A mom died for nearly an hour — but she was brought back to life and is now sharing her “magical” experience.

Kirsty Bortoft, 49, was found unresponsive on the sofa in her living room on Jan. 29, 2021, with her eyes open yet “lifeless,” according to her fiancé, Stu.

She had signed off work for the weekend and was looking forward to a romantic night in with Stu — but her fiancé walked into a terrifying sight.

Stu, 47, found her laptop upside down and closed on the floor and said her skin had “strange” hexagonal patterns all over and was a “dark red mahogany” color. 

He began to fear for her life, and soon after, she was rushed to the hospital.

“He put me on the floor and started CPR while on the phone with the emergency services and after plugging me into various machines, the first responder used a defibrillator to shock my weak heartbeat into rhythm,” Bortoft remembered.

The mom of three stopped breathing and medics tried to save her — but she was only given less than a 6% chance of survival.

Bortoft suffered yet another cardiac arrest and was put in a medically induced coma for safety.

“On the night I was in A&E, the team kept losing me, and they decided to put me into a coma to stabilize my heart,” she told NeedToKnow.Online.

Her family was told to “expect the worst.”

While she was unconscious, the anxiety mind coach from North Yorkshire claimed something “magical” happened to her — and soon enough she was “brought back” to life.

“Everything changes when you get a second chance at life, and I know I don’t need to be scared of dying again.”

The meditation teacher has shared her “spiritual experience” online, with one TikTok video gaining 469,900 views and 26,700 likes.

Prior to the incident, Bortoft shared that she went to Spain in 2011 and became a monk in 2015 after dealing with a toxic relationship, and now regularly practices the techniques she learned from the Ishaya monks.

She shared that while she was in the hospital, no one besides her immediate family knew what was happening, but her psychic friend contacted her sister to see what was going on.

“She said my spirit was in her front room, and I was asking her to write lists for my boys and dad,” Bortoft said. “My sister told her I was in the hospital fighting for my life and apparently, I was there for over two hours. I told [my friend] that my body was breaking down, and I didn’t think I could back get into it, but she got stern with me and told me to go back.”

“Meanwhile, in the hospital, my family were being told to prepare themselves for the end.

“The first night was crucial, and it wasn’t looking good, where Stu was told he should prepare for me not making it — but he wasn’t having any of it,” Bortoft said.

The sales manager wanted all the help he could get, so he contacted all of Bortoft’s meditation groups and spoke to her religious friends to get started on healing work.

“People around the world were plugging in to pray and meditate, I even had a reiki master working for hours and supporting my return to my body,” she said. “His faith and ability never wavered, even when being told the prognosis still wasn’t looking any good — but he remained confident that I was coming home.”

Stu was informed that every function of Bortoft’s body was being run by a machine — but the doctors were hopeful they could bring her out of a coma and monitor her.

They decided to turn off life support and let her body come to consciousness on its own, although they were unsure if there would be any brain damage.

“I came around and instantly, I asked for Stu,” Bortoft recalled. “I began to cry overwhelmed and although they never got to the bottom of why this happened, I had become medical research. There’s only one other case like mine where the person survived with rarely any issues.”

A few days after Bortoft woke from the coma, Stu asked her to marry him. Now, they’ve been reliving the situation and recognizing some factors they didn’t previously acknowledge that helped her survive.

For example, Stu was supposed to leave to help a client, but as he went to meet the client, a stranger helped, and he was no longer needed.

“If he had gone, I wouldn’t be here today,” Bortoft said.

Bortoft is also sharing her realizations that came after coming to consciousness. 

“I recall, upon finally coming back into my body, that I knew exactly what I needed to do to heal, like a download of information,” she said.

“I realized you don’t die, only your body moves on and that my mission here wasn’t over yet,” she added. “Without the dark, you don’t know what light is, and I believe we’re here to wake up, grow and refine our vibrations.”

Bortoft took to meditation and imagined a white golden light flowing through the cells of her body.

“People would laugh when I would say, ‘I know I may have just had a near-death experience, but I’m fit and healthy’ — I knew what I was doing,” she said.

She said that her speedy turnaround shocked doctors.

“I sped up the inevitable and healed faster, where on Day 10, my lungs were X-rayed and the radiographer stood in shock,” she said. “He asked my permission to show the results to his team, and he was flabbergasted, as the scarring and water had practically gone. I told him I healed my lungs, and he asked how, so I shared my story.”

Bortoft left feeling “elated and excited” about her recovery process, and now she hopes to share her story with others with the hope of telling people to stop living in fear.

“I don’t waste any time worrying or overthinking and this has meant I’m now a braver version of myself, with no regrets,” she shared. “Worry is a construct of the mind when you negatively use your imagination and place it in a moment of the future — it’s all an illusion. You’re here to experience the spectrum of emotions, not hold onto them and beat yourself up.”

Instead, Bortoft said she focuses on what she does have rather than what she doesn’t and has a great amount of appreciation for life.

“I can walk, see, hear and my brain is bright, I could go on — but the thing I’m most proud of is allowing life to unfold from an anchored place of inner trust,” she shared.

Now, Bortoft and Stu are planning their wedding for 2023, and said she “couldn’t be doing any better.”

“I feel blessed, as I’ve been given a second chance at life.”