Grief and Rebirth: Finding the Joy in Life

Jeffery Olsen is a truly remarkable man with an incredible story of perseverance, inner strength, grief and rebirth. Jeff survived a car crash that killed his wife and young son, as well as hurt him badly. He had 18 surgeries, lost a leg, and had to heal physically and emotionally. Professionally, Jeff is a gifted Creative Director with many accolades to his credit. He is a Spiritual Leader, Mento...

Irene hosted a heart-warming, wonderful Gallery with the very gifted Shelly R. Wilson, who is an Author, an Intuitive, a Medium, a Psychic and a Conscious Creator. Shelly and Irene chatted about the difference between a psychic and a medium, how Shelly senses Spirit, and the difference between being spiritually “awake” or “asleep.” Shelly brought through messages from deceased loved ones in additi...

Sarah Watkins is a Certified Life & Wellbeing Coach who helps women feel more clear, confident, and in control of their habits, health, and life. A few years ago, Sarah found herself in the middle of a major health crisis. She was suffering debilitating pain, feeling lost and feeling powerless. Her life was at a standstill. Nobody had answers. And no one was offering her any hope. That is when...

Andrew Hahn is a holistic psychotherapist who has specialized in healing trauma for the past 27 years. His doctoral training as a Doctor of Psychology was very extensive and diverse, but a few years after he graduated, Andy became the director of training at a local clinic when he began to have some psychic experiences that were outside the realm of typical Western reality. Following the lead of h...

Raina’s memoir is titled  Because of Josiah: The Sacred Alchemy of a Mother’s Unending Bond  with her son in Spirit. It was her son Josiah’s sudden departure in 2017 that shifted Raina’s awareness, taking her on a dynamic journey from heart-shattering grief to the stunning realization that their bond is unbreakable and still thrives. With Josiah serving as her teacher, Raina has learned to recogni...

Sherokee Ilse lost 3 babies of her own through a miscarriage, a full-term stillborn son, and an ectopic pregnancy. She has two living sons and she is one of the early pioneers in perinatal loss and bereavement. Not only is she the author of 18 books and booklets about loss and healing, including her first and most popular self-help book for parents and families titled  Empty Arms: Coping with Misc...

Mary D’Agostino is the owner of a Holistic Healing Arts Practice called Heart of Gaia Creative Healing Arts, where she employs her gifts as an intuitive guide, a spiritual counselor, a soul medium, a reiki teacher and practitioner, and an educator in the Intuitive Arts to generate healing and transformation for her clients. She is also the author of a riveting, historical fiction/fantasy that is t...

Jenny Dilts supports people who have been touched by grief, either through the death or loss of a loved one or through life’s experiences. As a Certified Grief and End of Life Coach, she holds space for them as they explore their individual grief and what it means to them, helping them rebuild their lives in gratitude and love. Jenny brings warmth, light, and healing into the grief experience thro...

Rachel Engstrom’s book  Wife Widow Now What? How I Navigated the Cancer World and How You Can Too  is a life changer for those facing cancer, their caregivers and anyone else who wishes to strive for happiness and fulfillment despite tremendous hardships. Rachel was only twenty-eight years old when her thirty-five- year- old husband was diagnosed with cancer. She had to research and dig deep to fi...

Seta Araz Shahinian is an energetic healer and conduit of healing and transformation for people throughout the world. She can perceive the energetic template that encompasses a person’s mind, body and soul and identify the patterns, states and conditions that define our current lifetime. Through prayer, she focuses on releasing curses, evil eyes, hexes and jinxes we ourselves have created, inherit...

Dr. Ingrid Honkala  is a Marine Scientist, an author, a Light Worker, a Meditation Teacher, a Reiki Healer, and an International Speaker. When she was little, her parents discovered that she could see and hear things that no one else could. All this seemed to be tied up with the aftermath of Ingrid’s near-death experience (NDE) when she drowned at the age of two. Not long after, she started to com...

Author Melissa Lyons and Irene talk about The Healing Table that was created because they felt there was a need for more consistent support during the healing and transformational phases of people’s lives, especially when people are feeling alone. This will be a safe and supportive environment and people will be surrounded by the vibes and strength of our new community to remind them that they are...

