The Wayward Teaching of Tyler Henry
no wonder people are skeptical of mediums
Guess who's back with a new show on Netflix? Tyler Henry!! (Did my title give it away?) Since we can't all huddle onto the couch, eat popcorn, and offer our commentary Mystery Science Theater 3000 style, I thought that revisiting my remarks on his last show, Life After Death with Tyler Henry, would have to do.
But wait. Why a new show? What happened to season two of Life After Death with Tyler Henry? Is the only hook for Tyler the celebrity aspect of his readings? Were the "average people" simply too boring to snag the ratings that Netflix desired? I don't want to jump to conclusions, but since Hollywood Medium ran for five seasons, one might wonder. According to a 2023 Vanity Fair article —
Henry is making time for the less fortunate, traveling across the country to offer his services when he’s not filming. Getting back to his roots has been rewarding and restorative—and often untelevised, though the new show has taken him to “salt-of-the-earth rural places that I would’ve never found myself in, where I can really help people who need it most. And that, for me, is why I started this work.”
— "Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry Has a Waiting List 300,000 People Long," Vanity Fair | December 2023
Phew, for a second there I worried that Tyler was only concerned with the celebrity of it all. You'll be pleased to know that in his new show, Live from the Other Side, he's getting back to his high profile guests. The now 600,000+ person waiting list will have to simmer a bit longer.
So what can we expect from the weekly live streaming of Live from the Other Side? Here's what Tyler Henry had to say in his press release —
I am super humbled and grateful for the opportunity… I know the skepticism that comes with mediums — and this project will let me lean into that in an honest and unedited way, demonstrating high-stakes readings in real time. My goal is for this live format to open some minds and change some lives. This project is my biggest, most interactive yet, and I can’t wait for you all to join me on Sept. 17.
I remain hopeful that "high stakes" refers to walking on tightropes while chatting with ghost or swimming with pirañas as he does these readings. Don't tell me that Mark Burnett wouldn't produce that!
You'll be glad to know that Tyler is returning to his roots as the Hollywood Medium and will have a star studded list of celebrities in the lineup for the upcoming show. If you're able to put your hands on the guest list, please send it my way! I wasn't able to find one.
Now to rewind time for what I believe to be my first official entry into the hallowed halls of The Great Dismantling by way of a series of stories on Instagram. (There are no actual halls, but if there were, each of these celebrity mediums would receive a plaque.) In updating my notes, I looked to see when the original document was created — December 25, 2022. Apparently my dad and I felt like torturing ourselves on Christmas after our annual viewing of Airplane! — somewhat fitting considering that we were skipping the holiday altogether with my mom absent from the scene.
Now on with the show!
Life After Death with Tyler Henry
I had already endured Life After Death with Tyler Henry once but watched it all the way to the end a second time to ensure that I was articulating my objections as clearly as possible. I roped my dad into viewing it with me this time. He gets a big gold star for this.
Here’s my biggest beef with the show — those who grow up with psychic and mediumship abilities tend to look outward to grasp an understanding of how they’re perceiving the world. When shows like this promote sloppy mediumship and unsafe energetic practices, someone seeking to understand their own relationship to energy is led astray.
This show is so painful. No one thing pushes it over the edge, but the compilation of grating elements — Tyler Henry's inauthenticity and fake mediumship, the gushing of the people he reads, the production choice of selecting the most horrific deaths possible, and an overall sense that this is all a game — makes watching Life After Death with Tyler Henry untenable. This isn’t entertainment. These are complex energies that need to be treated as such. By the third episode, I was over it.
Imagine if all of the food shows highlighted haphazard knife techniques. If the home cook were to emulate those, fingers would be sliced and diced on a regular basis. It’s one thing to burn a roast or overcook Brussels sprouts rendering them inedible as they turn to mush. It’s entirely different to chop off your finger or set the kitchen on fire. That's the equivalent of what's happening here.
With over a million eyes on him (twice that if we’re counting each eye), the onus is on Tyler, along with the producers and the studio, to depict clean energetic and mediumship practices. Yes, even if this is Reality TV. Life After Death does not come anywhere close.
The Reality of Reality TV
I fully recognize that Reality TV is often completely divorced from actual reality. Such is the genre. Mediums with a television presence like John Edwards of Crossing Over or Theresa Caputo of Long Island Medium practice marginally clean mediumship with a little extra flare for the cameras. That differs from what we’re seeing with Tyler Henry in Life After Death.
