Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast

Marta The Medium
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Spiritual teacher and mentor Marta the Medium hosts a grounded spiritual podcast about intuition, mediumship, sensitivity and self-trust. A psychic medium and intuitive guide, she blends honest conversation with practical spiritual development, so you can trust yourself and feel supported by Spirit. Through guest interviews and solo reflections, the show explores intuition, being an empath, self-trust and anxiety, for intelligent, sensitive people who feel deeply and want to bring it into everyday life. New episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

  1. 4h ago

    Your Spirit Guide Is Already Talking to You | Cindy Anderson

    What if your spirit guide is already communicating with you, but you simply haven’t learnt how to recognise the connection? In this episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Cindy “Seer” Anderson, founder of Soulpiphany and self-described “mad spiritual scientist”, for a grounded conversation about spirit guides, intuition and the many ways spiritual communication can actually feel. Cindy came to this work from electrical engineering and a corporate career. After following the conventional checklist for a successful life, she found herself asking one deceptively simple question: Do I have a guide? What followed was more than a decade of exploring whether communication with Spirit could become clear, reliable and teachable. We talk about claircognizance, the body as an antenna, recognising your own unique “fingerprint” for spiritual communication, and how to tell the difference between guidance, fear, ego and the thoughts running through your own mind. Cindy also shares why healthy scepticism belongs in spiritual practice, what she means by “Tuesday morning spirituality”, and why your guide may be an advisor, but you are still the CEO of your own life. We also move into grief, higher selves, forgiveness and the extraordinary letters Cindy’s mother left behind before her death. At its heart, this is a conversation about learning to recognise a connection that may have been there all along, while remaining fully grounded in your own judgement, agency and human life. Cindy’s listener offer:A complimentary five-day, one-to-one challenge with Cindy, around thirty minutes a day by phone, designed to help you explore your own connection with your spirit guide: https://soulpiphany.com/pod Find Cindy at https://soulpiphany.com Find Marta at www.martathemedium.comInstagram: @martathemedium Lots of love,Marta 🩷✨

  2. Sep 28

    Why Humans Create Ritual When Life Falls Apart: Grief, Liminality and the Thresholds Nobody Marks

    There are moments after which you are technically still the same person, and yet you know you are not. The world carries on as though nothing has happened, while inside you there is a clear before and after. And sometimes the advice to “move on” is wrong. Maybe you are not stuck. Maybe you are unfinished, standing in the space between what ended and who you are becoming. In this solo episode, I bring together my training in social anthropology and my work as a psychic medium to explore why human beings have always created ritual around death, loss, love and the moments that change who we are. I explore Arnold van Gennep’s rites of passage and Victor Turner’s idea of liminality, why grief and transition live in the body, and what happens when life changes us without giving us a ritual, a witness or even the language to acknowledge what has happened. We look at the transitions modern life often leaves invisible: divorce, miscarriage, estrangement, infertility, leaving a career, children leaving home and losing a version of the future you thought you were going to have. I also explore fire, water, pilgrimage and the physical objects through which human beings make invisible change tangible; what modern spirituality can get wrong about ritual; and the small rituals that may already exist in your everyday life without you ever calling them sacred. And I look at mediumship as a threshold ritual of its own. At its best, a reading is not about escaping this life for the spirit world. It should help us return more fully to the life we are here to live. I close with a simple practice for marking a transition that still feels unfinished. You don’t owe anyone a transformation before transformation has happened. Maybe you’re not stuck. Maybe you’re unfinished. If you enjoyed this episode, follow the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast and leave a rating or review. It helps more people discover the podcast. For readings, mentorship, courses and more, visit www.martathemedium.com Follow me on Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  3. Sep 21

    Before We Called Them Mediums (What Ritual Specialists Understood About Spiritual Authority)

    Spiritual authority was never supposed to come from being closest to spirit. It came from being trustworthy with what happened when you got there. In this solo episode I trace who stood at that threshold long before anyone called them mediums, what their communities actually held them accountable for, and the accountability modern spirituality has quietly lost along the way. I draw on my anthropology background, my work as a psychic medium and my own lived experience throughout. • Why the community never needed you to be special, only useful • Why closing the ritual mattered as much as opening it, and knowing when the work is finished • Why a medium should be able to return, to dinner, to children, to ordinary human life • Evidence as an ethical boundary, not a parlour trick • Why the best mediumship should leave you needing your medium less, not more • Illustrated throughout with the Guślarz, the Greek oracle at Delphi, possession mediumship in parts of Africa and Madagascar, and the birth of modern Spiritualism in 1848 If this episode resonated, follow the show so you don't miss the next one. Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  4. Sep 14

