For a while, being an overwhelmed neurodivergent mom to my beautiful son, Milo, who has special needs, felt like my whole identity a lot of the time – like I had a permanent badge of exhaustion, worry and overthinking stitched to my soul. Little did I know, beneath all the chaos, something was brewing, shifting – and that discovery changed everything.

Between managing the constant appointments, the emotional rollercoaster, and the sensory overload that comes with raising a child who has both Down syndrome and Hirschsprung’s disease, my anxiety was at an all time high. I was hypervigilant, constantly scanning for every little cue—his body language, shifts in his energy, the smallest changes in mood. What started as pure survival mode turned into a skill set that allowed me to understand Milo’s needs when he couldn’t speak them out loud. My neurodivergent brain was on overdrive, making me more sensitive to every detail, but thankfully I didn’t crumble entirely because what I didn’t realize at the time was that this wasn’t just survival, I was fine-tuning something more profound: intuition.

Things took a VERY unexpected left turn in September 2020 when I had what I can only describe as a spiritual awakening. One night, I felt something jump on my bed, walk up my legs, and lay down in my lap – except I couldn’t see it. It was a cat, but not one I could physically see. And this wasn’t a one-time event. It happened every night, like clockwork, for a year and a half. At first, I was absolutely terrified. As someone who 1. grew up in a very Christian home, and 2. used horror movies as dopamine for the majority of my life, (do not recommend btw), I was so. very. scared. that I would look down and have something horrendous staring back up at me. HOWEVER, it never felt nefarious in any way, which looking back was really the beginning of figuring out how to discern energetic vibrations.

BUT, the idea of this invisible cat showing up every night freaked me out – and that’s putting it lightly. It took me a longgg while to tell anyone else, even my husband. But he found me crying in the bathroom one morning and I couldn’t hold it in – I thought something was REALLY wrong with me. I was in denial that it was actually a spirit of a cat or anything of that nature and started looking up things like Multiple Sclerosis and Neuropathy. Shit was bleak I tell you. I had been drugging myself to sleep with Ativan or Unisom to try and fall asleep before it arrived, but it didn’t matter—every time I was just about asleep (theta state), the cat, who my husband appropriately named “Boo”, would jump on our bed, make its way up to my lap, lay down and purr. 

I finally told my sister in law and she said, “why don’t you get it a bed to sleep in”? Which in hindsight was one of the most supportive things someone could have said to me at that time. ♡ Seeing that nothing else was working, and I tried everything; its own bed, prayer, a local shaman came to my house twice to clear it, I literally covered myself in cascarilla powder before bed, put black tourmaline everywhere. There was a message in this experience – I just had to muster the courage to find out what it was.

I was scared, exhausted, and trying to raise my son who wasn’t even 2 years old yet. I couldn’t get restorative sleep for so long, and I was deteriorating mentally, physically, emotionally, as it only made my anxiety and panic attacks much worse. Finally, I got up enough courage to reach out to a medium to help me understand what was happening. I will expand on this more in the future because it’s a big part of how I function in my daily life now, but she helped me integrate my experience; and taught me how to protect my energy, set boundaries with the spirit world (no more disrupting my precious sleep as a new mom!), and hone my intuition. Boo turned out to be the catalyst for me fully stepping into my clairsentient psychic abilities.

As I began learning more about energy protection and boundaries, I realized that my sensitivities I’d carried my entire life – first from being neurodivergent, and later, as my clairs, especially clairsentience and clairsensation, awakened – weren’t just challenges to manage. They were powerful, hard-won skills I could apply practically in my daily life. I began to see how my clairsentient abilities were already helping me connect with my son, especially when he couldn’t communicate his needs verbally. I didn’t just notice his cues anymore; I could feel what was happening with him energetically, often before anything outwardly showed. Working with the medium also taught me how to set energetic boundaries, which was a game changer. I had been absorbing so much of the energy around me, no wonder I was overwhelmed all the time! I learned to ask: Is this mine (do I need to sit with this?), or is this someone else’s? And that helped me to understand discernment…[what is my energy, and what isn’t].

I also began combining this with the tools and certifications I’d been gathering and developing—somatic core centering, nervous system regulation, cycle tracking, and learning to process my emotions/close the stress cycle. This allowed me to get out of my head and into my body in order to create space for my intuition to guide me without second-guessing myself. I started trusting my inner knowing, distinguishing between anxiety and true intuition, and leaning into that quiet voice that had always been there. And over time, I realized I had developed something powerful—a deep, intuitive connection with Milo. He is literally the brightest light and can also read energy really, really well. He’s my anchor as well as my expander.

My ability to sense what he needed grew stronger, and we developed our own communication without having to use words. Through body-based practices and tools like meditation, journaling, brainspotting for trauma and divinely connecting to a higher consciousness, I fine-tuned my intuitive channeling abilities. Boo opened the door to so much more than I ever imagined, and now, my intuition isn’t just a tool—it’s a foundation for everything I do. My connection to God has grown exponentially, and I know we are guided every minute of every day, constantly supported and led on this journey. I’ve also learned to live more fully in my heart space, where love, intuition, and deep connection reside, allowing me to show up with more compassion and clarity, both for myself and my son.

My last four years have been a whirlwind to say the least. It started with fear and exhaustion, and transformed into something far more empowering. I’m passionate about helping other neurodivergent moms tap into their intuition so that they can navigate the demands of this path less traveled with more flow and less stress, because I know how life-changing it is. We don’t just survive life’s challenges – we have the ability to thrive by trusting the skills we’ve developed along the way. Your intuition is already there, waiting for you to lean in and listen to it. Once you do, everything shifts.

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