Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to SOS Stories of Survivors. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Serena Dansker, and I feel so much gratitude today because
Speaker 1: my guest is not just a guest, she is my
Speaker 1: dear friend, Anna Ramonde. She is a medium, psychic, claravoyant, teacher, healer,
Speaker 1: and just a shining light. And we are so lucky
Speaker 1: to have her in studio because she is so busy
Speaker 1: and she is just a force, and we are going
Speaker 1: to hear about her story how she's become a renowned
Speaker 1: author and clairvoyant and has really inspired so many people,
Speaker 1: myself included. Thank you so much for joining us today
Speaker 1: and welcome Anna.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about how you bring your
Speaker 1: energy and love of life to so many. Why don't
Speaker 1: you talk a little bit about you and who you
Speaker 1: are and what you've gone through.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a mother, a wife, I have children. I
Speaker 2: first learned of my gifts when I was about twelve,
Speaker 2: when I realized that everybody else didn't have them. I'm
Speaker 2: a born medium. I have gone through the ups and
Speaker 2: downs of lives and I bring things forward to people
Speaker 2: so that they can recognize that there is a heaven,
Speaker 2: there is an afterlife, there is a God. Whether you
Speaker 2: call it Sam, the energy of love, the power in
Speaker 2: the sky, whatever you want to call it, but it's
Speaker 2: real and it's true. And my mission is to bring
Speaker 2: that to people, to help them heal, to help them
Speaker 2: find peace, and to help them find joy.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. I know that you too have felt
Speaker 1: the pain of grief, and you know what it's like
Speaker 1: to have loss in your life. Where did you lean
Speaker 1: was was it prayer, spirit, friends, or just moments of time.
Speaker 2: I always go I always go to the source. When
Speaker 2: I'm in pain or I'm suffering from something, I go
Speaker 2: to God, I go to mayor right, I go to
Speaker 2: what fills my soul and what can heal me and
Speaker 2: who can heal me? You know, friends are wonderful, but
Speaker 2: they're not as understanding as you know the one is.
Speaker 2: And so that's kind of where That's where I've always gone.
Speaker 1: That's that's beautiful. I know that you were such a
Speaker 1: big part of my healing journey as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: before I've gotten to know you personally, I reached out
Speaker 1: to you and everything that you stand for, the gifts
Speaker 1: that you have, the comfort you brought me, and not
Speaker 1: just me, so many people. Can you talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about the first time you realize that the connection
Speaker 1: you have to spirit was more than just a feeling,
Speaker 1: that it was a calling.
Speaker 2: You know. That's interesting because I'm a born medium. I
Speaker 2: wasn't trained to do what I do or see what
Speaker 2: I see. This has been my entire life, with the
Speaker 2: middle part of it disregarding it because it wasn't It
Speaker 2: didn't allow me to quote unquote fit in in high school.
Speaker 2: And so I really realized it was a calling when
Speaker 2: I was invited to do a group session by a
Speaker 2: friend of mine with people I didn't know, and I
Speaker 2: had never done that before. And I went there and
Speaker 2: I felt, I really felt that God was moving me
Speaker 2: toward this, you know. And afterwards, when people were saying,
Speaker 2: you know, you helped me so much, I can't begin
Speaker 2: to tell you, that was the turn. So I thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: everything I did up until this time brought me to
Speaker 2: this place, but this is what I need to do.
Speaker 1: Gosh, that's that's so amazing. Now, when did you first
Speaker 1: realize that you had this special gift? I know you
Speaker 1: have a close relationship with Mary. Can you talk about.
Speaker 2: That well, it's interesting because I didn't know I had
Speaker 2: this special gift until I realized that other people didn't
Speaker 2: have it. Because in my mind, as a kid, everybody
Speaker 2: had this, you know, everybody could do this. I didn't
Speaker 2: understand why adults would ask me to sit with them
Speaker 2: and talk to them. It was like, you know, ask
Speaker 2: your child to kind of to do that. Mary was
Speaker 2: a whole different thing. I remember it very vividly. I
Speaker 2: grew up on Long Island and it was it was
Speaker 2: like a kind of the day. It was like today,
Speaker 2: kind of dreary, but I don't know, it was chilly.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was fall or beginning of spring, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And my parents had in their backyard what sometimes people
Speaker 2: call Mary on the halfshell. So it's Mary and this dome,
Speaker 2: except that there was no Mary. And I was tiny,
Speaker 2: and I was about four or five, and I sat
Speaker 2: in the dome and I was just sitting in the dome,
Speaker 2: and then I saw this young girl with you know,
Speaker 2: long kind of auburn hair, dressed in you know, this
Speaker 2: brown outfit with a belt and darkish skin, big eyes,
Speaker 2: and she said to me, I will always be with you.
Speaker 2: Didn't understand what that meant. You know. I went in
Speaker 2: the house. My mother was smoking and reading the newspaper,
Speaker 2: and I guess that's what you did back then. And
Speaker 2: I went in and I said, I just saw Mary
Speaker 2: in the backyard. And she looked at me like, oh,
Speaker 2: like trying to think, like do we have a neighbor
Speaker 2: named Mary? And she just said, oh, that's nice, you know,
Speaker 2: because they were so used to me saying that I
Speaker 2: was seeing people, and so, you know what, I carried
Speaker 2: that with me. It was my but Mary belonged to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't tell anybody about this. I didn't talk about this,
Speaker 2: and she continued to come to me, you know, I
Speaker 2: mean until she still comes to me. You know, she
Speaker 2: continued to come to me, and whenever I was in crisis,
Speaker 2: it was always Mary.
