Grief and Rebirth: Finding the Joy in Life

Michael is an award-winning filmmaker who has authored fifteen nonfiction books on filmmaking and post-production technology. He is perhaps most well known as one of the original designers of Apple’s Emmy award-winning software Final Cut Pro, and he taught film editing for eight years at UCLA’s School of Film & TV. In Herschel’s Wake is about Michael’s charismatic and irresponsible father name...

LeAnn Hull is an author, a motivational speaker, a presenter, an encourager, the Co-Affiliate Leader of the remarkable non-profit Helping Parents Heal group named Healing After Suicide, and an inspiring role model for grief to healing to rebirth. Her book, titled How to Live When You Want to Die , tells the heartbreaking experience of losing her 16-year-old son to suicide in 2012. Andy was a great...

Anne-Marie Oomen is an essayist, memoirist, poet, playwright, and educator who is the author of seven books. Not only is she a late bloomer whose first book was published when she was 53 years old, her most recent book titled As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book , has won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Sue William Silverman Award for Creative Nonfiction. The book focuses on the t...

Ginny Jablonski is the 14th inspiring interview in the G & R Podcast’s Rebirth series. She is a human and animal soul whisperer, a horse medicine facilitator, an author, an inspirational speaker, and an opioid crisis awareness advocate who retired from a career in international security to focus on resolving her emerging medical issues. In 2012, when a prescription opioid medication caused her...

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 Goo...

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...

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...

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 misalign...

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 prostitut...

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 transformativ...

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...

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...

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 digi...

Born in the Philippines,  Krista Nerestant  moved to the US at the age of twelve and became a successful entrepreneur at 17 years old. In addition to being the owner of  self-ishlifestyle.com , serving as a certified spiritual medium and teacher to demystify the world of spirit and energy, Krista is a neuro-linguistic life coach and hypnotist specializing in the Satir method of transformational Sy...

Kate Vosti is a Somatic Movement Facilitator whose mission is to offer a unique, therapeutic experience using non-sexual sensuality to move and repurpose grief, reconnect to joy and pleasure, and claim authentic expression and confidence. And she is also an admirable role model for grief and rebirth. She had spinal fusion surgery for scoliosis when she was 17 years old and continues to have reperc...

William Peters is the Founder of the Shared Crossing Project , whose mission is to positively transform relationships to death and dying through education and raising awareness about Shared Crossings and their healing benefits. As the Director of the Shared Crossing Research Institute, William and his team collect and study extraordinary end of life experiences called shared crossings. A global le...

Michelle Clare is a Certified Medium, an Angel Intuitive, a Spiritual Coach, an Energetic Healer, an Intuitive Life Coach, and a 3-time Near Death Experience (NDE) survivor; during Michelle’s third NDE, she suffered a traumatic brain injury. All 3 NDEs were a reminder of unconditional love and connection that surpasses our earthly life. Shortly after her 3rd NDE was a monumental event, Michelle st...

Nothing could have prepared Mary for the death of her 19-year-old Marine son Chas, early in 2012. Mary’s spiritual education, an excellent therapist and journaling helped her move through her intense grief. And through this journey, she began to understand how she could be of service to others. With Chas’ guidance, Mary wrote her first book titled The 21-Day Doorway Across The Veil . And she recen...

Stacey Cripps is a well-known and highly respected Spiritual Medium, Mentor and Advisor of the Gift of Spirit. Thanks to her rare God-given gift that allows heart-to-heart Spirit communication with departed loved ones, Stacey transmits evidential healing messages that instill peace, love, and joy. Her work with grieving families, St. Jude, and others shines a light on how our loved ones are never...

Ann Albers is a popular author, a spiritual instructor, an angel communicator, and a modern-day mystic. After she entered pre-med at Notre Dame University, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a Computer Concentration, then got a job in the aviation electronics industry. She discovered she was unhappy, so she started to pray. "Dear God, whoever, whatever you are,...

Lisa Wilcoxson is a spiritual evidential medium, a psychic, a mystic, and a mentor. As a tested and certified medium who is a recommended provider for Helping Parents Heal, she is renowned for delivering detailed evidence and stunning connection in readings. She compassionately provides undeniable proof that the bonds of love are unbreakable, there is no death, and our lives are forever intertwine...

Three tragic personal losses inspired Dr. Gloria Horsley, who is an internationally known grief expert, psychotherapist, and bereaved parent, and Dr. Heidi Horsley, who is a licensed psychologist, social worker, and bereaved sibling, to become the Founders of the Open to Hope Foundation, whose mission is to help people find hope after loss. Gloria and Heidi reach about 7 million people a year thro...

LaVonne is a Spiritual Teacher, a global speaker, and a Love Activist, who became motivated to become a Spiritual Teacher when her daughter Kiva transitioned. She assists other grieving mothers through peaceful connections and insights and has made it her life’s work to create systems of JOY in this lifetime. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE:    LaVonne’s special relationship with he...

The charismatic and gifted Tina Powers has worked in film, theatre, and television. She was a news anchor and reporter for 15 years, then her life took a turn, and she is now a Psychic/Medium and author who lectures on intuition and holds private sessions with clients at the world-renowned Miraval Resort in Arizona. Tina’s clientele is a veritable “who’s who” of people from all walks of life, from...

Andrea Courey  is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, and sound healing meditation guide who became a caregiver to her 28-year-old daughter Chloe when she fell ill with cancer. About six weeks after Chloe’s death, Andrea sat down to write her a letter – the kind of letter a mother writes to help express her grief. Fully expecting to burn the letter upon completion, her world changed wh...