How Did Maureen Become A Messenger/Channel?

Maureen herself, would have been absolutely cynical and untrusting of anyone who said they were a channel or medium.  The only reason she let go of her protective views was because it happened to her.  How can you deny something that you experience yourself as truth?

Maureen was always interested in self-help books and self-improvement, but never took it farther than that.  She had an Education degree, with plans of teaching in the school system (and she taught piano too!) for the rest of her life.  When Maureen was pregnant with her first daughter, she became ill enough that regular medicine protocols were not making her better. She was forced into the world of alternative medicine, including some ‘new age’ healing alternatives.  Though she scoffed at them at first, she was desperate enough to try them.  One modality called The Bodytalk System did help improve her symptoms quickly enough that she was so inspired, she became a Bodytalk Practitioner herself, one of the first few in Manitoba. 

Slowly Maureen realized that there was a whole world of healing that her resistant views had blocked her from experiencing.  One day, spontaneously while doing the Bodytalk System protocol with a client, she felt a presence in the room. She could sense he was a man.  She had no belief systems at this time about ‘angels’, and so assumed that it was a ‘ghost’ – a deceased brother or husband connected to the woman she was doing the Bodytalk session with.  This ‘man’ spoke to her, telling her his name was Michael.  He asked Maureen to relay information to her client, that was accurate about her health concerns and issues with her family.  While in the middle of relaying this information, her first foray as ‘messenger’, the client asked if it was Archangel Michael and the ‘man’ said yes. (This client believed in angels and asked Archangel Michael to be around her all the time in her prayers). Maureen continued to play messenger and give the advice to her client, but she was shaken up. 

How the hell could this ‘man’ possibly be an angel? She wasn’t even sure if she believed they existed.  The client left, happily overwhelmed with the session.  Maureen crashed, convinced that she had just made up all that information in her head, and that she was ‘crazy’.  Within days, people were calling Maureen to ‘talk to Archangel Michael’. Maureen had no idea how he had appeared in the first place, nor was she sure she wanted to talk to him again or could conjure him at will.  It took Maureen some time to familiarize herself with books on angels, discovering that there were other channels out there who did talk to angels and guides, and that truly, this wasn’t so ‘weird’ after all.  Perhaps not the norm, but certainly possible.  And thus Maureen began her foray into channelling in 2006.

It took Maureen many years to work through her resistance to being a channel. Many people who had known her for years (close friends, core family, relatives), had a difficult time understanding her newfound beliefs and abilities.  Though Maureen channelled Archangel Michael at first, at times, she would channel other guides that were attached to the clients that she would see for sessions.  She did not like the uncertainty of not knowing who would come through, so asked for her own personal guide who would be consistent no matter who she saw for a session. It took six months of asking, but one day when she did a session with a client, a new guide appeared. The client went home, but the guide stayed in Maureen’s house and continued to talk to her. That was the day she met the collective consciousness SAM – Securely Attached to Mankind.  They explained that they were a group of thousands of guides, who had mastered this game of life. They created a ‘collective’ in thought so that they could all teach the same wisdom – thus were a ‘collective consciousness’. 

What Maureen discovered quickly about SAM was that they were very down to earth.  They had a tell-it-like-it-is approach to giving guidance, which fit well with her personality.  Maureen was concerned that her ‘potty mouth’ (Maureen has been known to drop an F bomb here and there) would get in the way of channelling. Instead, SAM told her that part of the reason they picked her, was because they liked her use of language (even the swearing). They wanted to normalize channelling and lose the stereotypical expectations of a channel (basking in white light, seated like a yogi, exuding out prose and prayers).  Maureen was not convinced – who was going to believe that she was channelling guides if they allowed in this ‘normal’ dialect that the general public used? 

Over the years, Maureen has discovered that what people say about her the most, is that they could relate to her as a medium right away, because of this exact approach. “She’s so normal! It was just like talking to a counsellor, or a friend!”  This is what SAM wanted, this integrated style of channelling, where they fed Maureen the guidance, but allowed her to express it through her own vocabulary and dialect.  Maureen channelled SAM from June of 2006 until December of 2024.

During Covid (2020-2023), life shifted substantially for Maureen. As everyone experienced loss during Covid, so did Maureen. After much reflection, Maureen decided to move to British Columbia, a place she had visited since she was young. She had always dreamed of living in B.C. Maureen moved to Kamloops BC in March of 2022. At this time, she was navigating a lot of change in her personal life and the loss of important core relationships. When she arrived in Kamloops, SAM suggested that she take some time off to heal herself. She had money to live on from the sale of her house in Winnipeg. “When are you going to have the opportunity again to deal deeply with your own wounds if you are always working? You can finally take some time off to fully focus on working on your own healing.” And so that is what she did, thinking it would only be for a few months. It ended up being 3 years off, with minimal working - the occasional 1-on-1 session when SAM agreed, and still channelling for the group she ran that needed the karmic healing. At one point, even the group disbanded and she really didn’t do any channelling for 10 months straight. During these 3 years, Maureen was able to do healing with SAM, as well as go to counselling for her own inner child healing. She did EMDR therapy, art therapy/counselling for her inner child, multiple ways of somatic healing, and read countless books. The impetus for all of this need to heal was that Maureen was having flashbacks of sexual abuse that she had fully blocked out from the time she was in diapers until age 12. She had so effectively blocked this out her whole life, that when she started having strong memories, she even hesitated to take SAM’s word for it that the memories were real - she just couldn’t fathom that she had memorized a completely different childhood (her perceived childhood) versus what she really experienced. So she sought out traditional therapy for the sexual abuse which indeed verified that her memories were valid and that she was ‘textbook’ as far as finally feeling safe enough, at age 50-53, to be able to start healing the past and allowing the trauma to be processed thoroughly.