The energy of the whole show is just so weird, a word I hesitate to use because “weird” is uttered so frequently by Tyler throughout his readings. The entire ordeal reminds me of why people think this is all fake.
Truth has a different vibration than lies. With lies, there’s static on the energetic line. One typically reacts by becoming frustrated (that’s me), irritable, exhausted, or by falling asleep altogether (that’s my dad). Your body is filtering the energetic dissonance and that requires a ton of exertion. It’s your own energetic field screaming, “This isn’t right!!”
With a production such as Life After Death, it’s hard to know how much of the undertone of falsehoods is due to Tyler trying to present as a more accomplished medium than he actually is versus the producers, editors, or studio trying to sculpt this into something it isn’t. At the end of the day, the whole series is a promotion for Tyler’s 50 city live tour so it is catering to his existing fans.
Watching the people for whom he is doing readings fawn over him becomes increasingly grating. I would have loved it if the show screenings were done in such a way that the sitters (as they are commonly called) were pulled from a wider pool instead of only Tyler’s waiting list — easy to do from a production standpoint. Having such megafans as the sitters skews them to be more inclined to agree with whatever Tyler says, wanting him to be right even when he isn’t.
If you’ve watched this series, you know that there’s a whole subplot about Tyler’s family. I’m intentionally choosing not to address this because it all reads as a Reality TV ploy that is being exploited for the show rather than anyone genuinely caring about finding resolution for the family.
Enough with the "Cold Readings"
So much emphasis is put on the fact that these are cold readings, but the more episodes you watch, the more apparent it becomes that the producers of the show prepped Tyler for the interactions. Again, pay attention to the energetic difference between lies and truth. After claiming again and again that he’s terrible with names and perpetually struggles with them, he gets three (five according to my dad) in a row correct. Boom. Boom. Boom.
Now, I don’t believe that cold readings are necessary on the whole. As a skilled medium, you should be able to offer information that is personal enough that one can’t find it from a quick Google search or even in depth research. Interestingly we see this with Laurie Campbell when Tyler goes to her for information on his family.
A warm reading actually enables a medium to go deeper with someone because you’re not focused on all of the basics of establishing who they are and why they’re there. Watching Laurie read Tyler is a prime example of this — and a stark contrast to his readings throughout the show. She has specific pieces of information that she delivers with confidence. Information comes readily with a steady cadence, unlike Tyler’s sparse "impressions." I’m guessing the producers and editors noticed this as well judging by how little footage of their reading together was included. Had they shown any more, it would have demonstrated how little comes through for Tyler during a reading relative to Laurie.
Back to John Edwards and Theresa Caputo for a moment. They’re both practicing cold readings when they turn to the audience and play Guess Who? in order to hone in on which living person the dead wish to address. It’s not my style, but I know there are plenty of people who love it. Fantastic. What is also notable is that when I watch readings such as those, I know there are ghosts present, but I don’t see any of them or sense information. As my ghost friends have explained it to me, the frequencies of ghosts on programs such as those are irrelevant to me.
The Awkwardness of Tyler Henry
A huge part of what makes Life After Death so difficult to watch is Tyler’s discomfort with himself. Between the forced smiles, awkward mannerisms, and body language that contradicts his words, it’s clear that Tyler is not at ease with who he is. When that’s the case, conveying messages for others gets all sorts of complicated. If you’re not comfortable with yourself and your own energy, how are you going to put someone else at ease or be confident in what is their energy and what is yours?
I believe that Tyler does have some innate abilities. But having been thrust into the spotlight at 19 with his own show, Hollywood Medium, he began to feel a pressure to be a more potent medium than he actually is or was. He mimics behaviors of others without them being true to himself — an impersonation of a medium, if you will. No wonder there are so many skeptics.
As my dad put it, having patiently suffered through this show with me, “There’s something very draining about him. Could be the waves of bullshit. He’s taken his ability and pushed it further than it really exists in order to have people believe that he has more skills than he himself believes he has.” Yep.
Nothing about Tyler comes across as genuine or authentic. He’s lost and trying to figure out who he is while on national television. That has to be tricky. There has to be an incredible pressure to come into your abilities on live TV in front of an audience of millions. Having been paid buckets of money by Netflix, the added pressure of having to deliver compounds all of that.
Weird! Weird, Weird, Weird, Weird!! Weird!
I want a buzzer for every time Tyler says weird. It is said with such frequency. I say this as someone who lives a life that reads like a sci-fi movie — at some point you need to get over everything being "weird" and accept it for what it is. Stop imposing that lens on all of your readings.
