Grief 2 Growth

"Love Untethered: How To Live When Your Child Dies" is a memoir about Vanessa's grief for the loss of her son Harry.  By sharing her personal experience, Vanessa hopes to enable others who have gone through a similar loss to feel less isolated in their grief. In the second part of her book, Vanessa offers some ideas for supporting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing...

Click the link above to start your subscription (starting at just $3/month) to gain access to bonus episodes. Normal content will remain FREE. If you like it, I'll continue the bonus episodes. Someone asked me to make a five-minute video covering why I believe in the afterlife. After a few tries, I realized it would take at least ten minutes just to give an overview. I've studied the aft...

How do we live a healthy lifestyle? A holistic life leads to health and well-being, according to many, including my guest, Oliver Rolfe.  A decade ago, Oliver's life changed forever. In fact, everything in his life changed when he was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, along with seven damaged discs in his spine. Starting with himself, Oliver knew that to be on top of this disease, he nee...

Hellish Near Death Experiences are pretty rare. Dr. Parti died and says he saw hell. I've wanted to interview Dr. Parti for a very long time. A small percentage (estimated at around 5%) of Near Death Experiences are "hellish." Since meeting  Howard Storm and hearing him speak several years ago, I've not spoken with anyone else who has had one of these experiences. Some of my Ch...

A growing number of counselors and therapists are treating the whole person.  Transpersonal Counseling honors the higher dimensions of the human experience- beyond the personality, beyond personal history, beyond even beyond emotions. Things that are typically unexplainable are honored and welcomed into the counseling room. Her path was greatly influenced by a Near Death Experience she had when sh...

Mark Anthony is known as The Psychic Lawyer. This episode with Mark is a great way to kick off the New Year. I’ve met Mark a couple of times at various conferences. In August 2022, I spent a few days with Mark at the Helping Parents Heal conference and got to know him on a much deeper level.  Mark is not only a lawyer and a medium, he’s a historian and a critical thinker. Mark is one of the most i...

John Schaefers is a former military and retired science teacher (math, physics, and chemistry). He reached out to me because he wanted to share his fascinating story of the Shared Death Experience (SDE) he had when his father transitioned.  When John and I talked, I learned that he has had a lifetime of spiritual experiences that have no other explanation (NOE to use Suzanne's Giesemann'...

Ruthanne Warnick advocates capturing family stories and experiences to connect generations. As a Family Legacy Guide, Ruthanne helps individuals glean the most important stories, experiences, lessons, and words of love and combine them with photos to create a lasting family treasure. She says, “If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture plus the words is priceless.” As some of Ruthanne’s fa...

Daniel John is a father, husband, and certified medium who was raised Catholic, found Jesus in 9th grade, and is a dedicated follower of Christ consciousness.  At 37 years old, Daniel discovered his life's purpose, even though it was something he didn't believe in or agree with at the time. Still, sometimes God has different plans (Jeremiah 29:11). Since 2017, Daniel has been on a missio...

This one was a big thrill for me. I've been a fan of David's cartoons for many years. And I got to interview him to learn about the man behind the pen.  His cartoons are biting, funny, and sometimes hurt a little as David expresses the emotions many of us feel when we deconstruct our religion. David Hayward was ordained to the ministry in 1987 and left in 2010. He’s been running the nake...

Zander Masser is an occupational therapist, husband, father, musician, and author of the narrative photography book Unburying My Father. Zander's father, Randy, contracted HIV from using contaminated blood products to treat his bleeding disorder and died in 2000 from AIDS-related illnesses. Twenty years later, Zander unburied ten thousand slides from Randy's career as a professional phot...

Louise Hamlin is the author of WhatsApps from Heaven, a book about bereavement and the extraordinary signs she received after her husband died. Louise was a law lecturer at Cambridge University, she did not really believe in the afterlife until she experienced the signs. His signs were extraordinary, including sending WhatsApp messages to Louise and others. In her book, she also writes about her g...

