Is Your Way In Your Way?

Tapping Into Your Own Intuition and Aligning with Your Purpose

• Cassandra Crawley Mayo

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World-renowned spiritual counselor and psychic medium, Laura Hoorweg, joins us to uncover the secrets of intuition and purpose. Her unique spiritual journey, which began at age 11, has led her to the realization that divine connection is often found in nature, rather than traditional religious settings. Her incredible experiences, including a life-changing out-of-body moment in the wilderness of northern Ontario, inspire her to guide others in unlocking their spiritual potential and aligning with their true purpose.

We explore the challenges and triumphs of integrating personal and professional identities to live a unified, purpose-driven life. Through heartfelt narratives, we discuss the tumultuous periods that arise from ignoring spiritual messages and the transformative power of listening to one's inner guidance. Laura shares insights about balancing divine feminine and masculine energies, discovering core purpose through childhood interests, and the profound impact of living in an environment aligned with one's energy.

This conversation is a call to action, encouraging listeners to embrace change and step out of comfort zones. We emphasize the importance of taking conscious steps towards personal growth and trusting intuition. Laura offers a glimpse into her private sessions and intuitive coaching program, providing valuable guidance for those seeking a deeper understanding of their life's path. As we conclude, there's an invitation to share these insights and remain engaged with our podcast for continued inspiration and growth.

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Cassandra:

Welcome to Is Your Way In Your Way? podcast and I'm your host, cassandra Crawley Mayo, and for those new listeners out there, let me share with you what this podcast is all about. It's actually for you, those individuals who are stuck, and what I mean by that, and you probably already know. Yeah, I'm stuck. But you're stuck in certain things like your purpose, like what should I be doing? Or I want to write a book and I just can't seem to do it. I need to get out of a toxic relationship. What's wrong with me? I need to move, be promoted, just a number of things.

Cassandra:

But there's something. It's like. Your soul is like calling you to something but you just can't execute it. It's not manifesting because you're not taking action, and you kind of want to figure out what's up with that. So we talk about topics related to what I say is personal development, personal improvement, business development, even business improvement, and also it's going to enable you to start self-reflecting on some things. And we have a great topic today titled Tapping Into your Own Intuition and Aligning With your Purpose. So, boy, I know you guys can't wait to hear this conversation and our special guest, her name, is Laura Horwick. Hi, laura, how are you?

Laura:

Wonderful Cassandra, Thank you for having me on. I'm really looking forward to this.

Cassandra:

I am am too. I am super excited about this one, guys, and let me tell you I'm going to tell you why. Let me read a little bit of her bio. Um, and let me say this, though if you guys are craving clarity, direction and confirmation about your next step, this podcast is for you. If you want to really focus on things that really matter, it's for you, and let's explore some new life opportunities from your perspective of past life influences, blocks or hindrances to your progress.

Cassandra:

Now, laura is an internationally acclaimed spiritual counselor, intuitive coach and psychic medium, known for her extraordinary ability to offer deep clarity and life-affirming guidance. With her compassionate yet no-nonsense approach, she helps you uncover your divine missions and align their lives with authenticity and purpose. She's passionate about empowering others. She guides her clients to nurture their spiritual gifts and unlock their fullest potential. Her unique combination of intuition and practical insight inspires transformation and helps people embrace a life filled with joy and meaning. Now. So, laura, this is interesting. Your spiritual journey started at the age of 11. That, to me, is fascinating, so tell us about that spiritual journey.

Laura:

Well, to begin with, I wasn't raised in a religious family or anything like that at all, in a religious family, or anything like that at all. And all of a sudden, it was around 10 or 11,. I wanted to find out where God and the angels lived. So, of course, you know, the only thing you ever heard of at that point was church. So I discovered that there was a number of churches of all different faiths surrounding my neighborhood that I could actually walk to, because nobody was going to take me there.

Laura:

So each Sunday for about six to eight weeks I got dressed up in my Sunday best, because that's what you did back then. Ok, my little patent, leather shoes and my little skirt and all that kind of thing.

Cassandra:

And off.

Laura:

I went every, every, each Sunday morning I went to a different church. I went to, like, a Catholic church, an Anglican church, a Salvation Army church. There were several, several different churches and I just went to Sunday service to see where you know, because I believed at that point that that must be where God is and that must be, you know, where the angels live.

Cassandra:

And I discovered.

Laura:

it was interesting and it was a wonderful experience and I met a whole bunch of really wonderful people and people who were tapped into their own spirituality to different degrees. Okay, but I really discovered that for me, god and the angels weren't in the church. That's not where they lived.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

So as I grew older I had to figure out what that was for me. Now you know I'm not saying that somebody else couldn't find them there, but that just for me that wasn't the thing, wow.

Cassandra:

So you were always inquisitive and curious about, about God, and actually you went to church by yourself, because that's not how you grew up. Wow, you were brave, brave soul, wow.

Laura:

And then when I was 15, this is how I discovered my own personal connection to spirit and to God. And whatever language you speak, that's great, because I'm totally into all different faiths and different thought forms and everything like that I believe that everybody's saying the same thing. They're just using different language.

