NOW with Lisa Bonnice

What if the people we love never truly leave us? In Part 1 of this thought-provoking episode of the Beyond the Veil Summit 2021, Lisa sits down with physician, researcher, and author Dr. Mark Pitstick to explore the growing scientific evidence for life after death — and the surprising ways our departed loved ones may still be reaching out to us. From vivid dream visitations to astonishing research...

What happens when a Scottish comedian gone viral narrates a historical novel about Scottish immigrants, ancestral trauma, and a mining disaster? You get a fascinating conversation with Eleanor Morton. In this episode, Lisa sits down with the comedian, actress, author, and creator of beloved sketch characters like Craig the Tour Guide to talk about stand-up, social media, writing, performance, and...

What if ancestral healing didn’t require years of research, detailed family trees, or even knowing your lineage by name? In this deeply moving episode, Lisa invites regression therapist and author Shelley Kaehr to offer something rare and powerful: a guided experiential journey listeners can do for themselves, in real time. Shelley leads a gentle visualization designed to create a safe, loving spa...

Why do certain fears, emotional reactions, or even physical symptoms show up in our lives without a clear personal origin? In Part 2 of this thought-provoking conversation, Lisa explores that question with regression therapist and author Shelley Kaehr, diving into the fascinating intersection between past lives and ancestral lineage. Together, they unpack how emotional patterns and trauma can be c...

What if the challenges you’re facing didn’t begin with you—or even with a past life—but much further up your family tree? In Part 1 of this conversation from the Ancestral Healing Summit, hypnotherapist Shelley Kaehr shares how genealogical regression emerged organically from years of past-life work and why it can be one of the most powerful healing tools available today. Drawing from her book Hea...

In this episode, shamanic teacher Evelyn Rysdyk explores what it means to treat our ancestors not as distant history, but as living presences woven into our daily lives. Drawing on Indigenous traditions, oral cultures, and her own lineage, Evelyn invites listeners to create a physical and spiritual “home” for their ancestors—through altars, remembrance, story, and intentional relationship—reviving...

In this episode, shamanic teacher and author Evelyn Rysdyk leads listeners through a deeply embodied guided journey into their own DNA, revealing ancestral wisdom as a living, accessible resource rather than a distant past. Through breath, gratitude, and vivid inner imagery, Evelyn invites us beyond the thinking mind and into direct experience—stepping through a mirror, into a cell, and along the...

In this compassionate, eye-opening episode, Lisa and shamanic teacher Evelyn Rysdyk explore one of the most common — and often unspoken — barriers to ancestral healing: What if you don’t know your ancestors… or you do, and you want nothing to do with them? Evelyn offers a powerful reframe: your lineage is far bigger than the handful of relatives who may have caused harm. The ancestral field contai...

In this powerful session Lisa talks with renowned shamanic teacher and author Evelyn C. Rysdyk about the surprising ways our ancestors continue to live within us — biologically, energetically, and spiritually. Together, they explore:* Why most cultures see ancestors as living presences* Scientific evidence showing that simply thinking about your ancestors boosts clarity, intelligence, and problem-...

What happens when your feet touch the soil your ancestors left behind — willingly or not? In Part 5 of this intimate conversation, Jane Burns speaks to the soul-recognition that happens when we return to ancestral land, and how the land itself “knows its children.” Lisa shares her own emotional journey tracing her Scottish lineage, and together they explore how healing the wounds of displacement b...

What if your ancestors didn’t mean to pass down pain — but simply couldn’t finish their healing in time? In part 4 of this conversation, Jane Burns reframes ancestral healing as an act of compassion: listening to the deeper intentions behind what was left unresolved and carrying those stories forward in love instead of shame.* Reclaim your roots through DNA exploration, travel, or shamanic journey...

What if the loss of our ancestral homeland affects not just our identity, but our health and vitality? In Part 3 of the conversation, Jane Burns explains how the Celtic Medicine Wheel helps restore inner balance by guiding us through life’s sacred directions:* East — Prosperity: Aligning with your destiny as the most generous act of the soul* South — Music: Singing your life’s song as a creative o...

