Hello there, and welcome to srsstringham.com!

Some of you may know that this website was originally for my editing business, but that has now been moved to EmpoweringEditor.com. In February/March of 2017, I published a blog post there that was intuitively inspired, urging people to be brave and follow the promptings of their intuition. In the process of writing the follow-up posts, I was called to be brave myself—but even more deeply—and begin training as a professional intuitive, or paraprofessional.

I’ve only just begun my official preparation for this new additional career, but let me tell you, the extreme calm and certainty that I’ve felt since signing up for that coaching has been amazing. As I continue working on revising my memoir, Year of Shadow and Light, I realize more and more that this is what the Universe has been preparing me to do since 2009, perhaps longer. I’ve been called on repeatedly to share my spiritual gifts with the world, but I kept thinking “small potatoes,” being quiet, following my own intuition in my own life, and occasionally telling a friend when I believed I had a message for him/her.

Following my intuition more bravely over the past few weeks, however, has uncovered whole new vistas for me that were previously shrouded in mist. No more small potatoes. I’m not hiding myself away anymore. Now that I’ve been actually doing what my guides have been prompting me to do, rather than just resisting because I think I’m not good enough, things have been progressing quickly. After all, this quote from John Robert Stevens keeps coming up in my life every time I start thinking I’m not good enough:

Even when you know that God has laid his hand on you, you will be hindered if you are always looking at your inadequacies. If the Lord has called you to be something, who cares whether or not you are good enough?

How can I resist a message like that?

Overall, things now are going so well that I’m prompted more and more to trust—not my guides, because I’ve trusted them for a long time, but myself. Finally, I’ve been trusting myself to correctly interpret what they’re telling me.

Once I did that, finally began trusting myself, it suddenly dawned on me one morning—after a path of synchronicities, of course—that I should train to be a professional intuitive. Will I actually end up doing this professionally? I don’t know yet. Maybe I will do the training and then discover that it started me on a slightly different path. What I do know is that I’m starting the training this week, that I’m calm about the decision—even though my ego/conditioned mind sometimes tells me it’s ridiculous—and that I’m excited. And that I need to share the journey with others even as I continue to be an editor and to write my memoir.

So sit back, relax, pick up your favorite sipping beverage, and follow along as I step out, like the Fool of the tarot, onto this new road that rises up to meet me … or, if you prefer, like Bilbo Baggins starting out on his first big adventure, as I sing, “The road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began.”

Read the posts that started it all:

“Be Brave”
“Be Brave: The Unfolding Path”
“Be Brave: Choosing to Follow the Path”
“Be Brave: Using Intuition in My Writing”
“Be Brave: Beginning to Use Your Intuition”