- [Theresa] Tonight, on Beyond the Readings.
Your dad looked at me and he goes,
"I don't know about this, Theresa."
I go, "What do you mean, know about what?"
He goes, "I don't know about you." [laughs]
- [Dominick] Does spirit ever let you have
an uninterrupted day?
- Um...
- How's the tingling?
- [Theresa] Your mom wants you to know that
she is very proud of you.
- Theresa just came for a facial
and it turned into all of us getting a reading.
- The signs are the best when they come
from out of nowhere and when you least expect it.
I looked right at you in there
and I felt that wall go right up.
People go through stuff every day of their life,
but spirit gets their message through.
That's why I have to say things.
- She made a believer outta me, like, 100% believer.
[bright music]
- What does food mean to you?
- Everything.
[Dominick laughs and claps] Everything.
Because life revolves around food, right?
I think it's a common thing that everyone shares.
Everyone loves food, right?
And that's how you kind of gather, right?
You have like... - [Producer] And you're excited.
- Get so excited over food.
- And we all eat together.
We eat here at the table when we're working at your house.
- At the table, mm-hmm.
- And years ago, you instituted a no phone rule.
Why did you do that though?
Why was the no phone rule so important?
- Well, because I felt that when you have your phone out,
you're basically letting that person know that,
"You're not important.
This, whatever's gonna happen in this phone in this moment,
is gonna be more important than me sitting with you."
Well, now it's, 'cause no one pays attention to it.
- What? To the no phone rule?
- To the no phone rule. - I mean, she's right.
So we'll do a no phone lunch today.
What does everyone think?
- James is not gonna follow that rule.
James is not going to do it, James can't do it.
- [Dominick] But, so--
- We only have a half hour lunch. [laughs]
I mean, it's not even like you're getting a lunch hour.
It's a half hour, it's 30 minutes.
- That is true.
[upbeat music] ♪ We can fly on paper wings
♪ Here we go, here we go
♪ Do the most amazing things
- So on Raising Spirits,
you saw me visit my cousins in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
There's a lot of baked products here.
♪ I've got great, big, candy covered heart ♪
- We ended up going to a farmer's market
and I delivered some very special messages
to a gentleman named Dom, from his father.
- My mother didn't want my father to know that I was gay.
- Ahh!
- So she wouldn't let me say anything.
- He wishes he told you more, how proud he was of you,
but more importantly, of the man that you've become.
Do you understand that?
- I do. - Gimme a hug.
I'm a hugger, I'm a hugger, I'm a hugger.
I mean, there was a lot more that happened that day.
'cause we went to every booth
and tried everything that they had.
[gasps] They got bread.
They got bread!
- Told you it was a great market.
- Oh my God.
Oh, wow.
- So, you want a consistent product and a consistent meal.
- Thank you.
I also left my sunglasses at a stand.
- Oh, I don't remember this at all.
- Yeah, I left them at the guacamole stand.
[Dominick laughs]
- This is gonna to be the thing of the season,
how Theresa feeds her crew constantly.
Okay, I'm better.
I had to shake all the spirits out.
So when I was walking through the farmer's market,
I was drawn to this family.
And here is a reading that you didn't get to see.
Oh, she has a watermelon.
Is that a red one?
- Yeah, red seedless.
- So good.
You guys come to the market often?
- This is my first time here.
- Me too, I've never been here before.
- It's great. [laughing]
- Do you guys know what I do for a living?
- Are you a medium? - Yeah.
I'm really a small, but. [all laugh]
- [Producer] Did you know who Theresa was before today?
- I did not know.
My daughter saw her and she said, "She's a medium."
And I'm like, "Really?"
- Who had the issue with the legs prior to the departure?
- That was my dad.
- So know that your dad started jumping up and down,
which is my symbol for that he can move freely
on the other side. - Wow.
- Your dad looked at me and he goes,
"I don't know about this, Theresa."
I go, "What do you mean, know about what?"
He goes, "I don't know about you."
[all laugh] - He would do that.
- She just came right up
and said, "This is what I'm seeing."
And then she started talking about dad and his legs
and how he was having difficulty walking,
which is very true.
Which was a thing that frustrated him toward the end.
- Did you close his eyes after he died?
- Well, I had to decide whether or not
we were gonna bury him with his glasses, so.
- Oh!
- [Mildred] We didn't, but we didn't.
- But did you keep the glasses? - Yes.
- You still have them? Perfect. - I have the glasses.
- Validating that he supports on how you chose to lay him to rest
and knowing on everything that you said
to him after he died, nothing was left unsaid.
- I didn't put his glasses on.
I have his glasses at home in a little chest.