Speaker 1: What has Mary taught you personally about about this?
Speaker 2: You know, She's taught me faith that if you ask,
Speaker 2: you may not receive immediately, but you will receive, you know,
Speaker 2: to pray, you know, to always pray, to always lift
Speaker 2: it up to God, to surrender. You know, I've spent
Speaker 2: so many days and nights when I've been in a
Speaker 2: bad situation just surrendering it up to God. With Mary's help.
Speaker 2: She taught me. You know what it means to be
Speaker 2: a mine there, you know what it means to you know,
Speaker 2: have the joys and the pain of motherhood. So you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, you have your parents and
Speaker 2: then I have this mentor that is absolutely wonderful, you know,
Speaker 2: trying now, trying to keep me on my path. That
Speaker 2: doesn't mean I don't go off my path or make mistakes.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm human, of course I do. But she's
Speaker 2: She's always there and I know it pure trust.
Speaker 1: That's that's so. And it gives it gives me hope
Speaker 1: when I hear you talk about that relationship and the
Speaker 1: relationship you have with Mary and what Mary has taught you,
Speaker 1: because without that hope, but you have nothing right.
Speaker 2: Well, that's how it goes. Without hope, life is like
Speaker 2: a broken wing bird. And Mary does provide hope. There's
Speaker 2: always hope. You know. We're going through such chaos now
Speaker 2: in the world, and what people say to me, is
Speaker 2: this the end? And I just keep saying, no, hang on,
Speaker 2: have some faith, hope. We've been through this before, the
Speaker 2: world has been through this before. You know, it's about
Speaker 2: you know. In the in the book, Mary says over
Speaker 2: and over again. Pray, pray, pray, things can change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe in that. I so believe that. And
Speaker 1: as your friend, Anna, I know how much you give
Speaker 1: of yourself. How do you balance holding space for so
Speaker 1: many others while also protecting yourself and your soul and
Speaker 1: your spirit.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think my protection just comes from God.
Speaker 2: And you know, and I'm a normal person. So you know,
Speaker 2: I spend time with family, I travel, I go out
Speaker 2: with my friends. It's my relaxation. I have to learn.
Speaker 2: I have to relax. I meditate, you know, I go
Speaker 2: to that place that feeds me, feeds my soul in
Speaker 2: whatever way. But I have to release the things that
Speaker 2: I feel and here during the day or I would
Speaker 2: have no life. How do you release that, you know,
Speaker 2: through meditation, through prayer. You know. I play video games
Speaker 2: on my eyes. That sounds ridiculous, but it's mindless, okay,
Speaker 2: And I just I just do it, you know, I
Speaker 2: just do what I have to do. I spend time
Speaker 2: with people. I laugh, you know, laughter is great, you know.
Speaker 2: So I try to do as much as I can
Speaker 2: to bring myself into that balance.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about how healing doesn't happen when
Speaker 1: you're alone so much as it happens when you're surrounded
Speaker 1: by your community, your friends, love. How does that connection
Speaker 1: play a role in your own story and on how
Speaker 1: you live your life.
Speaker 2: Well, love is the end all, Love is God. Love
Speaker 2: is the greatest energy in the entire world. That's what
Speaker 2: it's That's what it's all about. And the more you
Speaker 2: surround yourself with loving people, people that make you laugh,
Speaker 2: people that raise your vibration, people that you want to
Speaker 2: be with. You know, I tell people all the time
Speaker 2: they'll complain about people. It's like, well, then why are
Speaker 2: you with that person? If that person is bringing you
Speaker 2: down or you don't feel good about yourself when you're
Speaker 2: with that person, then you shouldn't be with that person.
Speaker 2: You know. Community is wonderful no matter what you know,
Speaker 2: no matter what you're doing, like spiritual community, you know.
Speaker 2: And again it doesn't mean you're walking around preaching all
Speaker 2: the time or doing anything like that. It's just uplifting.
Speaker 2: You know. Being on the same page with people also helps.
Speaker 2: You Know, somebody came to me today and she's like,
Speaker 2: I'm at, you know, a spiritual crisis, because I don't
Speaker 2: know anybody who's spiritual. You know and me meanwhile, we're
Speaker 2: I mean, there's spiritual people everywhere, you know, So it's
Speaker 2: when you when you know you're surrounded by them and
Speaker 2: that they have back and you have their back, and
Speaker 2: it's love and compassion. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1: I tell you, I was talking to someone the other
Speaker 1: day and we were talking about how nice it is
Speaker 1: to have friends that you can talk to when you're
Speaker 1: going through things, when you're going through creed for a
Speaker 1: hard time. But what's really nice is when you're celebrating something,
Speaker 1: something you've worked so hard for and joyful and you
Speaker 1: can share that too without feeling like they're going to
Speaker 1: be envious or jealous. That they're just joyful with you.
Speaker 1: I think that's like the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, it is, And I love that. You know,
Speaker 2: I've gone through I've had a lot of joy in
Speaker 2: my life, you know. I mean, everybody has the ups
Speaker 2: and the downs, but I've had a lot of joy
Speaker 2: in some of it. You know, was oh my god,
Speaker 2: if I tell this person, well, they think I'm bragging, right,
Speaker 2: And it's just I remember, like the first time I
Speaker 2: was on the Doctor Oz show, I'm so excited, so excited,
Speaker 2: you know, and my friends were just as excited for me,
Speaker 2: and that was you know, that was pretty wonderful. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's those things like that's not a big thing. It's
Speaker 2: not like having a baby, you know, but but it's
Speaker 2: something that you know, is a person that I won't forget.
