I did not expect this to be part of my life story.

If you had told corporate-marketing-leader Gina a few years ago that she’d be casually writing a public essay about working with a psychic medium and recommending other people consider it too, she would have laughed and said yeah right.

And yet, here we are.

Last week I wrote about The Telepathy Tapes and the weirdly undeniable feeling that something is shifting culturally (you can read about that here). Not in a loud, mainstream-headline way. In a quieter way. A stranger way. A more people-are-secretly-open-to-this-than-we-admit way.

This week, I want to tell you what working with a psychic has actually been like on my end.

Because this is not theoretical for me anymore.

This past year, I’ve worked one-on-one with , a psychic medium and energy healer here in Serenbe, and I’ve been in two of her intuition practice circles and I just signed up for another.

I went into all of it skeptical as hell. Not closed. But skeptical. Curious skeptic is probably the cleanest way to say it.

Now? I mean… yeaaaaa. I believe it’s real because I’ve experienced it over and over.

Not in a “please tell me what to do and I’ll hand over the keys to my life” kind of way. Quite the opposite. Christina helps people trust their own inner authority more deeply, from career to relationships to everything in between.

What I believe now is that this world is as real as you let it be. As real as prayer. As real as signs and life’s little coincidences. As real as those moments you just know something before your brain can make a case for it. As real as the quiet feeling in your body that says yes, or no, or not yet.

And the more I explore it, the less interested I am in giving my power away and the more interested I am in strengthening my own relationship to that inner knowing.

That’s the part I didn’t expect.

Psychics, for me, have not become a replacement for my own inner voice. They’ve become one of the ways I’ve learned to hear it better.

Also, and this is important, life is simply more fun when you let yourself believe in a little magic.

My first psychic was at prom, which feels correct

The first psychic I ever saw was at senior year prom in 2007.
I remember being very excited to get a reading and waiting in a verrry long line. I was internally like, okay, cool, fun party trick, let’s do this.

And I remember only one thing from that reading because she leaned in with great seriousness and said there was something coming in very, very strong.

Horses.

That was the message. Horses are in my future in a BIG way.

I was not a horse girl. I did not ride horses. I was not dreaming of horses. I remember thinking, this is it? This is the big spiritual download? Me? Horses?
No ma’am. I’m headed to the big city.

Okay, I did have a little mantra I said in bed when I was scared and it goes: “horses and ponies and beautiful things” and yes, Rory and Dottie use it today.

Years later, I was at a yoga teacher training at an ashram in Florida – 2019. Another psychic. And Yeppp.

Horses again.

Still irrelevant. Still weird.

Fast forward to last year when I booked my first session with Christina Trifero, here in Serenbe, and you will never guess where we’re sitting.

Soul Barn. Sitting in front of two horses.

And, horses had very much become part of my life. Meditating with them. Living in a place where I pass them every single day.

Do I think this proves anything? No.
Do I think patterns are interesting? Absolutely.

Make of it what you want. I think it’s cool AF.

Let me set the scene properly

I did not walk into my first session with Christina as some wide-eyed believer clutching a journal and begging the universe for answers.

I walked in like a woman with a Catholic background, fifteen years in software marketing, and a low tolerance for nonsense. A woman who has always dabbled in the woo, sure. I joke that yoga was my gateway drug. Two teacher trainings and an ashram later, I’m clearly open.

But I was still very much like, okay girl, impress me.

Christina and I laugh about this now because apparently my energy that first day was… direct. And she knew.

I wasn’t looking for theatrics. I was looking for clarity.

At the time, I was standing on the edge of a very big decision, leaping from my corporate career with zero plan. I knew it. I could feel it. I just wanted help understanding timing and how to hear and trust my inner knowing.

I remember asking something like, “I think I’m on the precipice of a big change. Is there anything I should be paying attention to? And I’m especially wondering about timing.”

Side note, if you ever do a session like this, I do think it helps to go in with a real question. Not because they need it. Because you do. It gives the session shape. It gives you something real to hold when you leave.

The first thing that made me go… okay wait

In that first session, Christina told me very clearly not to leave my job before September 18 2025.

At the time, I was debating timelines. Leave now? Wait until January? Hold on until March for the bonus? I took Christina’s insight, and I waited.

That exact week of September 18, just as Christina predicted, around 30 percent of the company I worked for was acquired and we were told we’d be receiving a payout on that portion of our stock.

I cannot make this up.
The amount ended up being almost exactly the one-year salary I had said I’d need in order to leap from my job without a plan. If I had listened to urgency instead of intuition, I would have left early… and missed all of it.

Could you call that coincidence? Sure. Im not here to convince you of anything, just sharing my experience.

Coincidence, magic or not, $250k in my pocket was very freakin’ real.

And when you’re inside the moment, living it in real time, it does not feel like coincidence. It feels orchestrated.

It feels like one of those moments where life winks at you and you just stand there blinking back like… excuse me?

And that was sort of the beginning.
That was the beginning. Not of blind belief, but of realizing how often I override myself.

I resigned the first week of January. My last day was April 1, 2025.

I had no real plan. Just this Substack, a few hunches, and a lot of Excel sheets.

