Trusting Your Intuition: Ethical Readings & Empath Boundaries with Cari Roy

Can intuition be your most practical tool for reinvention? New Orleans psychic medium Cari Roy joins us to demystify empathy and intuition, showing you how to set empath boundaries and trust your "felt-knowing" to make clearer life choices.

How do you distinguish between a "gut feeling" and true intuitive guidance? In this episode, we sit down with renowned New Orleans psychic medium Cari Roy to explore how a lifetime of sensitivity—rooted in a family of numerologists and astrologers—became a grounded, modern practice for reinvention after 50.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Empath Protection: How to avoid emotional overload and set healthy boundaries without losing your compassion.
• Ethical Readings: Why "do no harm" is the gold standard and how to spot "curse removal" scams.
• The Science of Knowing: A look at anomalous cognition and the shift from "seeing spirits" to a deep, internal knowing.
• Ancestral Support: How to hear the quiet, supportive voices of your ancestors during times of change.
• Intuition vs. Fear: Practical steps to help you move forward in your career or relationships with renewed purpose.

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, Cari offers a powerful dose of resilience and a reminder that the future is friendly. It’s time to stop absorbing the world's pain and start trusting your own direction.

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Disclaimer: This episode explores personal intuitive experiences and mediumship. The insights shared are for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not constitute professional legal, medical, or psychological advice. Listeners are encouraged to use their own discernment and consult qualified professionals for specific life decisions.

Resources:

Cari Roy – Psychic Medium & Intuitive Guide

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Beverley Glazer, MA – ICF | Reinvention & Empowerment Coach for Women Over 50

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Episode Setup
• 0:26 Carrie’s Psychic Roots And Early Signs
• 2:51 Music Dreams And Becoming A Reader
• 4:22 Empathy, Boundaries, And Client Needs
• 6:11 Teaching Intuition And Reconnection
• 7:11 Confidentiality And Ethical Practice
• 8:51 Misconceptions, Scams, And Safe Spaces
• 10:00 Awaken Your Intuition Book
• 10:53 How Messages Arrive And Mediumship
• 13:10 Skeptics, Research, And Open Minds
• 15:18 Hope, Resilience, And A Friendly Future
• 16:52 Where To Find Carrie And Bev’s CTA

Transcript

Announcer: 0:07

Welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion, the podcast designed to inspire your greatness and thrive through life. Get ready to conquer your fears. Here's your host, psychotherapist, coach, and empowerment expert, Beverley Glazer.

Beverley Glazer: 0:26

Can you really predict the future? This week, we will pull back the curtain and talk to a woman about the art and the ethics of being a psychic. Welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion, the podcast for women who stand up to the world regardless of their age and keep living their authentic selves. I'm Beverly Glazer, and if you're new to my world, I help older women rise to their brilliance and soar beyond limits in both their personal and their professional lives. And you can find me on reinventimpossible.com. I want you to meet Cari Roy. Cari is a professional psychic for over 40 years. She has been acclaimed New Orleans most accurate reader and medium. And so I really want you to meet Cari. Welcome, Cari. Welcome. Oh, thank you so much, Caroline. It's my joy to be here. I I'm really fascinated because you are uh a third generation psychic. Yes. So that has run in your family. So you grew up among psychics. I didn't know that.

Cari Roy: 1:46

Well, my mother was a psychic medium, um, and my grandfather was a numerologist and an astrologer. So I grew up in a household where it was pretty acceptable to have dream interpretations, to talk about the planets, to speak of spirits, and to uh forecast the future. My mother used tarot cards, uh, she taught me how to use tarot cards and uh palm reading seances, astrology, all of that stuff, past lives, dream interpretation. All of it was something that I was exposed to at a young age.

Beverley Glazer: 2:22

Okay. And so did you tell your friends about this? Because it seemed kind of different, right? Growing up, you know?

Cari Roy: 2:30

Yeah, it was something that um we didn't uh really take that far out of the house. People that came into the house knew about it, but I didn't go out and talk about it. I'm so sorry. Uh I didn't start talking about it um to others. That was something that I kept to myself. Sure. And how did you know, though, that you had psychic abilities? Well, I first discovered that I had psychic abilities when I was about it started happening about seven, eight years old. Uh, I had several experiences. My mother became aware of it. Um, my first one was actually seeking spirit, seeing spirits. I was on Royal Street in the French Quarter and had an experience that alerted my mother to the fact that I was seeing something that maybe other people weren't seeing. And then I had an instance where I predicted something that was going to happen. It was a tropical storm. And I predicted that, not really knowing what I was doing, but it turned out that the tropical storm actually happened that night. And so this was before weather alerts and internet and stuff. This was in the 60s, and so there wasn't uh a lot of weather alerts going on, but it was something that I did accurately and that kind of gave them a heads up that I was cut of the same cloth as they were.

Beverley Glazer: 3:50

But you didn't want to be a psychic, really. What you did was you wanted to be a jazz singer.