This personal experience with uncovering her root traumas caused Maureen to throw herself into learning about trauma and all the other factors that were necessary for her to facilitate her own healing: complex childhood trauma, learning about healing from narcissists, PTSD, c-PTSD, sexual trauma including sex trafficking. What was most amazing to Maureen was how she had so keenly disassociated herself from so many of her true memories. It has taken her 3 years of intense work on herself to acknowledge and accept what her true childhood was, and to deeply heal at the roots what was affecting her inner child’s perspective on love and relationships. Maureen is grateful that she had this time where she could focus on herself, without guilt that she was not available to help others. This healing has been a crucial step of integrating her Ego/Inner Child with her Soul and her Essence, and she would not be in the space she is now, without having had this time.

Maureen understands that work on yourself is ongoing. She continues to be open to what she has to do to continue her self-healing journey, but knows that she has moved through enough of the deep roots that she can work again while continuing to self-heal. She has cleared the karma she had with SAM, the group, and other clients. She has worked diligently on her own childhood trauma. She now finds herself becoming a more naturally compassionate, trauma-informed practitioner. As she has been easing back into working with clients and groups again, she understands why the time with channelling SAM ended and why it was important to move into new relationships with new guides once the karma had been healed and SAM’s purpose was finished. Now, everything she chooses to do as a service is not karmically based, but joy-based. She offers these services because she is capable of doing them and she enjoys doing them. No longer is she led by SAM where she felt she ‘had to’ move through certain difficult situations in both groups and private sessions due to needing to heal some karmic webs that in some cases, had been replaying out for several lifetimes. She is grateful for that period of her channeling (18 years!) to be over and feels free to truly experience all the new aspects of Spirit Of Truth and Light to come through her as a medium and to see the gifts they offer. At age 53, she feels like her career is just beginning. The last 18 years has been a rehearsal. Now, is the main act. She welcomes you to enjoy the fruits of her labour.

Is Maureen able to channel deceased loved ones?

Yes.

Maureen has been channelling Spirit since 2006. When she was channelling the collective consciousness SAM, SAM did not focus on psychic medium readings at the time. Though there were a few times where Maureen and SAM did allow a deceased loved one to come through and be a part of the session, this was not SAM’s focus. SAM’s focus was moving Maureen and the clients who were karmically attracted to her through their karmic penance and healing. All of the clients that were attracted to Maureen and SAM in the 18 years that she channelled them, had past lives with Maureen and there was healing and more learning to occur for both the clients, Maureen, and SAM. They therefore had a focus to teach about Essence (your Source Within, your Higher Self), and soul contracts, and about karma, so that the clients could heal their karmic pasts that were preventing healing and joy as they lived out their present. A lot of times, SAM did not tell the client that they had karma with Maureen, or that members who were attracted to the groups she ran also had karma with each other. It is now, at the other side of all the healing, that Maureen and others now understand this.

Due to SAM’s focus of healing karma, Maureen turned several people away for psychic medium readings for 18 years! This was okay when Maureen lived in Winnipeg, as there were so many other psychic mediums with established practices who could take these clients, that psychic mediumship was just not a priority for SAM, which meant it wasn’t going to be for Maureen. If the guides didn’t help her connect with the deceased loved ones, then she wasn’t going to be able to channel the deceased loved one through. She simply accepted that doing mediumship readings were not a part of her journey.

As of March 2025, things have monumentally shifted. With Maureen channelling new guides, she does in fact have a guide who specializes in pyschic medium readings. In fact, these guides are able to help facilitate a full on conversation with your deceased loved one for the whole hour session. Maureen is able to hear her guides in one ear, and your deceased loved one in her other ear. So whatever you wish to discuss with your deceased loved one, you can. If you have questions, you can ask them. The deceased loved ones who come through also have a lot to tell you, as they are now witnessing your journey from a different perspective. The Guides only poke in during the reading if they feel that something your deceased loved one said needs to be quantified or expressed differently due to your deceased loved ones’ bias of opinion. Otherwise the guides allow the full session to be the conversation between you and your loved one, with Maureen being the medium. See Maureen’s one-on-one sessions for pricing.