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Honest, grounded writing on evidential mediumship and spiritual development from medium, author and teacher Hannah Macintyre. Some posts answer the big questions — what is evidential mediumship, what does spirit really feel like, how do you know you're connecting. Others are companion notes to the Mediumship Matters podcast. Written from the practice, not the theory.
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The Daily Practice That Builds a Spirit Guide Connection
Wanting to build a connection with your spirit guides and feel like nothing is happening? Most spirit guide practices fail because they're too complicated. A working medium shares the daily practice she teaches her students and uses herself: it takes thirty seconds in the morning and thirty seconds at night, requires no special setup, and does more to build a real working connection with your guides than any elaborate ceremony.

Hannah Macintyre
11 hours ago13 min read


The Biggest Psychic Attack I've Ever Experienced Was Human
What is a psychic attack? Discover why I believe the greatest energetic impact often comes from human behaviour rather than supernatural forces, and how to protect your wellbeing without living in fear.

Hannah Macintyre
1 day ago6 min read


What You Believe Shapes Your Spiritual Experiences
Do your beliefs shape your spiritual experiences? Discover how your mindset influences mediumship, intuition and your relationship with Spirit, and why changing your beliefs can transform your spiritual journey.

Hannah Macintyre
1 day ago5 min read


Where Can I Find Hannah Medium’s Spiritual Development Classes Online?
Looking for Hannah Medium’s online spiritual development classes? This post explains where to find current offerings, including The Mediumship Clinics and Elevate, and what to expect from structured, grounded online development spaces.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 281 min read


Why Feeling Behind Is So Common in Development
Feeling behind is common in spiritual development. This post explores why comparison distorts progress, how development moves in loops rather than straight lines, and why raising your standards often feels like falling behind.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 252 min read


Summer Solstice (Litha): Holding Boundaries in High-Energy Seasons
The Summer Solstice brings high energy, expansion, and longer days, but it can also blur boundaries. This post explores how to hold steady during bright seasons, avoid overextension, and pace your energy without dampening joy.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 212 min read


What Makes a Mediumship Reading Feel Real?
A mediumship reading feels real when it combines clear evidence with grounded presence. This post explores why specificity matters, how steadiness builds trust, and why authenticity and regulation often matter as much as the information itself.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 182 min read


The Emotional Labour of Professional Mediumship
Professional mediumship involves more than connection. It requires emotional regulation, clear boundaries, and sustained responsibility. This post explores the unseen labour behind readings and why professionalism means containment, structure, and time to step back.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 142 min read


What Is Sitting in the Power Really For?
Sitting in the power is one of the most universally promoted practices in mediumship development. Every circle teaches it. Every teacher says it's essential. A working medium quietly disagrees. The framing of it as a special state you summon before working is overdone, often counterproductive, and gets developing mediums stuck waiting for something that was always going to come through the doing instead. Here's the honest version.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 89 min read


Is Hannah Medium Right for Beginners?
Is Hannah Medium right for beginners? This post explains what to expect from a grounded, structured approach to mediumship development, who it suits, and why alignment in teaching style matters more than spectacle.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 72 min read


Are You an Empath or a Psychic?
Wondering whether you're an empath, a psychic, or somehow both? The two terms get used as if they're separate categories, but a working medium argues they really aren't. Empathy in the strong sense is one specific expression of psychic ability, working through your feelings instead of through images or words. This post explains what that means, how to manage what you're picking up so it doesn't exhaust you, and what to do with the recognition.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 610 min read


Why Mediumship Requires Vulnerability
Mediumship is one of the most vulnerable jobs in the world. Not vulnerable in the trendy sense, but in the actual sense. You speak before you're sure, you say things you can't vet, you let what's happening inside you be seen on the outside, often in the moments where you'd most like to hide. A working medium on the two kinds of vulnerability mediumship requires, why self-protection blocks the work, and what to expect if you keep going.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 512 min read


The Cost of Being Always Available
Constant availability in spiritual work can look caring but often leads to burnout and dependency. This post explores why clear boundaries protect both leaders and communities, and how sustainable support requires structure rather than 24/7 access

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 42 min read


Why Setting Passwords With Your Loved Ones in Spirit Doesn't Work
Setting a password with someone you love before they pass, so a medium can later prove it's really them, sounds like the responsible test. In practice it doesn't work, and worse, it tends to make people dismiss the real connection they were actually receiving. A working medium on why passwords almost never come through cleanly, why the test is a poor fit for how mediumship operates, and what genuine evidence actually looks like instead.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 310 min read


Why Do Mediums Get Different Information?
Had readings with different mediums about the same person and got different information? It's not a sign mediumship is unreliable, it's a sign of how the work actually functions. A working medium on why mediums translate spirit through their own life experience, why their clairs filter different aspects of the same presence, why spirit themselves bring different things to different mediums, and what that means whether you're a sitter or a developing medium yourself.

Hannah Macintyre
Jun 210 min read


Questions to Ask a Medium Before Booking
Thinking about booking your first reading and not sure how to choose a medium? A working medium on the questions that should already be answered on a good medium's website, FAQ, or public materials before you reach out. What good answers look like, what should make you pause, and why a medium who hasn't addressed these things publicly may not be the right fit.

Hannah Macintyre
May 3110 min read


Can You Be a Medium Without Being Religious?
Can you be a medium without being religious? Yes, completely. Mediumship is a natural human ability, not a religious one. A working medium on why the confusion with Spiritualism muddies the waters, why being non-religious might actually help, what you genuinely do need instead of religion, and how working mediums frame what they do in their own honest language. Written for anyone who has been put off mediumship because the spaces felt too religious.

Hannah Macintyre
May 3112 min read


What I Wish I'd Known When I Started
If I could go back fifteen years and have a coffee with the woman who'd just had her first proper spirit communication, I'd want to tell her a few things. Not to spare her the difficult bits, because she needs them. But to spare her the panic, self-doubt, and weird shame she's about to spend a decade carrying. A working medium on what she genuinely wishes someone had told her at the start: the realities, the wobbles, the embarrassments, and the truths nobody published.

Hannah Macintyre
May 3113 min read


How to Choose a Mediumship Teacher
Choosing a mediumship teacher is one of the most important decisions of your development, and it's also one of the easiest to get wrong. A working medium and teacher on how to actually do this well. The criteria that genuinely matter, the warning signs that should send you elsewhere, why you'll probably need different teachers at different stages, and some stories from her own search that might save you the same mistakes.

Hannah Macintyre
May 3113 min read


The Myth of the Perfect Medium
There's a version of a medium that exists in the public imagination, and it isn't real. The seamless one on television, the one who gets every detail right with effortless certainty, the one who never misses. A working medium on why the perfect-medium myth is doing real harm to developing mediums and reading clients alike, what working mediumship actually looks like on the inside, and what honest practice looks like instead.

Hannah Macintyre
May 3110 min read
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