Colin Fry - The Message: Seven Steps to Hope and Healing

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Born in 1962, Colin Fry received his first message at the age of ten and became a professional medium at seventeen. He tours internationally and is the acclaimed star of the television shows 6ixth Sense and Psychic Private Eyes. One of the leading lights in the psychic mediumship world, Colin uses his spiritual knowledge to offer life-changing advice and support to people, providing sensible down-to-earth explanations about the strange world of the paranormal and supernatural. He is the bestselling author of Life Before Death and Secrets from the Afterlife.

In this wonderful book, Colin reveals wisdom from the Other Side that could change your life. Sharing his incredible true stories of encounters with the spirit world, he also sets out seven steps for leaving hurt and hardship behind. These steps will lead you to an inner place in which hope and healing can become yours at last.

Colin Frys TV shows 6ixth Sense and Psychic Private Eyes have intrigued his huge number of fans, and his previous books, Life Before Death and Secrets From the Afterlife, have been bestsellers. Colin is a medium with a difference: not only does he communicate on a personal level with loved ones who have passed over, but his work has given him life-enhancing insights that can benefit us all.

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By the same author:

Life Before Death

Secrets from the Afterlife

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The stories in this book are based upon real events, but some names and some details have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.

I dedicate this book, as always, to my partner Mikey who is such a source of inspiration to me.

To my nephew Ryan who I hope will always strive to be someone special.

To the memory of my grandfather Lawrence Briggs, who left this world many years ago, but who has never left me, and to my grandmother Freda Fry, who lived so long and so well.

I am fortunate to have been born with the ability to receive and pass on messages from the spirit world. As you will discover as you read this book, we are all closer to that world than we can imagine. And we all have the ability to connect and feel their presence, to receive messages of our own.

During the course of my three decades as a medium I have been able to put thousands of people in contact with loved ones who have passed over to the other side. If I was asked to choose the most significant message I have received during that time, however, I would have no hesitation in choosing the one that was delivered to me when I was a ten-year-old boy. It changed the course of my life. Without it I might never have become a medium in the first place. Without it this book may never have been written.

It wasnt the first time that Id communicated with the spirit world. Far from it. I have a feeling my life had been leading up to that moment since I was very young.

According to my mother, my ability to connect with the other side had been apparent since I was a baby in my cot. She once told me a story about how, when I was only a few months old, she had walked into the bedroom to check on me one evening. In the beam of the night light she had seen me giggling away at a babys rattle suspended in mid air above the cot.

I have no memory of that. However, I do remember the moment, four years later, when I first got an inkling that I was able to sense things that other people couldnt.

A friend had come round to visit my mum at our home in Sussex. I had never met the lady before but it was clear to me that she and my mum must have been very close for a long time, since before I was born.

I was brought up in that generation where, when your parents had visitors, children were expected to be seen and not heard. You were expected to play quietly while your parents were entertaining. So while the lady was in the house I did what all well-behaved four-year-olds did: I politely said hello then kept out of the way.

It was only when the lady had gone that I asked my mother about something that had been bothering me during the visit. Mum, why was that lady ignoring the little boy with her? I wondered.

My mother looked at me, slightly mystified. What are you talking about? She didnt have a little boy with her, she said.

Yes, she did, I replied. The little boy who kept tugging at her coat.

What did he look like?

He had really, really curly ginger hair.

Dont be silly.

He did. And his name was John.

She stopped and looked at me with a surprised expression for a moment then shook her head. You cant have seen a little boy.

I knew what I had seen and wasnt going to give in. I did see him, I insisted. He was with this lady and she wasnt listening to him.

My mother had a box of family photographs that she kept on top of a cupboard in the living room. Rather than arguing with me any more, she got it down and started rummaging through the photos. Do you mean this little boy? she said, pulling out an old black and white image. It was a fading photograph of a curly-haired young child, no more than four or five years old.

Yes, thats him, John.

Darling, you cant possibly have seen him, my mum said.

Why not? I asked, confused.

Because he died five years before you were born.

From then on, both my mother and I understood that I had an ability to see things other people couldnt. And we both understood that it was an ability that I had to use responsibly and discreetly. You can always tell me, but sometimes its best not to tell other people you can see someone they cant, she told me.

My mother never made too much of my ability. She never dismissed it. But she never made a fuss of it. Her attitude was that if it developed into something then it would develop into something. If it went away, it went away.

But, of course, it didnt go away, quite the opposite in fact. I had many other experiences during my childhood. I often saw spirit children, for instance. But it was when I was ten that I went through the most powerful and life-changing spiritual encounter of all.