Heal With the Power of Spirit, Jesus Christ, God and Intuitive Mediumship with Laura West
Summary:
Laura West is an incredible intuitive medium with her beginning into the spiritual world starting with dream visitations from her grandmother and Jesus, and the meaning behind it all.
Laura has her own podcast, A Guided Life, and her book "Guided".
Laura also talks about her Spirit Guide, Jason, and how he has been paramount in her journey.
Laura West has experienced judgment from family members for her spiritual work, but her husband who is so incredibly supportive got her a book on Christianity and mediumship to counter the judgements from others. She has also learned to thank those who criticize her for helping her to realize she is doing the right thing.
Her purpose is to continue sharing God's divine love through messages from Spirit and can't wait to introduce you to her!
Check her out at:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guidedwest111/
Podcast "A Guided Life": https://open.spotify.com/show/5YjPffXeZsFFNnzNWXui86?si=29eed3aa1b0447a9
Transcript:
okay. Hey everyone, welcome to the Health is Powers podcast. I am so excited about this podcast episode. This is something we haven't done yett. We've got a special guest, Laura West, who actually has her own podcast too, A Guided Life, and it's really just talking about, and I honestly talk a lot about the spiritual foundations of healing on several podcast episodes, but today we're really going to dive into just the world of spirit because Laura West, she's also a registered nurse, so she's been in the healthcare field, and she's an energy healer, and we've talked a lot about energy healing on the podcast.
7:46 - Anna Esparham
But she's also a psychic medium. She's an author, so she'll talk to you a little bit about her book too. She, I talked to you about her podcast, A Guided Life, and we're gonna talk about her Tv show as well, called Life from the Other Side on the Everyday Woman Tv network, And her book is also titled, Guided.
8:06 - Laura West
Yep.
8:06 - Anna Esparham
she, she's participated in multiple spiritual summits internationally, She's taught about intuition on several virtual platforms and across students from all over the world. She's been in national, international journals, magazines. She's been on multiple podcasts. So excited to have you on my podcast show now.
8:26 - Laura West
Thank you.
8:26 - Anna Esparham
So thank you so much, so uh, welcome to the show. Laura.
8:32 - Laura West
Oh, thank you so much, and thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
8:37 - Anna Esparham
No, I'm super excited. This will be, yeah, our 1st podcast episode where we actually talking to a psychic medium. So this is great.
8:44 - Laura West
Oh y.
8:45 - Anna Esparham
I know. Yeah, you'll be, you'll be the 1st. I, I hope to have many more too. So super interested just because I also do a lot of intuitive. Healing sessions with clients. And so I want to kind of dive deep into that, but tell us a little bit about your background and just how you gott to where you are right now.
9:10 - Laura West
well, the, the, there's a, there's a long version that I can happily condensed. It all started when I was a teenager. And I had a couple of rather significant dreams. The 1st one was when my grandmother passed. Now my family and I, we went and visited her in hospice. She did have cancer and the night that we visited her, I had a dream and I saw her in my dream and she was in all white. She walked into the room of my great grandmother's house, who was alive at that time, and there was behind her the, the, the light was so bright at through the front door and I saw her and I said, Grandma, you're all better.
9:58 - Laura West
And I said that because while in hospice she was on a ventilator, she was comatose, so there was just no life to her. She was a shell of a person, really not my, you know, New York Jewish grandmother who has was full of life and personality. So when I saw her My dream is said grandma are all better because she was her again and she said yes, I am. And it was the next day that we found out she had passed during the night. So that was significant for me because that was the 1st that I can recall at least from a uh, past family member because she was the 1st family member to pass in my life at that time that I had a dream visitation from and it sort of paved the way for other dream visitations from past loved ones, family members, friends.
10:51 - Laura West
Loved ones of friends, coworkers of loved ones like my husband. And so it, it's, it was, it was the start, it was definitely the start. And it's significant too with my grandmother because showed up several times throughout my life and has actually played a big role in my spirituality. So I credit her a lot for my journey and another significant dream that I had at that time. A dream visitation from Jesus. Now this dream was significant for me because I was brought up in a multicultural, multi religious household.
11:34 - Laura West
My mom is Korean, My dad is Caucasian. My mom was brought up Christian. My dad was brought up Jewish. So we were, we were sent, not sent. We went to both church and synagogue growing up and I, I loved it actually. I loved the fellowship. I loved being around people who had similar values and they felt like really good people, regardless of which religion we were sort of practicing more at the time. I still had internal struggle of where I felt I fit in between either, and I don't blame having been brought up in a multicultural, multi religious household for that struggle.
12:17 - Laura West
I would have had that same struggle had I been brought up in a strictly Christian household or a strictly Jewish household, Because I couldn't. Fully convicted to either, and I was waiting for that to happen. And this was in my teenage years. So it was around that time of really diving deeper into that struggle that I had a dream visitation from Jesus. So the timing felt kind of odd, especially because what he asked me to do. In that dream. It was actually it was very quick visitation.
12:52 - Laura West
He walks through. He's in color. He walks through on the arm of a He's arm in arm with a man who Buff, buff arm, but I couldn't see anything else, and the man that he was arm and arm with was grayed out. And all I saw was really Jesus. And I'm thinking like, oh, maybe that's like my guardian angel or an angel of some sort, maybe my spirit guide, like I didn't know who this man was, but it didn't seem important at the time. And so Jesus walks up, walks up to me. He comes through this cloud and this tunnel and this cloud of like iridescent color.
13:28 - Laura West
And he's in blue and white and he comes up to me looking like the quintessential, quintessential Jesus that you would see like in Renaissance paintings. And I, I believe that was so I could recognize him. Does he look like that for real? I actually don't think so. But I think that was for me to recognize him at that age cause that's that pictures of him like that everywhere. And yeah, all he asked me was to spread his word. That's all he asked me to do. And I right away had so many doubts and so many like what like I don't even know what I, what I believe yet.