Laura:

So, it doesn't matter what your language is, but for me, when I got into my teen years, I spent a huge amount of time backpacking and canoe tripping and being out in the wilderness, and that became my church. That's where I felt my truest connection to spirit. So, and that's still true to this day. When I'm in the wilderness. That's where I feel most connected.

Cassandra:

Interesting. And that's interesting because a lot of people say it's great to go out and take long walks and breathe in and breathe out and just look at the trees and feel that air. So that's interesting, wow. So let me ask you this I want to talk about. You actually had an out-of-body experience. I think you were 15. And I want to know how did that transformation impact you? Like? Tell us about, because I had an out-of-body experience. I can't wait to hear about your out-of-body experience well, this, this was totally spontaneous.

Laura:

I this is during when I was up north in northern ontario, up in a state in our case provincial, because I'm Canadian a big provincial park and I was rock climbing and I was on the top of a cliff looking out over nothing but lakes and trees and the beauty of nature and all of a sudden I just my whole essence and everything that is that I would call me besides my, popped right out of my physical body and all of a sudden I found myself in the air looking down at my compatriots standing on this cliff and I'm looking down at them going wow, that's pretty cool. And I then I was there for a moment and I looked around and I could see for miles and miles and miles. And then all of a sudden I felt this whoosh and I went. I went up even high, I just shot up into the air and all of a sudden I looked down and I was actually looking down on the earth oh my god and I brought up when the you know the first walking on the

Laura:

moon. I, oh my gosh, like the astronauts did, and I was brought up when the you know, the first walking on the moon. I'm dating myself now. Well, the first walk on the moon and stuff was all happened when I was a young child, okay. So I was like, wow, this is, this is very cool, I'm looking down on the earth. So I did that for a while and it was amazing. And not only was amazing, I felt huge, huge, like I felt totally expanded, I felt connected to everything.

Laura:

Uh, there was no fear in me at all there was just this incredible peace and and uh, then I was there for a while and then all of a sudden, poof again. I I can only say it like shooting up, because that was the feeling.

Laura:

I was shooting up again to the next level. And I got there and I looked around and all of a sudden I was like, oh my God, I'm out in the universe because all I could see was spiral galaxies. Ok, so I was even outside of our solar system. I could see all these spiral galaxies all around me and I was just in awe, like absolute awe, of the beauty and the serenity of what I was looking at.

Laura:

And then all of a sudden, it was like somebody grabbed me and yanked me very, very forcefully and very quickly and all of a sudden it was like I slammed back into my body and I was like wow, I was like totally disorientated. Your spirit, your soul is so much bigger. Only a portion of it is in your human body. That's why we have our higher selves. So it was like stuffing. I always say it. It was like stuffing an elephant into a Coke bottle. That's basically what it was like. It was like stuffing. I always say it. It was like stuffing an elephant into a coke bottle.

Laura:

That's basically what it felt like and it took me actually several days after this experience to feel, uh, totally comfortable again back in my body. But what actually happened in in the physical world was one of our climbing instructors had become concerned that I was too close to the edge of the cliff, and what he had done is he had actually grabbed the back of my jeans and my pants and yanked me back from the cliff. So when he did that physical move, that's what rocketed me back into my body.

Cassandra:

So that yeah.

Laura:

So I have no idea what the next, because my feeling was that I was going to continue on this journey and that I would have gone to the next level.

Cassandra:

Yeah.

Laura:

I'm not sure what that next level would be. I have some educated guesses, but it was. It was an incredible experience. It totally changed the way I looked at life and death and you know everything, my total worldview. It changed immensely in that moment.

Cassandra:

And what way? Like what? What? What changed that for you?

Laura:

Well, what changed for you? Well, number one, it changed my concept of what we really were. Okay, that we were something much, much more, and that we had qualities and gifts and abilities that we hadn't even you know touched yet, that we hadn't even you know touched yet. Because if I was able to, you know, I certainly didn't think I was, you know, extremely special or anything at that age. So I just thought, you know, if I could do this, what are people really capable of doing?

Laura:

And I also started thinking about death, and I started thinking about death in an entirely different way, because I was obviously not in my body. So it would be just like someone who had passed away and left their body and so. I started thinking well, you know, is the afterlife or is what happens to us after we die? Is this? Was this kind of an example of what that you know? It just started the whole wheels turning in very, very different ways than anything that I had experienced up in that point in my life.

Cassandra:

Right. Did you tell anybody about that or did you talk about it? No, it?

Laura:

no, not at that, not not actually, I don't know. I'm trying to think if I can remember I can't remember the first time that I talked about it, but I was very, very much older. I was, I. I was an adult, probably yeah uh before I ever ventured into that discussion.

Cassandra:

Like there's a.

Laura:

I've had a lot of things happen to me, even as an adult, that I haven't necessarily just talked about with people?

Cassandra:

Yeah, wow, and and you don't, because what you think people like, well, she's weird, or woo, woo, or they're not ready for it.

Laura:

Well, all of the everything you just said, Okay. Some people, some people, some people just kind of look at you and go you're nuts. Other people would have a hard time even grasping it and some people simply wouldn't be, couldn't, wouldn't be able to take it in cause. They wouldn't be able to really. There was an old expression, I think it's's gork. They wouldn't be able to gork that. In other words, they wouldn't be able to even understand that that uh could even be a possibility, let alone actually happen yeah even even after.

