We Do Take It With Us

I teach that when we show up on this planet, we choose who our parents are going to be and what life lessons we are going to learn.  We chose our physical body that we will be traveling in, and we choose when that physical body is going to no longer serve us—that is, when we will die.  I have peace knowing that when we move into the non-physical that our Spirit is eternal.  I know that we carry our personality, and our ability to be loving or not, into Spirit.  I have had peace with the concept of death, knowing that it wasn’t all really over, and that we would be connected to our loved ones forever. 

Knowing all of that as a medium, I grieve when those in spirit leave their physical bodies behind, because I know it isn’t all over just because we are dead.  I can feel what the individuals felt when they realized they were gone.  I believe some people are grateful to surrender and move on to the next level that God has planned for them.  I believe others are remorseful and sad for the choices they made while in their physical bodies.  I believe there are those that are just downright pissed off and, if possible, are willing to argue their case as to why they should be allowed to go back into their body and straighten some things out before they pass.

The very first time I heard the name “Mickey Shunick” I was in Orlando.  I was just returning from 7 days at sea on a cruise where my phone had been turned off and placed in a safe in our cabin on the ship.  When I reached for it and turned it on, I was startled from all of the downloading of text messages.  I knew something was wrong but could not read as fast as my ears were hearing the sounds of the multiple texts. There were numerous requests from people asking me to try to help find Mickey.

 I also had a voice mail from a close member of the Shunick family asking me to step into Mickey’s energy and see what I got.  Hours passed before I was finally sitting on an airplane when I had a moment of peace and silence.  At that time I asked for my guides to surround me and help me bring through Mickey.  I immediately saw a beautiful bubbly, blonde floating in mid air.  She was wearing a multiple layered gown, made of some sort of lightweight material, which surrounded her.  Her smile was heart warming, and she appeared not simply at peace, but happy.  I knew at that moment she indeed was in spirit and no longer in the physical. When I finally arrived into the Lafayette area and saw a picture of Mickey, I knew that was the young woman I saw. 

Several months before Mickey’s death, I had gotten a hit that someone I knew and was close to was going to die.  I knew what family it was and mentioned it to a close friend.  I told her I saw who was at the funeral home and which of our friends were gathered there.  A few months later there was a suicide in that family, and it broke my heart.  All of my friends were there just as Spirit had shown me.

A few weeks ago a client of mine, and someone I now consider a close friend, was found dead.  In her last reading I asked her to make peace with everyone she needed to forgive.  I believed those people would be making their exit soon because they were getting really up in age.  Never did it occur to me it was the woman sitting in front of me—a client for years—who would be making her exit.

By doing mediumship work and hearing from loved ones who have passed, I have learned that the life you create here on earth is the energy that you take with you to the other side. Please try to remember that death does not free you of all pain and suffering and remorse and regret or joy and happiness.  The choice is up to you with each decision you make while here on earth, and remember, “We do take it with us!” http://www.facebook.com/allyson.schram

Grace Joy and Faith

It was the middle of the night. Out of a sleep I woke up excitedly to realize that I had a message!   It felt  good as if it came in a big box with beautiful wrapping paper and a fabulously hand tied bow.

Grace was an older lady.  I knew she had a sincere desire to do what was right and had a good heart.  I heard her voice on the phone and my spirit melted with her radiant kindness.  I get information through the vibration of your voice.  When she booked her appointment and I called in my guides asking to bring through anyone in spirit who wanted to speak to her I had a cranky, negative male energy that stepped up.  I kept thinking I was wrong, because someone with a heart like she had just didn't seem to go hand in hand with such a pain in the neck personality.  She identified him.  He had given me his middle name.  It was her husband, who was in spirit.

Another woman came to see me from Texas.  I couldn't say her name correctly for some odd reason.  What I have learned is that the people that are in spirit will start to change my words, and give me the symptoms or feelings of what they experienced before they made their exit into the non-physical.  The client's name was "Joe".  Every time I would speak her name, my mouth would say "Joy".  I would go back and read her name, and tell myself, her name is "Joe".  Yet my guides had me calling her "Joy".  I have done enough readings to know there is a reason for things to go the way they do.  When she arrived the first thing I said to her is "I know your name is Joe, but do you know who Joy is?"  She said, "That was my sister, her name was Joyce and she died thirty years ago."  On her paper where I had made notes before she arrived I had written "Joy/Joyce".

