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When nothing seems to change, it's easy to believe you're the problem.
Feeling stuck, disconnected, or constantly searching for answers can keep us looking everywhere except the one place that matters most.
Jessi Graham shares insights from her journey as a fourth-generation psychic and spiritual guide. Together we explore self-love, identity, healing, intuition, and why the answers we seek are often closer than we think.
Hi! I’m Jessi. I am a fourth generation psychic and a spiritual relationship coach. I started having visions as early as age 3 and I have been refining my talents ever since. Previously, I have worked with iHeartRadio and the Psychic Matchmaker on TLC, which is an internationally known program that has been running for many years. One of my favorite current projects is my podcast, The Psychic Connection with Deborah Graham, that I record with my mom. Readers can listen on all platforms to get a good idea of who I am and what I do in my sessions! My specialties include energy readings, psychic matchmaking, and intuitive and spiritual life coaching. I work with all clients to give them the tools to focus on their higher selves and work on connecting them with the love they must have for themselves. I see clients in person in office spaces in South Florida (Boca Raton) through Central Florida (Orlando). I also see clients around the globe through virtual readings.
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-Spiritual awakening and ascension process
-Tools for energetic clearing and protection
-Deep self-love and inner child healing
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When something hurts for years, it's easy to believe something is wrong with you.
Childhood trauma, shame, and emotional pain can leave us searching for answers we can't quite name.
In this episode, Chris Sansone shares his journey through childhood sexual abuse, healing, advocacy, and the deeper meaning of longing. Together we explore how trauma shapes our lives, why emotional pain lingers, and how healing can reconnect us with the parts of ourselves we thought were lost.
Chris Sansone, PhD is a life, leadership, and spiritual transformation coach—and a certified past life regression guide—with 28 years of experience supporting people through life-defining challenges and seasons of change. His work invites individuals, couples, and groups to listen beneath the noise of daily life, uncover what the soul is truly longing for, and gently heal the old patterns that keep them small. With a PhD in Human Development, coaching certification through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), training in trauma response, and certification in past life regression therapy, Chris blends grounded developmental insight with spiritual practice to create meaningful, transformative experiences. He is the author of Longing: A Pilgrimage to Your Quiet Power Within.
Topics In This Episode:
-The concept of sacred calamity and its role in growth
-The importance of stillness and inner listening
-The connection between body, mind, and spirit
-Tools and practices for healing and awakening
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Have you ever looked at your life and wondered, "How did I end up here?"
Burnout, chronic illness, and feeling disconnected from yourself can leave you questioning everything you thought was true.
In this episode, Brooke Santamaria shares her journey through illness, burnout, spiritual awakening, and the moment she stopped looking outside herself for answers and began reconnecting with her own truth.
Brooke Santamaria is an RN turned life coach and sound healer on a spiritual journey. I see myself as a perpetual seeker and humble student. She loves connecting with people on deep and healing levels. Her mission is to help raise the collective vibration, one person at a time by helping people connect deeply within, embrace their unique path, and transform their lives from the inside out.
Topics In This Episode:
-Spiritual awakening through health crises
-The role of surrender and acceptance in healing
-How sound healing and breathwork facilitate emotional release
-Overcoming programming and reconnecting with inner truth
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Why do some people keep destroying themselves no matter how badly they want peace?
Addiction, shame, anxiety, and emotional pain often begin long before we understand where they came from.
In this episode, Shannan Kym shares her journey through addiction, childhood trauma, loss, and breaking generational cycles—and what finally helped her begin healing.
Shannan Kym is an internationally award-winning author, TEDx public speaker, certified professional life coach, and transformational mentor. After breaking free from the grip of alcoholism and childhood abuse, she found her purpose to share her life story to help others unravel their past, overcome the genetic blueprint of addiction and abuse, and find their own greatness. She lives in Alberta, Canada, and travels to the States extensively.
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-Trauma and addiction as a foundation for growth
-The significance of name and identity in vibration
-Healing generational trauma through self-awareness
-The role of stillness and emotional release in transformation
-Understanding vibration, energy, and emotional flow
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What happens when you grow up believing you were never meant to be loved? Childhood trauma can shape identity, safety, and self-worth long into adulthood.