John Davis has a pretty wild story. 19 different intuitive readers independently and spontaneously told him about a very specific past life. Raised as a Catholic, psychics were not something he particularly believed in or trusted. So John of New scheduled a session with a past life regression therapist. Under hypnosis, he remembered the exact life the readers had and told him of. He remembered the...

You've heard of Near Death Experiences. You might not be as familiar with Shared Death Experiences. When Lisa Jones' husband passed into the next life, she was allowed to go to the celebration in heaven with him. After her transformative shared-death experience, Lisa Jones began communicating with a collective energy known as the Beings of Love and Light, BOLAL.  Lisa shares this loving,...

What an episode I have for you today! Lisa Simone and Frances Key talk about The Team Books. Frances Key is the channel for the greatest series of books I've ever read. She's appeared on Grief 2 Growth multiple times, and I'll get her back whenever I can. In addition, today Lisa Simone, author, actor, singer, executive producer, and daughter of the great Nine Simone, joins us. Lisa...

I've known Dr. Daniel for several years. We have worked together on workshops and teaching courses. I've learned so much from her during our time together.  In today's interview, we discuss toxic theology and how it can complicate the dying and grief processes. We also discuss her incredible book, A Swan In Heaven. The audio version of the book has just been released on the sixteent...

Why meditation isn't working for me is a common search I recommend meditation to all of my clients. I can't count how many have told me, "I can't meditate. Meditation isn't for me." I've been meditating for about 15 years. I've studied several types of meditation, used apps, and bought devices. For several years, I meditated without missing a day. When I lea...

Susan L. Combs is President of Combs & Company, a full-service insurance brokerage firm based in New York City. Susan started the company at twenty-six years old with a drive to “Do more, better.” This internal mantra has resulted in numerous successes and firsts, like being named the youngest National President in the over eighty-five-year history of Women in Insurance & Financial Service...

It was thrilling to sit down with Susanne Wilson to catch up on what's been happening in her life. Susanne is the first medium I had any experience with. In March 2016, someone gave me a gift of a reading with Susanne. That was a high bar to start with. After a couple of minutes, it was like she had known me all my life. She brought Shayna through loud and clear. Since then, Susanne and I hav...

When Jan Warner's husband died, she felt an intensity of grief she had not anticipated. Her husband was a recovering alcoholic who spent his sober life being available to other alcoholics and addicts.  In order to honor him, she decided to make herself available to other grieving people, thinking if she reached one person that would be enough. Jan started a blog, Stop Thief Don’t Steal My Gri...

You've heard of a Near Death Experience. You may not be as familiar with a Shared Death Experience. A Shared Death Experience is when a healthy person shares in the crossing over of someone transitioning into the next world.  Surprisingly, this phenomenon can be induced with the proper training and intention. ____________________________________________________________________________________...

Kelvin  Chin is Executive Director & Founder of the “Turning Within” Meditation and Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundations and is an internationally-recognized meditation teacher featured in Business Insider, Newsweek, and Kaiser Health News, and has taught meditation at West Point and in the U.S. Army, including on the DMZ in Korea. Kelvin has been meditating for 50 years, has taught medita...

When it comes to After Death Communication, it's hard to beat Teo. Cecilie Surasky and Carolyn Hunt are the parents of Teo Hunt Surasky, an exceptionally vibrant, compassionate, and loving young man who unexpectedly passed in July 2020 at 18 years old, a month after graduating from Berkeley High in California. Death did not stop their relationship or their communication.  In profound shock fr...

We all experience consciousness. But, can any of us be sure of what it is, where it comes from, and where it goes? Philosophers and scientists have wrestled with this question for hundreds of years. It's confused some so much that they've thrown up their hands and declared consciousness is an illusion. Ironic since the only thing we know for sure is that we are conscious, everything and...

I've never heard a Near Death Experience quite like Amirah Hall's. Of course, every NDE is different, as I believe they are tailored for the individual. Rev. Amirah Hall, M.Msc. blends “sacred with science” and has been on a four-decade journey of exploring secrets to manifesting and healing. She is a gifted clairvoyant, spirit medium, channel, and quantum healing pioneer.  Amirah's...