The night before my next reading in the middle of the night was when I realized the woman who was booked the next day was named "Faith". That is when I realized all three woman were a gift to me from God.

I am pretty convinced that there are some jobs that we step up to do, that are just not how we planned to go through life.  I ask God often to let me know if I am on the right track, doing what I am called to do, because I am thinking no one in their right mind would say "Hey God!" "Let me suffer ridicule and people question my mental stability so that I can work for you."  I believe this was a clear message when "Grace, Joy, and Faith" showed up.

Galatians 5:22-23

New International Version (NIV)

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

The Phenomena of Mediumship

There are different types of mediumship. The phenomena by which spirits manifest their presence, demonstrate their energy, and establish their identity are, broadly speaking, classed under two heads - physical and mental.  I am a physical phenomena medium. There are times when doing mediumship work, that physical phenomena occurs.  The following is a testimony from a woman who I was reading for that demonstrates physical phenomena.

Here is my testimony about our first reading together. The first time I ever met Allyson was on my 28th birthday. My friend treated me to a reading with her as a birthday gift. I wasn't sure what to expect but I walked into my friends house and was met by a glowing candle, warm atmosphere and a welcoming psychic. Allyson explained to me her various talents including medium. I immediately latched on to that part of her because I desperately wanted to communicate with my grandmother who had passed 8 years ago. Some time during the reading I smelled smoke and Allyson pointed out to me that the candle right next to me had gone out. Her eyes had been closed so she asked if I had blown it out myself. I had not. I assumed that wick had simply drowned in the wax. My reading went on, but I still had not heard from my grandmother through Allyson. I asked her to please feel for her; I so badly wanted to hear something. As Allyson was reaching out to my grandmother the candle re lit itself. That's right. Smoking, completely out for more than 20 minutes to glowing with a healthy flame. Along with this powerful sign was a wonderful birthday message from my grandmother. I shared my story with my family and it proved to be an experience that kept on giving. It meant so much to each one of them that my grandmother was so strong and ever present in our lives.  May I also add that the candle was not Allyson's. It was just a typical scented candle that my friend had lying around her house.


This is not the first time I have experienced the flame of a candle being blown out by spirit and then re-lit by spirit.  In the book"Between Two Worlds" by Walsh and Nichols, Walsh describes her experience in my home.  "We were sitting when a micro burst of energy comes through the room."  "There was a power loss with all lights going out."  "We were sitting in total darkness." "Then the power came back on and the candles re-lit." "We were in a well lit room with lights on and candles burning to sitting in total darkness."  "The lights came back on and the candles were again burning.  All of this just took moments to occur."  Another recent example of physical phenomena is from a separate woman's testimony I received this past week.


My boss’s wife has finally graduated college after beginning in her early 20’s while raising a family and a husband as she would put it. As a graduation gift, a coworker and I bought her a gift card to see Mrs. Allyson. A week ago, she was sharing her recording of the reading. At one point, the recording goes into static. About 5 minutes into the discussion portion of the reading, you can hear the two women patiently taking turns to speak to one another. In the static, a hushed female voice breaths into the receiver. However, in this breath there are distinct words that are formed. It is almost as if the voice says “I see life”. I listened to the recording several times. I shared this audio clip with even some of my friends who are skeptics. All of which agreed that there was someone communicating through the receiver that was neither the living women that were present.

I am not sure how such metaphysical gifts are given or shared. But I do know that Mrs. Allyson allows other people to experience this with such grace and kindness though knowing that not all news is pleasant.  I do believe that some people are more capable than others when it comes to being more sensitive to energy. Without a doubt, she is one of them.

This would be an example of what is commonly called "EVP" or Electronic voice phenomenon, is the communication by spirits through tape recorders and other electronic devices.


