Welcome to the Spunky Spirit Podcast. I'm your host, Psychic Medium, Cari Mugz. This is where we learn all things spirit, everything from spiritual gifts, awakenings, ghosts, aliens, and star seeds. Nothing is untouchable, but always fun and spunky. I am honored to be on this spiritual journey with you, so make sure you hit the subscribe button so you never miss an episode. Hello and welcome to this episode of Spunky Spirit. I am Psychic Medium, Carrie Mugs, and today we were supposed to have a guest on, so and they had to reschedule. So today we're going to kind of wing it. It might be kind of short, but I've decided I'm going to go through some of the questions, the most asked questions that I get asked from, from my followers or from my clients. So that's what we'll be going through today. And it'll be fun. We'll just kind of wing it. I need to start doing live shows where people can call in. I got to figure out how to do that, because I think that would be fun. And then they could ask questions and maybe we could even do some readings. So I got to figure out that. So I will. That's going to be one of my things. Okay, so the number one question I mostly get asked is how you knew or when did you start to know that you were different? And I don't really want to say different because we all have this gift, right? It's just that mine, mine just kind of showed up when I was five. And I thought everybody had it. I thought it was normal. I thought that everybody could see spirits or everybody could see to see flood ones or scary things. I thought that everybody could see it. And when I kind of started realizing that they couldn't, that it was just me or not normal, because some of the people around me kind of thought it was like if I'd say, say things like, I knew what commercial was on next, and I knew what song was on next. And I kind of would freak some of my family members out. So then I kind of toned it down a little bit. But I really feel like my father had the gift too, but he didn't know how to deal with it. So he kind of turned alcohol because that kind of numbs it. So if I drink alcohol a lot, I can't do readings very well. And some, some mediums can very can do readings very well if they're drinking, but I can't. I can't do it. I don't know why it just, I don't know if it's just in my head or if it's just, that's just the way I made. But I could tell different things happening to me when I was little and not happening to my friends or I would just know things sometimes. Like when I would play with my friends, I would see certain things and they would think I was crazy. If I told them what I saw. And I could tell sometimes that when I would say which commercial was next, my mom would be like, how did you do that? So, and then sometimes I would go and talk to my mom and say so and so came and came to me last night and it would kind of be a freaky thing. So I kind of shut it down and didn't really talk about it throughout probably my high school years and college years. And I was drinking a lot then too. So maybe it kind of calmed down a little bit. But that's kind of when I noticed it. And I kind of realized I've always knew I wanted to do, I wanted to help people in some way. But I kind of always thought it was maybe be counseling or empowering women somehow. So I thought some of it was to become like a Beachbody coach. And I realized that was not it. The toxic positivity was too much for me. Not saying that it's, I mean, if you're a Beachbody coach, please don't. It just wasn't, it wasn't my thing. And so then I just kind of went through a really bad divorce. And my gift just started coming tenfold. And it was kind of undeniable. And I couldn't stop it anymore. I was getting migraines when I tried to stop it. And then I just started doing readings for people. And it just kind of kind of like snowballed from there. And then it just started getting more and more and more. And I would do them mostly or the phone. But then I started doing them out of in person. And that was actually kind of cool. And I started to really love it. And then it just kind of snowballed from there. And now I do readings professionally. I do this professionally. And I really, really do love it. I really do. My favorite thing about it doing mediumship is that it helps people. It can help people. It closes that gap between the other side and your past loved ones. And I feel like it can help heal. It does not heal completely. And it doesn't make it go away. But it can help with the healing process. And you can have that connection and know that your loved ones are eternal and that they still exist. And they still are around you all the time. And so that's what I love about it. It's my favorite. Now, are there hard things that come with it? Yes. I've talked about this before too. It can be draining because we deal with death all the time. And it hurts my heart. It hurts my heart to see other people in pain. And so that's kind of hard sometimes. And little things like when you're out in public and people are like, "Oh, your psychic medium will read me. It doesn't work that way. That's not how it works." Yeah. Because when I was little, I couldn't close it off or I couldn't shut it off. But now I can. I can make it so I only connect when I'm doing readings. And so, in me and Spirit have kind of worked this thing that that's how it works now. So I have to have boundaries with not only my people, but with spirits. And luckily, they follow these guides or they follow these boundaries. And so that's