From Boardrooms to the Beyond

A metaphysical awakening in the Deep South.

“Which will open first?” Bestey’s sister would ask as young girls when they waited for the elevator.

“Guess the next song,” her family might tease, listening to the radio.

Bestey’s uncanny sensibility to tune in to small, random events was all fun and games for her family, but in high school, as she lay in bed at night, she could hear radio stations. Sometimes it was classical. Sometimes country, but it was like she was tuning into radio waves. It wasn't until her late 20s and early 30s, though, that Betsey began to take her psychic abilities seriously and recognize them for the genuine gift they are.

The joyful Betsey Grady.

Today, she can connect with departed loved ones and access the Akashic Records, also known as the Tree of life or The Book of Life — a library of the soul’s entire history and potential future experiences. She sees past and parallel lives and communicates with spirit guides, and sometimes, even celebrities.

After college living in San Francisco, Betsey worked for two decades in corporate America. During her free time, she explored metaphysical stores, read the works of Louise Hay and Shakti Gawain, and began using angel cards. At work, she applied metaphysical principles, such as visualization and manifestation techniques, to her leadership workshops and management style.

I first met Betsey in 2015 after she left corporate world and was living in Fairhope, Alabama. When she moved there not long, she found a “spiritual desert” along the Gulf Coast, so she opened her own “little California metaphysical green store.”

Around this time, during a Reiki attunement, she had a powerful vision of herself as an Egyptian priest, surrounded by gold, performing healings and blessings. From there, her gift of knowing “just lit up,” and she started practicing with friends and the clients.

It took practice to gain confidence and trust the images and information she was receiving, but she learned to relay messages even when they didn’t make sense to her. As she learned to let go of both fear and ego, it wasn’t long before she was doing readings for clients as a full-time job.

“Truth resonates. When information comes through, people will feel it in their body, their mind. They’ll get emotional.”

Before each client session, she meditates and often receives a wealth of information. Over the years, she has found this to be about 90% accurate. She still has a few skeptics who want a reading, but now it’s less about her confidence and more about how someone’s doubts block her connection.

Her most dominant sense is visual, and she’s an active dreamer. During an in-person session, Bestey holds one of many crystals she has chosen that day to facilitate the energy and connection. She often holds scolecite, a white stone considered a powerful tool for spiritual growth, or fuschite, a green stone, which is connected to the heart, love, compassion and emotional balance.

The Guides speak, exist, and live in a golden light, Betsey said, and that golden light is what is in within us. When they connect with us, it's like the language of light. They said for those that want to connect with their guides, they should imagine themselves being bathed in golden light. They should imagine a golden light flowing from them to a point in the universe. Imagine connecting with the golden divine light because we are the same thing. We are one. If you want to access your Higher Self, your higher wisdom, then start with that golden light, Betsey said in a recent session with me.

She never knows what a session will bring. She was shocked one time when Ernest Hemingway came through with several messages in a woman’s reading, but it turned out the woman’s relative had been his assistant.

The day I recently talked to her, she said during her morning meditation as she focused on the loss and sorrow in Texas, she prayed for the children’s souls and for the people who’d lost loved ones to heal and find peace when she heard her guides deliver a message.

Do not worry. These little children are coming back, and most all of them immediately, and they will be EMTs. They will be first responders. They will be camp counselors and as the climate changes, they will be climate scientists.

Betsey’s guides told her that these children are fulfilling a soul contract for those left behind, and these children are brilliant souls up to great things, she said.

As we discussed her life and abilities, she was still digesting this unexpected, powerful message after such a tragedy.

Despite the incredible hardships people endure, she believes in a benevolent universe and doesn’t believe in evil. People aren’t inherently evil, but some bad people make choices, she said.

She also believes we are never alone and constantly evolving. “Everyone’s thought, word, choice and action is an evolution.”

Betsey feels she has been given a gift enabling her to bring peace to others, convey messages to people, and assist them on their spiritual journey. She has learned, “There’s nothing to be really afraid of in that and to trust in being that instrument.”

You can find out more about Betsey Grady by visiting her website.

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