Cari Roy: 3:56

Yes, I started out as a singer. My father was an opera singer, my mother was also a singer, and um, so I grew up with that as well. It was a very musical and spiritual home. And I initially uh didn't pursue the opera world, but I pursued uh the jazz and blues world, and I became a singer and until I was in my early 20s and really pursued that path.

unknown: 4:21

Okay.

Beverley Glazer: 4:22

Well, would you say you were an empath? A lot of people would say, you know, I'm an empath, and that's how I can feel it. Is it being an empath?

Cari Roy: 4:30

I would say that being an empath is part of it. Once you go into the professional world, I think you learn how to compartmentalize your own feelings a little bit. Um, so you're not taking on everybody else's pain. Um, it's one thing to be able to experience it, but when you're doing it professionally, you also have to learn to let it go. And so I dial down the empathy in a way when I'm doing professional readings, but I am a very empathic person on the whole, and I can never really turn that off.

Beverley Glazer: 5:05

So what kind of people come to you as a psychic? Because I know I know of people that have gone to psychics, and these people are extremely credible. You know, you'd think that some people are very woo-woo, very spiritual, and they're the ones that would seek psychic readings. But people from all walks of life, from what I've seen, have been visiting the psychic. Who comes to you?

Cari Roy: 5:31

Oh, everybody from psychiatrists to politicians to bank presidents to um homemakers to entrepreneurs, to uh young ladies seeking um insights on what's going on inside of them, to uh women coming to me to see what retirement is going to be like for them. It really runs the gamut of folks. Uh, if you're a human being, you have questions, and those questions tend to be the same questions across the board for most of us.

Beverley Glazer: 6:04

Interesting. You've been a psychic though for almost 40 years. That's a long time. And you also have built a school to teach other psychics how to be psychics. How could you teach that?

Cari Roy: 6:21

Well, I believe that everybody is born intuitive. I think that it's something that uh comes along with the human package. And we tend to be disconnected from that as we get older. We tend to also um be told not to pay attention to that, to ignore that. And so I think that a lot of people dial theirs down. But if you ask most people if they've uh ever thought of somebody and then the phone rings and it's that person, um, or if they've ever had a gut feeling about something, or if they've ever had a sense of deja vu, this is something that is uh really a part of intuition. And so it really isn't that I'm teaching them intuition, it's that I'm helping them reconnect to the intuition that they already have.

Beverley Glazer: 7:11

What about confidentiality? You know a lot about other people's lives and you know about past lives too. Do you keep that a secret?

Cari Roy: 7:22

I do. I I maintain client uh uh psychic privilege, uh, and I keep that with with just me. It's the same way that if you went to a priest for a confession, uh if you went to an attorney for a consultation, there is an ethical line there where that information stays with you. And so I do not share that, and those secrets are safe.

Beverley Glazer: 7:48

Have you ever said to somebody after your reading or even before your reading, I I really can't tell you what I see because you think it's harmful?

Cari Roy: 7:57

Um, I don't necessarily tell people that. I've never um not been able to find something uh of of positivity to be able to share with somebody who comes to see me. Uh I've I've heard of readers who have done that, and I think that that is is really morally wrong because you're scaring somebody. If you're gonna say, I see something, and then you say, Well, I just can't tell you because it's bad, I mean, that's just gonna turn into a very frightening experience for somebody. And I have cleaned up a lot of messes that other psychics have made who perhaps were not um really paying attention to their moral compass when they were connecting with another person. But the same way that uh, you know, in medicine, do no harm, you know, it do no harm is the same uh credo for ethical psychics.

Beverley Glazer: 8:51

Yeah, what would you say is the most common misconception that people have when visiting a psychic?

Cari Roy: 8:59

I believe that there's a lot of fear that we are doomsayers and um people will come to me a little apprehensive as soon as they get in my presence and they step into my pink office, they kind of know that nothing scary is gonna happen there. And I've specifically designed my office to be very welcoming and to assuage people's fears. Another thing is that we are going to try to hustle you. Um, psychics are going to uh say that there's been a curse put on you, and then for a certain amount of money, they can re-relieve that curse for you. And I that's a mess that I clean up a lot as well. And it's I think in every business there are people that shouldn't be doing what they do, and there there are in in my industry as well. And so I think people just assume that we're all like that, and and really the majority of psychics are not, but the bad apples get the most press.

Beverley Glazer: 9:57

Yeah, always. Always. You wrote a book though, as well. What's the book about? Tell us.

Cari Roy: 10:05

Well, the book is titled Awaken Your Intuition, and it is empowering women for success in life and business. I am very passionate about women claiming their own power, and I feel that intuitive ability is part of our toolkit, and that I would just be so happy if every single woman would trust her own self enough to really listen to that voice within. And so, my aim with the book through anecdotes and through exercises is to help everybody uh find that self within them and hear that and listen to it and understand how to move forth in their life and use it in different areas to enrich them.

Beverley Glazer: 10:53

So, if somebody comes to you, what would you do? What would you say? How do you channel the spirit? How do you see? What do you see?

