What if flowers are more than beautiful? What if they’re speaking? Nature might be the medicine we need right now!

In this heart warming episode of Medium Curious, Sarah and Jane sit down with Mary Porter Kerns—writer, flower communicator, and creator of The Flowers Are Speaking—for a soulful conversation about plant intelligence, intuition, imagination, and our ancient relationship with the natural world.

Mary shares how her connection with flowers evolved over time, from gardening and houseplants to receiving direct messages from flowers through meditation and free writing. She opens up about the turning point that helped her trust her inner knowing (“what if it doesn’t matter if it’s ‘real’?”), how flowers can offer emotional and spiritual support, and why reconnecting with nature may be one of the most important things we can do in challenging times.

The conversation weaves through magnolias, hellebores, dandelions, forest bathing, flower essences, imagination vs. intuition, and the deeper “long story” of interconnection between humans, flowers, and the living world. It’s mystical, grounded, funny, and deeply comforting.

“If we can be connected with nature the way our ancestors used to be… then we might actually revere all people as sacred as well.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“What if it doesn’t matter if it’s real or not? It’s real in some realm.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“Dreams and wishes matter… because dreams can change our DNA.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“Our imagination can open up our intuition. Our intuition can allow our imagination.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“Quit taking flowers for granted. Do you realize what a miracle this is?” — Mary Porter Kerns

Mary Porter Kerns Website: https://theflowersarespeaking.com/

Mary Porter Kerns Substack:  https://maryporterkerns.substack.com/

Mentioned in podcast: Flower Essence Practitioner

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Sarah’s Website: https://www.sarahrathke.com

Jane's new cohort 'Source Studio'; https://www.janemorganmedium.com/higher-calling

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Reincarnation and the Akashic Records: How to Access the Long Story

In this Sunday Solo, Sarah explores “the long story”—the idea that our lives are part of a vast web of interconnection across people, lifetimes, timelines, and dimensions. She shares why zooming out can be genuinely soothing (your anxiety stays valid… it just gets smaller), then offers personal stories that cracked open her trust in reincarnation: a striking synchronicity thread featuring Robert Redford, and her child’s vivid memories of an “old dad.” Sarah also explains how she experiences the Akashic Records—less like immediate, verifiable proof and more like resonance, pattern recognition, and a deep felt sense of being seen without judgment. The episode closes with an invitation: try shifting perspective into the long story, and share your own experiences.

Keywords + topics: Medium Curious Podcast, Sarah solo, long story, zooming out of anxiety, reincarnation, past lives, soul groups, Akashic Records, synchronicities, spiritual comfort, metaphysical, consciousness, intuition, mediumship, Perdita Finn, Jim Tucker, Linda Howe, pathway prayer.

“When you're losing yourself, who you are, go sit under a tree.”

“There is no way that I can suffer from scarcity when I know that I am one with the cosmos.”

Linda Howe: How to Read the Akashic Records; Accessing the Archive of the Soul and its Journey

Jim Tucker  Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Medium Curious Website: https://www.mediumcurious.com

Jane’s Website: https://www.janemorganmedium.com

Sarah’s Website: https://www.sarahrathke.com

Jane's new cohort 'Source Studio'; https://www.janemorganmedium.com/higher-calling

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https://mediumcuriouspod.substack.com/

What happens when a former corporate guy, Scott Darlington—who used to want a spreadsheet, a script, and a map for everything—starts living by signs, synchronicities, and soul-level trust?

In this episode of The Medium Curious Podcast, Sarah and Jane sit down with Scott Darlington for a funny, heartfelt conversation about how mediumship development, Clair Club practice, and communication across the veil can completely rewire the way you understand your life. Scott shares how his late husband, David, became a clear and persistent communicator—using stars as a sign language to nudge him toward big changes (including sobriety) and to confirm he’s on the right path.