Here’s what surprised me most

What I expected from psychic work was drama. What I got was something much more useful.

My experience with Christina has never felt like some big movie scene where someone gasps and reveals shocking information I could not possibly know.

It has almost always felt like she is helping me hear something I already know.

The way Christina talks about it feels less like handing your life over to some all-knowing authority, and more like being in conversation with a friend. Your spirit guides, if that language works for you (or god, angels etc), are not dictators. The psychic is the channel.

But you still hold the power.

That framing has mattered so much to me because I am deeply not into giving my power away. I’ve heard of way too many leader/expert/guru follower relationships turned sour over power.

That’s one of the biggest reasons why I trust Christina. She is not interested in being an authority and will always redirect me back to myself. Now I’m obsessed with developing my own intuition alongside one-on-one coaching sessions with Christina. I don’t want to become dependent on anybody. I want to become more attuned to myself.

And honestly, that’s exactly what’s happened.

Just for funzies. A few things she said that ended up being true

Not as proof. Just… a few of the moments that made me pause.

A few quick hits:

• She told me not to leave my job before a certain date. That turned out to be the week of the stock payout that gave me the runway to leap.

• She told me to pour into Greg. At the time, I was kind of like okay sure. Later, after Dottie’s heart surgery and a season where everything else had taken priority, that landed in a very real way. I signed us up for couples therapy and it was the best thing we did for each other in a longgg time.

• She knew my lights were flickering for a week with no explanation and channeled that it was my cat Felix who had just passed away. She worked some magic and it didn’t happen again.

• She saw a spirit baby and told me, very directly, that I was complete as a family of four.

That last one deserves its own section because wow.

The family-of-four thing cracked something open in me

This is the one I’ve almost not shared because I know it might hit people funny. But it was one of the most freeing things anyone has ever said to me.

Out of nowhere, Christina looked at me in a 1:1 and said something along the lines of, “You are complete with your family of four. Move forward as if you are complete. A third is there if one day you want another, but today you are complete.”

For context, I put my life on a bit of a pause while I became a mother. I have quietly wrestled for years with the idea of a third baby. Which means, whether I realized it or not, I had been making some life choices from a place of waiting. Staying in a safer job. Keeping options open. Not fully moving forward because of some hypothetical future what-if.

She wasn’t saying, you can never have another child. She was saying, stop stalling your life for a maybe.

There was nuance in it. There was tenderness in it. There was also a spirit-baby layer to that conversation that I’m not getting into today.

But the part that mattered most was this: I felt released.

Not controlled. Released.

It was like someone took my hand and said, you can move now. You do not need to keep your whole life on pause for a possibility.

That changed me.

This is not your mama’s crystal ball

This is another thing I want to say clearly because movies have done all of us dirty.

This is not your mama’s Ms Cleo, dim lighting, crystal ball, dramatic eyeliner, evil trickster, beware-of-the-cursed-message psychic situation.

At least not in my experience.

The most compelling thing about Christina is actually how grounded she is. She is wildly gifted, yes, but she is also normal. Smart. Funny. Practical. Boundaried. She comes from a tech background, which delights me to no end because there is something very Life at Play about a former software-world woman becoming the channel for spirit.

It’s not every day you get to work with a psychic who used to work in tech and is still grounded enough to say “I don’t know” when she doesn’t know. Or admits she is extremely gullible for being a psychic. 🙂

That matters to me.

She’s also become a real friend, which has given me an even more interesting behind-the-scenes look at this world. One thing I’ve learned by watching her is that these practitioners are just people. They’re not public property because they’re intuitive. They need boundaries. They are not on call because you ran into them after grabbing lunch and suddenly want to unpack a cosmic emergency on the sidewalk.

I’m saying that because I genuinely would not have known either.

And I think the more human we make this world, the less scary and weird it becomes.

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And then there’s the part I’m not even getting into today: the practice circles.

Because one thing is having a one-on-one reading and thinking, huh, that was powerful. Another thing entirely is sitting in a group, practicing it yourself, and realizing this world might be a lot less rare than we’ve been taught.
I’ll tell you about that next.

If you want to go deeper

You can find here on Substack, through her work at Spiritual Curiosity, and on IG @christinatriferooo. She offers one-on-one sessions and intuition practice circles.

And there are all sorts of spiritual, energy and wellness practitioners in and around Serenbe. Learn about them all in the Around Here Directory.

One more thing (for you, not the masses)

I’ve been building some things quietly behind the scenes. It’s for anyone with that subtle, nagging feeling of “wait… is this it?” or “okay… what now?”

A deeper container (coming in May)
Something I’m calling The Reset, part awareness, part clarity, part actual next steps. Waitlist just dropped.

+ I opened up 3 free 30-min 1:1 spots in April to talk through your own “what now” moment. bc I want to build this thing with you not alone in a room.

Tell me where you land

Have you ever had an experience you couldn’t explain?

Have you ever had a gut feeling that was right?

Do you think this is all nonsense, quietly interesting, or fully your thing?

No wrong answers. I’m genuinely curious.

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Talk soon,

xx, Gina