Marv’s wife Marty once told him, “To be happy, you have to decide to be happy.” Marv’s touching book “When the Rocks Sing” couples Marv’s voice, a man who lost his beloved wife to cancer, with the perspective of the grief counselor who walked the road of rebuilding and resiliency with him.

Join us for a heartwarming, inspiring and wise interview with author Marv Weidner, whose poignant book, “When the Rocks Sing,” recounts his story of losing his beloved wife of 19 years to cancer and the incredible life lessons he learned as he grieved, found resilience, and rebuilt his life. One of those special lessons Marv learned is that resiliency is not about “snapping back” to life as it was. It’s about letting loss transform you into something new.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• The emotional and physical intimacy Marv and Marty experienced during her cancer that was deeper and more spiritual than anything they had ever experienced before.
• The importance of keeping a person safe within our hearts with acceptance and love and without judgment.The ways Marty taught Marv that being happy is a decision.
• How Marv discovered a new sense of purpose after Marty transitioned.
• The insightful perspective of Carol Davis, Marv’s therapist and co-author, who helped Marv to survive, ultimately thrive and fall back in love with life.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS MARV:

• Please tell us about your precious Marty, describe your relationship, and tell us about your shared Zen Buddhism.
• What was Marty’s remarkable response to the news that she had cancer from which there was no escape?
• What was the inspiration for the title of your book, “When the Rocks Sing”?
• How does accepting the impermanence of life help us to survive a loss?
• What is the greatest gift you and Marty ever gave each other, that transcends death?

This is a wise interview with a remarkable man that will touch your heart and inspire you: “Grief resulting from the loss of a loved one can overwhelm us for a time, it will become part of us always, but it does not determine our future. We can choose to be happy, choose our purpose and how we will live each day.”

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Your sensitivity is an extraordinary gift that allows you to tap into your intuition, amplify your vitality, and empowers you to create a beneficial influence on the world. Being a highly sensitive person (an HSP) is a gift that reveals our divinely intuitive natures, amplifies our vibration, and partners our hearts with our minds to uplift the world. This episode’s guest is Medium, Author, Intuitive Coach, and Spirit-Guided Musician Heidi Connolly, who is known as the Celestial Professor, Purveyor of Down-to-Earth Spirituality for Everyday Life, and this very enlightening episode is for everyone who knows an HSP, who loves an HSP, who wants to understand an HSP, or feels lost in their own high sensitivity!

Heidi’s newest book, Elevating Your HSPness: How to Live a High-Frequency Life That Amplifies Your Vibration, Celebrates Your Sensitivities, and Uplifts the World, holds the key to understanding the true meaning of sensitivity. In this illuminating discussion, Heidi reveals how sensitivity is not a curse but a profound blessing that unveils our divinely intuitive natures. She shares her personal experiences as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). identifies four superpowers of the highly sensitive person, and encourages us to embrace our sensitivities as a transformative journey that enriches our lives and makes a positive impact in the world. Don’t miss this captivating episode that will expand your perception of sensitivity and awaken you to your own divinely intuitive nature.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• Heidi’s transformation and rebirth after the loss of her husband Randy.
• What inspired Heidi to become a life coach for high sensitives and those grieving deceased loved ones?
• How each of us can identify if we are a high-sensitive?
• The four superpowers of the highly sensitive person.
• How to live a high-frequency life that elevates our vibration.
• The ways highly sensitive people partner the heart with the mind to uplift the world.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS NANCY:

• What are the common myths that center around high sensitivity?
• What is a “high-sensitive, and how can each of us determine if we are a “high-sensitive?”
• What is your guidance for the HSP when it comes to reeling in the superpower called psychic tentacles?
• What does the superpower known as the Intuitive Guidance System help to transform for an HSP?

Sheela Jaganathan became a past life/current life Regression Therapist and Life Coach after an out-of-body experience changed her view of the Afterlife. Her focus on guiding clients from all walks of life towards inner clarity and into their soul-knowing is beautifully expressed through Sheela’s remarkable book titled Hello Me!: Self-Empowerment and Healing Through Past Life Regression Therapy. She is also a contributor to the book Gathering At The Doorway: An Anthology of Signs, Visits, and Messages from the Afterlife, and she is a professional member of Spiritual Regression Therapy Association (SRTA) and Earth Association for Regression Therapy (EARTh). Tune in to this conversation to learn about Sheela’s out-of-body experience, the fascinating way she came to write her book Hello Me!, how writing Hello Me! brought closure to a past life that ended unfairly and tragically for her, the ways regression therapy integrates the lessons learned from the past into a client’s current life, what is soul knowing, and more!