Laura:

I remember a couple times that, um, there's a condition, and this is a real psychological condition, but I know this is not what happened to me, ok, because it's very different. There's something called climbers euphoria, which some people get when they're at height.

Cassandra:

Yeah.

Laura:

They start thinking that they can fly and that they can just walk off the cliff and all this stuff. People had suggested to me over the years that this is probably what happened to me and I, so I at first I went okay. So I started doing some research and and looking into, uh, what people had said about an experience like that, and it was totally different than what I experienced. It hadn't didn't even come close.

Cassandra:

Wow, so I knew that wasn't it okay, okay, yeah, because when I had mine very, very few people I mean maybe two that I shared it with, that I felt would knew me well and could like okay, I believe her, you know. Okay, uh, and by no means that I think I was special, it was just it was different for me and for me, being curious, I always felt it meant something. You know what I mean. So I tried to figure out what did that mean, because that happened, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now I know that you worked in corporate before oh yes oh yeah, how can you forget that?

Cassandra:

Right I'm trying to get to, because right now you are a spiritual counselor, a coach, intuitive coach and a psychic medium. I would like to know what happened for you to pivot from that marketing job you were doing until what you're doing now, from that marketing job you were doing until what you're doing now.

Laura:

Well, I was actually in. I worked for a large chain of mass media. Okay, they were into newspapers and television and all kinds of things, okay. So I was in the I was in the mass media business, okay.

Laura:

So yeah, it couldn't be any different than that. And I was a very split person. Okay, I was. I was one person at work in my corporate job and dealing with my clients and with the mass media portion of it, and, on the other hand, in my personal life, I was all I have been into spirituality and I was even doing, uh, readings part-time for people, and certainly not to the level that I I do now, but I was into all that stuff. So I was like two different people, like literally, if, if, if my personal friends had met my they, they wouldn't even understand my business self, and vice versa like they were just two different things and then basically, the newspaper business went into the dumper.

Laura:

Okay with about. Um, it really went into the dumper about 10 or 11 years ago.

Cassandra:

Okay, yeah.

Laura:

And they started cutting back staff and I saw the writing on the wall and I was totally burnt out anyway, because actually the only thing that the level of stress in that job was pretty much equivalent to a first responder.

Cassandra:

Okay, oh yeah.

Laura:

So I went, I'm out of here and they offered a golden handshake. So I said give me my check. I'm out of here, okay, without even a plan. Okay, I had no plan.

Cassandra:

I just said.

Laura:

I'm done.

Cassandra:

Yes.

Laura:

Okay.

Cassandra:

Right.

Laura:

So then there was, there was a whole bunch of sequence of events, and actually my partner passed away suddenly about less than well, about six months after I left my career, and so there was a whole bunch of things that happened in succession. And my world basically imploded and exploded at the same time imploded and exploded at the same time, so I had to re-look at everything and I was absolutely led through this healing journey to continue this, to start this work full time and to make this my purpose and my mission. That's how it happened.

Cassandra:

Okay, so let's talk about that. Let's talk about when you say you were led. What is it that led you? Because you know you, being young anyway, you always had a curiosity. You know about different churches and it's like I can kind of see the writing on the wall to where you are now and and and. Then we want to. We want to talk about tapping into your own intuition, and we talked about in the beginning how people are wanting to align with their purpose, but they're just stuck and they can't do this. They, you know what led you. Tell us that story. How did you know? Because I believe right now you're in your purpose. Am I correct? You're doing? Oh yeah, Right now you're in your purpose, Am I correct? You're doing what?

Laura:

you're called to do. Oh yeah, there's no question. I think it was basically that I had been getting messages for a long time and I had been ignoring them.

Laura:

Okay, and so Spirit decided you know, if we're going to get this girl in her alignment and in her purpose, we're going to have to shake up her world big time. So, my and I I talk about this with my clients because, honestly, if you don't follow your guidance, spirit will find a way to shake up your world so that you align with your purpose. Okay, so I tell you, the easiest way to do it is to follow that guidance, because it's much easier to do it that way than to do it the way that I did. Because it can be, you know, it could be, uh, it could be, it could be. I am not trying to look, I'm looking for the right word. It could be a bit of a, a shite show. Okay, because that's what happened with me. I was basically in some ways, given no choice, because when I quit my job, my corporate job, I was about 52 years old, I had all kinds of experience, I was an expert in sales and marketing and, uh, I had all these great credentials yeah and I figured, oh, I won't have any trouble getting a job in my industry, uh-huh, no, um, it happened at just a time where there was a bunch of ageism going on and

Laura:

people. Uh well, one of the headhunters that I was involved with, she wasn't even supposed to tell me this, but she liked me, so she told me she was honest with me and she said you know, laura, all of her clients, which are the hires, had told her don't even send us anyone who's over the age of 45. And I was 52. 52, okay. So she basically told me at this point in time yeah, you haven't got a hope in you know what, of getting a job in your industry right now, because they won't hire you. They just they won't hire you. They'll tell you all kinds of things, but they won't hire you. Okay, yeah. So I was like, okay, that's not what I was expecting.

