In this episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, Marta the Medium is joined by Niko the Medium, a consciousness teacher, trance medium, and writer whose work explores the architecture of awareness and how it integrates with human identity.

The conversation centres on a question that sits quietly at the heart of many spiritual paths: what does awareness actually do?

Within contemporary spiritual culture, spiritual growth is often imagined as a gradual refinement of the self. Greater calm, greater clarity, greater emotional stability. And when these qualities do not appear consistently, the experience can feel confusing, as if something essential has been misunderstood.

In this conversation, Marta and Niko explore another perspective.

What if awareness does not override the human self, but instead stabilises it?

Rather than dissolving our humanity, awareness may reorganise our relationship to it. Thoughts, emotions, and perception remain, yet they begin to move within a different internal structure.

From this perspective, spiritual development is not a movement toward perfection, but toward integration.

The episode explores awareness, spiritual awakening, consciousness, mediumship, intuitive perception, and the deeper integration of the human self within spiritual development.

The video version of this episode is available on YouTube: Marta the Medium.

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Lots of love,

Marta 🩷✨

Do you feel drained after certain conversations, environments, or relationships?

Sensitivity is not the problem. Absorbing what isn’t yours is.

In this episode, we explore the concept of the Clean Signal, and the difference between intuitive clarity and emotional interference.

You may be highly perceptive. You may read rooms quickly. You may sense shifts instantly. But when everything enters your system without discernment, you lose your emotional baseline. And without a baseline, self-trust becomes difficult.

This conversation is about returning to yourself. Not by becoming harder. Not by shutting down. But by learning to filter.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• Why absorbing other people’s emotions creates confusion and fatigue

• The difference between sensitivity and self-erasure

• What a clean internal signal actually feels like

• Why urgency is not the same as clarity

• The grounding question: “Is this mine?”

• How to return to your emotional baseline

• Self-trust as behavioural loyalty, not emotional intensity

If you are tired of feeling overwhelmed, foggy, or responsible for other people’s emotional states, this episode will help you come back into your own skin.

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Marta 🩷✨

In today’s episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Cynthia Abulafia to explore embodiment, non-duality, kundalini awakening, and the return of the divine feminine in modern spirituality.

We speak about the transcendence trap, spiritual bypassing, awakening versus integration, and why true spiritual growth requires grounding in the body, relationships, and real life.

Cynthia challenges what she calls the “transcendence bias” of patriarchal spirituality, the tendency to rise above the body, emotions, and earthly experience in the name of enlightenment. Instead, we explore what it means to integrate expanded states into daily life with maturity, responsibility, and embodied awareness.

This conversation covers:

• Embodiment as the foundation of spiritual practice

• Non-duality without bypassing the human experience

• Kundalini awakening and spiritual emergence

• The divine feminine beyond aesthetic spirituality

• Spiritual bypassing and emotional avoidance

• Ego, language, and spiritual maturity

• Integrating awakening into relationships and real-world living

If you are interested in embodiment, conscious relationships, grounded spirituality, or the integration of mystical experience into everyday life, this episode will resonate deeply

Cynthia Abulafia

Cynthia Abulafia is an author, educator, and yoga therapist committed to giving language to the divine feminine and restoring embodiment as the heart of spiritual practice. A longtime student and teacher of non-duality, she guides people through kundalini awakenings and spiritual emergence with grounded tools rooted in breath, embodiment, and sacred traditions.

Her debut book, Embodying the Goddess, was released in January 2026.

Connect with Cynthia

Website → CynthiaAbulafia.com

Substack → Embodying the Goddess

Instagram → @embodyingthegoddessbook

Connect with Marta

Website → www.martathemedium.com

Instagram → @martathemedium

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In today’s episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I explore why sensitivity is so often mistaken for fragility, and what’s actually happening when a sensitive system feels overwhelmed.

Sensitivity is not weakness. It’s responsiveness. It’s awareness. It’s a system that notices. But when sensitivity isn’t supported with grounding, boundaries, nervous system regulation, and energetic hygiene, it can start to feel like you’re “too much”, too emotional, or unable to cope. That isn’t fragility. It’s overload.

This episode is for anyone who feels deeply, picks up on subtle shifts, or experiences intuitive, empathic, or mediumistic awareness and wants to stay open without becoming energetically exposed. I talk about the difference between innate sensitivity and trauma responses, why integration matters more than the wound, and how sensitivity becomes discernment and leadership when it’s met with care.

In this episode, I explore:

• Sensitivity as responsiveness, not instability

• Why not all sensitivity comes from trauma

• Overwhelm as overload, not fragility

• Grounding and nervous system steadiness for sensitive people

• Energetic hygiene, protection, and the right to choose what you allow in

• Integration as the foundation of mature spiritual awareness

• A closing reflection to help you sense what’s out of balance: body, emotions, mind, or energy

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Guest: Carla Kaufman Sloan

Host: Marta the Medium (@martathemedium)

About the episode

In today’s episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Carla Kaufman Sloan.

Carla never expected to become a medium. After the sudden passing of her seven year old son, Calder, she began receiving signs so clear and so persistent that she could no longer ignore them. What began as unimaginable grief slowly unfolded into an ongoing relationship with her son, one that led her into intuition, trust, and an entirely new way of living.

Today, Carla is a practising medium who helps others connect with their loved ones in spirit. Her path was not easy or expected. It was built moment by moment through surrender, presence, and a deep remembering that separation is an illusion.

In this episode, we explore:

• Signs from loved ones in spirit, and how they can show up in everyday life.

• Grief, guilt, and the ‘what if’ loop, and how to soften self blame.

• How intuition and self trust rebuild after loss.

• The difference between seeking proof and living in relationship with spirit.

