Barb’s Blog

Wow, I haven’t written in my blog for a long while.  Sorry about that.

July has been an up and down month for me.  I was in Regina (2.5hr away) and was on my way back.  I had an urge to call my mother on my drive back.  She was with my grandmother who hadn’t been feeling well, flu perhaps?  I asked my mother to ask my grandmother, lol, how my grandfather and grandmother met.  My mother said oh they met at a dance I think.  I said no, ask her.  My mother said I’ll ask her when she’s feeling better.  I then pleaded no mom, please ask her now, I have to know now!  I was almost desperate to know.  She did ask and I could hear my grandmother in the background answering.  They met at a friend’s house, this friend had 6 children!  I then went on to ask what happened next?  Did my grandfather start to follow her, did they write, phone, etc?  My mother said I’ll ask her tomorrow when she may be feeling better.  That’s when I said, tell her I love her and hung up the phone.  This is when I began to cry on my drive back from Regina to Saskatoon…Tomorrow never came.  My grandmother died early the next morning.  I flew to Nova Scotia that evening.  I cancelled all my appt.s and everything I had planned.  I stayed overnight in the Toronto airport, can’t find a good hotel these days!  I went back for my mother, not really for my grandmother.  My grandmother is ok, doesn’t make it any easier and yes I do cry but only for myself and my family left behind.  I stayed for a few days and came back home. 

On a better note, I’ll be on a few radio programs for the month of August and September.  I don’t advertise these and I suppose I should, however, I’ve been on a ton of radio.  Search my name and I’m sure a few past shows will come up.  Here are a few upcoming radio programs.  If you wish to have me on a program, just let me know and hopefully I can make it happen.

CROSSROADS PARANORMAL - Radio Show 

Wednesday, August 24th

930pm EST

INNERVIEWS WITH KIMMIE & STEVE - Radio Show

Tuesday, Sept. 23rd

1pm EST

CATACOMB PARANORMAL TALK RADIO

Monday, October 27th

8pm EST

 

MISS ME - BUT LET ME  GO   I Believe - diamond rio

When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me I want no rites in a gloom-filled room. Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little–but not too long And not with your head bowed low.

Remember the love that we once shared

Miss me–but let me go. For this is a journey that we all must take And each must go alone. It’s all a part of the Master’s plan

A step on the road to home. When you are lonely and sick of heart Go to the friends we know And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds. Miss Me - But Let me Go!

~ In memory, Mary Cecilia Singer
1920 - 2008

Today I reflect on Father’s Day.  As I type this my husband, father of three, is off to the zoo with our two oldest daughters to watch the zoo keepers feed the animals and then have brunch themselves.  I await their return!  My own father passed away a few years ago, I don’t remember the exact year as I chose to try not to…although I remember the exact day and time of the phone call from my mother.  My father has a massive stroke on his way to work December 11th.  He then remained in a coma for 10 days until we made the decision to turn the machines keeping his physical body alive.  I remember all the details as if they happened yesterday, his body fighting to stay alive and breathing…watching as his soul lifted away while I could hear my voice pleading for him to stay.  I also remember the Christmas present’s that still awaited him…this event changed my mother’s life, he was her life.  I miss him yet still feel his presence ever once in awhile.

For all of you who have lost a Father….I’m sorry.  I can not say I understand how you feel as each of us have our own story!  But I share in your loss.  Remember to leave nothing unsaid, be sure to tell those around you exactly how you feel.

Don’t think of him as gone away,
his journey has just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This Earth is only one.
Just think of him as resting
from the sorrows and the tears,
in a place of warmth and comfort,
where there are no days and years.
Think of how he must be wishing
that we could know, today,
How nothing but our sadness
can really pass away
And think of him as living
in the hearts of those he touched
for nothing loved is ever lost
and he was loved so much.

“I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”     ~ Benjamin Franklin

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I am back from Regina.  Was a long couple of days but I’m glad and feel very accomplished that I have reached as many people as I did.  There are not too many consultations that I have with people that greatly affect me.  Not to be mean, but there is part of me that I have to disassociate my work from my emotions.  Just as a doctor has to disassociate from their clients.  However, this past weekend I had encountered a couple of ‘tough’ sessions.  It’s very emotionally difficult to bring through certain loved ones who have crossed over that you can just feel the pain in the living.   It hurts physically and emotionally.  Or those sessions with the living who are what I call ‘lost’, because no matter what you actually say…they may not be at a place to ‘get it’.  But I say everything I need to say and spirit needs to say, because some day down the road they may ‘get it’ and the change will begin.  I always tend to worry whether this work is what I’m suppose to do,  just like everyone else I guess who take a good look at their own stories.  The other day I sat down with myself in the dark and asked, “what I can do to help, to change the world, to inspire, to make people happy, to motivate”.  The answer I got was:  ”There will be those who will agree and there will be those who disagree.  There will be those who will try to defeat and persecute.  Keep doing what you’re doing, it would be no different if you were to change your life for others.” 