So I was very surprised about that.
- So know that your dad says, "Don't remember me in that way.
Remember me, funny."
And you know, he's still a little, then he goes,
"I think I like you."
[all laugh]
- Oh, I miss my dad every day.
My father was a Presbyterian minister.
He was a really great guy.
He was a real believer in the afterlife.
- He referred to you as his baby girl.
- Yeah, I'm the only girl.
- Ah!
Because I watched him come over and he kissed you right here.
- Aww. - And he said, "My baby girl."
He says how she's always carried herself through life
with dignity and grace.
- Oh, that's sweet, yeah.
Well, I kissed him right there when he died.
[Theresa gasps] [Mildred laughs]
- Wow.
I've never, I mean, I've said that to people,
but I've never actually touched someone,
like, in the exact spot.
So know that your dad knows and heard you.
And he says, "I am at peace with God."
- [Mildred] He was 98, so he had the calling.
- Wow, God bless.
So when he was done, he died on his terms.
- We had a long conversation, "Are you sure, dad?"
Because, you know, we did the hospice.
And he's like, "I'm ready."
I'm like... - Aww.
- Before meeting Theresa today,
I don't believe I believed in mediums
because you know, I thought maybe
the person has to go into a trance or something.
And it was none of that.
- Mildred didn't believe in mediums
until she was read by you.
Is that pretty common?
- I mean, I think it's common to be a little skeptical until
after you have the experience.
But that's the great thing that I love.
You know, here's someone who
probably never even thought about going to a medium.
And then you have this spontaneous reading
and it changed her.
And here he was, he lived this wonderful life, right?
98, and we still love them, we still miss them.
We still wish they were still here with us, it's...
- Well, you're reading my mind right now,
'cause I still struggle with that.
- I'm not reading your mind.
It's your dad, it's your dad.
- Yeah.
- And what a beautiful, beautiful moment.
I always say, people don't have to believe in mediums.
I want you to believe in an afterlife.
And more importantly, to believe that
the things that you say, that they hear you.
[gentle music]
- The fact that he is fine
and he's with God didn't surprise me as much
as the verification of the afterlife.
I have to be honest,
you know, even though I was raised in the church
and I know that it's supposed to be,
you always want to know for sure.
- You said, "I always say,
People don't have to believe in mediums,
but I want you to believe in an afterlife."
- Correct.
- Why is that the most important thing to you?
- Because this honestly has nothing to do with me.
I don't care if people believe in me or what I do.
I want them to believe in themselves.
I want them to believe in an afterlife
and to believe and to know that they still have
that connection even though their loved one
physically is not here.
- It's incredible. - [Theresa] Yeah.
- That's very validating. - Thank you.
- [Theresa] Awesome.
- I'm gonna remember today forever.
- Mildred, well, it was absolutely lovely meeting you.
The signs are the best when
they come from out of nowhere and when you least expect it.
And so many times I say to people, I am the sign.
Like sometimes, someone might not need a message.
How many times do I run into people
and I start talking to them?
We just have a general conversation
and they're like, "I needed this today."
Like nothing else needed to be said.
It was so lovely meeting you.
- Thank you. - God bless, thank you.
- I'm from New York, I just get very excited.
Oh my God.
On this season of Raising Spirits, I traveled all over
and one of my favorite spots was Chattanooga.
I've only known you for, what?
About like, not even two months.
- I know.
- And I feel like we've been working together forever.
- I know, it's been really fun.
- [Theresa] This is such a cute town.
I didn't know this, but Chattanooga is
where Moon Pies originated from.
- [Dominick] What's in a Moon Pie?
- It reminds me of a scooter pie.
It's a graham cracker with marshmallow
covered in dark chocolate.
- [Dominick] That's it.
- We actually went to the Moon Pie General Store
and you're gonna see never before scenes
and also a spontaneous reading.
- [Kianna] Did you see what's over there?
- [Theresa] What?
- [Kianna] Mint chocolate. - [Theresa] Shut up.
- [Kianna] I saw it and I was like, "She's gonna..."
- We have to get these.
I was surprised.
I thought a Moon Pie only came in one flavor.
It was like, marshmallow, graham cracker and chocolate, right?
Which flavor do you want?
- Um, just vanilla.
- No, you don't know what you're missing
with the chocolate.
I love anything mint,
but my ultimate favorite are the Thin Mints, Girl Scouts.
- The Girl Scout cookies. - Yes.
- [Dominick] Who wouldn't love a job at
the Moon Pie General Store?
- Oh, I'd be like a Violet from Willy Wonka
if I worked in a store like that, I'd blow up like a tick.
