Marla Frees has spent 25 years as a successful television and stage actress. For the past 18 years, she has been working as a professional psychic. She is author of American Psychic: A Spiritual Journey from the Heartland to Hollywood, Heaven, and Beyond. Her website is https://www.americanpsychicbook.com/.

Here she describes her challenges as the child of an alcoholic father and an abusive mother as well as the challenges of working as a psychic professional. She enumerates the various individuals who were of help to her along the way. She notes that her experiences as an actress helped her to explore life from the perspective of other people. She explains how intuitive impressions arise in her awareness.

(Recorded on September 6, 2020)

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