
Episode #189
Life After Death, a Stroke at 25, and the Power of Prayer with Ash Robinson
Spiritual healing, a stroke at 25, and a childhood spent inside the spiritualist tradition. In this plain spoken conversation, Ash Robinson talks with Courtney about what it looks like to live this work rather than study it from the outside. Ash is a third generation spiritualist, ordained minister and practising medium. He serves as vice president and minister at Wimbledon Spiritualist Church and president and minister at Hackbridge Spiritualist Church in the UK. He is the author of Spirituality Simplified and hosts Being Spiritual on SPTV, bringing spiritualist mediumship and spiritual philosophy to live audiences online. Outside the church he has spent over two decades in UK public service leadership, and he is a rugby coach, community organiser and father of three. Belief in life after death was never something Ash had to be convinced of. It was the water he grew up in. Mediumship was Tuesday nights and Sunday mornings. Healing was something you tapped into when someone you loved needed it, what his eight year old now calls the free Wi-Fi. But at 25, in the middle of a hectic career and a busy life, he had a major stroke. His family was told the damage was permanent. What happened over the following days, and how his neurologist described it afterward, changed the direction of his entire calling. Courtney and Ash also get into what it means to teach spirituality in plain English, why he has reclaimed the word woo woo as a badge of honour, and how his eleven year old came up with the clearest definition of mediumship either of them has heard. Together they explore: What growing up as a third generation spiritualist is really like Why his first formal training was learning how to switch mediumship off How a medium brought his friend through with his personality completely intact The warning signs of a stroke at 25 that his family nearly missed Absent healing, prayer, and what his neurologist could not explain Why he describes the spiritual connection as free Wi-Fi anyone can log into Writing a book with dyslexia when reading has always been the hard part What a lyceum is, and why he is rebuilding one for a new generation Connect with Ash Robinson https://www.playatthebridge.co.uk/ash-robinson-medium Connect with Courtney Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediumcourtneydawson/ Website: https://mediumcourtneydawson.com Connected Spirit Membership, her structured learning portal built around the Connected Spirit Method https://www.skool.com/theconnectedspiritschoolmember/about Mediumship Mastery Circle, ten months of formal training in ethical evidential mediumship, starting Tuesday 8 September 2026 https://mediumshipmasterycircle.netlify.app/ Book a reading with Courtney https://mediumcourtneydawson.com/ Subscribe to The Connected Spirit Podcast so you never miss an episode that meets you exactly where you are on your spiritual journey.

