Moms to KNOW: Meet Amy Dascola medium coach and spiritual healer

Moms to Know

Amy Dascola | Medium Coach and Spiritual Teacher

amydascola.com @amydascolamedium

by Julie Tingley, @weemacree

Each of us is born with something that is different, special and meant to be shared with the world. Now imagine that what makes you different is the ability to experience life, people and energy on a different level than what is being lived in front of you. This can be a lot to process, especially if you’re only 6 years old. But for Amy Dascola, this was an important part of who she was—a psychic medium and now, a local mom to know.

TBPM: At what age did you realize your intuition was extraordinary?

AD: Growing up I always felt and tuned into energy around me. I lived all around the world and went to kindergarten in London, England, in an American school in a 700-year-old manor. I remember eating lunch in the cafeteria in the basement of this place and feeling energy that was not mine. It was here, at 6 years old, that I went through my first awareness that I understood things differently than other people. At 11, I began to have a spiritual awakening. I was able to understand things about those around me that were not spoken or known. People connected very easily with me, baring their souls and issues with me. In turn, I began doing impromptu soul readings. Being able to understand that I had insight into how people perceive themselves and what they are feeling allowed me to easily make friends as we moved around a lot, and to connect deeply with people and animals.

TBPM: What or who influenced you to share your gifts and live and work as a medium?

TBPM: Talk to us about the programs you created.

AD: I was a special education teacher for 15 years, working in high needs schools with students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD). This work fulfilled me and equally drained me more than anything I had ever experienced. I was able to make tremendous impacts on my students and transform their behaviors due to my abilities as a behavior specialist, a medium and an empath. I knew how to reach them, their core issues, and transform these feelings and behaviors through intense interventions and accommodations. I was able to see my students because I saw myself in them.

The minute I met my daughter I knew I no longer had the energy it required to both teach and be a mom. I started putting out to the universe that I wanted to work from home, so I could be the type of mother I wanted to be for my daughter. I didn't know how, but I did know that if my intention was strong enough, I put in the work and stayed open to possibilities, I could manifest anything. Here I am now as a medium, mentor and spiritual teacher. If I gave into the spiral of anxiety and doubt, then I wouldn't be here living my purpose.

TBPM: How do you normalize spirituality and spiritual experiences, especially among those that dismiss the abilities and gifts of the psychic community?

AD: I woke up in 2020 one day after taking a Mediumship Zoom workshop and went downstairs to my husband and told him I was going to come out of the closet as a psychic medium that day on Instagram. Since then, I have been serving the public as a medium and coach. I have created spiritual and personal development programs, workshops, development groups and a podcast empowering and leading others through a toolkit of strategies of how to rise up to your higher self and not spiral downward. I have had students come to me broken, lost and hopeless, and after working within my programs, they have found themselves in a space of alignment, spiritually and personally fulfilled and empowered in their daily lives. I offer one program in November and another in March.

TBPM: What do you love to do most with your husband and daughter in Tampa Bay?

AD: We love going to “The Alligator Park” AKA Lettuce Lake Park, and one of our favorite beaches to hang out is Pass-a Grille. I got married there, have channeled my courses and workshops there, and offer beach sessions for my coaching clients. I am volunteering and teaching “Heart Art” at the Tribe in Seminole Heights. My daughter helps me teach breathing techniques, mindfulness and coping skills to kids through literature and art.

If we want to be something different, we must be different. This starts with us and ends with our children. How can you model the behaviors and mindfulness you wish to see in your children? This is how I try to guide myself to parent and act as a wife.

AD: We are all born with the ability to feel and understand energy. We translate this ability as just our senses. Have you ever walked past someone and just known how they felt; or have you ever been nudged to not turn a certain corner while walking? All of these are intuition. I have been judged and labeled my whole life, just as we all have. Whether the label is a mom, teacher, wife, friend or medium, these personas are how we interpret our reality. I have found ways through mentors, therapy and my own development to seek the highest version of myself, the one that spoke the clearest. This self guides me and allows me to see the greatest and highest possibility of all of these personas working in alignment.