The Shaman Stories Podcast

What happens when the life you've worked so hard to build suddenly falls apart?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with Rebecca Lazzelle, author, retreat host, and founder of Infinite Ember, to explore trauma recovery, corporate burnout, energy healing, and the journey of rebuilding yourself after life takes an unexpected turn.

Rebecca spent years in the corporate world working in Lean Six Sigma process improvement. She was highly analytical, career-driven, and accustomed to approaching problems through logic. But her spiritual journey, personal experiences, and eventual departure from corporate life changed how she understood healing. After surviving domestic violence, Rebecca began rebuilding her life and exploring how practices such as The Emotion Code, The Body Code, mindfulness, and energy work could complement traditional therapy.

In this episode, we explore:

• Moving from a logical mindset into a more intuitive way of living
• - Corporate burnout and the pressure to have everything together
• - Surviving domestic violence and rebuilding self-trust
• - The Emotion Code and the idea of trapped emotions
• - The Body Code and how Rebecca approaches energetic imbalances
• - Muscle testing and the sway test
• - Exploring inherited emotions and ancestral patterns
• - Why healing often involves subtle changes rather than instant breakthroughs
• - Combining energy healing practices with therapy
• - Learning to trust your intuition
• - Working with animals through energy healing
• - Mindfulness, meditation, and simple breathing practices
• - Rebecca's memoir, "What the Fuck Was That? A Memoir of Betrayal and Reclaiming Myself"
• - Her year-long mindfulness journal
• - Creating retreats that introduce participants to different healing modalities
• - The importance of community and finding practitioners who resonate with you

One of the most important themes in our conversation is that healing doesn't always look the way we expect. Sometimes there isn't one miraculous session that changes everything. Sometimes it's the small shifts that accumulate over time. Rebecca also shares how writing her memoir became part of reclaiming her story, and how discovering her creativity challenged the identity she had built around being a purely logical person. We discuss how different healing approaches can work alongside each other, why personal experience can shape the work practitioners offer, and why finding what resonates with you matters more than following one prescribed path. Whether you're navigating burnout, recovering from a difficult relationship, exploring energy healing, or simply trying to reconnect with yourself, this conversation offers a personal perspective on rebuilding a life.

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Connect with Rebecca Lazzelle
https://www.rebeccalazzelle.com/

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Could parasites be affecting your health without you realizing it?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with Kim Rogers, better known online as The Worm Queen, founder and CEO of Rogers Hood Apothecary. Kim's story is unusual because she didn't come into the wellness world without a medical background. She says she spent more than 20 years working in Western medicine, earned two healthcare degrees, ran 25 healthcare colleges across the United States, developed medical curriculum and worked extensively in neurology and endocrinology.

At the same time, her own health was deteriorating. After years of surgeries, medications and unanswered questions, Kim began looking outside the conventional medical system for answers. She eventually explored herbal medicine, mushrooms, environmental exposures and parasite cleansing. Kim says her first parasite cleanse became a turning point in her life. She documented the experience online, posted a 60-second TikTok about what happened, and the video exploded. Kim says it reached one million views within two hours and eventually more than 10 million views. The response from people sharing their own experiences ultimately earned her the nickname The Worm Queen.

In this conversation, we explore:
• Kim's 20+ years working in Western medicine
• Her struggle with chronic health problems and endometriosis
• Why she began questioning conventional approaches to her health
• Her experience with parasite cleansing
• How she became known as The Worm Queen
• Parasites, mold and Lyme disease
• Mushrooms and Kim's personal healing journey
• Amanita muscaria, lion's mane, turkey tail and psilocybin
• Why Kim believes parasite exposure deserves more attention
• Water quality and environmental exposures
• Pets and potential parasite exposure
 • Food, produce and water safety
• Herbal approaches to cleansing
• Biofilms and binders
• What Kim says she learned from doing her first cleanse incorrectly
• Her Parify system
• Taking greater ownership of your health
• How one viral video became Rogers Hood Apothecary

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Connect with Kim Rogers
Kim's website:
https://rogershood.com
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/mrsrogers.hood
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/kim.rogers.549424/
Buy her parasite cleanse here:
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Kim also hosts the podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/@whatseatingupodcast

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What if you grew up seeing ghosts and simply assumed everyone else could see them too?

