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

Dr. Amy Robbins explores life, death, and what it all means. She has the unique perspective of a clinical psychologist and medium focused on expanding consciousness and opening listeners to our miraculous universe.

Through interviews with fascinating professionals, leading experts, and researchers in the fields of brain science, mediumship, psychology, near-death experiences, consciousness, grief, transitions to death, and alternative forms of healing, we explore life and death from psychological, spiritual, and scientific perspectives.

Put your preconceived notions aside and learn how to live in the now by exploring life, death, anxiety, consciousness, and the space between.

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Letting Go of Nothing with Peter Russell Oct 28, 2021

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Letting Go of Nothing with Peter Russel

“Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.” – Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu

Episode Summary:

Can you really, truly let go? When you hear people talk about letting go, do you wonder what that even means?

In this episode, we talk with Peter Russel, author, speaker and leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He earned an honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology, as well as a master’s degree in computer science at the university of Cambridge, England. He also studied meditation and Eastern philosophy in India. He has written 12 books, his latest is “Letting Go of Nothing”.

Listen in to understand how Peter Russel views letting go as leaning into and allowing vs. resisting.

Topics We Discuss:

Tuning into the body - noticing, being curious about and exploring the sensations in your body without judging or labeling.
How our thoughts can create the discontent in our lives.
How the societal belief system around us reinforces our tendency to focus on what is wrong in our lives, and our subsequent want to correct them.
Developing a practice via baby steps to step out of that habit of focusing on what is wrong.
Ego is defined as a way of thinking which focuses on keeping you safe.
How gaining the skill to recognize the ego when it comes up results in more contentment and recognizing the true self.
Peter’s unique perspective of praying to the true self – the eternal sense of “I am” - vs praying to a higher power.
Finding compassion for a difficult person in our lives heals us.
The difference between Buddha’s life time, and the times we are living in with all the distractions of email, television, social media, etc.

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Connecting to Your Higher Self with Elyse Cathrea Oct 21, 2021

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Connecting to Your Higher Self with Elyse Cathrea

“We always have the opportunity to learn and grow from what’s happening to us.” – Elyse Cathrea

Episode Summary:

Do you ever feel disconnected, stuck and frustrated in your everyday life? Do you ever wonder, if this what it's supposed to be like? Do you wish you felt more connected to your life?

In this episode, we talk with Elyse Cathrea, an intuitive life and wellness coach whose natural intuitive abilities evolved completely organically. What started as an intuitive sense of knowing evolved into seeing spirits and energies. Elyse’s unique talents allow her to work with you by channeling YOUR higher self, to ultimately help you feel excited about creating a life you are connected to.

Listen in to understand how you might find yourself on a more spiritual path in your own life.

Topics We Discuss:

The difference between claircognizance (the intuitive sense of knowing) and your brain just thinking.
The practice of automatic writing to tune into your higher self, how you might recognize the voice of your higher self, and mental blocks that might get in your way.
How to differentiate your higher self (your own consciousness) vs. spirit guides and energies that spend time with you from other realms or other dimensions to support you.
The spiritual experience of being in nature, being near water, being near trees, connecting to something greater than yourself.
Our spirit, our soul comes down to this earth to learn lessons; that is the human experience.
How Elyse tunes into your higher self to deliver the guidance and messages you most need to hear for your own growth, and to feel inspired and aligned with your life.
The mind-body connection and how to merge both ways of living.

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The Meaning of Life: A Dad's Last Words - A Ghost Story Oct 18, 2021

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THE MEANING OF LIFE, A DAD’S LAST WORDS – A Ghost Story

“Happiness, success has nothing to do with what you put in your bank – nothing. Success is about whether you enjoyed the journey.” – dying words from a beloved father

Episode Summary:

A super intimate look into the final hours of an adored and respected father. As told by a daughter sitting bedside, this heart wrenching and beautiful episode includes recorded messages of his dying words, about the meaning of life and what sounds like an out of body experience. The lively, close, authentic and loving relationships they shared comes through loud and clear. Before he died, his daughters told him exactly how much he meant to them, how much they loved him, how much they were going to miss him – and thanked him for being the best dad ever.

