In this episode of Grounded in Spirit, I’m joined by my incredible friend Danra of Soul Illumination with Danra for a conversation filled with laughter, vulnerability, and some pretty incredible spiritual experiences.

Danra shares her unexpected journey from trying to disprove mediumship to becoming an evidential medium, Reiki practitioner, Akashic Records reader, and light language channel. We explore what it’s like when your spiritual awakening challenges everything you thought you knew, how to navigate skepticism (including your own!), and what happens when the people around you don’t understand your experiences.

We also dive into light language, the importance of finding your spiritual community, the sometimes exhausting process of personal growth, and learning to surrender instead of constantly pushing.

And yes, there are dragons, sassy spirit guides, and a few moments that will have you laughing out loud.

But underneath all the wonderfully weird stories is a beautiful reminder: You don’t have to have everything figured out to explore your connection with Spirit. You are allowed to question, grow, and discover what feels true for you.

And most importantly, you are worthy of love exactly as you are.

Soul Illumination with Danra

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Explore Danra’s offerings, including mediumship, Reiki, Akashic Records readings, and light language sessions. She offers both online and in-person experiences in Waterbury, Vermont.

Grounded Harmony Wellness

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If you’re exploring your own intuition, developing your spiritual connection, or simply looking for a supportive place to be curious, I’d love to connect with you.

Thank you for being here and sharing this journey with us. 🤍

In this episode of Grounded in Spirit, we’re talking about energetic boundaries—what they are, why they matter, and how they can help you feel more grounded and in control of your intuitive experiences.

I’m sharing what happened when my mediumship abilities first began opening up and I found myself overwhelmed by physical sensations and emotions that didn’t seem to belong to me. We’ll also talk about setting boundaries during Spirit communication, asking Spirit to turn down uncomfortable sensations, and simple visualization techniques you can use when you want to stay in your own energy instead of absorbing what’s happening around you.

Because being compassionate doesn’t require absorption—and being intuitive doesn’t mean being constantly open.

Energetic boundaries are also one of the foundational skills we practice inside my Grounded in Spirit class, where I teach you how to understand your intuitive language, develop your connection with Spirit, and learn to work with your abilities in a way that feels grounded, intentional, and uniquely yours.

Learn more about my classes, readings, and mentorship at groundedharmonywellness.com.

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In this deeply personal episode of Grounded in Spirit, I’m sharing my experiences with loss from childhood through adulthood, from losing my Papa at five years old to complicated grief after my mom’s unexpected death, and eventually facing an entirely different kind of grief when my eight-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer.

I’m also sharing how Reiki, meditation, and eventually mediumship began to challenge what I had always believed it meant for someone to be “gone.”

I don’t claim to know exactly what happens when we die. But my experiences have changed what I believe about consciousness, our continued connection with the people we love, and whether our relationships truly end when someone’s physical life does.

This episode is about grief, love, the ordinary moments we don’t realize are extraordinary while we’re living them—and why coming face-to-face with how temporary life can be has made me appreciate this messy, beautiful life so much more.

Because I no longer believe love ends where a heartbeat does.

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Before my spiritual awakening, I thought mediumship was dramatic, unmistakably supernatural, and something reserved for a chosen few who had “the gift.” What I discovered was something much more subtle, natural, and beautiful.

In this episode of Grounded in Spirit, we’re talking about what mediumship can actually feel like in everyday life, why intuitive information is so easy to dismiss as imagination or coincidence, and how learning your own intuitive language can help you build deeper trust in yourself and your connection with Spirit.

We’ll also explore why developing mediumship doesn’t have to mean becoming a medium. Sometimes it simply means recognizing the ways your loved ones may still feel close, understanding the intuitive nudges you’ve experienced for years, and learning to receive before your analytical mind explains everything away.

If you’ve ever wondered, Was that my intuition? Was that a sign? Did I just make that up?—this episode is for you.

✨ Grounded in Spirit begins September 30. If you’re ready to explore your intuition and connection with Spirit in a grounded, practical, supportive way, you can learn more and enroll at groundedharmonywellness.com under Classes.

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In this episode of Grounded in Spirit, I’m exploring the subtle ways our loved ones, guides, and Spirit may use signs to get our attention—and why those signs can be so easy to miss.

I share the incredible bald eagle that appeared during one of the most frightening days of my daughter’s cancer treatment, a message that came through a dream when I was questioning my path, and the random rhinoceros on my computer screen that stopped me in my tracks.

We’ll talk about synchronicities, dreams, songs, repeating numbers, physical sensations, and the difference between staying open to signs and obsessively searching for them. I’ll also share a simple practice you can use to begin exploring signs for yourself.

Because maybe Spirit isn’t failing to communicate with us. Maybe we’re waiting for communication to look so extraordinary that we’re overlooking the ordinary places where it’s already happening.

Learn more about me and my work at www.groundedharmonywellness.com, and come connect with me on Instagram @grounded.harmony.wellness.

Before I began developing my mediumship, I imagined it would be obvious—hearing voices, seeing vivid visions, or having unmistakable experiences you couldn’t possibly confuse with your own thoughts.

What I discovered was very different.

