17/06/2025
🌀 Treasure Trove – Ask Joanne Anything | Day 29 of 30
Q: How do you deal with someone who questions everything you receive during a session?
✨ Short Answer: It can often be about their fear, grief, or beliefs being challenged.
Some clients ask lots of questions. Others sit silently, giving no expression. Both can feel confronting when you’re offering something so deeply intuitive and personal. But over time, I’ve learned to meet these moments with curiosity, not self-doubt.
What helps me most is understanding why someone might be questioning the session:
🙏🏼They’re grieving and afraid of being let down.
🙏🏼They’re struggling with what the animal is asking of them.
🙏🏼They haven’t yet made peace with beliefs about intuition, spirit, or healing.
When you expect yourself to prove something, you step into fear. But when you trust the relationship you’ve built - both with the animal and with yourself - you hold space, even when the person in front of you isn’t ready to receive it all.
This is where communication skills come in - not just with animals, but with humans too. The way you hold the space, the way you ask for clarity upfront (like requesting their hoped-for outcome), and the way you allow people to process at their own pace - all of this shapes the session.
And if someone truly isn’t ready? That’s okay too. Sometimes people find their way back later, when they are.
🌱 Gentle reminder: The more you grow your confidence and your self-trust, the less you’ll be rattled by a sceptical tone or a guarded reaction. And the more deeply you’ll be able to meet people where they are - with compassion and clarity.
💬 Have you ever taken a client’s doubt as a sign you’ve done something wrong - only to realise it was their discomfort surfacing?