A Psychic's Story

This episode includes discussion of childhood trauma and addiction. Listener discretion is advised.

Lana Mitchell always had an intuitive side. Learning to trust it was another story.

Her intuitive experiences began in childhood, but fear, shame, trauma, and other life experiences complicated her relationship with what she was sensing. As Lana moved through her own spiritual growth and transformation, healing became part of what helped her reconnect with herself and begin trusting her intuition again.

You first heard part of Lana’s journey in “Spiritual Transformation & Growth” with Jesse Keene. Now she joins Nichole Bigley to go deeper into the story behind it.

In “Healing, Intuition & the Power of Choice,” Nichole and Lana explore:

How Lana understands the difference between intuition and psychic ability, and how practice helped her better understand the energy she was already sensing.

The childhood experiences that created fear and shame around her intuitive side and contributed to her hiding it for years.

How trauma, addiction, and self-abandonment affected the relationship Lana had with herself, and what rebuilding self-trust has looked like.

The powerful signs she received after asking the Universe for confirmation about moving forward with energy healing, and what they taught her about fear and guidance.

Why empowerment and choice have become central to the way Lana approaches her own healing and the work she now does with others.

The daily “micro moments” where Lana believes transformation takes place as we become more aware of our patterns and begin choosing differently.

For Lana, much of this comes back to learning to trust herself again. Her spiritual growth and healing have helped her reconnect with her intuition, recognize where she has choice, and see how small decisions can gradually change the way we move through life.

To learn more about Lana and her work with Empower Healings, visit empowerhealings.com or follow her on Instagram at @empower_healings. A Psychic’s Story listeners can also use code PSYCHIC2026 when booking with Lana.

If you’re looking for a community where you can explore your own intuition, spiritual growth, healing, and psychic development alongside others on a similar path, consider joining The Psychic Club. Learn more about membership and what’s included at apsychicsstory.com/membership.

To schedule a 1:1 session or explore all of Nichole’s offerings, head HERE. If you feel called to become certified in energy healing or go deeper into your healing work, there is one remaining in-person Energy Healing Retreat & Certification experience in 2026: October 16–18. Learn more and register at apsychicsstory.com/awakening-the-healer-within.

Want to get together in person? Join Nichole and the A Psychic’s Story community on Saturday, September 12 for a private screening of Practical Magic 2 in the Cincinnati area. The afternoon includes an optional group lunch, a pre-show meet-and-greet and photo opportunity, and a private auditorium screening. Seating is limited. Learn more and reserve your spot at apsychicsstory.com/practical-magic-2-a-private-screening.

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This podcast is intended to inspire you on your personal journey to inner peace. The podcast host, co-hosts, and guests are not medical doctors or psychologists and do not provide medical or psychological advice. The information shared is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. If you have concerns about your physical or mental health, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
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The process of spiritual transformation and growth isn’t always recognizable while you’re going through it. It often begins when the life you’ve been living no longer fits or feels aligned. Only later do you recognize how much the experience changed you.

In this special listener stories episode, Nichole Bigley welcomes Jesse Keene back to A Psychic’s Story to explore four very different journeys — and how healing, awakening, intuition, and unexpected life experiences can deepen our understanding of ourselves, our gifts, and our purpose.

Tune in as Nichole and Jesse reflect on stories from four members of The Psychic Club, including:

Lana Mitchell asking the Universe for a clear sign as she moves through fear, healing, and the call to step more fully into her power.

Shannon Keef experiencing trauma, a near-death experience, and a profound spiritual awakening that ultimately reshapes her life and calling to heal and serve.

Colleen Del Valle discovering how childhood intuition, loss, healing, synchronicities, and service may all be connected to a larger journey of spiritual growth and purpose.

Amber Kleid looking back on a spiritual awakening that unfolded over many years through physical illness, emotional healing, yoga, the Akashic Records, psychic development, and community.

Together, these stories are a reminder that spiritual transformation rarely follows one path or arrives in the way we expect. Sometimes it begins through loss, illness, uncertainty, or upheaval. Other times, it unfolds gradually until we can finally look back and recognize how much we have changed.

And this is only the beginning. Lana, Shannon, Colleen, and Amber will each return for their own upcoming episodes of A Psychic’s Story, where Nichole will go deeper into their individual journeys and experiences.

To hear more from Jesse and his spiritual journey, revisit his previous appearances on A Psychic’s Story — The Spiritual Journey and Octoberlutions.

If you’re looking for a community where you can explore your own intuition, spiritual growth, healing, and psychic development alongside others on a similar path, consider joining The Psychic Club. Learn more about membership and what’s included at apsychicsstory.com/membership.

To connect with Jesse visit keeneinsight.co or follow him on Instagram at @keene_insight.

