“As Stephanie learns in season one, when she died, a door opened to the other side.

Although she came back, that door never closed, allowing those on the other side to see her – and allowing her to sometimes see those on the other side.  It’s why she has continuous visions, because “restless” spirits are reaching out to her, often in the hopes that she can help a living loved one in distress.

The visions Stephanie experiences are intense. They drain her. Sometimes make her sick.

Additionalside effects include:

Exhaustion, sensitivity to light and certain sounds – like a baby crying or a high pitched musical note. This will of course complicate her responsibilities as a mother and musician.

Stephanie can also be sensitive to touch – which, for better and for worse, will complicate her romantic life.  Perhaps worst of all is the debilitating headaches that follow certain harrowing visions.

The headaches will become so bad that Stephanie will have a CT scan which will reveal tiny tumors.”

This was a pitch for a television show in August 2017.  The writer’s name is Dan Kay and after several interviews with me, he was compelled to right a scripted television show “loosely” based on my experiences.  

When Dan wrote those words and read them aloud in a pitch meeting to network executives, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.  I never told my producing partner or the writer how I felt, I just sucked it up and said “This is FICTION.” 

Now while it is true I have gotten sick from having these experiences, I had never gotten a “debilitating headache.”  But what I felt in the pitch startled me, so I asked my doctor if he would prescribe a scan of my brain just to be sure. 

Now, no doctor in their right mind is going to scan my brain without a reason, so I got a resounding NO, no matter how many times I told them about a show which portrayed me getting these tumors.  

Yup.. crazy person here again.  

I always say “SPEAK UP” so I did.  But it isn’t necessarily going to translate into immediate action. So I compartmentalized the feeling, the show didn’t sell and I put it out of my brain. Or so I thought.

FICTION becomes REALITY.

Fast-forward to March 20^th2019 and I woke up with a “debilitating” migraine. I have never had migraines before and I threw up most of the morning.  I stayed in bed, in the darkness, couldn’t spend any time with the children when they got home from school and in the 10^thhour of this horrific pain, my husband called our doctor.  He told us to immediately get to the ER. The concern for someone who has never had migraines and being of “mature” age, is maybe there is an underlying issue growing or a brain bleed occurring.  Whatever it was, I was admitted and a CT scan was ordered.

Now you will think I am making this up. But I am not. My medical records speak for themselves. The report is dated. The script is dated. The pitches are on the books at the networks. There are way too many witnesses. Sooooo, the CT scan shows, there is no bleed, ((WHEW)) no issue, “except.. (the doctor says), there is a small cyst at the base of your brain.”  

My former Air Force pilot husband looked stunned for a moment and went into auto-pilot asking a ton of questions.

I just laughed. 

Both Jonathan and the doctor thought it was a strange reaction, but I immediately knew it would be fine. I was thinking to myself, of course this had to happen. I felt it and it came true. How ironic right? What a warped sense of humor I have. You kind of have to after everything that has happened.

The doctors feel the migraine was caused by my menopause getting more intense and the cyst… was “nothing to worry about,” in my opinion.

I am not stupid. Having a consultation with my neurologist confirmed the cyst was benign. I will get an MRI to confirm what we both think, because even though your intuition tells you one thing, science can validate or question it. So I will get the extra confirmation. BUT… here’s the big question..

If you THINK it will it come true?  

Can you really MANIFEST something like a cyst in your brain just because you hear the words? Or do you think when you read something which resonates in your SOUL, it sends a signal to your brain to be on alert?

I believe in the latter.

I do not believe I can think my way to a cyst in my brain, the same way I could not think my way to hemorrhage. YOU CANNOT THINK YOUR WAY TO A LETHAL HEALTH CRISIS.  I am not talking about the common cold (you think you are catching a cold and then it happens). I am talking about needing surgery for organ failure you THINK you are going to need. Or imagining you will have colon cancer and you end up with it.

Above all, Intuition is strong. WE ARE VERY POWERFUL.  Your body is telling you something is wrong. If you read something, the way I did a couple of years ago and it causes you to take pause, PAY ATTENTION.  I wanted to have the scan a couple of years ago, but for obvious reasons, it wasn’t appropriate. I tried. And I also felt if it were life threatening, I would not have stopped nagging all of my doctors until I had the scan.  I tucked it away until it became necessary.

Maybe this story needed to happen exactly the way it happened in order to validate many of your concerns. I am glad there is a happy ending here, but I am also happy my intuition was on point because I can actually tell the difference between a casual thought and a dangerous one.

I have attached a link here to help you recognize it in your body too.  

Bottom line:  NEVER TAKE A TRUE INTUITIVE THOUGHT FOR GRANTED.  Get it checked out.  If you SENSE something, SAY something. It can and will SAVE YOUR LIFE.