been really, really helpful. So next question is, tell us about your guides and how to meet them. So I never really realized what guides were. Now, I, when I was little, I knew that there was a specific kind of woman around me a lot. And but I didn't really know who she was. I didn't know what guides were. I didn't really start knowing what guides were until I started to take, read books about mediumship. And then I realized, "Oh, that's what that person is or that's what that is." And so I kind of started to get to know mine is a woman. My main guide is woman. You can have five different, you have more than different, more than five guides. But mine, there's five major ones that most people have. But you can really have as many as you want. Some people have travel guides, joy guides, all the different things. I have some main guides. I have a main guide who has been with me my whole life. Your main guide cannot be somebody who's lived on earth with you. So if you've had a grandma, grandpa that you spent time with on earth, it can't be them. They can still guide and direct you, but that can't, your main guide is not that person. Your main guide is somebody that you probably know from a past life or in the spirit realm, but they cannot have lived on earth with you because they have to be with you 24/7. So they have to be with you since the time you're born to the time that you pass. So my guide is named Shar and she's beautiful. I think we were in a past life together. I think we were actually sisters or maybe had different roles throughout each of those lives. I think I've actually helped her on a earth when she was on earth at one time because your main guides have to have lived on earth at one time so they kind of know what you're going through. And I have another protector guide. He's very, very tribal. He's very, very strong. I call him, I don't know, I can't pronounce his name. So I call him chief just because my favorite but ball team is Kansas City Chiefs. That's why my dad loved. They actually won the Super Bowl yesterday so that's kind of cool. So I call him chief and because he's very loving but he's very protective and but he wasn't always my protector. So if it's not your main guide, your guides can change out throughout your lifetime except for your main guide. So when I was littler, I had a different protecting guide and then when I started doing readings, I had a more, a stronger protector and it's kind of weird how I met him because I went to go get a foot zone and while I was in there, I told the girl, I said, "I think you have a Native American or a chief or a tribal person that protects you and guides you because he's very strong." And she was like, "Oh." And then when I left, he came with me. He followed me so I know during that foot zone, during that energy work, he kind of changed or transferred to my protector. So I thought that was kind of cool. And then I do have a healer guide who I only see as purple. So I just see purple colors, purple mist, purple sparkles. Anytime that, I feel like he's male but anytime that that entity is around or that being is around, I always see purple. And then I have other guides that I have. I always call on some mediums that have passed. I call on Edgar Casey. I call on different mediums that can help me. I always call on my Archangel, Azrael because he is one of the mediumship, like a trans... What is it? When you transform, not transform, but when you go to the other side, the transition, the transition that helps with that. So those are my guides. Now, do I use the guides every time I do readings? My protector is always around. Yes. But I don't talk to Char and ask Char. I mean, sometimes I do. But mostly I go directly to the Spirit that's coming through. I talk to the Spirit that's coming through. I don't really talk to Char unless I'm having a hard time interpreting what the Spirit is trying to say or in trying to listen to the Spirit or if the Spirit is trying to tell me something to do. Then I might ask Char and she can help me. But mostly my guides, your guides are there to guide you through your life's journey, the things that you're going through in your lifetime, the things that you're doing, big things that are going to happen. They guide you. They direct you in that way. So your guides are mostly to be there for your life's journey, not to readings with ancestors or more like evidence. Like this is what they know you do they saw you get you got a haircut last night. They left you this, they did this, lots of evidence comes through. They can leave very loving messages your ancestors can, but they cannot always, they can guide you and they can direct you and they can tell you kind of what's coming. But they can't make decisions for you. Your guides can't make decisions for you either, but your guides are more there to direct and guide you because they were there in the pre-existence when you made your contract or your earth contract or your star contract or your blueprint or whatever you want to call it. So if you don't know your guides, I do have a meditation that can help you with your guides. A lot of people are scared to meet their guides. I, some mediums will, will meet your, tell you about your guides and I definitely can sometimes, but I, it's kind of a sacred, it's a sacred relationship with your guides. And so I like you to kind of take the journey to figure out who they are yourself because it's always, because any medium can be like, oh, your guide's name is Claire and she does this and this