Enlightened Empaths

Please join us in welcoming Jacqueline Diesing as our Share Your Light guest today!  Jackie is a mixed-media artist and architect based in Detroit.  She works with micron ink, watercolor pencils, and pastels.  Her art contrasts the rigid lines of historical architecture with the softness of nature.  Since 2017, her work has been exhibited in galleries, featured in publications, and sold in retail locations and online.  She is a member of multiple juried artist directories and has been published in Painting Our World and Arts to Hearts Project’s 101 Art Book.

Jackie is also the author illustrator of her children’s book, Oma Lives in the Stars which was inspired by her mother and nephew.  This beautiful book and our conversation today explores grief, family stories, signs from loved ones and how creative work can help children trust their intuition and talk about loss.

For more information about Jackie please visit:  jacquelinediesing.com

Please join Denise and Samantha as they explore November’s astrological themes, from Scorpio-season reflection and relationship realignment to Sagittarius optimism complete with a Gemini full moon that may bring surprising conversations.  For intuitive people, empaths, and highly sensitive people, it can be useful to approach the month as a time to slow down, discern what is truly yours to carry, and make space for deeper emotional clarity.

Stay tuned until the end when Denise does a monthly card reading for listeners and Samantha shares amazing insights into the crystal of the month, blue phantom quartz!

Please join us in welcoming Liz O’Connor to this Share Your Light episode, where we showcase members of our listening audience who are finding a way to step more fully into their true Light to help others. Liz is an author, teacher, psychic development coach, and generational intuitive with over twenty years of experience working with the Tarot. She is the author of Navigating Your Shadow: An Intuitive Compass for Exploration and creator of The Crow Tarot YouTube channel. An avid Shadow Worker, Liz helps others explore their shadows, deepen their intuition, and live their purpose. Originally from New York, she now lives in the U.K. with her husband, kids, and two feline familiars.

Find her at www.ladycrow.net and on YouTube as The Crow Tarot.

You can also find Liz on Instagram @ _lady_crow

Welcome back to the monthly episode where we share questions and comments from the Enlightened Empath community of listeners.  This episode explores spiritual practices, healing techniques, and personal stories that deepen our understanding of energy, love, and transformation.

If you would like to submit a story or question for consideration in a future episode, please email :  [email protected]

For more information about Samantha and her offerings: samanthafey.com

Denise, her offerings and services can be found: thegratefulmessenger.com

For this spooky season, we share a not so spooky but more intriguing phenomenon known as 3rd Man Syndrome, where individuals in extreme situations sense a benevolent, unseen presence beside them, one that seems to guide them to safety.. The experience has been reported by polar explorers, high-altitude mountaineers, solo sailors, and disaster survivors for over a century. Most researchers view it as a remarkable coping response the brain produces under extraordinary stress.

Are they angels? Guides? Guardians? Join Samantha and Denise as they delve into historical stories, scientific insights, and spiritual perspectives that shed light on this mysterious experience.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Man in a Raft by Kenneth Cooke

They Flew by Carlos M.N.Eire

If you would like more information about Samantha and her offerings, please visit:  samanthafey.com

Denise’s services and offerings can be found at: thegratefulmessenger.com

Welcome to another Share Your Light episode, where we showcase people who are following their heart and passion in order to be of service to others.  Today’s guest, Kiersten, is an intuitive healer specializing in distance healing.  She incorporates energy work, crystals, sacred drumming, moon cycles, pendulum, and the crystal grid in her practice. Drawing on her gifts, to identify troubled areas, and sending out healing energy.

In addition to her online practice supporting human healing journeys, Kiersten also practices equine energy work and facilitates tailored group programs.

You can connect with Kiersten and schedule distance healing appointments on her website: innerknowinghealing.com

As empaths, we’ve learned to recognize gaslighting, manipulation, and other nefarious techniques people use to dim our light. But what about when that is happening in the workplace or in friendship groups?  Today we’re talking about manipulation — the everyday kind that shows up at your desk, in your group chat, at your best friend’s dinner party. We’re going to talk about what it looks like, why groups are actually easier to manipulate than one-on-one relationships, and — most importantly — how to spot it before you’re three months deep into a dynamic that’s quietly rearranging your sense of reality

Recognizing what is happening is the first step in breaking free!

For more information about Samantha and her offerings: samanthafey.com

To connect with Denise and her services: thegratefulmessenger.com

In this Share You Light episode, we welcome Nicole Harp! Nicole is an author, award-winning abstract artist, professional interspecies animal communicator, and graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in design.  Her work explores the intersection of art, energy, consciousness, and the profound connection between humans, animals, and the natural world. Through her soul paintings, Nicole intuitively translates the essence and energy of people, animals and spirit into visual form, creating artwork that invites deeper reflection and connection.

Nicole has felt a lifelong calling to understand and advocate for animals. As a professional animal communicator, she connects with animals of many species, both living and in spirit, sharing their perspectives, emotions, wisdom, and messages to help people see animals as sentient beings with their own thoughts, feelings and sovereignty. Her work is rooted in the belief that by deepening our understanding of animals, we ultimately deepen our understanding of ourselves and our relationship with the natural world.

She is the author of colors of Consciousness; Twenty-Five Soul Paintings, Volume 1 and the creator the Animal Truth Oracle, a 54-card deck written from the animals’ perspective. Nicole also teaches soul painting and animal communication, helping others move beyond the analytical mind and into intuitive, heart-centered connection. 

Please contact Nicole at her website Harpspace.org or [email protected]

For information about the upcoming Kickstarter for the Animal Truth Oracle Deck  

And please follow her at Instagram@harpspace, on Facebook @Harpspace as well as on Substack

It’s time to take a peek and explore the astrological influences for October 2026, filled with retrogrades, new moons, and planetary shifts! Samantha and Denise share and discuss how these influences may impact personal growth, relationships, and self-care.

The Venus retrograde beginning in Scorpio on October 3rd and later returning to Libra, gives us the opportunity to look at issues around trust and emotional safety, reciprocity in relationships, potentially unfinished romantic and friendship issues. A good question for empaths: Am I taking care of other people at my own expense?

Communication may need a little more care and finesse. You may want to wait before sending emotionally charged messages, ask direct questions rather than assuming, and allowing conversations to unfold over time. The full moon in Taurus on October 26th emphasizes the body and physical stability. Regular meals and sleep, spending time outdoors, being aware of overstimulation, practicing breathwork and gentle movement could all be beneficial and help you self-regulate.

Please remember these are potential energies, you always have choice and free will. Hope you have a wonderful month of October!

Please join us in welcoming Amelia for this Share Your Light episode. Amelia shares her transformative journey through dreams, internal family systems, and creative expression, offering insights into healing childhood wounds and navigating midlife transitions with grace and self-awareness.

Through Artsy Partswork, Amelia offers IFS-informed peer support and dreamwork while focusing on the identity shifts that come with midlife. She believes our dreams and inner parts can invite us to become curious about who we are beneath the roles we’ve carried for years, while supportive friendships can give us the courage and companionship to discover who we’re becoming.

After spending much of her life keeping parts of herself hidden, Amelia is now exploring what it means to be more visible, trust her own inner wisdom, and create spaces where women can say, “Me too.” Her approach isn’t about telling people what to believe. It’s about creating a safe, curious space to explore what they already sense within themselves.

For more information about Amelia and her offerings, please visit: artsypartswork.com