Grief doesn’t always come from death alone—it also lives in lost futures, changing identities, and lives that unfold differently than we imagined. In this episode, Adina and Roberta explore the many forms of grief that accompany major life transitions and the importance of allowing ourselves to truly feel them.

Roberta shares her deeply personal journey of navigating multiple layers of loss at once: her partner’s gender transition, fertility struggles, and her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Adina reflects on her own experience of delayed grief after her brother’s death and the cost of not giving herself permission to slow down and mourn. Together, they discuss how cultural discomfort around grief often leads to silence, judgment, or unhelpful questions—and why compassion matters more than fixing.

The conversation expands to include intangible grief, spiritual surrender, and the alchemical process of transformation that can emerge when pain is honored rather than avoided. From faith and therapy to nature rituals, dreams, and community support, Adina and Roberta explore what it means to move through grief with self-compassion and trust in life’s unfolding.

In this episode, we explore:

• Grief caused by unexpected life changes and unfulfilled futures
• Navigating loss alongside gender transition and relationship endings
• Cultural misunderstandings around grief, death, and mourning
• Intangible grief, self-blame, and the loss of imagined identities
• Faith, therapy, and self-compassion as tools for healing
• Surrendering control and trusting life’s unpredictable path
• Pain as a catalyst for soul growth and transformation
• Death work, shadow work, and community-based healing
• Letting go of who we once were to make space for who we are becoming

This episode offers a gentle, honest space for anyone moving through grief—whether visible or unseen—and a reminder that you don’t have to push through pain alone.

Resource Mentioned:

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

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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 based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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Adina and Roberta reflect on the year ahead through tarot, astrology, and personal intention. They share their hopes for 2026, introduce a community tarot pull, and explore the energetic themes shaping January and beyond. From fierce feminine archetypes to planetary movements and retrogrades, this episode offers grounded guidance for navigating personal and collective change.

In this episode:

• January’s tarot card: the Princess of Swords
• Feminine strength, rebellion, and karmic cause & effect
• January 2026 astrology & the Capricorn stellium
• Mars in Capricorn for planning and steady progress
• Venus retrograde themes
• 2026 Tarot Card: Adjustment
• The astrological influences of luminaries, personal, and outer planets

✨ Reflect on how these energies are showing up in your life as we move into 2026!

Resources Mentioned:

Thoth Tarot

Financial Sorcery by Jason Miller

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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What if your body could be read like tea leaves, divining valuable insight into the past, the future, and even across timelines? 

What if your body served as a benevolent guide on your soul's journey?

In this compelling conversation, Adina and Roberta welcome Physical Therapist Ruth Pike-Elliot to the show. Ruth describes her physical therapy practice, which integrates mind, body and spirit. Her unique approach to healing blends evidence based methods with intuitive insight and Akashic record reading. The conversation explores integrative healing paradigms, including osteopathic manual therapy and bodywork, heart-brain coherence, and the shortfalls of the traditional medical model. It also dives into practical tools for emotional and physical growth, homework to sustain change, and what it means to view the body as a wise, benevolent guide. This episode highlights the bridge between emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of healing through personal stories and practical insights.

What You’ll Learn:

• How heart-brain coherence can deepen healing access
• Techniques for releasing physical stress linked to trauma
• The importance of homework between therapeutic sessions
• The value of viewing the body as an ally, not an obstacle
• Practical steps toward embodied and spiritual healing

Ruth Pike-Elliot, MPT, LMBT is a physical therapist and holistic healer. She has studied with the Barral Institute, Herman and Wallace Institute, APTA, Summit Education group, The Akashic Alliance, Tami Lynn Kent for Holistic Pelvic Care™,and the Birth Healing Institute. She presented at the South East Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, Midsouth Women’s Herbal Conference, AB tech, Asheville School of Massage and Yoga and for Asheville birth workers.

Ruth's Website: ashevilleholisticpt.com

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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Blue Hour launches its 10th season with a warm, reflective, and delightfully magical conversation. Adina introduces the season and welcomes home witch and professional organizer Roberta Anderson as the new co-host. Together they revisit Roberta’s previous guest appearance, explore her unique blend of feng shui, magical practice, and astrology, and set the tone for a season rooted in curiosity, honesty, and personal transformation.

This episode includes sneak peeks of upcoming content, astrology insights for late December, playful conversation prompts, travel dreams, concert stories, magical hypotheticals, and a heartfelt reflection on admiration and growth.

Tune in to find out:

• One of Roberta's worst traits (or her achilles heel)
• One of the saddest movies Adina has ever seen
• What a "fluffening" is
• A memorable concert moment (an act of god!)
• Desired magical powers

Resources & Mentions

• Book: In the Absence of the Ordinary – Frances Weller
• Conversation Prompts: datenightquestions.com
• Adina's Playlists: firebirdcreative.me/playlists

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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In this reflective episode, Adina and Joshua explore the ever-shifting nature of life — and how embracing impermanence allows us to live with more grace, freedom, and authenticity. Through personal stories, spiritual insight, and grounded reflection, they unpack what it really means to let go, surrender to change, and find peace in the unknown.