It is my belief that the purpose of all of this from the non-physical is to communicate that there is no death.  Life continues.  I am amazed at what the people who have passed on in our lives can do for us.

"You never call me!"

No matter how often I would call my Mother, she would always start a conversation with me by saying "I haven't heard from you in a week!"  I would say "Mother I just talked to you two days ago!" That was many years before she died.

 Last week I was sitting at lunch in Saraland, Alabama in a place called Catfish Junction.   All of  my first cousins got together while I was in Alabama at home visiting.  I was sitting next to my Mother's only living sibling my Aunt De Lois and her youngest daughter Lee Anne, who is now 50.  My aunt said to Lee Anne, "I never hear from you!" "You never call me."  I could tell that Lee Anne was thinking before she spoke, and she said "That's because you already know everything I have to tell you."  Her mother responded "Yeah but I want to hear it from you!"  Then Aunt De Lois followed up with "You're gonna be sorry some day." By that she was saying, one day I am going to be dead and gone, and you will miss me and wish you could talk to me.  I added my two cents into this mother daughter exchange of words, and said "Boy that's the truth!"  Whether your mother is dead or not, she misses you, and wants to hear from you.

 I was reading for a woman this week, who has had family members who have also come to see me. Their Mother died in a car accident not so long ago.  The first time I read for one of her children she came through with clarity. However this reading wasn't going as smoothly as most, with a lot of hits and misses, with it seeming to me there were a lot more misses than hits.  Suddenly her Mother's energy with great force and little warning gave me goose bumps covering my body from head to toe!  I closed my eyes.  I saw an angel.  It was a mighty angel with huge large wings. I said "I'm seeing an angel!" Then I heard "song".  I said "You are hearing a song and thinking of your Mother!"  She said without taking a breath "In The Arms of An Angel".  She said "I was getting out of my car just today when it came on and I stopped, getting back in my car just to listen to it!"  "I was thinking of her!"  At that point I was doubled over from the waist down, and had unusual nausea, along with chest pains. In order for her mother to show up the way she did, she drained me energetically, and I was left as a bundle of emotion and feeling ill.  I could see the image of her mother in a close bodily embrace with her daughter, and  she was weeping.  I told the client what I was seeing and how I was feeling.  As quickly as this Mother's love came though, she left.  The mother in spirit made her exit as quickly as she made her entry.  I was crying as I can feel the emotion.  Her mother came though to show her love, and validate that she knew her daughter was listening to a song about an angel, and thinking of her.

Another client said to me this week, "A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child."  I immediately thought of my children.  No matter how wonderful things are for me, if one of my children is having difficulties, I am thinking about them and their concerns. I am sorry to tell you that I believe this is true even after death.  I believe that we stay attached to our children's energy, and we never stop loving.  My sister said to me, "If you are telling me that we can still know what is going on here on earth after death, I don't want to hear it."  I wish I could tell you that after death we go sit at the feet of Jesus, and live in a blissful state of floating on clouds, but I personally do not get it that way.  After death we are still working on getting things right, including sending love to our children.  We go to be with God indeed, but what happens there is not without the memory of our loved ones.

I have another client who was a small child when her Mother was murdered in front of her.  All of her life she carried those memories of that tragic afternoon.  She had called me for a reading.  After receiving confirmation that her Mother was still around her, along with specific details proving her Mother had been with her through out the years of her growing up, she took steps to do something she never thought she would have the courage to do.  Through all of the legal channels, she requested permission to meet face to face with her mother's killer who is and has been serving a life sentence in prison.

It is Mother's Day.  My Father, died on Mother's Day.  He was an only child.  His Mother loved him more than any love ever known.  She was so proud of him.  When she was in her 80's and he was in his 60's she would say "This is my boy."  I believe his soul deliberately waited to leave the physical body, to go home on Mother's Day as a gift to his mother in spirit.

