If you've seen the show 'Long Island Medium,' you've seen Theresa Caputo's hair, but, of course, that isn't all that she's about.
Caputo is scheduled to be here in Prince George on Saturday (April 6) at the CN Centre for her tour.
She tells PrinceGeorgeMatters she's excited to come back to the city as well as our country.
"I'm very excited to be coming back," she says "I always have amazing experiences when I'm in Canada. I have the most amazing fans. I don't really get to see much, I wish I did you know because waking up in a different city every day but it's always nice to be there. Everyone is always so welcoming and the country is just so beautiful."
Caputo says there wasn't an exact age where she realized that she had the ability to do readings and sense other people's experiences, but that it was always something that was there.
"I've always been sensing things since I was younger," she tells PrinceGeorgeMatters. "It wasn't until later in my 20s that I discovered that not only was I able to connect with my own loved ones but everyone else's. I struggled with my gift for a while because I am a practising Catholic and I couldn't understand why someone would want to come and see a medium. I couldn't understand that."
She says no matter how one loses someone or how someone may die, unfortunately, people are left with feelings such as burden, guilt or other negative emotions that may not give someone the ability to truly heal.
"All of my messages that I deliver are for healing purposes," she says. "You might not expect to hear what you are hearing from your loved ones because they give us what they need to hear and not what we want to hear."
Caputo says when she first started doing her medium work, it was tough to hear stories of other people and their losses but it also gives her hope that she can bring closure to someone else.
"There was a woman who came to me and her brother committed suicide," she says. "That was tough. They're all though. I try to say to people 'a loss is a loss.' Yes, it's terrible when I have to channel someone's child but it's also devastating when someone loses maybe a parent or a spouse or their sibling, so it's really, really hard and no matter how someone passes, it's terrible because they have to live their life without their loved one. By having and coming to the experience (the tour) you have a new found life in a sense. It's like that permission to be happy again and it's ok to smile and it's ok to live life because your loved ones are living life through your eyes."
She also understands that some people may think her gift is "crazy" or they may doubt that she can really communicate with someone else's loved ones.
"Look, I get it," Caputo says. "I'm the first one to say that what I do is crazy, it's impossible, it's insane but spirit has me talk about things that there's no way I could find out, that I wouldn't know about, talk about things that you've personally experienced since they've died or maybe things that you've said to them in your own personal thoughts and prayers that you haven't shared with anyone else. The other amazing thing about the experience (the show) is that I'm not on the stage. Once I give my speech and spirit starts channelling, they move me around the space and have me stop in front of the person and deliver the message. We have cameras that follow me around and screens set up so you can feel and be a part of this amazing experience."
As for what it feels to her being able to bring healing to someone who may still be hurting or struggling with a loss, Caputo says it's really just who she is.
"It's who I am," she says. "It's for me, I never thought of it. I just thought of it 'this is who I am, this is what I do' and to see and feel how someone is completely different after going to one of my live shows or watching Long Island Medium or maybe reading one of my books, how their life has changed, is the most amazing feeling. It's not even a feeling because I don't even know how to explain it, because it's not about me. I feel very blessed and honoured and I consider it a privilege to do what I do and I just feel like by seeing this and feeling the release people are getting, it's just validating that I am doing what exactly what I was supposed to do here in the physical world."
As for her hair, if she's filming, she says she can go through one can of hairspray in two weeks but it isn't the hairspray that does the work. If you want to know what hairspray she uses? Here you go: Matrix Pofroma.
"But it's all in the tease," she says.
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