Frequent questions: "Have you always been psychic?"

It is quite useful I find to answer on here some of the most frequent questions I get asked as a psychic medium. The most common one, after "can you see anything/one around me?" is "have you always been psychic?"

To answer from my own point of view, although I didn't know what exactly 'psychic' was and couldn't put a name to it when I was younger, I suppose I have. As a child, I used to watch adults talk to each other, mesmerised by the way the colours around them changed and got bigger or smaller depending on whether they were sad, happy, angry, excited. I know now I was seeing auras, but this is something many children do naturally anyway. I was 13 when I knew I could see Spirit. I knew because my Grandad came to visit me one evening and sat on the end of my bed. Nothing unusual there. Apart from the fact it had been his funeral the day before. 

I always knew things, could 'catch out' people who were lying to me, and they never understood how. It came as a surprise to me, but it was exciting too. Unlike many people I have since met who were scared of their abilities or dismissed them, I welcomed them in and felt safe with them. It may be partly due to the fact that my parents also believe strongly in life after life, and Mum and Mum's Mum had the gift, although it wasn't discussed much at home. 

So that's me. Others I have met are either like me, born this way (through heredity, fate, whatever you want to believe) and realised either at the time or later their calling, OR they came to study and discover the psychic and mediumistic world through trauma, grief or loss. Not to say these types of psychics and mediums were 'giftless' before - it takes a spark, an event, a need, for some people to take the first step on this journey.

Tomorrow I am going to look at the difference between being a psychic and a medium!