Call your Mother!  She can hear you.  You do not need to go to the cemetery to visit her, but you can if you choose.  She will know.  If your mother is still living, use the phone.  It is a lot easier on everybody.   This Mediumship thing isn't all that it is cracked up to be I want you to know.  I have had a pretty easy go at it through the years with information and validation coming from loved ones who have passed.  I am still learning though about what my job is, and how I have to care for myself while doing this work.

"Elvis Has Not Left The Building"

I could see him.  He was standing in the middle of the room, smiling.  How tall was Elvis anyway?  He didn't seem like he was as tall as I would have thought.  He was much thinner too by the way than some of the pictures towards the end of his life.  He was smiling looking directly at me.  Instantly I knew it was Elvis!  There were four women in the room other than me.  It was a circle group, where we sit to develop our intuitive ability. We are there to learn to trust what we see hear or feel when calling in our guides, our angels and heavenly helpers.  We call them in asking for messages, and then as Vicky says we must "Dare to deliver."

  It was the first night for one woman. The session was under way.  We asked for our heavenly helpers to come through, when I noticed him.  I was sitting there thinking, "How do I say this without making this new comer think that we are all completely nuts?"  So I ask "Is there anyone in this room who has a relative or someone they are close to who has passed named Elvis?" I had somewhat chuckled to myself when I saw him because I thought "I can't believe it's you?" I assume I am suppose to take this as a sign to say the name "Elvis".  I think every one held their breath as there was complete silence.
 I waited for someone to volunteer their "Elvis" family member. The first time visitor meekly spoke "Does it have to be Elvis?"  I didn't quite know what to say. I didn't speak a word but I was thinking, "Well I know who I am seeing" and the silence remained in tact.  She followed up with, "Because my grandmother's last name was Presley and is from the same family as Elvis."

 I somewhat slumped over in relief!  I said "Well, Elvis was standing in the middle of the room looking back at me."  "I really didn't want to have to tell all of you that I was seeing Elvis Presley, so I am so glad to know that this is your grandmother's way of coming through."  One of the ladies in the room said with great excitement, "You mean we were visited by Elvis?"  It appears that way!

 Now that I look back on that moment I wish I had simply had the faith to go with something along the lines of "Any reason Elvis Presley is standing in the middle of the room?"  I was so grateful at that moment someone claimed the name without me feeling completely stupid, that I realize I did not give the credit or the gratitude to Elvis for stopping by.  As a matter of fact I may have gotten that wrong, telling her it was her grandmother's way of saying "Hello."  The truth is I didn't hear or feel from her grandmother at all, I saw "Elvis" but either way, the fact is, whether it is someone famous or only famous to you, it took a lot of energy and love for that visit, and I must not fail to recognize and remember that, while trusting the process.

"Psychic Medium Finds Missing Rubber"

 My job as a Medium is to give you messages from your loved ones who are no longer alive.  This isn't just simply names of your family members that are listed at the local funeral home's website.  I deliver those names all the time as they are spoken to me, but it is the real gut busting down to the last detail of truth in a story or situation that makes this job of delivering messages from those in spirit worth it to me.  When I first started doing readings, I was aware that people coming to see me for the first time, were looking for red flags that would indicate all information delivered came off the Internet, but now I don't even think about it anymore.  I don't think about it because there isn't a remote possibility anyone would have the nerve to ever admit to anyone some of this stuff happened, much less wrote about it and then put it out there for the world to see. It just isn't available to read.  This is an example.

I was calling in my guides and asking for the messages from those in spirit who want to step up for the female client coming to see me.  I wasn't feeling well.  With a runny nose and a sore throat I decided to lay down on my bed.  Laying down with my eyes closed holding a yellow legal pad attached to a clip board along with a pen, wearing my glasses,  I was prepared to take notes while resting.  Drawing symbols that I see with my eyes closed, or writing down words that I hear, I take dictation from the dead.  I am almost sleeping this afternoon when I am taken back to a memory of a time when I had one of those experiences that was so awful, I never wanted to think about it.

