THE MEANING OF LIFE, A DAD’S LAST WORDS – A Ghost Story “Happiness, success has nothing to do with what you put in your bank – nothing. Success is about whether you enjoyed the journey.” – dying words from a beloved father Episode Summary: A super intimate look into the final hours of an adored and respected father. As told by a daughter sitting bedside, this heart wrenching and beautiful episode includes recorded messages of his dying words, about the meaning of life and what sounds like an out...
Oct 18, 2021•15 min•Season 3Ep. 210
Spirit Vessels with Jessica Wertz “Death is not easy to talk about. Grief is not comfortable to feel.” “We believe in the courage of the human spirit and the depth that love can weave together in times of grief.” “We recognize the power of ceremony for both its ability to create and hold a safe space for your emotions and assist in the process of self-healing.” -- Jessica Wertz Episode Summary: Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to talk about, much less deal with, death in our society? Hav...
Oct 14, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 209
Facing More Than You Can Handle? with Miguel Sancho “It’s OK to be scared. You’re not the first person to go through this. Be patient. Focus on what’s in front of you. Push forward. Protect your head. Hold on. And you can do this.” — Miguel Sancho Episode Summary: As a parent, can you wrap your mind around what it would be like to be facing the possible death of your child? How would you face what feels like more than you can handle? In this episode, we talk with Miguel Sancho, an Emmy Award win...
Oct 07, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 208
Change Your Relationship with Pain with Dr. Serena Sterling “When you’re in pain you may wonder, Is this as good as it gets?” Episode Summary: Do you live with pain? Does pain keep you from living the life you truly want to be living? Is it even possible you have actually chosen your pain? In this episode, we talk with Dr. Serena Sterling a well-known mind-body pain specialist who found a path to her own wellness via a journey through juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and ...
Sep 30, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 207
Did You Choose Your Family? with Stacey Aaronson “It is so important for us to heal our inner wounds, not to wait, especially now with the world turning upside down.” – Stacey Aaronson Episode Summary: Have you ever wondered why you have a stronger bond with some relatives above others? Do you ever feel a familiarity as if you’ve known a loved one before? As a parent, have you ever asked yourself, “Why is this child's here? Why did this child choose me? Why did I choose this child? Why did we ch...
Sep 23, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 205
Science FINALLY Catches Up with Spirituality with Dr. Lisa Miller “Life is like the winds or the river, life is moving. It is full of waves. Life is very much alive, very dynamic.” “We are knowers in many forms and we need empiricists AND scientists… the magician, the intuitive, the mystic. We need to ask the questions in our head, and get answers in our hearts… This is how the big decisions need to be made - decisions on the board room, decisions with foreign policy. If we use just a tiny littl...
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 204
The Magic of Surrender with Kute Blackson “None of us has control in this life. Our demand that life go the way we want it is what causes so much suffering. Know that the degree to which you surrender determines the degree to which you are alive, the degree to which life can use you, the degree to which you enjoy life.” – Kute Blackson’s mother’s parting words, said with a smile Episode Summary: When it is imminent, will you be able to completely surrender to your own death? Have you ever contem...
Sep 09, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 203
Own Your Life with Rajan Shankara “Ego is a fabric of reality blocking us from true consciousness.” Episode Summary: Do you believe a leopard can change its spots? Can a person truly change their nature in an instant? Rajan Shankara was pulled over by a police officer with a trunk full of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs -- and inexplicably walked away free. He asserts he changed his life in an instant. He describes how he vowed to live within the law and contribute positively to society. In t...
Sep 02, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 202
Tools for Your Life with Bridget Finklaire “Consciousness is the key to human evolution.” -- Bridget Finklaire Episode Summary: What is consciousness? What is awareness? What are sacred geometries in nature? Weaving together the threads of her spiritual and professional journeys, Bridget Finklaire designed "The Bone Circle" - a unique, transformative and life-changing programme that ties together three significant areas of expertise: Intuition and creating, the sacred and the metaphysical, and t...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 201
Daddy’s Tune – A Ghost Story “Nothing survives but the way we live our lives.” – Jackson Browne, Daddy’s Tune Episode Summary: What do our loved ones experience when they die? How do we interpret the feelings and synchronicities we experience after losing someone so dear? Today’s story from a Life, Death and the Space Between listener shares what she feels certain were communications from her father, through: flashback childhood dreams, an inexplicable and exquisitely timed electrical anomaly, a...
