Blue Hour

In this episode, Adina and Roberta explore the growing tendency to turn to artificial intelligence and technology for answers that we might once have sought through intuition, contemplation, and inner reflection. While algorithms can offer convenience and information, what might we be losing when we stop making time to listen to our own inner knowing?

The conversation explores the importance of quieting the noise of everyday life so we can reconnect with our intuitive capacities, particularly for highly sensitive people who may be naturally attuned to subtle feelings, impressions, and energetic shifts. 

Adina and Roberta discuss different forms of intuitive awareness and ways to develop our intuitive abilities. They reflect on the role of trust in this process, particularly how trauma and protective mechanisms can interfere with our ability to distinguish authentic inner guidance from fear, conditioning, or the ego's attempts to keep us safe.

Another important theme is the relationship between rational and intuitive ways of knowing. The conversation considers the historical devaluation and suppression of feminine wisdom and intuition, and the need to restore balance rather than elevate one form of intelligence above another. Adina shares her perspective on menopause as a spiritual transition—a shifting of energy from physical fertility toward greater wisdom, intuition, and spiritual awareness. 

Ultimately, this episode is an invitation to slow down, put down our devices, spend time in nature, and cultivate a deeper relationship with our own inner wisdom. In a world increasingly shaped by technology and artificial intelligence, Adina and Roberta ask us to consider the irreplaceable value of human experience, embodied knowing, feminine wisdom, and the quiet voice within.

In this episode, we explore:

• How reliance on AI and algorithms may be replacing opportunities to develop our own intuition
• Why highly sensitive people may struggle to hear their inner guidance amid everyday noise and distraction
• Meditation, nature, and solitude as pathways to greater intuitive awareness
• Listening to bodily sensations and recognizing different forms of intuition
• Clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience
• How trauma and protective mechanisms can interfere with trust in our intuition
• The relationship between ego, imagination, and the authentic self
• Integrating rational thought with intuitive and feminine ways of knowing
• Menopause as a potential spiritual transition and a source of wisdom
• Reclaiming the value of elder women and the wisdom that comes through lived experience

A question to reflect on: When was the last time you sat quietly with a question and allowed yourself to listen for an answer rather than immediately reaching for your phone or asking an algorithm?

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
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In this episode of Blue Hour, Adina explores the growing concerns surrounding artificial intelligence and what its potential threat to humanity reveals about us as individuals and as a collective. Reflecting on dystopian films like The Terminator, she considers both the benefits of technological innovation and the dangers of pursuing progress without considering its long-term consequences. She invites us to look beyond fear and outrage to examine the deeper roots of our collective struggles, including unresolved trauma, shame, scarcity, competition, and the pursuit of power and control. Through shadow work and personal healing, Adina suggests, we can challenge the patterns that perpetuate harm and begin creating a more compassionate, connected world. She also reflects on the growing reliance on AI for emotional support, emphasizing the irreplaceable value of human presence, authentic empathy, and real-world relationships. Ultimately, this episode is a call to turn inward with courage and compassion, reconnect with one another and the natural world, and recognize how our individual healing can contribute to collective transformation.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Fire Bird Creative 

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
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Not all grief comes from death. Sometimes, we grieve the ending of a romantic relationship, the evolution of a friendship, or the quiet loss of connection when someone moves away or enters a new chapter of their life.

In this episode, Adina and Roberta explore the often-overlooked grief of relationship loss—not only the loss of the person, but also the dreams, expectations, shared communities, and imagined futures that may disappear alongside them. They reflect on how cultural expectations can discourage us from fully acknowledging this grief and why giving ourselves permission to mourn is an essential part of healing.

The conversation also explores how friendships change over time, the importance of communicating our needs with honesty and compassion, and how we can navigate transitions without losing ourselves in the process. Through practices such as self-compassion, spiritual reflection, I-statements, and nonviolent communication, we consider how to meet these changes with greater understanding and care.

Adina and Roberta also discuss relationship anarchy and the possibility of creating more flexible, expansive definitions of connection—ones that allow us to move beyond rigid expectations, taking sides, and all-or-nothing thinking.

In this episode, we explore:

• The grief of losing relationships, including friendships and romantic partnerships
• Mourning the dreams, expectations, and communities connected to a relationship
• Giving ourselves permission to grieve losses that aren't always recognized by others
• Navigating friendship changes, distance, and shifting priorities
• Communicating our needs through honesty, I-statements, and nonviolent communication
• Practicing self-compassion and spiritual grounding during times of transition
• Exploring relationship anarchy and more expansive ways of relating to one another

Reflection: What relationships in your life have changed or ended, and have you allowed yourself to grieve not only the person, but also what that connection meant to you?

