Eternal Love Connections with Psychic Medium Carol Cottrell

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Summer is the time for annual gatherings of family and friends. And every year maybe this year, there might be some people you're missing. happy memories of summer barbecues trips to the beach camping or even drinking wine watching the sunset. Or part of the ways you hold on to everyone you love. And today we're going to talk to somebody who can bring those memories back. I'm Alicia Ray.

And I'm Sarah window. Welcome to lovestruck daily, where this week we are bringing you a sizzling summer spectacular filled with all the best parts of summer I'm in love with love with you. What are some of your favourite summer memories? Do you have a favourite summer memory?

As you know, my birthday is in the summer?

I am aware.

So I think those are my favourite memories. I mean, I think just being around family and being I love like some of my childhood summer memories because I would my mom always worked. We never really took vacations or anything. We never took trips like that. But we always travelled a lot for her work. So part of my summer was just travelling around the country with her wherever she was working. And I really appreciate like all the things that I got to see during those summers and all the places I got to see so yeah, what about you?

I would always spend the summer when I was very little with my grandparents at the beach in South Jersey. And I have such clear memories of it was just me. So it was before my sister was born. My sister was born when I was six. So I was probably maybe four or five. I had a Wonder Woman bathing suit. And it was awesome. And I remember wearing my Wonder Woman bathing suit. We would go to the beach in the morning, we would come back home for lunch, and I would shower and I would have to change out of the Wonder Woman bathing suit and I never want to do because Hello Wonder Woman bathing suit. And I have such memories of is my bathing suit clean? Can I wear the Wonder Woman bathing suit? That was the thing of that summer I have such memories of my grandmother saying yep, I washed it last night. It's been on the line. We'll put it on you can go to the beach. Oh, it's so cute. I love it. I love that bathing suit. I thought I was so cool. But I have so many memories of summers with my grandparents who are both passed now. And all of the time we spent just being around each other and not realising. I mean, first of all, now I realise as a parent, how much work it takes to make the logistics of days like that happens. But having them happen all day for the whole summer, day after day after day was just was just wonderful. And I love the memories that I have. You know,

there's something really great about those memories and memories can kind of stay around forever. Yeah. And today we're going to talk to a guest, Carol control is an intuitive psychic medium. And she's joining us today to talk about her experience communicating with spirits. And what that's taught her about love and memories.

Welcome to the show, Carol, it is such a pleasure to talk to you again. I know I had you on my podcast, and I am so excited to talk to you again. How are you?

I'm great. And I was so excited when I got your email inviting me to do this because I remember our conversation. I know it was probably close to two years ago. So I was excited that you invited me.

Well, please tell us and the people who will be listening about your work. How did you get into being a intuitive medium? Yeah,

well, I could make it a long story. So I'll try to keep it shorter. But basically, I worked in the corporate world until I was 40 years old. I was in corporate marketing. And I left because my daughter was having some issues with the fact that I worked all the time. And so I decided to leave and become a consultant. And I had been struggling with depression since I was in my teens. And it really came to a head in that year after I left. And I went and had a Reiki session. Now I'll tell you I didn't know what Reiki was at the time. I went and had massage and somebody said why don't you go get Reiki. And I thought I have no clue what this is, but I'll try it. I've tried everything else, you know, nothing seems to help the depression. I'll try it. So I went and it was a pretty profound session. And the Reiki Master said at the end of the session, do you know your medium? And I said well, I wouldn't really call it that. You know, I've had weird things happen. But she said no, no, your medium. Wow.

Do you know how the Reiki practitioner figured out that you were immediately like was like was there a sign to the flag show up or some lights? Like how do you know? That's amazing.

I know. I guess that's her own intuition knowing it. But, you know, I had some pretty vivid visions during the session and I asked her about those when I you know, when we're finished and she said, You know, that's when she said to me, you know, you're a medium and I'm like, but you know, so and I you know looking back at my Life now I can definitely see the things that you know, lined up. I mean, my dad taught me to how to read the cards when I was 20 years old, not tarot cards, just a regular deck of cards. But you know, I just, I didn't ever really believe in it either. So I was kind of like, It's just luck. You know, just coincidence that I'm getting everything right when I do this for other people. But yeah, I never really believed in it before.

So what exactly do you do when you sit down with someone who has hired you as a medium? What is it like to do what you do?

It's an overwhelming feeling of emotions that come, you know, whether it's from the person who's sitting with me, the client that's sitting with me, or the person in spirit, but I'm really tuned much more into the one who's in spirit. So that feeling of love that comes, it's just, it can be really overwhelming. And it always makes me grateful that I get to do this work, because I get to feel that unconditional love, you know, so, and the wisdom that they share is pretty amazing, too. So I feel like I'm kind of like a third party listening in on the conversation and getting to gain the wisdom from them as well. So yeah,

so you're sort of the, the old switchboard operator between the person who's hired you, and whoever is in spirit who wants to talk to them.