Together, they explore what it means to be heart-led instead of brain-led, why you don’t have to understand how intuition works in order to receive it, and how grief can crack a person open in a way that expands love, presence, and psychic sensitivity. Along the way: David “manages wardrobes,” Claire Club hearts turn into “Star Hearts,” and the tech literally glitches mid-session—because apparently the energy is that real.

This is an episode about trust, love, and remembering that the connection is open—whether you acknowledge it or not.

“We already know what we want… we just doubt it and we get in our own head.” — Scott

“I’m a former corporate America guy… David died and I quit my job like two months later.” — Scott

That’s the point of life…is love.” — Scott

Scott’s Instagram: @meScottyD

Scott’s Substack: https://substack.com/@mescottyd?r=uplo&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=image

Medium Curious Website: https://www.mediumcurious.com

Jane’s Website: https://www.janemorganmedium.com

Sarah’s Website: https://www.sarahrathke.com

Jane's new cohort 'Source Studio'; https://www.janemorganmedium.com/higher-calling

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https://mediumcuriouspod.substack.com/

What happens when a birthday, a mother–daughter healing arc, and a whole lot of Spirit show up in the same recording? You get an episode that’s equal parts weepy, hilarious, grounding, and wildly affirming.

Polly Green and her mom, Maya, join Sarah and Jane for a conversation about intuition that interrupts your day, mediumship coming online, and what it really looks like to learn boundaries when you’re sensitive (and when life has felt like “WTF are we doing here?”). Along the way, we hear about sobriety as a doorway to spiritual clarity, why nature and water can be medicine, and how an honest conversation can transform decades of tension into something they lovingly call “deep fun.”

There’s also a masterclass in intention-setting (hello, Maldives whale shark!), the tenderness of making peace before a transition, and the simplest, truest mantra of the whole hour: life is trustable… maybe.

Polly Green’s Website: https://www.pollyandtheotherside.com/

A Sunday solo recorded last week when Jane was deep in Sundance energy—packed theaters, popcorn, Q&As, and that electric feeling of watching filmmakers live inside the moment where years of grit and devotion finally become real. It’s like watching the Olympics - which is - yay! Happening this week.

And yet… it’s also been a time of profound dissonance: joy in community, despair in the headlines, and that gut-punch awareness that not everyone gets to feel safe walking out their front door.

So today I want to talk about something that feels urgently needed right now—for your personal projects, your family, and our nation:

The practice of holding a vision.

Not as escapism. Not as a 'let's buy something else'. But as an active, stabilizing, creative force—especially when the world feels like it’s cracking.

In this episode, I share:

Why Sundance reminded me that visions don’t become real by accident—they become real through sustained attention

A wild personal story about a soulmate “vision” that eventually led me to meet my husband at Denver International Airport

How the Hero’s Journey shows us what happens when you say yes to a calling (spoiler: tests, allies, ordeals… and flying monkeys)

A stunning excerpt from our upcoming guest Mary Porter-Kearns (The Flowers Are Speaking) on imagination, biology, and evolution

Why it’s possible (and necessary) to hold both the dark and the light—without surrendering either

A simple 1-minute visioning practice you can start immediately

Shakti Gawain

“The more we trust and follow our intuition, the more our lives flow, the more we contribute to the evolution of the whole.”

“Trust is the key to transformation. When you trust yourself, you know how to live.”

“When we align with our highest vision, we naturally act in ways that support the greater good.”

Mary Porter-Kearns (teaser from an upcoming episode)

(When her episode drops, you’ll understand why I’m obsessed.)

If meditation feels like too much right now, try this:

Sit for one minute

Picture a future that feels beautiful, safe, and sane

Let it welcome you

Attend to it and notice how it makes you feel better

When you can, as best as you can.

If this episode helped you, please rate, review, and share Medium Curious with a friend. It genuinely supports the show—and helps the right people find us.

Content Note: This episode includes discussion of suicidality and self-harm. We hold this conversation with care, but please listen in the way that best supports your nervous system and well-being.

