Never Alone: A Medium's Journey

by Debbie Malone

Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing-persons and murder investigations for the last sixteen years. Her extraordinary gifts—she is a psychic and clairvoyant as well as a medium—enable her to receive visions from both the living and the dead, from the past, present and future, and to convey messages to bereaved families from their departed loved ones. This book takes readers on the roller-coaster ride of Debbie's journey, from receiving confirmation of her capacities after a miscarriage at the age of twenty-eight to working with the police on high-profile cases. As Debbie learns that her uncanny abilities to see beyond the here and now cannot simply be switched off or ignored, no matter how inconvenient or distressing they may be, she draws strength from using the world of spirit to help both others and herself, and from knowing that we are never alone.

Genres: Memoir

378 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Richard Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of hard to pick the rating. Four stars or more for the content, and life story, in a few places I felt the writing could have been better, but the. I read this directly after re-reading Eats Shoots and Leaves, so I had a high tended awareness perhaps. The book is well edited, so I'm not being picky in that sense, it's just in part the story could perhaps have been told more strongly and that would have got five stars.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had me hooked from the get go. Amazing insight to the psychic mind. Quite scary at times but when I finished the book, I had an overwhelming feeling of peace to know loved ones live on.

[Tracey Allen at Carpe Librum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having read and enjoyed Clues from Beyond: True Crime Stories from Australia's #1 Psychic Detective by Debbie Malone last month, I picked up Never Alone this month hoping to learn more about Debbie and her psychic gift and certainly wasn't disappointed.

In case you don't know, Debbie Malone is a psychic, clairvoyant and medium and was the 2013 Australian Psychic of the Year. She started to see spirits after experiencing six near-death experiences (NDEs) and Never Alone takes the reader through her life from the time she experienced her NDEs and started seeing dead people, to when she began using her gift to help victims of crime.

Debbie's experiences working with Australian law enforcement are equally frustrating and rewarding and reading Never Alone is a great introduction to understanding Debbie's psychic talents.

Debbie says:
"Being a medium can be a very rewarding vocation but at times it can be hard to cope with the responsibility of having knowledge but not being able to do anything about it. I have come to realise that I am only the messenger and it is not my place to save every person that I get a vision about. I think some outcomes are predestined - however, that doesn't take away my frustration and pain when I feel that I haven't done enough to help someone in need". Page 193

Debbie's gift seems like both a gift and a curse, and I admire her strength for continuing to put herself out there; never charging for working with Australian police departments. The cases she works on seem to haunt her (see what I did there?) but jokes aside, I'm not so sure I'd be able to handle myself with the same strength and equanimity she does.

I highly recommend reading Never Alone, and while Clues from Beyond: True Crime Stories from Australia's #1 Psychic Detective can be read as a stand-alone, I'd begin with this one.

* Copy courtesy of Rockpool Publishing *

[Libby · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was interesting to read a mediums memoir from my local area. I knew most of the places and incidents that she referred to in the book which made it quite personal and "close to home" for me. I totally understand what mediums do and I respect their work but I was left with lots of questions about the "why's". Why would a medium be so interested in spirit photography? Even if one does eventually capture a crystal clear image of a ghost on film what will it prove? Most people believe they exist and those that require hard proof will still remain skeptical about a photo... direct experience is often what it takes for the very skeptical to believe and even then what they see/feel/hear is often explained away as a scientific anomaly in time and space. I was also bewildered as to the mediums attitude to these spirits; at times she felt an overwhelming urge to help them, especially the murder cases that were in the media at the time ...but what about the murder cases that were centuries old? What about the souls that lingered on from the convict era? How is it possible to walk away from the ghosts of children and leave them in that nightmare? A times I felt that she spoke of these souls more as photographic opportunities than as trapped souls who needed help to move on. If you have the skills and ability to see and communicate with these souls and know that they are afraid or unable to move on without help surely you should assist them to the light. Maybe I am simplifying things, maybe the sheer volume of souls is overwhelming...maybe its not that easy...surely one could return at a later date like Malone has done (to photograph) and bring help. If mediums have this ability to communicate with spirits and they can offer the souls that choice (I understand free will) then how is it that there are not "teams" of mediums releasing trapped spirits everywhere? Why do we still have haunted houses and historic old places filled with hundreds of year old trapped souls? Surely not all of them are choosing to remain by their own free will? As I said I have lots of questions!

[Julie Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about a person with gifts it opened my eyes up, we are never alone!!!