Reporting for the Other Side

By Tina Powers

News Anchor and Reporter, Tina Powers, is standing at the scene where a thirteen Year-old boy has been shot and killed. Tina, her
cameraman, and the police are the first people to arrive at the crime scene. The parents of the boy have yet to arrive. Do they know that
their young son is dead? This is just another tragedy that Tina stands to bear witness in the name of her job to the many nameless faces
as the camera starts to roll.

For Tina, this day feels different. As she witnesses the father's arrival, the shame and horror of this senseless tragedy hits her in the face. Has this man been told that his son is dead? Does he know that in a crime scene, you can't touch your child and hold him one last time?

In the name of reporting, Tina is expected to capture the father's reaction and ask him how he feels. This moment would be the breaking of a fissure that Tina has followed most of her life and yet denied. Her journey begins when she realizes she needs to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Her journey from standing on the brink of tragedy, loss and grief, takes a severe turn when she begins honoring the seemingly senseless voices inside her head that she's been hearing since childhood, yet denied and ignored. Tina realizes that these voices are sent to be of comfort to the family members in deep despair and to offer hope and peace in their most private intimate moments. But does Tina really have the courage to begin Reporting for the Other Side?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tina Powers
• Release date: Dec 18, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452447421

Tina Powers

Tina Naughton-Powers is a former news anchor and reporter who now works as a professional medium and receives psychic messages, as she laughingly says, "It's reporting for the other side." Sensitive since childhood, Tina felt the presence of people who had crossed over but the intuitive information became a much more powerful force after she made the decision to leave the harsh reality of television news. Tina lectures on intuition and holds private sessions with clients at the world renowned Miraval Resort in Arizona. Her clientele is a veritable "who's who" of people from all walks of life- from business leaders to celebrities that span the globe. Her warmth, infectious laugh and incredible ability to help people connect with a higher vibration enables them to lead happier and more inspired lives. She has just released her second book, "Reporting for the Other Side," which tells the story of her transition from hard news to mediumship. Also in development is her television show titled "Stand by: The Other Side" featuring intimate live readings and a web-based production entitled 'The Light Show' acting as a creator, producer and host-interviewing people from various backgrounds and belief systems who are making a positive difference in the world. It is her hope to use her own media experience and intuitive abilities to help others tap into their own unlimited power. "The Land of Imagination" is Tina's first book, which she authored to inspire children to follow their dreams. The book spear-headed her program 'Be Good News Kids' in numerous classrooms across America; helping students focus on what is "right with the world" - teaching them to write about it and live it themselves. Her contention is, "What we focus on and imagine we bring into our lives." Tina believes that we are all blessed with intuitive abilities and that these gifts should be developed and trusted in order to lead to a more peaceful, purposeful life. For more than a decade, Tina worked for KOLD TV, a CBS affiliate in Tucson, Arizona as a news assignment editor, producer, field reporter and anchor. She has appeared in numerous television commercials and was a morning radio show co-host for two years. For the past nine years, Tina has co-hosted the Children's Miracle Network Telethon in Arizona. Tina has been interviewed on various topics from "the power of intuition" to "how to raise inspired, positive kids". She has also worked in film, television and theatre and is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild. An accomplished oil painter, Tina has recently begun showing her vibrant, colorful works. She believes that all forms of creative expression are an essential element of our true contentment as human beings. Tina graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in radio and television and a minor in drama and speech. Tina lives with her husband, two dogs and "Michael the bird"-who was mistaken for a boy until recently-when "he" laid an egg.

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Rave Endorsements for Tina Powers and

Reporting for the Other Side

Tina Powers gives an intimate portrait of life with the Other Side. Her stories are powerful, and persuasive.

– Julia Cameron, Bestselling Author of The Artist's Way

In Reporting for the Other Side, Tina Powers exemplifies the fact that she had many choices along the career highway that sure would have been a hell of a lot easier and more glamorous than coming out as a psychic … as I can attest to … however, Tina reminds us in her gentle nature that the cost of denying who we truly are is more painful than owning ourselves.

– Michael Bodine, Psychic and Author of Growing Up Psychic

There are many who claim to be in touch. Tina Powers is" in touch. I have experienced her gift of communicating with the Other Side. She’s the real deal. Of further importance, she’s also in touch with this side and for the most part thinks it’s funny. So do I!

– Wyatt Webb, Author of It’s Not About the Horse and What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

"As an explorer/investigator of psychic phenomena, I’ve met some of the world’s top mediums. Among these rare individuals is Tina Powers – a medium of exceptional talent. Tina read for me without any knowledge of my identity, yet delivered detailed, specific and highly pertinent information. She also demonstrated an uncanny ability to relay the unique personality traits of my deceased loved ones. During my session, Tina shared a phrase often used by my late son Brandon, delivering it with exact intonation.

