Psychic gifts awakening doesn't look like the movies. For Jana Stern, psychic medium, astrologer, and spiritual activator, it looked like shutting down a gift that scared her, a body that started breaking down, and an 11-minute clinical death that changed everything. If you've ever felt "too sensitive," been told you were too much, or quietly sensed things you didn't know how to explain, you are not broken. You were gifted. And something made you forget.
In this debut episode of Just Jana, Jana Stern shares her unfiltered origin story: growing up with a schizophrenic father whose gifts mirrored her own, developing a full-blown eating disorder as a way to suppress her psychic sensitivity, and the gratitude jar practice she used every single day in treatment to find her way back to the light. This is not a polished spiritual biography. It is real, it is raw, and it will make you feel less alone on the journey.
In this episode, you'll learn:
What psychic gifts awakening actually looks like when you grow up afraid of your own sensitivity and why suppressing it has a physical cost your body cannot ignore.
How intergenerational trauma and mental illness in a family line can block a child's natural intuitive gifts and create a lifelong fear of their own inner knowing.
Why a daily gratitude practice, not meditation or crystals, was the specific tool that pulled Jana out of her darkest moment and rewired how she relates to pain.
The difference between genuine psychic ability and mental illness, and why so many sensitives spend years misdiagnosed before they learn to trust what they feel.
What "the forgetting" means: the moment most empaths and intuitives shut down their gifts and how to recognize which version of it happened to you.
How to build inner authority so that your intuition becomes an asset you act on instead of a signal you silence.
We talk about:
00:00 Why Jana started a podcast called "I'm Really Into That Stuff"
01:30 Returning after a nearly two-year hiatus and why the show had to change
02:45 What it means to have psychic gifts awakening in a family with mental illness
04:00 The forgetting: how and why Jana shut down her intuitive gifts as a child
05:15 How suppressed sensitivity turned into a full eating disorder
06:00 The night everything broke open: 80 pills and 11 minutes of clinical death
07:20 What healing actually looked like and the gratitude jar practice that started it
08:45 Why gratitude is hard and how to do it when you resent being told to try
10:00 What Jana's life looks like now after choosing the light
11:30 How to stop externalizing joy and start building inner authority
13:00 What this show is really about and who it is for
14:00 How to apply to be read live on the show
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