Share Your Light with Amelia of Artsy Partswork
Sep 24, 2026
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Please join us in welcoming Amelia for this Share Your Light episode. Amelia shares her transformative journey through dreams, internal family systems, and creative expression, offering insights into healing childhood wounds and navigating midlife transitions with grace and self-awareness.
Through Artsy Partswork, Amelia offers IFS-informed peer support and dreamwork while focusing on the identity shifts that come with midlife. She believes our dreams and inner parts can invite us to become curious about who we are beneath the roles we’ve carried for years, while supportive friendships can give us the courage and companionship to discover who we’re becoming.
After spending much of her life keeping parts of herself hidden, Amelia is now exploring what it means to be more visible, trust her own inner wisdom, and create spaces where women can say, “Me too.” Her approach isn’t about telling people what to believe. It’s about creating a safe, curious space to explore what they already sense within themselves.
For more information about Amelia and her offerings, please visit: artsypartswork.com
September Community Connections
Sep 21, 2026
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It’s our monthly episode featuring stories, questions and comments from listeners in our Enlightened Empaths community! Please join us as we explore insights on intuition, dreams, environmental concerns, and personal growth.
If you would like to submit a question or story for a Community Connections episode, please email us: enlightenedempaths@gmail.com
For more information on Samantha’s services and upcoming events: samanthafey.com
Share Your Light with Integrative Healer Melissa Ann Lester
Sep 17, 2026
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Melissa Ann Lester is an integrative healer, author, mentor, and teacher whose work weaves transpersonal psychology, somatic practices, energy medicine, and earth-based wisdom. Rooted in a holistic, trauma-informed approach, she supports others navigating moments of unraveling, awakening, and deep transition as they reconnect with their inner wisdom and return home to themselves.
Her own healing journey began with therapy as her entryway, and eventually she felt called to be a witness and guide for others, serving as a Licensed Professional Counselor for more than ten years. A series of spiritual initiations profoundly deepened her work, ultimately leading her to answer a soul-led calling: releasing her clinical license to offer healing that integrates the full spectrum of the human experience — mind, body, and spirit.
Melissa holds a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling, is certified in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, is an Usui Reiki Master, and draws from her studies in somatics and earth-based wisdom. For now she walks alongside individuals in one-on-one work, with seasonal programs and group offerings beginning to take shape. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband and two cats, where she is happily surrounded by trees.
You can follow her writing in her monthly musings newsletter and find her at www.melissaannlester.com and on Instagram at @melissaannlester.
The Power of Your Subconscious
Sep 14, 2026
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Have you ever wondered if there was a way you could connect more fully with your own inner thoughts and programming in order to enhance your life? We all can by becoming more aware of the power of our subconscious mind!
The subconscious mind is the silent architect of our reality; it interprets symbols, stores every experience, and shapes our decisions long before our conscious mind catches up. When we have a clearer understanding of how it works, it gives us the ability to reprogram our inner world so we can make the life shifts we are ready to manifest.
Exercises to retrain the subconscious:
Mirror Exercise – speak to yourself in the second person. Your subconscious receives this as an instruction, a task to complete, rather than a wish. “You are successful” or “You are healthy, wealthy and happy.”
Gratitude Letter – Write a letter to yourself as though your goal has already happened. Use the present tense.
Symbolic Visualization Ritual
Choose one goal.
Identify three symbols that represent that goal.
Spend 2 minutes visualizing each symbol in vivid detail.
Repeat daily for 21 days.
The more you get to know your inner world, the more you are able to shine your own light more brightly!
For more information about Samantha and her offerings:samanthafey.com
The Healing Way with Kristen O’Meara
Sep 07, 2026
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Please join us in welcoming Kristen O’Meara to the show today. Kristen is the mother of Austin, an adult on the autism spectrum. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and advanced certifications in mindfulness and intuitive development as well as extensive training in spiritual healing modalities. With raw honesty, Kristen shares her profound journey of healing and spiritual connection through channeling her son’s higher self, offering practical tools and insights for parents of children with autism and the reality of her journey.
Kristen began channeling her son Austin’s higher self in 2013 because Austin could not speak with her. Channeling became an integral part of her healing journey, redirecting her back to her soul and heart, and teaching her that we are all powerful souls embodied. Bridging her experiences with complex parenting, counseling work, and a sophisticated toolbox of healing techniques, her first book, The Healing Way, is the culmination of her life’s work.
