Psychic Telephone · 69
Cheyanne
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When Cheyanne is getting it right, she can feel it in her body. You know when you’ve taken a test and you know you got an A-plus because you knew all the answers? It’s that kind of feeling. Or other times, when you don’t know the answers, that feeling of, Oh my God. When that happens, she gives herself a fifteen-minute window to work through it. And it’s like a test—you just sit there and take a breath and, okay, one answer at a time. And if nothing has clicked, or it’s just very difficult, she’s super honest about it. She’s had to tell people, I’m not getting anything. And she doesn’t take their money. That happens, she would say, once every other month, where she’s like, We’re not connecting. Or it’s quiet. She’s not hearing anything. So she’s not going to make stuff up.
In those rare times, normally that’s when people are in such deep trauma or grief. Other times clients are so skeptical that they almost put a wall up. She has a lot of skeptics come in at their wits’ end because they want resolution and answers. But there are also skeptics who are just never going to change their minds. So she’ll address that. She’ll be like, I feel like you’re peeking over a wall. She’s had to tell people, I need you to be here, and be present, and open your heart. Literally this is teamwork. They don’t have to say anything verbally to her, but they do have to work together with her. Because how is she supposed to know something if they’re blocking it? But that rarely happens. And that’s usually their own personal thing.
It can be very difficult, though, especially when the person’s getting defensive. So she’s had to negotiate with her own self, because it’s not always a hundred percent. Nothing is. What is? She’s human, and she can get lost in her human condition and be like, I’m not supposed to be doing this! She could have just had forty-five amazing freaking sessions that week, you know. But one mean person can just knock you off your pedestal, right? Or if they come to her aggravated—it’s happened maybe twice in the past year where somebody was just irate—they may actually need to have mental health therapy before they’re ready for this. And that’s okay. That’s just, all of us humans have different paths we’re on, and sometimes they don’t meet up. And she’s at a point where she can be like, Bless you, I hope you have a better experience somewhere else.
Then with all the scammers—she has to clean up a lot of those messes. A scammer, they’ll give you a reading for twenty bucks maybe, then be like, I need eight hundred dollars to get this curse off you. That is some BS. And online she’s seen that going on. It happened to her last year—her Instagram pages got copied and they started writing to people as her. So if in your inbox you get something like, I’ve been sent here to help, and they want money, it’s a scam. She has offered to help friends, of course, but that’s a gift. Asking for money would be bad, and tacky! Just weird. So if a complete stranger reaches out saying like, The spirits told me you need help, and expects money? Delete, report—all that.
And not to toot her own horn, but she knows she’s really good at what she does. She’ll even sometimes come home to her partner and be like, I’m really good at this! But she’s not going to post that online. Just like anything else in life, she thinks, it’s good to come into it humble. Especially at the high volume she’s doing. It’s a roller coaster ride. So she can’t hold on to each session as like the Holy Grail. And she thinks that’s why she’s gotten so good at it—she’s not blocking herself, because she’s not scared of being wrong or of upsetting anybody or anything. She’s just humble in it.