Surviving And Healing From Domestic Violence, Narcissistic Abuse, and Parental Alienation Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro  is an award-winning educator, a speaker, and the author of an inspirational book of spiritual miracles titled God Came To My Garage Sale. Marni earned a doctorate in education and completed postdoctoral studies at Harvard after a 35-year career as a high school special education teach...

Pamela Kirkpatrick is a sound healer and intuitive who came into this world with healing hands and the gift of song. She has been composing music since she was 3 years old, and at age 11, she began transcendental meditation. A certified Kundalini yoga teacher since 1995, Pamela has certifications in Reiki and other healing modalities that combine her vision, gifts, and love to uplift the spirit. S...

Lou Magrone ’s wife, Francine, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Joseph Louis on January 6, 2017. But sadly, every parent’s nightmare was now their reality: their son was stillborn and laid to rest a week later. This tragedy inspired Lou to create Walk in Sunshine Charity , whose mission is to assist families in the New Jersey area who have lost a young child, and it provides online resourc...

Irene hosted an amazing Gallery with the very gifted and loving Cheryl Murphy, who is a Clairvoyant, Healer, and an Ordained Minister, as well as a certified Hypnotherapist and Intuitive. Cheryl and Irene chatted about Cheryl’s work as a Medium and Psychic, how she senses Spirit, common ways Spirit comes to each of us, how we can connect with those in the Spirit world, and how Cheryl communicates...

My Daughter Helped Me Make a Movie from the Other Side D.Mitry Gelfand is a writer and director whose daughter inspired and helped him from the Other Side to create the movie My True Fairytale. A classically trained pianist originally from Minsk, Belarus, D.Mitry made his way into cinema via theater, his plays staged off-off-Broadway and, in 1998, at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Confere...

Peter is a man with many roles: husband, father, grandfather, survivor of two near-death experiences, storyteller, pastor, writer, bestselling author, entrepreneur, public speaker, TV personality, and producer. And he also sees into the souls of people. Peter wrote a book called “ Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me Death Is Just the Beginning, ” and it is being made into a movie. He wrote an...

Susan’s entire world flipped upside down when her husband was killed in a tragic car accident, leaving her to pick up the shattered pieces of her young family’s life. She eventually came to the realization that action and intention are the two pillars needed to build a powerful roadmap for healing mind, body, and spirit, which is the foundation for rebirth. Susan combined her extensive professiona...

After almost suffering a widow maker heart attack at the relatively young age of 42, Jeff started seeking answers to Life’s Biggest Questions such as: who am I, why are we here, and what happens to us when we die? His serious quest to discover solid and soul-satisfying answers to his questions led Jeff to the stories of over 2,500 NDE accounts which were synthesized into his enlightening new book...

Karen Wilson, who lives in Toronto, is the fourth incredibly inspiring interview in our Rebirth series. Her grief journey began when she lost her only child Nick in March of 2017. Nick was 22 years old and died in a car accident. Karen did not know how to survive and did not know if she wanted to. But from the very beginning of her grief journey, Karen was compelled to find Nick again. That journe...

Becoming A Medium Through Study + Mediumship Healing On The Other Side Sharon graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1983 with a BA in Sociology. She has been a massage therapist since 1989 and is also a reiki master and a reflexologist. Sharon has studied mediumship at the famous Arthur Findlay College in England, as well as with renowned US, UK, and Canadian med...

After 43 years of practicing corporate and real estate law in San Diego, Casey is now retired. Casey’s father tragically died by suicide when Casey was 20 years old. And in 2008, Casey’s beloved 24-year-old son, Jimmy, who was a rising star and professional writer, was accidentally struck and killed by a car while he was walking home from a party. In his spellbinding new book titled  WHEN THE VEIL...

Melissa Fiore, who has lived in northern New Jersey and now resides in Florida, is the third incredibly inspiring interview in our Rebirth series. Her grief journey began in her 20’s when she went through a bad divorce that included a custody battle over her young son. Balancing a fledgling business, the challenges of divorce, caring for a dying aunt and more, Melissa eventually decided that “I ch...

Amanda Lynne is a Certified and Registered Kinesiologist with the Australian Kinesiologist Association and a Professional Specialized Kinesiologist of the International Association of Specialized Kinesiologists. She assists clients to identify and transmute their past, present, and sub-conscious emotional blocks, helping them to move forward as they find freedom, experience joy, embrace love, and...