Are My Spirit Guides Trying to Reach Me?
One of the questions I hear more than almost any other is, "Do I have Spirit Guides?" The answer I give is usually much simpler than people expect.
Yes.
Whether you believe in them or not doesn't determine whether they're present. From my perspective, Spirit Guides are part of the spiritual support system we each have throughout our lives. The bigger question isn't whether you have them—it's whether you've learned to recognize how they communicate.
Most people expect Spirit Guides to show up with flashing lights, booming voices, or some dramatic spiritual experience. In my experience, that's rarely how it happens. More often than not, their guidance is subtle. It can feel like a gut instinct, an idea that seems to come out of nowhere, a dream you can't stop thinking about, or an unexplainable feeling pulling you toward—or away from—something.
I can see those moments like these sprinkled throughout my own life, long before I understood what mediumship or Spirit Guides even were.
One experience has stayed with me for decades.
I was about eight years old, growing up in Fairborn, Ohio, back when kids walked to and from school without a second thought. One afternoon, I was walking home when a dark blue van drove past me. I thought I recognized one of my older brother's friends sitting in the passenger seat. He smiled and waved.
Naturally, I waved back.
The van pulled over, the side door slid open, and without thinking much about it, I climbed inside.
The moment I sat down, I looked up and realized I didn't know either of the adults in the van.
My stomach dropped.
I immediately started crying and telling them I needed to get out. They kept trying to reassure me that everything was okay, but every part of me knew it wasn't. I reached for the door handle while the van was still moving. The driver pulled over, I jumped out, and I ran all the way home without ever looking back.
Oddly enough, I wasn't crying because I thought I'd almost been kidnapped. I was crying because I was convinced I was going to get grounded for getting into a stranger's van. I never told my parents. In fact, my family still won’t know about it unless they’re reading this.
Now that I've raised four children of my own, I fully understand how differently that day could have ended.
Do I know with absolute certainty that my Spirit Guides intervened?
No.
None of us can prove exactly how Spirit works.
What I do know is that something inside me knew I wasn't safe, and I listened.
Today, I personally believe my Spirit Guides helped amplify that inner knowing. Someone else may explain it as instinct. Another person may call it intuition. Neither explanation bothers me because, in the end, what matters most is that I listened. What you call it isn’t the point, the action is still the same.
That's actually one of the biggest misconceptions I see in spirituality. People become so focused on identifying whether a message came from Spirit Guides, intuition, angels, or coincidence that they miss the more important question.
Did the guidance help you?
Sometimes we become so determined to label the experience that we overlook the wisdom it was trying to offer.
People often ask me another question: "If Spirit Guides protect us, why do bad things still happen?"
I wish I had an answer that could explain every painful experience any of us has ever lived through.
I don't.
I've experienced grief, trauma, loss, and heartbreak just like many of you have. My personal belief isn't that Spirit Guides prevent every difficult experience from happening. I believe they walk beside us through those experiences, offering comfort, guidance, strength, and sometimes protection in ways we don't fully recognize until much later.
I've found that hindsight is often where I notice Spirit most clearly.
So, are your Spirit Guides trying to reach you? Maybe.
Or maybe they've been reaching you all along.
Maybe that feeling you couldn't explain, the dream you couldn't shake, the person who unexpectedly crossed your path, or the quiet nudge to do something differently wasn't random after all.
The goal isn't to become obsessed with finding signs. The goal is to become more aware of your own life.
That's exactly why I created The Intuitive Path. One of the twelve classes is devoted entirely to understanding Spirit Guides, not from a place of fear or dependency, but from a place of curiosity, discernment, and relationship. My hope isn't that you'll believe exactly what I believe. My hope is that you'll become curious enough to discover what feels true for you.
May you always have food on your table, light in your life, and love in your heart.
Your Magical Medium,
Shelley Leggett – Spiritual Badass
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