1) Tell us a little about you & what you do!

Hey! Matty here. I’ve lead a pretty colorful life so far, always been creative and liked to see and make others smile and happy. Travelled a lot of the world and had some amazing experiences along the way. Me & Kate created Mama’s Cottage Mushrooms just 6 months after coming together ourselves only a few months before. We love working with nature and universal energies to help others with out tinctures, herb blends, elixirs, potions and anything else a bit different that comes to us!

2) Biggest lesson Mother Nature has taught you?

To trust her and she will always be there for you and to be respectful of the medicine she provides. 

3) Do you use a specific intention or prayer before using Cacao?

I find intention is very important with all plant medicine, if you don’t ask the question how can you expect to get an answer. Intention with Cacao varies depending on setting how I’m choosing to use the medicine at that specific time. We attend a Cacao club regularly where my intentions are about release and enjoyment. On a personal cacao journey, I focus on internal healing on both a spiritual and physical level.

4) What’s your favorite current herb to work with & why?

That’s a very challenging question to answer…over the last couple of years I would say passionflower. It has amazing calming peaceful qualities as a tea, and it synergies very well with other herbs such as skullcap, mugwort, damiana, mullein, and lapacho.

5) I know you have a Blue Lotus oil. Can you tell us about it?

This one is Kates amazing creation. Blue Lotus has been a part of what we do from the start. Kate has infused the Blue Lotus into Mourning seed oil which has it’s own great skin benefits. A lot of blessing, intention, numerology and sacred geometry have gone into making it. We are very much aware of how all this affects the energies end product. 

6) What was your first experience using the power of mushrooms?

Recreationally, during the rave scene era and involved lots of amazing colours, smiles and laughter!!

Healing and health wise, they have helped me treat rosacea. I spent years trying to treat it in countless ways. The biggest impact I’ve seen recently has been the impact the chaga mushrooms has had on my mom and dads health. It’s amazing to make something that helps so much. 

7) What’s your favorite part about doing events & markets?

When someone comes back to us to say thank you. We are both healers so this closes the circle for us. 

8) What are you looking forward to this summer?

Just being out there at a different place every week, different faces, people & walks of life. 

9) Have you had any experiences with Blue Lotus & Dreams.

I’d say our first experience together with it. We brewed up 12g in the pan to make a tea. 20min after drinking we were both off in our own little dream land for a good hour.

10) How can we find out more about you?

Www.mamascottagemushrooms.org

Www.Facebook.com/mamascottagemushrooms

Twitter.com/mama_shrooms

T.me/mamascottagemushrooms

Www.instagram.com/mamascottagemushrooms 

*Fun Fact- I met this lovely couple in a town called Church Strutton in England. They actually found one of the cards I placed there. They ended finding a card called “Magic.” ;) 

1) Tell us a little about you and what you do! 

Surviving three near death experiences as a young child of seven, I have been the recipient of extraordinary gifts - the ability to see into a persons past, present and future and tap into an energy frequency enabling me to receive messages and information from spirits and relay them to the person for which the messages are intended.

2) What is the first paranormal experience you remember as a kid and were you afraid?

Waking up in the hospital at the age of 7 after my first surgery, to see and hear my Irish Grandmother telling me everything was going to be alright. I wasn’t frightened because I knew my Grandmother loved me. 

3) Is there a specific Angel you’ve been working with recently and why?

Archangel Michael-He has always protected me and watches over me.

4) What’s a tip for someone wanting to improve their clairvoyance?

Meditation and Prayer improves clairvoyance.

5) What’s a funny moment you’ve had working with spirit?

Lots of humorous moments with spirit- laughter and love are the greatest healing energies!

6) Is there something you’d like to do in your career that you haven’t yet?

Write a Book.

7) What’s something you’d like to see more in the spiritual community?

Supporting eachother sans competition.

8) As you know, I love your show and energy! What’s your favorite part about the show?

My favorite part about the show is giving uplifting information to the viewers and introducing gifted guests to the audience. 

9) Do you have any advice for the collective for the next month?

My advice for the collective is to pray for peace and limit exposure to the news. Focus on love and harmony. Where attention goes, energy flows!

10) Where can we find out more about you to book a reading?

My website: www.GraceGrella.com

Next LIVE show is Thursday, March 31st, 2022

7-8pm Eastern time streaming LIVE from Facebook page NSTV-Long Island 

Gathering with Grace 

Three Price Points: FREE  is the Live show, Semi-private Gathering (discounted), and Private Sessions.