and this and she looks like this and then you're going to believe it. So I like you to go on a kind of a journey or a quest on your, on your own to meet your guides. So I would just start talking to them because they're there all the time. Just start talking to them, ask them their names and it might pop into your head and it might be like you see the name George three times throughout that day. So just kind of start to open up that conversation with them and start to like realize that they're around you and build that relationship with them. Okay, the next one is what would you say to people who are scared to connect or do mediumship? It's a normal, it's so normal and I know lots of mediums who still, most mediums are have anxiety and I know that I had anxiety for a long time with my readings. I'm just probably barely starting to get to the point where I don't have anxiety before readings. Just because I was trying to make them good, I mean, I wanted the readings so badly to be perfect for the client and so like kind of a people pleasing kind of thing. And now I'm to the point where I get what I get and if I don't get, then I can only do the best I can, right? Like I can only get, I can only be a medium and I can only give the information that's given to me and so I'm not going to try and make it perfect. I'm not going to try and make it the best. I am going to try and make the best, like the best experience, but I'm also not just there for the client. I'm not, I'm there for the spirits that come through too and it's just as important to them that I get, that I interpret correctly. So sometimes, and sometimes what they say isn't always what the sitter wants to hear. Most of the time it is, most of the time it's very, very healing. 95% of the time it's very, very healing, but sometimes there's spirits that come through and say, "I wanted you to have this or I wanted you to have this." They're not mad and they're not like frustrated. They just, sometimes they come through and they're going to have the same personality that they did on the other side. So if they weren't very communicative on earth, they're not going to be very communicated from the other side. They're still going to come through. They're still going to tell me that they're there. They're still going to give me evidence, but they're not going to have big, long conversations about how much, you know, it's just, it's kind of hard. And so I don't, and I don't want that to like deter anybody from getting a reading because they come through and they see their life review and they do have their hearts often because they do see what the things that they did in their lifetime affected other people. And so they do have reminisce. They do like to reminisce about their memories and they do like to give me evidence about how I know it's them and how I can prove that it's them. But sometimes if you go to a reading and you're like, okay, I want them to tell me this, that's not always going to happen. It's not. And I wish it would, but it's, sometimes it does, but sometimes it doesn't. So if you have, when you go to a reading, keep an open mind and just remember that mediums can't control the information that they get. They just get it. They can't control, it's like trying to control someone you know, talking to you. You can't control what they're going to say to you, right? So I can't control what they're going to come through with. So just remember that. So anytime you do have a reading, just go with an open mind and know that anything can come through. And a lot of people get scared that one of their past loved ones won't come through. And sometimes that does happen with different mediums. But you can always, always say their name at the end of the reading or tell the medium that this is who you want to connect to at the end if they haven't come through and see if the medium can connect. Because sometimes we get so focused on who's already come through that they do try and bring somebody else through, but the medium gets focused on the spirit that's right there already. So I, it's a long process to try and work on that. And I've done enough readings that I can, that it's never really happened. I think it's only happened one time to me. But sometimes they don't show up and it's not by anything that you've done or because they don't love you. It's because of something the medium's not connecting very well or they can't connect to the medium very well or they are, or there's other spirits that have a bigger message because mediumship, readings always tell you what you need, not always what you want. So just remember to go with an open, open heart or an open mind, okay? And the next question, hold on, I gotta get this so I can see it. Have you ever considered working in forensic mediumship? I have, I have not. I don't want to. I don't like forensics because there's so much that could be misinterpreted and I never want to lead somebody down the right, the wrong direction. I never, I, there's just already so much pressure to get it right. Maybe if I took a class, I've been asked to do a couple of forensics, but honestly, when I sit to do the reading, I get so nervous that it just doesn't, I just haven't been, I haven't loved it. It's not my favorite thing to do. So I opt to kind of stay out of forensics because it's just, I just, you can, there's so much, you can misinterpret a lot of things. So I always, always tell this story about, you just don't always know what you're seeing. So you could see a bobcat, like let's say