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Medium Barbra Banner shares how she came into psychic and trance work and offers detailed stories of signs from loved ones after death. The conversation blends humour, grief and spiritual perspectives intended to comfort families missing someone who has passed.
45:33•7 Nov 2026
Grief, Signs From Spirit and Finding Light with Medium Barbra Banner
Episode Overview
- Mediumship is presented as bringing specific memories and details that suggest ongoing consciousness and relationship after death.
- Humour can sit alongside deep grief, easing tension while still respecting the seriousness of loss.
- Signs such as butterflies, dragonflies, feathers and coins are described as common ways loved ones may communicate.
- Deep grief and very low mood may make it harder to notice or accept subtle signs from those who have passed.
- The guest emphasises that messages tend to focus on what someone needs to hear for healing, rather than satisfying curiosity alone.
“Spirit is going to give you what you need to know now, not always what you want to know.”
What drives someone to seek a life that makes peace with loss and questions what happens after we die? This conversation on the Getting Real with Hilary show centres on grief, connection, and the possibility that our relationships don’t end when someone passes. Psychic, evidential and trance medium Barbra Banner shares how a wave of intense paranormal activity during the pandemic pushed her from a long advertising career into full-time mediumship.
She explains what "evidential" means in plain terms: bringing through details and memories that can suggest consciousness continues after physical death and that "you can have a relationship" with someone who’s gone. You’ll hear stories aimed straight at grieving hearts, especially parents. A mother asking her son what he’s doing in heaven is told he’s riding on the back of a butterfly – later realising it mirrors an image from a book she’d read to her daughter.
Another parent secretly brings her son’s ashes to a concert; in the reading he shows himself squashed in a giant jar, hinting he knew and was there.
As Barbra puts it, "spirit is going to give you what you need to know now, not always what you want to know." Humour threads through the episode, lightening the weight of grief without dismissing it – from a deceased bookie shown straddling a rocket and yelling "giddy up", to a sceptical client whose late husband proves his presence with a very specific "bagel scooper" reference.
Barbra also talks about signs like coins, butterflies and ladybirds, and how people in deep grief can easily explain them away. For anyone facing bereavement alongside addiction recovery or mental health struggles, this episode offers stories that may help you question isolation and consider the idea that love, in some form, might continue. If you’re grieving and wondering whether your person is still close, what would it be like to stay open to the signs they might be sending?
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