1) Tell us a little about yourself and what you do.

My name is Ryan Michaels and frankly, I have never been good at talking about myself. So, I’ll focus on what I do and what I love, because that is very much who I am. I am a psychic, medium, spiritual mentor, TV host, and most importantly, a visionary, though I firmly believe that titles do not matter; What matters is what you do with those titles. 

From the beginning of my career, I promised myself that I would do my best to help each person who enters my path to reach their highest potential physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I aspire to remind people that as up implies down, black implies white, self implies other, happiness, in fact, implies suffering. I want to help each person through difficult times in any way that they will allow my help. Because “If today is as bad as it gets then tomorrow by this time, today would have ended.”

2) What’s one moment in your career that really changed your life?

My career is my life; I just happen to receive an income for sharing how I live. They are one and the same. Most people would expect me to list one of the shows I’ve hosted, one of the dozens of inspirational people I’ve met, one of my many travels, or maybe talk about the 10,000 plus people I’ve helped or communicated with all before reaching the age of 28. Those moments are so, so small in comparison to the moment that changed my life. 

​It was in October 2011 when I held my first paranormal presentation in my local town. As I nervously looked out into the crowd, I saw a face that made me smile. I looked at a face that brought me warmth; the face of a person I grew to love and, to this day, still love. I was lucky because after that presentation I got to spend over six years with her. Those six years seemed to include equal amounts of pain and love. I learned both how passionately I loved and how terrible I was at showing and expressing that love. Rightfully, on July 5, 2017, she left me.

Following our breakup, I dug such a deep hole that no one was able to help me out of it. In a moment that many choose depression, anxiety, anger, and a path of self-destructive behavior, I chose love, compassion, and sympathy. It was at that moment that my life turned around. I began to build it back together one piece at a time. I look back at this situation now and the one person I respect more than anyone in the world is the one person I never wanted to leave me. By leaving me, she took everything. And by taking everything, she gave me everything. She is the driving force behind my career and I credit her for my choosing to turn away from a self-centered mindset. I will always and forever feel indebted to her.

3) I’ve seen you speak about anxiety and depression; What’s something you would say to those struggling right now?

My teachings and beliefs come from the same teachings of gurus such as Sadhguru and Gaur Gopal Das. I believe that all human experience comes from within. For anything to come from within you, it means that it is happening in a way that you want it to be happening. People will often disagree with this statement, but it is those very people that are still suffering. So, don’t take my word for it. Ask someone who was suffering and no longer is. They will agree that to fix their suffering they had to fix themselves. 

Very few people are struggling with depression stemming from a pathological illness. Rather, many people are struggling with self-created depression. The line between sanity and insanity is very thin. 

To have depression or anxiety, you are generating substantial amounts of emotion and thought in the wrong direction. If you do not have strong or intense thoughts about something, you cannot be depressed or anxious. So, it all comes back to your thoughts, in most situations.

We all have been mentally ill. Every time you experience sadness, madness, or anxiousness, you are mentally crossing a line that you must face and experience. After crossing this line repeatedly, you can become clinically ill. Thus, the line becomes more and more difficult to face and experience. 

All your experiences in life happen from within you. So naturally, you want life to happen the way that you want it to go. So when life doesn’t follow the course you want, you may feel as though it is working against you. It is not. Because this isn’t your life, it isn’t my life, it is simply life. Life will happen a little bit your way, a little bit my way, and a little bit another’s way. However, if your experiences come from within, you are responsible. When we do something amazing, great, or kind, we say “It was me!” When we do something mean, nasty, or spiteful, we often turn the focus outward and say “It was them!” No, it was you! Nobody makes you react the way you do. Only you are responsible. 

So, how do we solve this? Think greater than how you feel! Do this and you master all life has to offer.

4) How do you personally spread happiness in the world?

I first acknowledge all the wrongdoings and mistakes I made and have spread throughout the world. I make sure to embrace them, own them, and never deny them. It’s easy to say, “That wasn’t what I said!” or “That wasn’t me!” If you do that once you will spiral into a path where you never own your wrongdoings and mistakes. I went down that path at one point in my life and swore to never go down that path again. See, the amazing part about spending time working on yourself, your mistakes, and all of your wrongdoings is that you are not only working on yourself, but you are indirectly spreading happiness within the world.