In this episode, Melanie Taylor shares the hidden grief carried by those who learned to disappear in order to survive—and what it means to return to the part of ourselves that was never broken.
Melanie Taylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor–Supervisor, Certified Heart Center Hypnotherapist, and author of You Are For True. Her work centers on healing childhood trauma through repair, embodiment, and compassionate truth-telling. Drawing from both clinical training and lived experience of abuse and recovery, Melanie writes about returning to the parts of ourselves that were hurt and offering them what was missing the first time around, safety, protection, and love. In You Are For True, Melanie shares childhood stories alongside moments of repair guided by “True,” the steady inner presence that represents the self that was never broken. Her work invites readers to release shame, reclaim their worth, and rediscover who they were always meant to be. Through writing, teaching, and creative practices, Melanie creates spaces where healing is slow, honest, and deeply human.
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-Impact of childhood trauma on adult life
-The importance of emotional awareness and regulation
-The process of healing and repair of inner wounds
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What happens when the person you love slowly disappears—and you’re still asked to keep living? Dami Roelse shares what it’s like to lose a partner long before they’re gone.
In this episode, Dami Roelse opens up about caring for her husband through Parkinson’s and dementia, and the quiet reality of becoming a caretaker instead of a partner. There’s a kind of grief that doesn’t have space to land while it’s happening—and what follows can feel just as disorienting. What began as a walk into nature at sixty-five became a ten-year journey hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, where grief, freedom, and something deeper began to meet.
Dami is the author of Fly Free: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Walking the Path and her most recent book, Body and Grace, which follows her ten-year journey hiking the Pacific Crest Trail after the loss of her husband. Moving through snowfields, deserts, fire, and long stretches alone, the outer journey becomes a reflection of something deeper—finding wholeness again in the wake of loss.
Topics In This Episode:
-Grief and healing through nature
-The spiritual benefits of hiking and wilderness
-The impact of altitude and environment on consciousness
-Losing a partner while they’re still alive
-The reality of caregiving and identity shift
-Grief without space to process
-Life after loss and depression
-Walking the Pacific Crest Trail in sections
-Nature as a path to healing and clarity
-Discovering resilience, intuition, and trust
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Dami Roelse is a certified life coach and author. Born and raised in Holland, Dami has traveled the world extensively, lived on different continents and studied with different spiritual teachers. Dami has learned to use her travel as an inspiration for living. Her memoir "Fly Free, a memoir about love, loss and walking the path" takes the reader to a remote destination in Ladakh on the border with China and is sprinkled with flashbacks of her travels in Afghanistan, India and Nepal, where she met Goenka, Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass.
Dami has used her passion for long distance hiking and backpacking as a means to deepen her connection with nature and the universe. Her inner spiritual journey has evolved right along with her outer journey. Dami’s first book, “Walking Gone Wild, How to Lose your Age on the trail”, is a call to women in the third phase of life to find freedom and inner peace as they walk in nature. Dami's third book, "Body and Grace, a woman's walk to wholeness on the Pacific Crest Trail" is forthcoming in April 2026 with Mantra Press. It is a collection of nature infused stories and poems that takes the reader on the trail with its ups and downs, both literally and psychologically. Dami makes her home in Taos, New Mexico.
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What happens when war follows you home?
PTSD and survivor’s guilt don’t end when the mission does.
In this episode, Navy SEAL veteran Rob Sarver and Alex Gendzier share the hidden emotional journey many veterans—and the people who love them—face after war.
Topics In This Episode:
-The hero's journey as a framework for healing
-Understanding soul wounds and PTSD as a spiritual journey
-The importance of purpose, vulnerability, and forgiveness
-The role of ancient traditions and indigenous wisdom in modern healing
-The ongoing process of awakening and spiritual growth
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Alex Gendzier is the General Counsel of Sycamore Tree Capital Partners. From a deep commitment to veterans, he has provided pro bono legal services to veterans and their families for over a decade, including having led his prior law firm’s efforts to assist Afghan allies and friends. Although Alex has no military experience, he has a connection with veterans in their transition to civilian life from his own journey overcoming the odds, healing from painful losses, reflection on his successes and failures and making life-changing transitions. He and Rob regularly speak about transition to companies, veteran’s groups, government agencies, foundation and universities.
