Dr. Peggy DeLong is an accomplished psychologist, author, speaker, and grief therapist. She is known as The Gratitude Psychologist because she teaches people how to harness the power of gratitude and joy to live their best lives, especially through difficult times. She does this through psychotherapy, her group program for healing grief called HEAL, her online monthly membership called Feeling Good with Dr. Peggy, online courses, and speaking engagements. She is also the author of three books, and she is the owner of LOVE in a Bracelet, where she designs bracelets for coping with grief and loss, mental health, and inspiration.

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

·        The inspiring ways the death of both Peggy’s beloved fiancé and her precious dad were connected.

·        The spiritual signs Peggy receives every year on the anniversary of her fiancé’s death.

·        How harnessing the power of gratitude and joy heals grief, bereavement, and loss.

·        The practice of gratitude is backed by research in psychology and brain science.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS PEGGY:

·        Why should we allow ourselves to feel unwanted and painful emotions?

·        What are some of the benefits to be gained by developing a gratitude mindset?

·        Why is practicing gratitude a universal healer? 

Dr. Peggy DeLong is an accomplished psychologist, author, speaker, and grief therapist. She is known as The Gratitude Psychologist because she teaches people how to harness the power of gratitude and joy to live their best lives, especially through difficult times. She does this through psychotherapy, her group program for healing grief called HEAL, her online monthly membership called Feeling Good with Dr. Peggy, online courses, and speaking engagements. She is also the author of three books, and she is the owner of LOVE in a Bracelet, where she designs bracelets for coping with grief and loss, mental health, and inspiration.

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

· The inspiring ways the death of both Peggy’s beloved fiancé and her precious dad were connected.

· The spiritual signs Peggy receives every year on the anniversary of her fiancé’s death.

· How harnessing the power of gratitude and joy heals grief, bereavement, and loss.

· The practice of gratitude is backed by research in psychology and brain science.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS PEGGY:

· Why should we allow ourselves to feel unwanted and painful emotions?

· What are some of the benefits to be gained by developing a gratitude mindset?

· Why is practicing gratitude a universal healer?

Sue Frederick is an accomplished speaker and teacher, an Author, an Intuitive, an ordained Unity Minister, a soul regression therapist, a master numerologist, and a certified creative arts therapist. She has been an intuitive since childhood and she is also an accomplished author. Her six highly acclaimed books provide roadmaps for manifesting the work we each came here to do, the love we came to experience, how best to connect to our departed loved ones for healing and how to use pain as fuel to fulfill our greatest potential. She has been featured in the New York Times, CNN.com, Real Simple Magazine, Yoga Journal, Natural Health, and Complete Woman magazines and she has presented workshops at venues such as Omega Institute, The Crossings Retreat Center, the American Businesswomen’s Association, and the National Career Development Association.

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

• The vision Sue received about being lifted above Earth and shown that the light is always winning no matter how grim things may appear.
• How grief became Sue’s greatest teacher when her husband died in her arms.
• The ways dream visions and conversations with departed loved ones shift grief.
• Why lifting into our soul’s view and out of our human story is necessary for healing and a purposeful life.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS SUE:

• How is the heart the gateway to intuition?
• Is it true we are shown the soul’s perspective of our life here on Earth during our Life Review?
• Is there any judgment of our earthly behavior on the Other Side?

Reid Peterson is a grief counselor who is the creator and founder of a mobile app for grief support called Grief Refuge. He has a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and he has been certified in Death & Grief Studies by the Center for Loss & Life Transition. After losing his biological father to suicide in 2006 and his stepfather to cancer in 2016, Reid felt a calling to help the grieving find peace and purpose after loss. His Grief Refuge app is a daily companion that helps navigate the grief journey, providing comfort and solace in a time of need. Its 7 features, including daily audio musings and a tool to track a person’s grief progress, help a person cope with loss and feel supported throughout the grief journey.

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

• Reid felt a calling to help the grieving after he lost his biological father to suicide and his stepfather to cancer.
• Counseling and bereavement groups were not able to fill the void of loneliness that Reid experienced in his grief.
• There are moments when it’s normal, appropriate, and proper to experience the sorrow of the soul.
• Reid’s attempt to be a voice on the Calm meditation app.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS REID:

• How did the profound loss of your two father figures inspire the creation of the Grief Refuge app?
• What are some of the many benefits and features provided on the Grief Refuge app?
• In what ways does the Grief Refuge mobile app help a person cope with the loss of a loved one physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually?

Melissa Lyons and Cathrine Marshall are the enlightened authors of a wise new book titled Freedom Rising from Within: The Ultimate Guide to Freedom and Transformation from the Inside Out. Melissa is a mind-body wellness coach, a best-selling author, and an inspiring keynote speaker whose programs, books, and group events have helped thousands of people identify and modify imbalances and misalignments that block happiness, health, and success, creating an abundance of clarity and opening pathways to freedom, flow, and connection to life’s purpose, co-authored with Cathrine, who is a metaphysical energetic healer, a guide, and an author. For over 33 years, Cathrine has had a deep and diverse life history of personal transformative experiences which has been a rich training to facilitate the healing and raising of consciousness for thousands of individuals!