Speaker 1: Exactly and that and when you have a friend like that,
Speaker 1: you're just you're joyful for their successes. Their successes are
Speaker 1: your success.
Speaker 2: But that's love. That's what love. That's what love does.
Speaker 1: It's a so you know, I know, you lead retreats
Speaker 1: and gatherings and you host so many virtually in person
Speaker 1: restaurants in in you know, different parts of the country,
Speaker 1: actually in different parts of the world. What is your
Speaker 1: What do you most hope that people walk away from
Speaker 1: these types of retreats and gatherings in their hearts.
Speaker 2: I want to help people feel the connection and feel
Speaker 2: the peace that you either comes from above or actually
Speaker 2: it's in front of you, because it's right in front
Speaker 2: of you, it's the dimension, or from within themselves, from
Speaker 2: their souls. You know, there's the soul is so wonderful,
Speaker 2: and the soul is good. That's the good part of us.
Speaker 2: It's our energy. It's what we're about that. People can
Speaker 2: get in touch with that and then be able to
Speaker 2: take that and live happy lives or when they're not happy,
Speaker 2: nowhere to go with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I give that.
Speaker 2: There's something greater than themselves. You know, we sit so
Speaker 2: much in ego. You know, it's important that people knows
Speaker 2: it's at the end, who cares about your ego? There's
Speaker 2: something so much greater that holds us all up. And
Speaker 2: we're never alone, whether it's by our relatives or by
Speaker 2: you know, the angels or God or whatever. We're never ever,
Speaker 2: ever alone.
Speaker 1: I was reading a book recently, and it talked about
Speaker 1: living in the present, you know, and how we so
Speaker 1: worry so much about the future, and we have anxiety
Speaker 1: of everything in the future, but that's not guaranteed the
Speaker 1: present we lose sight of. You get somewhere, you're on vacation,
Speaker 1: you're like up three days till I leave. But by
Speaker 1: doing that, you're not enjoying the time that you're there,
Speaker 1: Or you let your pass, which has done it has
Speaker 1: no bearing on today, creep in and ruin your good
Speaker 1: time or ruin your state of mind. That's really right now.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I hear over and over again
Speaker 2: from those who have crossed over. Is life is too short.
Speaker 2: Live every moment, every moment, because it just goes. And
Speaker 2: I hear that from people who have passed in their
Speaker 2: nineties and people who have passed you know, at seventeen.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, it just goes. It goes so fast
Speaker 2: and the moments fly through. So live those moments, really live,
Speaker 2: and you know what, your idea of living those moments
Speaker 2: might be different than my idea of living those moments.
Speaker 2: It's an individual you know, It's an individual choice and
Speaker 2: an individual feeling of what it feels like to be
Speaker 2: in the moment and live the moment. So, yeah, it's important.
Speaker 2: It's the power of now.
Speaker 1: Exactly, the power of now. Yes, it's it's it's such
Speaker 1: an it's such a hard concept to grasp too. I
Speaker 1: do struggle with it, but I'm doing my best to
Speaker 1: actually embrace now and not focus so much on the future.
Speaker 1: I think it's important. I want to enjoy my life
Speaker 1: today and and all the beauty and starting to stay
Speaker 1: grateful and just full of gratitude for everything that I have,
Speaker 1: my health and my friends.
Speaker 2: And being grateful. I think people forget about is, you know,
Speaker 2: waking up in the morning and saying I'm alive, thank.
Speaker 1: You exactly exactly, and you know, and I know, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes our listeners could be sitting alone right now in
Speaker 1: grief and wishing, you know, for a sign from their
Speaker 1: loved ones, or just just so heartbroken that they feel
Speaker 1: like they can't go on. What's a practice or a
Speaker 1: prayer you would say, you should try doing this tonight
Speaker 1: to help you through this.
Speaker 2: Well, I got to tell you, you know, I'm also
Speaker 2: a grief counselor you know, I felt that I had
Speaker 2: to understand grief in order to do what I do. So,
Speaker 2: you know, when people are grieving and grief is important,
Speaker 2: people should grieve and get out the tears, get out
Speaker 2: the feelings. But at the end of the day, those
Speaker 2: on the other side, they want us to go on
Speaker 2: and to be happy and to continue our lives. They
Speaker 2: don't want our lives stuff. They wanted to continue, you know,
Speaker 2: to breathe through it, to meditate, to say any prayer.
Speaker 2: You know, prayer doesn't have to be a prayer of
Speaker 2: a religion. It's a conversation. You know, have a conversation
Speaker 2: with your loved ones, write them letters, have a conversation
Speaker 2: with Mary, you know, have a conversation with God. Do
Speaker 2: what feels right in your soul. But have the conversations
Speaker 2: because that helps. And the signs are everywhere, you know,
Speaker 2: keep them mind we're made of energy, and so you know,
Speaker 2: those on the other side will blink lights, turn on radios,
Speaker 2: turn on TVs, turn off radios. You know, they love
Speaker 2: sending birds, you know, things like that. They superimpose themselves
Speaker 2: on people, so from in the back it looks like them,
Speaker 2: and then when they turn around, you realize it's not them.
