Every medium has a story, This is mine

 I’m Bella Silva Cacilhas psychic, a medium, intuitive translator, and basically someone who’s been acting as a bridge between worlds for most of my life.

I grew up in a small town in Ontario  Canada as the oldest of three children, raised by immigrant parents from the island of São Miguel in the Azores. From a really young age, I became the family translator. Language, emotions, awkward conversations I was the go-between. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was already learning how to listen deeply and explain things other people couldn’t put into words.

As a small child, I was very sensitive. Certain people and places didn’t feel right, even when I couldn’t explain why. My body always knew first stomach aches, restless nights, that constant feeling that there was more going on than what I could see.

Nighttime especially felt… alive. Not scary in a movie way. Just full. Present. 

No one explained intuition. No one told me what sensitivity actually was. So I figured it out quietly, by living it.

By my teens, it was obvious I picked up on emotions, energy, and information that other people didn’t. When my grandfather passed away shortly before my sixteenth birthday, he became my first clear spirit experience. He showed up gently, in a way that felt safe. After that, spirit mostly met me in dreams because honestly, that’s all I was ready for at the time. And life went on.

People have been opening up to me my whole life strangers, acquaintances, people I just met. Conversations would go deep fast. Questions would come out of nowhere. And somehow, the answers were always there.

I didn’t call it psychic ability or mediumship back then.
I just knew how to listen.

In my late twenties, after years of pushing all of this aside and burning myself out in jobs that never fit, I finally booked a reading. The psychic looked at me and said, “You have a gift and it was given to you for a reason.”

That was the moment everything clicked.

Once I learned how intuition and spirit communication actually work, grounded, ethical, and clear,  the fear faded. Understanding changes everything.

Today, this work is rooted in that clarity. I don’t do spooky theatrics or dramatic performances. My role isn’t to impress it’s to translate. To bring through what’s needed with compassion, honesty, and respect.

I use everything I went through the sensitivity, the confusion, the fear to help other people feel safe with their own experiences. I explain what’s happening. I break it down. I hold space without judgment.

I don’t pretend to have all the answers.
I just translate what comes through.

I once feared the dark because it felt full.
Now, I help others understand what they’re sensing and why.

This work isn’t something I chose lightly.
It’s something I grew into.

And it’s exactly where I’m meant to be.