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Archive for 2009

Relationships with the deceased

Posted by Gretchen on November 20th, 2009

I form relationships with deceased people I never met in life. This happens, particularly, when I work for a client a few times with the same deceased loved one. But it can also happen in just one visit when I just click with the deceased. Recently I meditated with a living client who’s brother died in 1985.  Mike was so clear,  so generous with the both visual and auditory information that he made me look good, as a medium. I have to give the credit to Mike, though, I am only as good at my craft as the willingness of the deceased to speak through me.  This week, I met another young man who died more recently- an old soul, who with love for his mother really came though for her, and for me as well. I look forward to meeting some of my deceased clients when I am on that side of the veil.

When a child dies

Posted by Gretchen on November 14th, 2009

The work that is closest to my heart is with parents who’s children have transitioned out of physical. It doesn’t matter how old the parents are, or how old the children are, this is the event in a lifetime that breaks hearts. For parents of deceased children to even draw a breath and got up each day is a major accomplishment.

When I work with a parent and they have positive proof that their child still exists it brings some comfort to them. The first question that needs to be answered is: how are they doing now?

When I wrote the book I was doing a lot of soul rescue and the book reflects that. In fact the vast majority, (99.9 percent) of deceased children heal very quickly. They do not let themselves think unproductive thoughts and they see what is possible in the state  of being they are in. They make choices of whether to age at the rate of their earth bound family or to stay the same age. The choose how they can help others, whether it is to be a guide for family members or to help other young people adjust to the afterlife.

But they still don’t become different people when they die, they start where they left off in life.  Most take the high road to spiritual, mental and emotional improvement. It is the parents I remember in my nightly prayers.

what if the deceased don’t want to talk

Posted by Gretchen on October 16th, 2009

I average two readings a week. This past year I have had three “misses”: three deceased people that did not come through for their loved ones. I always feel bad for my clients when this happens as we irrationally feel rejected by the one who dies as part of the anger of grief.  So here is another disappointment added to that when a medium fails. One was a mother of the living client who had transitioned just a month before, another, as my living client described her husband, was an introverted man after I had spent more than an hour trying to reach him, and the third was inexplicable, perhaps she simply did not believe, even from the other side, that the veil was breach able.

Medium bashing

Posted by Gretchen on October 9th, 2009

A friend recently sent me a series of you tube links bashing Sylvia Brown and James Van Praagh.  It made me wonder who was taking the time to do such slick psychic bashing. I don’t advertise that I guarantee my work, but I do. My mission is to work with grieving people, not folks who want to be entertained or want me to work just to prove the afterlife exists. I think it would be the worst kind of scam to take advantage of people who are grieving,  but I do reserve the right to pick and choose who I work for in the meditations.

How to stay dead

Posted by Gretchen on October 7th, 2009

I went to a lecture on the Hindu religion and the talk was about the state of advancement and purification that would enable a human to be released from the necessity of reincarnation. The summary was that the Hindu are essentially seeking a way of staying dead- well staying in heaven is a Christian goal as well. In my book I talk about the goal of ascension, where we return to God/Source where we will be in a state of blissful unification. Maybe the name of my next book should be: how to we get to stay dead… possibly if we learn all we can, do our best, strive for excellence and seek our most personal of truths we can reach that goal.