Today I spoke with Nicole Sacchitella, a gifted intuitive and co-owner of High Heart Healing based out of Boulder, CO. Nicole took an interesting path that has combined both an academic study of religion with the study and practice of intuitive healing. Welcome, Nicole!
Mari Melby: How did you get into doing intuitive readings?
Nicole Sacchitella: My whole life, my mother was convinced that I was quite psychic, but of course, we don’t like to listen to our moms. So I was like, “Whatever, Mom.” But when I was a kid, I used to have very vivid dreams before really emotionally intense events would happen. So it’s almost like when the event would happen, I would have dreamed about it in perfect detail the day before, and in some way almost be protected from it. I would obviously talk to my mom about this, and she was like, “See! I’m telling you!” and you know, I just didn’t want to listen to my mom. Then I went to school and really tried to pursue the rational route. I’m just such an intuitive person that I couldn’t force myself into a rational state of mind, and I ended up having a really hard time in school even though I’m a good student. I started seeing Julie {Julie Cobb of High Heart Healing} and when I asked her about my PhD scholarships and all my work in academia, she was like, you know, I just don’t see you doing that, I see you doing what I’m doing.” I really enjoyed seeing Julie, I really trusted her, and it was the one thing where just I totally resisted it and I said, “No, I still don’t think that’s what I’m supposed to do.” So I kept going to school. It was like an uphill battle, and finally I lost a major funding source. I ended up dropping out of school because I was so tired, and I just got this little bug up my butt to go to the Psychic Horizons Center and take a class. The first time I was there, they forced us to read strangers who were coming in and I had a really profound experience reading someone. It sort of hit me. All of these moments in my life that were like “You are psychic! You can do this!” kind of compounded and I left there at 23, and for the first time in my life was like, “Wow! Maybe this is what I was supposed to do!”
MM: What do you like about reading people?
NS: Reading people doesn’t feel like work. It’s a really special experience for me where I feel like I get to drop into my own being, my own essence, and also be with someone else’s and talk to them about it. So for me, reading other people is like healing myself and also getting to experience something out of this world, something that I don’t get to see with my eyes everyday and so it really uplifts me. Even today when I have 8 readings and I’m thinking, “Oh, God, it feels like work,” after every reading, I feel so uplifted. It’s the opposite feeling of leaving a day of work because it’s a really special time where I get to connect with myself and other people.
MM: What has been your craziest reading?
NS: There are so many. There is one that was nearest and dearest. I struggled with an eating disorder for a really long time and that was a part of my healing process before I started doing readings. I saw a string of people who all knew each other who all had eating disorders. I actually felt kind of stuck reading them everyday. Finally, for some reason, one of them came in and I really wanted to read differently. I ended up in the reading seeing myself as if I was surrounded by a hall of mirrors, and that was her energy—that feeling I have of being in a hall of mirrors and seeing yourself totally distorted and essentially the way that you think other people see you. And so it was a sort of breakthrough reading, not only for that girl—a new way or image for me to talk to her about her own body perception, but it really helped me understand the way that I perceived my body. So I guess that one isn’t particularly interesting, but it’s special to me because it helped me so much.
MM: Have you ever received negative feedback or criticism about your work, and how have you dealt with that?
NS: Yes—one time—it was a friend of my husband’s. I find that I am most anxious when I read people that I know. Even still to this day-there is a level of anxiety. He came for a reading, and when I read him he was asking about investments. What I read for him was essentially that what he was trying to manifest—a partnership and a family—was congruent with this one investment he was making. I was reading it in his body and I was like, “No, I’m positive, you’re all good, that’s definitely what you’re wanting.” He liked the reading at the time. Two weeks later, I ran into him, and he invested the money, immediately lost it, his girlfriend broke up with him—all these supposedly terrible things happened, and he was like, “Well that’s a bummer, isn’t it?” And I felt terrible. Then a few more months went by, and he came back to our house for coffee, and he was like, “You know, that was the best thing that ever happened to me. The girlfriend I was with at the time was not who I should have married. I actually met this other woman. We’re about to elope, and she has some land.” And all of the things that he wanted came to him, but indirectly. That was really hard feedback, but then given enough time, it all worked out for his best interest, and so even when I say something and it’s not totally congruent or it doesn’t totally resonate for the person, I realize that it may not resonate in the moment but it may resonate later. That’s how I deal with and accept that. Our energy is too big and who knows how it will pan out in the future? I just say what I think and that’s all I can do.
MM: What advice do you have for someone who is interested in doing intuitive readings?
NS: You know, I think for myself, I was so lucky to find Julie, because she’s made up very similar to myself or reads in a way similar way to myself where she really believes in feeling and then talking from a feeling. Most of the teachers I have met in my life and people who do it or practice or offer classes don’t think that feeling is the best way to go about accessing your intuition. And what I’ve found is however you access your intuition—whether it’s that you throw coffee beans or you feel the way it feels in your left toe—whatever it is—find someone who understands, respects, and can nurture your specific intuitive gift. Or if you know that you can disregard what other people say and take what resonates for you, because I find that our intuition is so personal, it really is about nurturing that personal gift and not trying to make your intuitive gift look like someone else’s.
Thanks, Nicole! I loved hearing about how she overcome her resistance to doing intuitive work and also her take on nurturing whatever kind of intuitive gift that you have rather than trying to be like someone else. For more information on Nicole's business, click here.