I was about 15 minutes into my conversation with medium Theresa Caputo about her new TLC series Long Island Medium when my mom decided to show up.
Caputo interrupts my questioning with, “You’ve lost a lot of loved ones.”
I disagree, saying “I wouldn’t say a lot, but a few, yeah.”
She confidently asks, “Is your mom departed?”
“OK, that’s weird,” I think. After all, most people my age still have their mothers, so she really took a long shot throwing that one out there. But, I acknowledge that my mother is indeed deceased.
Caputo goes on to explain that prior to answering my call she had written down a few things including my name, mother, daughter, young male, 4 and 62. She tells me there’s a “lot of energy” going on, and suddenly I get a little nervous, thinking this could be my doing. Although I didn’t tell Caputo, when I drove to work that morning I had actually talked to my mom in my head [and that’s something I just don’t do. I’m a bit skeptical on ghosts and spirits]. I simply thought, “Hey, if you want to reach out to me I’m talking to a medium today.” And that was it.
Caputo asks: “Where you at the actual passing of your mother because your mother showed me the holding of the hands, which means she wants to go back to the day of her passing. Were you actually there for that moment or did you just miss the passing?”
I gulp. It’s a sensitive topic for me, since I was the only family member who actually wasn’t there when she passed. So I tell her I was not.
Caputo says that my mother is validating that nothing was left unsaid and that “everything and anything you said to your mom was heard.” She then asks? “Whose birthday is now? If it’s not today or the week of it’s usually the month we are in.”
“That would be me,” I tell her. “OK,” Caputo says. “So your mom’s just wishing you a happy birthday.”
I give an uncomfortable laugh and jokingly ask Caputo to tell my mom to hush up, so I can get back to doing my job.
But Caputo — well, maybe it’s my mom — isn’t quite finished. We go on to connect months and dates, discuss that “young male” reference, significance of April and more. She presses on with “Do you remember the year 62? Or could it stand for the month of June and the month of February as far as birthdays or anniversaries?”
“My mom was born in February, died in June,” I confirm.
“Perfect,” Caputo says. “Just validating your mother’s presence and that she took this opportunity. Spirits will take any opportunity to get a message to someone.” Then Caputo’s Long Island accent comes out as she describes my mom as a “chatty catty.” Glad, she’s having a good time.
“Whether you believe or understand what I do, and I don’t mean to be rude, but it really doesn’t matter,” Caputo says. “That’s not what this is about. This phone call is not about you believing in what I do. What just happened right now, what I interpreted it as a beautiful gift you just received from your mother. Knowing that even after all these years of her not being here in the physical world she hasn’t missed out on anything. She acknowledged your children, that she held the children before coming here in the physical world and she’s still with you, and loving and guiding you from the other side. Right?”
Gulp.
What a loaded thought. I pause. I collect my thoughts. “Did I tell her I had kids? Could this seriously be real?” And I simply say: “That’s awesome. Thank you.”
So add me to Caputo’s long list of clients who have been given the gift of closure. Now, as for my sister, she’s really ticked my mom didn’t even give her a shout out! She’ll have to join Caputo’s long waiting list and maybe we’ll here back from her in a few years.
Long Island Medium airs on TLC Sundays beginning Sept. 25.
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theresa i love your show.i would like to see if you could see if you could talk with my dad.he has been gone since 1985 i miss him every day….could you please ask him if he loves me.and how sorry i amthat i could not be thare when he died.i am so sorry.daddy.and i also suffer from depresson my whole life.and will things get better for me…..thank you so much.if i could givr you a hug i would.thankyou…
Hi Theresa…enjoy you and your family’s show. I live in Texas and do not feel I could ever get out east for a reading…but I miss my loved ones very much and so much is unanswered…how can I contact you? Do you get any feelings while reading this email of mine.
Can you channel over the phone???
Dear Theres I have so many deaths in my close family that it has been so hard for me my life is so hard to manage because of these. I watch your shows all the time even reruns. It just seems some sort of peace when I lesten to you.I am a very said person but the past just isnt behind me.Please could you give me some sort of that.
my mom and dad died of cancer and i really miss them i feel like they are trying to tell me something my kid miss them dearly as will as me
I know why everybody loves you, you just have a naturally lovable personality. I could only imagin what life is like for you, I’m sue it can get very overwhelming. I would love to have a reading with you.
God Bless
My Mother passed away..on August the 14th..She was severly ill only for a short time..she tried over and over to tell me something about her care keeper..she passed away before she could tell me what she needed to tell me..I am eaten to my soul..wondering what she had to tell me..she seemed so desperate…but she would not, or could not talk to me…I just want to know what? she had to say..