Speaker 2: All those things are meant to bring us peace. So
Speaker 2: what they're sending us peace from the other side as well.
Speaker 1: Wow, I totally look for signs all the time and
Speaker 1: I'm never let down. I see signs in the clouds
Speaker 1: and on the truck that goes by, on the rainbows,
Speaker 1: on the sunsets. I just I'm always open. My husband
Speaker 1: thinks I'm absolutely crazy, but he sees it too, you know,
Speaker 1: he really does. And it's uh and it's nice. It's
Speaker 1: just that little godwink, you know, and fills my heart,
Speaker 1: it really does. Let's talk a little bit about your books.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've written two books, and I know They've
Speaker 1: reached so many people. You've written Conversations with Mary, and
Speaker 1: you've written in Suburbia Dead and Suburbia Talking to the
Speaker 1: Dead and Suburbia.
Speaker 2: I wrote that a long time ago. I'm actually hoping
Speaker 2: to rewrite it, make it more because I wrote it
Speaker 2: when I had little kids, you know, and it was
Speaker 2: my life was very different. I don't have little kids anymore,
Speaker 2: and so you know, it was from a different perspective.
Speaker 2: And then conversations with Mary, you know, that's that's really
Speaker 2: my baby. You know, that book came out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: was published by you know, Simon and Schuster. I had
Speaker 2: a deal in a month and a half because Mary
Speaker 2: wanted it. You know. I had gone to Mediagori, where
Speaker 2: Mary has been appearing for maybe forty years, and I
Speaker 2: went with a bunch of people and they they all
Speaker 2: got deal with my friends and they got healings. And
Speaker 2: I came home and I was sitting in my back
Speaker 2: in Connecticut and I was like, Mary, I don't get it.
Speaker 2: I had to travel thirteen hours when I can hear
Speaker 2: you hear and truly I heard her say very loud
Speaker 2: and clear, you will be my platform. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, like I said, I'm in surrender. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: bring it, bring it on. And I was doing a
Speaker 2: reading a couple of weeks later and the woman sitting
Speaker 2: across from me said, I'm a little intuitive and I
Speaker 2: think you should write a book about Mary. And I said,
Speaker 2: from your mouth to Godzias, and she smiled and said,
Speaker 2: I'm from Simon and Schuster. So Mary made it happen.
Speaker 2: Miracles happened. I've had so many miracles in my life,
Speaker 2: so many I can't even begin to count them. There's
Speaker 2: been and that was a miracle. I didn't know what
Speaker 2: the book was going to be about. I had no idea.
Speaker 2: I had to put together a proposal. I have no
Speaker 2: idea what I was doing. I didn't have an agent,
Speaker 2: I have nothing. I had absolutely nothing. And then the
Speaker 2: book started to form, and you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: it was Mary waking me up in the middle of
Speaker 2: the night and I had to come downstairs, get out
Speaker 2: my laptop and start typing what she was telling me.
Speaker 2: And then the next day put a question to it.
Speaker 2: And what was so interesting is, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: writing a book, book, especially with the big publisher, there
Speaker 2: are many editors, but my personal editor who everything went
Speaker 2: to first, would say, this is incredible because Mary's you know,
Speaker 2: answers are grammatically correct, you know, they flow in a
Speaker 2: great way, and the questions not so much. Huh. The
Speaker 2: hardest part about writing that book, truly was the introduction.
Speaker 2: Because I wrote the introduction. She wrote the rest of
Speaker 2: the book. Mary wrote that book, I didn't write it.
Speaker 1: That's incredible that the power that they can give you
Speaker 1: to go through here and out and have you write that,
Speaker 1: I just I find that incredible. Actually I found you
Speaker 1: because one of my friends gave me your book when
Speaker 1: my son passed and I couldn't really focus. I was
Speaker 1: my mind. I think you go through like an add
Speaker 1: thing when you're grieving. But I listened to your book
Speaker 1: and I felt like I was listening to a fellow
Speaker 1: friend because of your New York accent, and yes, you
Speaker 1: have a New York when you did the book. You did,
Speaker 1: but I would listen to it, and then you would
Speaker 1: do these cool meditations at the ends of every chapter,
Speaker 1: and it was just it was amazing because I could
Speaker 1: close my eyes and I can follow you. I could
Speaker 1: be walking the dog and just listening to you, and
Speaker 1: it was just it was really healing. I have to
Speaker 1: tell you it was one of by far one of
Speaker 1: my favorite books.
Speaker 2: Well, I've got a lot of very positive feedback and
Speaker 2: like a lot of really nice stories. One of my clients,
Speaker 2: an older woman, was dying and her sister, her daughter
Speaker 2: was there and my book was on her bedside table
Speaker 2: and apparently it was old dog Eier and she had
Speaker 2: read it and she had her daughter read it to
Speaker 2: her as she was dying. And I know this because
Speaker 2: then the daughter got in contact with me and says,
Speaker 2: I got to meet you, you know, you know, my
Speaker 2: mother died listening to your book, and it was just wow,
Speaker 2: that's so.
Speaker 1: Nice, that's incredible. I it's funny because some people can
Speaker 1: get understand how many lives they've saved by just you know,
Speaker 1: by recording doctors and how they've helped people. But you
Speaker 1: do you can't monetize or put a number on how
Speaker 1: many lives and how many souls you've helped. But I
Speaker 1: just I just wonder, you know how maybe when we
Speaker 1: go over the other side, you know, it's just the
Speaker 1: balloons will go up and be like, Anna, you've done.