 I have a lot of those "never want to relive" experiences of embarrassment and humiliation in my life.  How I got my period at age 12 has to be an all time most embarrassing story ever to have happened to any female child on this planet.  But it happened to me.  Then to make the worse day of my life more horrible, I had the shorts and panties in a sink soaking in water with laundry soap, when my mother decides to give a tour of the house to all of the guests outside, a house tour that of course included the bathroom where the pre-soaking was taking place.  I can recall that as though it was yesterday.  I am certain there are people alive today that remember that incident.  I still want to hide every time I see the woman that whispered to me that day, "You need to go inside because you have gotten your period.  I am now 54 and she is in her 80's.

So today I am almost asleep when one of those memories flash through my head.  I am trying to prepare for a reading when this is what I recalled.  There may or may not have been an intimate moment in my life, where I may or may not have been having sex, when the condom disappeared.  I may or may not have been completely freaked for the obvious reasons that would cause you and your partner to wear a condom to begin with, when I may or may not have realized it really was missing.  It wasn't on him, it wasn't on the bed, it was gone. The circumstances showed it was not actually gone, but it was hiding in what may or may not have been deep inside of me.  I then may or may not have had to reach, locating the latex, and retrieve it.

  Why on earth am I laying here thinking of this now?  Then I got it!  "I am suppose to tell this woman this story, unbelievable!" I thought.  So somewhere on my three pages of notes, was written in small letters "missing rubber".

  The client arrived, and I begin her reading.  Names came through that were the names of her children, and other close relatives.  A wedding was shown to me where there were flower petals all over the floor, a man in military uniform, with the rank of Captain was shown to me.  It was all there being verified by the client with tears pouring from her eyes, knowing that I was hearing from her loved ones when I came across the words "hidden rubber."  I tell her the story.  She says "When I was a teenager and dating, I had a birth control device that I wore to prevent pregnancy." "It was a round circle and one night it broke inside of me during sex." "I had to go home and tell my mother." She said "I could tell my mother anything!" Her mother had died 17 years earlier from breast cancer.

This my skeptic friends, you won't find on Google, but you will find it on Goggle Blog, "The Medium and the Mortician".

Allyson Glynn Schram is a Medium, living in Arnaudville, Louisiana.  She can be reached for readings at area code 985-662-1780.Facebook

Have you seen "Long Island Medium?"

I have been asked recently by five different people, if I have seen "Long Island Medium".  I am happy to report after having said "No" to the first three, that I have now watched the program.  I love watching her as I am always entertained when she is so shocked getting things dead on. (not a pun) For instance on one episode a client had written "I love you Daddy" on a handkerchief of his.  When he came through he showed this to Theresa Caputo, the medium.  She threw her chair back and said "Get out of here!"  "Seriously?" Then she was completely freaked out.  She cracks me up!  I really appreciate her candid humor and how honest she is when she shows she too is shocked the dead can communicate as well as they can.  As a medium I have said several times when I do readings, that no one is more shocked than I am, at what comes through.  

We tend to ignore our loved ones as they are trying to get our attention. We ignore them thinking it can't be because they are dead!  Let me tell you, it is true you may be more aware of someone now that they are deceased, than you were when they were living.  I believe that is because they have something to share with you.  The majority of the time it is simply to say "I am here."  

I am a medium.  I have the dead communicate through me.  Many of you have experienced that through a reading with me.  Theresa Caputo is a medium, and she too communicates with the dead.  You do not need to have Theresa or me be there with you to receive a message, or communicate a message to someone you loved who is no longer in the physical. Sit in silence and in a completely attentive state of being open,  ask "What do you have for me?" Accept the first thing that comes to mind.  Do not dismiss what you feel.  Repeat out loud what you heard in your head or felt in your heart.  Then thank them for coming through for you.  The most important thing you can do, is communicate your love for those who have departed.  I want to share a story with you of a woman who came to see me recently.