To schedule a 1:1 session or explore all of Nichole’s offerings, head HERE. If you feel called to become certified in energy healing or go deeper into your healing work, there is one remaining in-person Energy Healing Retreat & Certification experience in 2026: October 16–18. Learn more and register at apsychicsstory.com/awakening-the-healer-within.

Want to get together in person? Join Nichole and the A Psychic’s Story community on Saturday, September 12 for a private screening of Practical Magic 2 in the Cincinnati area. The afternoon includes an optional group lunch, a pre-show meet-and-greet and photo opportunity, and a private auditorium screening. Seating is limited. Learn more and reserve your spot at apsychicsstory.com/practical-magic-2-a-private-screening.

If you’d like to further support the podcast, please subscribe to it and/or:

FOLLOW @apsychicsstory on Instagram.

BOOK a session with Nichole.

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BECOME A MEMBER of The Psychic Club.

REGISTER for The Angelic Academy.

Thanks to you, A Psychic’s Story is a #1 spiritual and psychic podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it with someone who would benefit from hearing it or leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts. Your support helps others discover A Psychic’s Story and helps us continue creating meaningful content.

This podcast is intended to inspire you on your personal journey to inner peace. The podcast host, co-hosts, and guests are not medical doctors or psychologists and do not provide medical or psychological advice. The information shared is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. If you have concerns about your physical or mental health, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
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Your energy may be telling you more than you realize.

We often notice when the energy in a room shifts, when someone feels “off,” or when an emotion seems to appear out of nowhere. But how do you know what you’re actually sensing – and whether it belongs to you?

In this episode of A Psychic’s Story, Nichole sits down with energy healer, meditation coach, and spiritual teacher Uriel Maksumov to unpack the ways energy can move through and between us, and what can change when we learn to recognize our own energetic patterns more clearly.

Coming from generations of healing traditions, Uriel shares how his awareness of the unseen developed from childhood into experiences with energy, spirits, and intuitive perception. He also explains what he calls “energy intelligence” – learning to recognize how energy may show up through emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, relationships, and shifts in our internal state.

Their conversation explores how to establish your own energetic baseline, distinguish intuitive information from fear or projection, navigate empathic sensitivity, and work with practices such as grounding, meditation, clearing, and energetic protection without disconnecting from the world around you.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

How Uriel’s childhood experiences and family healing traditions shaped his relationship with energy and the unseen.

What Uriel means by “energy intelligence” and how becoming more aware of your own baseline can help you recognize when something shifts.

How emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, and intuitive impressions may become part of the way we experience energy.

How to begin distinguishing something you may be sensing intuitively from your own fear, assumptions, emotions, or projections.

Why empaths and energetically sensitive people may find themselves affected by the emotions and experiences of others – and what can help them move through those moments more consciously.

How grounding, meditation, clearing, energetic protection, and greater self-awareness can support a healthier relationship with sensitivity rather than shutting it down.

To learn more about Uriel and his work, visit energyluck.com or follow him on Instagram at @energyluck_. His book, Awakening Your Inner Energy Intelligence, is available wherever books are sold.

To schedule a 1:1 session or explore all of Nichole’s offerings, head HERE. If you feel called to become certified in energy healing or go deeper into your healing work, there is one remaining in-person Energy Healing Retreat & Certification experience in 2026: October 16–18. Learn more and register at apsychicsstory.com/awakening-the-healer-within.

Want to get together in person? Join Nichole and the A Psychic’s Story community on Saturday, September 12 for a private screening of Practical Magic 2 in the Cincinnati area. The afternoon includes an optional group lunch, a pre-show meet-and-greet and photo opportunity, and a private auditorium screening. Seating is limited. Learn more and reserve your spot at apsychicsstory.com/practical-magic-2-a-private-screening.

If you’d like to further support the podcast, please subscribe to it and/or:

FOLLOW @apsychicsstory on Instagram.

BOOK a session with Nichole.

SIGN UP to the newsletter for updates.

JOIN Patreon for exclusive, ad-free content.

BECOME A MEMBER of The Psychic Club.

REGISTER for The Angelic Academy.

Thanks to you, A Psychic’s Story is a #1 spiritual and psychic podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it with someone who would benefit from hearing it or leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts. Your support helps others discover A Psychic’s Story and helps us continue creating meaningful content.

This podcast is intended to inspire you on your personal journey to inner peace. The podcast host, co-hosts, and guests are not medical doctors or psychologists and do not provide medical or psychological advice. The information shared is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. If you have concerns about your physical or mental health, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
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Your connection to angels goes beyond receiving their guidance. It is part of who you are.

Angel communicator, spiritual teacher, and author Alisha Das joins A Psychic’s Story to explore the idea of angelic ancestry, including what it means to carry an angelic heritage, how we can discover our unique archangelic name, and how remembering our connection to the angelic realm can change the way we experience our human lives.

