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Healing· Intuition· Mental Health General

Trigger Warning: Suicide Ideation In light of the recent passing of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain by suicide, and the…
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Every morning I ask myself about resistance. Here’s why…

Intuition· Mental Health General· Writing

Most mornings I sit down with my journal and write. What gets written isn’t as important to me as simply…
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Hi there!
I’m Amy White.

"But you don't LOOK like a Medium!"

Can I tell you how many times I hear this when I tell people about the work that I do? It makes me giggle, just a little. Not at the person who says it, NOPE, at myself.

You see, I have been a reluctant Medium. I remember saying on more occasions that I can count "No way! Not me! I don't want to talk to dead people!"

There I was in my business suits everyday, going into the Corporate office, leading teams of people. I was working so hard to LOOK like an executive. There was no way I could ever imagine coming out to people that I had this totally WooWoo side of me.

After I quit my Corporate gig, realizing that dressing like an executive (and acting like one for that matter) didn't make the experience enjoyable or fulfilling, I still stayed pretty quiet about the Intuitive and Mediumship work that I did.

I had so much self doubt and I worried way too much about what others might think of me. I wondered how people would be able to accept the shift from such a left brained persona to one that was listing waaaaay to the other extreme.

I censored what I wrote, what I shared and how I worded things so that I didn't give too much of this side of me away.
You know WHY? Because I didn't think I looked like a Medium either!

BUT this is also what my clients love about me and honestly, it is what I love about me too! I don't have to LOOK like anyone but me.

The gifts that are part of the work that I do can show up in different ways and with many different looks. And so can I!

So maybe I don't LOOK like a Medium but then again, maybe I do...
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