“At my core I’m a healer – I want to help others to heal, and I want to see and know that I’ve helped others to get back to the life they want.” – Melanie O’Shea, FibromyAWESOME
I was 30 when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia – a chronic condition of widespread, debilitating muscle pain, migraines, gut issues, fatigue, ‘brain fog’, and a multitude of other symptoms that made living my life on my terms near impossible.
I had just enrolled in a nursing degree, and had recently become a single mum to my two young daughters.
I paid a specialist $400 to tell me that unless I wanted to take a bunch of pills that may or may not make me feel better (and could potentially make me feel worse!), all I could do was “learn to live with it” – a line most fibromyalgia sufferers are familiar with.
Living with fibromyalgia was not a life at all, as far as I was concerned, and so, I set about researching treatments. Anything I could find on the internet that claimed to help, cure, or reduce fibromyalgia symptoms, I tried it. Diet changes, movement, water filters, sleep quality, stress management, gut repair – I gave it all a go and I paid attention to how my body responded.
I’ve been living a life free of fibromyalgia symptoms for a few years now.
I graduated from the nursing degree with distinction after 6 years of part-time study as a single mum. I worked as a Registered Nurse in mental health, paediatrics and general practice, and I loved nursing. I hated the medical system though; all I seemed to be doing was giving people medication and ‘band-aid fixes’. In many cases I felt like the treatments I administered were actually harming patients, and making it harder for their bodies to heal.
I would hear or see in my mind that there was a healthier, more holistic approach that could help the patient in front of me, but as a nurse, I wasn’t allowed to tell them about these options. My job was to make sure they got the treatments the doctors prescribed for them.
It became soul-crushing to go to work and to force myself to not tell the patients what I knew they really needed to hear – those messages and images that would pop up in my mind. So, I quit nursing.
I enrolled in a health coaching certificate course – I figured as a health coach I could use my knowledge and experience as a nurse to help others to heal and improve their health in a way that felt right for them.
I also started paying more attention to the images and messages that would come into my mind, and I began to recognise that they were coming from my intuition, my higher self, my Inner Wisdom.
I began doing yoga and meditating regularly. I played around with the tarot cards I had bought years ago. I connected with my first spirit guide, whom I actually recognised as the adult version of my childhood ‘imaginary friend’. I joined Facebook groups for newbie psychics, mediums, tarot readers, etc – and found I was actually quite accurate!
Then, spirits started ‘popping up’ at random times, including my mum who had passed when I was 16! I had always been fascinated with mediums and psychics, but I never thought that I’d be one. I was science girl! I’ve always loved science – evidence-based, facts-based, irrefutable science.
I was confused – was I supposed to pursue a career using these newly discovered abilities? I enjoyed health coaching, and I knew I could make it more intuitive, but I felt like there was more I could offer as well.
One day I saw the term medical intuitive in an internet search, and something ‘clicked’ inside of me. It just felt right.
Suddenly, it all made sense:
- being diagnosed with ‘incurable’ fibromyalgia, then curing myself;
- all of the knowledge I soaked up during my nursing degree, and excelling as a nursing student;
- the inner turmoil I experienced as a nurse, not being able to tell patients what I knew could help them;
- being drawn to health coaching as a way to help others feel empowered about their own health;
- discovering and exploring my intuitive, spiritual, psychic abilities…
How wonderfully the Universe sets us up with what we need, when we need it!
With the all of the knowledge I had already gained through nursing, health coaching, and recovering from fibromyalgia, I knew that the last piece of the puzzle was guidance on how to further develop my intuitive abilities and my awareness, and how to tap into these natural talents that have always been a part of me.
I read books, did online courses, and any psychic or intuitive-building exercises I came across, and I practised intuitive medicine on family and friends.
And, here I am now – Melanie O’Shea, Medical Intuitive.
I have a unique knowledge base, a lifelong desire to heal, and a calling to help others feel empowered and in control of their own health.
I believe you were drawn to this page for a reason….