When Owning Your Power Hurts: Truth-Telling in the Spiritual Community
Release Date: 09/22/2025
How Reiki Strengthens Psychic Mediumship: Energy Boundaries, Clarity & Connection to Spirit
The Connected Spirit Podcast
Many psychic mediums know how to open to Spirit ,but few are ever taught how to close their energy afterward. In this episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast™, Courtney Dawson sits down with Reiki Master Teachers Stephany Brown and Jennifer Quick to talk about the missing link in mediumship: energetic maintenance. They explain how Usui Reiki helps psychic mediums: ✨ Identify what energy is yours, what belongs to your client, and what’s from Spirit. 🌿 Use self-Reiki before and after readings to clear residual emotion and nervous-system overload. 💫 Keep the channel steady so your...
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Kindraya™ Ancestral Healing: Releasing Lineage Through Body and Spirit with Dr.Lotte Valentin
The Connected Spirit Podcast
In this episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast™, Courtney sits down with Dr. Lotte Valentine, creator of Kindraya™ Ancestral Healing, to explore how inherited lineage patterns shape our emotional, physical, and spiritual lives. This grounded conversation focuses on Kindraya™’s three integrated layers of awareness — cognitive, somatic, and superconscious — and how healing unfolds when the body is treated as an archive of ancestral memory. Dr. Lotte introduces the LIGHT Mapping System™, a framework that identifies five core ancestral wounds carried across generations, helping...
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Inside “Evidence of the Afterlife” with Phil Dykes, Kerry McLeod and Robert Lyon
The Connected Spirit Podcast
In this episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast™, Courtney sits down with filmmaker Robert Lyon and internationally respected evidential mediums Philip Dykes and Kerry McLeod to explore the heart behind their new documentary, Evidence of the Afterlife. Together, they discuss the purpose and integrity of evidential mediumship, the healing power of evidence, and how personal grief can deepen one’s connection to Spirit. Phil and Kerry share openly about losing their parents while continuing to serve Spirit, offering insight into love, faith, and resilience. The conversation also touches...
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The Body as an Intuitive Map: Healing Through Medical Intuition with Katie Beecher, MS, LPC
The Connected Spirit Podcast
What if your body isn’t betraying you — but speaking to you? In this grounded and heart-opening episode, Courtney sits down with Katie Beecher, MS, LPC — a Licensed Professional Counselor and Medical & Emotional Intuitive with over 35 years of experience. Known for creating detailed physical, emotional, and spiritual reports (and even intuitive paintings) using just a client’s name and age, Katie blends Jungian psychology, energy awareness, and intuitive healing to help people reconnect to their inner wisdom. Together, they explore how to: Recognize the body’s subtle intuitive...
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Mediumship Burnout: Listening to Spirit Through the Body
The Connected Spirit Podcast
In this episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast, Courtney Dawson explores mediumship development, spiritual burnout, and learning to trust Spirit through the body after a year of grief, illness, and forced rest. Courtney shares how ignoring intuitive and physical signals led to burnout and health challenges, and why Spirit often communicates through the body when we’re not listening in other ways. She reflects on stepping away from professional mediumship, redefining ethical mediumship boundaries, and rebuilding trust in Spirit without pushing through exhaustion. As we move into 2026,...
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What Channeling Really Feels Like (Plus a Live Galactic Message) with Ginette Biro
The Connected Spirit Podcast
Returning guest Ginette Biro joins The Connected Spirit Podcast for a grounded, behind-the-scenes conversation about what channeling actually feels like — beyond the myths, dramatics, and fear-based narratives. Ginette shares how channeling first unfolded unexpectedly during a reading, why it isn’t possession, and how surrender and trust create a seamless connection with Spirit. She also explains the difference between light trance and deep trance states, offering clarity for anyone curious about channeling or mediumship. Mid-episode, Ginette’s Three Guides of the Light step forward with...