Alisha shares how she began hearing angels and what she describes as the angelic language as a young child, eventually learning to reconcile those experiences with the deeply analytical and scientific perspective she developed growing up in a family of physicians.

Together, Nichole and Alisha explore what it might mean to remember more of who we are beyond this physical life – and bring that awareness more fully into the one we’re living now.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

How Alisha began experiencing angels and hearing what she describes as the angelic language as a child.

How her scientific and analytical background shaped the way she learned to discern and trust spiritual experiences.

What Alisha means by angelic or archangelic ancestry and why she believes we may carry a connection to the angelic realm into human life.

What an archangelic name is, how someone can discover theirs, and why Alisha believes it can deepen connection to purpose and the angelic realm.

The relationship between angelic language and light language, and why Alisha believes this kind of spiritual connection is available to everyone.

How remembering our angelic nature may change the way we approach purpose, relationships, challenges, compassion, and everyday human life.

To learn more about Alisha and her work, visit alishadas.com. Her new book, Your Angelic Ancestry: Discover Your Archangelic Name, Heritage, and Higher Purpose, is available wherever books are sold.

To schedule a 1:1 session or explore all of Nichole’s offerings, head HERE. If you feel called to become certified in energy healing or go deeper into your healing work, there is one remaining in-person Energy Healing Retreat & Certification experience in 2026: October 16–18. Learn more and register at apsychicsstory.com/awakening-the-healer-within.

If you’d like to further support the podcast, please subscribe to it and/or:

FOLLOW @apsychicsstory on Instagram.

BOOK a session with Nichole.

SIGN UP to the newsletter for updates.

JOIN Patreon for exclusive, ad-free content.

BECOME A MEMBER of The Psychic Club.

REGISTER for The Angelic Academy.

Thanks to you, A Psychic’s Story is a #1 spiritual and psychic podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it with someone who would benefit from hearing it or leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts. Your support helps others discover A Psychic’s Story and helps us continue creating meaningful content.

This podcast is intended to inspire you on your personal journey to inner peace. The podcast host, co-hosts, and guests are not medical doctors or psychologists and do not provide medical or psychological advice. The information shared is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. If you have concerns about your physical or mental health, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
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In honor of National Be an Angel Day on August 22, Nichole shares a special guided angelic invocation and energy integration designed to help you connect with God, Universe, Source and five archangels — Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, and Metatron.

National Be an Angel Day is a reminder to bring more kindness, compassion, generosity, and service into the world — to be an angel in someone else’s life. It is also an opportunity to honor the angels themselves and become more aware of the loving support that surrounds us at all times.

The angels and archangels have been an important part of Nichole’s spiritual journey for many years. She wrote extensively about them in her award-winning book, Looking for Angels, and continues to explore their individual energies, roles, and ways of supporting us through The Angelic Academy.

This guided experience was originally created as part of Nichole’s Reiki training and has been adapted so anyone can participate. No previous experience with Reiki, meditation, energy work, or connecting with angels is needed.

During this experience, you will be guided to connect with:

Archangel Michael — protection, strength, clearing, and sacred boundaries.

Archangel Gabriel — clarity, communication, truth, and receiving guidance.

Archangel Raphael — healing, restoration, compassion, and balance.

Archangel Uriel — grounding, wisdom, illumination, and integration.

Archangel Metatron — energetic alignment, sacred activation, and higher consciousness.

The experience also invites you to deepen your awareness of Oneness — your connection with God, Universe, Source, the angels, higher self, and All That Is.

Please listen somewhere you can safely relax. Do not participate while driving, operating machinery, or doing anything that requires your full attention.

And in honor of National Be an Angel Day, consider carrying the experience forward through an act of kindness, compassion, generosity, or service for someone else.

To learn more about Nichole’s experiences with angels, explore her book, Looking for Angels. You can also go deeper into working with the archangels through The Angelic Academy.

To schedule a 1:1 session or explore all of Nichole’s offerings, head HERE. If you feel called to become certified in energy healing or go deeper into your healing work, there is one remaining in-person Energy Healing Retreat & Certification experience in 2026: October 16–18. Learn more and register at apsychicsstory.com/awakening-the-healer-within.

If you’d like to further support the podcast, please subscribe to it and/or:

FOLLOW @apsychicsstory on Instagram.

BOOK a session with Nichole.

SIGN UP to the newsletter for updates.

JOIN Patreon for exclusive, ad-free content.

BECOME A MEMBER of The Psychic Club.

REGISTER for The Angelic Academy.

Thanks to you, A Psychic’s Story is a #1 spiritual and psychic podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it with someone who would benefit from hearing it or leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts. Your support helps others discover A Psychic’s Story and helps us continue creating meaningful content.

This podcast is intended to inspire you on your personal journey to inner peace. The podcast host, co-hosts, and guests are not medical doctors or psychologists and do not provide medical or psychological advice. The information shared is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. If you have concerns about your physical or mental health, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
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