Like so many of Tyler's mannerisms, the repetition of "weird" reads as a self rejection. Information is coming to him, but he is so out of his depth that he doesn't know what to make of it. He’s also attracting such confused ghosts that they’re not able to support him or help him to better understand his own abilities.
General PSA: The T in often is silent. If you’ve watched the show, you understand.
His uncomfortable laugh is meant to diffuse the doubt he has in himself. It doesn't. During readings, he throws out a bunch of options until something sticks. For instance, in one reading he says that he’s sensing either a breakup or a custody battle. These things have completely different energies. A breakup, even a tumultuous one, isn’t nearly as combative as a custody battle. I understand why my dad says that it, “Comes across as a parlor game.” Tyler might as well be asking, “Do you have any twos?” before the sitter responds, “Go fish!”
Much of Tyler's body language reads as learned mannerisms from impersonating people that do what he believes he should be doing, but he’s so very uncomfortable with himself. Watching him extend his arms and move his body further away when hugging or greeting people tells me he doesn’t want to be in shared physical or energetic space.
I would love to see The Behavior Panel, a group of the world's top body language and behavior experts, do a breakdown on Life After Death focusing solely on body language and facial expressions not on whether or not psychic and mediumship abilities are real. The physical cues and interaction in the show simply don’t track. For instance, the high pitched laugh after delivering information or the pursed lips we see repeatedly, all indicate that Tyler doesn’t believe what he’s saying or doing. Granted, neither does his assistant if you read her body language. Again, I don’t think he’s entirely fake. Rather he’s trying to look more adept than he actually is.
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
One of the main techniques that I believe Tyler is mimicking is the scribbling. Energetically it reads as a prop whereas with someone like Allison DuBois, who uses a similar technique, scribbling is an unconscious mannerism occupying her hands while she channels. For Tyler, he deliberately mentions his need to scribble repeatedly drawing attention to its importance. This is what gives me the sense that he saw someone like Allison do it and adopted it into his methodologies as an affectation.
Here’s where not understanding the energy with which you are interacting can get dangerous. Tyler carries around a bound notebook filled with scribbles from all of his readings. Doing so means that he is introducing energy from past readings into the current ones. That taints the information.
Additionally, those scribbles are captured energy that needs to be discharged. Burning is ideal, but ripping them into tiny shreds will do in a pinch. Instead of releasing the energy in either of these ways, Tyler builds a psychomanteum and hangs framed scribbles on the exterior wall. You should have heard me gasp followed by an exasperated, “What!?! No!!” during that scene. It also drives me completely batty that they’re not hung evenly or straight. Way to add insult to injury.
In episode five, Tyler and his dad build the psychomanteum, the only time we see his father on the show. Dating back to ancient Greece, this structure is a dark room outfitted with a mirror facing the occupant, angled slightly away. The intention is to enter into stillness and communicate with the dead. A variation on this technique is mirror gazing where one stares into a mirror and waits for ghosts to stare back. As someone who has given a reading in the food court of a mall or had plentiful ghosts approach me on the busy streets of NYC, the need for a cobalt blue psychomanteum eludes me. Frankly, I find them completely unsettling in any context.
Considering that the following article is filed under “pseudoscience,” it’s safe to say that Jonathan Jarry and I perceive the world differently. This doesn’t preclude me from greatly appreciating his description of the psychomanteum that Tyler builds —
It was the psychomanteum that broke me. In episode 5 of Netflix’s Life After Death with Tyler Henry, the self-professed California medium asks his dad to build him a “psychomanteum.” He explains it’s a practice that dates back to Ancient Greece. What it ends up being is a room in Henry’s house, painted the colour of Doctor Who’s TARDIS, with the pencil scribbles he does to meditate hung up in black frames and acting like windows. Inside the dark room, Henry spends an hour looking into a mirror that’s angled away from him, trying to get impressions from the afterlife. It’s the only time we see Henry’s father on the show. I can only imagine the impressions that went through his head when his son explained to him why he needed this room.
— "Netflix's Afterlife Show with Medium Tyler Henry Is Dead on Arrival" by Jonathan Jarry M.Sc.
With the lack of energetic parameters Tyler puts in place (more on this later), anything and everything is welcome to communicate. Pretty sure we all know how I feel about that. Just in case we don’t, that’s not good!! When Tyler turns on the night vision camera for recording (in episode five), he is surrounded by dark creatures grabbing at him. Soon the whole room fills with them. The energy is heavy, dark, and clingy. It’s no wonder that Tyler is having physical ailments with energy like this surrounding him. So not only is he inviting in super creepy energy, he’s introducing that to all of his readings and his unsuspecting clients.