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What happens when you get sober—and your intuition gets loud? In this powerful, funny, and deeply honest conversation, Jen Butler (author, screenwriter, actor, comedian, and creator of Volume Control) joins Sarah Rathke and Jane Morgan to talk about sobriety as a spiritual turning point, feeling psychically “wide open,” and learning energetic boundaries when you’re a highly sensitive person.

Jen shares her journey from numbing and atheism “lite,” to terrifying spirit experiences, to building real nervous-system safety and emotional regulation. You’ll hear practical tools for energetic clearing, why “don’t talk about it” can make fear worse, how to feel anger without labeling it “low vibration,” and a mind-blowing “future self” story that will stay with you. Plus: reincarnation signs, “effin' tea,” salt baths, sage, and the reality that being human is… a lot.

Takeaways

Sobriety can turn the volume up—emotionally and psychically. When the numbing stops, your sensitivity may feel raw at first, but it can become a superpower with skills and support.

Energetic boundaries aren’t just salt and sage. Tools can help, but the foundation is learning to feel safe in your body and regulate your nervous system.

“We don’t talk about that” makes fear worse. Avoiding dark topics (spirits, depression, suicidality, “demons”) can amplify shame and isolation instead of helping you move through it.

Meditation isn’t quieting your mind—it’s not reacting. The muscle is staying present while thoughts and feelings move through, and choosing not to spiral or act from alarm.

Your past self deserves compassion—not criticism. Healing can look like “future you” showing up to hold “past you” through the worst moments.

Highly sensitive people can build big lives. You might need more tools, more rest, and more honesty—but you don’t have to stay small.

“Being human’s a lot.”

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Support Note: If you or someone you love is struggling or feeling unsafe, you don’t have to go through it alone. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (24/7, free, and confidential). If you’re outside the U.S., your local health services can help connect you to support in your country.

In this conversational “hangout” episode, Jane Morgan and Sarah Rathke invite listeners into a real-time catch-up—recorded Monday, January 26—because the collective intensity is loud right now and pretending it isn’t there isn’t helping. Sarah and Jane just keep coming back to the truth that we need to anchor the light.

Jane shares a playful-but-profound experiment: going on a “date with Spirit” (yes, with a notebook), including an unexpected “celebrity spirit” moment that becomes less about proof and more about impact—did it fill her up, steady her, and bring her back to light?

From there, the conversation goes deeper: What do we do with “darkness” (in the world and in the unseen)? Why some mediums don’t talk about entities/demons at all—and why Sarah and Jane are choosing a more nuanced stance: just because they haven’t experienced something doesn’t mean it isn’t real for someone else.

They also share practical, body-based and energetics-based ways to recover when you’re tuned into the fear, rage, uncertainty, and grief of the collective—plus why technology can feel “static” to the nervous system and energy field, and how to clear it fast.

“We have to grab every little straw of joy.”

“The power… is awareness.”

“We are being called to anchor the light… so that we can illuminate the darkness.”

Can you be our angels? Just share and download. Please rate us, give us some five stars. ⭐️

Trying to make sense of everything? Same. In this episode, Sarah explores the ripple effect—how everything is interconnected in the 3D world, and how that connection extends into the unseen world, too.

She looks at why collective stress doesn’t stay localized (climate, economies, the internet, COVID—pick your portal), why synchronicities can feel like the “matrix is thin,” and how spirit communication reminds us that relationship doesn’t end when someone dies.

Then Sarah shares her personal practice for anchoring the light: a grounding + “as above, so below” visualization designed to help regulate the nervous system, expand the capacity for love, and hold the field with intention—without draining personal energy.

And to be clear: this isn’t spiritual bypassing. Action, accountability, and engagement still matter. The question is—can it all be done from radical love instead of fear?

Key Words

anchoring the light, hold the field, nervous system regulation, spiritual grounding practice, intuition in chaotic times, collective consciousness, Maharishi effect, synchronicities, spirit communication, energy protection visualization, radical love not fear, Medium Curious Podcast, Sarah Sunday Solo

“When we’re calibrated, we have the capacity for more… more awareness, more light, more compassion, more love.”