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR THINGS LIKE:

• Sheela’s out-of-body experience that changed her view of the Afterlife
• How Sheela’s daughter remembered that she had “fallen out of Sheela” before she was conceived
• What inspired Sheela to become a past life/current life regression therapist and Life Coach
• How past life regression therapy integrates the lessons learned from the past into a client’s current life
• What part of our current life experiences do we take with us when we depart from this life
• What is soul knowing
• How Sheela gets negative attachments to release their hold on a person

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS SHEELA:

• How does regression therapy go beyond viewing past lives to transforming challenging moments and integrating the lessons learned from the past into a client’s current life?
• What is our “higher self,” and what part of us reincarnates?
• How is releasing negative attachments like freeing ourselves from the influence of a toxic friend?
• How did various types of angels help your client to identify her current life purpose regarding love, communication, and spirituality?
• Why does it take a variety of healing modalities, ideas, and tools to help us navigate our adult lives?

Learn more about Sheela and her services, visit her website www.sheelajaganathan.com

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Harmony Kwiker is a psychotherapist, a professor of transpersonal counseling, the Founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, and the author of two important books titled Reveal: Embody the True Self Beyond Trauma and Conditioning and her most recent book titled Align: Living and Loving from the True Self. Her purpose and mission is to bridge the divide between traditional and spiritual transformation by inspiring people to consciously heal and transform their lives, because when we are in alignment, life flows, it feels right to be alive, and relationships flourish!

In this episode, you'll hear about things like:

• Harmony’s spiritual awakening when she was 22 years old and the miraculous spiritual transformation she has experienced throughout her life.
• The difference between living and loving from the conditioned self and living and loving from the true self.
• The types of issues transpersonal psychology addresses.
• Why it isn’t selfish or self-centered to focus on personal development, and why, when we heal, the whole world heals with us.

Some questions Irene asks Harmony:

• What is the difference between having a relationship and being in a relationship, and what is the difference between being in an unconscious relationship and being in a conscious relationship?
• What is the difference between a spiritual awakening and spiritual transformation?
• How do the vibrations of our subtle energy body become mistuned by life and form blockages in our energy centers?
• What is the connection between spirituality, consciousness, and healing?

Lisa Snyder is a former engineer who was shown a Native American chief in her mind’s eye while in a meditative state during a massage. Healing sounds organically began to express through her vocal cords, and this very personal introduction to the world of Spirit not only inspired Lisa to train in evidential mediumship, but she also received evidence validating that the shared healing sounds expressed through her vocal cords are coming from the Highest Source – of Love and light. Lisa refers to these sounds as Healing with the Ancients, using her voice in this unique way to help people raise their vibrational frequency to heal themselves.

In this episode, Lisa walks us through her journey of awakening, she shares how she uses her gifts to heal people who are struggling with trauma, and she treats us to a magical mini-healing session that gives us a sneak peek into her special, unique healing gifts. Tune in and be inspired by this truly fascinating conversation!

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• How Lisa’s sensitivity expressed itself during her formative years.
• How an angel helped direct Lisa to where her lost son was in a park.
• Lisa received a vision of a Native American chief in her mind’s eye while in a meditative state during a massage, and healing sounds organically began to express through her vocal cords.
• How “Healing With the Ancients” helps people to raise their vibrational frequency to heal themselves and then share that healing energy with others.
• A magical mini-healing session that gives us a sneak peek into Lisa’s special, unique healing gifts.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS LISA:

• How did your sensitivity express itself during your formative years, and what happened when you were told to shut it down?
• How did an angel direct you to where your lost young son was in a park, how did the angel appear to you, and what did that experience teach you?
• What do you mean by the term “Healing With the Ancients?”
• Can you give us an example of healing you have facilitated when the ancients have used your vocal cords?
• What happens for us when we release the internal blocks we have erected, and why is it important to release our internal blocks so that we can heal?
• Lisa, could you please gift us with a mini healing right now? 

By easing the discomfort associated with talking about the often-taboo subject of death, Jamie helps people to face their mortality and live better, more meaningful lives. In this episode, Jamie Sarche, who is a writer, a seasoned speaker, and the Director of Pre-arranged Funeral Planning for Feldman Mortuary, Denver, Colorado’s most trusted Jewish funeral home, discusses how people can be less afraid of death by breaking down the taboos around discussing this often-difficult subject.