Rob Sarver is a 2004 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy He initially served as a surface warfare officer and ultimately as a Navy SEAL assigned to SEAL Team 3. He completed seven deployments, including three tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and two tours in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He regularly speaks about transition to companies, veteran’s groups, government agencies, foundation and universities, with Alex. He is recognized as one of the experts about veteran transition in the United States from the years’ worth of interviews and research for this Field Manual and the interviews and talks that have arisen out of it.
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When postpartum depression hits, it doesn’t always look the way people expect. It can feel like you’re still there… and at the same time, like you’re slipping away inside—and no one around you can fully see it.
In this episode, Katherine Connors shares her experience of postpartum depression while remaining deeply connected to her role as a mother. There’s a kind of loneliness and disorientation that’s hard to name—and even harder to explain. When she found Polarity Therapy, something began to shift. What started as personal support became a path she now walks with others.
This conversation stays close to the lived experience—what it feels like, what begins to open, and how a different relationship with the body can gently bring you back.
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-Postpartum depression and healing
-Energy healing modalities including polarity therapy
-Working with horses and animals for emotional and physical healing
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Hi, I’m Katherine Connors—a certified Advanced Polarity Practitioner, Hermetic Counselor, and ordained minister in Florida. My approach blends holistic counseling, intuitive physical bodywork, and energy healing grounded in the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether. I was led to this work through my own healing journey—navigating postpartum depression and emotional disconnection. I came to understand how deeply the body stores past experiences—grief, trauma, stress—and how powerfully it can heal when given the space and support. Polarity therapy is rooted in the anatomy of energy. Each session is a full-body process that combines dialogue, guided meditation, and somatic techniques to identify where your system is off balance. I use hands-on practices—including cranial sacral-inspired touch and homeopathic suggestions—to help release what no longer serves you. Whether you’re seeking forgiveness, clarity, or reconnection, I meet you where you are. I also offer sessions for animals, who respond beautifully to this work. Sessions are available virtually, in nature, at home, or at Spark of Divine in Vero Beach.
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What happens when you survive the unsurvivable? Maya Tiwari shares her journey from terminal cancer to reclaiming Shakti and the forgotten power of the Divine Feminine.
In this episode, Maya Tiwari shares how a terminal cancer diagnosis at twenty-one became an initiation that stripped everything down to essence. This conversation explores lived experience, emotional truth, and what it means to stay present with what life is asking for—without fixing, bypassing, or forcing resolution.
Topics In This Episode:
-Healing from cancer as a spiritual initiation.
-Reclaiming Shakti and the Vedic concept of Shiva.
-How the impact of patriarchy has suppressed the Divine Feminine.
-Why balancing masculine and feminine energies is vital for the planet.
-Navigating the painful but joyful journey of Spiritual Awakening.
-The power of the voice and sound energy in deep healing.
-Differentiating between grief and suffering to find inner peace.
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Maya Tiwari (Mother Maya) is a spiritual teacher, author, and pioneer in the field of Ayurveda. After healing herself from terminal cancer through Vedic practices, she founded the Wise Earth School. Her latest work, I Am Shakti, focuses on reclaiming feminine power and healing the human spirit through ancestral wisdom and nature's rhythms. She founded the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda—the first of its kind in North America—and later the Mother Om Mission, helping thousands of women, families, and communities heal from trauma, disease, and despair.
For more than thirty years, Maya has inspired global audiences through her books, teachings, and humanitarian outreach. A former Vedic monk of the revered Veda Vyasa lineage, she has spoken at the Parliament of the World’s Religions and major interfaith gatherings worldwide, and is the recipient of the Dhanvatari and Rishi Awards for her contributions to Ayurvedic medicine. In 2010, she renounced her monastic title, choosing instead a simpler, more accessible life devoted to compassionate service and the healing of those most in need.
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We explore how early trauma and disconnection shape the way we experience love, identity, and belonging. Louis & Paula Silverstein share how war, childhood wounds, and emotional disconnection influenced their lives—and what shifted as they began to meet those experiences through awareness, relationship, and higher consciousness.
