How to Prepare for a Reading

You don't need to prepare much for a reading with Madeline Huggins. The session is built to start with a general overview regardless of what you bring in. But a little thought beforehand helps you make the most of your time, especially if you're booking the half hour and want to get to your own questions quickly. None of this is about performing for the reading or convincing anyone of anything. It's simply about walking in with enough of a starting point that the conversation moves somewhere useful for you. If you're booking the hour instead of the half hour, the same preparation still helps, you'll just have more room to let each question breathe once you get to it.

The questions that get the most useful answers

Open, specific questions tend to go further than broad ones. A question like what's going to happen to me gives Madeline much less to work with than a specific one, like what should I know about my job right now, or what's really going on with this friendship. Naming the actual situation, a specific relationship, a specific decision, a specific worry, helps the conversation land somewhere useful instead of staying general. You don't need to explain the whole backstory behind it. A clear starting point is usually enough. It also helps to think about priority. If several things are weighing on you, decide beforehand which one matters most to hear about, in case the half hour doesn't leave room for all of them.

You don't need to bring anything

There's no object, photo, or document required for a reading. Madeline works from your name, so there's nothing physical to prepare or hand over, on the phone, on Zoom, or sitting across from her in person. If you've read about other kinds of readings that ask you to bring a personal item, that's not how this one works.

Write your questions down beforehand

If you know you tend to go blank when you're put on the spot, jot your questions down before you call, even just a short list on your phone. You don't have to read from it word for word or work through it in order. It's there so that if the conversation moves quickly, you have something to glance at instead of trying to remember what you meant to ask in the first place.

If you go blank anyway, that's fine

The reading doesn't depend on you arriving with a perfect list of questions. Madeline starts every session with a general overview before any of your questions come up, and that overview often surfaces something you hadn't thought to ask about. If nothing comes to mind when it's your turn, just say so. The overview usually gives you somewhere to start from, and a good follow up question often shows up on its own once you've heard it. This is one reason first time readings tend to go more smoothly than people expect. The overview isn't waiting on you to steer it, so there's no pressure to get the opening exactly right.

Come as you are

You don't need to be in a particular frame of mind, calm, certain, or ready with exactly the right words, before you call. A reading works with wherever you actually are that day, nervous, skeptical, hopeful, or all three at once. None of those get in the way of the reading itself.

When you're ready, call (303) 726-1983 to book your session.