you're doing a missing persons and you could see, oh, I did a, yeah, I did a missing persons one time and all the information that I got was accurate. I got that, I got when they were going to see that person again, I got where that person was, what state that person was in, I got that they were by a river, they were by a river, a river near a forest, a forest near a river. And, but I didn't pick up that they had passed. And so when they did find this person, they found, they found him when I said they were going to find him. He was on a street, not a river or forest, he was on a street called River Forest. And he, they did find him the date and where I, in the state, but he was passed. He wasn't alive and that really shook me because I was, I felt like, why didn't I pick him up? Why didn't I pick his spirit up? And now that I look back, I think that I probably did, but I mistook it as a brother or because there was also a brother in spirit that came through. And so, and some people tell me it was because there was mental illness involved and it can be clear, but I don't, I don't know. I just haven't felt like I can be accurate enough in forensics to do it. Now, you know, maybe if I took a bunch of classes and was trained on that, maybe I could do that, but right now I kind of feel like I'm where I want to be. And some, the next question is, is what's coming up for paranormal? And I kind of did get a little bit into paranormal last year and I kind of think that that is kind of in a way I need to go, but I don't want the darkness of it or the, I want to go in to help the spirits. I don't want to, and I kind of had an experience where when I was doing some of the paranormal stuff that I just don't want my, I've got to get some questions answered before I go full force because there's different, I don't want to go in scared. And I've talked to different paranormal people that if you do paranormal, you have to have, you have to have your shiz taken care of, your shadow stuff because that will come back and haunt you when you're doing paranormal. And so, I'm going through that right now. And also, too, I just don't want there to be any chance at all that my family will be in danger if I do paranormal stuff. And there's been different sides on each of those. And you can't carry any fear on paranormal. And I, I just like to, I like the happy, I like the cheery, I like the healing, I like the stuff. And I know you have to get through the dark to do that. So, I know paranormal does have something to do with what I'm supposed to do in the beginning, I mean, in the forward in the future. But I don't know what it is. And I don't think it's investigating haunted houses. I think it's more to help spirits transition somehow. So, I don't know yet. I know that there's something because spirit keeps leading me in that direction. But I don't know what exactly it is yet. So, keep tuned into that. And I don't ever want to put any of the people that I'm around in any type of danger. And until I know that that's completely off the table, then I'm going to be really slow about doing this because I do have some children who are gifted. Well, yeah. And so, I just don't want it to mess with any of that. So, and grandkids. So, so there you go. So, that's what's coming in the future. Now, yes, future also holds lots of, here's the thing. I know I keep saying my Duke Group readings, but here's why I have them. Because one, I have to figure it out. Because if I do group readings, I got to cut back personal readings somewhere. Because I've already like, I'm maxed out to where I can be. So, I've got to cut back on some other readings somewhere or cut back somewhere. So, I can add group readings. So, I'm trying to figure that out. Because I'm kind of booked out far. So, I got to figure out how to make that work. And so, I do know in March, I do have some cutbacks. So, I do know that I will be doing them then. Also, too, I do know that I'm going to be having more events and more classes and more courses. And I'm going to try and start doing these things live. Which means I'll be doing card readings or readings live, which will be cool. So, there are lots of things coming. I just have to figure it out. I wanted it to do it all last year. But I got that tumor and I got sick. But now, spirits like, let's go. So, I'm like, got a new space. We're going, we're going forward. So, just give me some time. I promise this year, yes, there's going to be a retreat. Yes, there's going to be all this fun stuff. I just, we're only in February. And I got to, I'm one person and I got to figure it all out. So, just bear with me. Okay. So, I hope that was a lot of the questions. And I know you guys, I know you're like, how do I connect? Questions about you. How do you connect? That's where the events are going to come in. I'm going to be doing spirit circles. I'm going to be doing classes. I know there's lots of very talented mediums already in Idaho Falls. And I've run through a number of them. And I really think that it would be great for them to start practicing. It's just that fear, that fear, because they got to get past the fear. So, yes, I'm going to be helping these mediums get to be where they want to be. So, I love you guys so much. And I'm so grateful for you. And I'm sorry that our, that my interview person didn't, it was, had to be rescheduled. But hopefully, there's going to be more people coming up, more interviews and more guests on this podcast too. So, I love you guys so much. And I will see you next week.