From Louis’s early experiences with war and cultural identity to Paula’s path of healing and partnership, their journey reveals how resilience is formed and how connection can be rebuilt. Together, they speak to the role of community, the integration of past wounds, and the importance of creating spaces where people feel seen and supported.
This conversation moves through trauma, healing, and conscious relationship, exploring what it means to live with greater awareness, compassion, and presence—where love, joy, and connection become part of the path forward.
Topics In This Episode:
-Early life and experiences with war and trauma
-The concept of soul divinity and spiritual awakening
-Healing childhood wounds through reparenting and therapy
-The importance of community and creating supportive environments
-The role of love, joy, and pleasure in spiritual growth
-Practical tools for awakening and self-discovery
-The interconnectedness of all life and energy fields
-Living authentically and embracing higher consciousness
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Louis “Luchiano “Silverstein, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), Columbia College Chicago, where he also served as Dean of the College and Chair of the Dept. of Life Arts & Liberal Education. He is a transcendental philosopher and practitioner, educator, author, storyteller, sand writer, terra artist, public speaker and societal/cultural activist. He is the author of "Deep Spirit and Great Heart: Living In Marijuana Consciousness," "Encountering Life’s Endings" and "Blow Your Mind, Open Your Heart and Teach Your Soul." His studies and presentations have taken him to settings throughout the U.S., Jamaica, Costa Rica, Canada, numerous European countries, and into realities beyond that which can be known by reason alone. Having taken a road less travelled during his lifetime, he is known as having planted so many seeds among his students and general audiences that forests of his teachings and practices are growing everywhere.
Paula Silverstein is a Puerto Rican New Yorker, with a B.A. in Fine Arts and Arts Education, an MSW in Clinical Social Work and a long career in Teaching and School Social Work in urban and suburban communities. She is also an artist, psychotherapist, writer, and storyteller.
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In this episode we explore how the chaos you grow up in becomes the blueprint for your relationships. Dr. Dan Sneider shares how generational trauma, addiction, and emotional abuse shaped his early life—and what shifted when he finally faced the patterns playing out in his relationships.
Raised in a home shaped by addiction and emotional instability, Dan entered adulthood carrying shame, loneliness, and no clear model for love. After years of repeating the same cycles—through addiction, marriage, and eventual divorce—he reached a point where those patterns could no longer be ignored.
This conversation moves through relationship dynamics, emotional awareness, and the deeper work of rebuilding intimacy from the inside out. Together, we explore what it means to take responsibility for the patterns you’ve inherited—and how that awareness opens the door to a different way of loving.
Topics In This Episode:
-Childhood trauma and its impact on adult relationships
-Practical tools for emotional intimacy and communication
-Managing unpredictability and creating internal safety
-The role of mindfulness, breathwork, and gratitude in healing
-The importance of growth and self-awareness in relationships
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Dr. Dan Sneider is an experienced couples and individual therapist who teaches proven techniques to transform relationships. From childhood experiences with trauma through the ups and downs of adult relationships Dr. Dan developed an intense interest and sensitivity to how relationships are built and maintained. His degrees in Psychology, Social Work, and Education reflect his curiosity and passion for helping people work through their personal challenges and transform their relationships for the better. His signature 12-week program ‘The Intimacy Shift: A Blueprint for Moving from Conflict to Lasting Connection’ has helped hundreds of people improve their relationships and is open to anybody ready to build or rebuild an intimate connection.
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Here we explore how childhood trauma quietly shapes your relationships—and why the same patterns keep repeating. James McKenna shares how growing up without emotional support led to loneliness, relationship cycles, and hitting rock bottom—and what shifted when he finally saw the pattern instead of reliving it. The conversation moves through emotional absence, the weight of unresolved pain, and the moment awareness interrupts the cycle—opening space for a different way of relating to yourself and others.
Topics In This Episode:
-Childhood trauma and its impact
-Responsibility vs. blame in healing
-The role of forgiveness and self-compassion
-Vulnerability and authenticity in growth
-Tools for navigating pain and building a new life
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James McKenna is an artist who has dealt with fallout from bipolar depression most of his life. Relationships don’t last, careers don’t last, and depression is just plain awful. But over time he’s recognized patterns in his losses and patterns in building anew after each. These patterns are the basis for four key ways to get the most benefit out of the worst times in your life. James’s art comes out of his own rough times but offers hope in the form of memory. For collectors, the bold forms and hard materials are reminders of hard times they have left behind.