• Why this is Joshua's final episode and what's next for him.
• How clinging often amplifies suffering.
• Fear of loss drives attachment — whether to people, situations, or outcomes.
• True surrender opens the door to infinite possibility and creativity.
• “The wheel of life always turns” — fulfillment and growth are cyclical companions.
• How facing fear and resistance to change becomes a spiritual practice.
• The impact of “small-t” and complex trauma — the subtle forms of wounding we often overlook.
• How ancestral and past-life patterns may echo through present experience.
• The power of self-compassion: meeting yourself exactly where you are.
• Cultivating connection with something greater — the key to navigating change.
• Synchronicities as affirmations that you’re aligned with your path.
• Presence as the gateway to both healing and growth.
• Life as an ever-evolving canvas, not a problem to solve.
• Challenges reframed as portals for expansion and self-discovery.

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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Episode Summary

In this inspiring episode Adina welcomes Danielle Sangita Rottenberg to chat about holistic wellbeing. Danielle is a holistic wellness coach, massage therapist, yoga teacher, intuitive energy worker, Ayurvedic practitioner, and spiritual guide. After a time serving through nonprofit work, Danielle turned to yoga to find balance and healing — a decision that transformed her life. 

Danielle shares how her own healing journey inspired her work helping others integrate mind, body, and spirit through customized healing modalities. Together, Adina and Danielle explore the intersections of body work, energy work, and spiritual practices, offering  insight into how ancient wisdom can support modern wellbeing.

Topics

• Releasing the need for external validation and embracing true self-expression.
• Insights from Ayurveda to sustain physical and emotional well-being.
• Integrating Reiki, shamanic practices, and ancestral healing for multidimensional wellness.
• How Danielle helps clients tune into their inner guidance and intuitive awareness.
• Creating safe, sacred spaces where healing unfolds through trust and presence.
• Danielle’s approach to intuitive massage.
• The importance of energetic hygiene and spiritual practice to maintain clear boundaries as a healer.

Resources Mentioned

Ayurveda Institute

Dr. David Frawley

Cate Stillman

Danielle Sangita Rottenberg is a holistic health coach, healer, and educator passionate about helping others live in alignment with their authentic selves. She integrates diverse modalities — including Ayurveda, Reiki, energy work, intuitive counseling, and bodywork — to support physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Danielle has co-authored Amazon bestsellers in the Activate Your Life series (Volumes 2 & 3) and recently launched Re-Activate Your Life, supporting women nonprofit leaders in achieving greater harmony and fulfillment.

Connect with Danielle via MassageBook

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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In this inspiring episode, Adina chats with Severn Eaton about his journey from a career in the arts to end-of-life care. Severn opens up about sobriety, spiritual awakening, and creative transformation, offering wisdom on how healing, art, and service intertwine. Severn reflects on how psychedelic and meditative practices helped him shed self-limiting beliefs and embrace a new way of living and creating. 

Key Topics

• From Art to End-of-Life Care: How Severn’s creative background informed his calling as a death doula
• The Sacredness of Death: Lessons learned from being present with his mother during her final days
• Psychedelics, Sobriety, and Spiritual Growth: How healing practices led to clarity and compassion
• Ceremony and Presence: The role of music, silence, and beauty in end-of-life care
• Embracing Creativity and Impermanence: How art and death both invite surrender and transformation
• Unity in Diversity: Honoring all spiritual and secular perspectives at the end of life.
• Balancing the Material and the Spiritual: Finding wholeness in a world that often prioritizes achievement over being

Severn’s story is a powerful reminder that creativity, compassion, and consciousness are inseparable threads in the tapestry of life and death. His journey invites us all to live more fully, love more deeply, and meet death—our own and others’—as a sacred, natural transition.

Severn Eaton is a death doula, artist, teacher, father, and friend, raised in North Carolina, recently returned to Asheville from New York City. His background is primarily in visual arts, with a BFA from ASU and MFA from UNC-CH. His professional work has varied from studio practice, galleries and museums to building and academic positions. Recent turns have led him to in-depth studies in psychedelic therapies, dream studies and end of life care. He completed the Death Doula Program at the Center for Conscious Living and Dying in Swannanoa, NC. All of these practices are culminating in a unique way of serving a higher purpose in finding peace through working in healing arts and creative communities. 

• Severn's Instagram: @severnsommervilleeaton

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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In this personal and expansive conversation, Adina chats with Monica LeBlanc about transition, trust, and spiritual awakening. Monica—a licensed therapist, coach, and writer based in Asheville—opens up about stepping away from traditional models of work and embracing a more intuitive, unconventional path.