She shares her insights and approaches on how to have challenging conversations and address sensitive issues and explains her unique perspective on funeral pre-planning, which is to help people put their funeral plans in place long before they need them so that they can make educated decisions unclouded by grief.

Jamie also touches on the importance of allowing little children to be part of the death and grief process instead of protecting them from it and reveals which forms of “burial’ are best for the health of our planet. Tune in for a compassionate, honest, and thought-provoking discussion that offers a fresh perspective on death and dying.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• You live more fully when you recognize life is finite.
• Helpful, supportive tips for talking with kids about death and grief. 
• What Jamie says to people who demystify death and helps them face their mortality.
• Fire cremation is horrible for the environment.
• Jamie’s insights and approaches to having difficult conversations and addressing sensitive issues. 
• Grief is not a linear process.
• Giving our loved ones a ritual to process death is an important healing gift to them. 

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS JAMIE:

• Have you always been comfortable talking about often-taboo subjects?
• What do you say to people who demystify death and help them face their mortality?
• How does funeral pre-planning help a person avoid chaos and dysfunction when their loved one dies?
• Do you have any insights or approaches about how to have difficult conversations about sensitive issues?
• What do you teach people about dealing with the waves of grief?
• What are some of your helpful, supportive tips for talking with kids about death and grief?

Many of us find comfort within our church community, especially when we’re at a difficult time in our lives. For Sandy Phillips Kirkham, what was a place of warmth became a place of intense trauma when she was 16 years old.

In this episode, she sits down with Irene Weinberg to talk about her award-winning book, Let Me Prey Upon You, in which she details how a charismatic youth mister preyed upon her, betrayed her, left her broken with a shattered faith, and brought about the ultimate shame of being blamed and forced from the church she loved. 

Sandy also describes her healing journey that began when she confronted the minister during her quest for justice and closure 27 years after his heinous behavior began. Now an advocate for other victims of clergy sexual abuse and child abuse, Sandy’s riveting, important story about dreadful clergy abuse is more than a story of intense trauma; it is an important story about healing and rebirth.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• How a charismatic youth minister targeted an innocent 16-year-old and preyed upon her.
• How grooming sets a victim up to accept unusual behaviors.
• How the minister established control over Sandy and manipulated her. 
• How Sandy eventually broke away from her abuser. 
• Sandy’s husband’s reaction when he learned about the degrading abuse Sandy had hidden from him for 27 years.
• The difference in perspective when the abuser is Catholic or non-Catholic. 
• How the ministry called Hope of Survivors is helping victims of clergy sexual abuse.
• How Sandy eventually forgave both herself and her abuser.
• How Sandy’s confrontation with her abuser came about.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS SANDY:

• What made you a vulnerable target for your youth minister, who was a charismatic wolf in sheep’s clothing?
• In what ways did your youth minister target you, groom you, and prey upon you when you were an innocent 16-year-old girl?
• How did understanding the terms love bombing, grooming, gaslighting, and manipulation allow you to begin your healing process?
• How did you eventually break away from your abuser?
• Please tell us about the people who believed you, believed in you, and supported you as you journeyed toward healing and resolution.
• How did your confrontation with your abuser come about?
• What is the impact spiritually when abuse occurs within the church?
• How were you able to eventually forgive yourself and your abuser?
• What inspired you to become an advocate for a ministry called The Hope for Survivors?
• What is your message about the importance of healing?
• Abuse forever changes a person and healing takes time. Can there be joy again?

Kerri Hummingbird Sami is a Shamanic healer, a Mentor, and the author of Inner Medicine: Becoming One with Mother Earth for the Survival of Humanity. She is the Founder of Inner Medicine Training, a Mystery School that shares potent ancient traditions from the Andes and Himalayas for owning your wisdom and living your purpose.

As a Shamanic healer and mentor, Kerri catalyzes mind shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom, noting that people operate through differing lenses of perception, therefore we must all be careful about what we give our power away to.