14:06 - Laura West
And you're asking me this really simple but deep question. For me it was heavy, and so I said to him I I'll try. That's what I said. And he seemed fine with that, because next thing I knew the dream was over. And so for years I struggled with that. That dream stuck with me, and I remember. Thinking like, okay, well, maybe this means I'll feel more Christian. Because to me spreading Jesus's word was evangelizing and, and was very Christian based idea, so I was kind of waiting to feel more Christian.
14:47 - Laura West
So you can imagine my surprise when I picked up Sylvia Brown books for the 1st time. She was a psychic medium. She wrote lots of books and she wrote a lot about the other side, spirit guides, mother, godfather, God, angels, all these different ideas. I picked up her books and I was like, this is it, this is it. I felt it in my soul what I was looking for. But then I was also more confused by that Jesus dream. Because I'm thinking, well, I thought I was supposed to feel more Christian, not more.
15:14 - Laura West
Whatever this is, where does Jesus fit into that? So I just kind of sat with it, I sat with it and I just went with it. Another significant dream that I had soon after that, after learning about Spirit Guides for the 1st time, was getting to meet my own. Sylvia Brown had recommended that you can ask to meet your Spirit Guide in a dream and so I did that and about two weeks later I had a dream with a, with a man. I just luckily knew to ask him are you my spirit guide? And he said yes. And then the next thing I asked him what's your name?
15:49 - Laura West
Because for me it was important and he told me his name is Jason. And so that's how I met Jason for the 1st time and Jason hass been paramount in everything that I do from here on out. I have met other guides. I have met other Ascended Masters that I work with to include Jesus and uh, Mary Magdalen. I've met another Spirit Guide since then, more recently, the same way, in a dream. Her name is Lana, so I You know, I had established this feeling of, okay, spirituality is it for me like this is it.
16:27 - Laura West
Still waiting and wondering how that dream with Jesus fit in. You know, fast forward in life. I went to college, I met my Husb, well, I met my husband in middle school, but we started dating after I was done with nursing school. He was done with the fire academy, he was done with probation, I should say. And you know, we, got engaged, got married, had children, like bought a house, like did all those things, all those very human things. And I was starting to go to church with him. And you know, we wanted to bring up our daughters like in, a household that had a spiritual aspect but also was able to bring those good values that came with it.
17:11 - Laura West
We did more of the Christian thing and we went to a non denominational church, which I absolutely love because he taught so much about. Love. So I really liked that, but it was. But I found that going back to church after all these years put me right back to where I was before. I'm like, there are things about this that I like and there are other things where I just can't. I just can't so I started to go back to spirituality and I started to open back up to that again and that started because in twenty nineteen I went to visit a psychic for the first time I had had dreams and experiences up until this point, but I didn't think much of them.
17:48 - Laura West
I didn't think it was a predisposition to medium ship or anything like that. I just thought that my family was more sensitive and I was too, and being more open to these things and these ideas, I would naturally have more experiences. Well, the, the psychic. Told me to do something that changed my life, and it changed the course of all that I do. She told me to start meditating, and that was it, and I had never done that before. I would pray but I would never meditate and listen, so I was always doing the talking.
18:22 - Laura West
So I started meditating and I'll be honest at 1st meditation actually scared me. I was both intimidated by it and worried about to, you know, leaving my body and being vulnerable to possession. I didn't know what to expect, you know, because uh, I just, I didn't and I was intimidated by it because I'm thinking, well, not a guru. Isn't meditation for gurus? And do I have to sit in lotus position for hours on end, you know, with my fingers in these circles? I, I didn't. I had these preconceived notions and so it kept me from meditating.
18:58 - Laura West
So I started meditating and I started with guided meditations and I still do guided meditations. I love being guided. Gives my brain something to do anyway. Side note So I started meditating and opened thing. It opened me up to my intuition. I was in ive already, but I learned to hone in on it, and I learned that intuition was more than just feeling or having a sense of when something was wrong. It was also feeling and having a sense when something was right, and I learned through this journey For me at least, my intuition is my communication portal for between me and my team on the other side.
19:44 - Laura West
So rewiring things in my brain without realizing it while meditating and Training myself to quiet or learn to let go of thoughts in my brain. The same way that you need to be able to do that when connecting with the other side and doing medium ship so I was actually training my brain for medium ship without realizing it and so twenty twenty I started I went into energy healing class like I started to become very interested did in connecting with spirit again. And it started with channel writing.
20:23 - Laura West
And then from there when I realized, okay, like this isn't that scary. It just feels like my thoughts, but or my, my voice, my thought my mind voice but somebody else's words. And then I, that turned into I really wanna try energy healing and I do it to, I wanna give medium ship a go and I do it and You know, just following those bread crumbs, knowing and starting to recognize when I'm getting messages from the other side, whether it's through me directly or from other people. And I can go into examples as far as what I mean by that, but one thing just led to another.
21:02 - Laura West
And because I started meditating and because I started recognizing and honing in on my intuition, which I knew to be communication from the other side, I was able to start to see how I was being guided and how I was being supported and, and and helped through aspects of my life, not just what with spiritual related, but with work and with family and personal things. So for me, that was paramount to leading me to where I am today talking to you. Anna.
21:36 - Anna Esparham
A great story. It, it's interesting. I kind of had some similar parallels.
21:43 - Laura West
Wow.
21:44 - Anna Esparham
and, and it's funny cause my family is also multicultural and so my father is Persian and he's Muslim.
21:54 - Laura West
No way. Well.
21:59 - Anna Esparham
And then my mom, well, she used to be Christian and then a really bad event happened to her while she was reading the Bible, so she left it and I think went atheist and
22:07 - Laura West
Oh, whoa.
22:11 - Anna Esparham
No, it was a big, it was a big problem for her. I, I had asked her specifically why, you know, she was no longer Christian anyway. They really did not like religion in the household and really did not want me going to church.