[Dominick and Theresa laugh]
What is this?
Being called gr--
Oh my God! - Oh, that's you!
- Do you know, oh, sorry.
I'm from New York, I just get very excited.
"Being called a grandma doesn't make me old.
it makes me blessed."
- Oh my goodness.
- I'm getting this. - Yeah, you need it.
We got the perfect one. - Yeah, we got the perfect one.
The grandma one, I'm a grandma, right?
- Oh, really? - [Carol] Yeah.
- Oh, hi, how are you?
- You know, that's amazing.
I've never met you before? You look so familiar.
Maybe it's just 'cause-- - Because I'm from New York.
- You're from New York.
- I know I don't sound like it anymore.
When I go up there, people are like, "Where are you from?"
[all laugh]
- See, and I don't think I have an accent.
I don't think I have an accent.
- [Michele] You're Long Island all the way.
- I am? - Oh God, yeah.
My name is Michele.
- My name's Carol and I'm from Utah.
- I'm from New York.
We were in here just shopping
and then all of a sudden, I heard a New York accent
and I turned, and it was Theresa.
You have a wonderful trip.
- Thank you, you too, safe travels.
Enjoy. - You too, thanks.
- Wait, so can I just ask you, so who passed from the chest?
[Theresa coughs]
I, all of a sudden, I was just having difficulty breathing
as soon as you turned away.
- And I got this pain like right in here, and then I...
- My brother shot himself in the heart, long time ago.
- So know that he says, "My soul hasn't left you."
Because he makes me feel like you sense and feel him.
Is that correct?
- Yeah, all a sudden, we were hiking actually.
And then we felt something.
- [Michele] Oh my God.
- Your brother said that there's this particular song
that you hear on the radio
that reminds you of him, and it's like an old song.
- Yeah.
- And it comes on out of nowhere.
Know that that's a sign from him.
That he's with you at that exact moment.
- Really?
I don't know how anyone could know that
unless my brother's spirit told her.
There is a special song
and you can hardly hear it on the radio,
'cause it never comes on.
So now I know if I hear that on the radio,
that's my brother saying, "Hey, what's up?"
You know? That's cool.
- I keep getting like, this up and down of struggles.
- Oh, wow.
- Who passed from the head though?
In a very traumatic way or like in a very
untimely manner.
- [Theresa] Or did he--
- He jumped in front of a semi, so.
- Okay, because I felt this blow to my head
and there was this blow to my chest.
Do you understand that? - That was my twin brother.
- Yeah.
- But there had to be something with medication,
or something.
- He was supposed to take medication for depression
and he wouldn't take it.
- Because he took the medication bottle
and threw it against the wall. - [Michele] Oh my God.
- So that's why I said there had to
be something with medication. - [Michele] He wouldn't take it.
- And he says, "I'm taking responsibility."
He says, "I am sorry what my death has left you with."
Because you have so many questions.
And why and how and, "How could I not see?"
- Yes, that's what I say all the time.
- [Theresa] Did you just get like a goosebump?
- Yes, I sure did, oh my God.
- Know that that was your brother's soul
that moved through you.
I wanted him to validate that a part of your soul
died that day that your brother died.
Because you keep saying, "I should have seen,
how could I not have known?" - [Michele] Yes.
- "I should have had some type of sign."
- Right.
- He says, "And I want
to be able to give you a part of your soul back today."
What she said to me is what I needed to hear.
Michael wants me to know that there was nothing
that I could do because for years I have held on to
the feeling that I should have known.
I should have heard it in his voice.
I should have known what was going on,
'cause I'm a therapist, but I didn't see it.
And that helped a lot with guilt.
So that was just mind blowing.
- They keep bringing forward
and they stand like father figures.
So I don't know why that's so important.
- My brother's probably with Papa Duke.
Yeah.
My brother and my father is actually in the same casket.
[intriguing music]
He wanted to be buried upside down so the world can
kiss his butt.
- There's a sign over there about a butt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. - No way.
- Yeah, I swear.
I got the grandma sign, you gotta get this sign.
Here. - No.
- "Rub my butt."
- [Carol] Oh my gosh.
- I'm buying this for you.
Rub my butt.
- [Cashier] Perfect sign.
- Thank you. - Thank you, Theresa.
- Thank you. Oh, you're very welcome.
- It was just insane because my brother came through
and her brother came through as well.
So it was just crazy.
We weren't even gonna come here
and we came, and here she was.
It was incredible.
- [Theresa] Have safe travels. - You too.
- [Theresa] Safe travels, God bless.
Thank you.
- [Carol] Thank you. - [Theresa] Bye-Bye.