During this enlightening and highly transformative interview, Kerri shares how she overcame trauma, found healing through nature, and now serves as a channel for other people to all dimensions of time, space, and consciousness. She also brings us insights about the important planetary Wake-Up call that is on its way to all of us.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• How the violence in Kerri’s family system and childhood inspired her to pursue radical changes in her own life
• How Kerri set herself free from a negative mental diagnosis and abuse by taking the road less traveled.
• The important Wake Up Call that is coming, that will open our hearts and lead us to a new way of living.
• The fog that prevents us from seeing ourselves and others clearly. 
• The pathway forward to a New Earth of sovereign humans begins with each of us.
• The Luminous Warrior within is able to let others be true to themselves because she is true to herself. 
• The false personality that is constructed in phases of childhood development. 
• Kerri’s private mentoring, shamanic healing, illumination healing, and discovery sessions.
• Why it is essential to slow down, soften our hearts, and open our hearts to what is right in front of us in order to heal. 

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS KERRI:

• What was the trauma you experienced in your childhood, the diagnosis that put you in a proverbial cage, and the abusive life you created for yourself? 
• What is your story about the magic of a hummingbird visiting you on a Vision Quest in the woods? 
• Is the seismic Wake-Up Call associated with the rise in vibration on this planet from 3D to 5D?
• What is “The Smokey Mirror,” and how can we heal ourselves by working with it?
• What was your motivation to write your book Inner Medicine: Becoming One with Mother Earth for the Survival of Humanity?
• What is the ancient Earth wisdom that we must remember that will save humanity?
• How are deep healing and forgiveness connected?
• What was your own personal Wake-Up call that transformed your life? 
• In what ways do people operate through different lenses of perception, and what does that have to do with giving away our power? 

Renewing your relationship with food is not just about what you eat, but how you think about food. It's a journey of self-discovery that can lead to improved health, a loving relationship with yourself, and a life filled with energy and vitality. In this episode, Bobbi Giudicelli, founder of Read The Ingredients, delves into the topic of abuse, addiction, and relationship with food. Bobbi tells her story of transformation, starting with her sister passing away from cancer, her father's heart disease and worsening dementia, and her own struggle with severe chronic fatigue. These events prompted her to look beyond traditional Western medicine and explore the impact of nutrition on our health and wellbeing. Bobbi also shares gold nuggets and sneak peeks from her book, Freedom From A Toxic Relationship With Food: A Journey That Will Give You Your Life Back. Bobbi discusses why diets always fail, the significance of comprehending the foods we consume in relation to our health and weight, and her personal journey towards a positive relationship with food. Tune in and learn how to transform your relationship with food.

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

• Bobbi’s personal experience with severe eating disorders and how it has affected her personal life and relationships.
• The psychology of eating and food addiction.
• Why diets don’t work.
• Healthy lifestyle and aging.
• How Bobbi’s journey to change her relationship with food from toxic to loving impact her relationship with herself.
• The message of Freedom from a Toxic Relationship with Food: A Journey That Will Give You Your Life Back.
• What Read the Ingredients has to offer.
• How Bobbi transformed herself spiritually with the help of her horses.
• Bobbi’s advice on finding joy in life.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS NANCY:

• How was your experience with severe eating disorders?
• Tell us about the psychology of eating and food addiction.
• How would you define processed food?
• Why don’t diets work?
• Is it normal to accept that our weight is going to go up and our energy is going to go down as we age?
• Would you say getting older in any situation in life is more of a mindset?
• Who did you write the book, Freedom from a Toxic Relationship with Food: A Journey That Will Give You Your Life Back, for?
• How did your journey to change your relationship with food from toxic to loving impact your relationship with yourself?
• What is “gluten-free” all about?
• Tell us about Read the Ingredients. What are your popular items and where can people purchase them?
• Would you tell us a little more about the spiritual side of who you are with your horses and how this new lifestyle change has led to your desire to be of service to others?
• What is the Bobbi tip for finding joy in life?

Do you love to do something but have no courage to do it? What holds you back from leaping a bigger, better, braver life? Today, Nancy Pickard, the author of Bigger Better Braver, dives into conquering your fears and embracing the courage to transform your life. She also touches on shadow beliefs and how uncovering them in your conscious mind can help you transform your life. Nancy also explains why setting healthy boundaries benefits you. Let’s embrace courage and transform our lives. Tune in to this episode and start stepping into a bigger, better, braver life.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:

·        How to move on from loss

·        Nancy’s journey to finding inner self-love

·        Nancy’s experience climbing Kilimanjaro

·        What shadow beliefs are and how they can sabotage your life

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS NANCY:

·        What inspired you to seek coaching, which led you to healing and transformation?

·        What is your advice to people who want to gain clarity about the type of relationships they want in their life, be it same-sex or love relationships?

·        How can a person uncover and embrace their shadow beliefs so that they can give themselves permission to live a bigger life?

What is your tip for finding joy in life? 

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