Cari Roy: 11:03

It's interesting. When I was young, I used to hear things, uh, I would see things. As I got older, it became that I just knew things. And the best way that I can describe it is as though every person is a book that I've read before. And when they sit down with me, I start to remember things about them. But it feels almost more like a memory than it does an external piece of information. Um, it it kind of comes up in my consciousness. And my belief we all walk around with all of our potentialities with us. And so some of us uh can tap into that. And I I consider myself one of the people that can tap into other people's energy and really read the stuff that, again, they deep inside of themselves, they know the stuff that I'm telling them. But what I do is I help them remember it. I help them connect to that power within themselves.

Beverley Glazer: 12:03

Yes. Do you speak to the spirit world as well and connect then to people who are not here and have past?

Cari Roy: 12:13

Yes, I have the ability to be a medium as well, and and to connect with ancestors who are no longer with us on this plane. And that is part of what it is that I do. Um, and in that case, I'm really connecting with the energy of the spirit that is watching over the person that comes to me. And in again, in my belief, that is something that we all have uh ancestors that keep an eye on us. And so it's nice to hear from them from some from time to time. And most of us have so much going on in our daily lives. It's so busy these days that we really don't have the quiet space to be able to hear the whispers of spirit. And so when they come to me, I create that quiet space. And together I'm able to connect with them and channel any messages that are from the other side for them to encourage them and to help them along their path and to bring them some peace of mind.

Beverley Glazer: 13:10

You must have come across many, many skeptics in your 40 years. What would you tell them?

Cari Roy: 13:18

I have come across a lot of skeptics in my life, and I don't argue with a skeptic. If a skeptic really doesn't believe, then it's their right not to believe. Um, I'm not here to profitize my um my personal viewpoints. If somebody comes to me and is completely shut down, I tend to wonder why they are coming to me and spending $100 and something dollars to sit with me and uh do something that they don't believe in. It seems to me a waste of time, both of theirs and mine. But I've often felt that many of the skeptics are really optimists who have had bad things happen to them. And so they've kind of become pessimistic about things, uh faith and many other things that one can't see they don't believe. But again, if that really is their belief, then more power to them. Um if they come to me and say it's too woo-woo and there's no science behind it, I ask them if they have ever read the vast research that there is out there now about paranormal psychic medium phenomena. Um, there are many uh really lettered people that are are studying this in in very legitimate environments. And so the the days of just parlors and you know closed curtains and whispers in the dark really aren't the way it is anymore. And so I would ask them if they maybe would take a look at some of the stuff that's out there and then make an educated decision about how they believe about it. I believe what I believe because of my experience, and I don't expect anybody else to believe it unless they have an experience.

Beverley Glazer: 15:10

Good point. What would you tell other people who feel that they're just stuck in their lives right now, Carrie?

Cari Roy: 15:18

I would tell them that there is always a friendly future out there. In fact, that's one of my mottos is that the future is friendly. Um, I I would ask them to dig deep within themselves and and just keep trying. Uh, I'm a curious person. I'm an optimistic person by nature, but I'm also a curious person. And I I feel that there may always be a change right there, waiting in the wings for us. And that if we give up, we miss that. We miss the miracle. And I've been at low points in my life, and perhaps that's why I'm good at what I do, is because I understand that place that people can get to. And I know how hard it is sometimes to push yourself through. And especially as we get older, it becomes tougher to muster the energy to push forward and keep going. But um, it's just at those times that we are down at you know the bottom of the well that uh, you know, the cavalry will come and we can get back out and start fresh. And I'm also somebody that believes that, you know, keep fighting, don't let circumstances beat you. Uh try mind over matter. Just even if you have to fake it till you make it, um, give it, give it a try. Just believe in yourself one more time, believe in the universe one more time, believe in your ancestors one more time, and give it a go.

Beverley Glazer: 16:50

Thank you, Cari. Cari Roy has gained national recognition as a psychic medium. She's helped countless clients over the last 40 years, and she has been recognized as the leading authority on intuition and spiritual growth. Where can people find you, Carrie?

Cari Roy: 17:10

Oh, you can find me at New Orleanspsychic.com. I'm here in New Orleans. If you just google neworleenspsychic.com, I'll be right there. And I'm also on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram, and it's under New Orleans Psychic as well. So you can always find me. Just hop on the interwebs, and there I am.

Beverley Glazer: 17:33

Terrific. And if you didn't catch that, all these links are going to be in the show notes, and they're also going to be on my site too. That's reinventimpossible.com. So, my friends, what's next for you? What's stopping you from getting more out of your life? Download the reinvention readiness quiz and find out. And that also will be in the show notes below. You can connect with me, Beverly Glazer, on all media platforms and in my positive group of women on Facebook. That's Women Over50 Rock. And you can schedule a quick Zoom to talk to me personally. Thank you for listening. Have you enjoyed this conversation? Please join me next week. Subscribe and get these episodes in your inbox. Drop us a review and send it to a friend. And remember, you only have one life, so live it with purpose and passion.

Announcer: 18:44

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