So I am left the in the same place that I began.  The most important thing is that I am happy.  There was a time in my life that I had to my life, yet what I didn’t understand at the time is that life keeps changing.   

The following are some of my personal sayings that I’ve learned over time.  We all know them, but the hardest part is to actually live by them:  

• Don’t make things harder than they have to be.
• Who needs enemies when we see them staring back at us in a mirror…be kind to yourself.
• We are all individually powerful!  We can change the ending of our own personal story.
• Stop living in the past!  Don’t take offense but I don’t care what has happened to you yesterday or 10 years ago…what’s important is what happens tomorrow.  What are you going to do…resist or yield?
• There comes an age with our children that we have to parent differently.  They are adults and must make their own choices and decisions, they mostly want support and encouragement.  They’ll then come to the correct choice without pressure.
• Stop caring about what society wants or expects…you’re the only one who can take care of you.  Trust yourself!
• You can work on trust by trusting yourself first through your actions.
• Listening to your intuition can give you the means to depend on yourself rather than rely completely on others.

My favorite quotes from my personal journal:

“If you are going through hell, keep going”
- Winston Churchill

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
- Christoper Columbus

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”
- Confucius

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all”
- Oscar Wilde

“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.”
- Joan Baez 

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting”
- E.E. Cummings

Yea, ok…I hate predictions, but soooo be it.  My prediction is for David Cook to win!  Now is that because I want him to or is it because I see it…who the heck knows..time will tell.  He actually reminds me of Heath Ledger in energy.  David Cook has anxiety and pushes himself to do well, that of course can be a good thing but a bad thing if there is no balance.  There are times as well which seems he falls into a ‘mood’ of dark….but I love his sound and hope he continues to do well, it’s his time right now.

On another issue….my family has been terribly ill.  My daughter has been to the ER once already and it looks like I’m taking her back again this evening.  Hopefully this storm will pass soon, I’m sure it will and all will be back to normal (my normal).  Thanks for everyone for standing by.

Barb P

www.barb-powell.com

I feel that I need to share this bit of information….since it makes me angry.  Yes, I know lots make me angry!  Anyways, I’ve been getting lots of ’stuff’ in the mail because of my business and the nature of what I do for a living.  This stuff that I’m talking about is ads for advertisement.  First of all, I don’t tend to pay for advertisements.  This adversement “opportunity” as it was pitched to me…promised me that if I pay say $3000 I would have my ad placed on this person’s website as one of the “best psychic mediums” in the world!! 

ARE YOU FLIPPIN KIDDING ME?

Nope, I kidd you not!  That’s what it said, oh it went on to say a bunch of other crap.  So it got me to thinking, can we ever fully trust what we read and see in print?  I guess NOT!  Read the fine print on things folks…lol…you just never know.

…signing out, perhaps one of the best, but depends on who you ask!  hahahahaa

Thought I’d also share one of my daughter’s stories that she made up in her 8 year old mind:

This clip of Ellen DeGeneres says it all!   

Heaven Cries…AGAIN

I had a reading with a client from Nova Scotia, Canada last night.  I learned a very good and important lesson from this session.  I tend to learn a lot from each consultation but last nights was an important lesson that had to do with my work.  I tend to be really nosey with my sessions and I try to ask lots of questions from spirit.  A few of her family members came through last night, but the most important was her son!  Her son was being very evasive with the way he passed and I couldn’t understand the why.  Why wouldn’t he tell me, so I asked him to show me.  He kept telling me that he it was at his own hand, I kept thinking…what did that mean, did he cross himself over or did he have something to do with it?  It did not feel like he committed suicide, I knew he didn’t kill himself….although he was feeling ‘down’ the last few weeks of his life, but that’s a personal story that he would not want me to share.  He also showed me that his chest was tight, difficult to breathe as if I had asthma.  He also said I just went to sleep and thought I was having a dream, that dream being he was seeing ‘dead people’ was the way he said it…his crossed over family.  But he wasn’t having a dream, he really had crossed over and his family helped him the rest of the way.  But I kept trying to get the way he passed, not really realizing that he just told me the way he passed.  He just didn’t fully understand the entire way he passed.  He said he was clumsy, another word being forgetful.

