I spent 20 years completely devoted to disrupting the highly effective systems of oppression that plague public schools and perpetuate inequities.  In this time, I was less focused on connections to the spirit world and more focused on making connections to people in global majority communities that are continuously and purposely underserved and systematically afflicted.  Until my own world was disrupted. Like many of you, my world was turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic.  In addition to the losses across my family at all ages, I lost the human experience of my mother to complications that arose from a massive stroke.  A few months later I lost my father.  And then a brother.  The wave of loss started in 2020 and continued until the very last weeks of 2023.  At that time, I also made the conscious decision to refuse to participate in organized racism and oppression in my place of employment and left the public school system.  While I grieved the loss of my best friend, aka Mom, and all of the other relationships and connections I thought were just gone, my intuition and psychic abilities began to grow swiftly and exponentially. 
 
The messages I used to get (that I always just called "the ancestors") became more of a conversation that went back and forth.  The connections grew more tangible and impossible to ignore.  At the same time, the separation from my mother was unbearable.  I watched "Surviving Death" on Netflix where I was reminded of mediumship, but didn't know where to find a credible medium.  So, I began to research the Forever Family Foundation, highlighted in the series, and discovered a list of certified and tested mediums.  It was there that I found a medium and booked an appointment.  In that mediumship reading, not only did I experience the powerful healing and love that can come from connecting with a loved one you've lost, but before the reading even began the medium told me that I should be doing this...and I already knew it. 

 

Yes, I confirmed, I did. From that day, I leaned back into the intuition, psychic, mediumship, and spiritual healing abilities I have always been accompanied by.  After the miraculous experience I had, I knew that my lifetime of service to the community would continue, but would shift in a different direction.  I still fight oppression.  I still serve students by helping schools and districts become more equitable, and thereby more effective.  I will ALWAYS fight patriarchy, misogyny, white supremacy systems, and culture, oppression against the LGBTQIA+ community, and literally ANY other force or energy that comes to separate, rather than connect us all.  I just do it in collaboration with the spirt world now ;-)