Speaker 2: That would be nice.
Speaker 1: I like a party, You've sized all of us, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's uh, I think it's just beautiful. But you know,
Speaker 1: I know you save other people. But was there a
Speaker 1: time when Mary's words when you were being childed to
Speaker 1: write them, actually you realized, you know what, I needed
Speaker 1: to hear this as well. Were there times that that happened.
Speaker 2: While writing the book?
Speaker 1: You meane mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: You know, I think it was important when I was
Speaker 2: writing the book to realize Mary was a woman. You know,
Speaker 2: she was a woman, She had a family, she had
Speaker 2: a child, She had a child who she really couldn't
Speaker 2: stop from doing what he wanted to do. And I
Speaker 2: think that speaks to all of us who have children.
Speaker 2: You know, that she let go, she had to let
Speaker 2: go and move on and then her incredible faith, but
Speaker 2: her pain. Mary felt pain. You know, Mary was a
Speaker 2: human being and she felt pain. So I think it
Speaker 2: was beyond the you know, the mystical Mary, and Mary
Speaker 2: really became a person to me and someone that I
Speaker 2: could relate to. So my relationship with her changed a bit,
Speaker 2: you know, it became more mother to mother as opposed
Speaker 2: to mentor to child, and that was really eye opening
Speaker 2: to me. And you know, the messages that you know,
Speaker 2: the things she said in the book like made me
Speaker 2: think like wow, you know, I mean, there's so much
Speaker 2: talks about. She talks about religion, she talks about the angels,
Speaker 2: she talks about the world. She talks about evil and
Speaker 2: you know and good. You know where the ying and
Speaker 2: the yang of the darkness and the light. You know,
Speaker 2: I just said that. When I read the words back,
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, I actually type this because it
Speaker 2: just I didn't even realize what I was typing until
Speaker 2: I read it back.
Speaker 1: Wow. That's so powerful. Think about that, the ability to
Speaker 1: actually not be aware of what you're typing until you
Speaker 1: read it back. I mean.
Speaker 2: And what's important to know also is that Mary doesn't
Speaker 2: belong to the Catholic club. Mary is for everybody. She
Speaker 2: was a Jewish woman, okay, and she comes through for everyone.
Speaker 2: You know, when I asked her about what's the best religion,
Speaker 2: and she said, you know best, it's whatever religion has
Speaker 2: loved that will bring you to God. There's many paths
Speaker 2: to get there. So she's not this book is you know,
Speaker 2: the book was totally non denominational. You know, she comes
Speaker 2: through to different people because of their audience. So she
Speaker 2: might come through, you know, to the people in Mediagori
Speaker 2: because it's a very big Catholic audience and it's the
Speaker 2: same message but more specified for them, you know, through me.
Speaker 2: You know, the people that have read this book have
Speaker 2: been all different religions, all different walks of life. And
Speaker 2: that's what she wanted. She wanted to open it up.
Speaker 2: She's a messenger of God to help us heal, heal
Speaker 2: the world, and heal ourselves.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's just that's incredible. I You've taught me so
Speaker 1: much through through I've gone to several of your retreats
Speaker 1: and I've just learned all about Mary Magdalene and Mary
Speaker 1: and it's just it's incredible. It's opened up my my
Speaker 1: spirituality quite frankly, and have sent me on a path
Speaker 1: where I just I keep absorbing more and more and
Speaker 1: more and I've I've become, I guess, a much different
Speaker 1: person today than I was before I lost my son.
Speaker 1: And not that I was a bad person before, you know,
Speaker 1: I just I'm so much more, I think now if
Speaker 1: that makes sense, So it does. And I have you
Speaker 1: to think, what does hope look like to you?
Speaker 2: Hope is never giving up, always believing that there's something
Speaker 2: good ahead and not and just to keep on going
Speaker 2: without saying it's over I can't do that. You know,
Speaker 2: it's yes I can. There's always yes I can. You know,
Speaker 2: when I was a little girl, I was taking swimming
Speaker 2: lessons and I remember saying to the instructor as a teenager,
Speaker 2: I can't, and she said, you will never say that.
Speaker 2: You will always say I can, I can. I can,
Speaker 2: And to me, that's hope. It will be It will
Speaker 2: be better, Everything will be better. We just have to
Speaker 2: keep on keeping.
Speaker 1: On, I know. But sometimes you know, it can be
Speaker 1: so overwhelming, it can pay everything. How do you how
Speaker 1: do you just keep that light, that little spark going, but.
Speaker 2: You just keep on praying and feeling and connecting with people.
Speaker 2: You know, we again, we're here to help ourselves and
Speaker 2: to help heal other people. That's what we're here to do.
