Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins

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Personifying Hope with Michele Neff Hernandez Jul 28, 2022

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PERSONIFYING HOPE with MICHELE NEFF HERNANDEZ

“Every time a critical person in our life is no longer physically present, we have to reimagine who we are.” – Michele Neff Hernandez

Episode Summary:

Have you had to recreate your life after losing a loved one? Have you known someone who is grieving, who seemed lost at sea, and you haven’t known how to help?

Today we talk with Michele Neff Hernandez. Michelle is the author of “Different After You: Rediscovering Yourself and Healing after Grief and Trauma” and a 2021 CNN hero, a gifted speaker and committed advocate for the widowed and bereaved. Her creation of Camp Widow and soaring spirits has brought her international acclaim.

Michelle regularly speaks to first responders, hospital workers, religious congregations, and diverse community organizations. She lives in Southern California.

Listen in to hear how to find support for your own grieving process, and how to help loved ones in theirs.

Topics We Discuss:

[2:40] Michele’s tragic story of how she losing her 40-year-old husband to a bicycling accident when she was just 35, and parent to a blended family of six kids.

[4:25] How Michele’s non profit support groups emerged, advocating for widowed people.

[9:00] How widows respond differently depending on how their person passed. Grief during COVID.

[11:22] “Grief brain” happens. Whether a loved one’s death is sudden or expected over a long time.

[14:14] The uniqueness of each person’s grief process.

[15:20] Secondary losses beyond the death. Michele’s example is holding her husband’s grandchild 8 years after his sudden death.

[16:20] How people resist being changed by grief. But change by grief is inevitable.

[17:40] Being surprised by the loss of the sense of self that comes with grief.

[21:28] How those of us who are not widowed can support those who are in grief. Get to know the new person who will emerge after their loss. Show up without an expectation of timeline.

[23:20] The “fishbowl” effect, especially when someone is widowed young. People backing away when they don’t know what to say, or conversely, feedback from someone who doesn’t know you well at all.

[29:16] Michele’s key to moving forward after her tragic loss: integration. The “broken vase” concept – always feeling the loss of your person.

[34:46] How to avoid guilt and regret when moving forward through grief.

[37:55] What Michele thinks happens after a loved one dies, including the opportunity for ongoing connection, and allowing them to continue to influence your life.

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Soaring Spirits International support community can be found here.

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Channeling Vagrein with Jessie Herman Jul 21, 2022

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CHANNELING VAGREIN with JESSIE HERMAN

“It’s all exactly the same energy. It is divided into different parts so that we, as inviduations, can digest it. So there will be someone who can hear the word Christ and listen to that message and receive it in a very different way than someone who maybe believes in aliens, or in a different way than someone who believes in angels. The same energy now is using different channels, using different forms, using arts, using expression, using us as beings to continue to remind us of unity consciousness.” –Jessie Herman, channeler of Vagrein

Episode Summary:

What IS a channel? What, or better yet, WHO is channeled?

Today we talk with Jessie Herman, a former skeptic turned trance-channeler of the entity group who call themselves Vagrein. In these challenging times, since 2019, Vagrein’s messages of love and wisdom are guiding humanity toward unity consciousness.

When not channeling, Jessie is a coach, an energy healer and mother to two, living in in Italy.

Listen in to hear how Jessie put skepticism aside and allowed herself to be a conduit of divine wisdom.

Topics We Discuss:

[2:54] How channeling Vagrein unfolded for Jessie, starting from the perspective of a resistant, stubborn skeptic.

[5:20] Significance of the name “Vagrein”.

[8:04] Vagrein’s purpose for channeling: guiding humanity’s transition toward unity oneness, away from the belief in the concept of separation.

[11:03] How the various channels are tapping into one singular energy – whether Christ consciousness, Mother Mary, art, aliens, angels, spirit guides...

[14:55] How Jessie gets out of the way when channeling, removes the influence of her mind, to remain distortion free.

[18:24] Culturally moving away from the concept of religious people as “middle men”, and toward having direct access to a higher consciousness.

[23:12] Practical integration of Vagrein’s unity concepts into everyday life.

[25:37] Energetic forms of service. Holding space. Doing what lights you up is your highest form of service.

[27:43] Inspiration, dreams, passions all come from collective consciousness. Eliminating limiting beliefs as key to realization.

[32:51] Current events and current human awakening. Anyone can learn to access to the divine.

[41:30] Amy’s speed round questions: What is spirituality? What is something people don’t know about you? What is one thing you’re looking forward to right now? What’s one thing you’re deeply grateful for? What book in on your nightstand? What is your favorite spiritual or healing practice? What is the most spiritually transformative experience of your life?