Laura:

So what am I going to do now, okay? So then my partner died suddenly and then I was thrown into this whole healing journey and I had a series of different healing experience. I went to John of God in Brazil, I did ayahuasca in in uh in Peru.

Cassandra:

Oh yeah.

Laura:

I did some wild things. I got deep into yoga. I became a yoga uh, uh teacher. Uh, and I found out after I thought I was. That's what I thought I was going to do. I thought I was going to teach yoga as part of my career change. That was not the. It wasn't about me teaching yoga, it was about me going through the experience right because I went through an intensive month-long training program in Costa Rica and that was again part of my healing journey.

Laura:

Oh, okay, wow. So it went push. And then I was. Basically I was sitting there when I got through my healing journey uh, the major part of it and I went, okay, what am I going to do now? And then all of a sudden it just like literally popped into my head well, you loved helping these people with your readings and things like that, so why don't you just start your own business and do that? That's what I did.

Cassandra:

When you say your healing journey, what were you healing from? Because of the loss of your partner, or just the ambiguity of what do I do now?

Laura:

No, there was. There was multiple things. One was the loss of my career because I had been doing that for 30 years, like that was. You know, your career in our 3d world becomes a huge part of who you are.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

So so it was like losing everything a limb, okay so that was a huge part of my identity. Was was my corporate job and making six figures and all that kind of thing right, and then my partner died and that was huge, like totally unexpected. The person.

Laura:

I love more than anything else in the world, was gone yeah, and I had to heal from that okay and then when I started trying to go out and get another job, I had people telling me you're useless, we don't want you and nobody's going to hire you. Ok, so then there's that of having the world tell you that you are no longer needed, wanted or going to make a living OK, ok, so there was. Or going to make a living, exactly, okay. Okay, so there was a lot.

Cassandra:

There was a lot, Wow. So you found your healing. You were doing readings, and then the decision, well, and one of the things. Well, let me ask you this what is the value of becoming authentic, of being your authentic self?

Laura:

well, because you're no longer I. I told you at the very beginning I was when I was working in corporate.

Laura:

I was literally two people okay, I was I had one face and one personality that I had in business, and then I had another face, another personality that I had in business, and then I had another face, another personality that I had in my personal life and even being a Gemini okay, this was a very difficult thing. Like you really had this cognitive dissonance, like who am I really Okay? Because you're really not authentic in any way, because in both lives you're faking it Okay, and my healing journey was also bringing those two parts together.

Cassandra:

That's Max and Max my listeners know who he is. He doesn't do this often, but for some reason he's pretty excited right now, so I apologize to my listeners. That's just part of my show sometimes, okay.

Laura:

It's the energy, okay, and it's the fact that you've got him locked out of the room is what's going on.

Cassandra:

Yes exactly right, exactly right, okay. So yeah, let's talk about that authenticity thing.

Laura:

Well, it was a wonderful process because what I ended up doing was basically merging my two selves into one person, which is the way we should always be all the time, should always be all the time. Um, now for women, especially in this modern world, women, this is done to women simply by living in this world, because they're taught that they, you know they have to be everything. They have to be the successful business woman or career woman. They've got to be a perfect mother. They've got to be a perfect partner. You know they've got to be a perfect partner. You know they've got to be a perfect sexual partner on.

Laura:

You know they've got so many hats going on that they really and of course, when they're you know they're sophisticated and in a career position, in their job, they're not supposed to be feminine, they're supposed to take on that masculine energy, you know. So, basically, women are, are especially. This is why most of my practice is for women.

Laura:

I'll tell you that right now, because women are so fractured? Uh, they're not just two people, they're at least three, and sometimes more, like five or six different personas, you know, and what we have to do is, you know, we come into this world everybody, regardless of their gender okay we have divine feminine energy and we have divine masculine energy right, that's right and when we are born into this world, usually we have a skew to one or the other, and it doesn't matter if you're male or female, because a man can have a skew towards his divine feminine energy.

Laura:

I came in with a heavy skew to the divine masculine, which was another thing that I had to merge, and one of the biggest, biggest, um, biggest purposes and biggest challenges is actually for this lifetime is to bring those to, not only to bring them into balance, but also to have them work together. Okay, because when you're, you're truly authentic and when you're standing in your power, you are actually using both your masculine divine masculine divine wow.

Cassandra:

So let's talk about um. You said that the spirit goes into core issues, right? For example, you talked about. The spirit can help what um to release them. Uh, you talked about first of all being aware of what's going on and what. What I want to do is try to figure out how, how do people and get what their purpose is. I know, know, your purpose can be different times in your life. I'll say that Purpose could be a caregiver at one time, being a mother blah blah blah, wife, or whatever. But then to get to your ultimate purpose, what a lot of us are trying to figure out and we talk about how critical intuition is do they use their intuition to identify what their purpose is?