That's essentially what happened to sisters Natalie and Stephanie. In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, we explore their unusual journey from childhood paranormal experiences to becoming intuitive mediums, spiritual coaches, energy workers, astrologers and haunting investigators. Stephanie recalls seeing a ghost at around five years old while staying at a babysitter's house. As the sisters grew older, they eventually realized something surprising: not everyone was experiencing the things they considered normal. Rather than shutting those experiences down completely, they eventually began exploring Wicca, spirituality, energy work, astrology, mediumship and other traditions. Today, their work includes intuitive development, spiritual coaching, Reiki, astrology, paranormal investigation, helping spirits cross over and past-life regression.

In this conversation, we explore:
• Growing up seeing ghosts and experiencing psychic phenomena
• Why children may be more receptive to spiritual experiences
• Whether intuition is a gift or an ability everyone possesses
• Wicca and their early spiritual exploration
• Becoming spiritual eclectics rather than following one system
• Mediumship and communicating with spirits
• What actually happens during a haunting investigation
• Why they don't consider themselves traditional ghost hunters
• The Estes Method and paranormal communication
• Spiritual protection and energetic boundaries
• Why energy workers need to understand protection
• Shadow work and unresolved wounds
• Helping spirits cross over • Working with more difficult energies
• Clearing homes, businesses and real estate
• The energetic relationship between people, homes and land
• Astrology as a blueprint rather than fate
• Mercury retrograde and common astrology misconceptions 
 Past-life regression and Life Between Lives work
• Soul fragments and healing experiences connected to past lives
• Developing your intuition rather than blindly following someone else's method

One of the ideas we keep returning to is that intuitive abilities may not belong to a special group of people. Natalie and Stephanie describe intuition, mediumship and the different “clairs” as abilities that can potentially be developed rather than gifts reserved for a chosen few. We also go deep into paranormal investigation. Unlike investigators whose primary goal is capturing evidence, Natalie and Stephanie say their purpose is usually helping people who are frightened or confused by what's happening in their homes. When appropriate, that can include communicating with spirits, clearing the space and helping spirits move on. We also discuss something I believe is incredibly important for anyone doing spiritual or energetic work: Boundaries. Whether you're practicing Reiki, mediumship, paranormal investigation or another form of energy work, opening yourself energetically without understanding boundaries can create problems. This conversation gets into those subjects and much more.

The Shaman Stories Podcast 
Presented by Aldren Sanctuary Wisdom Returned.

Connect with Natalie & Stephanie
Their primary website:
https://immersivespirit.com
Intuitive Operating System
https://intuitiveoperatingsystem.com
Podcasts
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What happens when healing itself becomes something we use to avoid what we're actually feeling?

 In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with author, tech executive, energy healer and creator Tova Citrin for a deeply personal conversation about trauma, nervous-system healing, spirituality, creativity and learning to live as your authentic self. Tova spent years exploring different forms of spiritual and energetic healing while simultaneously maintaining a very different professional identity in the technology and financial industries. For much of her career, she kept those two sides of herself separate. Eventually, she realized she no longer wanted to hide parts of who she was. Her own healing journey began much earlier. After experiencing a difficult childhood and later becoming seriously ill with meningitis in her late twenties, Tova found herself questioning who she was without her career, health and the identity she had built around herself. That experience eventually led her deeper into spirituality, energy work and ultimately to Israel, where what was intended to be a three-month stay became more than two decades.

