Psychic Telephone · 24
Tanya
When Tanya gives a reading, she says a short prayer and then asks the person to say their full name, usually three times. That’s how she homes in on their energy. And then she asks them to ask a question, usually like, What do you want to hear about today? And anything can come up. She works with past lives, with emotional trauma, physical trauma. Relationships, things like karma. Some of it is predictive, but she’s always surprised when she predicts the future correctly. And she stays away from predicting natural catastrophes or political events. It’s more interpersonal.
She says that we have both physical and energetic bodies. Or really four main bodies—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. And what she loves about psychic work is, you’re able to heal on more than one level at a time. It’s just making sure their energetic body is in balance. Their aura and their chakras. Because they get dirty. They get filled up. So she kind of names what’s going on in there. The truth is, when you’re reading, all you have to do is say what you see. And say it with validation. The person is either going to accept it, and understand it, or not. And that’s really all you have to do. Because you don’t want to tear someone down, even if they’re dealing with a challenging issue. You want to be able to say it in a supportive and helpful way that can allow them to release the pattern if they choose to.
As an example, let her say this: There are a lot of women who come in with sexual trauma. It’s an epidemic. Epidemic. And sometimes it’s the first thing she’ll see. It just comes right out there. But she tends to wait for the client to bring it up. She’ll talk around it and she’ll name the pictures around it. Then she’ll have some people say, I think that’s about the sexual trauma with my older brother, my uncle, my—fill in the fricking blank. And she just allows that to heal.
But she won’t say it directly. She’s never said to anyone, You were raped by your father when you were twelve. And it’s funny, because she’s had readings where she could tell they knew exactly what she was talking about, but they never admitted it. They just cried and cried. When that happens, she’s like, Just cry. They do not have to acknowledge to her what this pain is about. There’s so much shame and secrecy about this stuff. People are coming to her because they’re looking for assistance on how to release it. So she doesn’t want to say something that they’re not ready to admit to her.
Sometimes she questions herself, about what to say or not say. There was a woman who really wanted to get pregnant. And she was having a hard time, with her then-husband, getting pregnant. They were trying, doing fertility, and also looking into adoption. But adoption wasn’t really their first choice. So part of what the woman was asking was, could she have a child? And Tanya kept seeing, in the reading, that the woman’s body was able to have a child. The problem was the relationship—the husband did not want it. And she saw that there would be an adoption. So she said, I see the birth process already started on this. But she didn’t say that the child was not going to be the woman’s biological child, because it looked like she needed to have validation that her body could do it. And then she saw the woman’s body light up, like she was thinking, I’m pregnant!
Two months later, the woman came back and said, I’m adopting a daughter. And Tanya wondered, should she have told her? It was kind of a toss-up. But it didn’t seem to matter. The woman even asked if she had known, and Tanya was like, I got that I wasn’t supposed to tell you. And she got it. Like, okay, it’s happening this way.