Speaker 2: And the more connection you have with people, and the
Speaker 2: more you show your light and then you absorb their light,
Speaker 2: it floats you.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. Really, I I I find that having that
Speaker 1: hope and and that that inner light and shining that
Speaker 1: light it actually does. It makes such a difference in
Speaker 1: your life. I find that I today, I will if
Speaker 1: I see someone and I like their hair or their
Speaker 1: shirt or their glasses. I tell them, and and the
Speaker 1: smile that comes back because you don't know what other
Speaker 1: people are going through, right, and it's all of a
Speaker 1: sudden and now I see that people respond the same
Speaker 1: way to me. And I'll be walking on somebody be
Speaker 1: like I like your nails, and I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: It brightens your day. I've been I saw something when
Speaker 2: I was in California. It's this little book and it
Speaker 2: has sayings in it like happy things like you are
Speaker 2: beautiful or I don't know, quotes from something and I
Speaker 2: go around and put them on people's windshields. Okay, I
Speaker 2: love that. We probably get in their car saying, oh God,
Speaker 2: another advertisement, and it's like something that says, slow down,
Speaker 2: life is too short, you know, So just you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, you gotta do what you
Speaker 2: have to do to I don't know, to make other
Speaker 2: people happy. The happier you can make somebody else, the
Speaker 2: happier you'll be, because it's again, this is this is
Speaker 2: what we're here for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I think it's so cuazy. Can you maybe
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about any of the strangest interactions
Speaker 1: you've had with the other side.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my favorite story, which I tell nauseum, but
Speaker 2: I love this story. So it was it was a
Speaker 2: little after Thanksgiving and I pulled my car into my
Speaker 2: garage and I saw a young man, very nice looking
Speaker 2: young man. He had on black jeans and a white top.
Speaker 2: He had dark hair, and he's just standing in the garage.
Speaker 2: So my okay, So I mean I knew he wasn't
Speaker 2: you know, he wasn't living so at least not in
Speaker 2: this realm. And so I came in the house, you know,
Speaker 2: and I created money. My husband and my son know
Speaker 2: there's this guy in the garage, and they look at
Speaker 2: each other like, you know, this is crazy. And as
Speaker 2: time went on, he kept appearing and he didn't talk
Speaker 2: to me. Okay. And then Christmas comes and goes, and
Speaker 2: at that time I had my Christmas stuff in my
Speaker 2: attic and the attic door is in my bedroom. There's
Speaker 2: no wind tunnel in my bedroom, and I'm bringing stuff
Speaker 2: into the attic and the door closes, and so I think, oh,
Speaker 2: that's odd. So I go back, I get more stuff,
Speaker 2: I bring it up, and the door closes. So now
Speaker 2: I'm a little like, Okay, I don't like this, So
Speaker 2: I come downstairs, and my younger son and my husband
Speaker 2: were playing video games. And I said, that's not funny.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't be closing the door. And they looked at
Speaker 2: me like, we're playing games, we're not upstairs. So okay,
Speaker 2: I go back upstairs. I bring some more stuff. The
Speaker 2: door closes, I go back. I knew it's this guy,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, we're done. Okay, this is my sandbox.
Speaker 2: You're playing and you're not allowed to scare me. And
Speaker 2: if you're not going to communicate with me, I can't
Speaker 2: help you. And he told me his name, and he
Speaker 2: told me that his girlfriend. He gave a message to
Speaker 2: his girlfriend and he said that she was pregnant and
Speaker 2: that the baby was gonna was a boy and was
Speaker 2: going to look just like him, and that she had
Speaker 2: a locket and in the locket was his hair. Now
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I don't carry my
Speaker 2: husband's hair around with me. He doesn't have any hair.
Speaker 2: But but if he did, I still wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: And so I'm like, all right, I don't know I'm
Speaker 2: going to do with this. So I was getting my
Speaker 2: hair cut. Now it's like after you know, new year's
Speaker 2: and I'm telling the woman who cut my hair this
Speaker 2: story and she's like, oh my god, that's my friend.
Speaker 2: He died, you know, right after Thanksgiving on ninety five.
Speaker 2: He had a car accident and his girlfriend is pregnant.
Speaker 2: And I'm actually owing to the memorial next week. So
Speaker 2: I said, okay, well you're gonna have to go over
Speaker 2: to her because you have a message, okay, that you
Speaker 2: have to give her. And the first thing you have
Speaker 2: to ask her if she has a locket with hair
Speaker 2: in it, and if she says yes and it's his
Speaker 2: hair and it's his hair, then you can give the message.
Speaker 2: And this woman was like, I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you have to do this. So she goes
Speaker 2: to the memorial. She goes over to this pregnant young
Speaker 2: woman and she said, did you better lock it on
Speaker 2: your neck with you know, Mark's hair in it? And
Speaker 2: she's like yeah. And she said, well, do you I
Speaker 2: have something funky to tell you? Do you believe like
Speaker 2: in the afterlife? And she said yeah. She said, well
Speaker 2: Mark wants the baby baptized and she started to laugh
Speaker 2: and she said, I don't think so I'm do it.
Speaker 2: He's nagging me from the grave. Yeah, so I thought
Speaker 2: that was such a great story. And that woman, the
Speaker 2: young woman, the pregnant one, actually became a healer. She
Speaker 2: did this was so earth shattering and so specific that
Speaker 2: like she became a heal I think. I don't think
Speaker 2: the baby was baptized.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Do you think we all have that
Speaker 1: ability to connect?
Speaker 2: I think we do. I think what prevents people from
Speaker 2: connecting is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of what
Speaker 2: will how will this change my life? Just like people
Speaker 2: are afraid to surrender to God's will because but if
Speaker 2: they don't like God's will, you know, like what if
Speaker 2: I don't want that and God wants that. It's the
Speaker 2: same thing with intuition. Maybe you know, I will feel
Speaker 2: things or maybe if I connect and I can see
Speaker 2: other people, I'll be bringing in something bad as well.
Speaker 2: So it's that and it's you know, lack of confidence,
Speaker 2: you know that I can't do it. You know, to me,
Speaker 2: it's as easy as breathing, because it's I never had
Speaker 2: the fear because I was born like this. You know.