    Hold Them, Don't Be Held Under | Grief, Mediumship & Why You Don't Have to Let Go

    Somebody told you to let go of your loved one who died. They meant it kindly. And something in you refused, because letting go sounded too much like losing them twice. This episode is about grief, mediumship, and the false choice we're handed between the two, that you either let your loved ones in spirit go or you stay stuck. I use Polish and Slavic death ritual as the lens, not the subject, because these older traditions solved something we're still struggling with, they made space for the dead without asking the living to stop living. Food left out. Doors opened, and closed again. A ritual figure whose real skill wasn't calling spirits in, it was knowing when to send the living back to their lives. I bring that alongside continuing bonds, the idea modern grief psychology arrived at recently that these cultures already understood, and alongside my own experience, my mother, in spirit, and the difference I had to learn between carrying somebody and being buried beside them. Pain is not the measurement of love. Healing does not mean they mattered less. The door can close without the love disappearing. In this episode, we cover • Why the phrase "let them go" fails so many grieving people, and what it actually asks of us • How old death rituals, using Poland as the example, made space for the dead without freezing the living • Thresholds in funeral ritual, and why doors were opened for souls and also closed again • An old folk belief that the dead carry vessels of our tears, and what it says about grief as a burden we place on them • Why pain is not the measurement of love, and what happens when grief has an invisible scoreboard • Why grief benefits from ritual shape rather than one enormous goodbye • The ritual figure who mediated between worlds, and why closing the ritual mattered more than opening it • Why mediumship should never ask you to build your home in the doorway • My own mother in spirit, and what I had to understand about carrying her without staying frozen in the room where I lost her • Continuing bonds in modern grief psychology, and how older cultures already knew it • The flame as the truest image of carrying someone, alive, but never imprisoning you • What letting go actually means, and why the phrase itself might be wrong • A small candle ritual for anyone you love who is in spirit If this episode resonated, hit subscribe and follow wherever you listen. Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  5. Sep 7

    Was That Spirit, or Was That Just Me? (Discernment, Imagination and Learning to Trust Yourself)

    💛 For readings, sessions and soul offerings → www.martathemedium.com Follow me on Instagram → @martathemedium Was that spirit, or was that just me? It is probably the question every person exploring their intuition has asked, and the answer I want to give you today is not certainty. It is discernment. In this solo episode I show you exactly where an impression ends and your own interpretation begins, using a reading example, a red bicycle, and I make the case that imagination might be the bridge for mediumistic information rather than its opposite. I get into why anxiety and desire can both impersonate intuition, the real difference between psychic perception and mediumistic communication, and Reality Monitoring, the psychology of learning what came from outside you versus what you built yourself. I close with the discernment journal, a seven day practice for learning your own particular way of receiving. You are not an empty telephone wire. You are part of the communication. In this episode, we cover: • Why discernment, not certainty, is the actual goal • The red bicycle, separating what you received from what you think it means • Why imagination may be the bridge for mediumistic information, not its opposite • Received information versus constructed information, and how to tell them apart • Why surprise alone does not prove something is spirit • What intuition feels like, separate from mediumship altogether • Why “just trust your intuition” is not enough advice on its own • How anxiety and desire can both impersonate intuition • Psychic information versus mediumistic communication, and why the distinction matters • Reality Monitoring, and development as calibration rather than a gift you either have or don’t • Why you should never edit the strange, specific thing spirit gives you • The discernment journal, a seven day practice to start tonight • The one boundary I want you to hold while you’re learning If you have ever wished someone would just tell you the answer is always spirit, this episode will not do that, and I think you will trust yourself more because of it. If this episode resonated, follow the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast wherever you’re listening, and if you have a moment to leave a review, it helps more people find these conversations. Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  6. Aug 31

    The Signature Hunt | How to Establish a Connection With Your Loved Ones in Spirit