22:21 - Laura West
Well,
22:25 - Anna Esparham
And you know,
22:26 - Laura West
oh,
22:26 - Anna Esparham
they thought it was kind of evil in a way that because I think,
22:26 - Laura West
my goodness.
22:32 - Anna Esparham
just also because of my mom's experience, but Then father. When he was in Iran, he would go to the mosques. He actually loved the religion Islam and was really involved when he was younger and he would go and volunteer at the mosques and You know, the government over there is ruled by basically the Molas, which are the religious leaders and um, people are pretty poor over there, you know, and you know, his family was pretty poor too and while he was serving tea there, he saw one of the Mola leaders get people emotional at the mosque and get donations from all these poor people.
23:18 - Anna Esparham
And then he literally, my father literally saw him through the window, go get all that money, drive in his Mercedes bends, and then go to the next church. And so I think that really ruined my father's um idea.
23:34 - Laura West
Sure.
23:35 - Anna Esparham
of religion. And that's why he was really against us going to church because he thought it was just the root of evil. And so anyway, it was interesting that you said that you were from different, you know, religious backgrounds and then how you had a dream Visitation. I had a visitation from Jesus and that's what converted me to Christianity was,
23:58 - Laura West
How weird.
23:59 - Anna Esparham
and I didn't even really know about it. I really had no idea who Adam and Eve were. I was like so clueless. I,
24:05 - Laura West
Wow.
24:05 - Anna Esparham
I think I remember going to my friend's church when I was young, I don't know, eight or nine years old, and I remember asking like who Adam and Eve was because they were doing little Bible study for kids on that. And then I the, the teach the Bible teachers or whatever were really mad at me because I didn't know. And anyway and anyway. So yeah, Jesus came to me and was like,
24:26 - Laura West
Wow.
24:26 - Anna Esparham
I'm gonna be with you. And I, you know, I saw him in front of me. I think I was lying in bed or something like reading a book and And so anyway, that changed that. Then I became Christian.
24:39 - Laura West
Wow.
24:41 - Anna Esparham
So yeah, that was just interesting. Parallel.
24:43 - Laura West
Interesting, That's wild and we're both in healthcare.
24:48 - Anna Esparham
I know it is kind of weird how that happens and now we're, yeah, we're both in healthcare,
24:53 - Laura West
That's so.
24:54 - Anna Esparham
we're both intuitive, that's yeah,
24:56 - Laura West
Wow.
24:57 - Anna Esparham
so tell me, you actually, I was gonna ask you, this is just a side note, but while you were talking about, your family, did your family, di were, was anybody intuitive in your family?
25:09 - Laura West
You know, it's one of those things where it's like as you talk about it, things come out versus it freely being delivered to you as information. There are people in my family. If they exercised it, they could be considered mediums too. So I, my mom is very empathic. One, my dad has gotten dream visitations too from past loved ones and delivered messages that way. But I think that for me, I was getting it that way also, but I had decided that I wanted to be awake when I got these messages. I didn't want to be whenever I was sleeping or I was up to them.
25:52 - Laura West
I wanted to be an active role in that process too. So that's why I started to train, I guess, and, and study it and, and practice it that way. So I think that it started for me is very similar to, my, even my sister, like a lot of my close family members that they could have been, they could, they could have been doing what I'm doing to it was just a choice that, that I made. But yeah, so in, in hindsight and after, you know, speaking about it and my family knowing that I, I do a podcast and this T V show, like all these things that I'm doing and putting myself out there now, it's like, oh yeah, I've had this experience, you know, so it's always sort of, in hindsight, but I think there is some sort of genetic disposition, at least within my family.
26:44 - Laura West
For this I know you, you know, it's interesting that you say that because I've had guests on my podcast too, who, even though they were adopted, their adoptive parents have the ability that they also have. So I think it's almost like a sole genetic Isn't that interesting?
27:05 - Anna Esparham
Like a different type of inheritance, Yeah. That is interesting. Yeah, I was just wondering cause yeah, my, it was, it's more on my Persian side of the family that they're, they're more intuitive. And so I was just wondering, because I just hear so much that it kind of runs in families, so I just wondered. I was just trying to pay attention to that. Tell us so. Even speaking about religion and You going to the Christian church? There's a lot of things that some people actually don't like about psychic medium.
27:47 - Laura West
Yep, that's true.
27:50 - Anna Esparham
I just wanna get your experience, just your experience, what you've experienced as a psychic meeting and especially, you know, going to church, being around friends and, and maybe their judgments or their viewpoints.
28:03 - Laura West
sure. That's a really good question and I think it's a really important topic. Because it can cause a lot of fear of judgment and persecution in people who are just trying to do good. I have myself, I have had I don't want to say how do we say this? Family members who, close family members who have made comments. I would consider them very religious, so I think rightfully so. I am very fortunate that my That my husband, who was brought up Christian, I would say they're brought up pretty conservative Christian, my husband is.
28:51 - Laura West
Supportive and very open. And he himself, I feel like, asks good questions, you know, not just from me but from life and what, you know, what goes on the world and ideas about about the other side. So he's kind of on his own journey, which I think helps. I know I was fearful at 1st to tell him, like even to tell him that I was going to go see a psychic and it wasn't of how he was gonna react because he was like, Oh, that sounds cool. It was how I was afraid of how he was gonna react because I was pretty impressionable at the time.
29:29 - Laura West
Right now, I feel very strong at what I do and no one can dissuade me. But at that time I felt like if he was not for it, I would have continued to maybe just Every once in a while. You know, dip, dip into some spiritual stuff, but maybe not really dive in because I, it was important for me to have that support cause I was still trying to figure out too, like if it felt Um, you know how, how it fit into everything I should say, because because you do hear things, you know, going to like a Christian church or whatever, that certain things are good, certain things are bad and, you know, hear from other people as well.
30:11 - Laura West
So, my dear, sweet husband, I'll have to show you because it happens to be here, he got me this book it's called. To be a Christian psychic.
