Today we’d like to introduce you to Emily Christenson.
Hi Emily, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Looking back through memories as I child, I’ve had many experiences that have led me to connect with my spiritual gifts, my mediumship, sacred art and healing work. At 3 months old I had my first of two Near Death Experiences. I was extremely allergic to formula, I become so dehydrated that I was hospitalized, strapped down to a board, given fluids through IV’s until my 105 temperature came down and my organs were functioning normally.
As a young child I had severe asthma, and there were so many medical scares with that too, but through these health issues I started to express my creativity and understanding of what I couldn’t see, but only sense and feel. I grew up on sacred ground. It is now called Blackhawk State Park after chief Black Hawk a leader for the Sauk tribe, in NW IL where the Mississippi and Rock Rivers converge. In the woods I was never afraid. But I at night I would wake up and go into my parents bedroom, saying there was someone in my room, always hearing, “just get back to bed”. I would even call the police because I felt so strongly someone was in the house with me when I was alone. My neighborhood was featured on a paranormal and mediumship program on the Travel Channel of haunted places. My house was two doors down from the home on the show.
I found my expression through art, attended art school at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design and pursued a career in fine art, showing my work in exhibitions all over the country, and co-owning art galleries myself. I was married, had two beautiful children and started teaching and working with Living Proof Exhibit, working with art therapy to those with cancer and cancer survivors.
Trauma comes in many ways, and after twelve years it came to me, by losing my business, my creativity and through grief, I lost my willingness to express this facet of my soul that I know I came here to express. I stopped making art. And that began my spiritual journey through myself to my work now as a sacred artist, evidential medium and spiritual healer.
I now work as an evidential medium and shamanic practitioner to clients all over the country and abroad, combining my artwork with spiritual teachings and soul-to-soul work. I also do custom painting on drums, and create handmade natural hide drums, and have created an oracle deck. I also teach mediumship and creative power workshops.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
When I closed my art galleries and stopped creating I worked through years of depression and feeling lost. As a child with asthma, I could never run very far without losing my breath. But I started running. Connecting back with my body, with the Earth, listening.
Through more synchronicities Spirit led me to contact a paranormal research group to see what was happening in my house. I had sensed a woman, a younger man and seen and heard voices of a child. They were all there, found through the evidence from these paranormal investigations. The group was surprised I had sensed these relationships and locations and began to ask me to join their group. I eventually did, wanting to understand why I can sense these things. I didn’t realize I was again strengthening my mediumship abilities, sensing Spirit in homes, businesses and locations we were called to that was all validated with historical evidence.
After 4 years I knew there were big changes happening. We moved eight hours north into the forest outside of Two Harbors with my family and it was so quiet, within the first month I knew I was supposed to start seriously developing my mediumship with teachers I respected. Suzanne Giesemann was my first mediumship teacher. She is a retired US navy commander and was aide to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. I loved her direct and accessible way she taught mediumship. I was so excited to begin my training, but then here comes another NDE.
In mid Jan of 2020 I was driving on HWY 61 to Duluth, both boys in the backseat. I had cruise control on, traveling near 70 mph and a large truck crossed the median without stopping. I didn’t even have time to take off the cruise. In that moment of hitting the truck, I was out of my body. I knew I was going to die. All that went through my mind that last second was, “welp, that’s it”. It was like hitting a wall. I was with Spirit, an experience almost impossible to put into words. I was able to make a choice, to stay there or go back. I was really thinking about staying. It was as if every question I had was answered, I was everywhere and understood everything at once and such a sense of peace and love that is indescribable. I could slowly start to hear my boys screaming, and I remembered I was a mother, and then I desperately wanted to go back. I remember this blue sparkling healing light, and the knowing I would be ok.
I don’t remember much of what happened in ordinary reality, but they cut me out of the car and took me by ambulance to the emergency room. My boys were ok with no injuries. I LOVED EVERYONE, and I could feel a heartbeat connecting me to each person I was in contact with after the accident for about an hour. Then I shook and I cried for half the day. I had Multiple CT’s, X-rays, scans, was told over and over it was miracle that we had survived. I felt my same guardian angels that I would tuck in at night as a child with me in the car, and my Grandmother in Spirit holding my hand in the ambulance. I know that we had assistance from something not seen or known with normal consciousness, and I don’t question my dedication to serving and expressing, being given this gift. When I went back to the car days after the accident there was a single white swan feather waiting for me in the drivers seat, covered with broken glass and snow.
I do have some severe and lasting injuries from the extreme impact, and was coping with this trauma for me and my family. Using all of my spiritual tools and connection with my guides and helpers in Spirit, everyday I worked to heal, spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. I still do, and almost 6 years later I still am healing. Through this I accessed another layer of myself and my mediumship development skyrocketed. It was a quickening. Every cell and energetic part of my body was being rebuilt. Like lightening striking a tree, it was empowering, but the hardest thing to do was choose to do the work to heal everyday. Then I got Covid two months later on top of an already sprained rib injury. My breath left me again, it was a struggle all over again to believe I was supposed to stay here. Through drumming and surrender I made it through again. All I wanted was to do was watch the sunsets.
Now I am so grateful to work with others everyday in my sacred art sessions and readings to bring back lost power, awaken creativity, bring healing, messages from loved ones, create a custom painted drum and bring and messages of connectedness and understanding to where you are on your souls journey at this time.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Sacred Art, Evidential Mediumship, Spiritual Healing
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
I have learned that mediumship is a journey of ourselves. We are always growing, expanding, and learning.
People have many aspects of their lives that they need to connect with, and find answers to these unspoken questions. The medium needs to be able to move within time and the pathways of life, to help find this connection, unfolding within life. The future is dependent on the present. We are creating our future today. With the power of focus we can move our consciousness. This leads us to experience and understanding. Mediums are becoming the role of the watcher, observing, moving to deeper consciousness and knowing that the power itself is an intelligence.
My journey has brought me to this pathway of Spirit and to myself. Through my sacred art, channeled writings, custom drum making and painting, spiritual healing work and mediumship, one of my greatest passions is leading others to this pathway and to the knowing that they are already here. To open and recognize the miracles that can come with intention, gratitude, and love.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.emilychristenson.com
- Instagram: @untitled_dialogues_
