Johansson explains the first time she first realized that she had a unique gift, "The first time I realized I had this gift was when it was validated by the people around me. While receiving messages or seeing images in my mind wasn't something new to me, it wasn't something I really understood. However, this changed when I was around six years old. One evening, a family member of mine was at my grandmother's home and when they were about to leave, I blurted out (as a child would) "No! Don't go! There's going to be an accident!" My grandmother was horrified and my family started to question why I would say something so terrible. I was confused and didn't know where the information was coming from, but I just said that I knew and to please not leave. My message was received as an overactive if not morbid imagination, and the guest left. Shortly after, they were in an accident, although it was not anything major. This was the first memory I have of relaying one of these images to others around me and realizing that they may not just be figments of my imagination."

Although she began receiving messages and information at a very young age, she did not start to publicly use her gift until early adulthood along with volunteering her time to solve cases in more recent years. The first case Johnsson every solved was during her time living in Stockholm. One of her neighbors had gone missing for a few days when she started to sense something went terribly wrong. "I went to the police so I could share with them the information I was picking up about the whereabouts of their body. Again, this kind of gift is inexplicable, but what I shared with the police allowed them to locate the woman's body and essentially led to a charge and arrest of the perpetrator," explains Johannson.