30:22 - Anna Esparham
Oh, my word.
30:25 - Laura West
okay, So when he 1st got this for me, I was like I, I like rolled my eyes. I was like, what are you trying to convert? Are you trying to tell me why being psychic is bad? And it was actually the opposite. He was like, no, I am giving you fuel and power for those who tell you that call themselves Christian, who say that being a psychic is bad.
30:49 - Anna Esparham
Oh,
30:49 - Laura West
And this book,
30:49 - Anna Esparham
wow.
30:50 - Laura West
from what I've read so far, He just goes into like all the different verses and things in the Bible where it like actually supports and backs up psychic medium ship and counter counter argues. Counter argue some of the other points. And and you know, for me it's not like, okay, I'm, I'm gonna now preach to the world while, you know, it's just more so for like if people have concerns or questions and I can be, I can have something to, to read researcher go back to. So anyway this book is, it was actually really sweet gesture that he got it for me and very, very thoughtful and you know, but uh, I guess the other part of that is the reason why you got this for me is because there have been some people, more distant relatives on side of the family who who have said things to me where they, you know, they pray for my soul and that they ask me to stop doing what I'm doing because it's witchcraft or I'm just opening up.
31:50 - Laura West
Medium ship just leads to evil. So I have definitely have had that from a couple different, situations. And so it does, you know, at 1st I think it's like it's a, it's a, it's a punch in the gut, you know, it's just like,
32:04 - Anna Esparham
Hello.
32:04 - Laura West
oh, like, oh, you know, I, I don't, I don't like dealing with I, I, you know, confrontation and anything. And I don't confront them. I don't, and you know, when they say things like I'm, I'm praying for you, I'm like great, like pray for me. That's wonderful. Like I happily accept all prayers that you know, that that things go smoothly for me. I also have learned to Even though it's hard at 1st to thank them for the role that they play in helping me to. More fully that I'm actually I'm doing the right thing, like I'm where I'm meant to be, amm, doing the work out of love and that feels right.
32:52 - Laura West
And so I've been able to, though it's still hard at 1st. I've been able to sort of spin it in a way or look at it, not spin it but look at it in a way where it's like they were meant to do that for me. Maybe I was at a point where I wasn't sure anymore, but it actually just fuels a fire in me to, to be louder. And the podcast came soon after the last incident, so I'm like, you know, bringing on because it just helps me to actually feel more. Are powerful and feel like I am gonna be voice and advocate for spirit because if people try to shut that down, then what are we doing here?
33:28 - Laura West
And you know, and it's like It's like, why would you not want that? It's just all fear, it's all fear, I get it. And, and not to say that there may not be bad spirits or bad experiences. I mean, I'm still trying to figure that out. You can't also assume that every single person doing this work is, is evil and you want to call me a witch. I actually don't care, I really don't. I I don't mind it to be honest, because to me Being a witch is somebody who's very in tunee. Again there are dark, black witches, dark, you know, bad witches, and then there are good witches.
34:02 - Laura West
But you know it just means being in tune with nature, it means being in tune with spirit, being in tune with all sorts of elements. Then so be it. That's what I am, just a label.
34:16 - Anna Esparham
Yes, confidence good. I love it. It is interesting. I, yeah, my husband's been really interested in kind of diving deep into the Bible and I, I started reading the Bible from, you know, the Old Testament through the New Testament. And it's interesting how they do.
34:35 - Laura West
Wow.
34:37 - Anna Esparham
There's spots in the Bible where it's like, yeah, mediums are evil and you know, all these people, you know, would go and attack them because they're evil. And you know, I think though a lot and that I got to read that book too. But what's interesting is These people that were profits in the Old Testament and the New Testament were basically mediums.
35:02 - Laura West
Hello.
35:04 - Anna Esparham
and so it's like they're you know not all mediums are you know working with the devil for example and so it just we kind of have to pay attention to that and and in addition there's a lot going on in the bible that's missing and that was taken out. And so we don't have the whole picture. We really don't. And so a lot of that's hidden and, and for a purpose,
35:30 - Laura West
Oh,
35:30 - Anna Esparham
anyway I could go down like a total rabbit hole on that.
35:30 - Laura West
interesting. We totally.
35:32 - Anna Esparham
but I, but I am like, so like diving deep into like what's been hidden and what's been, you know, so that we could just follow or whose agenda and following everyone's narrative,
35:40 - Laura West
for whose agenda? Yeah.
35:43 - Anna Esparham
which you know is going on right now too. And another reason why I left the hospital. But yeah, so Anyway, I, I wanted to go in actually talking about hospitals, speaking about healing, since you do a lot of energy healing and I'm not, maybe I don't want to put words in your mouth or anything, but maybe you use medium ship for healing as well as, as kind of, and some sometimes I use that in my intuitive healing sessions as well in terms of what comes up for each person, but tell us a little bit about how you approach that.
36:16 - Laura West
Yep.
36:20 - Anna Esparham
for your clients.
36:22 - Laura West
Um healing. You're in a state that is very similar to medium ship. So what I mean by that is with energy, healing and, and the modality that I do more, more specifically is called healing touch. When you do energy healing, you are a vessel for the, the lovely, amazing healing energy from the other side. To go through you and sort of act as a conduit to the client. And the great thing about it is that that's all you have to do. You don't have to diagnose, you don't have to. I mean you, you assess a little bit, but you don't have to, like, you know, focus on the energy going in one place or another.
37:10 - Laura West
It will do what it's meant to. You're just there to help hold that space, facilitate it, be that conduit as you're in that space. You're so connected to the other side. So if you're already communicating with the other side. Whether you call it intuition or or actual psychic medium ship, then you're in the space to receive messages or to see things. I think if you want. So depending on how you get things, for me, I get things, mostly I would say clairvoyantly, so I can see things with my mind's eye and so I'll do this energy healing and I can visualize the energy.
37:48 - Anna Esparham
Heh?