One other note I will make about techniques like scribbling or other tools is that currently I am seeing them hold a lot of people back. The energy outpaces the ability to physically keep up. The person practicing these techniques becomes so dependent on them that she is standing in the way of natural energetic expansion and not letting the energy move fluidly, important to note if you’re feeling stuck in your development.
Discernment, What Discernment?
My biggest objection to Life After Death is that Tyler Henry has no boundaries for who or what comes through during his readings. We hear various versions of the phrase, “As I go through this process today, anyone can come through.” This isn’t simply the editing. He’s swinging the door wide open for anything and everything to visit whether it’s there to help or hinder. Danger! Danger! Danger!
Not only is Tyler introducing those energies to the people he reads, they are broadcasting through every television or computer or phone that watches this program. Pause to really understand that impact. Netflix has 223 million subscribers. Even if only one percent of those households watch this show, that’s 2.23 million viewers. That’s a lot of conduits for unfiltered energies — not all good.
It is the responsibility of whomever is doing the reading to ensure that whichever energies and ghosts come through are there for the highest good of everyone involved. In this case, that extends to the viewing audience in addition to the sitters in the episodes. I cannot stress this enough —if you are the one manipulating or interpreting energy, the safety of all involved falls to you. This is the reason we continue to have these conversations.
You, along with your ghost cohort, are in charge of who enters the space. It’s entirely possible that someone or something unwanted tries to edge its way into the reading. You need the confidence to know when that is happening and how to remove that entity. This is why I stress the importance of discerning between ghosts and aliens and galactics and the various other beings who desire to engage with humans. The better you are at differentiating those energies, the safer everyone becomes.
During episode four, while sitting in the backyard with the woman he is reading, Tyler realizes that the house is not hers and belongs to one of her friends. (Scripted? Probably.) He says, “Maybe this person isn’t coming through for you.” This indicates the lack of parameters he’s put on who can join them. (We see the same stunt with Laura Lynne Jackson in "Are You Intuit?," episode six of The Goop Lab on Netflix. It's a solid trope.)
It’s the rare occasion that someone is so insistent on communicating that they force their way to the front of the ghost pack when the reading doesn’t even involve them. It’s Tyler’s job to make sure that whichever ghosts visit are there for the person he’s reading and to communicate that to the living and the dead and for Tyler to know the difference between who is who.
In episode five, we hear Tyler say that, “Venues like this actually sometimes make it harder to connect, if it’s places that have been frequented by a bunch of people,” when referring to a restaurant bar. I’m sure part of this is for production value to make you go, “Oooh, isn’t he impressive that he’s able to do so anyway.”
Again, the responsibility is yours as the person doing the reading to know if the ghosts are there for your sitter, frequenters of the venue, or interlopers. There’s an entirely different energy to ghosts who really like to hang out at a particular place versus ones who are coming to interact with the living people involved. Think of standing in the middle of a farmers’ market. You know when a vendor is speaking directly to you versus addressing the whole crowd. Same goes for ghosts. If you can’t tell the difference, don’t offer your services publicly.
The Dangerous Inclusion of Alcohol
Alcohol messes with people’s energy, plain and simple. For this reason, I feel strongly that it has no place in a reading. Same goes for drugs. Introducing alcohol to the situation alters your energy and makes you more susceptible to dangerous energies. To see it included in more than one episode of Life After Death was appalling. If the sitter needs to drink to be at ease, that person isn’t in an emotional or energetic place to be ready for a reading. Even if the show was pushing for this, Tyler should have objected and stood his ground.
Stop Lauding Unsolicited Readings
I understand that unsolicited readings are an editing ploy. There are even full shows built around this premise, I’m looking at you Seatbelt Psychic. (If you really want to hear me go off about a show, you should hear what I have to say about that one.) But to read someone without their permission is incredibly invasive. Would you walk up to someone and stick your finger in her ear? Tell a stranger she needs a more supportive bra? Riffle through someone’s closet at a party? An unsolicited reading is no better.
We see Tyler give multiple unsolicited readings throughout the show. Now, how truly spontaneous they were is another question given the Reality TV consent forms and filming logistics required for production. However, the average person watching won’t think about those things. So if you’re portraying mediumship on such a large platform, demonstrate the consent that belongs in such an exchange. I address the intricacies of this approach at length in regard to Theresa Caputo and her show Theresa Caputo: Raising Spirits.
