Hi there. Welcome to the space in between, the space between. These are little mini podcast that I'm going to be doing.

And today I wanted to just share a little bit more about me. So you have a sense of who I am, where I came from, how I came to be doing this type of work

and thinking about the human mind and the human soul in this way.

And I wanted to share a blog post with you all that I posted in January of 2016.

And I wrote this when I was still in the midst of struggling with how to make sense of these two worlds that I was straddling and who I wanted to be and all of this and how I wanted to use what I had been learning and the mediumship work that I was doing while also still being a clinical psychologist. So this is a

piece that I wrote. It first appeared on Suburban Misfit Mom, and here it is. Conventional. It's such a

funny word. See, I was raised in a very conventional family of doctors who believed wholeheartedly

in science. My grandfather was a prominent pediatrician in the community who was, and still is,

extremely respected for his scientific mind. I am also a doctor of a different type, a doctor

of feelings, as my kids call me. The real

term, a clinical psychologist who is fascinated by the human mind, the human condition, and its

complexities. My grandfather, the aforementioned doctor and scientist, couldn't help his oldest

child when she came down with the mumps at the age of 10. He couldn't help his oldest child when she came down with the

mumps at the age of 10. He couldn't help her when she developed juvenile onset diabetes shortly

after, and he couldn't help her when she passed away at 48 due to diabetes complications.

I was 18 at the time, and remember it well. In fact, I believe her life shaped who I am today,

unconventional in so many ways, and her death has likely shaped it even more. Shortly after my aunt

passed away, I began having visits from her. At the time, I didn't know they were visits. I, like so many,

thought they were dreams, dreams where I would know things I couldn't have possibly known,

and seen things only she could have told me. This made very little sense to my scientific brain

that was studying to be a clinical psychologist to understand the human mind.

So I wrote it off as my unconscious trying to tell me something, as any good graduate student would do.

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