Soul Sync with Jason Paul

What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build no longer feels like your own?
In this episode of Soul Sync, I’m joined by medium, teacher and transformational coach Albert Krikken for a personal conversation about identity, belonging, and finding the courage to follow a path that feels true to you.
When Albert’s mother became seriously ill, his fear of losing her led him to seek out a medium. That encounter began a journey into mediumship, and a search for a connection he hoped could continue beyond her physical life. He shares how that relationship has evolved, why automatic writing became important to him, and what he has learnt about surrendering expectation.
Our conversation also explores the pressure to succeed and the fear of being seen differently. Albert speaks openly about pursuing approval, experiencing a profound spiritual turning point, and gradually becoming willing to share a part of himself that some people in his life knew little about.
I share my own experiences of building a successful business while privately feeling unfulfilled, and the role I believe the spirit world played in my decision to change direction. Together, we explore the uncertainty of moving beyond familiar roles, the loneliness that can accompany change, and the importance of finding people with whom you can be yourself.
In this episode, we explore:
• Continuing bonds with loved ones and experiencing them as guides.
• Automatic writing, trust and getting out of your own way.
• Success, self-worth and other people’s expectations.
• The fear of judgement when you share your mediumship.
• Changing friendships, loneliness and finding community.
• Recognising guidance and reflecting on what alignment means to you.
• Being gentler with your mind and approaching development as an experiment.
Albert leaves us with an invitation to have the courage and the audacity to be ourselves. If you’re questioning your direction, exploring your sensitivity, or learning to trust what feels meaningful to you, there is much here to reflect on.
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How much do you trust what you feel? Does it come naturally, or does your self-belief depend on the day of the week?
In episode two of The Mediumship Sessions, I’m joined again by Donna King for an honest, warm and occasionally very funny conversation about psychic development — and why it begins with getting to know yourself.
We explore what we mean by psychic awareness, how it differs from mediumship, and why we place so much importance on building those foundations. From the gut feelings I followed in policing and recruitment to the sensitivity that can make a trip to the supermarket feel rather overwhelming, we talk about how this awareness shows up in everyday life.
We also get personal about confidence, self-doubt, relationships and the times when trusting ourselves has felt much harder. What happens as you become more sensitive? How do your past experiences shape the way you interpret what you feel? And how can you give yourself permission to explore without expecting to get everything right?
In this conversation, we explore:
• Psychic awareness and the foundations of mediumship.
• Recognising your own energy, feelings and intuitive impressions.
• Overthinking, self-belief and learning to trust yourself.
• Sensitivity, overwhelm and our perspectives on protection without unnecessary fear.
• Solitude, changing relationships and finding people who understand you.
• Self-awareness, personal growth and the freedom to experiment.
The Mediumship Sessions is our ongoing series exploring the nuts and bolts of psychic and mediumistic development, with room for questions, real-life experiences and plenty of laughter. This episode lays the foundations for the practical experiments we’ll explore as the series continues.
If you’re joining us here, you may also enjoy going back to session one, where we began with spirit guides and the foundations of our discussion.
Develop with us online
If you’d like to explore your own awareness in a welcoming, encouraging space, join Donna and me for our online psychic and mediumship development classes. Through teaching, practical exercises and working with others, we’ll give you opportunities to experiment and discover your own way of working.
Psychic Development — The Power of You: explore the class and book
Mediumship Development — explore the class and book
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Hosted by Jason Paul, with Donna King.
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New online psychic & mediumship classes with Jason Paul & Donna King.
Psychic: starts Sun 25 Oct
Mediumship: starts Mon 26 Oct
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What happens when we stop trying so hard to find peace and allow ourselves a moment simply to be?
In this heartfelt episode of Soul Sync, I’m joined by Scottish medium and teacher Steven Trolland for a conversation about grief, the soul, and the presence of those we love.
Following the death of his brother, Steven found himself overwhelmed by grief and struggling to meditate. Then, sitting on a hillside overlooking a loch in the Scottish Highlands, he took off his headphones, breathed out and experienced a profound sense of belonging within the life around him. He describes that moment as the beginning of his healing.
One thought runs through our conversation: Steven’s belief that the soul can help heal the mind. We explore what that means to him, the space we make for our own nature, and how a quieter awareness can emerge when we ease the pressure to make something happen.
We also talk about his background in competitive snowboarding, the relationship between nerves and presence, and the challenges of learning to trust ourselves in mediumship. Both of us share honest experiences of readings that taught us something, including moments when overthinking interrupted the connection.
At the heart of it is the person behind the evidence: their individuality, personality, emotion and love. Towards the end, Steven shares a deeply personal experience of his brother’s presence, and a reflection on what a hug in the spirit world might feel like.
A warm, thoughtful conversation about connection, finding our own way, and what mediumship can teach us about being alive.
CONNECT WITH STEVEN
www.steventrolland.com
EXPLORE YOUR OWN POTENTIAL
I’m excited to be hosting new online psychic and mediumship development classes with Donna King. These will be welcoming spaces for unfoldment, practical exercises and experimentation, with room to ask questions, build confidence and discover your individual way of working.
Psychic Development — The Power of You
Starts Sunday 25 October 2026, online via Zoom.
Find out more and book
Mediumship Development — Moving in the Intelligence of Spirit
Starts Monday 26 October 2026, online via Zoom.
Find out more and book
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Are you more psychic than you think?
Perhaps you’ve had a feeling about somebody that you couldn’t explain. You’ve walked into a room and immediately sensed something was off. You’ve known you should — or shouldn’t — do something, ignored it… and later thought, I knew it.
For years, I simply called that my gut feeling.