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Here we explore what happens when your reality begins to change in ways you can’t explain. Chris Berryman shares how a painful relationship, the pandemic, and unexplained interdimensional experiences challenged everything he thought he understood about life—and what shifted as his awareness expanded beyond it.
Topics In This Episode:
-Heartbreak can lead to profound spiritual awakening.
-Interdimensional contact can reshape our understanding of reality.
-The human body is a living stargate connecting us to the cosmos.
-Trusting intuition is crucial in navigating spiritual experiences.
-Sacred geometry and crystalline technology play a role in healing.
-Vulnerability in men is essential for personal growth and healing.
-We can integrate spirituality into our daily lives.
-Collective awakening is necessary for humanity's evolution.
-Self-discovery involves both seeking help and trusting oneself.
-Healing is a journey that requires patience and self-acceptance.
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Chris Berryman has been an explorer of consciousness and metaphysical experience since the late 1990s. As an author, he published the illustrated sci-fi offering Flying Saucer Visions: A Travelogue (for ages 10 and up). His upcoming book, The N-1 Sessions, is a non-fiction collection of channeled essays, published by 6th Books on February 1, 2026. He is also the founder of Detroit Theatre Collective, a multimedia performance ensemble, and a writer of screenplays.
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We explore the patterns that quietly keep us cycling through pain, doubt, and self-sabotage. Irene Weinberg and I discuss how grief, loss, and life’s unexpected turning points can expose the deeper beliefs and habits shaping our lives—revealing where trust, awakening, and purpose begin to emerge. This conversation moves through grief, self-sabotage, trust, and spiritual awakening, exploring how awareness of these patterns can open the door to a more conscious life—and how community and shared experience help us remember we are not walking the path alone.
Topics In This Episode:
-Trusting the messages received during difficult times can lead to profound transformation.
-Self-love is essential for breaking free from self-sabotaging patterns.
-Healing is a journey that requires courage and support from others.
-Our soul purpose may involve learning through adversity and helping others.
-Awakening to our truth involves being conscious of our choices and behaviors.
-Forgiveness is a process that can lead to personal freedom and growth.
-Community support is vital for healing and personal development.
-Joy can be embraced even after experiencing trauma and loss.
-We all have the capacity to change and evolve throughout our lives.
-Understanding our past can help us forgive and move forward.
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Irene Weinberg is the author of the acclaimed book They Serve Bagels in Heaven, which shares her transformative journey through a profound car accident and its aftermath. Her internationally award-winning podcast, Grief and Rebirth: Finding the Joy in Life, ranks in the top 2% globally, featuring interviews with grief and trauma specialists, healers, mediums, and inspiring stories of resilience.
Her new anthology, Good To The Last Drop! Embracing Your Life’s Third Chapter offers inspiring, uplifting tales of overcoming loss and challenges in later life, advocating for living life’s third chapter fully with love, kindness, and purpose. Irene is one of 60 thought leaders interviewed for the documentary by producer Peter Alessandria titled “What Every Soul Knows,” which presents stunning insights from interviews with more than 60 thought leaders in the fields of near-death experiences, mediumship, channeling, and psychic and other spiritually transformative experiences, bringing to light the many ways understanding our eternal spiritual nature can enhance our lives while we are still in our physical bodies.
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We explore what happens when grief becomes the doorway to a deeper spiritual search. When Akasha Jen Smith lost her father at nineteen, the loss cracked something open. What followed was a long journey through anger, questioning, and the dark night of the soul as she searched for meaning beyond the pain. This conversation moves through loss, intuition, and the quiet process of remembering who we are beneath the stories we inherit. Over three decades of spiritual exploration, Akasha’s path became one of helping others reconnect with their inner knowing and the deeper truth of their own divinity.
Topics In This Episode:
-Loss can lead to profound transformation and spiritual awakening.
-Grief can harden into anger, but it can also catalyze healing.
-Meditation and mindfulness are essential for self-discovery.