Do You Have a Ghost Story?

Ghost Stories is a way for listeners to tell their amazing stories of the metaphysical. If you have a great story to tell, something similar to this, contact you have had with your loved one who has passed, or any other mystical experience please reach out and let me know. Tell me your story and so we can feature it on the show.

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Spirit Vessels with Jessica Wertz Oct 14, 2021

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Spirit Vessels with Jessica Wertz

“Death is not easy to talk about. Grief is not comfortable to feel.”

“We believe in the courage of the human spirit and the depth that love can weave together in times of grief.”

“We recognize the power of ceremony for both its ability to create and hold a safe space for your emotions and assist in the process of self-healing.”

-- Jessica Wertz

Episode Summary:

Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to talk about, much less deal with, death in our society? Have you struggled with your emotions around the death of a loved one? Have you scrambled to find ceremony and meaning when facing death?

In this episode, we talk with Jessica Wertz, a ceramics artist and founder of “Spirit Vessel” where she creates personalized ceremonies to honor the lives of loved ones, with meaningful ritual and handcrafted, uniquely designed urns.

Listen in to hear Jessica Wertz invite you to redefine your relationship with loss through guided, personalized ceremony.

Topics We Discuss:

How Jessica Wertz’ journey from artistry and creativity, through the forests of Oregon, lead her to Spirit Vessels so early in her life.
Using an intentional, uniquely created Spirit Vessel urn to beautify and signify a loved one’s life.
How to bypass the tabu and stigma around death in our culture, and rise above the difficulty of talking about death.
How to approach a better way of living through the lens of death; growing through the wisdom of death.
Jessica’s passion for reintroducing the long lost art of ceremony into the common experience of losing a loved one.
Rekindling the lost ancient technology of ceremony, helping to create a sacred time to give reverence, honor and celebrate; to center the community around the spirit of a loved one.
Spirit Vessel will help continue the markers of life: birth, baptism/bris, graduation, marriage, anniversaries – with emotional and spiritual living memorials or after death memorial services.
How you can honor your loved ones in this world and into the next.
How we are socially wired to connect in community!

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More Than You Can Handle? with Miguel Sancho Oct 07, 2021

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Facing More Than You Can Handle? with Miguel Sancho

“It’s OK to be scared. You’re not the first person to go through this. Be patient. Focus on what’s in front of you. Push forward. Protect your head. Hold on. And you can do this.” — Miguel Sancho

Episode Summary:

As a parent, can you wrap your mind around what it would be like to be facing the possible death of your child? How would you face what feels like more than you can handle?

In this episode, we talk with Miguel Sancho, an Emmy Award winning journalist, and executive producer of award winning documentaries and news programs. His work has been seen History Channel in 2021, 2020. His current work is “The Proof Is Out There” on The History Channel.

Miguel Sancho's book, "More Than You Can Handle, A Rare Disease, a Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine that Cured the Incurable is a page turner! His book chronicles the lives and deaths of patients and staff at the Duke University Hospital Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, where his son’s life was saved in 2016.

Listen in to hear Miguel Sancho share the harrowing experience of parenting his critically ill son, Sebastian.

Topics We Discuss:

Chasing medical answers while their infant son Sebastian endured surgeries, treatments, medicines in his first months. Ultimately, a bone marrow transplant when his son was age 4.
Miguel Sancho’s journey of ups and downs - through stoicism, workaholism, depression, anxiety, marital issues, and finally through meditation, discipline and faith.
Plunging into the science and knowledge of the situation, as an ennobling exercise in optimism.
The importance of trying and using multiple modes of healing to find the particular combination that works for you individually – therapy, mediation, medications, exercise...
The therapeutic benefit of mindfully allowing yourself to feel your intense emotions.
Meditation and lovingkindness or meta as coping and healing practices.
Miguel Sancho’s wife’s program: “Five F’s” – faith, family, friends, food, fun.

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Change Your Relationship with Pain with Dr. Serena Sterling Sep 30, 2021

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Change Your Relationship with Pain with Dr. Serena Sterling

“When you’re in pain you may wonder, Is this as good as it gets?”

