When someone we love passes, the silence they leave behind can feel unbearable. Yet across traditions and time, people have turned to spirit communication practices as a way to reconnect, heal, and understand that love truly never dies.

Spiritual teacher and evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann offers a grounded approach that blends her military background with spiritual insights, demystifying mediumship. Suzanne says that you don’t have to be a “born medium” to connect with loved ones after death—as she discovered when connecting with her daughter-in-law who left the earthly plane too soon. 

How Spiritual Mediumship Can Help You Heal From Loss

Here are 5 ways evidential mediums suggest you can release yourself from doubt, find peace after loss, and make connection with loved ones after death.

1. Watch for a sign from your departed loved one—these moments are evidence or validation that your loved one lives on and watches over you. Psychic mediums call this evidence-based mediumship—when they receive verifiable information or a sign from a departed loved one that you could not have otherwise known. Unlike vague impressions, this approach emphasizes specific details—names, dates, memories, or even the discovery of a personal object—that resonate deeply with the grieving person. 
   
   For example, you might find a cherished item, like a coin, feather, or photograph, in an unexpected place shortly after asking for a sign. 
    
2. Overcome self-doubt, surrender to your feelings, and expand your consciousness to access intuitive abilities. British medium Tony Stockwell says you can create an opening for communication beyond the veil by trying to surrender completely to that feeling as spirits gather close, allow it to embrace you, and relax enough so that you might be able to hear some thoughts or ideas bubble up into your consciousness. 
    
3. Find comfort and healing in understanding the afterlife, when you come to embrace the fact that there is more to life than what you can perceive with your five senses. Especially for those grieving a loved one, it is wise to ponder the idea that there is no "death" and that what we believe about our lives on Earth—about this being our true nature—is just an illusion. We are eternal souls that have no beginning and no end.
    
4. Use step-by-step practices that show you how to connect with the spirit world and your own divine nature.  Spirit communication practices can help to demystify mediumship with clear, systematic methods and tools for spiritual connection that make the esoteric both relatable and attainable. Suzanne’s practices include the “Sip of the Divine” meditation and her powerful method to connect with spirit, “BLESS ME.”  The more you practice, the better you can attune to different levels of being in your consciousness.

5. Begin to trust your intuition and inner knowing. Intuition is your inner guide that helps you make good choices in life. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. Your body will often give you clues—like goose bumps, a nervous stomach, or a heavy heart. When you notice these feelings, pay attention and remember them. That’s your inner voice talking, like a GPS for your soul, helping you know which way to go if you’re willing to listen.

The work of psychic mediums, rooted in both heart and evidence, offers profound insight into how we can open ourselves to messages of hope—not only from those who have passed, but also from our own inner knowing.