What if flowers are more than beautiful? What if they’re speaking? Nature might be the medicine we need right now!

In this heart warming episode of Medium Curious, Sarah and Jane sit down with Mary Porter Kerns—writer, flower communicator, and creator of The Flowers Are Speaking—for a soulful conversation about plant intelligence, intuition, imagination, and our ancient relationship with the natural world.

Mary shares how her connection with flowers evolved over time, from gardening and houseplants to receiving direct messages from flowers through meditation and free writing. She opens up about the turning point that helped her trust her inner knowing (“what if it doesn’t matter if it’s ‘real’?”), how flowers can offer emotional and spiritual support, and why reconnecting with nature may be one of the most important things we can do in challenging times.

The conversation weaves through magnolias, hellebores, dandelions, forest bathing, flower essences, imagination vs. intuition, and the deeper “long story” of interconnection between humans, flowers, and the living world. It’s mystical, grounded, funny, and deeply comforting.

• Flowers are more than decoration — Mary describes them as sentient beings with ancient wisdom and emotional intelligence.
• Intuition and imagination work together — not as opposites, but as a two-way street that opens deeper perception.
• Nature can help regulate the nervous system — especially in times of collective stress and overwhelm.
• Flowers may communicate through emotion — Mary believes plants sense our emotional states and respond in their own language.
• You can begin connecting with flowers right now — by noticing which flower/plant draws you in, observing its qualities, and free-writing what it wants to say.
• The “long story” matters — flowers hold deep evolutionary memory and can help us remember cycles, patience, and interconnection.
• Cut flowers are not “bad” — Mary offers a beautiful, loving perspective on bringing flowers into the home as a reciprocal relationship.
• Hellebore as a message for this moment — Mary shares a powerful emerging insight about shock, madness, and collective wake-up calls.
• This work is both mystical and timely — Mary bridges the science of plant intelligence with the heart and soul of direct relationship.

“If we can be connected with nature the way our ancestors used to be… then we might actually revere all people as sacred as well.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“What if it doesn’t matter if it’s real or not? It’s real in some realm.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“Dreams and wishes matter… because dreams can change our DNA.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“Our imagination can open up our intuition. Our intuition can allow our imagination.” — Mary Porter Kerns

“Quit taking flowers for granted. Do you realize what a miracle this is?” — Mary Porter Kerns

Mary Porter Kerns Website: https://theflowersarespeaking.com/

Mary Porter Kerns Substack: https://maryporterkerns.substack.com/

Mentioned in podcast: Flower Essence Practitioner

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In this Sunday Solo, Sarah explores “the long story”—the idea that our lives are part of a vast web of interconnection across people, lifetimes, timelines, and dimensions. She shares why zooming out can be genuinely soothing (your anxiety stays valid… it just gets smaller), then offers personal stories that cracked open her trust in reincarnation: a striking synchronicity thread featuring Robert Redford, and her child’s vivid memories of an “old dad.” Sarah also explains how she experiences the Akashic Records—less like immediate, verifiable proof and more like resonance, pattern recognition, and a deep felt sense of being seen without judgment. The episode closes with an invitation: try shifting perspective into the long story, and share your own experiences.

Keywords + topics: Medium Curious Podcast, Sarah solo, long story, zooming out of anxiety, reincarnation, past lives, soul groups, Akashic Records, synchronicities, spiritual comfort, metaphysical, consciousness, intuition, mediumship, Perdita Finn, Jim Tucker, Linda Howe, pathway prayer.

• Perspective is medicine. Zooming out doesn’t invalidate anxiety—it helps it stop running the whole show.
• Follow the thread. Synchronicities can be “breadcrumb trails” that build meaning over minutes, weeks… or lifetimes.
• Kids sometimes say the quiet part out loud. Past-life-style memories (whether you interpret them literally or symbolically) can reveal how mysterious consciousness is.
• Akashic Records = resonance over receipts. For Sarah, the records feel less like “proof” and more like pattern, knowing, and deep compassion.
• The long story reduces pressure. If love and learning continue, you don’t have to perfect everything in one lifetime.
• Scarcity shifts with consciousness. A change in mindset—from separation to “one with the cosmos”—can change the felt experience of need.

“When you're losing yourself, who you are, go sit under a tree.”

“There is no way that I can suffer from scarcity when I know that I am one with the cosmos.”

Linda Howe: How to Read the Akashic Records; Accessing the Archive of the Soul and its Journey

Jim Tucker Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

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Sarah’s Website: https://www.sarahrathke.com

Jane's new cohort 'Source Studio'; https://www.janemorganmedium.com/higher-calling

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https://mediumcuriouspod.substack.com/

What happens when a former corporate guy, Scott Darlington—who used to want a spreadsheet, a script, and a map for everything—starts living by signs, synchronicities, and soul-level trust?

In this episode of The Medium Curious Podcast, Sarah and Jane sit down with Scott Darlington for a funny, heartfelt conversation about how mediumship development, Clair Club practice, and communication across the veil can completely rewire the way you understand your life. Scott shares how his late husband, David, became a clear and persistent communicator—using stars as a sign language to nudge him toward big changes (including sobriety) and to confirm he’s on the right path.

Together, they explore what it means to be heart-led instead of brain-led, why you don’t have to understand how intuition works in order to receive it, and how grief can crack a person open in a way that expands love, presence, and psychic sensitivity. Along the way: David “manages wardrobes,” Claire Club hearts turn into “Star Hearts,” and the tech literally glitches mid-session—because apparently the energy is that real.

This is an episode about trust, love, and remembering that the connection is open—whether you acknowledge it or not.

• You don’t need to understand how intuition works to use it. “No manual” doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
• Sign language with Spirit can be personal and repeatable. Scott’s “multiple stars” became a clear confirmation system.
• The heart is the engine. Clair work gets clearer when you quiet the brain and lead with heart-based connection.
• Grief can expand intuitive capacity. A loss can open the heart wider—viscerally, physically, and spiritually.
• Trust is a practice, not a personality trait. The message keeps coming: “It doesn’t need to be this hard.”
• Getting out of your own way is the work. Doubt and conditioning (church, materialism, “be professional”) shut down the signal.
• Psychic vs. mediumship can feel different. Psychic intuition may “flow,” while mediumship may require a slower, more present connection.
• You’re allowed to be special without ego. Confidence doesn’t have to equal arrogance—it can be alignment.
• Connection is soul-to-soul. This isn’t “brain to brain”—it’s love-based recognition across lifetimes.
• Sometimes the energy does blow out the tech. And yes, it’s weirdly on brand.

“We already know what we want… we just doubt it and we get in our own head.” — Scott

“I’m a former corporate America guy… David died and I quit my job like two months later.” — Scott

That’s the point of life…is love.” — Scott

Scott’s Instagram: @meScottyD

Scott’s Substack: https://substack.com/@mescottyd?r=uplo&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=image

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Jane’s Website: https://www.janemorganmedium.com

Sarah’s Website: https://www.sarahrathke.com

Jane's new cohort 'Source Studio'; https://www.janemorganmedium.com/higher-calling

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