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Andrea Petrut is a Heart Imagery Teacher at The School of The Heart, entrepreneur, trauma-informed writer, speaker, storyteller, leader, home educator, host of Healing Through Oneness podcast and advocate for love.

Through Andrea's guidance as an Intuitive Life & Relationships Catalyst, multi-passionate heart-centered women find clarity, sovereignty, and alignment with their heart and life path. Andrea is all in for deep healing and transformation. She loves working with individuals who are ready and committed and who want to always be centered despite the inner and outer chaos. Andrea is able to guide you so you can tune into the gift of your Divine Feminine Energy. You will be able to quickly connect with your truth in all your relationships and lead with your heart.

Originally from Romania, Andrea currently lives with her husband and three children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She loves to create, invent, inspire, build and see the world with all its beauty.

Website: https://andreapetrut.ca/

John is a survivor of  severe physical and sexual abuse which was inflicted upon him for years, and starting from a very young age. John saw and experienced many things that would haunt him for years to come. This would result in a diagnosis of PTSD, giving him night terrors that would follow him into his early adult life. Later he would be told he had  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Depression and had a genetic, neurological condition called Tourettes Syndrome. John was determined to not let his past or diagnosis define him. He took to the Martial Arts, and energy work; this led him on a path that would change his life forever.

The next step John would take was to  learn how to meditate. He learned to embrace traumas, pains, and to breathe into the darkness that was once destroying him. He would use this new found knowledge and mental control to take advantage of his body’s conditioning and pain tolerance. He had already been hurt more than most could handle or begin to comprehend. He would begin to understand what it meant to use mind over matter, and began to gain control of this unseen force that moved through him; an energy that goes by many names. In India it is called Prana; in Japan and Korea it is Ki; in the west it is Orgone Energy; in Polynesia, Mana; Hebrews called it Ruach; Islam, Baraka; Russians called it Bio-Plasmic energy; Native American called it Animal Spirit or Ancestor Energy, but to John, at that moment in time, he called it Qi. 

John combined all the modalities he learned, creating something new. What he does is not mere “Reiki” as it is so frequently practiced in the West. It is not just some cliché, domesticated “energy work”, nor yet another New-Age, twisted distortion of ancient healing techniques. This is where John had made his most significant impact on people’s lives, giving them hope.

Website: https://godswhospeak.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheExperienceRealEnergyWork/

Simon Drew is an Australian philosophical mentor, poet, author, musician, and photographer. He has a Bachelor of Music Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and is currently studying for a Master of Divinity at Trinity College. He is most well known for his work with the Practical Stoic Podcast, which has since evolved into The Walled Garden. His first book, The Poet & The Sage, is now available.

In his mentoring practice, Simon helps people to find deeper meaning and purpose in life by engaging them in philosophical dialogue regarding the challenges and opportunities of their life.

Website: https://www.simonjedrew.com/

Judith Costa is an Unconditional Love Coach, Seminar Leader, Writer, and Speaker, with a Master’s Degree in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy and an MBA. She is a certified consultant and teacher of the Akashic Records, a Past Life Regression Therapist, a Reiki Master, and a certified Happiness Trainer. 

Website: http://www.judithmcosta.com

When Ann Hince was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother dead in her bathroom. 

Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface. Ann found a simple technique that helped her release these emotions, but she went further and can now put her awareness inside her body and has changed the bone structure of her skull and grown half an inch at age 55. Ann has found that seeking out our truth, what we truly feel, and accepting those feelings, is the key to inner peace. 

Website: https://annhince.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnHinceWisdom  

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTc4hb7ZKvih1LlRHK0cUjg  

Book on Amazon: A Pathway to Insight  

Michelle Henderson, worked in education as a teacher, educational diagnostician, and behavior analyst for thirty years. While teaching children with autism, she wrote a book titled, A Three Element Social Skill Program: Instruction, Drama, and Technology. In 2006, she opened IASIS Learning Center, a non-profit organization teaching children social skills through drama techniques. With the knowledge she obtained through her all of her work with kids, she found her passion in helping intuitive children embrace their gifts. 

Michelle herself is a Psychic Medium. She also shares her innovative ideas with other lightworkers, giving them direction about how to support families of intuitive children.

In her latest book, Spiritual Nurturing for Intuitive Children, Michelle is offering guidance to all sorts of healers on how to provide parents the tools and knowledge required to fully integrate psychic children into their families.

Website: https://www.michellehendersonmedium.com/

Transformational shaman, Kelle Sparta, helps spiritually-minded people find happiness, claim their full power and fulfill their purpose.