Tina is without question, one of the finest mediums I have encountered and deserves to be counted among the elite in this field worldwide. Of equal or greater importance, Tina is a kind and caring person with great integrity."

– Mark Ireland, Author of Soul Shift

REPORTING

FOR THE

OTHER SIDE

TINA

POWERS

The author reserves the right to change the identifying characteristics and details such as physical properties, occupations, and places of residences in order to maintain their anonymity.

Reporting for the Other Side

Published by Tina Powers at Smashwords

Copyright © 2010 by Tina Powers

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My husband Jace, without whose patience, understanding and love this book would not exist and for giving me a landing pad of support and faith in this life.

I want to thank my mother and father for their endless support in everything I do. I am blessed to be your daughter.

My brother and his family for all the help, love and laughs – always keeping it real.

My mother-in-law and father-in-law and the Potter family for their acceptance and guidance. You are teachers for me.

My Aunts, Carole, Chris and Claire, whom I so appreciate for your influence in my life. Your loving guidance means more than you know.

Rhonda and Paul, your voice and vibration can lift me immediately. For stepping in to lovingly guide me through the metaphysical realms. I’m so glad it’s you.

This book would not exist without the vision and contributions of Joanne Moyle, Mark Parsons, Bonita Mann, and Lanie Adamson.

Rebecca Stuchen – I am in full gratitude and awe of your magical ability to lead and connect people to their highest good.

Karen Callan for being there from the beginning and lifting me always through laughter, tears ... the whole experience.

Mary Monaghan for your wonderful inspiring spirit, unwavering love and support.

Mary Beth Johnson, your creative spirit and excitement for what I do matters so much.

Dr. Richard Crowley for being there through it all- and talking me through moments of fear and turning them to joy.

Michel, Gene, Wyatt, Sandy, Lori, Jeff and all of the others who have helped shape my faith and understanding of the bigger picture.

Mark Ireland, Karin Elliot, Michael Bodine and John D. Riley for your generosity and willingness to share.

Ann Hampton Callaway for your beautiful words and love.

Kari Strand for your love, support, and friendship.

Dana for being there to help me no matter what the time or issue. For believing in me.

And for all of those who hear the small voice inside and are brave enough to go there.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

1. Tuning In

* Nicki

* Drive-by Shooting

* Rip and Read

* The Scene of the Crime

2. The Unfolding

* Unfolding the Opportunities

* Sorrow and Compassion

* The Ouija Board

* Grandmother Rosa

* Making a living Talking to the Dead

3. A Good Reading

* Stick to Your Path

* The Royce and Tina Show

* A Philadelphia Story

* What Makes a good Reading?

* Healthy Skepticism

* Our hats are Off to …

4. Your Divine Mission

* When?

* The Heart of the Matter

* My Aunt Angie

* Our Own Channels

* Keeping the Channels Open

* Shifting from Grief to Gratitude

* My First Visit to a Psychic Medium

* My First Transmedium Experience

5. Angels & Dreams

* Are You listening?

* Angels & Dreams Television Series

6. Live like You Are Dying

* The Day I Became the News

* Time Benders

* Hello Dolly

* Frankie and Bono

7. Earth Angels – Allowing Love In

* Pancho in the Newsroom – Woof!

* Pet Communication

* Wendy and Bailey, M.I.A.

* Ziggy

* Joy is in the Details

8. Interconnected

* Scott’s Mom’s Letter

* Happiness

* Support

* Puff

* The Missing Bulldogs

9. Let Go

* Horse Jaw

* Karma 101

* Camp Chesterfield

* Lottie

10. Stepping Out of the Box

* Modern Day Medicine Woman

* Wo-manifesting!

* Orbs

* Photo Gallery: Orbs and Travel

11. And Into the Present

EPILOGUE

* The Universal Pop Quiz

* When It’s All Said and Done

* Photo Gallery Ghosts and Family

FOREWORD

What happens when we die? And if Jack Lemmon was right when he said, Death ends a life, not a relationship, how do we forge a new relationship with those who have passed on?

Marshall Mcluhan’s iconic phrase The medium is the message takes on new meaning in this book by a woman whose extraordinary gifts allow her to help bridge the living and the dead. Tina Powers’ transition from reporter of the news to reporter for the Other Side may be a reflection of where things are heading from the 20th century to the 21st – from a culture anxiously obsessed with information to one increasingly compelled by the search for truth.

