Help is Out There
Jennifer Wai channels your spirit guides By Tara Ryazansky Photos courtesy of Jennifer Wai ennifer Wai is an intuitive consultant. Sounds like a psychic. “I think people hear the word psychic and think, ‘Call this hotline,’” Wai says. “But it’s all the same thing. I use the word empath and the word intuitive because they encompass it all.” Wai is different from an old infomercial psychic, but she does work by phone. That format helped her fare well during quarantine isolation. When Wai provides a reading, she does a quick assessment of her client around 20 minutes before they speak. “I just need their name,” she says. “I tap into their energy field which is what I call a soul stream.” She filters information that’s given to her by spirit guides. “It’s basically like their guides are talking to my guides,” she says. “A guide could be a being who is incarnated currently somewhere or was incarnated who is related to you in a soul way. They are a soul family member. They have made an agreement with you before you were born into your body.”
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What do these guides look like? “Sometimes it’s an animal. Sometimes it’s like a weird-looking being where I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I want to look at you again,’” Wai laughs. “I’m a Jew from Long Island, so this is all pretty funny to me.”
The Origin Story When Wai leaned into her innate psychic abilities, it wasn’t well received by many in her life. She started exploring her intuitive abilities when she was in her late 30s. “Perfect midlife crisis timing,” she says. “Everybody has these abilities. We’re just socialized out of them.” She watched online documentaries about people who channel aliens and angels and took an intuitive coaching course to build her confidence. “I lost a lot of friends,” Wai says. “I don’t know how to shut up, and I don’t know how to edit myself.” She does talk a mile a minute, with genuine excitement. “A lot of people were freaked out by it.” A community of believers gravitates to all things new-age. Wai was in the early stages of planning a fest in Van Vorst Park when COVID-19 broke out. She wanted folks to attend workshops, receive readings, energy work, or reiki healing. With nonessential activities shut down, the event was cancelled.
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