An insight into who I am and my life

Only the closest people to me, really know who I am and what my life is like. Maybe you have an idea in your mind of what it is like to be a psychic, you may imagine me to be an older lady who sits home in the dark with a crystal ball and having some kind of magical powers! lol

I would love to share with you a bit of what my life is like. Firstly, I had my 54th birthday last week, I live in a beautiful seaside town in South Australia and I have 5 sons whose ages are 32, 30, 28, 19 and 13 and I have 3 daughter in laws and 4 grandchildren. I left my marriage of 30 years and have been living with my youngest two sons for the past 2 years as a single parent.

I have experienced most things in life, have gone through extremely hard times and had many blessings, throughout it all I think I have maintained a pretty positive outlook on life.

I have always known I could sense energy around people and it was in my mid 20's that I joined a meditation class which helped me to develop my intuition a lot clearer. I have always been able to visualise when doing a reading, so I can see pictures in my mind of what lays ahead for a client. I have seen things happening in 2 years time and up to 10 years time and the more I have done this type of work, the more accurate I can read the messages.

Around the year of 2006 I started my own website, so I could do email readings from people's photographs and I found this to be very successful. My business was booming and I was getting 4 or 5 readings a day. It was like this up until 2013 when the economy started to affect so many people's incomes and my readings started to slow down. I still had regular clients coming back but it became more of a demand from people needing my help for nothing, either they couldn't afford to pay me or they thought if I had this gift I should share it with them for nothing.

So I had to look for work elsewhere to bring in an income to support my youngest two children. So I work in a cafe, and do cleaning jobs, plus I still do my readings for paying clients and just to help people who can't afford to pay me. I am also studying a diploma in counselling which seems to lapsing as there are not enough hours in the day for me and by the end of the day I find myself helping people and not doing my study.

My goal in life is to go back to being a full time 'medium', where I can go back to 4 to 5 paid readings per day. Most nights after a days work, I will answer emails and answer messages from people needing my help. I don't mind helping people for nothing, but it would be a lot more comforting to also know I had money coming in to pay my bills and to feed my kids.

I sometimes think I am like one of those singers who has an amazing voice but only gets gigs in a local pub, they just never get that break into stardom. I know I am as good as any of those high profile mediums on TV and who travel the world , and with all the effort I put into promoting myself, I still seem to struggle to keep the income flowing with this type of work.

I still believe I am very fair in my pricing as well, as I charge between $30 to $100, when I have seen mediums in the larger cities charging up to $500 or more and giving less accurate information.

I want to keep myself as a 'genuine' psychic, the 'real deal' not someone who just works for money and to rip people off and that is probably why I have stayed more on the smaller scale as it's harder to become known for what I do.

When I go to a social gathering and someone introduces me, "This is Vicki, she is a psychic you know!" of course the first thing I am asked is "Oh what can you see for me?" my inner sarcasm wants to say "yes I came out to socialise tonight hoping to meet you so I could spend the rest of the night discussing your future!" lol but what I usually end up doing is giving them a few messages that they need to hear and bringing them comfort. My kind and caring side will always take over and I would find it very difficult to say to someone, "well pay me first and then I will tell you".

I am not even sure what prompted me to write this type of blog, maybe I thought it would be nice for people to understand who I am from my perspective. I am human just like the rest of you, I have troubles in my life, but I soldier on, putting aside my issues so I can help you. I don't need to be praised, I don't even need recognition, I am just sharing with you a side of myself you may not have known. Thank you for reading, Vicki