holywood model: Mediums Are the New Therapists

By the time the medium kicked off the online séance in late 2021, more than 120 people had signed on in hopes of making contact with the dead. One assumes that each had lost someone close to them—a parent, sibling, child—and there was a shared sense of pain, grief, and confusion. The medium told the group that if he succeeded in reaching their loved one, they should let him know in the chat. <br><br>Some people would find a mass séance, conducted via a mass video chat, impersonal, even callous. But the attendees seemed hopeful that their friend or family member could make their voice heard through the spiritual noise. They lit candles; they asked for what any of us would want.

It is difficult to describe what the loss of a family member does to a person. While some people mourn and recover, others have nightmares or develop PTSD. When a loss is particularly brutal—a suicide, for example, or the death of a child—traditional methods of coping, even extreme ones, can fail. "They torture themselves…with every single thing they might have done so that it wouldn't have happened," says Camille Wortman, a grief expert who works with bereaved families. And when that happens, it is not uncommon for the bereaved to call on the help of a group of strangers for solace who have what you might generously call a mixed record on honesty and ethics. They hire mediums." title="By the time the medium kicked off the online séance in late 2021, more than 120 people had signed on in hopes of making contact with the dead. One assumes that each had lost someone close to them—a parent, sibling, child—and there was a shared sense of pain, grief, and confusion. The medium told the group that if he succeeded in reaching their loved one, they should let him know in the chat.

Some people would find a mass séance, conducted via a mass video chat, impersonal, even callous. But the attendees seemed hopeful that their friend or family member could make their voice heard through the spiritual noise. They lit candles; they asked for what any of us would want. "Did he suffer?" one mom asked of her son's drowning. "Or was it quick?"

It is difficult to describe what the loss of a family member does to a person. While some people mourn and recover, others have nightmares or develop PTSD. When a loss is particularly brutal—a suicide, for example, or the death of a child—traditional methods of coping, even extreme ones, can fail. "They torture themselves…with every single thing they might have done so that it wouldn't have happened," says Camille Wortman, a grief expert who works with bereaved families. And when that happens, it is not uncommon for the bereaved to call on the help of a group of strangers for solace who have what you might generously call a mixed record on honesty and ethics. They hire mediums.">

Mediums Are the New Therapists

By the time the medium kicked off the online séance in late 2021, more than 120 people had signed on in hopes of making contact with the dead. One assumes that each had lost someone close to them—a parent, sibling, child—and there was a shared sense of pain, grief, and confusion. The medium told the group that if he succeeded in reaching their loved one, they should let him know in the chat.

Some people would find a mass séance, conducted via a mass video chat, impersonal, even callous. But the attendees seemed hopeful that their friend or family member could make their voice heard through the spiritual noise. They lit candles; they asked for what any of us would want. "Did he suffer?" one mom asked of her son's drowning. "Or was it quick?"

It is difficult to describe what the loss of a family member does to a person. While some people mourn and recover, others have nightmares or develop PTSD. When a loss is particularly brutal—a suicide, for example, or the death of a child—traditional methods of coping, even extreme ones, can fail. "They torture themselves…with every single thing they might have done so that it wouldn't have happened," says Camille Wortman, a grief expert who works with bereaved families. And when that happens, it is not uncommon for the bereaved to call on the help of a group of strangers for solace who have what you might generously call a mixed record on honesty and ethics. They hire mediums.

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