What If Your Sensitivity Was Always Trying to Guide You? Growing Up in a Funeral Home, Mediumship & Becoming Fully Yourself with Kirsten Caldwell

What if the parts of yourself you once tried to suppress were actually trying to guide you all along? My connection with this week’s guest, medium Kirsten Caldwell, began with one of the most extraordinary remote-viewing experiences I’ve ever had. During a development exercise, Kirsten held a place from her childhood in her awareness while I attempted to perceive it without knowing where she had taken me. I began describing a large brick building, its atmosphere, rooms, emotions and memories — before the film *My Girl* suddenly dropped into my consciousness. That was the moment everything clicked. Kirsten had grown up in a funeral home. Her father was a mortician and funeral director, and death, grief and the unseen world formed part of the landscape of her childhood. But alongside that came a sensitivity she didn’t yet understand — experiences, feelings and perceptions that weren’t always recognised or encouraged by the adults around her. In this conversation, Kirsten and I explore what happens when a sensitive child grows into an adult who finally begins to understand the language of their own body, intuition and consciousness. We talk about growing up surrounded by death, complicated relationships with our fathers, grief and healing after someone passes, and the possibility that relationships can continue to evolve even after physical death. Kirsten also shares her remarkable journey into improvisational comedy and teaching — and why the principles of improv have become so intertwined with the way she now understands mediumship. Because both ask something very similar of us: Can we stop trying to control what happens next? Can we remain present? Can we trust what arrives? And can we allow ourselves to be fully ourselves? We also explore the nervous system and sensitivity, the impact of trauma, meditation, energetic overwhelm, psychic awareness, children who appear naturally sensitive to the unseen world, spiritual protection, understanding your own energy and why mediumship should never become about squeezing ourselves into somebody else’s way of working. There’s a theme running underneath this entire conversation that I think matters enormously: Perhaps development isn’t always about becoming something new. Perhaps sometimes it is about removing everything that taught us not to trust who we already were. Kirsten puts it beautifully towards the end of our conversation — her aim is to become the “me-est me” she can possibly be, while giving other people permission to become the fullest expression of themselves too. And maybe that is part of the spiritual journey for all of us. To become more present. More curious. More playful. Less afraid of getting it wrong. And more willing to discover what becomes possible when we stop trying quite so hard to be anything other than ourselves. Also in this episode I share some news about a new chapter in my own work. Very soon, I’ll be launching **psychic and mediumistic development classes and circles**, with opportunities to work with me both **online and in person**. These will focus on helping you understand your own connection, develop confidence, explore your individual way of working and approach mediumship as the creative, deeply personal process I believe it is. ⭐ **If you’d like to be among the first to hear when the classes are announced, visit:** https://www.jasonpaulmedium.com Scroll to the bottom of the website and join the newsletter. You can also contact me at: [**hello@jasonpaulmedium.com**](mailto:hello@jasonpaulmedium.com) Connect with Jason Paul 🌐 **Website, readings & events:** https://www.jasonpaulmedium.com 💌 **Join the newsletter:** Visit JasonPaulMedium.com and scroll to the bottom of the page to subscribe. 🔮 **Psychic, mediumship & tarot readings:** https://www.jasonpaulmedium.com 📺 **Watch Soul Sync on YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/@jasonpaulsoulsync ✉️ **Contact Soul Sync / share your story / guest enquiries:** [hello@jasonpaulmedium.com](mailto:hello@jasonpaulmedium.com) If Soul Sync has become part of your week, please consider following the show and leaving a rating or review on your podcast app. It genuinely helps more people discover these conversations. And if you have a story, experience or perspective you think belongs on Soul Sync, I’d love to hear from you. ✨ Enjoying Soul Sync? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify genuinely makes such a difference. It helps more curious souls find these conversations and keeps the podcast growing. If an episode has made you think, feel, laugh, question something—or simply helped you feel a little less alone—please take a moment to leave a review. Thank you for being here. It means more than you know. 🤍 🎧 Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show