Exploiting Grief for the Ratings
I have so many questions about the screening process for this show. The opening sequence tells us that Tyler has a waitlist of over 300,000 people. (This is confirmed in a 2023 Vanity Fair article.) From a business perspective, this makes no sense, but that’s a conversation for another day. It’s unclear if those included in the show were pulled from that extensive waiting list, but they’re all clearly fans. Maybe that wouldn’t matter if there weren’t an excessive amount of gushing. Which means, the majority of the people he’s reading are predisposed to want to believe him because of their preconceived notions. They’ve primed themselves to be so in awe of him because of his profile and notoriety. It doesn’t matter what comes out of his mouth, they’ll be impressed.
Setting the fandom aside for a moment, the other thread throughout the show is how deeply in grief these people are. They’ve been chosen based on how horrific the deaths of their loved ones have been. Exploitative? Absolutely. When someone is still entrenched in that amount of grief, the energy of everyone involved, living and dead, is completely askew. This is also attracting a lot of stuck ghosts which I will address in a bit.
When someone is in the depths of grief, their energy swirls. It’s impossible to get a clean read. If you were to sit with someone for a reading, the focus should be on addressing their grief not on playing 20 Questions about how their loved one died. Why the guessing game surrounding the circumstances of someone’s death? Feels like yet another TV stunt.
Start with the explanation of the death — and please say the words death, dead, and died. Avoiding those words does not bring the person back. If the sitter or the ghosts have questions about the events leading up to their demise, ask them directly. Ghosts can be confused about their own deaths, especially under traumatic circumstances. So why would you ever rely on a ghost to tell you how they died? Most of these ghosts are coming to hear the explanation of their deaths because they were so unexpected and tragic.
What resolution for the living is really being offered? While the interviews post-reading claim that these people feel so much better, that’s not the energy of those segments. Watching Tyler’s facial expressions, body language, and vocal tics, it’s evident that Tyler is not equipped with the emotional maturity or skills to help people who are moving through massive grief. Yet this is the focus of the entire show.
Information trickles in during these readings. Tyler doesn’t have a lot to offer. Then I realized, if more information were to come through for those he’s reading, they would be completely overwhelmed by the breadth of it. When a sitter is so embedded in grief, the information that comes through is tangled and suspect so perhaps it is better to have little offered.
Symbols Are Incredibly Personal
From what I’ve pieced together, Tyler receives “impressions,” as he calls them, that are a series of symbols. This is not how I perceive any of this so let me offer a bit of contrast before launching into why I believe he is doing a disservice to those for whom he reads.
In episode four he mentions, “I don’t see dead people walking around or anything like that. That would be terrifying.” I do. I hear and see ghosts. Depending on how many of them there are, they will join me in the room. If the crowd is too large, they arrange themselves in tiers, amphitheater style. I speak to them similarly to how I interact with the living. They show me scenes reminiscent of video clips and at times still images in addition to speaking. My role is to convey that information as clearly as possible without imposing my own interpretations on it. If I do weigh in, I make it clear that it is my two cents.
Tyler is working with a predetermined bank of symbols that he is seeing. He has crafted his own interpretations for these. Instead of telling the sitter, “I’m seeing [this thing],” he tells them what it means to him. Symbols vary drastically from person to person. If I tell you that I’m being shown an ice cream cone, what does that mean to you? My guess is that each person reading this had something different come to mind. This is why it’s important to convey what you’re seeing and let others determine the significance.
Tyler explains in episode nine that, “Every time they do this it always indicates…” Symbols are never that static. They’re malleable to the living whose energy you encounter, the ghosts involved, and everyone’s life experience. This prompted my dad to ask, “Do all of your ghosts use the same symbols?” Nope. I can’t think of any symbols that have a universal meaning across everyone with whom I speak, living or dead.
This made me wonder who is showing Tyler these symbols. Is there some sort of intermediary? It doesn’t appear to be the ghosts themselves.
They Call That Psychometry
My dad also inquired about the objects that people kept bringing to the readings as he’s never seen me do anything of that sort. Objects have energy. All things do. We feel it when we walk through an antique shop and have certain items call for our attention. It’s why we appreciate family heirlooms or gifts from people we love. Those objects are imbued with their energy.
In the context of this show, they feel like props to portray the validity of the readings. “See! We’re holding this object so all of this must be true!” I’ve never worked with someone who relied on props for readings. My bias is that they’re often a crutch that actually limits the reader from connecting with more information. What I can say is that objects are not required to connect with the dead.