In this episode, the wonderful Chrystal Rose returns to Soul Sync as we explore psychic awareness, intuition and what can happen when we stop putting pressure on ourselves to get everything right and simply begin to experiment.
Before our conversation, I also bring you a rather lively update from my own world — stepping further into full-time mediumship, what I’ve been learning through my own work, and something I am incredibly excited to finally be launching.
✨ NEW ONLINE DEVELOPMENT CLASSES
The Power of You — Online Psychic Development Class
Starting Sunday 25 October 2026
Sundays | 6–8pm UK time | Online via Zoom
This is a friendly, encouraging space to explore your own energy, psychic awareness and the individual way information comes to you. No previous experience is needed — in fact, if you are completely new to psychic or mediumistic development, this is where I recommend beginning.
https://jasonpaulmedium.com/online-psychic-development-classes
Moving in the Intelligence of the Spirit — Online Mediumship Development Class
Starting Monday 26 October 2026
Mondays | 7–9pm UK time | Online via Zoom
A weekly space to explore your relationship with the spirit world, practise evidential mediumship, build confidence and discover more of your own individual mediumistic potential.
https://jasonpaulmedium.com/online-mediumship-development-class
Both classes are hosted by me alongside trance medium Donna King, with teaching, practical exercises, breakout work, experimentation and plenty of room to ask questions, get things wrong and surprise yourself.
In this conversation with Chrystal
We explore why psychic awareness is such an important foundation for mediumship; the difference between psychic and mediumistic information; using tarot, oracle cards, colours, numbers, wax, bones, flowers and everyday objects as ways of exploring your awareness; why tools can build confidence without becoming a crutch; and what happened when I arrived at a psychic fair having completely forgotten my tarot cards.
We also talk about the clairs, trusting subtle impressions, what to do when somebody tells you “no”, practising with people you don’t know, perfectionism in development, and why sometimes the problem isn’t the information we receive — it’s the way we interpret it.
There’s also an unexpected and rather lovely moment involving my dad, some discussion about money and spiritual work, plenty of laughter, and Chrystal leaves us with a beautifully simple message:
Listen to your intuition.
Because perhaps developing psychically isn’t about becoming something you aren’t.
Perhaps it’s about beginning to recognise something that has been there all along.
About Chrystal Rose
Chrystal is an intuitive medium, psychic, healer and teacher, and the founder of Divine Energy Healing. She is also Director of Divine Energy International and works with spiritual development, healing and spirit art. Her official biography describes her psychic awareness beginning in her teenage years through tools including crystals, cards and runes. 
Chrystal Rose — Divine Energy International
You can also find Chrystal’s previous Soul Sync conversation:
Healing Through Spirit — The Mediumship That Changes Lives | With Chrystal Rose
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Who are your spirit guides — and how do you know when they are actually there? Jason Paul and Donna King open the first Mediumship Session with a lively exploration of guides, signs, free will, expectation, discernment and the unseen help that may be around us. 
Welcome to The Mediumship Sessions — a new regular Soul Sync series with Jason Paul and medium Donna King.
Or, as Jason rather enthusiastically introduces it… the Chamber of Self-Discovery.
This is a space for curiosity, experimentation and honest conversations about psychic and mediumistic development — without pretending that either of us has the entire universe figured out.
And for the very first session, we’re starting right at the beginning with something that fascinates so many people when they first begin exploring the spirit world:
Spirit guides.
Who are they? Does everybody have them? Do they really have names? How do we know when they are around — and how do we distinguish their influence from our own thoughts, imagination, expectations or ego?
Donna shares her extraordinary experience of being aware of her guides from early childhood, including the deeply emotional period when that communication became quieter and she had to learn not to rely upon them for every answer.
Together, Jason and Donna explore the many different ways we might experience guides and spiritual helpers, including:
What a spirit guide actually is
Whether everybody has guides
Why guides may appear to step back
Names, identities and our very human desire to define the spirit world
Signs, synchronicities and recognising guidance
Different guides and teams working at different stages of our lives
How sitting in stillness can help us become familiar with guide energy
Why strong psychic foundations matter
Whether guides can intervene in moments of danger
Free will, choice and the possible paths available to us
How much guides may understand about our future
What the presence of a guide can actually feel like
Why guides do not judge us for our mistakes
The difference between guidance and becoming dependent upon guidance
Why expectation can become one of the biggest obstacles in psychic and mediumistic development
Asking better, more open questions
Guide, higher self, subconscious mind or ego — how do we begin to tell the difference?
As the conversation unfolds, one idea keeps returning: developing a relationship with spirit is not about forcing an experience or desperately trying to get something right.
It is about becoming curious enough to notice.
And perhaps that is what the Chamber of Self-Discovery is really about.
The Mediumship Sessions will continue weekly, with Jason and Donna exploring different aspects of psychic awareness, mediumship and spiritual development — sharing their experiences, challenging ideas, answering listener questions and, most importantly, encouraging you to experiment and discover how your own awareness works.
New Psychic & Mediumship Development Classes
Jason’s new autumn and winter psychic and mediumship development programme begins from mid-October 2026, including online development circles, classes and further opportunities to explore your potential.
You can now register your interest and be among the first to receive dates, availability and joining information:
www.jasonpaulmedium.com/psychic-mediumship-development
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A guided meditation for connecting with spirit guides will also be coming soon.
Explore more with Soul Sync
Discover free mediumship evenings, our free online development circle, classes, meditations and more at JasonPaulMedium.com.
Scroll to the bottom of the homepage and join my mailing list to hear about upcoming events, new resources and ways to take part. I’d love you to join us.
New online psychic & mediumship classes with Jason Paul & Donna King.
Psychic: starts Sun 25 Oct
Mediumship: starts Mon 26 Oct
Details & booking: jasonpaulmedium.com
Support the show