Join us for a heartfelt conversation about honoring what has been, accepting what is changing, and finding compassionate ways to navigate the many forms of love and loss.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
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Adina and Roberta explore the roots and remedies of shame in this candid conversation, distinguishing it from guilt as a deeper "I am bad" self-rejection versus regret over specific actions. They trace how religious teachings around sex and procreation, cultural conditioning, and family money dynamics all plant early seeds of shame — particularly around sexuality, pleasure, and financial "otherness" — and discuss shadow work (including dreams and psychedelic experiences) as a path toward uncovering and healing these unconscious wounds with self-compassion rather than judgment, touching along the way on fear of ostracization, ego dissolution, and Marianne Williamson's quote about being "powerful beyond measure."

Episodes with Zack Kampf about dreamwork:

Dream On: A Conversation About Dream Interpretation

Wake up! A Conversation About the Function and Invitation of Nightmares

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
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Adina and Roberta talk about the power of ancestral healing and connection. They trace their family lines — Swedish, Northern English, Israeli, and an unknown maternal lineage shaped by adoption — and explore how to heal trauma that's been passed down through generations. They dig into genealogy, ritual, food, and intuition as pathways to ancestors, sharing personal stories that include Salem witch trial history and inherited beliefs around money and safety.

Resources Mentioned:

My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem

It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn

The Flowering War by Oscar Perez

Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Fire Bird Creative 

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
Organize & Feng Shui

Adina and Roberta talk home clearing and energetics — sensing negative energy in a new space, why the front door acts as an energetic threshold, and where NOT to place mirrors. They cover clearing techniques, protecting sensitive energy, and outdoor land rituals. This episode is a grounded, practical conversation on keeping your home — and yourself — energetically clear; an essential practice for highly sensitive beings or anyone who wants to optimize the energy of spaces.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

Firebirdcreative.me
Fire Bird Creative 

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
Organize & Feng Shui

Welcome back! Roberta and Adina kick off Season 13 with a special episode covering tarot pulls for the fall season, a look at the astrological forecast, and a heartfelt tribute to a teacher who shaped both of their paths.

Fall Tarot Pulls (Thoth Deck)

• September — The Empress: A card of abundance and nourishment. 
• October — 8 of Wands: Movement and momentum call for clarity. 
• November — 5 of Wands: As things get busier and more complex, we will have to tackle challenges.

Astrology Overview

Roberta walks through the major transits on the horizon, with a focus on Venus retrograde and a mention of Mercury retrograde — what each means energetically and practically, and her own suggestions for navigating both with a little more ease and less chaos.

In Memory of Caroline Elliot

Roberta and Adina close the episode with a tribute to Carolyn Elliott, honoring her authenticity, her shadow work methodology, and her years of teaching occult and esoteric philosophy. Roberta shares a personal reflection on how Caroline changed the course of her life. Her influence will be felt throughout this show for a long time to come.

Season 13 Is Here

Roberta and Adina share their excitement for what's ahead this season and thank you, the listeners, for continuing to show up and support the show.

Have thoughts on your own September pull, a Venus retrograde survival tip, or a memory of Caroline Elliot's work? We'd love to hear from you.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

Firebirdcreative.me
Fire Bird Creative 

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
Organize & Feng Shui

In this episode of Blue Hour, Adina welcomes Karen LaCamera back to the podcast to explore the evolution of her creative and intuitive work since their first conversation in April 2024.

Karen began her career as a graphic designer, but her work has expanded into a fascinating intersection of creativity, intuition, energy, mandala-making, and Akashic Records. Her newest creation, the Akashic Messages Clarity Deck, brings these different practices together in a tool designed not to tell you what to think or what to do, but to help you reconnect with what you already know.

Karen shares how creating mandalas began as a form of self-care and meditation—a way to quiet an overactive mind by engaging the hands in a creative process. Over time, this practice evolved into personalized mandalas inspired by chakras and individual energy.

She also takes us behind the scenes of creating her 71-card Clarity Deck, including the six card categories: Frequency, Vibration, Themes, Guides, Actions, and Tools. Rather than functioning as traditional divination, the deck is designed to support discernment, reflection, and intuitive guidance.

During the conversation, Adina receives an impromptu reading. The cards invite a movement from reflection toward action, sparking a deeper conversation about what happens when we stop searching for more answers and begin listening to what is already asking to be integrated within us.

The conversation also explores the idea of integrating shadow and light—bringing insight into action, past into present, and uncomfortable emotions into greater wholeness. With eclipse season as a backdrop, Adina, Karen, and Roberta reflect on the value of sitting with uncertainty and resistance rather than immediately trying to transcend or solve it.

Sometimes clarity doesn't come from asking another question.

Sometimes it comes from becoming quiet enough to hear the answer that is already within you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Karen's evolution from graphic designer to intuitive creative
• The meditative and healing qualities of mandala-making
• Creating personalized mandalas based on chakras and individual energy
• Karen's journey into working with the Akashic Records
• The inspiration behind the Akashic Messages Clarity Deck
• The 71-card deck and its six categories: Frequency, Vibration, Themes, Guides, Actions, and Tools
• How intuitive card readings can support discernment rather than provide definitive answers
• The difference between seeking external answers and trusting your own inner knowing
• An impromptu reading for Adina around home, displacement, and finding clarity
• The role of reflection and action in navigating uncertainty
• Integrating shadow and light
• Why uncomfortable emotions may contain valuable information
• Eclipse season as an invitation to explore what is beneath the surface
• The importance of presence when accessing intuitive guidance
• Karen's Clarity Collection, including the journal and coloring book
• The idea of becoming a steward rather than an owner of an intuitive tool
• Following intuitive flow rather than over-planning
• Learning to trust your own discernment and inner wisdom

A question to take with you:

What do I need to know right now?