37:55 - Laura West
I can visualize who is on the other side. Bringing that energy. Like they show me those things and I, and though it looks like an imagination or just a vision, I can corroborate that with the person that I'm doing the healing with, you know, sensations that they may feel as well or um, I get a lot of, I get a every time I do But healing I get, I feel it in my hands like vibrations and stuff. I can feel it in my hands and I also can feel a little bit of as if another hand is on top of my left hand anyway.
38:32 - Laura West
So I get a lot of sensations as well, so I will get readings and messages for people when I'm doing healings because it just seems to come with that territory of being connected with the other side.
38:48 - Anna Esparham
I'm more um, Clare buoyant too, it's like I've, I think I've always been more visual, and there it's sometimes, I mean I do get Claire audience and Claire cognizance, kind of an inner knowing. Probably I get more Clare cognizance than I do Claire audience. But but yeah, yeah, it's interesting, yeah. The clairvoyance is definitely so much easier for me and it is just like these images just pop up and it's almost like I can't.
39:17 - Laura West
Yep.
39:19 - Anna Esparham
Can't. I can't stop the flow once I start, like once I start with my logical mind because and it's so tough for me right now, that's one, one of the issues that I'm trying to work through is like stopping that logical Md mind where I'm like, oh, this disease, like we have to manage it this way. And once I start doing that, it's like it shuts off the intuition and like the images stop. So I have to like it took me a while to stop that inhibition,
39:47 - Laura West
Sure, sure.
39:49 - Anna Esparham
just to allow the images to flow. So I kind of have to like totally be in the flow in order for those, the images to keep coming. Sometimes Sometimes the spirit guides come up, sometimes angels, sometimes um other beings, just show me like where you needed to go in the body or if something needs healing, like they can help out with. The healing,
40:20 - Laura West
Mm Hmm Absolutely,
40:22 - Anna Esparham
so yeah, that's just been my experience.
40:26 - Laura West
you never know what you're gonna get with every person cause they, they will bring messages and, and do the healing for what the person needs. So that's what's so great about it. It's, it's all you have to do is be there. They just take care of all of it, so it's really nice.
40:45 - Anna Esparham
It's cool too to see their intuition start manifesting so they can kind of work on healing themselves. That's a, that's an area that I've been really learning and how to teach some of this intuitive methods to my clients is so they can just take it away. And work through it themselves because there's so much that goes on in life that is in the unseen realm, you know, whether it be emotional or spiritual. I mean, we pick up a lot during the day and it's just super important to tunee into that as often as possible to help heal whatever needs to be healed.
41:24 - Anna Esparham
Instead of like going to see someone every single month,
41:28 - Laura West
Oh yeah, I know. That's why I'm such a a big advocate for, for intuition and for people to learn to hone in on their own. And I feel like it, it comes up all the time with my guests, some on my show too, about the importance of learning to listen to your intuition because it's for all aspects of life, not just if you want to communicate with spirit, it's for everything. So yeah,
41:57 - Anna Esparham
What are some of the things that people come to you for? Is there, is there like similar trends that there is a common issues?
42:05 - Laura West
Like for the healing or just like for reading.
42:07 - Anna Esparham
Anything.
42:10 - Laura West
I, I actually really like to, cancer patients, when it comes to the healing, I've helped several, handful now. And I mean, I'm happy to report that they've all been in, got into, gone into remission, which is amazing. Considering that Uh, at least one of them was stage four, so that's pretty incredible,
42:33 - Anna Esparham
Wow.
42:34 - Laura West
yeah, really incredible. And and there were a lot of things that they did on their own part too, eating better and, and taking care of themselves as well. I don't, I mean, I don't think the energy healing was a hundred percent of it, but I think that it definitely, definitely helped. So as far as energy healing, there's that a lot for like anxiety, depression, like a lot going on. In their lives. I have people who want just to hear messages from their spirit guides. So I work a lot with entities on the other side.
43:03 - Laura West
Past love ones will come through mostly my readings of which are about forty five minutes will just be messages from the other side whether people need guidance or they have specific questions like do we move or not or how do I handle this situation so I think it's Pretty standard questions and things that people will have for when they go to visit a psychic or psychic medium, you know, questions about love and career and all that. All that good stuff too, that, that we needed to survive in this human world.
43:35 - Laura West
So lots of people looking for direction as far as that goes.
43:40 - Anna Esparham
back to back to that cancer, patient Um do, can you do that? Distance or does it okay, you can do a distance good.
43:49 - Laura West
That's, yeah, that's a really good question. So uh, synchronistically I should say. This whole journey of medium ship and energy healing and all that good stuff actually happened. Around shut down from Covid. So I took my energy healing class. The weekend before Covid actually shut everything down here in San Diego, and in fact, that weekend we were supposed to have it at a local college, but But then we couldn't meet there, so we ended up having the class at the instructor's house.
44:24 - Laura West
That's how soon. And into Covid it was. And so. Vast majority of my readings and my healings are done virtually and they work just as good. I do it all in Zoom and I don't, I mean the, the healing part, we don't stay on Zoom, so there's nothing to, to record. But I do record the readings that way and then I send it to the, to the sitter or the client. That way they don't have to worry about taking notes or like writing everything down or remembering everything. I like, I record it. As long as they're okay with it, I'm okay with it.
44:55 - Laura West
I record it for them and then send it. So in a way it's, it's almost better to, to do it virtually because of that. And it works just as good. So all of these clients that I've helped the, the, the ones with cancer have been um, out of the country, even not all of them, sorry. Some have been in different states and one has been one, maybe two, one has been in a, from a different country and it work just as good.
45:23 - Anna Esparham
Perfect. Yeah, yeah, that's what I, I was, I have been doing some,
45:27 - Laura West
Awesome.
45:28 - Anna Esparham
distance and then, I learned, from, I just started doing all that since I started working with, a medical intuitive and he's kind of like a spiritual coach too, and he actually taught me how to meditate because I could never meditate either and that was when,
45:43 - Laura West
It's a practice.