Here’s the shape of September, in one sentence: it’s a month of turning inward while the world asks you to engage outward.
There’s a cluster of retrograde planets active pretty much all month — Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto are already retrograde, and partway through the month, Uranus joins them. Four planets moving backward, astrologically, at the same time.
For an empath, this actually can be a relief, if you let it. So much of what exhausts us is the forward momentum of the world — the constant doing, deciding, producing, responding. A month with this many retrogrades is a month where the cosmic permission slip says: it’s okay to slow down. It’s okay to revisit. It’s okay to not have the answer yet.
But — and here’s the nuance — the inner planets, the fast-moving personal ones: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, are all direct and quite active this month. So you’re going to feel this tug-of-war: parts of you wanting to reflect, rest, and go inward, while other parts of your life — conversations, relationships, decisions — are moving forward whether you’re ready or not.
If you take one thing from this whole episode, let it be this: you’re allowed to let your inner world move at retrograde speed even while your outer world moves at direct speed!
Empaths and Their Animal Companions
Aug 24, 2026
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Empaths are often deeply connected to the animals they share their lives with, these are not merely pets but beloved friends, confidantes and family members. In this episode, we explore the soul connection many empaths feel with their pets, why in many ways it can feel easier than dealing with other people and also the reality of grieving the lose of a dear friend when they cross the Rainbow Bridge.
Embracing the Present Through Healing the Past
Aug 10, 2026
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Over the past few years, it has become very obvious that many of us are feeling a deep need to free ourselves and those in our lineage from past trauma, upset and limitations. In this episode, we explore the transformative power of ancestral healing and how it can unlock personal and spiritual growth.
We’re so excited to share some wonderful guests with you today as we offer a different approach with a round table conversation about ancestral healing and why it’s so important for many of us right now. Our guests today come from varied backgrounds and experiences, but all have had powerful insights and transformation since doing this healing work.
Rima has always been intuitive but took long detours in the worlds of academia and politics before coming home to working as an intuitive and medium. She lives on the east coast of Canada and you can find her at rimabythesea.com
Julie is an intuitive healer and Family Constellation facilitator who helps people heal inherited family patterns, reconnect with themselves, and create lasting change through intuitive and ancestral healing practices. For more information about Julie and her services: intuitivehealingbyjulie.com
Monica offers holistic support for spiritual and healing needs. She is a psychic medium who uses her intuitive abilities to bring information to clients seeking connection. She is an artisan offering crafted jewelry pieces that carry not just aesthetic beauty but also resonate with nature. To connect with Monica: monikajakiel.com
Beth is a certified death doula, shamanic healer and reiki practitioner. All modalities of her work focus on holistic healing, transformation, personal and spiritual development. Compassion and a calming presence offer guidance, emotional support and empowerment. For more about Beth and her services: beyondsentient.com
If you’re curious about going deeper with your own ancestral healing journey, please consider joining us for the upcoming class. For more information on dates and what is involved: Embracing the Present Through Healing the Past If you have any questions that aren’t addressed, please feel free to send me an email: denise@thegratefulmessenger.com
Cartomancy with The Card Geek, Toni Savory
Aug 03, 2026
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Today we’re talking about self-discovery through oracle cards with our guest Toni Savory — better known as The Card Geek — the creator of World Divination and one of the leading voices in traditional cartomancy. Toni has spent years studying Lenormand, Kipper, and Gypsy Cards across England, France, and Germany, including 15 years living near Munich, the birthplace of the original Kipper deck. Now based in Northern Ireland, she’s dedicated the last decade to researching these systems and teaching students around the world.
She’s the author of The Card Geek’s Guide to Kipper, Rainbow Kipper, Lustrous Lenormand, and Mastering the Tarot Tableau, and she’s known for helping readers reconnect with the roots of divination and unlock bold, predictive readings. Through World Divination, Toni guides people to read their own futures, navigate life’s crossroads, and step confidently into their path.
Today, we’re diving into her latest creation, The Four Selves Oracle Deck, and exploring how it helps readers understand the deeper layers of the self and transform their lives through intuitive insight.
For more information about Tori and her offerings, please visit: The Card Geek
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