Finding my way into Mediumship
We were standing around our dining room table with sand paper and tools surrounding us, working on our new house. We were about to take a lunch break when my mom suggested we invite my uncle and his girlfriend to eat with us who lived in the neighborhood. We hadn’t seen them in a while and that sounded really fun.
As she suggested this, I had a vague thought somewhere in the back of my mind that they were out of town, in Eugene and there for his girlfriend’s nephew’s birthday. But only when I texted to invite them and my uncle responded stating those words in the same order they appeared in my mind was I shocked into realizing I’d already known this. HOW??? I scanned all my recent texts and phone calls with them, and saw that there had been no communication for a couple of months. Time seemed to slow down as I realized with a kind of sharp clarity that I had known this information psychically or through my intuition. I didn't normally get intuitive information about simple life details or in such a concrete way. It was like I woke up in that moment into an undeniable recognition of my ability and knew the experience was an invitation to fully step in.
When I was a child, I could sense what I’d call hot spots, or concentrated areas of stagnant energy or pain in someone’s body. I knew deep within me that I was a healer and that I could help people. I didn't have much language or context to talk about it all that much or develop it at the time. As a child growing up in an artistic and musical family, and living next door to an ongoing stream of chiropractic students, I always felt that I would become an art or music therapist or some kind of alternative medical practitioner.
I was so clear about this direction that at age 13 I volunteered after school at a clinic owned by a family friend that provided leading techniques in physical and occupational therapy for children with cerebral palsy and autism. It was an amazing experience and I learned so much. I really appreciate the adults in my life who fostered my curiosity and drive to learn and be of service at such a young age.
Though I did a lot of different kinds of art growing up, when my grandmother taught me how to sew it opened a door of creativity for me. Designing took over my world as I grew and fashion design became my first fiery love and then became my first career. It was incredibly successful- I was following the energy and amazing things were happening. I was aiming for the moon, feverishly and excitedly and never looked back at the healing part of myself until I “made it” in the fashion industry. I was living and working in Italy for several years designing for brands including Max Mara and Patrizia Pepe. It was at that time that I started to pivot. I’m looking forward to sharing more about that part of my journey. If you’re curious, here’s a fun chapter from my time as a fashion designer, but do read on first.
I had a lunch already planned with my aunt a couple days after that experience in my dining room and told her all about it. I shared that I felt a strong pull toward understanding what was happening and felt it was time to say “YES” to this ability that had been growing over the past few years. Her husband had died the previous year and she was familiar with the powerful healing experience of mediumship. I was not aware of it, though I was quite familiar with channeling, having had a close childhood friend who studied, practiced on me many times and then became very good. I had learned a lot from her over the years, but was never drawn to channeling myself. In this conversation, my aunt mentioned that she knew of someone she trusted who was running a mediumship practice group. She said she would vet it that evening and texted later to confirm that it looked trustworthy and said they were meeting the following day.
I will take a moment here to acknowledge the amazing timing of these events: The experience I had in my home, followed by already having lunch planned with my aunt who then knew about this group which happened to be meeting the next day. Everything was lined up already, and this is how the magic of spirit communication and support often works. I can’t tell you how many times clients are amazed by the timing around their sessions with me. It has happened multiple times that people have booked months in advance and their loved one unexpectedly passes days before their session or a magical opening appears in my schedule just perfectly in time for someone who really needed it right then. This kind of timing happens all the time.
It was a warm summer day and I was wearing a casual long-flowing floor-length navy dress with platform sandals. I entered the back room of a tea house filled with couches and tables and a variety of people of all ages and backgrounds. The medium and animal communicator Thea Strom, who later became a friend and colleague, was leading the group. We went around the room and introduced ourselves and then she led us through one of the most powerful meditations I’d ever experienced. Even though I’d been intuitive my whole life and that had brought me into an incredible career, and some pretty magical experiences, I’d never opened up to the spirit world directly and intentionally like this before. She led us to connect with an animal and immediately I connected with my beloved cat who I’d known for all 19 years of her life. It was so powerful and I was filled with her love and her energy. My cat then brought forward a gift for me. The gift was the strong message that this space of intuitive spirit connection is where I belonged, what I had been searching for. I had tears of relief and appreciation streaming down my face. Tears from finding the doorway to the nectar of my own spirit and my meaning for being here, tears of so much love from the spirit world, I couldn’t contain it in my body.
Shortly afterward, we broke into pairs and I did a mediumship reading for the first time for someone. When I connected with her energy, I saw the image of an old typewriter with multiple keys jammed in the center and unable to type. I explained this to her and she said she was a writer and was experiencing writer’s block. I was blown away! The reading continued to unfold and I felt her father-in-law with her. I could sense he was helping her and a few things about him. She was quite moved by the reading and showed me a photo she had with her afterward and I was stunned to see the person I’d just been connecting with. He was a little different than I had seen in my mind, but so many things were accurate. It was an incredible first experience.
I knew then that this was a direction I must continue to explore and I began to dedicate myself passionately to studying mediumship. I was still advising startup businesses and doing freelance design and creative direction, but this became my new main focus. For about two years I studied and practiced and then began my professional practice.
With ANNA COHEN being such a public-facing name for my fashion brand, I wanted something else when I started my new venture both because it was very different in nature and because I wasn’t ready to be public about what I was shifting into. So I started my business using my first and middle name, Anna Blossom. I knew I had been saving that for something over the years, but I didn’t know what it was until this direction unfolded and it fit perfectly. I built up my mediumship practice for a couple of years. Once I felt I was standing on solid ground and began to have a following, I was ready to “come out” as a medium. I was worried that people would judge me or feel uncomfortable with the direction I’d chosen to go in, but was relieved and surprised by how much support I received from my community. My work has grown and evolved over the years, and now the name of my business has evolved to be BLOSSOM INTUITIVE which has reflected the expansion of bringing more and different offerings and other healers into my practice as well. I am so happy to do what I love and help others to find their way home in their lives as well.
Is there something that you are feeling drawn to but haven’t said “YES” to yet? In this moment you have an opportunity to pause and ask yourself this question. Maybe you know the answer immediately. Maybe there is a subtle knowing somewhere inside you that has been slowly emerging. Sometimes we are afraid of the powerful energy that comes with saying a full “YES” to something we know resonates with us.
If you’d like, you can take a few deep breaths, centering yourself. Allow your body to soften and your heart to lead. Let go of rushing right now, let go of what’s coming next.
Let your heart allow a knowing to surface into your consciousness, a clarity, a feeling. Follow this feeling and let it reveal helpful information to you. This could be inspiring or it could be unraveling some stagnation that has been needing attention in order to shift and make room for you to move through and forward. There’s no way to do this “wrong” so trust that whatever is coming up in your awareness is helpful and healing. If you desire clarity, ask for it from your heart and allow it to answer.
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