Jennie Ogilvie is an author, unfiltered psychic and is known as Canada’s Unconventional Medium.
Ogilvie will be in Lethbridge June 7 for a Nord-Bridge Seniors’ Centre fundraising event at the German Canadian Club.
According to Ogilvie, it’s not only just about using your energy to connect to other people’s energy no longer in the physical body. “It’s about having those hard conversations to try to make them easy around death and grief. For me, I take a different viewpoint on a lot of things people tend to struggle with, with regards to death and grief and pose different questions to them. I keep it a really light show. My tagline is laugh, cry and repeat. That’s truly what we do.”
“You never know what’s going to come out of my mouth,” adds Ogilvie. “But it’s also an engaging show, where you can see it’s not just an ability for myself to be able to channel. Everyone is capable of connecting to energy. I just do that more in a public platform and give people the tools they need to continue their journey connecting with their loved ones.”
Ogilvie gets a lot of private messages from previous events, which now sits at 453 live shows. “What’s happening is, people are saying ‘I really love how you gave us the tools to help us understand what the process is.’”
At the beginning of the show, Ogilvie asks the audience if a loved one connected through her – what would you truly want from them?
At the end of the show, Ogilvie asks audience members if what they wanted at the beginning of the show has changed. “And 99 per cent of the people put their hands up because we start to have those honest conversations around death and grief.”
Whether people come to a show or they have a private session in Calgary, Ogilvie says to them, “death might get you through the door, but you might learn a little bit more about what you actually need.”
So, how does one decide to become an “unconventional medium” and do live shows?
Ogilvie says she woke up one day and said, “I’m going to try this.”
“Being almost 18 years working with the public – it’s been an incredible experience. I just kind of leaned into it. As my perspectives and knowledge grew, so did my shows. I just use that platform to experience what energy can give us, as a whole. My schtick is I do connect to energy that’s not in the physical body. I call it a ‘schtick’ because I use that as an opportunity to engage in bigger, deeper and more meaningful conversations,” Ogilvie explains.
When it comes to death and grief, Ogilvie believes everyone’s experience is unique. “I encourage people to look at death as a rest stop, rather than a place to set-up camp. If you’re going to love in this life, you also have to marry that with grief. At some point, someone will pass away. I believe there’s a bigger conversation that has to happen, and understanding love and grief go hand-in-hand. It’s about exploring what that looks like for you.”
One of the things Ogilvie lives by is it’s never about the situation you’re going through, “It’s who you want to be through it.”
“I think that’s a main focus with anything in your life, including grief.”
Tickets for the fundraiser are available through the Centre or online at jennieogilvie.com. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
