My Loved Ones Brought Me to Places I Didn’t Know Existed

My Loved Ones Brought Me to Places I Didn’t Know Existed

When Grief Becomes the Beginning of a Spiritual Journey

A lot of sensitive people or aspiring mediums avoid communicating with their own loved ones in spirit because they fear their emotions may interfere with the connection. They worry about wishful thinking, imagination, or hearing only what they want to hear.

Ironically, the only reason I developed my own mediumistic abilities was to reconnect with my own loved ones in the spirit world.

Does that sound familiar to you?

I didn’t begin this journey to become a professional medium. I started because I missed my loved ones deeply.

I wanted to know if they were still there.

I wanted to feel them close again.

And most of all, I wanted to heal.

My Dad passed away when I was only 11 years old. Shortly after, my Grandma crossed over as well, followed by my beloved guinea pig sister. At such a young age, grief felt endless. I couldn’t imagine living an entire lifetime without them.

So I searched for a way to stay connected.

Not only for myself, but also to help my Mom and Grandpa move forward while still keeping the love alive.

Can You Learn Mediumship?

Yes, absolutely.

Mediumship is not reserved for a chosen few. It is a natural sensitivity that every human being carries within them to some degree. Like a muscle, it becomes stronger with practice, trust, and experience.

But there is usually one big hurdle:

“What if I’m making it all up?”

That question is incredibly common, especially when connecting with your own loved ones in spirit.

And honestly? I’ve asked myself the same question many times.

Over the years, I learned that spirit communication becomes much easier when we stop trying to force it and instead allow ourselves to experience it naturally.

Two Tips for Communicating With Your Loved Ones in Spirit

1. Practice With Another Person Present

Portrait Photo in Kitchen of Evidential Medium Anke Wonder and her Mom.

If possible, practice with a trusted family member or friend.

Ask your loved ones in spirit for validating information that you could not have known beforehand but that can be validated by another family member or friend. This helps build confidence and allows you to separate imagination from genuine evidence.

Sometimes spirit will bring through names, memories, locations, or personal details that surprise everyone in the room.

That’s where trust begins to grow.

I enjoy doing that my Mom and ask my Grandparents about details from her childhood that my Mom can validate but I wouldn't know.

2. Ask Your Loved Ones to Take You Somewhere Special

Collage of different Travel Destinations including China, Thailand and France.

This became one of my favorite ways to practice mediumship.

Ask your loved ones in spirit to show you a place you have never visited before. Let them describe it to you. Pay attention to names, landmarks, landscapes, architecture, or even smells and emotions connected to the place.

Then research it afterward.

You may be shocked by what you discover.

My Grandma showed me places I had never even heard of before, including the Chiang Mai Flower Festival in Thailand, beautiful water towns in China like Zhouzhuang, enormous spiritual landmarks in Bangkok, and the Chartres Cathedral in France.

These experiences expanded my trust tremendously because many of those places were completely unknown to me at the time.

And honestly… it became fun.

 

Traveling Beyond Borders Through Spirit

One of the most beautiful things about spirit communication is realizing that love is no longer limited by geography, distance, or time.

Spirit is free.

Together, we can travel beyond countries, cultures, and physical limitations. Through these experiences, I discovered that our loved ones are often far more present in our lives than we realize.

Sometimes they guide us toward healing.

Sometimes they inspire adventure.

And sometimes they simply remind us that love never truly leaves.

 

Healing Through Connection

Mediumship did not erase my grief.

But it transformed it.

It helped me understand that relationships do not end when someone leaves the physical world. They simply change form.

That understanding brought peace into places within me that once felt unbearably empty.

If you are grieving someone you love, know this:

Wanting to feel close to them again is natural.

Wanting signs, connection, and reassurance is human.

And perhaps your sensitivity is not something to fear, maybe it is an invitation to rediscover love in a completely new way.

 

Work With Me

Today, I serve as an Evidential Medium, Animal Communicator and Spiritual Mentor, helping others reconnect with their loved ones in spirit through evidence, healing, and heartfelt messages.

My approach focuses on authentic connection, emotional healing, and bringing forward the unique presence and personality of those in spirit.

Because love does not end. It simply continues differently.

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👉 You are interested in reconnecting yourself with your loved ones in spirit? You can join the R.A.W. Connection Method right now and get immediate access to the full training for just $37… 

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Meet Anke Wonder

Hi, I’m Anke. I help people reconnect with love, meaning, and joy, whether through evidential mediumship readings that reunite you with loved ones in spirit, or through colorful, sustainable designs created to uplift everyday life.

Everything I offer flows from the same source: deep compassion, creativity, and the understanding that love never ends even after physical death. I have walked this path myself and continue to do so, and it is from this experience that I draw the depth and insight for my work.

I believe that healing does not mean forgetting. It means learning how to live with confidence again, even during and after challenging times, supported by both visible and invisible love.

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