British Psychic Challenge winner Diane Lazarus shares how her spirit guides led her to international success
It’s strange to think how one tiny decision can change your entire life and yet, that’s what happened to me. Back in 2005, I discovered my daughter, Lisa had secretly put my name forward for Channel 5’s ‘Britain’s Psychic Challenge’, a TV show to discover ‘Britain’s Best Psychic’. I was horrified when I found out what she’d done. Apalled, in fact. I knew I had the gift since I was a young child, but I grew up with my mother always telling me to be quiet because ‘people will think there’s something wrong’ with me.
Overcome doubt
My gift seemed almost shameful and secretive. Even when I had a regular slot on a local radio show and did private readings, my instinct was still to withhold and not to draw attention to my abilities. However, my chief spirit guide firmly disagreed. ‘You can do this’, he told me as I walked crossly away from Lisa, vowing to cancel the application. ‘It’s the next step, you’ll win too’. Admittedly, that last bit seemed so unlikely that it wasn’t even worth thinking about, but it was the moment I decided to proceed.
Connect to your guides
Many interviews followed the initial application! There were around 4,000 entrants whittled down to ten, and I soon ended up in a hotel room waiting for the first challenge to begin. Absently, I picked up the hotel writing pad and began doodling. I’m not much of an artist but I found myself drawing a car park with pointed-top railings, and on the right of the entrance I drew a big white van. It was a better sketch than I usually manage and I quickly realised one of my other spirit guides, a young man called Mark, an art student who was later murdered, was guiding my hand. The next moment the taxi arrived to take me to the TV location. To my amazement, we pulled up at the exact car park as the one in my drawing, next to that same white van (this part was not aired!).
Trust your intuition
My first task was to find a man hiding in the boot of one of the cars. I looked at the approximate 500 vehicles in dismay before promptly hearing, ‘don’t worry Diane, I’ve got this’ in Mark’s voice. I then saw him rushing between the vehicles, with me hurrying after him. Moments later we were standing beside the boot of one of the cars when the producer came over to open it up. To my amazement, there the man was, curled up inside.
The night before the next challenge I had a dream about a child with dark, wavy hair. When I awoke, I began drawing her, intuiti