Beneath Ireland’s beauty lies an ancient grief — the trauma of famine, colonization, and disconnection from the sacred land once regarded as a living being. In this powerful conversation, Celtic shamanism practitioner Jane Burns reveals how those wounds still echo in the collective Celtic psyche … and how remembering our original relationship with the land can begin to heal them. In Part 2 of this...

Why do so many people feel lost, overburdened, or strangely out of place — even when their lives look “successful” on paper? Shamanic practitioner Jane Burns says these feelings often trace back to something much older than we realize: the loss of ancestral sovereignty. Through her work with helping spirits, Jane explores how displacement from ancestral lands creates a fracture in identity — one t...

Why are the women in our family trees so hard to find—and what happens when we finally remember them? In this powerful conversation genealogist, medium and author Sharon DeBartolo Carmack shares tools for uncovering the stories of our mothers’ mothers’ mothers—and explains why remembering them is an act of healing that ripples through generations. You’ll hear:* How to uncover traces of female ance...

Do you have to be a medium to heal ancestral wounds? Not at all, says genealogist and spiritual author Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. In this beautifully grounded conversation, Sharon returns to share a simple, heart-based practice for sending love, forgiveness, and gratitude to those who came before—and why that act alone can ripple across time. You’ll hear:* How intention—not psychic ability—fuels an...

When ancestral wounds echo through generations, how do you finally set them free? In this riveting conversation, genealogist and medium Sharon DeBartolo Carmack shares a powerful true story of spiritual healing that began with sleep paralysis and ended with a miraculous sign—a peacock perched on her fence. You’ll hear:* How a shamanic “journey” revealed a chain of trauma passed down through fiftee...

When genealogist and medium Sharon DeBartolo Carmack set out to heal the rocky relationship she’d had with her mother, she didn’t expect that the reconciliation would happen after her mother’s death. In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, Sharon shares how her journey into mediumship, spiritual healing, and genealogy opened a new doorway to forgiveness—and to a deeper understanding of the...

What if the anxiety, depression, or startle response you carry isn’t really yours? In Part 1 of this illuminating conversation with Dawson Church, we explore the hard science of epigenetics — how emotional experiences and survival instincts are chemically “tagged” onto your genes and inherited by future generations. Dawson Church, PhD, is the award-winning author of Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience o...

In Part 3 of this conversation with Dr. Dan Siegel — clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center — we explore how our daily choices ripple across generations. Dr. Dan Siegel unpacks the science of attachment, epigenetics, and cultural evolution — and why everything from family separation policies to ou...

In Part 2 of this important conversation with Dr. Dan Siegel — clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center — we explore the intersection of genetics, epigenetics, and lived experience to reveal how cycles of trauma repeat and how they can be broken. We often think of trauma as something that happens on...

In Part 1 of this fascinating conversation Dr. Dan Siegel — clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center — goes straight into the science of how trauma is passed down through generations. Dr. Siegel explains the mechanisms of epigenetics and how the lived experiences of your grandparents and great-grand...

In Part 4 of this timely conversation, Trauma Facilitator and Wisdom Guide Thomas Huebl illuminates how repeating patterns of trauma—pandemics, fascism, systemic racism, climate collapse—are not just history circling back, but unintegrated wounds calling for deeper attention. He challenges us to move beyond getting stuck in the “symptoms” of crisis and instead address the frozen layers of ancestra...

In Part 3 of this powerful conversation, Trauma Facilitator and Wisdom Guide Thomas Huebl reframes the way we see trauma and sensitivity: not as flaws, but as intelligent functions that once kept us alive. He shares powerful metaphors and practices to help us bring light back to the “turned-off” parts of ourselves. We explore:* The silence after the Holocaust: how collective trauma conditions gene...

In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Trauma Facilitator and Wisdom Guide Thomas Huebl explores trauma as more than a personal issue — it is the unseen inheritance of families, nations, and humanity as a whole. Together we discuss:* What trauma really is: beyond symptoms, as frozen moments that live in our bodies and psyches.* How ancestral trauma works: unprocessed experiences passed down thro...