-True nature is love and awareness, transcending trauma.
-Channeling and light language can facilitate healing and connection.
-We are all divine beings, deserving of love and support.
-Navigating chaos requires acceptance and presence.
-Breath is a powerful tool for grounding and awareness.
-Self-care is crucial for being of service to others.
-Our experiences shape our ability to help others on their journeys.
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Dr. Akasha Jen Smith, PhD is the founder of the School of Awakened Living and creator of The Professional Intuitive Healer Certification Program. For more than 20 years, she has been teaching energy healing and guiding others into higher states of being. With over 10,000 intuitive readings and healing sessions facilitated worldwide, Akasha is known for her engaging, heart-centered teaching and her ability to transmit the exact divine guidance her clients need for profound transformation. A skilled, multidimensional channel, Akasha brings through the healing and wisdom of Galactics, Angelics, Ascended Masters, Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, and Elementals. She offers Akashic Records Readings & Healings and Multidimensional Light Transmissions—a spiritual technology taught to her by her Pleiadian guides—that create life-changing shifts, awaken higher gifts, and align people with new levels of clarity, freedom, and joy.
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We explore what happens when the armor that once protected you begins to run your life. After more than forty years shaped by childhood absence, the Army, firehouses, trauma rooms, and corporate leadership, Erik Bartkowiak realized the “bulletproof” identity he built to survive was quietly costing him peace. This conversation moves through radical dismantling—mind, body, and soul—and the courage it takes to lay down the armor. Through jiu-jitsu, ayahuasca, and deep inner work, Erik’s journey became Becoming the Warrior in the Garden—a search no longer for strength, but for presence and peace.
Topics In This Episode:
-The ego built for survival can hinder peace.
-Childhood experiences shape our adult lives.
-Helping others can be a double-edged sword.
-Chaos can be a source of strength.
-Writing can lead to profound self-discovery.
-Ego is not just arrogance; it's about survival.
-Life experiences are laid out for a purpose.
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Erik Bartkowiak grew up on the outskirts of Boston. I spent
8 years in the United Stated Army, Then was a Boston Fireman. After that I
transitioned to become a Registered Nurse, Trauma Nurse and International Flight Nurse. I’ve been and entrepreneur, and corporate executive. My favorite job so far has been husband and father of the 2daughters and a son. I am also a Brazilian Jiujitsu black belt and believer of Jesus.
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We explore what happens when grief arrives with responsibility you never asked for. In 2022, Megan Malik lost both of her parents and suddenly became not only a daughter in mourning, but the administrator of their entire estate—navigating paperwork, logistics, and the emotional weight of closing out two lives at once. This conversation moves through the sacred and practical realities of loss, revealing how grief is both deeply human and profoundly logistical. Together, we explore what it means to hold heartbreak with compassion, structure, and deep listening—honoring the emotional experience while tending to what must still be done.
Topics In This Episode:
-Grief is both sacred and practical.
-Navigating the logistics of loss can be overwhelming.
-Creating space for grief allows for healing and connection.
-Emotions like anger and sadness coexist in the grieving
process.
-Your most broken parts hold the key to liberation.
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Megan Malick is an author, speaker, workshop facilitator, and founder of A New Path, where she helps professionals and heart-led humans better support those experiencing loss. A former educator, pastor, and licensed marriage and family therapist, Megan brings heart and soul to the often-overlooked work of grief, legacy, and end-of-life planning. Her book, A New Path: A Practical Workbook and Planner for the First Year of Grief and Settling Your Person’s Affairs (Writing Brave Press, 2025), offers a guided framework for transforming the “to-do” lists of grief into pathways toward meaning, peace, and connection. Megan believes that change = loss = grief, and when we make space to face grief, in ourselves and those we serve, we grow.
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We explore what happens when you lose yourself inside a relationship long before you ever break. Michelle Wollaston shares how years of control and emotional abuse slowly disconnected her from her own inner voice—and what shifted when leaving became an awakening rather than just an escape. The conversation moves through identity, spiritual recalibration, and
what it means to rebuild trust with yourself—allowing truth to return without
forcing resolution.
Topics In This Episode:
-Living years in a controlling relationship before awakening.