45:44 - Anna Esparham
yes, it is, and it took me a while to finally get the meditation down. But it is interesting how the intuition definitely improves when you do sit and listen.
45:53 - Laura West
Oh yeah.
45:56 - Anna Esparham
Are there, sorry, I'm asking so many questions, but I just have like one more question,
45:58 - Laura West
Oh, my gosh, you're fine.
46:01 - Anna Esparham
is there cause I've, Sometimes I do sense um, dark entities, that are affecting individuals and so have you ever experienced that in your, practice? And if so, do you have any tools that you work with?
46:22 - Laura West
That's a good question. I'm gonna have to actually go with in for that one because I've sort of been on this mission of figuring out whether or not dark entities actually exist, only because I hear from some people they do and then I hear from like respected mediumship teachers that they don't. So it's kind of like a figuring it out, you know, one way or another. So I, I just wanna see internally if, if anything comes through. Okay, so they, okay, well, all right, this is interesting.
46:54 - Laura West
So um, asking my spirit guide saying that you know, they do exist, but they're very few and far between, so. The amount of people that feel that they have a dark entity with them. It's actually not a dark entity, they do exist. But in the numbers that we would think, what it sounds like is that it has a lot to do with. Oh okay, so like energy that we either create on our own from like bad experience, negative thoughts, those sorts of things, it sort of manifests into this energy that we kind of carry around with this.
47:33 - Laura West
I see it like almost like a cloud around our head. Other times it could be the residual energy of being in a space where bad things happened and picking up on that. So it's still energy though. So energy healing can still work to help and clear that, and get rid of it. See, even like, okay, so something like selenide or even crystals, actually I do see it almost. It's like a like, like a, like a flash light and you're shining it into like this uh, this K full of I don't know W to use bats and how it like repel, like they all like go away from the, the lights.
48:12 - Laura West
So doing that is like a good way of just sort of clearing out the energy. It's almost like just waving it around you Again, not so much because it's a dark entity, but it's just maybe some like a collection or like, you know, like a clump of negative energy that may have been uh, generated, created and a little bit stuck,
48:35 - Anna Esparham
Okay.
48:35 - Laura West
but nothing to fear.
48:36 - Anna Esparham
Okay, that's interesting and that you say it's like a collection and also like a dark cloud sometimes. Yeah, that's what I feel. And so I, well, it was at this hospital that I worked at and it like kept growing bigger and bigger and when everything and I was like,
48:51 - Laura West
Oh, no.
48:54 - Anna Esparham
oh, there's so much darkness.
48:56 - Laura West
Oh yeah,
48:56 - Anna Esparham
Did you ever feel that any hospital that you worked at? Did you ever work at a hospital? I don't know.
49:00 - Laura West
I did, I worked, I worked, labor and delivery and I was a night shift and there were some rooms that I was too scared to go into, yeah.
49:12 - Anna Esparham
The hospitals are an intense,
49:13 - Laura West
You're creepy.
49:14 - Anna Esparham
it's an intense place to be around. Lots of, can be lots of negativity, So it, it's tough. Okay, well, what else, what else? Haven't I touched on that you wanna get across today?
49:27 - Laura West
Oh, gosh. I don't know of Oh yeah,
49:31 - Anna Esparham
Oh, talk about your book.
49:33 - Laura West
okay, yes, so I, I wrote my book Guided, and that was a kind of a, a cool story I think, to showcase the power of intuition and honing in on it and, and learning what that looks like and feels like for you, so. Went to visit that same psychic that told me to meditate a 2nd time and she told me, I hope you're writing all your experiences down because I can see you writing a book. And I said, okay, that's interesting. Like the thought may have briefly crossed my mind because it would be cool, but writing a book sounds daunting and overwhelming and like a lot.
50:08 - Laura West
So I was like, it just sounds like a lott of work. And so I just kind of let that go, still keeping track of all and journaling all my experiences. And then I had a 2nd, a colleague of mine who actually introduced me to Healing Touch. She's also a nurse and asked me, totally a separate time. Had had no idea of the conversation I had with psychic. If I was writing my experiences down because I could write a book and I was tuned in enough to know that, okay, that's not just them telling me.
50:43 - Laura West
That's like my guides trying to get a message through to me that I need to write a book. And so, you know, same thing, it was kind of like, oh yeah, you know, like that would be really cool to have written a book, but it just sounded really daunting and overwhelming. So I get off the phone with Herr and I'm, I'm thinking about it and I'm, you know, I think about it. And I said, you know what, I should write a book, I should do it. And as soon as I said that. The motivation like flooded in. I couldn't wait to get started.
51:13 - Laura West
I started right then and there. It was crazy. So I sit there, I grab my laptop and I open it up and I just Staring at the blank screen, I'm like, Where do I even start? Okay, you know, it's like, okay, I'm gonna do this, but now what, so I, in my mind I'm like, okay, I know that this isn't my idea to write a book, I'm agreeable to it now though, so I know I'm a part of it, but it's not my idea. So then at that point I said, all right, Jason, I said, I know you're behind this, so if you want me to write this book, you need to tell me what I'm, what I'm gonna write.
51:47 - Laura West
So I basically started by channel writing or download writing, however you want to call it. And that's how I started, that's how I came up with the chapters, That's how I came up with, you know, the beginning and just started writing. And I just did it that way because I was already practicing channel writing. So I mean, what better used to put it, to, put it, put it to, so that's what I did. And what came from that was the forward to my book. So the forward of my book is actually written by my spirit guide Jason, because I was able to channel that.
52:18 - Laura West
So and then, you know, I got a book coach, she helped me to organize it a bit. Better and get it all edited and everything and, and put out there because I wanted to make sure that it was, that it was readable. So yeah, so that's how that came about.
52:32 - Anna Esparham
Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, one of these days I'm gonna write a book when I get more time, maybe after residency and after I get a little bit of a break.
