My spiritual journey started in April 2014, here I was with another impending breakup and on my knees crying, “God, I don’t want be her anymore!” I thought this time I had done everything right, I was sober, I was taking care of myself and I was living with the man of my dreams. So how could I be here in this place again, feeling abandoned and alone. Michael (the man of my dreams, or so I thought) had convinced me that our relationship would be better if we were living separately because he believed that moving in together was a mistake in the first place. How could he do this to me? I would soon find out this wasn’t about him at all but rather, it was about me and my journey of healing.
Reality was sinking in and I needed to find a place for myself and my three children to live. Although I owned my own home, it was rented and I was not able to move back there so I found myself living in what I thought to be a relationship while looking for a separate place for us to live. As things became more awkward I could sense that a breakup was imminent. While still living there I began spending more time on my iPad in the bedroom looking at Facebook and began searching for something, although at the time I had no idea what I was looking for.
In looking back, I didn’t realize that in crying out to God that I didn’t want to be her anymore, the universe was listening and was going to respond. As I spent more time on iPad to avoid being around HIM, I started noticing all things related to spirituality and the awakening process. I felt as if my soul was being fed and so the search for more information about this process of waking and healing became more important to me than my relationship with him. This is where I came across Colette Baron-Reid for the first time. Her weekly oracle card forecast came up on the screen and I was hooked. I have always been a believer in psychics, mediums and the reading cards and when I saw her I knew she was the “real deal” and that she was speaking my language. I loved her energy right away and she drew me into wanting to know more about who she was and what she did. This Facebook page led me to her website where I read about who she is and what she does. I bought all 3 of the books she had written at that time. Messages from Spirit was my first read, followed by Remembering the Future – The Path to Recovering Your Intuition and finally The Map.
In reading Colette’s books, I started to understand what my intuition was and how to use it. As I started to trust this process, my awareness of self and the world around me in this reality started to shift and spirit began communicating with me in ways that I knew could only be from Source. I felt as though I had discovered a whole new part of myself that had been a secret for so long, Colette’s books had actually opened up the hidden doorway to discovering my higher self. Now that I discovered my higher self, I started to work with it and let it guide me through the process of dismantling my life and this relationship. This way I would be able to move past these types of relationships and begin the process of understanding them and start healing so I could move forward with my life.
I soon found myself looking forward to Colette’s weekly oracle card forecasts which then led me to her daily pick, where I could pick my own cards to get my own reading for the day. I loved them so much I started buying deck after deck, and began practicing using them by giving readings on both my clients (at my hair salon) and on all my friends. Doing this brought so much joy to me and surprisingly brought healing to me, as well as to those that I read for. Before I knew it I was telling everyone about Colette and what I was learning and began sharing the weekly forecast as well as everything else I was learning.
At this point I started expanding my knowledge in the spiritual field by seeking out classes and workshops. It came to my attention that there was a huge Holistic Healing Expo in Marlborough, Massachusetts in November 2014. I checked out the website for the expo and I was excited to find out that Colette Baron-Reid was one of the keynote speakers at this expo. Immediately, I bought two tickets and told my best friend Joe that we were going to the expo and it was on the ride down that I mentioned to him that not only were we going to meet Colette, but we would be in the front row and I would meet her, get my picture taken with her, and that Colette would be doing a reading on me! Joe smiled at me and I could tell that he was being good natured about what I was seeing in my mind and was totally humoring me when he said sure, that sounds pretty cool. I knew that he didn’t fully believe me about this or what Colette could do 
but that was ok because I KNEW what was going to happen.
We had left nice and early that morning and when we got there we walked around the expo for a while checking out all of the vendors. There were a lot of new things for us to see as we were both very new to this type of venue. I even found my friend Chrissy, who had rented booth space at the expo for that weekend, had a quick reading with her and even prompted my friend Joe to have his first ever reading done while he was there too. This is where Chrissy told me that I would sitting in a chair in a booth like this someday, reading people and doing this type of work and much more in the healing of others as well. Although I found that reading interesting and I loved doing readings, I was not totally convinced of the outcome of that particular reading. I have owned a successful business for over thirty years and did not see myself leaving my business after all that time to be doing this kind of thing.
After Joe finished his reading I suggested we head up to the main part of the hotel so we would know exactly where
Colette was going to be so that we could get in line as soon as possible to put us right up front of this sold out event. We found our way up to the hotel and we were instructed that Colette would be in Salon D. We made our way there as instructed and noted that we had arrived around 2:30 pm which was way too early. The woman outside the door instructed us to come back around 3:30 which was when the line would start to form for Colette’s event. At this point, not wanting to leave area we found another room hosting a free meditation time for all those interested in some quiet time. We hung out there for roughly 20 minutes and while in meditation, spirit commanded me to “go now”. So I poked Joe in the arm, looked at him and pointed at my watch to give him the signal to go. Joe looked at his watch, looked back up at me with a confused look but got up and followed me out anyway.
Once outside the meditation room, Joe asked why were we leaving so soon as he was totally into the mediation at the time. I replied, “I don’t know but felt prompted by spirit to come back out now and head to Salon D”. Trusting this, Joe and I proceeded to Salon D where we noticed that no one was in the hallway and the sign for the previous speaker had been removed. We stopped there in front of the door and we were talking and next thing we knew an employee of the hotel showed up with the sign for Colette, placed it to the right of me and remarked that the line starts here with the two of you! I was so excited I had Joe begin taking pictures to capture the event. I knew then why spirit had prompted me to leave the meditation room early, because the first of my predictions had come true, we were first in line!
