Soul Channeling Session | Donna Somerville
So, I’m the luckiest girl in the world: for my birthday last year, my mom bought me a reading with Donna Somerville, a spiritual channel. It was one of those presents where my immediate response was a big, excited, “ugh, you just get me!”
I’ve done a lot of different ‘energy reading’ modalities, but this one was really special. Usually in a reading, you’re asking your guides—or higher self, or soul—questions that guide you toward your highest good. But in this session your soul asks YOU questions about your human experience.
Donna offers a variety of readings—many of them more traditional in nature—but my mom had recently tried the one called ‘Questions FROM Your Soul’ and found it absolutely fascinating. So she encouraged me to give it a try.
I can’t seem to find my recording of this session, which is a major bummer. As you know, I always recommend recording your healing sessions. But now I guess I ALSO recommend that you give it an easy-to-locate file name. *shrug* I guess I’ll be recalling this one from memory. Shouldn’t be too hard—it was pretty memorable.
Oh, but WAIT! Here’s a real-time update: I just found an email that I wrote to my mom right after the session, which I’ll use to jog my memory. And would you look at how I start the email. No “Hi, mom!” … just: “Holy cow! I just finished my session and it was mind-blowing.” So, I guess prepare to have your mind blown.
My experience | June 20, 2018
Donna is located in Canada, so she uses video conferencing to connect. I’d never had a long-distance healing, so I was a bit weary of what to expect. As soon as we connected, she explained a little bit about her ethos behind creating this particular session. And then she let me know that when she drops into her channeling state, she tends to make a sort of garbled noise as she translates what my soul essence has to say. I let her know I’m ready, and off we go.
I didn’t tell her anything about myself before we started.
It’s hard not to feel slightly distracted—at least at first—as she drops in. The sounds she makes do sound a bit alien, and because we weren’t face-to-face, I was abundantly aware of how strange it felt to watch someone drop into this kind of state—for me—as I watch on my computer. I guess it felt a little voyeuristic.
Once she dropped in, she assumed a sort of character. Her voice was even in tone, almost what you’d expect from an all-knowing alien life form. Her eyes sort of disappeared, as if lost in space.
She began by telling me that my soul felt very distant. She felt like I had a guard up. (Not the first time I'd heard that). She said my heart chakra was closed off (also not the first time I'd heard that)... and then she asked me if I understood what free will was. I said yes. Then she asked, "do you understand that in your free will, you may have closed a door to us. It is as though you want to connect to us, but it is conditional." My heart sank a little bit. Me? Closed off from my soul?? But I do so much to try to connect!
So I responded by letting her know I wanted to connect, and didn’t realize I’d closed a door.
Donna—speaking as my soul—went on to tell me that I had experienced many lifetimes, and in one of them in particular, I had no 'discernment.' In that life, I made a commitment to the Gods and Goddesses, studying at a temple (this information aligned with a reading I had done the previous year, where I’d been told I was a monk in a past life) and went through life with no discernment. That is to say: I always did was I was told, loyally, blindly. And at the end of my life, on my death bed, I realized that in being TOO open to the energies of the universe I had been taken advantage of. Because some of the energies I invited in weren’t benevolent and they wreaked havoc on my life. So I made a vow as I died to be more discerning in future lives. And in subsequent lifetimes, this guardedness has come in handy. But in this lifetime, my life was designed to be, as Donna put it, “simpler.” It was designed this way on purpose to teach me that I didn't need to be guarded toward the energies around me. By casting ALL of the energies out, I was also shutting myself off to my soul connection.
This resonated with me—when I was a child, I had a few prolific experiences seeing ‘unknown’ entities. I saw a few ghosts, once walked through my mom as she stood in my doorway ‘astral traveling’ to visit me at night, and was deathly afraid of the dark, certain there were shadows who were coming for me. Because my mom was also gifted in this way, she taught me how to protect myself with light. But I was so afraid of this unknown, I eventually asked to turn it off. And so I did. It wasn’t until adulthood that I began to try to reopen those gifts.
Then Donna—still speaking as my soul—asked if I wanted to walk through an exercise that would help me connect with it. YEP, SURE DID.
From here we began a sort of guided meditation. She walked me into my heart space to meet my soul. And right as I got there, I. Just. Started. Sobbing. She asked me to describe what I was feeling. I told her I felt like an abandoned child reuniting with a parent for the first time. It was overwhelming, this emotion. I remember being so surprised by it. Never in a million years did I think I would be so vulnerable in front of a woman I’d never met—over video chat.
She went on to tell me that the child I’d connected to was my divine child—that she'd been sitting lonely for so long, but that she was my pure self, my true essence. Donna asked if I felt I could trust this child. I said yes. So she guided me through inviting this divine child to crawl into my heart chakra... and then she said, "now you can use the feeling of her presence to discern what is good for you and what is not."