In this episode of Grounded in Spirit, I’m breaking down what Spirit communication actually feels like for me, how information comes through the different “clairs,” and why it can be so easy to dismiss intuitive and mediumistic information when you’re first learning to recognize it.

We’ll talk about the subtle difference between receiving information from Spirit and simply thinking, imagining, remembering, or feeling—and why learning to trust those quiet impressions became such an important part of my development.

If you’ve ever wondered, “How would I even know if Spirit was communicating with me?” this episode is for you.

And you may discover that your intuition has been speaking to you more often than you realized.

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After giving my first mediumship reading, I wasn’t ready to call myself a medium. I wasn’t even sure I believed what had happened. But over the next several weeks, the experiences kept coming—and eventually, I realized I needed help understanding what was opening up.

In this episode, I’m sharing what happened next: finding a mentor, learning how to work with my connection instead of feeling overwhelmed by it, and beginning the long process of trusting the information I was receiving.

I’ll take you inside some of those early experiences—the moments that felt impossible to explain away, the evidence that challenged my skepticism, and the very real internal battle between the analytical part of me searching for a logical explanation and the intuitive part of me beginning to recognize that maybe there was more happening than I understood.

This wasn’t an overnight transformation from skeptic to believer. It was messy, uncomfortable, fascinating, and sometimes completely overwhelming.

And it became the beginning of learning one of the most important lessons of my spiritual development: trust doesn’t require you to stop questioning.

If you’ve ever had an intuitive experience you couldn’t explain, questioned whether you could trust what you were sensing, or wondered what it actually looks like to develop mediumship, this episode is for you.

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In this episode of Grounded in Spirit, I’m sharing the story of the very first mediumship reading I ever gave. I went into a Zoom practice circle with zero experience, no expectations, and absolutely no idea what I was doing. What happened next left me completely stunned.

I’ll share the incredibly specific information that came through, the evidence my practice partner was able to validate, and the internal battle that followed as my analytical brain desperately tried to make sense of an experience that didn’t fit neatly into my understanding of the world.

Because the truth is, I didn’t walk away from that first reading thinking, Wow, I’m a medium.

I walked away wondering if I was losing my mind.

This is the story of the experience that became a tipping point in my spiritual journey—and what happened when opening the door to Spirit turned out to be much easier than figuring out how to close it.

If you’ve ever experienced something intuitive, spiritual, or completely unexplainable and wondered, Am I imagining this?, this episode is for you.

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In this episode, I’m sharing the story of my very first mediumship reading—and the palm reading later that night that made the whole experience even harder for my logical brain to explain.

The medium shared incredibly specific evidence about my mom, a deeply personal loss very few people knew about, and even information that seemed to come through for my father-in-law during someone else’s reading. Then she told me something about my own future that absolutely terrified me.

A little later, a palm reader—working independently in another room—told me essentially the same thing.

I left that night emotional, confused, and honestly a little freaked out. But what happened also sparked a curiosity I couldn’t quite shut down and led me to take one small step that would eventually change everything.

This is the story of the reading that broke my brain—and pushed the door to my spiritual awakening open just a little bit wider.

Learn more about me, my work, and Grounded Harmony Wellness at groundedharmonywellness.com.

In this episode, I'm sharing the Reiki experiences that became the unexpected beginning of my spiritual awakening - from watching the profound impact of Reiki had on my daughter during cancer treatment to finally experiencing my first session for myself.

What happened during and after that session left my very logical brain scrambling for answers. Memories, sensations, information no one should have know... and then a vivid experience the following morning that made me wonder what in the actual hell was happening to me.

I didn't walk away with all the answers. But for the first time, I became curious enough to ask: What if there's more to life than what I can see?

This is the story of the tiny crack that opened my carefully constructed worldview - and changed the direction of my life.

This isn’t just a story about cancer. It’s a story about love, resilience, hope, and the unexpected ways life’s greatest challenges can begin to transform us.

Long before I ever considered Reiki, mediumship, or spiritual awakening, this journey cracked my heart wide open and changed the way I experienced the world. Looking back, I can see that it became the foundation for everything that came next.

Whether you’ve walked through illness, cared for someone you love, experienced profound loss, or simply found yourself asking, “How do I keep going?” I hope this episode reminds you that you’re not alone.

In the next episode, I’ll share the unexpected experience that became the catalyst for my spiritual awakening—and the Reiki session that changed everything.

Have you ever had an experience you couldn’t explain? Maybe you’ve noticed signs that felt too meaningful to be a coincidence, questioned your intuition, or found yourself wondering if there’s more to life than what we can see.

In this very first episode, I’m sharing why I created this podcast, what Grounded in Spirit really means, and why I believe spirituality doesn’t have to be confusing, intimidating, or reserved for a select few. This is a space for honest conversations about intuition, Reiki, mediumship, healing, grief, and spiritual awakening—all through a grounded, practical lens.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore your spirituality or you’ve been on this path for years, you’re welcome here.

In the next episode, I’ll share the story that changed everything: my daughter’s cancer journey and how it unexpectedly became the beginning of my own spiritual awakening.

You can connect with Sarah on Instagram: @Grounded.Harmony.Wellness or on her website: www.groundedharmonywellness.com