“It’s not just the fact that he is communicating from the other side. It’s about interconnection.”

“We need action and we need engagement… We just need to be doing it from the frequency of radical love and not fear.”

Join us on Substack for The Afterlife—bonus clips after the “mic is off” (wink).

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Actor and meditation teacher Jeff Kober joins Medium Curious for a wide-ranging, funny, and helpful conversation about the mystery: why trying to force “concrete truth” can make our world smaller and more painful—and how learning to live in the question can reopen hope, possibility, and compassion.

Jeff shares his origin story as a “reluctant meditator,” describing the inner hell of obsessive thoughts, the surprise of discovering he’s not his mind, and why spiritual practice isn’t about escaping life—it’s about imbuing each moment with consciousness, including grief, fear, anger, shame, and joy. Along the way - Sarah, Jane, and Jeff explore ego, “knowers,” skepticism and mediumship, creativity as a spiritual path (acting, directing, orchestral music), and what it means to be an example of love without pretending you’ve “got it.”

Jeff Kober

“We’re meant to live in the question.”

Jeff Kober’s Website

Jeff Kober Instagram

Join us on Substack for The Afterlife—bonus clips after the “mic is off” (wink).

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Jane’s Website: Jane Morgan Medium 

Sarah’s Website: Sarah Rathke

Podcast Instagram: @MediumCuriousPod

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It’s a Sunday Solo, and Jane Morgan is showing up with a snotty nose, a tender nervous system, and a question a lot of us are carrying right now: what is spiritual practice actually for when nothing feels okay?

In this episode of Medium Curious, Jane talks honestly about living in a time when the news is relentless, your heart is tired, and the world feels like it’s teetering. She shares the ways she’s been “resourcing” herself — not to bypass what’s happening, but to stay in her body, steady her nervous system, and find a real corner of calm in the chaos.

You’ll hear a simple grounding visualization you can do anywhere (even while driving), a sweet nervous-system reset (hand on heart + belly), an easy breath “hack” (longer exhales), and a practical reminder to build a list of your personal resources — from nature walks and music to trusted friends, art, pets, and you betcha… angels.

Jane also shares a meaningful synchronicity around her birthday, a celestite crystal, a necklace with angel wings, and a reminder that when we find steadiness inside ourselves, it ripples outward. Because right now, being calm and centered isn’t just self-care — it’s service.

Mentioned in this episode:

Angel Speak: How to Talk with Your Angels by Barbara Mark & Trudy Griswold

Medium Curious episode with Cheryl (Chuck) Rosenthal on the nervous system 

A recent episode of Next Level Soul featuring Yogi Raj + a meditation on radiating peace 

spiritual practice when overwhelmed, spiritual practices during difficult times, grounding meditation, calming the nervous system, breathwork for anxiety, rest and digest, meditation for stress, nature as healing, community support, emotional resilience, angels and spiritual support, how to find peace when nothing is okay, mindfulness for hard times

Spiritual practice isn’t “aspirational” right now — it’s a respite.

If your nervous system isn’t calibrated, everything feels harder.

Grounding (earth + divine connection) can bring you back to one.

Hand on heart + hand on belly is a small gesture with big impact.

Longer exhales (5 in / 7 out) can shift you out of fight-or-flight.

Make a list of your personal “resources” so you can reach for them fast.

Nature, music, art, pets, and trusted friends are real medicine.

Calling in angels can be a practical support — and synchronicities happen.

Calm isn’t denial — it’s a way to stay in your body and be of service.

Your inner peace can ripple outward into your family and community.

“My spiritual practice has become one of the few safe places — a respite.”

“If I haven’t calibrated my nervous system, there’s no hope for me.”

“Back to one. What is your one?”

“When we come back to rest and digest, we can actually serve.”

“Nature is ridiculously magical — it’s such a resource.”

“Angels… babes. We can call them in.”

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