Laura:

Okay. Well, I'll tell you, there are what I call core purposes. Okay, okay, like healer, teacher, way, shower, things like that. Now, for example, if your core purpose is as a healer, okay, you could be doing that. That's the core purpose that you come into okay to this particular lifetime with. But how you manifest that, how you choose to do that, is totally up to you. Okay Now for me, I chose to lean into the work that I do in terms of being a psychic and a medium. That's my method of healing.

Laura:

Now, you could have somebody that came in with healing energy and they are a body worker, somebody that came in with healing energy and they are a body worker. They could be either a. They could be something traditional, like a registered massage therapist, or they can be something a little bit more alternative, like an energy healer, a Reiki master. They're like there's all different, different things.

Laura:

Even I know people who actually have the healing energy who came in with the purpose of being a healer. Even I know people who actually have the healing energy who came in with the purpose of being a healer and I use this example because people can really get it. They are actually real estate agents. Okay, because their passion for healing people is to get people into the right home in the right area, because all of that is everything's about energy, okay, so if you get somebody into the right kind of home in the right kind of area, that's right for them, or right for them and their family, whatever the case may be, you are actually helping them to heal, because I've seen people who are in the wrong house okay, or in the wrong neighborhood, in the wrong city, or it could even be in the wrong country okay.

Laura:

It doesn't matter where you're born, you could actually end up in the wrong country, because all these things have their own energy and us as individuals, we have their own energy and us as individuals, we have our own energy. And if you're living in a place that is not harmonic with the your own personal energy, you are not going to be well, okay. You're not going to be physically, mentally or emotionally or spiritually healthy, okay. This is what happens because you can move into somewhere and you can be aligned with that energy of that place for a long time.

Laura:

But all of a sudden, as you change your energy, you're no longer in alignment and all of a sudden this is how, all of a sudden, people go I got to move, and they don't even know why. Okay, I gotta move. I can't, I can't handle this house anymore or I can't handle the city anymore, or I want to move to this other country. It's on it can be on multiple levels wow so that is.

Laura:

That is really so. The first thing is is figuring out what your core purpose is. Okay, and that is by one of the easiest ways is really digging into what you really like to do when you were a child. Okay, okay, okay if you start, because when we're children yeah, we're not especially young children- okay, sometimes this requires talking to parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts. Find out what you really like to do, and I'm talking under the age of seven.

Laura:

Okay, if you look at the activities and the places and the things that you like to do when you are under the age of seven. You'll get a pretty good idea of what your core purpose is. Then you start looking at okay, what are the things, as I got older, that I really like to do, because that will start showing you your own manifestation of that particular gift.

Cassandra:

Okay, Okay, okay.

Laura:

I'll give you an easy example. Say, when you're a really young child you really liked taking care of animals. You can tell these little kids they're always taking care of animals, they're bandaging them up, they're you know all that kind of thing.

Cassandra:

Right.

Laura:

And then you look at their life as they get older and then they're always doing something with animals. They love animals. So often their gift is working. Their purpose is actually healing a healing purpose, but it's healing with animals. So these people often become vets, they become horse trainers, there's all these different expanded careers that come from that. So that's the easy way to start, the way you get in touch with your own intuition and you start allowing yourself to be guided more.

Laura:

The best way that I've ever found for most people is meditation, meditation, meditation, okay. That I've ever found for most people is meditation, meditation, meditation, okay, okay, so that when it comes to really getting in touch with your intuition and your authentic self, meditation. I have now been so. I've had a solid meditation practice, and when I say a practice, I mean every day. Okay, if you're only meditating a couple of times a week, it's better than not at all, but it's not a practice. And when I say a practice, I mean every day. Okay, if you're only meditating a couple of times a week, it's better than not at all, but it's not a practice. Okay, Because meditation has a cumulative effect. It doesn't have to be hours and hours. Okay, it can be. It can be 20, 30 minutes a day, but it has to be pretty much every day. Okay, okay, okay, I could, like I said, I've been meditating constantly, probably for 11 or 12 years now, and I could probably count on one, maybe two hands at the most. How many days that I've actually missed meditating?

Laura:

Okay, the only time I usually miss is often if I've been like super sick or something really out of the ordinary has happened. And you just get back on the horse and the next day you're meditating again.

Cassandra:

Okay, Okay, laura. Yeah, the meditation and I hear that a lot Some people do the prayer and yoga and this different modalities on how they do things. I am curious too. You talked about you being a psychic. You read, if I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw you were a seer. I saw you were a seer, I think, s-e-e-r. I think you say so.

Laura:

The reading part that's a gift for you, right? That's your gift, okay? Okay, I'm going to correct this because this is a misconception that so many people have. Every single person on this earth is psychic to some degree.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

Okay, it's just. I use the example of playing basketball. Okay, everybody can play basketball, but some people are better at it than others. Okay, and sometimes even somebody who's not good at it can become really good at it simply by practicing. Okay, even if you don't have a natural talent, and there's people who have natural talents for basketball, but ignore it, right, okay.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

Now mediumship, I'll have some people argue with me, but I have some pretty famous mediums that agree with me, so I don't care if they want to argue. But mediumship itself getting messages from the other side is a different gift. You have to be born with it. Okay, there's a lot of people that say they can teach you to be a medium. No, if you don't have that gift, they cannot teach you to be a medium. If you have the mediumship gift, absolutely there's people who can help you develop the gift.