At that moment I felt a lightness in my chest. It was overwhelmingly awesome. There’s really no other way to describe it.
I went on to mention that as a child, I was afraid of the energetic forces I could feel. She asked if I’d like to be able to connect to those forces again, this time from a place of being able to trust myself to discern good from bad without being too open or too closed. YES TO THAT, TOO.
So get this: then she tells me that there's a grandmother who has been in my energy field—not mine, but a lost soul. And I internally freaked out because at the same previous reading where I’d been told I was a monk in a past life, I was ALSO told that there was a grandmother energy coming up but the reader wasn’t sure if it was maternal or paternal. Crazy, right?!
Second sidenote: I found out months later that a woman who lived in my apartment had actually grown old and died here (not IN the apartment, but she was living here when she passed at a local hospital). Those who know me well know that for the first few years in this apartment, I could feel a female energy watching me as I slept, which (understandably) freaked me out. I was able to get the ‘angry’ energy to leave by introducing a salt lamp and saging (that’s a weird story for another day), but I guess this grandmother energy was set on sticking around.
Donna proceeded to teach me to use my inner child to identify the energies around me and whether they were safe. She instructed me how to use the energy of ‘love’ to protect myself when I needed boundaries.
She even tested me by inviting another energy into my energetic field. She asked me to check with my inner child to see if this energy was welcome in my space. I couldn't feel any lightness in my chest, so I said no. And Donna replied, "good. Do you still feel safe?" I did.
So THEN she said, "I still sense discomfort. And fear. There's a part of you who is still uncomfortable, is this true?" YES, UH HUH. So then we introduced that fear-self to my divine child.
It was wild.
By the end, when I was given an opportunity to ask my soul a question, I asked if I could use this newfound relationship with my divine child to help me find clarity on my career path. What she said next felt like she was reading my… well, soul.
She said, "we see a 10 year-old child within you that is wounded. She prefers to stay in her comfort zone. She is stuck in an in-between place, uncomfortable with becoming a woman. You need to talk to her, to tell her all of the things you love about being an adult woman. Because right now, she is keeping you from moving forward. She is hesitant. If you can comfort her, your path will clear by 35%."
35%! Those are some good odds! But in all seriousness, it resonated as deeply as it did because I’d been FEELING like there was a part of me that was SO resistant to forward progress. It felt like there was a part of me that wanted to stay stuck. So for her to say this so candidly was extremely validating and offered a great deal of clarity. But more than that: it gave me a tool and an exercise I could use to move ahead.
The entire session lasted almost an hour.
When Donna came back to, out of my ‘soul’ state, her energy shifted entirely. She told me (and I’m paraphrasing here), ‘I have to admit, this reading has never gone that direction before. At first I was surprised because you were coming off like a beginner soul, it felt so distant from you. And I found that odd because I don’t often get clients who are beginner souls. But then all of this information came through. And it was clear that you were ready for this!’
Takeaways:
I stepped away from this session feeling radically different, and deeply understood.
I also felt that I was walking away with tangible tools to not only connect to my self (and soul) on a deeper level, but to address my fear for the unknown—both in terms of energetics and in terms of career.
Donna is exceptionally kind, and I really enjoyed the direction that this went even though it seems like it was a bit a-typical from her standard session.
Since this session, over 6 months ago, I have worked more intricately with my heart chakra and divine child—as well as the 10 year-old child inside who felt hesitant about growing up. It’s incredible how much can change in less than a year, because I truly feel that I’ve been able to integrate the fear child almost completely. And I’ve had much more access to dropping into my body and connecting with my felt-sensations (that lightness in my chest when things are safe and good for me). I sometimes forget that this is my divine child, but the practice seems to be benefitting me all the same. And for such a beautiful introduction to this practice, I am eternally grateful.
Final Verdict: Highly Recommend for Those Who Are Open
I think this one could be tough for someone who is skeptical or new to channeling. Many channels will grumble incoherently as they ‘receive’ information, so you have to be able to separate your skeptical mind from the part of you who is open to receiving whatever knowledge is passed to you.
If you do feel open, however, and this post excited you: DO IT. Donna is full of love and leads from a place of light, so I felt entirely safe exploring this realm with her. I was extraordinarily empowered by our session—and it really did leave me feeling more connected to my soul. I think her gift is truly magical.
In hindsight, this session turned out to mark a necessary step in learning how to connect to my heart space, which I had clearly been avoiding for some time. I think it propelled a lot of beautiful changes for my sense of self.
For more information on Donna Somerville and her services, visit her website. She’s got some free meditations to offer, as well.