FOLLOW JESSIE HERMAN AND VAGREIN:

Download two free chapters of Jessie’s book on her website.

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Listen to her healing and channeled guided meditations on InsightTimer.

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A Whole Lava Love - A Ghost Story Jul 18, 2022

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A WHOLE LAVA LOVE – A Ghost Story

“I think what’s so amazing about these stories is that they’re opening us up to really talking about these mystical, magical experiences that so many people are having now.” – Dr. Amy Robbins

Episode Summary:

An intuitive mom and her toddler daughter share visions and signs from their ancestor across the veil. Papa showed both of them many times over that he was indeed nearby. A license plate spelled out Papa. Mom saw orbs of light through the baby monitor. Her daughter asked, “Who dat guy?” Check out Instagram and YouTube to see a photo of the lava lamp that spelled out “Papa”.

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Ghost Stories is a way for listeners to tell their amazing stories. If you have a great story to tell, a relationship you have with your loved one who has passed, or another mystical experience, please reach out: Team@DrAmyRobbins.com. Tell me your story so we can feature it on the show.

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How to Do Nothing with Jessie Kanzer Jul 14, 2022

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HOW TO DO NOTHING with JESSIE KANZER

“The Tao is simple… It is our human nature, I think, to complicate things where they need not be complicated.” – Jessie Kanzer

Episode Summary:

Does life seem more hectic than it was even before the pandemic?

Today we talk with Jessie Asya Kanzer, whose story begins as an child refugee from the Soviet Union seeking asylum in the US with her family. A descendant of Holocaust survivors living in a communal apartment with four households, one toilet, and a rickety old bathtub in the middle of the kitchen -- her family finally made it to Brooklyn in 1989.

As an 8-year-old refugee who only spoke Russian, Jessie (or “Asya” then) yearned to fit in. She changed her name and much about herself. She experienced depression, bulimia, anxiety and lost herself pursuing the American Dream.

Until she stopped.

In Tao Te Ching she rediscovered herself, found her innate power, and she learned to chill. Her book, “Don’t Just Sit There, DO NOTHING”, will help you do the same.

Listen in to hear about Jessie’s struggles and triumphs through the lens of the 6th century philosophy Tao Te Ching, which she calls “the world’s oldest self-help book”.

Topics We Discuss:

[3:18] How Jessie’s story -- from losing identity as a child refugee from Russia with Eastern Europe roots, through renaming and reinventing herself in America, struggling bulimia, and being physically broken after suffering a car crash -- steered her toward a deep dive into Tao Te Ching, and ultimately going within spiritually.

[15:42] Tenets of 6th century philosophy Tao Te Ching: simplicity, patience, compassion. We consume more information in a single day than people did in their entire lifetime in just a few hundred years ago.

[27:46] Creativity comes with unscheduled time.

[31:01] What the paradox of “do nothing” means to Jessie.

[41:30] Amy’s speed round questions: What is spirituality? What is something people don’t know about you? What is one thing you’re looking forward to right now? What’s one thing you’re deeply grateful for? What book in on your nightstand? What is your favorite spiritual or healing practice? What is the most spiritually transformative experience of your life?

FOLLOW JESSIE KANZER:

Jessie’s book, “Don’t Just Sit There, Do Nothing” is available wherever books are sold. Download two free chapters of on her website.

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Finding Your Superpowers with Katharine Branham Jul 07, 2022

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FINDING YOUR SUPERPOWERS with KATHARINE BRANHAM

“The spirit world is there for everyone. And that’s what I want people to know.” – psychic medium Katharine Branham

Episode Summary:

Do you ever feel you might have psychic gifts, even for a fleeting moment?

Today we talk with Katharine Branham, a free-flowing psychic medium who can tap into the spirit world without blinking an eye.

She has gifts inherited at birth, plus several that she learned along her spiritual journey: an open channel, remote viewer, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, energy healer, and medical intuitive. Katharine’s life mission is to help humanity return to its natural blueprint and awaken within. Katharine Branham explains that anyone can learn to find their own psychic gifts.

Listen in to hear Katharine’s journey.

Topics We Discuss:

[3:16] How Katharine defines a “free-flowing psychic”.

[7:22] Katharine uses her insights to empower her clients.

[11:16] Amy squirms with the idea of telling a client what to do vs helping guide them through their decisions.

[12:53] Katharine’s psychic experiences as a child.

[14:20] Katharine work with physicians as a medical psychic.

[19:57] The “clairs”, and which psychic senses Katharine and Amy use.