52:40 - Laura West
I mean, will that ever happen? I don't know,
52:41 - Anna Esparham
I know everyone says that everyone's like Anna,
52:41 - Laura West
we ever actually get more time.
52:44 - Anna Esparham
that is not gonna happen for you. You,
52:46 - Laura West
You just gotta write a page a night.
52:47 - Anna Esparham
yeah.
52:48 - Laura West
That's it, a page a night.
52:48 - Anna Esparham
That's, yes, that's is just, that's how it always will be for me. It's just something consistent that I have to do. I think, but it'll come to me, I think, yeah, maybe something will come right when I'm ready,
52:57 - Laura West
The motivation will come when you're ready.
53:00 - Anna Esparham
it will come, the teacher will present itself,
53:03 - Laura West
exactly.
53:04 - Anna Esparham
and then tell us about your Tv show.
53:07 - Laura West
Yes, okay, so um, my Tv show, life from the other side, you know, it, it's sort of a spin off from my podcast, but more focused than the podcast. I wanted to, you know, a lot of what I do. This should actually help tie in with that dream that I had with Jesus. Okay, let me backtrack just a little bit, because to me it's important, okay, so. For years was figuring out where that dream with Jesus fit in, like what does he means? Spread his word. I'm feeling lesss Christian as the days go on, and more spiritual like more you know, cool, you know, working with Jesus, but not in a Christian religion capacity.
53:53 - Laura West
So I, at this point I was already starting to channel, right? I, I channeling my guides, other people's guides, I've channeled, you know, angels, like angels. I was like, well, maybe I could try channeling Jesus, like let's see what happens. And so I did. What I learned from that was What he asked me to spread was his word, but his word was love, so just spreading the word of love. And so I said, Oh, I can do that like that seems pretty simple. And not doesn't have to get into the, the religious stuff, right?
54:25 - Laura West
It's just spreading the word of love. And I said, okay, cool. And somehow the man that he was arm in arm with came up in the channel writing and I remember thinking like as We were starting to talk about who that man was. The thoughts of, oh maybe my, maybe, maybe that was Jason, maybe it was like my, my guardian angel, like trying to figure out who that was. And Jesus told me that it was God and I dropped my pen. And had to take a break cause that thought never once crossed my mind and I just was.
55:02 - Laura West
I felt, I think I've said this before somewhere else, but it's like I felt so unworthy. I can't even put into words. Thrilled at the same time, like,
55:15 - Anna Esparham
Oh, I just got goose bobs.
55:16 - Laura West
why me, Yeah, you know, so, so anyway and, and I had a guest and she put it so good. You're I think you're really got like this, Anna, she said. God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the cult. And so that's exactly how it felt like, who am I? You know, I'm, I'm a nurse, I'm a mom, I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm a daughter, I'm a sister, you know, I, I, I, what, who am I, you know, And so, but now I see it, now I see it all these things that I'm, that I'm motivated to do and I'm being guided to do. Part of which is the Tv show.
55:57 - Laura West
And so with that Tv show, use it as another platform to share loving stories about the other side and sharing connected we still are with our past loved ones, with our guides, with our angels send and masters source God, whoever you want to call it. You know we're so connected to the other side, and we are so love and we're so supported. And for me, the reason why I think that's even important is because if we can find comfort in that And we can find love and happiness in that. Then we are capable of sharing love with others.
56:40 - Laura West
And so it all goes back to ways that we can spread the word of love. And so that's where the Tv show comes in. It's just another thing that I was intuitively guided to do.
56:50 - Anna Esparham
Oh, my word, uh so.
56:52 - Laura West
I know,
56:53 - Anna Esparham
That is so phenomenal. It just like, I just like gives me chills,
56:56 - Laura West
I know.
56:57 - Anna Esparham
like so inspiring,
56:58 - Laura West
I know.
56:59 - Anna Esparham
that is so cool. I, I w, I meant to ask you about that, if that ever came up for you later, about who that man was, the arm and arm,
57:07 - Laura West
Yep, yep.
57:10 - Anna Esparham
Interesting. And have you watched, that just reminds me about that quote. God doesn't call the qualified, he calls the called. It, have you seen the chosen?
57:22 - Laura West
Jack Oh well the chosen No,
57:24 - Anna Esparham
Yes.
57:24 - Laura West
I wanna say you might be the 2nd person who told me to wash that I should probably write this down.
57:24 - Anna Esparham
Oh. it just reminds me of that. It just reminds me of that. Because, because when Jesus came, it's just about the real life of Jesus. They did such an amazing job. It's like so inspiring every time you watch it, just like with his healing and, and everything. And then, how he calls all the people that were like sinners and, you know, all these people that shouldn't have been called, but they were and like he took them and like they,
57:51 - Laura West
Ohh, yeah.
57:53 - Anna Esparham
you know, took care of the world and and so it's just interesting cause I just think that would so resonate with you. Just watching that show, it's just so amazing and it,
58:03 - Laura West
Oh, my gosh, am I gonna cry?
58:05 - Anna Esparham
it, you will probably cry and, and it's interesting because All the Jewish people at that time, like the Pharisees and the seduce, they were just so against change, like changing the law of Moses and how everyone was living that religious life,
58:23 - Laura West
Sure.
58:23 - Anna Esparham
like you had to follow that word for word, and it was like everyone became a slave to their law. And then when Jesus came, it was like, no, it's about love, it's about, it's about your connection to God, it's about your faith, right? And so it just, it changed at that time, so it's, it's just interesting. I just wonder,
58:46 - Laura West
Wow,
58:46 - Anna Esparham
you know, what's going on right now, But yeah. Just a side note.
58:48 - Laura West
Oh, that's so fascinating. Okay, I wrote it down.
58:53 - Anna Esparham
Okay, good, yes, okay. And then, and I know we didn't, I barely touched on this, but we did talk about, about your podcast, a guided live,
59:01 - Laura West
Yes.