In this conversation, we explore:
• Why healing can sometimes become another thing we chase
• Trauma and nervous-system dysregulation
• Living with hypervigilance
• Why energetic healing alone isn't always enough
• The relationship between the mind, body, emotions and spirit
• Giving yourself permission to actually feel grief
• Turning painful experiences into music, writing and art
• Creativity as part of the healing process
• Learning to stop saying “I'm fine”
• How childhood experiences can shape intuition and awareness
• Integrating a spiritual identity with a conventional career
• Social media, fear and its effect on our nervous systems
• Learning to be compassionate with ourselves
• Why it's never too late to become who you really are
• Jewish spirituality, Kabbalah and prophecy
• Tova's spiritual thriller, Ten Seconds to Midnight
• Her music project, Aviya Sage
• Her Broadway-style musical, Company Man

Tova also speaks candidly about living in Israel during years of conflict and how repeated alerts, rockets and trips to the safe room affected her nervous system even when her conscious mind told her she was fine. She describes still waking every few hours because her body learned to anticipate the next alarm.
That leads us into a conversation about something we both understand personally: sometimes surviving the experience isn't the end of the trauma. The body can continue responding long after our conscious mind believes the danger has passed.
Tova eventually realized that after years of exploring energy healing, one of the missing pieces for her was working directly with her nervous system. She says that as she began addressing that layer, other pieces of her life started falling into place and her creativity began flowing again.
We also explore Tova's novel, Ten Seconds to Midnight, a spiritual thriller she describes as something like The Da Vinci Code meeting Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. The story explores prophecy, redemption, darkness, destiny and what happens when we're finally forced to confront what we've spent our lives avoiding.
Above everything else, Tova leaves listeners with a simple message:
Be compassionate with yourself. Don't wait to live your life. Create what you feel called to create, and stop apologizing for who you are.

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Connect with Tova Citrin
ova's official website: https://www.tovacitrin.com/

Her site includes information about Ten Seconds to Midnight, Aviya Sage, Company Man, her speaking work and ways to contact her. Her official site describes her work as existing at the intersection of leadership, storytelling and spirituality.

Ten Seconds to Midnight Available through the purchase link on:
 https://www.tovacitrin.com/

Tova describes the book as a spiritual thriller exploring Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah, prophecy and redemption.

Aviya Sage Tova's music project can also be found through:
 https://www.tovacitrin.com/

Her official site describes Aviya Sage as an AI music artist project featuring Tova's original lyrics with AI-generated music and voice. Tova also mentions during the episode that she can be found on LinkedIn under Tova Citrin.

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Why do some people practice manifestation for years without seeing the results they want?

n this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with manifestation coach Robert Mead to explore Neville Goddard, the Law of Assumption, imagination, self concept and what Robert believes people misunderstand about consciously creating change in their lives. Robert has spent more than 45 years studying metaphysics and personal development. His journey eventually led him to Bob Proctor, including a 13 month coaching program and training as a coach, before discovering the work of Neville Goddard and making those teachings the foundation of his practice. But this conversation isn't simply about thinking positively and waiting for something to happen.

We explore:
• The Law of Assumption and Neville Goddard
• Why imagination is central to Robert's manifestation practice
• The difference between wishing for something and assuming it is already yours
• Why action still matters when manifesting
• How to identify what you actually desire
• Why people become overly focused on HOW something will happen
• Self concept and subconscious beliefs
• What to do when doubt starts creeping in
• Using visualization and all five senses
• Robert's process for scripting a desired life
• Why specific imaginal scenes can be so powerful
• Using mirror work to change your self concept
• Manifesting relationships and specific partners
• Patience and persistence
• Why manifestation should become a daily practice

Robert also shares several experiences from his own life. He describes deciding in advance that he would make a major timeshare sale on a specific date. For a month, he wrote about it, recorded it, listened to it and repeatedly imagined what would happen afterward. He says the sale eventually happened on the date he had written down. He also shares how he spent months imagining himself living a tropical beach life before circumstances eventually took him through Mexico, Bali and ultimately the Philippines. One of the most important themes in our conversation is that manifestation isn't simply about getting what you want. It's about becoming the person who can experience the life you want. As Robert puts it near the end of our conversation, this requires practice, patience, clarity about your desires and a willingness to work on the beliefs you hold about yourself.