Episode Summary:

Do you live with pain? Does pain keep you from living the life you truly want to be living? Is it even possible you have actually chosen your pain?

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Serena Sterling a well-known mind-body pain specialist who found a path to her own wellness via a journey through juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and an in depth educational journey. Dr Serena’s new book “Pain, A Love Story” chronicles her experience and her clients’ experiences being treating chronic pain.

Listen in to understand how Dr. Serena Sterling uses mind/body techniques to diagnose and identify repressed emotions, and shift negative beliefs and patterns to relieve experienced pain.

Topics We Discuss:

Dr. Serena Sterling’s journey from her own chronic pain to wellness

How the neuro-emotional technique works to uncover suppressed emotions via eastern medicine techniques.
How the simple muscle test technique and tapping into the client’s energy – even virtually online -- can uncover the root cause of chronic pain in the body.
How the body and subconscious mind trap unresolved emotions, and how a combination of physical body work and talk therapy to process experienced can release these emotions, and ultimately address pain, typically over the course of a few months.
Pain as an expression of emotional health.
It’s not always the “Big T” traumas. “Small T” traumas can compound to create pain and injury.

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Did You Choose Your Family? with Stacey Aaronson Sep 23, 2021

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Did You Choose Your Family? with Stacey Aaronson

“It is so important for us to heal our inner wounds, not to wait, especially now with the world turning upside down.” – Stacey Aaronson

Episode Summary:

Have you ever wondered why you have a stronger bond with some relatives above others? Do you ever feel a familiarity as if you’ve known a loved one before?

As a parent, have you ever asked yourself, “Why is this child's here? Why did this child choose me? Why did I choose this child? Why did we choose this time?”

In this episode, we talk with Stacey Aaronson, established writer, ghostwriter editor, book, designer, and publishing partner who's been involved in the full or partial production of over 200 books.

Listen in to understand hear about Stacey Aaronson’s unconventional journey raising her teenage mother, and the unshakable, otherworldly bond between them.

Topics We Discuss:

Stacey believes, and spiritual readers validated, that Stacey and her mother had a soul contract, and were told of a past life together as twin sisters.
Stacey’s experience of her mother’s death, from two very different perspectives: both at a soul level and at a human level
Her mother’s soul space messages before her passing via a medium, including, “If only I could capture this expansiveness and keep this wisdom on your plane, what joy I could spread, knowing what I have here. Now I have to figure out how to use it from another angle… It's going to be grand. Just you wait and see.”
Stacey’s continued relationship with her mom after her death through numbers and song lyrics, and her deep knowing that her mom is nearby.

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The Science of Spirituality with Dr. Lisa Miller Sep 16, 2021

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Science FINALLY Catches Up with Spirituality with Dr. Lisa Miller

“Life is like the winds or the river, life is moving. It is full of waves. Life is very much alive, very dynamic.”

“We are knowers in many forms and we need empiricists AND scientists… the magician, the intuitive, the mystic. We need to ask the questions in our head, and get answers in our hearts… This is how the big decisions need to be made - decisions on the board room, decisions with foreign policy. If we use just a tiny little splintered part of our brain, we will not make the best decisions.”

“The outward stuff falls in place when we follow the truth.”

“Are we pushing the wave or are we surfing the wave? If I try to push the wave, I get drowned under, but if I surf the wave and my goal is to ride with the flow of nature, then I go places I didn't know I was going to go... It opens up in the realm of miracles and unforeseen opportunities and magnificent surprises.”

“We're living the same life. We are the family of life. We are one human family and we are one living being.”

Lisa Miller

Episode Summary:

Have you ever had an overwhelming feeling of inner-knowing pops up inexplicitly? Can current science validate that your gut feeling is real?

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Lisa Miller, Columbia University professor of Clinical Psychology, and New York Times bestselling author of “The Spiritual Child”.

Talk about credentials! A graduate of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, she's the founder and director of the Spiritual Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy league graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than 100 peer reviewed articles in leading journals including: Cerebral Cortex, American Journal of Psychiatry, and The Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is the editor of the Oxford University press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, founding co-editor-in-chief of the APA journal, Spirituality and Clinical Practice, and an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association and two time president of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. WHOA!