Skeptics and believers alike will be fascinated to read how Powers, after years of covering news stories involving death and destruction, discovered an uncanny ability to tune in to the souls of the departed. As the reader experiences powerful sessions that Tina conducts with a diverse group of sons, daughters, fathers, mothers and friends, the revelation emerges that death is not the end; it is on many levels, a new beginning.

In this book, the medium is the messenger and Tina’s messages from the Other Side repeatedly bring healing, insight and inspiration to countless people struggling with loss.

When my beloved father, John Callaway, died last year from a massive heart attack, I went into a tailspin of grief. He was a legendary Chicago journalist whose sudden absence left the presence of enormous sorrow and unanswered questions. In three separate sessions with Tina, I was able to find insight and solace that a new relationship with him was possible. In searching through his papers, I had discovered many unfinished literary projects. How extraordinary it was to hear from Tina that he was asking me to write a book with him. In our last session, he revealed that he would leave signs like rainbows for me and that he would have front row seats at the shows my sister and I performed. On that perfectly sunny day after the reading, I walked to the beach and saw not only a rainbow in the sky but also a heart shaped cloud on the horizon. And that night, in my sold-out show, there were two inexplicably empty seats in the front row.

It is ironic that my father’s favorite book was Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death. He, who like Tina, brought the hard news of the world home to our dinner table, was more aware than most of the gripping anxiety we all experience in fearing death and therefore fearing so much of life. One of the many gifts of Tina’s book is that she addresses these fears with emotional and spiritual insights that can help us live more meaningful lives. She reveals ways we can all tap into our consciousness and experience realities beyond the strictly literal. She gives us tools in how to see the unseen and cultivate an awareness of realms that our technological world has distanced us from.

Tina’s book comes at a time when exciting work is being done to explore the biology of out-of body experiences and what they reveal about the form of human consciousness. Science and spirituality are merging. Ancient spiritual traditions are being rediscovered and more and more people are experiencing the subtle realms that we all possess, deepening their commitment to live life with love, compassion and integrity.

It is with much gratitude that I welcome you to Tina’s book and her heroic spiritual adventure. As a friend, she is one of the warmest, funniest and kindest people I know. You have only to hear her cascading laugh to get that she is a woman of joy resonating from her very core. I am honored to know someone who has taken so many risks to get beyond the headlines of the news so that we can be introduced to what I call the heartlines of the news- the shimmering life of our souls.

As you turn these lovingly written pages, I hope you will savor awakening to your own insights and intuition, and experience a greater sense of awe for the mystery of being alive.

– Ann Hampton Callaway

singer, songwriter, optimist

4/2/10

PREFACE

I realize now that this fateful night has changed me forever. I have no idea how yet. Soon I will continue to be a reporter, but in a whole new fashion. I will continue to bring messages from fallen sons to tearful fathers, letting them know that death is not the end and that life and love still continue regardless of space and time. In that moment of the drive-by shooting, I had no idea what was about to change. It was an awakening, and, as it turns out, one of many.

What we think we know is only a portion of what is out there to be learned and experienced.

REPORTING

FOR THE

OTHER

SIDE

1. Tuning In

Conference Call August 2009. Tina Powers shook her head and pressed her hand against her right temple. She muted her microphone and said, One at a time, please. She adjusted her headset and unmuted her mic, then continued the conference call with six women she had never met. It wasn’t their voices that filled her head with fragments of images and messages. They were messages from people who passed on from this world – messages from the Other Side.

NICKI

Tina: Okay, does anyone … I’m sorry I’m going real fast here, it’s just coming in pretty quickly. Does anyone know a Nicole? I think it’s Nicole. Or Nicolette. Okay, nobody has that? Okay, hold on here a moment … hmm, Nicki? No? hold on here … Is Nicole a friend of someone on this call? Or a young friend?

Anna, one of the callers, speaks hesitantly: It’s a friend’s daughter who just passed a week ago.

Tina: Nicole … hold on … Do you know if there’s anybody in connection with Nicole named Nicki? I keep getting a Nicole.

Anna: Nicki was her nickname.

Tina: Okay. I need to ask you … it may be her. Was it very unexpected?

Anna: Yes, yes.

Tina: Like out of left field?

Anna: Yes.

Tina: Like slam!

Anna: Yes.

Tina: So she doesn’t get to say goodbye to anyone? And it happened very fast, she says.

Anna: Yeah, it was a car accident.

Tina: Oh, and she knows you. She says you know her.

Tina smiles and laughs briefly.

Tina: Hold on here … She says that her grandfather’s in the other world.

Anna: He probably is.

Tina: And helping her with this transition.

Anna: Oh, good. Okay.

Tina: Because everybody was worried. She doesn’t know that many people. What is she going to do?