[26:04] Remove viewing – observing events happening at that time but in a different location.

[29:40] Getting permission to go into someone else’s energy; integrity and psychic knowing.

[31:27] What the throat chakra looks like to Katharine when people are lying.

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Little Voices from Beyond with Kiersten Parsons-Hathcock Jun 30, 2022

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LITTLE VOICES FROM BEYOND with KIERSTEN PARSONS-HATHCOCK “The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that I have to trust that quiet inner knowing.”

– Kiersten Parsons-Hathcock, medium who channels messages from children from beyond

Episode Summary:

What would you do if you started hearing the voices of murdered children?

Today we talk with Kiersten Parsons-Hathcock, author of Little Voices: How Kids in Spirit Helped a Reluctant Medium Escape and Heal from Abuse.

Kiersten is an award-winning carpenter/furniture designer, and founder of Mod Mom Furniture, a kids’ furniture company featured on ABC's Shark Tank.

She’s also a TEDx speaker and an intuitive medium who works for the National Institute for Law and Justice helping detectives and families uncover truth in missing persons and homicide cases.

Listen in to hear Kiersten’s fascinating journey into channeling the little voices who needed to be heard.

Topics We Discuss:

[4:19] How Kiersten’s psychic gifts showed up – as little voices coming to her. She didn’t ask for it; it just happened.

[8:05] What Kiersten experiences when she hears from these children. How she manages what she finds out.

[10:11] How the Universe connected Kiersten with law enforcement. She now works with law enforcement and with parents of lost kids.

[12:47] After the channeled messages from children were validated by law enforcement in the physical world, and Kiersten’s confidence grew, she was able to recall own sexual abuse at age five.

[13:46] Kiersten’s accuracy when channeling information about murdered children has increased with experience. She describes her gift as a blessing and a curse.

[17:46] How Kiersten’s repressed memories emerged. She eventually confronted her abuser. Later she found herself in extramarital relationship with another abuser. Standing up to an abuser as an adult healed her childhood abuse.

[29:40] How Kiersten was groomed by her adult abuser. There were no intuitive warnings at first. But later, she started hearing how she was meant to have that experience, leave it, and write about it.

[34:17] How common it is for adults who experienced childhood abuse to repeat experiences as an adult, with an unconscious intention to break the cycle. The psychological and the spiritual come together in a soup of dissociation, mental health and spiritual connection.

[37:32] How Kiersten’s little voices guided her, allowing her to safely escape from a potentially dangerous relationship with a predator.

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Find out more about Kiersten’s book on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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Extraordinary Awakenings with Steve Taylor, PhD Jun 23, 2022

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EXTRAORDINARY AWAKENINGS with STEVE TAYLOR, PhD

“It’s ego dissolution. But it’s not just ego dissolution; it’s also the birth of a new self. It’s not just a break down, which is ego dissolution, it’s a shift up. It’s the uncovering of a deeper spiritual self which was always there but it seems to have been dormant, waiting for the opportunity to emerge.”

– Steve Taylor, PhD, describing extraordinary awakenings

Episode Summary:

Why do some people who experience the absolute worst that life has to offer respond not by breaking down but by shifting up, into a higher-functioning, awakened state, like a phoenix rising from the ashes?

Today we talk with Steve Taylor, PhD, the author of Extraordinary Awakenings: When Trauma Leads to Transformation, and other bestselling books. He is senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England; and the chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers and he blogs for Scientific American and Psychology Today.

Listen in to hear how you can encourage your own spontaneous, extraordinary awakening.

Topics We Discuss:

[2:56] His research in transformation through turmoil (instantaneous), in contrast with post-traumatic growth (normally slow and gradual).

[5:41] Breakdown of the ego giving way to a larger, more spiritual self.

[8:23] What is means to awaken. The surface personality and its attachments fade, while soul qualities emerge. Interconnectivity increases.

[11:47] Triggers for profound transformation: prison, military conflict, bereavement, near death experience, cancer diagnosis.

[17:03] We can encourage transformational experiences, hopefully without the life-or-death level turmoil -- acknowledging, embracing and accepting challenging situations.

[20:05] When the “normal self” dies away during these extraordinary awakenings, disease and addiction can instantaneously resolve during.

[22:33] Why Steve Taylor is optimistic about the future of humanity. Evolution is a continuum of increasing consciousness.

[27:46] Amy’s speed round questions: What is spirituality? What is something people don’t know about you? What is one thing you’re looking forward to right now? What’s one thing you’re deeply grateful for? What book in on your nightstand? What is your favorite spiritual or healing practice? What is the most spiritually transformative experience of your life?