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Is That Your Spirit Guide… Or Your Mind? (How to Tell the Difference) with Karen Docherty
The Connected Spirit Podcast
You’ve been feeling the nudges. You’ve been sensing something. But what if the way Spirit reaches for you isn’t what you think it is? In this episode, psychic medium Karen Docherty shares the surprising truth about spirit guides and the subtle signs most people miss. She walks you through how spirit guide communication actually works, so you stop second guessing and start recognizing when guidance is real. Karen also shares four practical tools you can use to begin sensing, recognizing, and communicating with your guides, but first you’ll learn the mechanics of the connection so it...
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Returning to Self Through Ancestral Healing with Ben Eden
The Connected Spirit Podcast
When therapy, mindset work, and manifestation tools stop working — it’s often because the root of what we’re feeling didn’t start with us. In this powerful conversation, Courtney Dawson sits down with therapist and ancestral healer Ben Eden to explore how ancestral healing helps us uncover and release inherited patterns that shape the way we love, give, and seek to be seen. Together, they dive into what it means to return to self through lineage work — bridging psychology, somatics, and Spirit. Ben shares his experience creating The Sacred Return, and how healing our ancestry can...
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When Grief Becomes the Bridge: Healing After Loss, Spirit Signs & Christmas Connection After Death
The Connected Spirit Podcast
The holidays can stir so much emotion—joy, nostalgia, and the deep ache of missing someone you love. In this restorative Christmas episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast, internationally recognized psychic medium and mentor Courtney Dawson shares a deeply personal story about losing her grandfather and the difficult, unexpected grief that followed. Through honesty, vulnerability, and Spirit-led insight, Courtney reveals how grief doesn’t block connection with the spirit world—it opens it. She teaches her gentle and powerful Heartspace Method™ — Acknowledge • Allow • Anchor — a...
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How to Recognize Signs from Loved Ones and Understand Spirit’s Language During the Holidays
The Connected Spirit Podcast
Have you ever noticed the same song, light, or ornament appearing again and again—and wondered if it means something? In this comforting Christmas episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast, internationally recognized psychic medium and mentor Courtney Dawson explains how Spirit communicates through symbols, signs, and synchronicities during the holidays. Courtney shares a heart-warming client story about a Christmas ornament that became a bridge between worlds, then teaches her Symbol Language Framework™ (Perceive • Recall • Receive)—a simple three-part process to help you interpret...
info_outlineYou ever feel like the moment you finally stand in your truth, the world hands you a storm?
This episode is a raw, unfiltered look at what really happens when you decide to step into your spiritual gifts—when you stop shrinking and start shining. Together with Amy, we share the ache of betrayal, the heaviness of grief, and the inner resilience it takes to stay rooted in your purpose when others project their unhealed wounds onto you.
If you've ever felt blindsided by jealousy, shamed for your success, or emotionally exiled by those you once called sisters, this one’s for you. It’s about grief. Boundaries. Misplaced loyalty. And the hard truth that not everyone can come with you when you rise.
This episode won’t sugarcoat what it means to be a lightworker in a shadow-filled world—but it will remind you that you’re not crazy, not alone, and not wrong for wanting more.
Timestamps:
[03:10] – Therapy, grief, and the unexpected layers of healing
[15:42] – What it really means to own your spiritual gifts
[26:55] – Jealousy, projections, and betrayal in spiritual spaces
[41:00] – Letting go of the pedestal others put you on
[56:30] – Discerning toxic energy vs. aligned soul family
[1:11:47] – The risk (and necessity) of visibility in your soul work
[1:23:00] – Why intention and self-responsibility matter more than ever
Pull Quote:
"I gave them the permission to put me on a pedestal—and the moment I crumbled, they couldn’t handle my humanity." - Amy Blackhurst
Resources & Links:
– Connect with Amy Blackhurst: amyblackhurst.com
– Learn with Courtney: mediumcourtneydawson.com
– Join Courtney’s Mediumship Mastery Circle
– Amy’s upcoming Dragon Quest Healing Retreat (22 spots)
If this episode cracked something open for you, take a quiet moment today and ask yourself: Where have I been holding back to make others comfortable? Then let your next step be yours—unapologetically.