Along with being the host of Spirit Sherpa Podcast, Kelle describes herself as the following:

• Daring Adventurer and Cosmic “YES!” Girl
• Shaman, Healer, Psychic, Channel, Medium, and Empath
• Life-Long Entrepreneur with many different types of businesses under my belt
• Hard-core spiritual seeker who has many times over given up everything in pursuit of my spiritual growth
• Connector, community builder, and networker
• Master Manifester – using the Law of Attraction to create my reality
• Singer/songwriter, poet, and writer.

Website: https://kellesparta.com/

David Brakke is the Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History.  He received the B.A. in English from the University of Virginia (1983), M.Div. from Harvard University (1986), and Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University (1992).   Before coming to OSU in 2012, he taught for nineteen years in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, where he was department chair from 2006 to 2011.

Professor Brakke studies and teaches the history and literature of ancient Christianity from its origins through the fifth century, with special interests in asceticism, monasticism, "Gnosticism," biblical interpretation, and Egyptian Christianity.  Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (Oxford UP 1995; Johns Hopkins UP 1998) examines the social and political dimensions of a bishop's ascetic teachings, and Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Harvard UP 2006) explores the role of evil forces in the formation of the monk as a virtuous self and as a social role. The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (Harvard UP 2010) argues for a social and cultural approach to the definition of "Gnosticism" and to the question of "orthodoxy" and "heresy" in the era before Constantine.  It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011. The Gospel of Judas: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Yale Bible; Yale UP 2022) explores the early history of the Gnostic school of thought through exegesis of a key source.  He has also edited and translated early Christian texts, most recently several works in the second edition of The Gnostic Scriptures by Bentley Layton (Yale UP 2021), and he has co-edited scholarly volumes, including Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Indiana UP 2005) and Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Ashgate 2012).

Professor Brakke's research has received support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

He is currently a member of an international team of scholars that is producing the first unified critical edition and translation of the works of Shenoute of Atripe (ca.348-465), the leader of a large monastic community in Upper Egypt and the greatest writer of Coptic.  His current projects include a new translation (with David Gwynn) of the Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria and a study of early Christian scriptural practices before and after the listing of a New Testament canon.

 Professor Brakke is the president of the International Association for Coptic Studies and a member of the Board of Consultants of the Journal of Religion. From 2005 to 2015 he served as editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies, which is sponsored by the North American Patristics Society.

Suzanne Falter is an author and podcaster who helps busy women find happiness through self-care. After losing her 22 year old daughter, Teal, in 2012, Suzanne’s work has evolved to help busy women learn more about self-care–-a lesson she learned in her grief.

• As a podcaster, Suzanne hosts the podcast Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women which is in the top 2% of all podcasts. It was inspired her book, The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care (Sourcebooks)
• Suzanne is host of the Self-Care Group for Extremely Busy Women on Facebook, a thriving group of 56,000 women committed to self-care
• A writer and author for more than 40 years, Suzanne has a catalog of powerful fiction and self-help titles including Surrendering to Joy and How Much Joy Can You Stand? 
• As a speaker, Suzanne currently shares her inspiring story of being a donor Mom and the importance of self-care for overworked healthcare professionals with Debi Granger. Debi’s daughter’s life was saved when she received Teal’s heart and kidney after her death. They focus on reinvention after loss… and getting back to joy no matter what. They also host the Back to Happy podcast.

Over the last fifteen years, Suzanne’s work has been featured in More, O Magazine, The New York Times, Coast to Coast AM, Tiny Buddha, Elephant Journal, Woman’s Day, The Wall Street Journal, SELF, The Christian Science Monitor, as well as more than 100 TV and radio programs. She is also the author of How Much Joy Can You Stand, Living Your Joy, and Surrendering to Joy, as well as 8 novels, including the popular lesbian fiction series, Oaktown Girls.. Suzanne lives in Oakland, California with her wife.

Website: https://suzannefalter.com/

Telling compelling stories about ordinary people has been Tony Russo's specialty for the entirety of his journalism career. Whether profiling artists, community leaders, or combat veterans, he has a knack for helping people connect to personal stories.

In addition to writing about the craft beer revolution, Tony wrote and hosted "This Is War," a narrative podcast documenting the personal stories of combat veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

His most recent work, Dragged Into the Light: Truthers, Reptilians, Super Soldiers, and Death Inside an Online Cult looks into how one nondescript woman was able to tap into the rising paranoia that birthed the conspiracy theory culture. 

Tony lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore with his wife and the only of his four daughters who has yet to move out. Together they keep their dog and cats comfortable.