• Why love does not end, and how connection can remain steady and personal.

About Carla

Carla’s life before Calder’s death included being an Emmy winning TV writer and producer with over 30 years of experience creating network content, and the co founder of 2C Creative, a thriving media production company in Miami that works with major networks including HBO, A and E, and FOX.

After the loss of her son, Carla and her husband Chris launched Caleb and Calder Sloan’s Awesome Foundation to support families in need. Calder’s enduring legacy of kindness inspired a viral campaign featured on Times Square Jumbotrons and shows like Good Morning America and The Kelly Clarkson Show.

Later, hundreds of thousands of people read a small piece of Carla’s story in Laura Lynne Jackson’s bestseller, ‘Signs’, which led to an outpouring of heartfelt letters from readers asking to learn more.

Carla’s memoir, ‘Everywhere: How I Overcame Unbearable Grief and Learned to Live Again by Tapping into the Other Side’, chronicles how Calder kept her from succumbing to grief by dropping breadcrumbs that led her out of the darkness and onto her true path. Carla went from being a skeptic, even going undercover to a mediumship conference to expose fraud, to becoming a medium herself.

Connect with Carla Kaufman Sloan

Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/carlasloan/

Substack → https://carlakaufmansloan.substack.com

Website → https://carlasloan.net

Connect with Marta

Website → www.martathemedium.com

Instagram → @martathemedium

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For readings, courses and soul offerings → www.martathemedium.com

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Host: Marta the Medium (@martathemedium)

About the episode

In today’s episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m speaking about Magnetic Self-Love. Not the performative kind. Not confidence you force. Not affirmations over a dysregulated nervous system. Magnetic self love is the moment you stop abandoning yourself to be chosen and start building a relationship with yourself that is honest, steady, and sustainable.

This episode is for the sensitive person who has done the inner work, understands the patterns, and still finds themselves slipping into over giving, over explaining, or self betrayal. We explore how magnetism is often a byproduct of self respect, follow through, and nervous system safety. The kind of love that becomes a standard, not a mood.

In this episode, we explore

What magnetic self love actually is, and what it is not.

Why self love is not performance, positivity, or being unbothered.

Where you leak energy through over giving, over functioning, or self abandonment.

The difference between soothing self love and strengthening self love.

Confidence as follow through, not hype.

How nervous system safety changes your standards, choices, and relationships.

A simple closing practice to come back to yourself.

Connect with Marta

Website → www.martathemedium.com

Instagram → @martathemedium

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

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In today’s episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I speak about what happens after insight, after the realisation, after the moment you cannot unknow what you now know.

Living after insight is rarely dramatic. It is often quiet, and it can feel unsettling when the inside changes faster than the outside can catch up.

This is an episode for anyone in an in-between phase, where the old way no longer fits but the new way has not fully formed. If you’ve been interpreting that as “something is wrong,” I offer a different reframe. This is integration beginning.

We explore discernment, self-trust, and the subtle grief that can come with clarity and outgrowing identities that once felt safe.

We close with a short visualisation and affirmations to support nervous system regulation and help your insight settle gently into your life.

If you’d like to explore my work more deeply, you can find me here:

Website → www.martathemedium.com

Instagram → @martathemedium

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In this solo episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I offer a gentle exploration of awareness and consciousness, and why this distinction can matter when you’re moving through grief, impermanence, or fear around death and endings.

This isn’t about forcing certainty or adopting a belief system. It’s an invitation into direct experience the quiet noticing beneath thought, the part of you that can hold emotion without abandoning yourself, and the place you can return to when life feels tender or in transition.

We explore what it means to be the one who knows your experience, how grief can be held without being “fixed,” and how deeper awareness can bring steadiness without bypassing what’s real.

I also share reflections shaped by my work as a psychic medium and what comes through consistently around love, continuity, and what may remain when the body changes.

If you’re sensitive, grieving, or simply sitting with big questions, I hope this meets you gently.

For readings, courses and soul offerings → www.martathemedium.com

Follow me on Instagram → @MartaTheMedium

Lots of love,

Marta 🩷✨

In this episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Barbara Banner, an evidential and trance medium, for a grounded conversation about spirit signs, trust, and the healing role of joy.

Barbara shares why she lives by the phrase “Believing is seeing”, and we explore what that actually looks like in real life, especially when you’re navigating grief, change, or uncertainty. We talk about how loved ones in spirit often communicate in simple, everyday ways, how to notice signs without forcing meaning, and how laughter can be part of healing without diminishing love.

In this conversation, we explore:

• What “Believing is seeing” really means

• Spirit signs and afterlife communication through electricity, timing, and synchronicities

• Signs through songs and lyrics, and how to stay discerning

• Grief, love, and why joy is not “wrong”

• Trusting your intuition and staying grounded

If you’re learning to trust what you feel, soften into connection, and let love feel a little lighter again, this episode is for you.

Connect with Barbara Banner:

Website → https://bannermedium.com

Connect with me (Marta):

Readings, retreats & soul offerings → www.martathemedium.com

Instagram → @martathemedium

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January is often treated like a moment to rush forward with resolutions, plans, and pressure.

This episode offers something different.

In this gentle New Year reflection, I explore why January can feel quieter rather than expansive, and why orientation, self trust, and grounding matter more than urgency at the beginning of the year.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and trust what you already know instead of forcing clarity or change. I reflect on integration rather than expansion, steadiness rather than rushing, and allowing your nervous system to catch up with your insight.

The episode closes with a short grounding meditation and affirmations to support you as you begin the year with honesty, steadiness, and care.

You can also find me here:

Website: https://martathemedium.com

Instagram: @MartaTheMedium

However you’re arriving, you’re welcome here.

Lots of love,

Marta🩷✨