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Connect with Robert Mead
https://coaches.truecosmic.com/coaches/robert-meade www.thepowerofimaginationwithrobertmeade.as.me https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMeadePowerOfImagination

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What if one of the most powerful tools for changing your state of consciousness has been with you since the moment you were born?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with Anthony Abbagnano, founder of Alchemy of Breath, to explore the physical, emotional and spiritual dimensions of conscious breathing. Anthony has spent decades exploring the breath through practices including pranayama, rebirthing, meditation and other traditions. After a serious illness later in life brought him back to the importance of breathing one breath at a time, breathwork became the center of his life's work. Today, Alchemy of Breath has grown into a global breathwork school and community with more than 2,000 certified facilitators across over 50 countries.

In this conversation, we explore:
• Why conscious breathing can change our emotional state
• Breathwork and nervous-system regulation
• Anthony's experiences with breathwork and altered states of consciousness
• Conscious Connected Breathwork
• The similarities Anthony sees between breathwork and plant medicine experiences
• Using breath practices before you actually need them
• Breathwork as a tool for relationships and intimacy
• Trauma, emotional patterns and inner work
• Breathwork, meditation and spiritual awareness
• Why Anthony believes the breath can help us move beyond our normal thinking
• His vision for Breathe for Peace
• Teaching breathwork to children
• Community and the importance of healing together
• Alchemy of Breath and training future breathwork facilitators

Anthony also shares a simple practice he uses with his wife during conflict: stopping, looking into each other's eyes and taking ten breaths together. He describes how those few breaths can completely change the emotional space between them. One of my favorite takeaways from this conversation is Anthony's advice to practice breathwork when you don't need it. By practicing during calm moments, we become more capable of accessing the breath when stress, anxiety or difficult emotions actually arise.

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Connect with Anthony Abbagnano and Alchemy of Breath:
https://alchemyofbreath.com/

Alchemy of Breath also offers free Sunday breathwork sessions, facilitator training, retreats and other programs.

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NOTE: In this episode Laurel show video and images during our conversation. You can view this on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/SZe3e7g40Kw

What if the stories of fairies, Sasquatch, elementals and other unseen beings are pointing toward something much bigger than folklore?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with Laurel Leaman, an Elemental Realm Oracle and facilitator with Lightbody Academy, to explore her experiences with Sasquatch, the fae, elemental beings and what she describes as realms that overlap our own. Laurel’s journey took an unusual path. She spent years researching crop circles, practiced and taught Buddhism for nearly two decades, and eventually began having experiences that led her deeper into the unseen world. Today, through the Forest Wisdom Circle, Laurel helps people explore their own relationships with elemental beings and Sasquatch.

In this conversation, we explore:
• Sasquatch as possible multidimensional beings
• Fairies, fae, gnomes, pixies and the elemental realm
• Why Laurel believes Sasquatch can act as ambassadors between realms
• How our relationship with nature may affect our ability to perceive the unseen
• Frequency, intuition and what Laurel calls “walking in beauty”
• How Laurel photographs and films what she believes are fairy beings
• Fairy portals and the relationship between trees and the elemental realm
• Sasquatch structures, glyphs and gifting
• Whether ET, fairy and other paranormal encounters could be connected
• How to approach unseen beings with respect rather than fear
• Why inner work may change what we're capable of perceiving

Laurel also shares photographs and video from some of her experiences and explains what she sees within them. One of the central ideas of our conversation is that connecting with these realms isn't simply about finding proof. Laurel sees it as developing a relationship with nature, becoming aware of our own energy, and learning to notice what we may normally overlook.

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Connect with Laurel Leaman / Lightbody Academy
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.lightbodyacademy.com/elemental-realm
Blog: https://www.lightbodyacademy.com/blog/Elemental-and-Sasquatch-Beings-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForestWisdomCircle Instagram: @LightbodyGlobalAcademy Facebook: @LightbodyAcademy

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What if consciousness is more fundamental to reality than we realize?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with author and lifelong student of consciousness Alan Gillanders to explore spirituality, meditation, ancient wisdom, manifestation, the nature of God, and the deeper connection Alan believes exists between all things. For more than 45 years, Alan has explored Christianity, Eastern philosophy, metaphysics, consciousness and ideas from quantum theory while asking one central question: What is truth? Alan shares some of the unusual experiences that shaped his worldview, including his travels to India, experiences he interpreted as miracles and divine guidance, and an out-of-body experience that profoundly changed his understanding of consciousness.