- [Dominick] Does spirit ever let you have,
like, an uninterrupted day?
- Um, I mean, yeah.
I mean, there are times that I'd go to the hair salon like,
and I'm not bothered, you know?
But...
Yeah. - That's a good answer.
- Listen, do things happen?
You know, just by sitting with the crew or,
absolutely.
But it's not
as nonstop as you might think.
I will always sense and feel things.
Whether spirit wants me to say something
is a completely different story.
[upbeat music]
- So on Raising Spirits, you saw me and my friend Courtney
go to this boozy ice cream shop.
Cheers. - Cheers to doing great things.
- [Theresa] Yes. - Yes.
- To doing amazing things.
Mm.
You saw Nicole receive a message from her dad.
Well, I have the ability
to connect with people that have died.
And where does the dad come in that's departed?
Your dad just looked at me and said,
"Can you just tell my daughter that I do love her?"
But Nicole wasn't the only one
that received a message from spirit that day.
Thank you so much, it was so great to meet you.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you.
So what happened was, is when Courtney and I left,
there was a woman that was inside the ice cream place.
She came out to talk to us,
but then she ended up getting a reading
that you never saw on Raising Spirits.
I looked right at you in there
and I felt that wall go right up.
You were so afraid if I said something to you
what I was gonna say, right?
And you were that it was gonna be something negative, right?
- I'm afraid that it's gonna be real.
- It is real. [Crystal laughs]
- I've been scared to go see a medium.
But when she was hearing someone's father
come talk to them,
she made a believer out of me.
Like, 100% believer.
- I wanted to validate that your brother hears you.
Do you understand that? - Yes, thank you.
- Knowing that when you think of those things,
know that that is his soul
that is with you at that exact moment,
knows what you're going through and is trying to help you.
- I was 10, almost 10 when he was born.
So I remember everything.
I was blessed with the memory
of him coming home, him being born.
My brother's name was Taylor, I love my baby.
- "We're not gonna focus on how I died.
I left unexpectedly, tragically.
But my soul is at peace with God."
You're getting messages,
you're getting messages from him,
'cause if he wasn't with God,
he wouldn't be able to do that.
- My brother, in 2020, died from a drug overdose.
Ever since, I have wondered if he was in heaven
and I got my answer confirmed today.
- Now I'm also gonna ask you,
do you have grandparents on the other side as well?
- Yeah.
- Know that he brought them forward,
validating that the souls are together
so he's not alone on the other side.
And he says, "I want my sister to know that
I'm proud of her for finally, finally living her life
and not feeling guilty because I died."
Do you understand that?
So your brother says, "I want you to be happy.
Embrace your life and know that everything
that you experience in life,
I am living life through your eyes."
- Thank you.
Theresa just confirmed that he is in fact up there
with my dad and my grandpa.
And that just makes me so (bleep), freaking happy
that I just can't even deal with it.
- Okay? Thank you youre so beauful Aww, youre so sweet
See, I knew it, I knew it, oh.
- I feel like I got a little bit of closure.
Like, it's crazy.
My brother sent me a message,
and to this day, he has given me the best hug of my life.
- [Server] Thank you, guys.
- Bye guys, see you tomorrow.
- Someone just hear the door click?
Might have been my pill case.
Okay, Lindsay.
- [Dominick] Like Jimmy Carter in there with those pills.
- All right, Jimmy Carter.
I'm gonna say something I don't know if I should.
Um, I don't think people realize
that I do make what I do look easy
and I don't make a big deal about it.
But after doing this for 20 years,
it is physically taking a toll on me.
And it's not, it's because of the way that people are dying.
- Really? - It's, it's very, like, I...
- You mean the physical way they're dying
or are they dying alone?
- How they're dying.
No, how they're dying, the tragedies.
It's very different.
I feel that the readings are far more heavier,
that they're different.
I mean, and I don't know.
Can you say, how long have you been been on the show?
Eight years?
- I've been working with you for 11 years.
- 11? - Yep.
- But you don't see a difference in the readings,
on the type of readings, like the tragedies,
the murders, the suicides?
- Suicides for sure.
And we've, everyone who works on the show has noticed that
to the point where when we do 20, 25 readings
with you in a couple of weeks that we're,
in making a television show, you're thinking,
"Well, wow, 14 of these are suicides."
'Cause we don't have control over that.
- No, because we don't know.
We don't know how someone dies.
Like, and you don't know.
- Whew, I got chills there, but...
- No, I do because I think that
I have to take care of myself differently
than I did 10 years ago.
Even five years ago.
- [Dominick] Well, what do you--
- Like, I feel that I need true downtime.
