Allow parts of yourself to lay fallow until their season comes again

By Joanna BartlettApril 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Intuition, Personal growth intuition, personal development, personal growth

Not everything grows all the time. Sunflowers don’t grow in Oregon winters. And oranges don’t ripen in Florida until there’s a cold snap to ripen the fruit. Yet in a life where you can order something online and have it delivered sometimes the very next day, and we often feel the pressing crush of keeping…

Is it intuition, or is it trauma?

By Joanna BartlettMarch 2, 2020March 2, 2020 Intuition fear, intuition, trauma

I saw a meme recently that resonated: Learn to differentiate between your intuition guiding you and your traumas misleading you. Trauma and loss can cause your intuition to open up and lead you to become skilled in listening to your inner knowing, especially when they occur when you’re young. They can also cause your intuition…

Book review: Developing Intuition by Shakti Gawain

By Joanna BartlettDecember 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Intuition book review, intuition, intuition development

Developing your intuition isn’t a linear process. It often happens in fits and starts, with spurts ahead and seeming delays. Developing your intuition is a lot like living life. Developing Intuition: Practical guidance for daily life by Shakti Gawain, is one of the first books I read about developing your intuition, and I recently re-read…

Creating your dictionary of spiritual symbols

By Joanna BartlettJune 13, 2019August 20, 2023 Development, Intuition, Mediumship symbol dictionary, symbols

Spirit often brings you messages in the form of symbols. These symbols can be anything — the smell of a rose, seeing a dragonfly alight on a bush, or hearing a snatch of music. Sometimes these symbols are obvious — turning on your car radio and hearing the words to a song that are clearly…

Intellect, intuition and emotion: how they work together for an authentic life

By Joanna BartlettJune 5, 2019June 5, 2019 Healing, Intuition

The connection between healing from loss and developing your intuition may not seem to exist at first glance. Let alone developing your mediumship abilities to connect with loved ones in Spirit. Yet these are the things I teach and they’re incredibly and beautifully connected. The truth is, your heart, head and higher self are meant…

What stops you from trusting and using your intuition and how do you change it?

By Joanna BartlettMarch 3, 2019March 3, 2019 Intuition intuition, intuition development

Your intuition is a wonderful, innate source of knowledge, wisdom and guidance. If only tapping into it and trusting it was easier! Perhaps this sounds familiar: you’re going about your day and get a hunch about something. It could be that you should drive a different way to work, or there’s something going on with…

What’s your strongest intuitive sense?

By Joanna BartlettJanuary 5, 2019August 19, 2022 Intuition, Mediumship intuition, intuitive development, intuitive senses, psychic development, psychic senses, psychic skills 1 Comment

We each have our strengths. And that’s OK. Some folks learn better by reading, rather than hearing information, for instance. Some of us are tactile learners and need to get our hands on things. Some people have great eyesight, but poor hearing. Or the other way around. Or they’re just more perceptive with one sense…

How to get and keep yourself grounded

By Joanna BartlettAugust 10, 2018August 12, 2018 Development, Intuition, Mediumship development, grounding, mediumship, mediumship development

What is grounding? Grounding is connecting your energy to the natural energy field of the Earth. When you don’t feel grounded, you can feel spacey, dizzy, off-balance, shaky, dazed. Things may have a quality of being unreal. When you’re grounded, you live in the present moment, connected in with your physical body and the energy…

Unexpected messages from the universe

By Joanna BartlettApril 20, 2018October 4, 2018 Intuition connection, developing, development, higher self, intuition, intuitive development, intuitive senses, messages from the universe, signs from spirit, symbols

You get messages from the universe in your everyday life in all sorts of ways. Sometimes they’re signs or symbols. Sometimes they’re interruptions in your life that cause you to, hopefully, stop and think. When you start working with signs and symbols, you start receiving more of them in your everyday life. The same is…

Symbols as messages from Spirit, your loved ones and your inner self

By Joanna BartlettApril 6, 2018October 4, 2018 Development, Intuition messages, spirit guides, symbols

Messages from Spirit pop up all the time in our daily lives. Many of them come through in the form of some kind of symbol. A penny on the ground, a song on the radio, even an ad on Facebook or the bus ahead of you at the traffic light. Not everything you see or…