Laura:

Okay, what I always say is all mediums are psychic, not all psychics are mediums okay, all right, and even within the psychic vein, there are the Okay, all right, most people, some are me, some are more distinctive and powerful than others. Okay, probably one of my most powerful one is clairvoyance, which is seeing things, and that's why I I call it a sayer. A lot of people call me a sayer. That's like the oracles of delphi. They were sayers okay they were serious they. They saw the future. They saw things before they happened. They saw the reasons behind things. Um, but I am also the other. I'm clairsentient.

Laura:

There's one okay so a lot of people have different, like I said, they have different strengths of different forms of them. So, that's the difference. Okay, everybody's psychic to some degree.

Cassandra:

To some degree.

Laura:

Okay.

Cassandra:

Why do you do the work that you do? What's your why?

Laura:

is because I love to see people empowered and when you understand the why of what's happening to you, when you understand the why of what's happening to you, you can actually be empowered to heal yourself and to change your life. Okay, when we don't understand what's going on, when we have no clarity, when we can't figure out why these things are happening to us, Okay, right happening to us when we're in a state. A lot of people are in a state that they blame others and situations for what's happening to them.

Laura:

That is disempowering and it's not true.

Cassandra:

Okay, okay, all right.

Laura:

Because when you understand that you create your own reality, okay, at first it's a bit frightening because if things are going wrong in your life and things aren't very nice and you have to admit to yourself that you have created everything in your life good, bad or indifferent Okay, it seems very negative to a lot of people.

Laura:

But what you don't understand is if you stand back and you realize that that you're creating your own reality, then you can change it uh-huh, okay, okay that is the definition of empowerment, because you sit back and you say, oh no, you know, this person did this to me and the reason I I did this is because the family I was born into. And the reason I can't do this is because where I live and you know, you're blaming everyone and everything for what's happening in your life. That is totally disempowering. That means you can't change it right, okay that means you're a victim. You're a victim of circumstance and you're a victim of other people okay, and there's nothing more um disempowering than that the victim.

Laura:

Okay, okay, okay huge part of my mission is showing people that they actually have all the power in their own hands to make their life whatever they want it to be, and I don't care what your circumstances are and I don't care what's happened to you. You have the power to change pretty much everything in your life everything great.

Cassandra:

so all my listeners who are stuck and I guess we'll go back and say they don't have to be because they have the power within to do that so what would you suggest or share with them on how they can get unstuck?

Laura:

Well, it's really about it's different. It's depending on what's keeping them stuck, but often the root of it is that they feel powerless.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

They are blaming circumstances and other people. Okay For being stuck. Okay For being stuck, okay, just the realization that actually you're the one that got yourself stuck. Okay Is that you can get yourself unstuck, and that's what really is the, and getting clarity on that is what I can help people do, okay. And there's also things that happened in this life, but in some cases there is also things that happened in previous lives that people have carried over into this life because they didn't finish it in the previous life, so they're revisiting those lessons.

Laura:

And a lot of times, just by knowing what happened it gets them unstuck. Okay, because something in this life triggers what happened in the past life. So all of a sudden they're all in that muddle again. Right what happened previously, but just on my business cards I have a little phrase it says empowering people through conscious awareness. Okay, because so much you can't heal something that you're not aware of okay because you need to bring that to your awareness in order to release it.

Laura:

I always say healing equals release, so really healing is about us releasing those energies. Again I'm going everything's energy. Okay, this, if you know. And I love the new quantum physics because the new quantum physics and the new science is validating so many spiritual laws that everybody used to poo poo with with science. Okay, so they can't poo poo them anymore.

Cassandra:

Right, okay.

Laura:

So that is the, that is the crux to it. It's really tapping in and looking at yourself and looking at how you're standing in your own way. Right, okay, and taking, and this is it taking responsibility for that. And the biggest thing that people don't understand is the power of making a choice. Yes, yes, Okay. Because even not making a choice which is why so many people get stuck is a choice. Okay, so if you're going to stand there and not make any choices is not make any decisions, not take any actions actions I'm going to tell you a secret which a lot of people don't understand, about um divine intervention.

Laura:

They're angels. However, you want to work at it a lot of people think that they can sit on their couch and they can pray or they can meditate. Whatever your stripe is, I basically consider them the same thing and their angels are going to jump in and do it all for them.

Cassandra:

That's right.

Laura:

Okay, right. No, it doesn't work that way, because what my guides have shown me over and over again? Because there's this little thing on earth, it's called free will, yes, okay, and your angels cannot just jump in and start doing things because they don't have your agreement, okay. So I always tell people all you have to do is take some baby steps, even little baby steps, in the direction that you want to go. Okay, because then your angels can stand there and go oh, she's going that way.

Cassandra:

Yeah.

Laura:

We can help her Now. We know because she's given us permission. She's shown us the way that she's decided to go. She's made a choice. Okay's shown us the way that she's decided to go.

Cassandra:

She's made a choice, okay.

Laura:

So now we can help her. We can bring synchronicities, we can bring messages, we can bring people into her life who can help her do whatever she wants to do you know, that's the thing. But you cannot sit on your butt and expect your life to change, because I'm telling you, nothing will change.