[pensive music]
- What does downtime mean for you?
- I don't know what downtime is 'cause I don't get downtime.
[Dominick and Theresa laugh]
Acupuncture, facials, manicure, pedicure, massages,
those are all things that I literally
cram into one day that I'm off.
So I guess downtime for me, looks like...
I don't know what that looks like. [laughs]
Because then he looks me and goes,
"Can you believe that I had Parkinson's?
This is crazy."
On Raising Spirits when I went to go for a facial,
that was a day that spirit was not allowing me
to have downtime. [laughs]
I ended up delivering a very special message to Michelle.
"How did I end up with this crazy thing?"
- Yes, he said that two days before he passed.
He said to my mom, "How did I end up here?"
- Listen, I know if spirit's gonna interrupt
my day of pampering, it's important.
And I mean, surprise, surprise.
There were many more readings that day.
And here are some readings that you've never seen before.
You have a grandmother that's passed?
- Grandpa. - Oh, your grandfather?
'Cause I kept hearing "Grandma, grandma, grandma."
I'm a grandma, but your grandma's still
here in the physical world? - Yeah.
- [Theresa] Is it their anniversary
or is it just her birthday or something?
- Yeah, it's her birthday. - Oh, perfect.
So just know that he's taking this opportunity
to wish her a happy birthday.
- My grandpa was the best man.
Think about him every day.
- Aw, give me a hug.
- He passed two years ago in his sleep from old age.
And I miss him a lot.
So when Theresa brought up my grandpa,
I just couldn't hold in the tears.
- Now, did your grandfather have an issue with his legs?
- He couldn't really walk.
- Okay, so know that his soul
moves freely on the other side.
He's stretching, and he's like,
"Oh, I haven't felt this good in years, oh yeah."
He did not take with him any disability and or ailment.
He left it with the physical body.
- It made me feel good that I know that he's able to,
she said he's able to stretch.
- Was your grandmother just talking to you
about your grandfather?
- We always talk about him, so.
- So know that when you, when she brings him up
and starts talking about the old days,
know that his soul is with you at that exact moment.
So just know that he watches over still.
- I did need this reading.
It was really nice to know that he's,
he's in a better place.
I'm really excited to tell my grandma on the phone.
She's gonna be so happy.
- Do you know someone that lost the brother
in a car accident or a motorcycle accident?
- That's my uncle. - [Theresa] Oh, okay.
- I never met him, but my mom's brother.
- Okay, do you know if your mom was going to
give you jewelry or there was a discussion about jewelry?
- Yeah. - Okay.
You have your mom's jewelry? - [Geena] Mm-hmm.
- All right, come on, let's go.
Let's go do the facial. - I do.
- We'll see you girls later. [laughing]
She lost her mom.
And I know that Geena,
whenever she's in my presence,
I know she's probably talking to her mom, being like,
"Mom, do not interrupt Theresa.
Like, do not come through."
If I snore, make sure you zoom in 'cause I might drool.
[laughing] - "I might drool."
- Your mom passed 10 years?
- It was just 10, oh my God, July 18th, stop it.
That's so weird.
- You okay? - Yeah.
- Theresa just came for a facial
and it turned into, like, all of us getting a reading.
- [Theresa] I feel like you look exactly like your mom.
- I do.
- [Theresa] It's like, you look exactly like your mom.
- Twins, everyone says it.
- [Theresa] Mm-hmm. - Yep.
My mom passed away 10 years ago and she had breast cancer.
We were best, best friends.
She was just so thoughtful, so generous
and just really was just such a great, great person.
Had a big heart.
I always say she was an angel on Earth.
She was just the best person.
- [Theresa] Your mom wants you to know
that she is very proud of you
'cause you had to make a lot of tough choices and decisions.
- [Geena] It's true.
This is gonna tingle a little bit, just letting you know.
- She said, "But I want you to know that
"I support you on your choices and decisions."
- That's nice to hear.
I think when my mom first passed away,
people would always say to you, "Oh, she's always with you."
And you're just like, "Okay."
You know, not what you wanna hear, but okay.
And I've always worried as a woman,
that I'm gonna have kids one day,
I'm gonna get married one day,
and I always feared that my mom wouldn't be there for me.
And I think after today it just proves
that she will be there for me through every life experience
and I'll always make her proud.
How's the tingling?
- Oh, it's, yeah, it's good. - It's not bad? Okay.
- No, it's not bad. - Okay, good.
- [Theresa] Were you away?
- Yeah, I just got back last night.
- Yeah, your mom said, "Oh my God,
we had the best time when we went away."
- Aww, that's so nice.