-Awakening often begins with a mentor guiding you back to your true self.
-The 'noise' in our lives can prevent us from hearing our inner voice.
-Emotional intelligence is crucial for understanding our responses to trauma.
-Setting small boundaries can empower individuals to reclaim their identity.
-Astrology and human design can provide insights into personal energy and healing.
-Curiosity about oneself can lead to profound self-discovery.
-Healing is a journey that requires patience and kindness to oneself.
-Awakening is not always a dramatic event; it can be subtle and quiet.
-Everyone's healing journey is unique and should be approached with compassion.
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Michelle Wollaston is a mentor, podcast host, author, and energetic guide who helps women in midlife reconnect with their truth after years of self-silencing, survival, or emotional disconnection. Through her signature Sacred Remembrance sessions, she weaves together astrology, Human
Design, and intuitive mentoring to help clients understand their energetic
blueprint and remember the woman they were always meant to be. She now hosts the Soul Loom podcast, contributes to multiple international magazines, and guides women through the midlife passage as a time of reawakening, not decline.
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Exploring what it’s like to be deeply sensitive in a world that doesn’t know what to do with inner knowing. In this episode, Carolina Fahlbusch shares how that misunderstanding shaped her early life—and what shifted when she stopped overriding her experience. We move through sensitivity as truth, the quiet harm of being told you’re “too much,” and what it means to remain present with your inner world as life asks for honesty rather than adaptation.
Topics In This Episode:
-Embrace what others may label as 'too much' as spiritual gifts.
-Trauma can be defined broadly, including subtle experiences.
-Awakening is a non-linear journey of self-discovery.
-Near-death experiences can profoundly impact one's spiritual journey.
-Sensitivity can be a gift or a burden depending on perception.
-Understanding one's sensitivity can lead to personal growth.
-Awakening involves realizing the perfection of the present moment.
-We are all interconnected and part of a greater whole.
-Choosing consciously leads to living from love and truth.
-Finding purpose often involves navigating through personal challenges.
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Carolina Fahlbusch is an intuitive transformational guide who supports
old souls, highly sensitive people, empaths, and seekers in remembering
who they truly are and living from their core essence, filled with joy.
Through a unique mix of mystical insight, energy work, NLP, and deep
coaching, she helps clients dissolve old patterns, reclaim their power,
and align their outer life with their inner truth.
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We explore what happens when you build a life that looks right on the outside but quietly pulls you away from yourself.
Aurea Lara shares how silencing her intuition to meet expectations led her from music and opera into a long career in finance—and what shifted when her body and inner knowing could no longer be ignored.
The conversation moves through misalignment, the cost of abandoning sensitivity, and what it means to stay present with what life is asking for—allowing truth to emerge without fixing, bypassing, or forcing resolution.
Topics In This Episode:
-Silencing intuition can lead to a life that feels empty.
-Saturn returns are pivotal moments for self-discovery.
-Spiritual evolution is a personal journey, not a competition.
-Organized religion often serves to control rather than liberate.
-The divine feminine and masculine must be in harmony for true peace.
-Awakening involves stripping down to reveal deeper aspects of oneself.
-We are all sparks of the divine, inherently whole and unbroken.
-Deprogramming from societal norms is essential for personal growth.
-Presence is key to understanding one's true self.
-Each person's journey is unique and should be honored.
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Aurea Lara is a Reiki Master in the Usui Holy Fire & Magdalene lineages, Sound & Energy Healer, and an Ordained Magdalene Priestess. Her work incorporates the ancient Kabbalistic & Essene wisdom of Yeshua, Mary Magdalene & their lineage bringing in Aramaic toning & mantras, breath-work and movement meditations and fusing these with the alchemy of sound with Crystal Tones Crystal Alchemy singing bowls. She holds sacred space for cosmic frequencies to flow, allowing us the space to open ourselves to higher wisdom, healing and embodying the fullest expanse of our Soul. She is passionate about creating the container for us to feel empowered and supported in our healing, activation and expansion. Aurea specializes in the healing of the Sacred Womb space and the heart space. She feels the key to manifesting and living a conscious and fulfilling life comes about through the liberating of the karmas, traumas, limiting beliefs and the patterns we hold.
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