FOLLOW STEVE TAYLOR:

Find out more about Steve’s books on Amazon. Or check out his website. Have you had an awakening experience? You can share your own extraordinary awakening here.

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My Son is My Spirit Guide with Terri-Ann Russell Jun 16, 2022

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My Son is My Spirit Guide with TERRI-ANN RUSSELL

“Just because you believe in a spirit or a soul existing outside of a physical body doesn’t make the grief of that loss any easier.” – Dr. Amy Robbins

Episode Summary:

Can a mother’s love and connection to her son transcend his mortal death?

Today we talk with Terri-Ann Russell, a healer, channel, past life regressionist and a medium in magical Sedona Az, as one of a trio of amazing psychic healers known as the Sedona Soul Sisters.

She is married to her soulmate and is the mother of five. One, Anthony, now in spirit, is her main spirit guide. Anthony transitioned in July 2019 and quickly returned to support Terri-Ann in her own healing process of grief and loss. She tells her amazing story in her book, “From Death to Life”.

Listen in to hear how Terri reconnected with Anthony within hours of his passing, and how Terri helps people open to their own inner wisdom and heal child wounds from this life and past lives, using guidance from Anthony, and other multidimensional beings.

Topics We Discuss:

[2:29] Terri-Ann’s loss and reconnection with her son, Anthony.

[7:35] The significance of age 27: 2+7=9, signifying the end or completion.

[9:27] How Anthony came to Terri-Ann within hours of his passing. She continues to work on and heal her profound mother’s grief.

[12:39] Anthony’s continued positive influence in Terri-Ann’s life. Helping her fight dark thoughts. Levels of frequencies – deep grief to enlightenment.

[18:18] Dark entities. Energy vampires. Oh, my!

[23:55] Anthony guided Terry-Ann to sell everything, buy an RV, and take her family on the road -- and heal.

[27:20] Terri-Ann channeling mother Mary. Being guided via transmissions from Mary and Anthony to write her books.

[30:59] We are in a pivotal time, where spiritual energy is sparking, to help shift and heal humanity. Not something to be taken lightly.

[32:49] We are all Source. We are all the same. We are healing faster than ever.

[33:44] Amy’s speed round questions: What is spirituality? What is something people don’t know about you? What is one thing you’re looking forward to right now? What’s one thing you’re deeply grateful for? What book in on your nightstand? What is your favorite spiritual or healing practice? What is the most spiritually transformative experience of your life?

FOLLOW TERRI-ANN RUSSELL:

Find out more about Terri-Ann’s books on Amazon. Or check out her website. Or give her a call: 908-328-3085.

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Can't Escape the Signs - A Ghost Story Jun 13, 2022

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Can’t Escape the Signs – A Ghost Story

“This is a community of people who are curious, excited, and open to the possibilities and the magic of the universe.” – Dr. Amy Robbins

Episode Summary:

A loving and spiritually open daughter shares the overwhelming feelings of knowing around her father’s failing health and ultimately his passing. After his passing, she shares the unmistakable signs from her father, showing her how close he still is to her. Her powerful connections with her dad fill her with overwhelming love, and she feels more connected to him now than ever.

Do You Have a Ghost Story?

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What is a Time Shift? with Von Braschler Jun 09, 2022

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WHAT IS A TIME SHIFT? with VON BRASCHLER

“There is a spirit within all of us that longs to explore and grow and learn and be free.” – author Von Braschler

Episode Summary:

Can you even wrap your head around the concept of time travel?

Today we talk with author Von Braschler, award winning journalist and former faculty member at the Omega institute.

Listen in to hear Von chat quite casually about time shifts, time slips, lucid dreaming -- and consciously and deliberately moving to other points along the time continuum.

Topics We Discuss:

[2:05] What is a time shift? What is a time slip?

[6:10] Lucid dreams.

[7:48] How to tell the difference between pure imagination and experience.

[10:18] You can’t go back and “fix” the past.

[15:50] Time as light.

[19:28] Von’s story at age 12 he experienced a life-saving time slip.

[24:35] Déjà vu as time travel.

[25:29] Time shifting as spiritual bypassing.

[28:30] Amy’s speed round questions: What is spirituality? What is something people don’t know about you? What is one thing you’re looking forward to right now? What’s one thing you’re deeply grateful for? What book in on your nightstand? What is your favorite spiritual or healing practice? What is the most spiritually transformative experience of your life?

FOLLOW VON BRASCHLER:

Find out more about Von’s books on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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