So it was my friend's bachelorette,
but her mom and aunt were on the trip and they were like,
"We wanna, like ,get to know your mom.
Like, just tell us all about her."
So I talked about her like the entire time,
which is like so crazy that she said that today.
- [Theresa] Do you see a lot of butterflies with your mom?
- Yes, oh my goodness!
I was just telling all the girls,
the butterflies I've been seeing are so beautiful
because you know, you normally just see
like the white butterflies? - Mm-hmm.
- I've been seeing so many-- - Monarchs.
- Yep, yep.
- She showing me blue, yellow. - Yep, yep.
Because I see butterflies everywhere
and they're not just like those like,
kind of ugly white butterflies.
I see like, the Monarch ones, like big butterflies
and it's always a symbol that I know that she's there.
Like when you're having a bad day, you see a butterfly,
it turns the day.
- She is like, jumping up and down.
She's so excited. - That was her.
- And I'm like, "Oh, what are you excited for?"
She's like, "Oh my God, we talked about
so many things on this trip, Theresa."
- Mm-hmm.
- So are you getting married, or engaged?
- Well, I think so. - Was there a discussion?
- I think so, but I just don't know when it's happening.
- Ah. - I'm pretty sure
my boyfriend bought a ring, but I don't know, yeah.
- She's like, "We're getting married, we're getting married."
- That's what I think is happening.
- Ahh!
- Me and my boyfriend have definitely been talking about
that a lot and I'm trying not to be annoying about it.
I'm just kind of like trying to be,
you know, the cool girlfriend.
But I'm definitely hoping that it's coming soon.
I've been watching Theresa's show for so long
and I've always been amazed by just her gift.
And I think seeing that today really just makes you,
she's amazing, just amazing.
Your skin looks so good.
- Did I fall asleep? - Mm-hmm.
- Did I snore? - You feel good?
A little bit. [laughs] - A little bit, right?
Oh, I feel so good.
- Your skin looks amazing.
- It does? - You are all set.
- Here's a behind the scenes (indistinct).
- [Theresa] Yeah.
- Theresa does not see the shows before they air, ever.
She watches them on television with everyone else.
- [Theresa] Yes.
- And will always text me afterwards and say,
"This was great, this was great, this was great".
But the night we showed that episode,
you just texted me "Snoring, really?"
[Theresa laughs] That was the whole review.
- I mean, it is what it is.
I mean, everybody kind of snores, right?
I find it cute and funny,
and just a little bit embarrassing, but not really.
Yes, take care. - Bye.
- I feel like I was talking to you the whole time
about your mom, but then I must have fallen, no,
I must have fallen asleep.
[laughing] You know what?
You're probably gonna have to come one day
for like, an official reading. [all laugh]
All right, bye, guys.
- [Geena] Bye. - Thank you.
[upbeat music]
- On Raising Spirits, you saw when I was out to lunch
with my cousin and my friend, I did a spontaneous reading
for Jana and Brendan.
I felt that there was a mother energy that stepped forward
and then there was something with the stomach
or something with like, cancer
or something throughout the entire body.
It was so powerful that my crew went back,
caught up with them, and you're gonna see that now.
- And so are you, actually. - Oh, so am I.
So weird to watch myself.
Wait, you have a friend that died?
- Yeah, yeah, my best friend. - Okay.
This poor guy.
- [Producer] Were you expecting a reading that day?
- Absolutely not.
I was expecting a burger and a ginger ale.
[Theresa laughs]
And what I got was something I could never have imagined.
I've been a fan of Theresa's since the beginning, season one.
My girlfriend over here should be the one watching
the reality TV shows.
But in fact, she catches me watching it.
Real men watch reality.
- [Theresa] Yeah, I don't feel good.
- Really?
- My stomach.
I almost feel like I had like, stomach cancer or something.
Like I just see flashes of so many different things.
- I was just out of a Pilates class.
That's how spontaneous this is.
I'm in yoga clothes and now I'm on TV?
- Okay.
- So one of my clients' moms, every day, calls me,
"I need you to go to Theresa, I need you to go to Theresa."
- That was some crazy crap
because my stomach was bothering,
and then all of a sudden this woman walked up
to me from out of nowhere.
- [Dominick] It was crazy because--
- It's crazy.
- I was a little bit late that day.
Jordan texted me and was like, "Where are you?
She's reading."
I was like, "Impossible.
You guys haven't even started rolling yet."
He's like, "No, they sat down and then she popped up."
- I don't know if that's like crazy, but like.
- So what happened was we were just sitting here,
we were just talking and I kept
feeling all these different things.
So I felt that there was a mother energy
that stepped forward.