Rather than asking for a specific answer, allow this question to open a space for whatever wants to emerge.

Karen LaCamera is a creative intuitive, graphic designer, author, and founder of Align by Design. With more than 25 years of experience in design and over six years of working in the Akashic Records, she combines creativity and intuitive insight to create tools that help people gain clarity and reconnect with their own inner wisdom.

As the creator of the Akashic Messages Clarity Deck, Karen designed the deck to serve as a companion to the Akashic Records. The Clarity Deck encourages people to strengthen their discernment, trust their intuition, and discover their own answers rather than relying solely on someone else’s. She is also an Akashic Records reader, teacher, Reiki Master, published author, and creator of mandalas, journals, and other intuitive resources that bridge art, spirit, and personal growth.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Fire Bird Creative 

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
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[This episode originally aired February 27, 2024]

Are you an over thinker? Have you felt emotionally stuck despite lots of therapy or analytical exploration of your life? Thinking will only take you so far.  Understanding how your body carries stress and wisdom is so helpful for healing and moving forward.

In this episode, Adina talks with Sara Baicich. Sara is an Art Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.  She weaves together artistic and somatic practices to guide clients through emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and trauma resolution. Her practices are grounded in knowledge of the nervous system and the ways humans naturally respond to threat, stress, and trauma. Sara was a therapeutic group facilitator for 14 years and is now in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina.

To find out more about Sara, visit her website at inward-arts.com

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Somatic Experiencing International
Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience (DARe)
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Generative Somatics
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy
Art is a Spiritual Path by Pat B. Allen

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Fire Bird Creative 

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
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In this deeply honest and vulnerable episode of Blue Hour, Adina welcomes Colleen Clifford to share the story behind her mission to raise awareness about alcohol misuse, mental health, and suicide prevention.

Colleen opens up about her journey from binge drinking and commercial fishing to becoming an advocate for suicide awareness. After losing her husband to alcohol-related suicide, Colleen made a promise to use her experience to help others recognize the warning signs, break the silence surrounding suicide, and find a path toward hope and healing.

Together, Adina and Colleen explore the often-overlapping realities of trauma, binge drinking, depression, grief, shame, and suicidal ideation. Colleen shares how she developed the belief that she was unlovable—and how that belief influenced her relationship with alcohol, her sense of self, and the life she created for herself. Colleen recounts losing her husband to suicide and the trauma of experiencing such a devastating loss.

From volunteering with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline to writing and sharing her story publicly, Colleen is committed to helping others understand that there is life beyond addiction, shame, grief, and despair.

Colleen's new memoir, Life Beyond the Binge: A Commercial Fisherwoman's Journey Home, explores her journey and offers readers an opportunity to better understand the complex relationship between trauma, alcohol, shame, and healing. She also shares a free self-guided workbook for those seeking additional support.

This is a powerful conversation about the stories we tell ourselves when we are hurting—and what becomes possible when we begin to tell a different story.

In this episode, we explore:

• The connection between trauma, binge drinking, depression, and suicide
• How shame can shape our identity and relationships
• The stigma surrounding herpes and the healing power of vulnerability
• Colleen's journey into commercial fishing and the life she built outside conventional expectations
• The devastating impact of suicide loss
• Complicated grief and traumatic loss
• How alcohol can intersect with depression and suicidal thoughts
• The importance of addressing substance use when supporting someone in crisis
• Transforming personal tragedy into a mission of suicide prevention and awareness
• Healing through self-care, connection, and finding meaning after loss
• Finding hope and discovering that there truly can be life beyond tragedy

This episode discusses suicide, addiction, and grief. If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text, 24/7.

FREE GIFT: If you reach out to Colleen and mention this episode, she'll send you a pdf of the self-guided story shift.

Colleen Clifford is a commercial fisherwoman, health coach and mental health advocate. who explores the intersection of grief, binge drinking, suicide, resilience, and the hidden patterns we use to survive. It wasn't until her late husband’s death by alcohol-related suicide and her last dangerous drinking episode that she vowed to change. There is a silver lining in all the tragedy.  A promise made to her late husband and to herself.  To share her message: it only takes one time of drinking too much for a life to change forever.  Through podcast interviews, her book, Life Beyond the Binge: A Commercial Fisherwoman’s Journey Home, and speaking engagements, Colleen offers hope to others and empowering moves on how to chart their course for change.

lifebeyondthebinge.com

@purepotential.health

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person. 

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch 
Organize & Feng Shui