Speaker 2: I have taught intuition workshops and there have been amazing
Speaker 2: things that have come out of them. With people who
Speaker 2: could absolutely connect. And then there's the other people that say,
Speaker 2: I can't do this, and that's yeah, you can. You
Speaker 2: can do this. Stop, you know, stop putting out to
Speaker 2: the universe that you can't because you can.
Speaker 1: Wow. I just imagine if everybody just believed enough in
Speaker 1: themselves and their abilities. What a different world it would be.
Speaker 1: Huh right? Oh my gosh. I sometimes I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: I think about the connection we have to our animals
Speaker 1: as well, you know, not just human spirits. But I
Speaker 1: I had an experience with my childhood dog, I ha
Speaker 1: Haday and I don't know, it was like ten years later,
Speaker 1: and I was sitting in my car and I smelled him.
Speaker 1: And it's so bizarre because you know, you're like, you
Speaker 1: smell your dog, but your dog has a specific smell,
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, I was just like chestnut, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, so, is that something you've experienced?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. So you know, I bring that to
Speaker 2: other people. But my dog passed three years ago on
Speaker 2: December twenty sixth, and this was my dog. Okay, I
Speaker 2: love this dog, This dog loved me, and the dog
Speaker 2: he passed in my arms, and it was devastating for me.
Speaker 2: And my husband, you know, we cried. You know, it
Speaker 2: was like I think I cried more for that dog
Speaker 2: than I did for anybody I ever knew. You know,
Speaker 2: it was because they're so innocent, okay, And you know,
Speaker 2: I kept saying, I don't understand I can pick up
Speaker 2: other people's animals, I can't I feel Why can't I
Speaker 2: feel Martini? Why can't I feel him? And you know,
Speaker 2: so this was like three or four months later, and
Speaker 2: my husband and I are in bed and we're just
Speaker 2: at that point, like we're falling asleep, you know, and
Speaker 2: I feel the dog. My dog is slept with us,
Speaker 2: and so the dog. I felt the dog walking in
Speaker 2: between us. And then when he didn't like my husband
Speaker 2: near me, and when he got to the top of
Speaker 2: the bed, he would go I heard that, and my
Speaker 2: husband said, Anna, I hear it is that Martini. So
Speaker 2: it wasn't just me, it was my husband. And after
Speaker 2: that I felt okay, and I realized because no medium
Speaker 2: has ever been able to read me, but I realized
Speaker 2: kind of what you know, people get from their readings
Speaker 2: with me. I knew the dog was okay, I knew
Speaker 2: he was around. I knew it, and it made me
Speaker 2: feel so much better. And you know that was it,
Speaker 2: the crying stop. We were we were okay.
Speaker 1: It's funny how that that just just no. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know that they're not okay because they're not here,
Speaker 1: but that they're okay where they are.
Speaker 2: It's but they are okay. They are okay because the
Speaker 2: truth is there. I mean, and you know it's cliche,
Speaker 2: oh they're in a better place, but the truth of
Speaker 2: the matter is it's the truth, you know. You know,
Speaker 2: heaven is a place that is filled with love and peace,
Speaker 2: and there's no anger. There's no you know, problems with
Speaker 2: self esteem, there's no competition, there's no judgment, there's none
Speaker 2: of that. You know. Every day we live, we are
Speaker 2: closer to death. We live to die. I mean, it
Speaker 2: sounds fatalistic, you know, but that's the icing on the cake,
Speaker 2: is dying. So they are they really are okay. They're
Speaker 2: okay and they're able. Somebody asked me, you know, do
Speaker 2: our relatives miss us? No, because they're around us all
Speaker 2: the time. We miss them because we're part of this
Speaker 2: whole human condition, this whole the human race that can't
Speaker 2: think beyond the ego and what we know and what
Speaker 2: we can conceptualize, but they're around us all the time.
Speaker 2: It's us for missus, it's us.
Speaker 1: We miss them, you know, it's incredible. Like sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: get text or emails on my social pages and people say,
Speaker 1: you know, I understand suicide. I didn't ask to be born.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I didn't want to be here.
Speaker 1: But but I think the teachings that Mary has taught
Speaker 1: us are different. Right, we do want to come back here.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do. We have We always have choices, whether
Speaker 2: there are choices as we're living the choices. When we pass,
Speaker 2: we can decide to reincarnate and come back here. And
Speaker 2: these people who say I wasn't I didn't ask to
Speaker 2: be born, that's not true. Because every soul chooses its
Speaker 2: parents from you know, the lessons that they need to
Speaker 2: learn in this lifetime. So that's not that's not true.
Speaker 2: When when people say that that's not true.
Speaker 1: It's not true, right, it's you know, I feel bad
Speaker 1: that that's how they feel and they're going through a
Speaker 1: hard time. But I'm like, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: we all make that decision to to to try and
Speaker 1: raise our vibration coming here to.
Speaker 2: Be a better person so that we can we we're
Speaker 2: never going to be perfect, but the soul wants to
Speaker 2: love at a higher level. Yeah, so if the soul
Speaker 2: comes back here to try it, I mean, there's a
Speaker 2: choice but to try.
Speaker 1: Right right, I tease. You know, sometimes they say sometimes
Speaker 1: life is so hard. I must really have been an
Speaker 1: overachiever when I wanted to come back here and have
Speaker 1: all of those things that could go wrong go wrong,
Speaker 1: and so I could be that much closer to God.
