Awaken with Mary

Episode 1: Before I Knew What Awakening Was | My First Encounters with Spirit

What if your spiritual journey began long before you even understood what spirituality was?

Welcome to the very first episode of Awaken with Mary: Beyond Belief. Into Understanding.

I'm Mary A. Lydick, psychic evidential medium, channeler, spiritual mentor, and author. And before we explore mediumship, intuition, spiritual awakenings, shadow work, and the mysteries of the unseen world, I want to take you back to where my journey began.

Long before I understood what a psychic medium was, I was experiencing things I couldn't explain. The interesting part? I didn't think there was anything unusual about them.

In this episode, I'm sharing some of my earliest experiences with what I now understand as Spirit.

It started with a little girl, a staircase, and a brother named Tommy.

My brother passed away before I was born. Yet according to my mom, when I was incredibly young, I pointed toward the bottom of a staircase and announced, "There's Tommy."

She was so shocked she nearly dropped me!

And apparently, that was only the beginning.

By the time I was around four years old, I was standing in front of a hallway mirror, having conversations with people nobody else could see. There was even someone I remember as the man in the mirror.

Around age six, I began experiencing what I would later understand as premonitions. Sometimes I had an overwhelming feeling that something tragic was going to happen or that someone was going to pass away, even though I couldn't identify who or what the feeling involved.

But how does a child begin to understand something like that?

And how do we learn to distinguish between intuition, fear, and the patterns our minds have learned to recognize?

In this episode, we'll explore my earliest encounters with Spirit, growing up between belief and skepticism, the importance of discernment, and how our childhood experiences shape the way we understand ourselves.

But this is only the beginning.

Throughout this podcast, I'll take you through the experiences that shaped me, the beliefs I've questioned, the lessons I've learned, and the moments that eventually led me to become the medium and spiritual mentor I am today.

We'll have honest conversations about mediumship, intuition, consciousness, grief, healing, religion, shadow work, and the connection between the physical and spiritual worlds.

Some conversations will be deeply personal. Others might challenge everything you thought you knew. And knowing me, there will probably be a little sarcasm along the way.

I'm not here to tell you what you have to believe. I'm here to encourage you to ask questions, explore your own experiences, and discover what resonates with you.

Because awakening isn't about becoming someone new.

It's about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.

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If you've ever experienced something you couldn't explain, questioned what you've been taught, or felt there might be more to life than what we can physically see, you're in the right place.

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And before you go, consider this:

How much of what you believe today comes from your own experiences, and how much comes from what you've been taught?

Until next time, keep questioning, keep exploring, and keep awakening what's within you.