Visitation from the Yiayias

During my years as a child welfare program director, I rarely told anyone about my psychic mediumship work, however, I made an exception with Annie, a social worker who reported to me, and who had debilitating digestive health issues, and now had incurred a mild brain injury.  I cared for her deeply and her work with LGBTQ+ youth was invaluable.  She was also a deeply spiritual and open-minded person, so, I told her that I thought I might be able to help her using distance energy healing, and she responded with hopeful anticipation.

At the appointed time, I asked her call me to check in for a few moments.  Then I asked her to hang up and lay down for 20 minutes and adopt a receptive mindset and simply relax.  I told her I was going to tune in, scan her body, and see what arose for her in the way of messages, healing, and/or insights. 

During those 20 minutes, I received many images.  I knew that Annie was Greek, but didn’t know anything about her family or specific heritage.  What came through first was a vivid image of a large circle of dozens of her YiaYias (grandmothers) wearing long, traditional dresses and aprons, carrying baskets of herbs they had harvested.  They were surrounding her and bestowing much love and healing on her.  One grandmother walked over to me and handed me a small jar of poppy seeds and some dried sage leaves!  (I wondered what healing properties poppy seeds and sage might hold, but I would wait until the 20 minutes were up to google it.)

Next, I saw her as a 4-year-old.  I saw her father abandoning her and her mother.  I saw Annie wrapped in her mother’s arms, but it was Annie who was comforting her sobbing mother, and it was clear that in that moment, she became parentified and took on the role of caring for her mother and that this related to her digestive issues and was likely the root cause.

I closed with channeling love and healing throughout Annie’s body, and right before calling her back, I looked up the healing properties of Greek poppy seeds and sage, which I discovered are helpful for supporting both digestive and brain health! 

I called Annie back and we both shared our impressions.  She was thrilled to hear that she was receiving both tangible and spiritual support from a long line of her Greek yiayias, and was delighted with the herbal "prescription".  Additionally, she affirmed my vision of her father leaving she and her mother at age 4, whereupon she became her mother’s emotional caretaker, which had been a huge burden, not to mention the pain she herself felt at being abandoned.  She shared that her father had recently been reaching out in hopes of repairing their relationship and making amends, in part by helping her financially, but she was ambivalent.  I said I was glad to hear that and encouraged her to be receptive to his amends in hopes it would alleviate some of her severe digestive issues.

Over time, both health conditions improved and she was able to eat and function more normally, and she received support from her father that she never expected, which seemed to help her both psychologically and energetically.