    Your loved ones are not waiting for you to find the correct spiritual passport. You are not summoning them. In this solo episode I change the question I hear most, from how do I make them come through, to how do I learn the language we already had together. Connection does not wait for a birthday or an anniversary, and the first sign is rarely as dramatic as people expect. Every person in spirit has what I call a signature, their own particular way of letting you know they are near, mine include my mum and Tina Turner songs, my grandfather and cigarette smoke in the car, my grandmother’s perfume with no explanation for where it came from. There is also a receiving signature, your own personal way of perceiving spirit, through feeling, knowing, seeing or dreaming. I get into visitation dreams, memory as a vehicle for presence, and what Día de Muertos, Obon and the Polish Dziady tradition reveal about the universal human need to stay in relationship with the dead. In this episode, we cover: • Why “how do I make them come through” is the wrong question • Making your loved ones part of an ordinary day, not only significant dates • Creating internal space so you can actually notice • Speaking to them exactly as you would if they were still here • Discovering their signature and what makes it unmistakably theirs • My own signs, Tina Turner, cigarette smoke and Lavazza coffee • Discovering your own receiving signature • Visitation dreams and what to do the moment you wake from one • The body recognising them before the mind catches up • Día de Muertos, Obon and the Polish Dziady tradition • The signature hunt, a seven day practice to try tonight • Why healthy spiritual development builds trust, not hypervigilance You do not need somebody else’s dictionary of signs. You need to learn the language of your own relationships. If you have ever wished for a sign so obvious you could not miss it, this one is for you. More at martathemedium.com. If this episode resonated, please follow the show and leave a rating, it genuinely helps other people find this conversation. Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  7. Aug 24

    She Didn’t Believe Any of This Ten Years Ago, A Conversation with Jennifer Alsever

    In this episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Jennifer Alsever, a former national business journalist who spent three decades writing for The New York Times, Fortune, Inc and the Wall Street Journal before an inexplicable visit from a loved one in spirit changed the course of her life. We talk about the night her deceased mother in law came to her as she was falling asleep, how she built trust in what she was experiencing, and the two mentors who shaped her path into evidential mediumship. Jennifer shares what she learned writing her upcoming book Tapped In, thirty one stories about intuition, connection and the afterlife, why she believes so many ordinary people are waking up spiritually right now, and her own day to day practice for staying close to the people she has loved and lost. This is a conversation about proof, curiosity, and what happens when a lifelong skeptic finally listens. If this episode resonated, hit subscribe and leave a review, it genuinely helps this podcast reach more people who need to hear it. Connect with Jennifer Alsever Website → www.jenniferalsever.com Book → https://tapped-in-9852.myshopify.com Substack → https://substack.com/@jenniferalseverwrites Instagram → @authorjenniferalsever Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  8. Aug 17

    Your Body Is Talking | Daniel Zavrel on Stress, Consciousness and the ConsciouzScan

    For more than three decades Daniel has guided people through deep transformation by exploring the connection between the body, mind, emotions, stress patterns and consciousness. His work has been applied with private clients, professional football clubs, corporate teams and organisations such as the Dutch Police, and as a father of seven he brings both professional experience and lived wisdom into everything he shares. In this episode, we explore • What the ConsciouzScan actually measures and how quantum based biophoton technology works • What CEOs, elite athletes and police officers taught Daniel about fear • The one percent rule, and why small steps succeed where big leaps fail • Why symptoms are signals rather than problems • How Traditional Chinese Medicine maps specific emotions to specific organs • Learning to feel, the skill school never taught us • The power of visualisation, from a prisoner of war camp to Dutch police training • Finding your optimal zone between too much and too little stress • The three types of intuition, and the difference between instinct and intuition • Fatherhood, responsibility and what growing as a human really asks of you • Why Daniel believes consciousness is the new capital This is a conversation about listening to the body as a source of information, not an obstacle to override. About Daniel Zavrel Daniel Zavrel is the founder of Consciouz and creator of the ConsciouzScan. For more than three decades, he has guided people through deep transformation by exploring the connection between the body, mind, emotions, stress patterns and consciousness. His work has been applied with private clients, professional football clubs, corporate teams and organisations such as the Dutch Police. As a father of seven, Daniel brings both professional experience and lived wisdom into conversations about healing, awareness and human transformation. Daniel’s gift for listeners: 15% off a one-hour ConsciouzScan Body & Mind Scan, code MARTA (capitals) at checkout → https://checkout.consciouz.com/checkout/bodymindscan Connect with Daniel Zavrel Website → https://consciouz.com Email → daniel@consciouz.com Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/conscious.channel Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium If this episode supported you, follow, rate and review so more people can find these conversations. Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

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Spiritual teacher and mentor Marta the Medium hosts a grounded spiritual podcast about intuition, mediumship, sensitivity and self-trust. A psychic medium and intuitive guide, she blends honest conversation with practical spiritual development, so you can trust yourself and feel supported by Spirit. Through guest interviews and solo reflections, the show explores intuition, being an empath, self-trust and anxiety, for intelligent, sensitive people who feel deeply and want to bring it into everyday life. New episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

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