The Buffet of Psychicness: Medical Intuition, Ancestral Healing & Learning to Trust Your Inner Knowing
About this episode:
In this episode of the Thrive with Cate podcast, Cate Stillman sits down with Julie Ryan — psychic medium, medical intuitive, inventor of surgical devices, and serial entrepreneur — to explore what she calls “the buffet of psychicness.”
From communicating with deceased loved ones to scanning the body like a human MRI, Julie shares how intuitive abilities aren’t rare gifts reserved for the chosen few — they’re part of our natural human physiology.
Together, Cate and Julie bridge Eastern wisdom, modern entrepreneurship, ancestral healing, and practical spirituality — offering listeners a grounded, empowering way to think about intuition, energy healing, and the evolution of consciousness.
This is a conversation about remembering what we already are.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why everyone has psychic ability — and how to access it
- How intuition gets trained out of us (and how to reclaim it)
- What a “medical intuitive” actually does
- How energy leaks precede illness
- Why children naturally communicate with spirit
- The role of ancestral healing in clearing generational patterns
- How spirituality and practicality can work together
From Surgical Devices to Psychic Medium
Julie Ryan’s path wasn’t predictable.
She founded nine companies across five industries and invented surgical devices sold worldwide. As she shares with Cate:
“I did not know I had these abilities… I learned how to be a psychic medium and medical intuitive. And now I teach people all over the world how to do it. And everybody has the ability.”
Her awakening began over 30 years ago after reading Anatomy of the Spirit and studying energy healing. What followed wasn’t mystical theatrics — it was disciplined training and decades of refinement.
Today, Julie teaches what she spent 30 years mastering — in a weekend.
Her method?
“It’s 10% technique, 90% transfer of energy.”
No elaborate rituals required. No hours of meditation necessary. Instead, she teaches people how to turn intuitive abilities on and off instantly.
Your Head Is a Satellite Dish
One of Julie’s simplest explanations is also her most powerful:
“Our heads are like big satellite dishes. They receive and transmit frequencies.”
Every spirit, she explains, carries a consistent energetic frequency. When you think of someone — living or deceased — you tune into that frequency. Communication becomes possible instantly.
The validation comes in subtle ways:
- The first thought that pops into your mind
- An answer arriving before you finish the question
- A feeling, image, or sensation
The biggest barrier? Trust.
Why We Don’t Trust Ourselves
Cate highlights something many parents and leaders notice — intuition gets trained out of us.
Julie traces this back to the industrial education system:
“We were trained to be employees. We were trained to follow a boss… and to negate our own intuition.”
Memorize. Repeat. Conform.
Meanwhile, children naturally see and sense beyond the visible.
Julie shares that until about age six or seven, children communicate with spirits easily — until adults dismiss it as imagination.
Her children’s book series was written because families asked: How do we explain this to kids?
The takeaway?
Intuition isn’t rare. It’s remembered.
What Is a Medical Intuitive?
Julie describes herself as “a human MRI.”
She connects energetically to a person and perceives the body as a holographic image — identifying infections, injuries, and energetic imbalances.
In one recent session, she worked with a woman struggling with fertility. Julie perceived scar tissue in the left fallopian tube and asked:
“Did you by any chance have an ectopic pregnancy?”
The client had.
Julie explains that healing isn’t about fixing someone. It’s about restoring energetic integrity so the body can heal itself.
“Nobody ever heals anybody else. We help the person heal themselves.”
Energy Leaks and Illness
A core concept Julie teaches is the “energy field membrane.”
Imagine your spirit and body encased in a thin energetic layer — like a plastic bag holding water around a goldfish.
If there’s a small tear, energy slowly leaks.
At first, nothing seems wrong. But over time, depletion shows up physically.
According to Julie:
- Emotional events create energy blocks
- Blocks cause ruptures in the energy field
- Energy leaks precede physical illness
When the original emotional rupture is identified and illuminated, the membrane repairs — and vitality returns.
Ancestral Healing & Clearing Patterns
Cate shares a deeply personal story of clearing a lifelong overeating pattern.
Through an Ayurvedic ancestral ritual (Tarpanam), she connected with her grandfather — who had survived starvation in Russia and later overate as a survival imprint.
The ritual didn’t just bring understanding.
It cleared the pattern.
Julie affirms this through her own lens:
Emotional imprints — whether from this lifetime or another — influence our current physiology and behavior. When illuminated, they dissolve.
It’s not about blame. It’s about awareness.
Past Lives & The Hamlet Analogy
Julie offers a compelling metaphor:
Each lifetime is like a performance of Hamlet.
Same script.
Different cast.
Different era.
Different setting.
We revisit themes across lifetimes from new perspectives.
In one client case, a woman with iron overload discovered a past-life parallel as a geology professor studying minerals. The “script” continued — just in a new form.
Time, Julie says, doesn’t exist in spirit the way we experience it.
We’re here for experience — not perfection.
Spirituality Meets Practicality
What makes this conversation refreshing is its grounded tone.
Julie isn’t advocating abandoning medicine.
She says:
“Eastern medicine, Western medicine, energy — it’s all part of the puzzle.”
Spirituality isn’t separate from real life.
It enhances it.
Her goal?
“I merge spirituality with practicality to help us live a life of purpose and joy.”
Why This Matters Now
As Cate reflects, more people are awakening to expanded consciousness.
Cultural shifts, generational evolution, and increasing interest in spirituality suggest that intuitive awareness is becoming more mainstream.
Children are arriving more attuned.
Adults are questioning old systems.
Energy is being acknowledged as foundational.
Julie adds a final reminder:
“Spirit is pure love and joy. We’re supposed to be having a blast.”
This isn’t meant to be heavy.
It’s meant to be playful, expansive, alive.
Resources & Links
Julie Ryan’s Website: https://askjulieryan.com
Listen to Julie’s Podcast & Live Call-In Shows
Free Digital & Audiobook Gift: julieryangift.com
Wellness Pro Academy → https://wellnesspro.academy
Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com
Books by Cate Stillman:
Primal Habits → https://amzn.to/3OvfPOx Uninflamed → https://amzn.to/3UUBgJ2
Body Thrive → https://amzn.to/3udNFR0
Master of You → https://amzn.to/3OlfoGn
