What if the intuition you’ve learned to dismiss is actually something you can strengthen?
In this episode of What’s Your Story?, Jaime Marco and Stan Brown welcome Canadian psychic healer and medium Jana Stern for an open conversation about psychic ability, intuition, trauma, mediumship, spirituality, and learning to trust your own inner awareness.
Jana describes herself as an emotional projector in Human Design and says she has been highly sensitive and “tapped in” since childhood. She recalls hearing crystals, receiving information intuitively, sensing other people’s emotions, and often knowing what friends needed to hear before she understood those experiences as psychic or intuitive. At the same time, growing up with a biological father who experienced schizophrenia made hearing voices something she learned to fear and suppress.
In her 20s, Jana experienced an eating disorder, significant mental-health struggles, and a suicide attempt that led to what she describes as an 11-minute near-death experience. She recalls encountering her great-grandmothers and being given a choice to return—an experience that became a turning point in how she understood her life and abilities.
From there, Jana immersed herself in therapy alongside the study of metaphysics, astrology, Kabbalah, meditation, and Quantum Human Design. Rather than viewing psychic ability as something available only to mediums, Jana now teaches what she calls psychic literacy—her belief that everyone has intuitive capacity but may have been conditioned not to recognize or trust it. She compares developing those abilities to strengthening a muscle through repetition and awareness.
The conversation also explores the importance of energetic boundaries. Jana explains that earlier in her life she sometimes felt compelled to approach strangers when she believed she was receiving messages from their deceased loved ones. Over time, she learned to create stronger boundaries around when and how she engages in mediumship, helping her protect her own emotional and mental well-being. She also discusses why she does not believe in delivering frightening predictions or “bad news,” emphasizing free will and personal choice instead.
Jana even demonstrates her process during the episode, describing a feminine presence she feels around Jaime and Stan and explaining how, in her experience, spirit communication works like a switchboard—connecting the person receiving the message with someone meaningful from their life.
For listeners wondering how to connect with someone who has passed, Jana offers a surprisingly simple starting point: get quiet, remove distractions, think specifically about the person, and establish a meaningful symbol connected to your relationship. She shares examples including dream catchers, ladybugs, coins, dates, and repeating numbers, encouraging listeners to notice what appears and decide what meaning those signs hold for them.
Jana also describes her work with clients as a kind of “psychic boot camp,” combining intuitive development with an exploration of childhood conditioning, personal stories, astrology, Human Design, and the beliefs that may keep people from fully expressing who they are.
Whether you consider yourself deeply spiritual, naturally intuitive, or completely skeptical, this conversation offers a fascinating look at one woman’s journey from fearing her sensitivity to building a life and career around it.
Contributors
- Jaime Marco
- Stan Brown
- Jana Stern
Keywords
- psychic healer
- psychic medium
- psychic abilities
- developing psychic abilities
- psychic literacy
- psychic development
- strengthening intuition
- trusting your intuition
- intuitive abilities
- mediumship
- spirit communication
- communicating with deceased loved ones
- signs from loved ones who passed
- signs from deceased loved ones
- connecting with loved ones after death
- near-death experience
- near-death experience story
- empath
- emotional projector
- Human Design
- Quantum Human Design
- astrology
- metaphysics
- energetic boundaries
- spiritual boundaries
- childhood trauma and intuition
- trauma and spirituality
- psychic boot camp
- signs from the universe
- repeating numbers meaning
- spiritual healing
- personal transformation
- self-discovery
- What's Your Story podcast
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-your-story/id1768048076
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Website: www.janastern.com
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