were more worried about your kids. Look, I know.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
I was, and they're totally silent.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
But here comes to the dog.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Well, my dogs are my kids. So there's that. All right, Well,
thank you so much, Crystal. People can find you where.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
At blossoming medium dot com on my website. You can
find me on Facebook Blossoming Medium, Crystal Perry, and on Instagram.
I think it's Crystal. It's Krys tl dot Perry Perry
with an A and at thirty seven. I don't know
why they use the numbers, but hey, I'm not a techie.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Not a lot on there. I got a YouTube channel.
I'm trying to put some videos up, but I'm busy.
So that's not a priority. You are bus You've got
a few things you can watch if people want to
watch it. But until I have a media manager or
something that they ain't happening yet.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
I think that there's plenty of content out there for
folks to see. I just perused your website and went, wow,
she is very busy. Thank you so much for being
here again today, Crystal L.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Thanks for having me second time to charm sure Is.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Thank you for joining the Reluctant Medium podcast today. I
hope that this episode has brought you beautiful high vibration
and that it continues emanating from your heart space for
the rest of the day and beyond.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Don't forget to join the.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Reluctant Medium on Patreon dot com, and you can also
visit the Reluctantmedium dot us and the Reluctant Medium TV
show on New Reality tv dot com. Until next time,
my friend, may you be well.
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