59:02 - Anna Esparham
yes, just mention that too.
59:03 - Laura West
Yes, yeah, yeah. So that's, that's also available on all major platforms. And Anna will be a guest on there pretty soon here too. So I'm really excited about that. But yeah, I, you know, I have all sorts of people on there, of all different religions and beliefs and backgrounds. And because I think it's a important to show that, you know, despite all of that, there's still this commonality of humanity and so and, and I want, you know, maybe one story to resonate with a certain type of listener and another story will resonate with another.
59:37 - Laura West
And it's just about how people have found their purpose or their current purpose, or what makes them happy, how they got there. Because it wasn't always, you know, we're not this kind of a, an irony choice of words, but we're not the chosen people in the sense that we, you know, we've got it and you don't, you know, we've all been in that place, we've all had these harsh, we're all humans. So I think it's important for, for people who, either need it for validation, to hear what other people have gone through in their experiences, or need it as uh, support or like, motivation themselves or even if it's just entertaining, which I'm happy with as well, just whatever it needs to be for whoever.
1:00:20 - Laura West
But it's, it's just a way for me to have like authentic conversations with people, that feel good to me and hopefully to the, the guest and the listener. And you know, we have these conversations with each other already, why not record them and share them? So that's, that's what we, that's what I do.
1:00:40 - Anna Esparham
No, I think it's wonderful that you are sharing your voice and your experience and just putting yourself out there sharing God's words. So I, it's beautiful and I've subscribed, where can people find you?
1:00:54 - Laura West
I have a I have a link tree which kind of puts uh all my links together but I am on instagram um you can either find me via the podcast instagram site of a guided life podcast uh guided west one one one is another one that I have on there um I'm on Facebook also at guided west one one I believe um and then I do have a podcast um page on Facebook a guide life podcast by laura west I do You have my Youtube channel, which is also a guided life. Yes, that's, that's newer, that's in the work, so there's only a few episodes on there,
1:01:31 - Anna Esparham
Okay, I didn't know that.
1:01:31 - Laura West
that's,
1:01:31 - Anna Esparham
Okay,
1:01:32 - Laura West
yeah,
1:01:32 - Anna Esparham
good, I gotta,
1:01:32 - Laura West
slowly growing.
1:01:32 - Anna Esparham
I gotta do that too. I have to do the videos on Youtube.
1:01:36 - Laura West
it's just it's just very slowly growing but I just started it so i've got that as well I feel like yeah yeah those are probably the main i've got my I do have a website um which is laura west dot net as well um that people can connect to me via email that way um especially if they wanna book like a reading or a healing or anything like that I kind of like to do that more on a reach out to me basis. So I feel like I have a bit more control with my busy schedule. So uh, that's, that would be one way to, to do it also.
1:02:08 - Anna Esparham
Yeah, that's what I do too. I, I have people reach out to me just cause it's, yeah, I have to.
1:02:13 - Laura West
Yes, can't be a free for all. I'm sorry.
1:02:16 - Anna Esparham
I know, yes, I agree,
1:02:18 - Laura West
Boundaries.
1:02:19 - Anna Esparham
it is, it is, it's tough, Yeah, Okay, well, I will have all those links in the show notes and the podcast details as well.
1:02:28 - Laura West
Hey,
1:02:30 - Anna Esparham
And the link to the book,
1:02:30 - Laura West
thank you.
1:02:31 - Anna Esparham
to your Tv show too, is that, is that on your website as well,
1:02:35 - Laura West
I put it on the link tree,
1:02:35 - Anna Esparham
like a on the link tread okay?
1:02:36 - Laura West
Yeah, I'll have, I'll have, I'll have it go on my website also, but it's on the link tree,
1:02:40 - Anna Esparham
Okay, got it, okay, perfect, so yeah, I'll have that all there for you guys to reach out to her,
1:02:44 - Laura West
ok?
1:02:45 - Anna Esparham
get to know her more, listen to her podcast, read her book, see her show, I haven't seen the show yet, I gotta do that.
1:02:52 - Laura West
Just started one episode out so far.
1:02:52 - Anna Esparham
okay, okay, oh okay, so it's new, good, I love it, is it like something available on a streaming service or,
1:03:00 - Laura West
It is,
1:03:00 - Anna Esparham
or.
1:03:01 - Laura West
yeah, so you know how you upload Netflix, you can upload Everyday Woman Tv.
1:03:06 - Anna Esparham
Oh, okay.
1:03:07 - Laura West
But you will be shocked. Anna Because as I was, I found it, but I was shocked with the amount of channels that exist.
1:03:17 - Anna Esparham
Oh.
1:03:17 - Laura West
Like it's not just Hulu and Disney Plus and, and Netflix and Gaya and whatever it's like,
1:03:23 - Anna Esparham
oh.
1:03:25 - Laura West
many channels out there, so I hope you find it.
1:03:28 - Anna Esparham
I did, oh yeah, Everyday Woman Tv dott com that it,
1:03:34 - Laura West
Yes, so, so there is a website, you can watch directly from the website or you can upload the channel,
1:03:37 - Anna Esparham
oh perfect,
1:03:39 - Laura West
but yeah, the website will let you find it directly.
1:03:39 - Anna Esparham
okay. You can stream okay, cool,
1:03:42 - Laura West
Yes,
1:03:42 - Anna Esparham
okay, yeah,
1:03:43 - Laura West
yes,
1:03:43 - Anna Esparham
I got it, okay,
1:03:43 - Laura West
might be easier.
1:03:44 - Anna Esparham
I'm gonna find it, okay, got it done, okay, perfect, well, oh my gosh, well, thank you so much for being on the show today,
1:03:50 - Laura West
Thank you anytime.
1:03:51 - Anna Esparham
Yeah, that was so great, I'll have to do another one with you that is so fun. I, I love talking about this stuff, it gets me so energized.
1:04:00 - Laura West
Oh, thank you so much for having me.
1:04:02 - Anna Esparham
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