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

• Childhood trauma and a Near Death Experience were Cathrine’s catalysts to write Freedom Rising from Within.
• How Melissa’s early path to pleasing people transformed when she turned inward.
• Why some people suffer more than others.
• What freedom and transformation from the inside looks like on the outside.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS MELISSA AND CATHRINE:

• What healing modalities have helped you transform from the inside out?
• Do each of you react differently to triggers now?
• How do the differences between our current paradigm and the new incoming paradigm relate to insights you share in your book Freedom Rising from Within?

Lora De’Vore is an incredible role model for grief and rebirth. She is an author, a therapist, an educator, and a catalyst for transformational change for both healthcare individuals & institutions. Her wisdom comes from the inside out, from facing the darkest aspects of human experience and mining the dark for the treasures that can be found. Born into poverty and violence, Lora was prostituted at the age of nine and she suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. The impact of this early trauma led to her institutionalization soon after she started college, and an incarceration she would not have survived but for a courageous nurse, who fought for her release. Fifty years later, Lora has had a long career as a successful mental health professional, she is recognized as a leading educator, and she is also a sought-after public speaker.

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

• Lora’s spiritual epiphany at the age of 9 when her neighbor told her that she loved her.
• Lora’s attempted suicides and the dark history of psychiatry.
• The angels wearing human skin who helped Lora change the course of her life.
• The wisdom Lora gleaned through the study of psychology, transpersonal development, and spiritual psychology.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS LORA:

• How can facing the darkest aspects of human experience transform a person from the inside out?
• In what ways does your memoir Darkness Was My Candle promote a shift in consciousness and speak to transformation and redemption?
• Why is cultivating self-love as well as unearthing early beliefs formed at the time of traumatic events, critical to helping us heal?

Composer and lyricist Peruquois is a remarkable worldwide icon and a profound healer of women who has been touring the globe since 1997, and her life has been filled with fascinating and transformative experiences of grief to healing and rebirth. Her father drowned in a fishing accident when she was three, and her motto became “Love and live now as the future may never come.” Another transformative experience occurred when she was 11, when both of her legs were cut above her kneecaps and then re-attached in a botched surgery designed to cure a genetic hip rotation. At 18, Peruquois honored her dreams to become a jazz vocalist and by 23 she was a bright star on the Australian jazz scene but felt somehow unfulfilled and through a profound transcendental experience, she found intuitive singing which spurred people to call her “the voice of Mother Earth.” She later spent 11 years as an apprentice and one of 7 wives to a Native American Medicine Man in the mountain deserts of New Mexico, where she received a vision that revealed that her healing voice and profound wisdom would one day inspire millions of people to fall back into love and return to harmony and balance. And years after that, she moved to New Zealand and committed to a new partner who was an awakened tantric master, and she became inspired to create a new set of practices for women to open to their sensual nature. And of course, there is more!

Michele Benyo is an early childhood parenting coach and mentor who is also a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. When Michele’s daughter was only three-and-a-half years old, her beloved 6-year-old big brother, who was her best friend and only sibling—died of cancer. She said to Michele, “Mommy, half of me is gone.” The loss was devastating, it left an unfillable void in her young being, and there was little available to help Michele, who was teaching early childhood parenting classes at the time, to navigate her family’s unthinkable new reality.

Today Michele’s precious daughter is all grown up and Michele is busy helping families to heal and live forward with grief after the death of their child. Her Good Grief Parenting Approach helps parents get in touch with their parenting wisdom so they can be confident that they are helping their bereaved young child to grieve well as they become hopeful about a future for their family that is bright with possibilities and even joy.

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Winnie Chan is a trauma-informed licensed acupuncturist who is also a Shamanic Tao healer, a Reiki practitioner, a shadow worker, and the co-author of Honoring Darkness: Embrace Shadow Work to Nourish and Grow Your Power. Her mission in life is to deliver LOVE AS MEDICINE – to help everyone discover their original wholeness. She does this by combining the medical science of a clinically trained acupuncturist with the spiritual knowledge of a shaman to help her clients process their trauma, which is the root cause of many physical and emotional illnesses.

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

• The ways Winnie’s trauma-filled childhood provided the inspiration for the healing work she is now doing.
• How “soul loss” led to Winnie’s 3 suicide attempts.
• What inspired Winnie after her divorce with its dark nights of the soul to begin to help people through shadow work?
• The ways shadow work helps us to give up struggling and love the totality of ourselves.

SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS WINNIE:

• How did your near-death car accident lead to your spiritual awakening?
• Can you give us an example of healing you have facilitated through shamanic healing?
• How is grief a sacred gift that brings us to deeper love with the Divine?

Maggie Gannon is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist and the CEO/co-founder of HAVEN, the all-in-one, under-one-roof space for legacy preservation. After taking care of head and neck cancer patients for over 25 years and with her own history of death and loss, Maggie created Haven, a customer-focused company built from the ground up to give the dying a voice. This digital, end-of-life platform compassionately helps the dying person and his or her family, along with the companies and agencies that serve them, to successfully navigate the end-of-life.

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