Today we’d like to introduce you to Michael Terzi.
Hi Michael, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Like quite a few people in this field, when I was a child I had a few paranormal experiences that I could not explain. However, my story really started when I was in Optometry school at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, CA. The transition from undergrad to graduate school is always a difficult one, no matter what medical or educational field someone may be entering into. For myself, there was not only the stress of starting a new profession and difficult coursework, but also stressors at home that compounded with all the craziness on campus.
Around my second year of Optometry school, I noticed that something was changing. Yes, coursework was getting tougher and the looming national board exams were always on my mind, but something else started to cause me to lose focus. During exams in class, I would start to feel a degree of anxiety and worry I had never felt before. I was always the student that took school seriously, but my mentality had always been, “I pass, I pass; if I fail, I fail, at least I did my best.” Except now, I was experiencing such intense confusion, anxiety, and sometimes even hopelessness and anger. I honestly had no idea where it was coming from, in addition, after a while, I also started to hear things in my head like, “I can’t do this” or “My father will kill me if I don’t pass this exam.” Trying to deal with this on a daily basis was crippling to say the least, so much so that it eventually evolved into having panic attacks everyday on my way home while attempted to cope with these foreign and intense emotions. I literally thought I was going insane!
As I forged ahead in my studies, I did some research on the side and finally came across something called an Empath. I had of course heard about empathy as a concept but had no idea what defined someone as an Empath. The more I read and the more I spoke with friends and family about it, I came to realize that is what I had been “suffering” from. I quote suffering because at the time, I saw it as a curse, not as the Gift that it actually is! I was never really into the spiritual throughout most of my life, in fact ever since I left Catholic school I never really identified with any particular religion. I was very science-based, and although the idea of being an Empath was the furthest thing from my mind, I could not help to see how it all fit together perfectly. An Empath for those that may not know is someone that feels the emotions and energy of other people as their own, and there are even a number of subcategories that go into different types of Empaths. Looking back on everything I had been experiencing and suffering through, I finally excepted that something beyond what I fully could understand was happening to me, something that could not be perfectly explained by science alone, I am an Empath.
After I accepted this everything started to make a lot more sense and I no longer thought I was going crazy, although now I always joke that everyone in this field has to be a little crazy to do what we do. Regardless, with this newfound information and realization, I started to seek out others that felt the same things I did. Although they were few and far between at first, I eventually found others, however help was more difficult to find at the time. I wanted to learn how to control Empathy so that it would not feel so crippling when it hit, and at this point it was getting stronger and stronger by the day. At this point, I was on the brink of graduating and becoming an Optometrist, and while I was distracted by what I was feeling around me, I was slowly learning how to at least suppress it during crucial moments. This is when I saw my first human spirit, standing in the doorway of an old restaurant in Old Town Temecula, CA. needless to say it was an immense shock! I had not seen a spirit since I was about 11 years old, and the one I did see was not this clear nor was it so detailed. For months after that, I no longer was just dealing with Empathy and feeling and hearing others around me, but now I was also contending with seeing spirits everywhere I went almost daily! I could not hear them at first, I just saw them, which made things even more maddening.
One day I had just had it, I was filled with anger and resentment towards these “gifts” I had been given. All I wanted to do was become a doctor and help people, that was my only goal, the only thing I wanted at the time, and these newfound and unbelievable abilities were making realizing these goals extremely difficult. So I was sitting in my room basically cursing these gifts when all of a sudden a blinding beautiful and intense white light appeared outside or my second-story window. It was so intense I could not look directly at it! I was actually scared at first, but as it drew closer to my window any fear, sadness, or anger melted away in an instant! I felt a warmth, kindness, and an unconditional love that I had never felt before. The light eventually made its way phasing through my wall and into my room filling the entire space with a corporeal glow. I still could not look directly at it, but I could see out of the corner of my eyes the light taking form, and as it did this I heard in my head, “Michael, I am your Guardian Angel, and you never have nor will you ever be truly alone in life. All of this has happened for a reason, you are meant to do so much more, and I will always be here to help guide you down that path. Now cut it out and be who you really are!”
Of course, I was more than dumbfounded by all of this, and it took me a while to process it all, especially trying to explain it all to others. But as my relationship with main Guardian Angel grew, the more I was able to see and hear other peoples’ angels as well! Not only that, but I was able to hear human spirits finally also. So I started to do Angel Readings for friends and family, which then evolved into giving readings to total strangers. Readings of guidance, empowerment, and love from their Angelic Team. It has been a crazy journey, but I would not have had it any other way. The doctor that turned Angel Medium crazy to say the least, but after that shift who I really was finally started to make sense and I love helping others through the Guardian Angel Readings try to achieve that sense of clarity and confidence as well.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It has definitely not been a “smooth” road as most would define it. I have encountered many negative people on my spiritual/paranormal path. People who have tried to use me for my gifts, people who have seen what I do as wrong or even evil by definition of being a medium, and even those that have challenged the very existence of the Angels and a higher power in this world. Even so-called friends and peers have tried to define me and make me feel less than. However, through it all I have continuously maintained what I know and what I believe. One thing that my Angels told me when I was at my lowest point has always stuck with me. I have it all over my website, social media and even on my business cards: Love Thyself! Basically, truly love who you are, who you are as a person, be true to yourself and forget about what others my think or feel about you and who they may think you are. I love what I do, the peace and hope it brings to others, the messages the angels bring to them in their time of need and confusion, and the fulfillment I get when I know I have helped in that in even small way, I do as the medium between them and their Angelic/Spiritual Team.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I specialize in Guardian Angel Readings, where I connect people with their angels and spirit guides to relay their messages of guidance and empowerment. I eventually also became a Reiki Master/Teacher and developed my own type of Reiki called Angel Reiki based off of healing knowledge and techniques I learned from my angels and Archangels as well.
I am proud of everything that I have done, however one my true passions is teaching and I have developed numerous classes and workshops ranging from Empath workshops to Psychic Development courses and meditations as well.
I also do investigations and clearings for those who are having negative paranormal experiences and need help where others have turned away from them. I have worked with many spiritual wellness centers in Southern California and I am continuing to write a book as well about our Guardian Angels and other Archangels and some of the knowledge and lessons they have imparted to me that I want to share with everyone. I have also been on a number of paranormal podcasts including Beyond Reality, The Other Side, and Coast 2 Coast AM with George Noory.
One thing that may set me apart from others is not just the angel readings, also how I love to combine Science and Spirituality so that we can see how they connect and create a more accurate picture of our world.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
I feel there are going to be a lot of big shifts in the spiritual/paranormal community. As more and more people open up to who they really are and start to accept the relationship between science and spirituality, I think many will begin to study both. Ever since I awoke to my gifts, I have always seen that logic and science and spirituality/paranormal are just two sides of the same coin.
Pricing:
- $125 for a 1 Hour Guardian Angel Reading
- $125 for a 1 Hour Angel Past Life Reading
- $75 for a 1 Hour Angel Reiki Session
- $65 for 3 Part Law of Attraction Workshop Series
- $25-35 for various Spiritual Development Classes and Meditations
Contact Info:
- Email: angelwhisperermichael@gmail.com
- Website: www.angelwhisperermichael.com
- Instagram: @angelmediummichael
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angelmediummichael
Image Credits
Sarah Dupree Photography