And then there was something with the stomach
or something with like, cancer
or something throughout the entire body.
- Wait, no, my mom, like, died of ovarian cancer.
- Okay.
- She was completely on point.
- Is your mom gone for some time?
- Yeah.
- Because she just said, "Oh my God, you gotta get up.
You gotta give my daughter a hug.
I haven't seen her in so long," aww.
- Theresa made me feel like my mom was there.
Theresa kind of reminds me of my mom.
My mom was the life of the party everywhere she went.
I actually lost my mom Thanksgiving of 2018
and I'm always gonna be sad that
she'll never get to know Brendan.
- She said, "I don't want you to feel
that I missed out on a lot of your milestones.
I have not missed out on your life."
And she says that the work that you do
and what you do is so special.
She says, "I am so proud of you."
- When you don't have your mom anymore,
you want all these moments.
Like, they mean something.
So as much as she was telling me a really sad story,
it made me feel better that I was able to at least have
that one interaction with her after death.
- And she goes, "When are you gonna
ask my daughter to marry you?
Enough already."
[laughing] - Theresa, I propose every day.
The funniest part about meeting Theresa
is that my mom's waiting for the ring from Brendan.
And that made me feel like she's really here.
That's something that she really would say.
- I kept looking at you, right?
Hi, how are you?
Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Your mom is making me feel like
she kind of placed him in your path.
- Wow, yeah.
First, the only thing I thought of was
Theresa was coming for, to speak to Jana about her mother.
- Wait, you have a friend that died?
- Yeah, yeah, my best friend.
- Did he die tragically?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Did you just get like, a chill?
- Yeah.
- [Theresa] Know that was his soul that moved through you.
- Whoa, I feel it right now.
- [Theresa] Validating that they are very proud of you.
- Well, this is the best day ever, best lunch ever.
Somebody I think about every day,
no matter how many years go by, it's still like yesterday.
- So he says, "I want you to know how happy I am for you
because you overcome so many things."
- Oh my God.
- So I don't know, did you stop doing something,
or you, because he showed me a sobriety coin?
- Yeah, yeah, addiction, yeah.
When Peter passed away,
my way of coping with it, at the time, was drinking.
I honestly almost died three times from pancreatitis.
I know that if Peter was here today,
he would be the proudest.
Peter was always the one to like, you know, kind of be like,
snap me back into shape.
- He just handed you a sobriety coin.
- There's no way. - What?
- There's no way.
- We were talking about that before.
- He's in recovery right now.
I feel like at the time that she read you,
you actually were struggling.
- I might've been thinking about drinking like, that day.
And I was sober, but I was like...
- Because he was sober for eight years.
- Barely gripping on.
I was at the right place at the right time.
So was Theresa and so is Peter.
You get tired sometimes, lonely.
There's so many different reasons.
Life happens and you want to hit the bottle.
But hearing from Peter has given me the strength.
I've got somebody bigger outside of me,
in my corner, supporting me every step of the way.
I didn't drink that day and I haven't had a drink since.
- All right, thank you guys so much, God bless, take care.
People go through stuff every day of their life.
That's why I love doing what I do.
That's why I have to say things. [Dominick laughs]
Because if I didn't say anything,
God knows what would've happened.
- [Dominick] Yeah, for sure.
- And they're so cute together. - They're amazing.
They're really great.
- No, he, you have not popped the question yet,
but you did say...
- 2024, so we're moving forward.
- I feel much better. - [Courtney] Excellent.
- I'm gonna eat the regular pickle.
I went for the regular pickle, not the fried pickle.
You want a pickle, Mike?
♪ Give me the light
[uplifting music]
I don't know if you remember, but on Raising Spirits,
I went to the grocery store here on Long Island
and then all of a sudden, I got the case of dry mouth.
You get like, cotton mouth
or like, your heart starts racing and stuff?
Like does that ever happen to you, or is it just me?
- So I end up leaving the store, I'm putting my bags in the car,
and this woman approaches me, very nice, in the parking lot
and it turns out that she was the one that was connected
to the soul with the dry mouth.
- Who do you know who passed tragically?
- Well, my dad passed in January
and his mouth was so, like a lot of--
- Don't even tell me, was his mouth dry a lot?
- Yes, very dry, he wasn't able to drink.
- Do you remember when I walked, Mike, where's Mike?
So I used to be able to walk into a space
and I could be like, "Oh, there's three father souls,
four young women, there's a child," like I could..
Now for some reason, spirit,
I feel the way that they died first.
And I don't know if it's because, I don't know why.
And I guess that's just how my gift keeps
changing and evolving, right?
- [Dominick] What did it used to be?
What would you feel?