 The woman walks in my door for an appointment. I recognized her, but when she booked over the phone, I had no idea who she was.  Names may sound familiar, but I have read for so many people that it isn’t until I see their face, that I will remember them.  When she walked in the room she seemed like a bull that someone was waving a red flag in front of and she was about to charge.  Normally people are glad to be here, friendly, and loving.  She acted like at any minute she was going to pick up her keys and leave, but not without saying something really ugly.  That is how she walked in the door!  She sat down, turned on her recorder, and said, “Let’s go.” She was ready to get on with it.  What she needed as it was apparent to me, was to realize that people were afraid to tell her the truth, or be close to her because she gave off the energy of a bundle of dynamite, just waiting for the fuse to be lit. 

I knew however that was not what her numbers said about her.  When I looked at her birthday, she was a double two, which means, loving and lovable.  No doubt she wanted to talk about relationships, because people who have “two” energy in their birthday, or name are all about relationships, yet this woman was about as loveable as a cactus.  As she sat there waiting for me to “perform” I noticed a male in spirit standing in the corner.  He wasn’t going to step up at all, but he was present.  I let her review with me one by one the men in her life, as she was simply interested in me stepping into their energy and having me tell her who she was dating next, and who was a better match for her.

 I had not mentioned the man in spirit standing in the corner, because it was clear to me that he was afraid of her.  He was right.  She scared me too and she was non-approachable.  In the course of the conversation, she mentioned her late husband.  I said, I want to talk about him if you don’t mind.  She said “Fine, talk!” “Well what is up with that?” “How long has he been deceased?” I asked.  She said “Six years.”  I wanted to know, “Have you missed him?”  She said, “I have never grieved his death, because I found emails where he had been in communication with another woman.” “I have never cried or missed him, because I think he cheated on me.”  “He was diagnosed with a form of cancer that was inoperable right around the time I found the emails, and then he died six months later.”  “I took care of him the way I thought I should, but I have been mad because even though he swore he never cheated on me I think he did.”  I thought “Oh my gosh!”  I knew that moment this explained everything.

 At that moment I began to weep because of the suffering and pain that he had been through, but all she could focus on was how he was unfaithful to her.  Not only had she tormented him through her anger the last six months of his life, but also he has been dead 6 years, and she is still mad as hell at him.  I said, “Honey, the reason you can’t find a man and a relationship now, is because you still have a husband you have not allowed to move on.”  Your anger and bitterness towards him, has held him here, waiting on you to forgive him.”  “He has not gone on to be with God, because you are holding his spirit here by his need for you to forgive him and let him go.”  I then clearly saw “Arkansas”, and I said, “He wants me to talk about “Little Rock”.  She said yes we went to…and right before she said it, I got from him “Little Rock”, and she said “Little Rock”.  I said well he wants you to think of how you felt in Little Rock. “Yes!” “I carry that picture of us in Little Rock around with me.” She then reached for her phone and asked if I would like to see it.  I said “Of course.”  When I looked at the picture, what I saw was a loving, kind wonderful man, with a generous spirit, and big heart.  She said “Yes that is true, he was wonderful.”  I said well you need to tell him that he is wonderful, and that you loved him very much and that you forgive him for what he may or may not have done.  She said to me, “Where is he?”  I said, “Well he has been standing in the corner at the end of the sofa, because he was too afraid to approach you.  Finally the tears started to flow, and she said “I do not want to hold him here, or do that to him.”  Once the tears were flowing and she was asking him to forgive her, for how horrible she had been, and she communicated her love to him, her entire energy changed.  I knew it would.  I knew that she was difficult for any man to love as she was, simply because she was still angry with her deceased husband.  Before our session was over, her husband in spirit told me that he would help guide the perfect man for her to her.  He would act as a helper for her. 

I wish each of you reading this could feel that release, and healing energy when forgiveness is given from one to another, especially when the person who is asking for forgiveness is no longer on this planet, but moved on into spirit.

 I know that when Jesus walked the earth, his death was for the purpose of “forgiveness”.  God knew that this would be and is such a problem for many of his children.  We hold on to bitterness and anger, even after our loved one is deceased.  Just because the physical body gives out, and the person is “dead” does not mean that it is over.  Talk to your loved one, and tell them what is on your heart.  Allow them to speak to you.  Sit and listen and see what comes through.  

To book a session with Allyson Glynn you may reach her at area code: 985-662-1780