Alison’s blog – The Quirky Medium in Spain!

Jumping off the Lilypad?

When you lead a spiritual life one thing very often leads to another, and for those who’ve read the Quirky Medium, you already know my background, how I became a Clairvoyant Medium and co-host on the TV Show Rescue Mediums. In my book ‘The Quirky Medium’,  I share how the angels came into my life at a time when I had nearly given up the ghost (pardon the pun!).  The angels and my spirit guides channelled their loving energy and celestial messages through my writing and psychic art. This led to me creating characters and stories to ‘read’ to my little Grand-daughter’s Olivia, Madeleine & Alexandra who are lovingly known by our pet names for them as Scrimps, Madness! & ‘The baby’.  Children are so accepting of their natural intuition – they are born with the gift, but this dissipates as they grow up and get caught up in our material world. I wanted to help the girls to retain that magic, so when I started telling them stories which came into my head they got so excited.  We now have a little family of characters who get up to all sorts of things, but there is always a spiritual meaning within each tale. One of the most wonderful things we can do for children is to help stretch their imagination, to take them on a journey of love, fun and colour. I call this magical world of mystery ‘Stories from Nanna’s head’.

I remember a conversation I had with my sister in the first year we moved to Spain. I had fallen and spent the day before my birthday in A & E after damaging the tendon in my foot. I was feeling very sorry for myself!  and my sister said “Go and write another book. that will keep you out of mischief”!  Well I will always be up to mischief of some kind so that that will never happen! but although its been a long time coming, I have finally written a quirky blog about my life as a Medium living in Spain – and believe me it hasn’t all been plain sailing!.

As Denise sat on the floor and spread her tarot deck out, the spirit – walked through the wall and tapped a card in the deck, then walked back through the wall again. Sometimes he was dressed as a man, but more often as a female. She thought he was helping her, but once the dark shadows appeared, and she was being touched by unseen hands she realised very quickly that this entity was not friendly. NOT friendly at all.

Spain is calling

The easiest thing to do in life is to live in our comfort zone, and to stick to a rigid routine. However, we will never venture outside our bubble and move along our spiritual path without, wait for it, CHANGE! People often recoil in horror at the ‘C’ word!  But change can be rewarding and can even lead us to our destiny. Instead of worrying about the new direction in your life, embrace it! I always write from experience, so I know what I am talking about. I have been through so much change in my life, but particularly within the past 6 years.

John and I loved our house in Cheshire but it was a big 4 bedroom house, with only the two of us rattling round in it. We had a big mortgage and John couldn’t get work because of his hearing loss. Therefore I was working part time at a Chiropractic clinic to bring in a regular wage, as well as doing my beloved spiritual work. I was getting so tired, and financially, we were only just keeping our heads above water.  My favourite place was the garden which we had transformed between us, putting colourful plants in that attracted the bees and butterflies, and our ‘magic garden’ which was my haven. Here, we had transformed our summer house into my meditation room which is where I taught, and did readings and healing. The catalyst came in late Summer 2013 – I had been working full time to cover for holiday leave at the clinic and had readings and healing session’s booked as well as psychic events, angel workshops and my spiritual development classes. John and I were like ships passing in the night, and one evening he snapped.  He said that we never see each other, and when we did, I was so busy that my mind was elsewhere. We were paying out for bills left right and centre, and I was absolutely shattered. I knew something had to give, and it wasn’t going to be my spiritual work.  We had an apartment in Spain at the time but economically it wasn’t the right time to sell as the property market had taken a downward spiral.. We were  paying two mortgages, and even though I worked every single day and evenings in the week, we were still no better off. Something had to give, but what?

John had been trying to persuade me to live in Spain since his lovely Mum Mary passed away. I resisted because my family were in the UK and I knew I would miss them too much. Besides the girls (my granddaughters) were so small and I had then overnight once a week to help my daughter out. Also, I didn’t want to leave my Mum, my sister, my friends…….. Each time John asked me to move to Spain, I found a different excuse not to, and eventually told him not to ask me anymore, and to give me time.

However, the last time we booked a holiday to stay in our apartment in Almoradi, something changed for me – it was a strong feeling from within that Spain was now home. I started to see things clearer as if seeing them for the very first time.  A shift of consciousness was happening, and after a very vivid dream one night about moving to a different country into a lighthouse, I woke up and knew without a doubt that the angels were giving me a message, that as a light-worker, I had to move home and Country to spread their message of love to a brand new audience.  When I told John that I wanted us to sell up and move to Spain, he nearly fell off his chair and I have never known anyone to book a flight so quickly in all my life!.

Selling up

It wasn’t as easy as that of course, life never is! I was so attached to our home in Northwich – especially to my meditation room at the bottom of the garden. The energies in there were sublime, and I was concerned that this wouldn’t be replicated with moving so far away. However, John hit the nail on the head when he said that the energies had been created by me and my spiritual guides. They would go with me wherever I am in the world, and once the panic had subsided and I put things into perspective, I knew he was absolutely right.

It was as if the pets knew this too – because about a week before we moved, I was moving everything out of my healing room, and the dog wandered in. This was strange, as she never seemed to come into the room whereas the cats did. She looked around, and circled the room, sniffing, then, as if totally satisfied, she walked out again. Straight after this, both the cats came in one by one, and did the same thing. I knew they were saying goodbye to the room……..

We put the house up for sale as soon as we got back to Cheshire, and I knew the right family would buy it. Houses retain energy, and I knew our home was waiting for someone who would love it as much as we had. Most of you will know that moving home is one of the most stressful things you can do in your life, and our move was no exception!  The first estate agents we used were hopeless – they told us to put the property on the market at a ridiculously high asking price and we had no viewers for the first month. It was getting nearer to Christmas and I knew that viewers would be few and far between.  I had a couple of ‘wobbles! but I did remain positive the majority of the time. I just knew in my heart that we would sell the house at the right time. We changed Estate Agents, and reduced the price a little, and a stream of people came through the door – all of them ‘loving it’, but we didn’t hear anything back……..