Yeah. No, it will say it's not like a switchboard operator in that there's no like one 800 call, they can, you know, like, call the specific person.

Dan never answers the phone anyway,

he's not good about that. But we don't as a medium have control over who we're connecting to in the spirit world. But more often than not, it is the person that the client is wanting to hear from. So others might come along, you know, I have a friend that always says that people have their a list or B list in their C list with the C list using being usually being the X mother in law. But you know, we can't control if x mother in law wants to come in and say something, she may have very important information to share. So, okay, we try not to get in the way.

So has there been a reading that really surprised you? Or do they all surprise you?

They all surprised me? Figured Yeah, things that they can share that I'm just like, oh my gosh, how did they get that across? You know, like, it's, it's incredible. You know, there's some things that have really shocked me and some, you know, some things that are so detailed, like, the flavour of ice cream, or, you know, like little details that they might share that are just like, how did they give that to me, like, you know, and it's, it's different ways that we receive it. Sometimes we might taste it in our mouth, or just like this knowing of Yeah, it was peppermint ice cream that we loved, or, you know, mindshare,

and love it. Love is in the specificity. Yeah, yeah.

That was in the details. Yeah, that was actually my

question. Because I fully believe in, you know, all of this. But say the person who doesn't speak English, like how do you? Like, practically? How do you communicate? Is it like feelings? Images?

Yeah. So it's all different ways. So you know, a lot of people say they want to be clairvoyant, you know, well, that's only one of our Claire's or senses that we use clairvoyance is clear seeing, right? So what medium wants to do is develop all the senses that those in the spirit world could use. So that's everything from seeing, to feeling to smelling to tasting, to just knowing or hearing, you know, we may hear them speak to us, or we just might share almost like a telepathic, like a thoughts going back and forth. And so if I have somebody that speaks a different language, or if I have an animal that I'm communicating with, it's more of a telepathic sharing the thoughts with each other, or I might feel something in my body, like I know how they passed because I feel it in my body. And it's same with animals. I'll know if, you know if a dog comes through and I feel something on my right leg, I'll know that their back right leg had some issue, you know, and the dog might telepathically share what that was, or just might let me know like, yeah, my back right leg was I limped on it, you know, kind of thing?

does this all have to be done in person? Or like, I mean, COVID is a thing like, can you do this? Can you do readings over zoom? Or do you have to be like, physically now? You could do you could do it over the computer? Oh,

during the time of COVID I actually, you know, I'm in Charleston, South Carolina. So most of my clientele was in Charleston, South Carolina. But then when COVID happened all the sudden, you know, I started doing readings for people all over the world, and teaching classes and things like that. And so people were joining in from all over so yeah, it's it's just as easy to do it on Zoom, as it is in person. works the same. Oh,

I'm thinking about my sister who's a dog otologist and she can't go anywhere and say that she's a dermatologist without someone being like, what do you think of this mole? Like, I imagine that you're like, if we're talking like, what do you hear for me? You know, like, do you get that a lot? Like, is that a big you get?

I do get that. But I have, actually, it's, well, I should take it people that asked me that, but I'll tell you, it's a very strong ethical thing for mediums that you do not read people without their permission. So we turn ourselves off, I don't walk around reading people, I don't walk around connecting to the spirit world, they're very, they respect they're respectful of my boundaries. You know, I'm just like, if if somebody in the spirit world wants their loved one to get a reading, they will arrange it. So that loved one gets a session with a medium and the reading.

I've never had a reading done. But very much, I very much believe in it. And I think it's real. But you know, it's so fascinating to me. But anyway,

no, I appreciate that. You say like, you've never had it done. But you do. There are people I know, there's lots of people that don't believe and I'm very much okay with that. Like I said, for the first 40 years of my life, I didn't believe believe that it was I was like, How can I know that information? There's no way you know, kind of always trying to get a scientific explanation. Yeah, absolutely. When I didn't have one, I was really stuck. Because I was like, How can you do this work if I don't know where the information is coming from? Like, it doesn't make sense to me. So but I was raised as a Catholic. And so I just You knew said, I'm gonna put my faith out there and be like, if this is what I'm supposed to do, lead the way. Now, I had to have many, many signs that I pushed away and said, No, no. Until I finally said, Okay, I'm in. Yeah, but yeah, and there's people that don't believe and that is okay. But one thing that I've learned is, it's not for me to prove to anybody. Yep. And I had somebody today, who I don't think was a believer that came on pretty like, for US Armed and like, they didn't want to be there kind of thing. And it was a short reading a 30 minute reading, within 10 minutes, this person's total demeanour changed. And you could see the healing that happened in that time. And it was just amazing to get to be part of it, you know,

okay, we're gonna take a beat, go have a sip of water, or coffee, wine or whatever you need. And we'll be right back.