A Word On Stuck Ghosts
Back to my theory of stuck ghosts. It’s actually more than a theory. When I first watched Life After Death, during the mudslide episode, my ghost friends came to me and explained that Tyler was attracting stuck ghosts. This made total sense based on the traumatic deaths as well as the public visibility.
Ghosts are not meant to be bound to the Earth plane. Upon their deaths, they are meant to transition into a fourth dimensional (or higher) space where they can come and go as they please. Traumatic and unexpected deaths can leave the recently deceased confused which results in missing the opening to transition.
The deaths featured on the show include hospital accidents, a heart attack, gunshot wounds and shootings, drugs, a hit & run, a drowning, a surgery gone wrong, an impalement, a mass shooting, seizures, murder, a mudslide, and a fentanyl overdose. You understand why I say they screened for the most dire of death circumstances. So these ghosts found their way onto Tyler’s show because they needed help. Based on the confusion of the ghosts themselves, I assume that others (of the ghost variety) helped orchestrate their presence here.
Heightened grief often occurs when ghosts are stuck because the energy of the dead loved one is attached to the living. The living person feels their own grief but also the confusion and sadness of the person who died who has yet to fully transition. When the stuck ghosts are able to transition, it typically offers more peace to both the living and the dead as well as allowing the living to begin metabolizing their grief.
Having been informed by my ghost friends during my initial viewing of the show that these ghosts were gathering because they were stuck, I discussed with them how we might assist. We introduced Sylvia Browne, a deceased medium, into the mix to shadow Tyler and assist the ghosts as they found him. A few other ghosts stepped in to help. I’m fairly certain that Tyler is unaware of this.
What’s particularly interesting is that Tyler is unable to discern between the energy of the dead and the living. He mentions this throughout the show. If he is primarily interacting with stuck ghosts, it explains this a bit. (I'm waaaay giving him the benefit of the doubt here.) Stuck ghosts have a weightiness that those who have transitioned no longer have. There's a density resulting from them being tied to the third dimensional plane.
If you are going to have ghosts disregard your energetic parameters, it’s going to be this crowd. It’s rarely intentional. They’re confused about how the process should work and often disregard the requests because of this. Assisting in transitioning a stuck ghost also supersedes any information coming through in a reading. Set the energy back to equilibrium before trying to connect with messages.
Physical Impact on Tyler's Health
Ultimately, the topic of health and mediumship warrants its own dedicated discussion, but I would be remiss not to at least touch on it here. Obviously I’ve had my fair share of physical complications stemming from my interactions with energetic attacks. They’re the very reason I don’t want people leaving the front door wide open for unwanted energies to appear.
In the very first episode, Tyler explains that —
In order to get to that headspace, I have to sacrifice some of my own existence. Weirdly. And it stays with the people. Then as days go on, it kind of comes back to me. I literally feel like I left a part of myself there. It’s really weird.
Nope! Nope! Nope! Please do not ever set up this expectation or accept it as a necessity of this work.
What you have here is unhealthy energetic entanglement. Never, ever, ever should you be giving over your own energy during a reading. While you may be drained from the physical exertion of moving energy, you should not be exhausted by it. My firm rule is that anyone who uses me as a conduit leaves my body better than they found it. There is no sacrifice involved.
As is so evident through the notebook full of scribbles, Tyler does no clearing of energy after his readings. He’s holding onto the energy of both the living and the dead in that notebook of his as well as capturing it in his body. This is manifesting in physical ways, including a collapsed lung. Add to that how dark and clingy the entangled energy is, and it’s no wonder he spends his off days curled up in bed.
Even as I write about this, I feel the pull toward exhaustion caused by those garbled and dense energies. It reminds me of putting rocks in your pocket as you bear the extra weight. Every move you make is that much harder. Release it all to be buoyant again!
Understanding your own energy and that of others is what I wish for you, with that comes empowerment and confidence. I harp on these themes and dissect high profile mediums and channelers because we have the opportunity to learn from them.
P.S. I have some predictions about Live from the Other Side, Tyler Henry's new show — mainly that it's total propaganda. Amanda Kloots is on board as the moderator. (Think more Ryan Seacrest than Phil Donahue from what I can tell.)
The death of Kloots' husband, Nick Cordero, was used as one of the headline cautionary tales during COVID to convince people that lockdowns were for our own good and that mandatory vaccines were not a totalitarian overreach by our government. Learning that the show was premiering on Cordero's birthday "took her breath away." I'm sure that no one in production pulled those strings.
If you end up watching Live from the Other Side, let me know your "impressions."