We explore:
• Why Alan believes we are not separate from God or Source
• Meditation as connection rather than escape
• Why stillness can help us hear what is underneath the noise
• Faith, intention and taking action
• Synchronicity and experiences that seem impossible to explain
• Eastern spirituality and Alan's Christian upbringing
• The relationship between consciousness, vibration and reality
• Why our beliefs and words may influence how we experience life
• Alan's experience of leaving his body during meditation 
 The difference between desire and attachment
• Why Alan believes the answers we seek may already exist within us

Alan also discusses his upcoming book, The Sacred Hum of I Am, which grew from his exploration of consciousness, vibration and the creative power he associates with the words “I am.”

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In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, Jeremy sits down with manifestation and alignment coach Cheryl Andrisani to explore Neville Goddard, the Law of Assumption, self-concept, limiting beliefs, faith, manifestation, and the inner work behind creating lasting change.

Cheryl shares how her journey began with a desire to change her circumstances but eventually became something much deeper: a spiritual journey into identity, consciousness, faith, and her relationship with God. She explains how applying these principles helped transform her marriage, finances, business, and ultimately the way she experiences life.

We explore:
• Neville Goddard and the Law of Assumption
• Law of Attraction vs. Law of Assumption
• Why self-concept matters in manifestation
• Finding the beliefs underneath your circumstances
• Why affirmations alone may not create lasting change
• Manifestation, scripture, consciousness, and God
• How Cheryl transformed her relationship with money
• Growing an e-commerce business to $10 million in sales
• Healing and transforming a long-term marriage
• Why changing other people starts with changing yourself
• Trauma, suffering, faith, and personal growth
• Learning to stop obsessing over the “how”
 • Why awareness may be the first step toward changing your life

Cheryl’s message is ultimately about becoming aware of who you are currently being and deciding whether the beliefs creating that version of you are the beliefs you still want to carry. As she explains near the end of the conversation, awareness is where the process begins.

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Connect with Cheryl Andrisani:
Cheryl’s TrueCosmic Profile: https://truecosmic.com/academy/cheryl-andrisani/
TrueCosmic: https://truecosmic.com/
Living in Joy: www.livinginjoy.ca
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What happens when a spiritual awakening begins changing the way you see yourself, your relationships, and the world around you?

In this episode of The Shaman Stories Podcast, I sit down with Derek and Sandy, founders of Anamlíniú, for a wide-ranging conversation about spiritual awakening, channeling, light language, energy healing, grounding, spiritual guides, and learning to trust your own inner wisdom.

Derek shares how burnout in the corporate world eventually led him into meditation and a deeper spiritual journey. Sandy's path unfolded differently, eventually developing into channeling, light language, and working with spiritual guides.

We explore:
• Spiritual awakening and how it can change your life
• Channeling and communicating with spiritual guides
• Light language and energetic healing
• Why you don't always need to know where a message comes from
• Grounding and nervous system regulation
• Spiritual integration and avoiding spiritual bypassing
• Learning to trust your intuition and inner knowing
• Why everyone's spiritual path looks different
• Healing without becoming dependent on a teacher or practitioner
• Finding balance between spiritual practice and everyday life
• Energy work, consciousness, and personal transformation

One of the biggest themes of this conversation is something I believe strongly in myself: The goal isn't to create dependence on a teacher, healer, or guru. It's to help people reconnect with themselves. Derek and Sandy describe success not as someone continually needing sessions, but as someone becoming capable of connecting and moving forward for themselves. We also talk about why grounding and integration matter. Spiritual experiences can be powerful, but the real work is bringing what you experience back into your everyday life. As Sandy puts it near the end of our conversation, pay attention to what resonates, stay open-minded, integrate what you've learned, and remember to ground yourself.

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Learn more about Derek, Sandy, and Anamlíniú:
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Derek and Sandy also offer listeners an opportunity to experience one of their group channeling sessions.

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