So how does that healing take place? In this process? What are some of the things that are healing for people, especially if they come in, you know, crossed arms and very hesitant to engage?

I think that the thing is, like, when their loved one gives information that there's no way I could know about, it helps them drop the wall, like, yeah, oh, there, there's got to be something to this, there's no way she could have known that, you know, and then when their loved one is saying things to them that are such, there's so much love in the conversation in the messages and, you know, talking about, so this person who came through in spirit today that I'm talking about the client, the person that came through talked about what he saw going on in the life of the person that's still here in the physical world, and and talked about that, and what he saw and how proud he was of the person and the things that they were doing. And it was just, it's, you know, it's so healing for the person to be like, Yeah, they really are here. Like they see that happening in my life. And I haven't talked to anybody else about that. So yeah.

Wow. I remember, when we did our interview on my show two years ago, you said that after death, everything is just love. It is just love that exists with people who are in spirit. Do you believe that love is infinite? Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's so funny that you bring that up, because actually, the person that I was talking to just talking about that came through in spirit talked about, they feel nothing, but they're, they're not being judged. They weren't told to go sit somewhere until enough people prayed for them. You know, it wasn't that it was the person said, I was accepted and loved immediately. Wow, that was a beautiful message to hear, too. But you know, I think we all come into this world as love that's the source of what we are. And then all the things that we learn pretty much right from the get go are based in fear. So so that kind of takes over. And we have to work really hard to make decisions that love versus fear, because it's so ingrained in us but when we pass we go back to the source of what we are, which is love, and that's eternal. Do you

have a love story to share? What's funny

that you asked me that? I was listening to your I think it was on Memorial Day or Memorial Day podcast and you're talking About the Navy SEALs. Yeah. So I'm writing my memoir right now. And I just finished my two chapters on my love story with a Navy SEAL.

Oh, my goodness, it's a small part

of my book. I mean, my, my memoir is gonna be more more about how I found my way into mediumship. But yeah, that was my love story

where you give us a little bit, give us a little sneak peek of what's in the memoir about hot Navy SEALs.

Um, you know, when you're dating a Navy Seal, you never know where they are, or when you're gonna hear from them again. And so I think there was so much of that, like, just waiting to hear from him again, like, when is he gonna pop back in? You know, and him not being able to share anything about where he's been or what he's done kind of thing. But mine goes way back. I'm gonna date myself here because I was dating this guy when we invaded Panama. Oh, okay. Yep. Well, history. This is how my dad ended up teaching me to read the cards because they had on the news all over the news that we had invaded Panama that Navy SEALs went in, and I didn't know what was going on, you know, with him, and I was a wreck. And my dad said, I'm gonna read the cards for Eunice, what do you mean, you're gonna read the cards for me. And he had a deck of cards, and he said, Come sit next to me. And he told me everything that was going to happen. And I was just like, Well, how do you know this? And he's like, it's all in the cards. So when this boyfriend came home from Panama, of course, he couldn't give me a lot of details or anything. But he confirmed that everything my dad told me was accurate. Wow. When I went back to my dad and said, You need to show me how you did that. And that's when I first learned how to read the cards. Luckily, my dad was able to keep me from being overwhelmed with worry during that time,

what a loving thing to do, too. If people want to find you, where can they find you on the internet to find out more about what you do. Okay, so I have a website

Carol control that calm. And I'm also on Facebook and Instagram Carol Cottrell

spiritual medium, and you're still taking clients virtually through zoom.

I do. I see people in person, I've gone back to being in my studio. So I see people in person, but I also have clients from all over the world. So still doing via zoom as well.

Yeah. That is amazing.

Thank you so very much for bringing this like beautiful message of love to us this week. It is such a pleasure to talk to you again. Oh, it's

so good to see you again. I really enjoyed it. And it was very nice to meet you, Alicia.

I love talking to Carol and I will make sure that we have a link to my interview with her from two years ago. If you want to hear more from her. She's so fascinating and so kind

there's like an error about her as soon as she came out. I was like, Oh, I'm like calm. Yeah, I don't know what I don't often feel that way. But I was like, I want you to do my reading right now. I want to know that. I trust you. I believe in you. Yeah, she sounds really

cool. So Alicia, what is our love to go for today?

I think it's exactly what she said I to believe that love is infinite. And I love that I love when she said that we came we come into the world in love and it remains after we leave it I think yeah, just

beautiful. And that what remains of us is the the amount we love other people

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