Cassandra:

I agree. They say this saying about when the student's ready. That's when the teacher will appear.

Laura:

Absolutely. That's when people all of a sudden, when you make a choice and you take any well, even making a choice actually is an action. Okay.

Cassandra:

That is an action, okay.

Laura:

Making a choice and saying, okay, I give up. I know my life needs to change. This is what I want to do. That's right, okay. The universe hears everything that you're saying, okay, and everything you're feeling. Universe hears everything that you're saying, okay, and everything you're feeling. Um, and that choice alone is going to start things in motion, but I really like to see people take some kind of action. I don't care what it is, even if it's just looking something up on the internet, right?

Laura:

right like it can be that simple okay or you know, I'm going to change my life. I want to be more healthy, so instead of parking right next to the door, I'm going to park at the other side of the parking lot exactly, exactly that simple wow, that's great.

Cassandra:

That's because I always think choice is a gift. You know, we, like you, said that our free will. So you can't just sit here and think things are going to happen or, you know, say I want to be, I want to be promoted, just sit there. I mean you're not taking action like you want to be promoted to what you know? Why do you want to be promoted? Have to ask yourself those questions. Be promoted to what? Why do you want to be promoted? You have to ask yourself those questions. So, laura, and another thing, even the choice of I need support. I need support from Laura, I need support from a coach, I need a support from a mentor or something, because I don't want individuals to think they can do this all alone, because you can't think they can do this all alone, because you can't.

Laura:

Well, the thing is, you don't have to right. The first step is making that choice and then, okay, when you choose what you wanted, you want to make a change. Then it's really about making a choice of who are the best people to help you make that change exactly, exactly okay, or or.

Laura:

In my case, who is the best person? Because I help people, exactly, exactly. What are the things that they can do themselves to help that process along and help them get clarity, because, you know, spirit tells me all the time. One of their biggest jobs is to give us confirmation. Ok, because a lot of times we get intuitions and we think, oh, that's just our wishful thinking.

Laura:

Right, OK well, that's just my imagination. But when you come to somebody like me and without me knowing what you've been thinking, ok, like we're, psychics are not mind readers, ok we read energy. Ok, not, not, not mind readers, we breathe energy. Okay, not, not, not my ears. So, and when I come to you and I say, okay, this is what I see for you, this is what I'm being told for you and it's exactly what you thought about, you go.

Laura:

Oh, my god, I have people say this all the time. That's exactly. That's exactly what I thought. Oh, thank you so much right, exactly, uh-huh because, honestly, spirit does not want us to become dependent on them okay they want us to be.

Laura:

They want to empower us to use our own intuition and our own gifts, whatever those happen to be okay. So that is their goal, because they don't want us coming. You know they don't want people like I don't want to see somebody. You know every, you know every other day, or identify some of the blocks that they need to work on and then find people that are the best people to help them release those blocks. Wow yeah.

Cassandra:

And I so appreciate your clarification the clarification in reference to a psychic clarification to you know, saying that you have what it takes to do what it is that you want to do. Also, ask for help if you need help Nothing's wrong with that and also use your intuition. And I loved it when you said think about things that you liked when you were small. What was some of the things that you were doing, you know, even like your corporate job. Your corporate job perhaps gave you skills to do what you'd currently do. You know so yeah. So kind of look at that as if, ok, all right, I got that skill at that, as if, okay, all right, I got that skill. They let me go. Okay, now what?

Cassandra:

You know Well, actually I chose to leave, but that's a whole other yeah yeah, but either way, you know, something happened where it gave you that making that choice. Like you know what, I think it's time for me to go away. You know, I think it's time.

Laura:

Well, you know what it really was about, and this is a huge one for so many people, because, as humans, we are so happy in our little comfort zones. Yes, Okay. And it is really. It's really about if you want to step into your purpose. It's, I tell you right now, it's about stepping out of your comfort zone. That's true. That's true because we are so calm, you know. Oh, I wish I could. I'm trying to remember the, the saying, every. I'm just going to make it up, I'm just going to do my version.

Laura:

Everything that you ever wanted is on the other side of your comfort zone. That's good, Okay. Now, if you want to sit and your whole life and I know people have done it If you want to sit your whole life in your comfort zone, have at it. But I tell you you're not going to get those things that you've always wanted. You're going to die, uh, with those dreams still within you okay, there's another thing about that exactly, and that's where I say the graveyard is.

Laura:

That's the richest place, because of so many unmet dreams exactly yeah exactly, and you're never going to get those dreams unless you take a chance, and taking a chance is the absolute definition of stepping out of your comfort zone. Okay because there's nothing. There's nothing scary or challenging about staying in your comfort zone. That's why it's called a comfort zone.

Cassandra:

That's right, exactly, exactly right, exactly right. Hey Laura, how can my listeners get in touch with you and, in doing so, what is when they do? I want to be clear on the expectations you know when they get in touch with you to do what for them that are stuck, to help them get unstuck.

