We’re looking forward to introducing you to Sarina Baptista. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Sarina, thank you for taking the time to reflect back on your journey with us. I think our readers are in for a real treat. There is so much we can all learn from each other and so thank you again for opening up with us. Let’s get into it: What do you think is misunderstood about your business?
I just had an event at a local cafe and many who attended had never been to a psychic medium before, so they definitely were unprepared for what I was about to do! There was one lady in the audience who would rather have the floor swallow her than have me put any attention on her. Luckily, or unluckily, her mother was the first to come through during the mediumship demonstration. Her face became more and more pale, as I dove deeper into her past with beautiful, healing messages from her mom. All the while, though, I could tell she was sure I would find out her deepest, darkest secrets, and read her mind as Hollywood would suggest is a regular occurrence for those of us in the psychic industry.
I do my best to debunk the myths others have created for my profession. One of these myths is that we read minds and out people from their proverbial closets. For me, I hold my profession as a healer to do just that – to heal. That means I say what needs to be said to my clients so they can heal. Sometimes, that can get personal, but your loved ones on the other side do not want to embarrass you, so they will give me the words to say so it is a message of comfort and healing. I love that about my job! Yes, I get personal details, but never to harm my clients. Just to heal.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Sarina Baptista, and I am a certified evidential medium, psychic, award-winning author, international speaker, and spiritual teacher. My business is Bridge to Healing LLC, a name that was given to me back in 2007 when I had my first mediumship reading trying to reach my seven-year-old son, J.T., who had passed earlier that year. She said, “Did you know you are a medium? You are the bridge between this world and the next.” Oddly, or not, I discovered this for myself just a few days prior when I realized I was already receiving messages from J.T., but I had no idea how to interpret them. I knew J.T. was helping me to find my way, but I needed some help getting there.
I immediately started psychic medium training, and within a month, children from the other side were coming to me to get messages to their parents. Here we are, almost twenty years later, and I am living my purpose and passion – bridging this world and the next – whether that is finding closure after someone has passed, teaching psychics and mediums to be master messengers, or helping parents connect with their kids on the other side. All the while, J.T. is right beside me. We talk every day, and he helps me with new projects and programs.
One of these projects he wanted me to do is to become certified as an evidential medium through Helping Parents Heal. It was a scientific exam of my abilities, which proves what I do is real and the information I receive is validated. Having gone through this certification process helps my clients with their healing, and they know without a doubt, that their loved one is with them.
I do offer in-person and Zoom sessions, as well as mentorship programs to help my clients learn to connect. We are all psychic, and we can all connect. Like me, we just need a little help remembering how to do it.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
I felt very powerful as a child. I knew I was important and I knew I would make a difference in the world. This was not mirrored in my world, though. I am of the age where children were not powerful. They needed to be quiet, keep their ideas and opinions to themselves. They needed to be small, and act small. They needed to respect authority no matter what that authority was doing.
In my heart at the time, I knew this was not right, but as a child, there weren’t any options I could see. I became powerless and small.
I was in my twenties when I rejected that idea of who I was. Of course, it took trial and error to get where I am now and restore the power I thought I lost in my childhood. I believe we all are powerful souls, and we are so important no matter what our age. We are all here to make a difference, whatever that means and however that manifests.
What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
My defining wound was having to bury my child. I joined online support groups after J.T. passed, hoping to find something to hang onto to get me through the unimaginable trauma. What I heard instead was, “You will never get over this. You will never heal from this. Nothing will ever be the same.” Ouch. I totally agreed with that last statement. How could it ever be the same? But for me, that did not mean I wouldn’t heal and figure out a way to move through my grief. I also knew my son wouldn’t want me to curl up and stop living. In fact, I was pretty sure he would want me to thrive despite his passing.
I decided I was going to do my grief differently. I was going to be deliberate in feeling the pain, and I just had to know that I wouldn’t cease to exist in the process. I would find myself sliding into what they call the grief pit. Overwhelmed with sorrow, sadness and pain I had never experienced before. My job in that moment was to stay there in that pit and allow the grief to swallow me. Just when I thought I would lose myself in that pit, never to return, I felt a hand reach for me to pull me out. But I had to wait for that hand. The hand was always there right in that moment. That was trust!
Doing my grief in this way helped me process that deep darkness in a very conscious way. I could tell immediately when I was sliding in, and I just had to let myself go into it. Scary isn’t even the word. But what I learned in this is that we are never alone, and there is a universal, unconditional love that is there for all of us. We have to trust it’s there, and ask for the assistance. In doing that, I was able to experience and process my grief in a way that allowed me to heal on very different levels.
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? What do you believe is true but cannot prove?
My industry has a lot of beliefs. There are so many different ways to look at Spirit and the other side, and depending on upbringing or training, you are given these beliefs as truth. As I have worked with Spirit over the last couple of decades, one of the truths I have is that there are no limits to our connections with the other side. We can connect with anyone who has ever lived on the planet, no matter for how long or when they passed. Many mediums put limitations on this connection, such as if an infant passed, they would not be able to reach them, or if someone passed over twenty years ago, they could not be reached either. For me, this is not true. I can reach infants, great, great, great grandparents, animals from childhood, really anyone who has had a life here, and even those who have not. Much of this is hard to prove, but there is evidence they bring through during my connections with them. I do not put limits on my connections with Spirit.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. When do you feel most at peace?
I have always felt most peaceful around water. I grew up on the beaches of Southern California, spending so much time in the waves, feeling nurtured and held in the ocean water. I moved to Colorado in my forties, and spent whatever time I could at the rivers, putting my feet in that crisp Rocky Mountain water, but I missed my connection with the ocean. Three years ago, we moved to Florida. I am about 10 minutes from the Atlantic ocean. I go to the water at least once a week, and I have reconnected with that healing energy of the waves. That is where I feel most at peace.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://sarinabaptista.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarinabaptista/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bridge2heal
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SarinaBaptista
- Other: Podcast: https://sarinabaptista.com/podcast/