Her latest book, “The Awakened Brain”, is amazing. Dr. Miller describes it as “the culmination of 25 years of research. And equally importantly, interwoven with those 25 years of research, 25 years of life.”

Listen in to understand Dr. Lisa Miller validate the science of spirituality, intuition, synchronicity.

Topics We Discuss:

Most women know to use awakened awareness, will make an important decision out of a deep inner hunch, their instincts, a transcendent dream, some sort of inescapable synchronicity. They will count on that form of mystical awareness far and above the sort of linear, lists of pros and cons and statistics.
The hard-nosed empirical scientific materialism validates our spirituality as our birthright. MRI studies, genotyping studies, long-term clinical course studies all say that this deep form of awareness, our awakened awareness, the neuro docking station of transcendent spiritual experience -- A is real, B is our birthright, and C it is the foundation for greater health, greater recovery and renewal in times of suffering.
How spirituality mitigates depression and addiction, suicidal deaths.
Learning to trust that intuitive, inner-knowing as legitimate, right and true. Authenticity, synchronicity.
Schumann Resonance – a high amplitude alpha wavelength within all of nature from the earth crust up one mile. The spiritually engaged brain vibrates at the wavelength of all creation of all nature of all life, the consciousness of the life, the loving felt substance of existence, the essence of existence, the family of life.
“Spiritual bypassing” – the attempt to self-label as spiritual, without actually being spiritual. Dr. Lisa Miller assures we are all spiritual, and we can all count on our awakened brain.

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The Magic of Surrender with Kute Blackson Sep 09, 2021

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The Magic of Surrender with Kute Blackson

“None of us has control in this life. Our demand that life go the way we want it is what causes so much suffering. Know that the degree to which you surrender determines the degree to which you are alive, the degree to which life can use you, the degree to which you enjoy life.”

– Kute Blackson’s mother’s parting words, said with a smile

Episode Summary:

When it is imminent, will you be able to completely surrender to your own death? Have you ever contemplated how will you face your own death? Does surrender even come into the picture for you?

Born in Ghana, West Africa, Kute Blackson’s multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, raised in London, and on 4 different continents defies stereotype. His mission is to awaken millions to Love and to Living their inspired destiny. Kute believes we are being initiated and upgraded into a more enlightened way of living as humans – centered on surrender. We are being invited toward living more in alignment with the divine, more in alignment with our souls.

Listen in to understand how Kute Blackson views ego vs. soul purpose, and surrendering into our pure essence.

Topics We Discuss:

Asking ourselves a different question. Not “What do I want?” but instead, “What does life want for me?”
Aligning beyond ego and personal power to soul power.
- Surrender + Trust = Magic
- Control + Resistance = Suffering
Inevitability of childhood human trauma, and how that shapes our roles in order to be loved and validated. Ultimately how that conditioning separates us from our true selves.
Path back to our true selves:
- Be aware that you are conditioned!
- Ask: Where am I in physical or emotional pain?
- Ask: What lies am I telling myself?
- Ask: Where do I have disease?
- Ask: Where is energy not flowing in my life?
- Ask: Where are my roadblocks?
- Give yourself permission to acknowledge your truth and FEEL what you feel.
Miracle Mindset – seeing every moment as a miracle, recognizing innate intelligence
Your purpose of life is every moment of life.

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Kute’s latest book, “The Magic of Surrender” is available on Amazon.

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Own Your Life with Rajan Shankara Sep 02, 2021

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Own Your Life with Rajan Shankara

“Ego is a fabric of reality blocking us from true consciousness.”

Episode Summary:

Do you believe a leopard can change its spots? Can a person truly change their nature in an instant?

Rajan Shankara was pulled over by a police officer with a trunk full of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs -- and inexplicably walked away free. He asserts he changed his life in an instant. He describes how he vowed to live within the law and contribute positively to society.

In this episode we explore the perspectives of a former drug dealing thug turned monk, turned meditation guide, life coach, fitness expert, and author.

Listen in to understand hear Dr. Amy Robbins and Rajan Shankara discuss and debate ego, meditation and paths to personal growth.

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