As Joe and I were talking about the big event, we heard the rumblings of a couple coming down the hall talking to each other. The woman was carrying a lot of bags and was wearing a full length coat and walked straight to the door and poked her head inside, only to be scolded by the hotel worker telling her that the current event wasn’t done and it was not time for her yet. It was then I realized who the woman was, it was Colette herself standing before us laughing as she commented “wow, I can’t even get into my own event yet!”. That is when I started squealing at Joe stating “Oh my God Joe, look, it’s Colette Baron-Reid!” She turned around and looked right at me and said “Hi” and I said “It’s you, can I get my picture with you?” She smiled, laughed and said absolutely! She handed all of the bags she had to the man with her (finding out later that he was her husband) and came over to take the photo with me. She put her arm around me, looked at me and said “my, aren’t you a pretty little thing” I didn’t know what to say except “Joe make sure you take a good picture!” Colette started laughing and told Joe to take his time and get a couple of pictures as she had plenty of time at the moment.
After the picture taking session she looked right at me and started reading me right there in the hallway. Her first question right off the bat was “who is Michael and is he still with us”? I was shocked by the question as Michael was in my life at the time and was also having troubles with melanoma. I asked her if he was sick again and if he was going to die from the ongoing melanoma, she replied, “No, no honey”, and asked if we were on and off in the relationship. I replied “yes we are” which is when she stated the death thing resembled the end of the relationship and no he did not have a relapse into melanoma at that time. I felt relief hearing this and asked to know more as far as whether we would work things out or not. She then made mention of the Harley that Michael had purchased earlier on in the relationship and how much it meant to the both of us. At that point I welled up with tears and told her how much I loved riding the bike and missed being on it with him.
At this point she had to make preparations for her event, looked at me before she went in and told me to make sure that I sit in the front row as she wanted to finish reading me during the event. Excitedly I told her I would be sure to do so, especially given that we were at the front of the line already. They proceeded into the room as it was finally empty for them to go in and set up. While we were waiting I began to do the I told you so “action” with Joe. After all I smilingly said Joe, I got my place in line, I will be in the front row, got my pictures and my reading that Colette not only started but will be finished in the event with everyone watching. Joe smiled at me and shared with me about how not only was he a believer in my abilities but hers as well. Joe also shared with me about how his jaw dropped when Colette looked at me and asked who Michael was. He finished by saying that he had no doubts now, especially knowing that the two of us had never met before that day.
The doors opened at 3:45 and we proceeded into the room and headed straight for the front and center of the room. While we were waiting for the room to fill up, we watched Colette graciously engaging the crowd in an impromptu meet and greet. She was warm, funny, and down to earth making us all feel special as she took the time to sign books, pose for pictures and to listen to people as they poured their hearts out to her. I was truly impressed with her while watching this, it was a beautiful thing to witness as she displayed such compassion without the Diva type attitude displayed by so many people with celebrity status. When the time came for her to finally come on stage I was so excited as I was having a difficult time waiting to see what would happen next.
She was AWESOME!! Colette captivated the crowd right from the start. We all sat and listened as she proceeded with the presentation that she had prepared for us. She gave us some really great information mixed in with a couple of meditations and even helped us learn to better work with our intuition. The exercise had us first lying to each other, noting our feelings and then “coming clean” in the end so that we could better learn how our intuition actually works.
The highlight of the session for me though was the completion of the reading that Colette started in the hallway. Colette explained that my situation had nothing to do with the boyfriend but rather, was about my pathway to healing. She then explained everything in detail including answering my question about how I could help the boyfriend with his path. In a nutshell she told me that I needed to focus on my healing and that as far as the boyfriend was concerned I was to stand back and let him follow his own path. I took her advice and did exactly that, I let him go on his own path and we wound up ending the relationship. This was very painful for me, however looking back, the relationship needed to end in order for me to begin my healing so that I could understand myself and my life and be able to move on.
The session was over before we knew it, and we all got the chance to get a good bye hug from Colette before we left. We headed back to the car and proceeded to make our way home. Joe and I conversed all the way home and marveled at our experience for the day. We both agreed that Colette was truly the “real deal” and talked about all that we had learned in that day. This day was the catalyst that began our journey into the Metaphysical and Spiritual world. We began taking as many classes and workshops as we could which led to both of us doing the work to heal ourselves by understanding what the ego is and why it was created in the first place and from there we began the journey of dismantling the power that the ego holds over both of us.
In the years since this event occurred, I have continued to learn as much as I can about healing myself, connecting with my soul and opening my heart. My journey has been a long and sometimes painful one but I continue to learn and try to be an example to others in hopes that I may help them heal just as I have from the example of great spiritual teachers like Colette Baron-Reid. I was so thrilled to find out that she was going to be our cover story here at Spiritual Biz Magazine that I wanted to share my brief encounter with everyone to confirm how amazing and talented Colette really is. If you have the chance to go to an event or a workshop she is doing and meet her live, I highly recommend doing so. Colette has just launched a new book named “Uncharted-The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility” and I can’t wait to start reading it and see what else she has to teach me!