- It used to be, I would feel the bond and relationship.
Then they would sometimes show me the sign
or the symbol of the burden or guilt
and then tell me how they passed.
But now I find it, they come to me first on how they died.
Sometimes, they'll just say, "This is how I died.
This is the burden of guilt."
And I'm like, "Well, who am I talking to?"
Like, I have to ask sometimes.
- [Dominick] Yeah, we followed up with her recently.
- Oh, you did? - Are you ready to see?
- A little over five months ago.
It was a hot day, I remember I was sweating a little bit.
I saw Theresa in a parking lot.
I mean, I knew the trademark hair
and I was like, "Oh my God, that's really her."
When I was next to her, I said, "Did you pick up anything?
Did anybody come through?"
Do you have any just quick, what about any,
are you picking up anything from me?
- [laughs] I was gonna just say to you, do you,
how do you know someone that passed from the head
or something of the brain?
Because I, so sometimes when I feel like
a sharp pain in the head, it's an aneurysm, brain tumor--
- Okay.
- As soon as Theresa started reading me, I knew that
what she was gonna say was, would be spot on, and it was.
- No matter what he was going through, how sick he was,
he always put on this, like this strong persona or like,
"I'm fine, I'm not sick, I'm good, I'm good."
- He never missed a day of work.
He never was home.
My children never saw him like, lying on the couch
complaining, "I have a headache."
- [Theresa] Yep. - Went to work six days a week.
I miss my husband very much.
After the reading with Theresa, I mean,
I talk to him all the time.
You, you know, sometimes I'll be driving when I'll just say,
"Oh my God, Jerry, you can't believe."
I talk to him all the time.
- But who do you know who passed tragically?
- Well, my dad passed in January.
- Was his mouth dry?
- Yes, very dry and he wasn't able to drink.
- Do you remember when I walked, where's Mike?
Remember, I said to you when I walked in there,
I go, I am so nervous in this grovery store
and my mouth is so dry.
- I used to have to wipe his mouth out with water.
Theresa's reading was amazing.
It's so different when it's about you,
when it happens to you.
My father John passed in January.
That's the way you think of it, it's done.
But she kind of brought them back to me.
It's actually quite amazing.
- Your husband says, "I want you to know that I was there
to greet your dad--" - Good.
- "When he passed."
- Theresa told me that it was my husband
that greeted my father.
I spoke about my husband a lot
to my father in the last couple of days
when he was very, very, you know, almost,
he was on his way out.
I said, "Dad, remember that you gotta tell Jerry
that me and the kids miss him very much."
And he said, "Yeah, I'll do it."
You know, shaking his head.
So yes, it was all validated.
- So know that they all stand here in this moment
and they want to thank you for the way that you,
in a sense, put your life on the back burner.
- Yes. - For them, for them.
- Theresa's reading made me realize that now, it's my time.
Like I did what I, I did the best I could.
But now she made me realize that yes, now, it's time
that I move on a little bit
and maybe do something, you know, do something for me.
They wanna see me happy.
- [Theresa] Aww. - This was great.
- I wish you all the best. - Thank you.
It was so nice to meet you. - And I can't wait, aw.
- Yeah, yes. - Oh, good luck to you.
- I just thought it was amazing that she took the time.
And if there are any skeptics, go for a reading yourself.
For me, everything was validated and uplifting.
- Bye. - Bye.
[Theresa laughs]
- Oh, look at me, I got my door open, I'm a mess.
- [Dominick] That was really quick.
That exchange was only probably- - Oh, yeah.
- [Dominick] 10 minutes long and it changed her life.
- Changed her life.
No, you don't need, you know, an hour long reading.
At the end of the day, no matter if my interaction
with someone is long or short,
spirit gets their message through
and gives us the gift of healing.
- Five months later, I think I've come to terms with,
you know, the grief, the sorrow.
Now it's like, I'm ready to put myself on the front,
the front burner and move on.
[bright music]
- Okay, that's a wrap, let's eat.
It's lunchtime, it's really lunchtime.
Now, I'm hungry for real.
- I was hungry before.
I gave up cursing for Lent,
so that's why I haven't cursed.
Is everybody's phone off?
Next week, on Beyond the Readings.
I know that that was not a coincidence.
I gotta take a nap, I think.
That was a tough one.
- Theresa gave my child a window to her father.
And for that, I am eternally grateful.
- I make her sauce.
- She says it's too loose, you gotta thicken it.
[Theresa laughing] - Oh my God.
Are you kidding me?
[Theresa screams] [glass shatters]
- I literally felt like I was in a boxing ring.
It was just bam, bam, bam.
I can't do this today.