T watch your show every Sunday night and am so amazed on your special gift . You give so much closure to the people who want answers . I too would love to have answers . My husband has lost his parents and his step father , and I both my parents a long time ago . My husband and his sister really need to be reassured that there parents are together to a peaceful place . My husband has asked me several times if i think they are all together in Heaven and watching over us all . all I can do is reassure them . It would be a blessing to let him and his sister be able to rest over this . maybe someday we can attend one of your tours . Bless you
Theresa….. I also absolutely LOVE your show…and i also started seeing spirits when i was very small.. I stoped ” seeing” spirits as i got older but still have the ability to read different situations…i see different pictures, details,ect.. But i am not that expiriensed…id like to pursue it more and learn how to be able to use my gift more…alot of what ive seen has been validated so I KNOW.. That what ive always thougkht is true..that i do have this gift…even though ” some people have told me that its “bad” i also have seen bad spirits and have expirienced things being thrown around, ect…so im confussed…ive helped people by answering questions but im also so confussed… Please help… If u have a chance one day…. Thanks….
I would just love to start by saying I love watching you and your family. I would love to have a reading with you but I don’t know how to start. I have lost a lot of people in my family and would love to know if they are in a good place. I hope this reply can reach you. Thank you for listening.
Amanda
Dear Theresa, Love your show & above all You. My dear neighbor has inherited properties from her departed husband, she needs contact with her deceased husband for information on this property. We are in Florida.Could you please help?
I would really love/need to have a reading done, but from looks of all of these comments, it would be a very long wait. Love your show and your gift.
Me and my mom want to know how we can contact you to talk to you about my grandma cause my grandma lost her mother 16 years ago and she gives so much tooo people and we just want closher for her with her will you please contact us back thank you
How would I be able to talk to you personally as I want to hear from my father, family and many close friends that have passed. I lost my dad when i was very young. Please contact me.
Thank you
How do I go about getting a private reading with Theresa. I watch your show religously. I’ve been carrying around a burden for 45 years & seems to be getting worse as I get older. I’m hoping that Theresa will be able to help me. Hopefully, someone will contact me at my email address so that I may know if I have a chance to be read. Thank you in advance.
Annette Mattaboni
Surprise AZ
(originally from Brooklyn with lots of family out on the island)
THERESA, I DEARLY LOVE YOUR SHOW AND YOU HAVE THEW GREATEST PERSONALITY. I RECORD YOUR SHOW JUST SO I DONT MISS IT. SOMEDAY IF IM IN YOR AREA, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GIVE ME A READING.(: LOVE YA SUE CLAY
I know this is life after and out of your way however I know there is
Life after..been there.. I recently lost my mom and that’s all I’m going to say. I have carried both my moms, can you call me please?
I love to watched your show, I wish I could be able to have a readign with my family we have lost a lot of people for some years now and each group, I believe would benefit from hearign what our loved ones has to say.
~Lorraine says:
October 13, 2012 at 10:45 pm
~Dear Theresa Caupto,
You are a Very Beautiful Soul, with a Very Special Gift! Thank You, for what You do, for those who have lost Loved One‘s, and are trying to move forward in life. Your Show, is Fantastic, and so Inspirational…
It must be hard on You to have to pick and choose whom You can stop to help out…
I lost my Husband, of 36 years on Thursday, 2-9-2012
I was His Caregiver for the past 4 years.
*HE WAS THE BEST PART OF MY EVERYDAY, AND HE STILL IS AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!!!
I LOVE & MISS MY HUSBAND, MORE THAN LIFE!!*
It was one of the toughest days, I have ever lived!!!!!!!
I wanted to go with my Husband, when He left this life…I can not move on with my life….The day before He passed is embedded in my head, my heart, my gut, my soul…and it is KILLING ME, LITERALLY, KILLING ME!!!!!!!
My health is not good…I have no income, no Insurances of any kind…I am selling our things, to make life work out for me…I would Love to talk to You on the phone. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, THERESA, I NEED YOU…I will not be able to move ahead until, I can get the answer to what is killing and eating at me inside…I can NOT discuss this with just anyone…again, PLEASE THERESA, I REALLY, REALLY NEED YOU…I HOPE & PRAY THAT YOU CAN FIT ME IN SOMETIME!!!
THANK YOU…GOD BLESS YOU & YOURS’!
Sending You a BIG-BIG-BIG Italian/German HUG!!!
DearTheresa,
Why did your Medium come so late in life for you? How did you know when you could channel the passings? I feel you are so blessed that you are able to help people that are falling apart of there loss. Also you don’t use your blessing as a money Pitt. I know you get paid for what you do but you will alway give to others a message because you have so much love in your heart, that it’s the feeling that you get from just helping someone cope.
I have a gift too its different then yours. I dream of the people that have died in my life. My ex-husband Died and he was a jokester and even bing dead he played a joke on me in my dream. I can say something and my husband will tell me that is what I was thinking. and it’s like I can read peoples fillings. I want to see things like you do, I envy you so much in what you can do. I pray every night that i wish I could do what you do.
Is here others in your family that can do this, is this inherited in your family?
Does your daughter and son have it too?
Your show is fantastic, you are so blessed.
I wish I lived closer to get a reading by you lots of my family have died. They would have a field day with you I’m sure they are the some there. I was looking if you had a book out on you, in what to look for to be a medium and in how you tell your receivers what you see. I want to thank you for having your show its so enjoyable to
watch. Your kids are heard on you but they are kids it doesn’t matter what you do, they will still be like that because they are kids..lol