His mom told me that he had left the stove on and passed away in his sleep due to smoke inhalation.  See it all matches and I was amazed, I truly was!  Her son did tell me the way he passed but I just didn’t realize it.  Lesson learned.   Thank you to Marilyn’s Son who is watching down on her and the family waiting and playing with his ‘new dog’ and playing sports!  RIP

It’s been an interesting January so far!  Some exciting things are happening and I’ll fill you all in soon.  If you haven’t already, go back to the main website and sign up for the monthly newsletter.  All the information and details will be posted there first.  A new video streaming my work, a new office, new management, media appearances, etc will all be told within the next couple of weeks I hope.  February 1st is when the next newsletter will be posted with the above details.  Also new dates for workshops, mentorship, coaching, seminars, paranormal meetings, group meditations and group development courses will be listed!!  You don’t want to miss out of all of this.

I’ll be out to Regina this February 10th and also for an investigation.  Everyone asks for predictions for 2008.  I’ve been asked to do a show with Colleen Wilson for her program Short Cuts on Global Televisions, the main focus being predictions.  I’ll be on her show January 30th.

Until next time….keep warm in Saskatchewan and everywhere else unless your my in laws who are fighting ‘hot’ weather in Florida!!

Barb P

Where in the world has 2007 gone?  That year for me has slipped on by, which is a bit scary.  Time flew by, especially as I look at my girls who are growing up very quickly.  My oldest being 8 going on 48 and my middle child who is 2 and my baby who has turned 11 months old.  I can’t believe she is that old already.  Seems like last week that I was in labor and …. yes …. on the phone with a client doing a reading, hahahaaa.  No I’m not kidding!  Anyways, everything turned out ok.

2008 is going to be so exciting for me.  I have some TV appearance offers that have come in and also some local appearances which I do find thrilling!  I’m hoping to do more in person type stuff such as workshops and galleries in Saskatoon.  All this will be announced in the newsletters that go out each month.  So if you haven’t already signed up, do so by heading to the front page of the website: http://www.barb-powell.com and entering your email address.

I had my mother in law, brother in law and father in law all down for the holidays.  That was a fun time!  Some of you also had the privilege of meeting Shelia and Peabo Powell.  She will be back and hopefully to book some more private sessions with you all.  They tend to swing by here every other month.  If you’re interested, please just email and someone will give details about when the next time she’ll return.  She also does Reiki and so does Peabo, they are terribly good at it as well.  I’ve witness this myself.

For the last couple of months in 2007, I’ve been busy getting together a video of me in action!  We’re in the editing process of trying to get this all together, I’m hoping to have a little view of it on the website in a few months.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this process, I am very grateful!

I wish all of you the best in 2008, let’s keep in touch!  The beginning of a new year allows us a cleansing of sorts.  A new start for some.  Let’s sit down and gather our goals of what we want to accomplish.  I love journals and encourage everyone I meet to have one!

Sincerely, Barb Powell

Took off today to get my hair and nails done..yes I cut my hair.  A good 4 inches off and layered.  I get back to work tomorrow after 3 full days off.  One of my sessions tomorrow is by telephone from Ohio and the others are in person.  I enjoy my telephone sessions, mainly because I do not have to ‘dress up’…lol

We had a blizzard today, there is tons of snow on the ground now, the other day the temperature was minus 26 degrees.  Yes, that wasn’t a typo…minus 26 for all of you in very warm areas….sigh, I know I was born to live in a warm place!  The wind is bone chilling.  Have any of you been watching America’s Psychic Challenge?  I do not get that channel here in Canada where I live.  I have a good friend that is competing and I do wish I could watch it.

I can’t believe it’s almost December!  Where did November go….where did summer go?  WOW.  My daughter has her first Christmas party of 2007 next week, she’s bringing her little sister…that should be fun.  I have a few events planned for December, one of them being a seminar of a gallery like setting.  If you ever watched John Edward/James Van Praagh TV shows, then it will be similar.  I do not offer this type often and thought I’d go out on a limb.   Reason being, I don’t like being the center of attention….funny isn’t it.  My work as psychic medium gives me enough attention, I don’t need more!  But I am stepping outside of my comfort zone because I feel it’s needed. 

The next 5 days are going to be a whirl of consultations and travel.  Heading to Regina yet again and also to St.Louis, SK.  Full days and then heading back to Saskatoon.  Plus the days in between are private sessions, telephone and in person.  Mostly in person this week.  Aside from the Ohio telephone reading, there is California and also British Columbia and some other place but I can’t remember now.  I am now booking into middle of December, I hate to even be that far off with bookings….until next time, keep warm!

Barb Powell