Speaker 2: But you know, who knows? You know, you know it's
Speaker 2: so interesting because there's so much I see and so
Speaker 2: many questions I still have.
Speaker 1: I know. Well, I was talking to a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who was just so broken up because their loved
Speaker 1: one passed away and not in their normal form. They
Speaker 1: were they you know, it was just terrible what had happened,
Speaker 1: and they felt like, you know, grieving even more because
Speaker 1: they felt like their mother would have just been just
Speaker 1: more distraught on the other side because they didn't look
Speaker 1: like themselves.
Speaker 2: Oh please, when we pass, we don't, I mean, that's
Speaker 2: what it's. Yeah, you know, talk about this. Our body
Speaker 2: doesn't go, you know, our soul goes, and we don't
Speaker 2: you know, when they come through to me. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: can see what they look like when they were walking
Speaker 2: on the dirt sometimes, but that's not what they look like.
Speaker 2: Their energy and you will know them by their energy. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't have to have this is skin and bones,
Speaker 2: you know, it's what's it's the soul that that we see.
Speaker 2: You know, someone in my family and we go back
Speaker 2: and forth with cremation or being buried and somebody said no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I may need that body. What you know what I
Speaker 2: want a brand new one.
Speaker 1: Me too, Me too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the mom could not be upset because the
Speaker 2: mother is totally insul Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I believe that if you're coming through, like
Speaker 1: to a medium like you, I would come through with
Speaker 1: my best self.
Speaker 2: So that way they typically do. They typically will come through. No,
Speaker 2: they have the same personalities, and they typically will come
Speaker 2: through at a time in their life that they were happy. Okay,
Speaker 2: So somebody could die at eighty five and come through
Speaker 2: to me at fourteen. Wow, But it does stop. So
Speaker 2: if somebody dies at twelve, they're never they're never older
Speaker 2: than twelve, So they can only go.
Speaker 1: Back because yeah, I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 2: They can't show me themselves at eighty because they didn't
Speaker 2: make it to eighty interesting.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's so that's incredible. Well, I gotta tell you, Anna,
Speaker 1: I learned so much from you every time I speak
Speaker 1: with you, and it's your story, your connections to Maryes
Speaker 1: you have for holding space for so many people and
Speaker 1: teaching all of us about hope and spirit and the
Speaker 1: other side. I just I feel the love and I
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for that. I usually end every
Speaker 1: one of my shows with a poem from Scottie that
Speaker 1: I just like to share, and I try and tie
Speaker 1: it into the interview, but I'm just winging it on
Speaker 1: this one, and I'm calling it. Background is the name
Speaker 1: of the poem because I figured maybe the spirit's world
Speaker 1: is always around us in the background. That the poem
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with spirit. But anyway, I feel
Speaker 1: like the background to everyone's story. I lead them to
Speaker 1: success in glory. Well I get left behind in a quarry.
Speaker 1: Most of my poems are allegories, but this one is
Speaker 1: just exemplatory. I'm trying to show that even though many
Speaker 1: people know my name, I still feel like I'm behind
Speaker 1: a frame. It's like a board game and my piece
Speaker 1: never gets played. I just sit there and watch as
Speaker 1: time goes TikTok, making my life become a writer's block.
Speaker 1: I am the autope, which makes my life existence a
Speaker 1: photo copy so beautiful. He's so funny. He just you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's got away with words. I think he was
Speaker 1: trying to write rap music and rap songs on some
Speaker 1: of the poems that, yeah, you know, but it does
Speaker 1: make me think too. Sometimes on the other side that
Speaker 1: you know, we we do focus on, you know, our
Speaker 1: current life and and sometimes some of those family members,
Speaker 1: especially the grandmothers and the grandfathers, that they do sit
Speaker 1: behind a frame on the mantle, and we don't always
Speaker 1: pay attention.
Speaker 2: No, That's why they sometimes come through saying like nobody's
Speaker 2: talking about me. Oh fature is up somewhere, you know,
Speaker 2: but nobody's talking about them. They want to be spoken about.
Speaker 2: They want to be That's what keeps them around you.
Speaker 2: It's what keeps like their energy vibrant.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so true. And you are such
Speaker 1: a shining light and I oh, thank you keep shining
Speaker 1: your light on all of us. And we need you.
Speaker 1: I need your your your your words of wisdom, your light,
Speaker 1: your love. And if people want to reach you and
Speaker 1: go to one of your many retreats or maybe schedule
Speaker 1: of reading with you. How do they get in touch
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 2: They can go to my website at Anna RAYMONDI dot
Speaker 2: com or I'm on I'm more on Facebook than Instagram.
Speaker 2: They can go to Anna RAYMONDI on Facebook, sign up
Speaker 2: from my mailing list and you'll get stuff sent to you.
Speaker 2: And I'm doing stuff. I have a couple of retreats
Speaker 2: that are in my head right now that are going
Speaker 2: to happen next year. I have a group readings coming
Speaker 2: up I do. I kind of do a lot by
Speaker 2: the holidays. Some of them are on Zoom. Some of
Speaker 2: them are a restaurant in my walk, so if they
Speaker 2: could check that out, I think it's all on my website.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you again, Anna, and I am so grateful
Speaker 1: to call you my friend and sending you big, big love.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us and to our listeners, I
Speaker 1: love you. To our listeners, I love you too, and
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