About

Ella · Your Friend in the Bardo

Grief, Growth,
and the Path to Presence

Several years ago, an unexpected grief upended my life. From this raw and fragile place, I reached out to Tom Jacobs — an evolutionary astrologer, channel, medium, and extraordinary human. His work, his mentorship, and eventually his friendship changed my life.

With Tom, I learned how to connect with spirit guides directly — both mine and others’ — and began my journey as a psychopomp, a guide of spirits and communicator between the embodied and the deceased. Struck by the unresolved grief in the collective human field, and committed to the vision of heart-centered mediumship, I continued learning through the Egyptian neteru and other shamanic influences. My practice deepened, and I was guided to share stories of these journeys through a podcast called Your Friend in the Bardo.

Feeling the support and encouragement of my guidance team, I continued working closely with and learning from Tom, and eventually he asked me to teach with him. We began what felt like a promising new chapter — and it was, but with a twist: Tom died suddenly in December 2024, and I was guided to continue the class cycle we had begun, supporting the students’ development of energetic awareness and hygiene, self-knowledge, spirit guide reading, and heart-centered mediumship.

My guides have been saying for some time that an essential part of our work together is for me to offer these gifts to the world. Despite decades on the mystical path, I would never have imagined this — but it turns out that connecting people with their guides and helping humans and spirits along their journey to understanding and release is what I am here for.