They explore Monica’s personal and professional path, including awakening to her spiritual and extra-sensory gifts. With warmth and vulnerability, Monica shares moments from her childhood, powerful therapeutic encounters, and her ongoing process of embracing her psychic abilities.

This episode is a rich exploration of how we heal ourselves, trust the unknown, and make space for new dimensions of identity to emerge.

Topics Covered:

• Letting go of "masculine energy" in career transitions
• The intersection of therapy and spirituality
• Discovering mediumship and psychic gifts
• Differentiating intuition, empathy, and spiritual messages
• Honoring consent in spiritual work
• Family healing through spirit communication
• Learning to trust your experiences without external validation

Monica Leblanc is a therapist, coach, freelance writer and enneagram teacher. Based out of Asheville, NC, she sees clients who are navigating boundaries and limits with their family of origin. She uses a combination of IFS, the enneagram, experiential modalities and DARE to help recovering people pleasers alchemize their pain into purpose and meaning and create alignment in their choices. Monica spends time with her clients in sessions or intensives to help generate shifts where they feel stuck. 

Monica teaches the enneagram in the embodiment tradition which is a lineage based in body energetics and utilizing awareness of our enneagram pattern for personal growth and alignment. She teaches public workshops, offers corporate retreats, and has online courses. 

Monica was also the premier therapeutic writing contributor to Deepak Chopra’s online magazine, Chopa Global. She contributed topics including but not limited to boundaries, grief, and working with ancestral trauma. She is currently blogging and working on various writing projects. 

Monica's website: monica-leblanc.com

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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In this episode of Blue Hour, Adina and Joshua explore how we relate—to family, friends, acquaintances, strangers. We discuss and how to meet triggers, dissolve spiritual superiority, and cultivate authentic compassion. This is an invitation to recognize the divine—light and dark—in one another, in ourselves, and in every facet of the living world.

Listen if you’re curious about: polarity and division, shadow work without bypass, family-of-origin dynamics, spiritual ego, nervous-system capacity, and practical ways to transmute judgment into love.

Key Themes & Takeaways

• The outer mirrors the inner. Our judgments and contractions are invitations to tend the “garden” within.
• Be with what is. Loving presence precedes wise action; fixing without presence is more resistance.
• Relational dojos. Family and everyday encounters are where our practice is tested and integrated.
• Parts belong. Don’t throw your parts “off the bus.” Give them a seat, a role, and your compassion.
• Spiritual ego watch. Hierarchies of “more evolved” keep us separate; boundaries don’t require superiority.
• All our relations. Relationship isn’t only human; honor the living field—stones, trees, clouds, machines—as sacred expression.

Resources & Mentions

• Ho‘oponopono praye
• Zero Limits by Dr. Joe Vitale 
• Tonglen meditation
• Matt Kahn on “Know Thyself” podcast (spiritual ego & meeting all as God) 
• Ubuntu (African concept of interbeing) 

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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.

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In this episode, Joshua and Adina sit down with men’s sexuality coach Rob Kancler. Together, they explore how modern conditioning distorts sexuality—and how slowing down, regulating the nervous system, and returning to integrity can unlock profound intimacy, pleasure, and personal growth. Rob shares insights from 20+ years of research and practice spanning sexology, neuroscience, trauma healing, ancient traditions, and lived experience. The conversation moves from porn-shaped expectations and goal-chasing to embodied presence, attunement, and what Rob calls giving yourself space to have a real experience. You will hear why “climax-or-bust” impacts connection, how authentic sexuality spills over into every area of life, and practical first steps for men who want to lead with responsibility and heart.

• Guest: Rob Kancler, founder of Bedroom Genius and creator of Men of Substance and the Higher Sex Operating System
• Core themes: integrity over performance, intimacy vs. cultural programming, nervous system regulation, slowing down, presence, responsibility, addiction patterns, and life-wide impact
• Practical takeaways: 
  • Slow the pace dramatically to meet the moment and your partner’s body
  • Build nervous system awareness and body intelligence before technique
  • Shift from performance to enjoyment and deep listening
  • Explore without pressure toward peak orgasm or ejaculation
  • Take responsibility for your sexual well-being instead of projecting or blaming
• Who it’s for: Especially powerful for men in hetero relationships, and valuable for anyone seeking more authentic connection and fulfillment

Quotes to remember:

• “What many call sexuality is sexual energy moving through a fear-based nervous system toward release.”
• “Integrity is wholeness—being in right relationship with who we really are.”
• “When sex aligns with our nature, benefits cascade into every area of life.”

Rob's website: robkancler.com

Rob's Instagram: @robkancler

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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. 
 
Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. 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