Laura:

Yeah, um, yes, um, like I always say, uh, okay, the easiest way to get in touch with me is through my website, which is at be in the show notes wwwspiritspeakstome. Wwwspiritspeakstome Two is a number two. Dot me or email me directly. It's really easy at laurahoorwig@ gmail. com. Now, in terms of my private sessions, you can bring any and all questions that you have, whether it's questions about specific questions, whether it's questions about areas of your life, whether it's questions about specific questions, whether it's questions about areas of your life, whether it's questions about relationships, uh, specific people, okay, um, your children, your spouse, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, whatever it is. Um, you know your purpose. Uh, it really is about I'm just checking on the best way to say this it's about any question that you have, whether it's a spiritual question or something in your life. Okay, then also, our group will my group of guides and your group of guides they get together and they have a party.

Laura:

Okay, so my group of guides and your group of guides. They get together and they have a party and they channel through me information that you need to know, even if it's something that you don't ask.

Laura:

Ok, that information will come through, sometimes in a session, because I'm also a medium. If somebody on the other side has some an important message for the person that I'm in session with, they will bring it through, if you're comfortable with that. I always ask people at the beginning. Some people are, some people aren't you. It's up to you whether you receive those messages or not, and it doesn't happen all the time, but it happens frequently. Sure, that's what a private session is like, and normally before I would enter into my intuitive coaching program, which I call you're going to love this. Create the life that you really want, okay.

Laura:

That's my coaching program, my intuitive coaching. I don't even like the word coaching, uh, because it's not really traditional coaching, it's more mentorship and because we're dealing directly with spirit um and it's very unique to each and every person. And even with the personal sessions, the private sessions, they are distinctly unique to each person, whatever they're needing at that particular moment in time.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

So everything is led by spirit and the private sessions are also led by you, by the person that comes, and what kind of questions and needs they have at that particular time in their life. You know um now I don't claim to be a medical intuitive, because that's not my specialty, but I am quite gifted because a lot of people come to me with things that they want to know what's going on within their body. I'm pretty good at that.

Laura:

I am not a doctor, I am not a medical professional but, I have helped many people to direct them into things that are going on with their body and where they should go from here.

Cassandra:

OK, that's good, that's good. I was thinking, like you know, you should actually be extremely popular and powerful when there's so many people you know. I'm wondering does the police ever call you to say hey, laura, we have this missing person. Do you have any idea what they could be?

Laura:

Um, that is, uh, another specialty, but I have done some of that work. Um, I don't, I don't want to do that work. There are people out there dedicated to do that.

Cassandra:

And.

Laura:

I honor them because it's nasty work. It really it's very taxing, it's very hard on you. You're dealing with a lot of violence and very heavy, heavy, heavy energy. Okay. Yeah, I'll tell you right now, most of the time when the police are looking for somebody, that person is not with us any longer. Okay, occasionally they do find people alive, and children and different things like that. But the vast majority of the time, when it involves the police, they're looking for a body.

Cassandra:

Okay.

Laura:

I made a choice a long time ago that that is not the work that I wanted to do. Okay, but I have found that I'm very good at finding lost things. Lost things, people lose things. There's things that are important to people and they don't know where they are, and I have helped quite a number of people find these important items. Okay, that is something I will do.

Laura:

I will not, I will not look for people. I can pretty accurately, because I can see where somebody is. I can tell somebody whether somebody, some people have a long lost relative or a parent, they never met, things like that. I can tell them whether they're still with us or they're on the other side because I'm a medium. Okay, okay, and that is helpful for people, because a lot of people just want to know whether somebody's still with us or whether they've crossed over. That I will do, but not the police work.

Cassandra:

No, I won't do that. Okay, that was just my intuition, wanting to know.

Laura:

Yeah, and, like I said, there are some actually this is interesting. You brought this up because there are some people that came in I think most of the people that do that work because it's so special because, it's so difficult. Okay, there are people that actually came in with that mission to help wayward souls that, for whatever reason, haven't been able to cross over, they get caught in between. Okay, that again is a very difficult specialty. I also know people who do that.

Laura:

Okay, and that is something that I won't do, okay. Okay, just because that's my choice, okay, and those two things, I think, are very. It's just like being a heart specialist, okay, or being a neurosurgeon okay, Now these guys are both doctors, and not only are they both? Doctors they're both surgeons or these, these women. I don't want to be sexist here, yes, but that is a chosen specialty and honestly, I think a lot of times that those people, those particular doctors, came in with a special talent to do those special things.

Cassandra:

Sure, exactly, you're right. They're specialists, that's right. Well, laura, again I want to thank you. My listeners, I know, are so engaged in this and I believe you're going to hear from some people in reference to our conversation and some of their needs as well, and, as many of them know, I'm a mentor. I'm not a coach. I am a mentor. I'm an author, a speaker and a mentor, and I ask my listeners, knowing that many of you know that this conversation has really resonated with you, for you to share this with someone that you believe this will be in their best interest. Also, this podcast will be on every podcast platform. So if you miss it when it goes live, excuse me, you won't ever miss it because it's always gonna go live on a platform. So, again, I want to thank you, laura, as I tell my listeners bye for now and everyone. God bless you and again, thank you. So much, laura, my pleasure, thank you.