​I also want people to make sure that they are spreading pure happiness within the world. You can share with others, do community service, open foundations, give donations, do a kind gesture, etc, but if any of those acts are lies, fake, or motivated by alternative reasons, that is not spreading pure happiness. This type of happiness will be short-lived, people will be hurt, and collateral mental and emotional damage will occur.

​There is a quote by the philosopher Marcus Aurelius that comes to mind as I write this response: “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

5) To the skeptics of what you do and, in turn, to the children who have abilities, what do you say?

​I have never minded skeptics. I believe that healthy skepticism is beneficial in all career fields. Being skeptical is a normal trait in human beings. Some people believe that they are skeptical, but really they’re just acting like narrow-minded jerks and that I do not tolerate.

A true skeptic questions his own skepticism and embraces the possibility of truth as much as the possibility of falsehood. Healthy skepticism allows us to see the world clearly with many possibilities; Unhealthy skepticism blinds us from all the world has to offer.

6) What’s a tip that you have for removing heavy energy around someone or their home?

This, in most circumstances, requires a complex solution. I can give tips about cleansing yourself or your home all day, but if you don’t fix the reason that the heavy energy is attaching itself to you, the negative energy will continue to occur.

​I recommend doing an in-depth analysis of your life to find the open doors that need to be closed. Find what it is in your life that is allowing negative energy to attach. Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, grieving, coping, or one of many other mental states that may allow this negative energy to attach? Are you involving yourself with people that are negative or toxic to your energy and livelihood? 

​These are just a few of the most common reasons negative energy attaches and there are countless other reasons that follow. Know yourself, discover the whys, and then you can remove the negative energy from your life.

7) Can you explain astral travel for us and have you had this ability your entire life?

Astral Travel, also called Astral Projection, is an intentional, though sometimes seemingly unintentional, out-of-body experience. It is typically done while sleeping or within meditation. During this experience, you take the form of an “astral body.” The main objective of this experience is for your consciousness to function separately from your body in the physical realm.

​This is one of my abilities that continues to change as my circumstances in life change. When I have equilibrium between my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self, this ability flourishes. When I find myself focusing on a particular area of my life too intensely or for too long, this ability weakens. All of life is about cycles and equilibrium and this includes controlling abilities.

8) I love your humor and Facebook posts! What makes you laugh?

Life. Life makes me laugh because there is nothing more simple than life itself. Life is so simple that it becomes difficult. Your mother brings you into this world. Then you pee, poop, puke, and she cleans it up and feeds and waters you. You are dressed and bathed, taught to walk and talk and, if done right, you know at least a half a dozen swear words by the age of three. 

You are placed into the education system and for twelve years you are introduced to the many subjects that the world has to offer. After, you are asked what subject you like the most and what you enjoy enough to bring you happiness. Then, you have the opportunity to attend college for two, four, five, six, even eight additional years to learn as much as you want in that subject. 

Typically, at around the age of eighteen, we make decisions that make this process difficult. Some have children and say that they do not have time to follow their passions. Some say that school isn’t for them and that they wouldn’t make it in college. Some say that going to college, opening a business, or following their passion would be a financial burden. I can list a dozen more excuses that people name as their reason for being unable to follow their passion and find their path to happiness. 

The truth is that many people work and attend college with a newborn child at home. Many people who didn’t do well in school exceed in college or in opening a business. There are many solutions; Many states as well as our federal government provide funding and grants to people of low income who want to pursue their passion or attend college. So, why not you? And any answer that you give to that question, with a few exceptions, is an excuse! When you make an excuse for one, just one, thing within your life, you will be able to find an excuse for anything and everything. People make life so difficult for themselves by doing what is easy, but not what is right. I also find myself doing this - taking the easier path at times; You are not alone in this. These silly complications and everything that comes after that though are what make me smile. 

The purpose of life is to follow a path that will bring you close to your highest potential - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This, indirectly, allows you to find happiness and to help aid others in finding their happiness. I promise you all that you are only a few decisions away from being exactly where you would like to be in life.

9) What’s something you’d like to manifest this fall?

I’d like to have my book published and I’d like to find a damn wife, finally. The pickings are slim for publishers and wives and I’m not getting any younger.  

10) Where can we learn more about you?

Everyone who reads this is more than welcome to friend or follow me on Twitter @mediumryan, Instagram @psychicmedium_ryanmichaels, TikTok @thepsychicryan, or Facebook under the name Ryan Michaels Psychic Medium. You may also visit my website www.psychicryanmichaels.com and subscribe to my newsletter via the contact page.