Aug 23, 2021•13 min•Season 3Ep. 200
Transforming Grief to Growth with Susan Angel Miller “Through struggle with adversity, we all have the ability to gain wisdom and growth.” Episode Summary: As a parent, can you imagine losing your child? How would you navigate this unthinkable trauma? In this episode, we talk with Susan Angel Miller, mother, wife and author of a powerful, touching memoir of grief and recovery -- after her seemingly healthy teenage daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer and died within 24 hours. Incredibly, jus...
Aug 19, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 199
A Powerful Replay: Soul Meditation – a Tribute to Dr. Amy Robbins’ mentor and “Soul Mama”, Ariana Garrett Dr. Amy Robbins says of Ariana Garrett, “I believe there is no one who could explain the Soul better than she could. There is no one who understood the soul better than she did. And there is no one who could help manifest sh*t faster than she could help manifest sh*t. She was magical where that is concerned.” Episode Summary: Today Dr. Amy Robbins shares very personal grief; her rocked faith...
Aug 13, 2021•29 min•Season 3Ep. 198
Finding Light in the Darkness – Surviving Devastating Grief -- with Maryanne O’Hara “The miracle of human beings is that we are all able to go on living despite the certainty that we will die.” -- Caitlin O’Hara (1983-2016) “You think it is all important, but all that matters is loving people and being kind.” -- Caitlin O’Hara (1983-2016) Episode Summary: How do you make sense of life after you lose someone you love madly? Can you even imagine it? How would you survive that kind of devastating l...
Aug 12, 2021•56 min•Season 3Ep. 197
A Powerful Replay: Transitions of the Soul – a Tribute to Dr. Amy Robbins’ mentor and "Soul Mama" Ariana Garrett “There is definitely a connection between what is happening on the other side, and what is happening here in this physical reality. The more we are attuned to our own soul, the more our soul can bridge those worlds, and it becomes natural to know life on a deeper level, and to know a more multi-dimensional expression of life.” – Ariana Garrett Dr. Amy Robbins says of Ariana Garrett, “...
Aug 10, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 196
A Powerful Replay: Soul Searching – a Tribute to Dr. Amy Robbins’ mentor Ariana Garrett Dr. Amy Robbins says of Ariana Garrett, “I believe there is no one who could explain the soul better than she could. There is no one who understood the soul better than she did. And there is no one who could help manifest sh*t faster than she could help manifest sh*t. She was magical where that is concerned.” Episode Summary: Today Dr. Amy Robbins shares very personal grief; her rocked faith, sadness, and vul...
Aug 09, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 195
Tapping into Flower Power for Healing and Clarity with Katie Hess “There are over 40,000 species of flowering plants on the planet, and every single flower is in service to us as humans in a unique, specific way emotionally and mentally.” – Katie Hess, founder of Lotus Wei Episode Summary: Do you remember the magic you felt in the forest as a child? Ever wonder why children are drawn to the magic of flowers? What makes flowers so mesmerizing? In this episode, we talk with Katie Hess, host of The...
Aug 05, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 194
Using Tarot and Oracles to Uncover Life’s Mysteries with Amy Zerner & Monte Farber “The most spiritual thig you can do is know yourself.” – Dr. Amy Robbins Episode Summary: What are Tarot cards all about? What IS an Oracle? Are they different spiritual tools or the same thing? How can you use them to find your unique spiritual path? The inscription at Oracle at Delphi from ancient Greece is “Know Thyself” and “Nothing in Excess”. In this episode, we talk with spiritual power couple Amy Zerne...
Jul 29, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 193
Overcoming Diversity with Burn Survivor Samuel Moore-Sobel “This isn’t the face I wanted. This isn’t the story I wanted. But it’s what happened... It took a good eight years not to see my scars as objects of shame or ugliness, but to see them as triumph, to see them as survival.” - Samuel Moore-Sobel, Burn Survivor Episode Summary: How would it feel to look at yourself in a mirror and literally not recognize yourself? What if you were literally looking at an image you do not recognize? Who are w...
Jul 22, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 192
Support Life, Death and the Space Between: Reimagine Death and Celebrate Life with Brad Wolfe and Dara Kosberg “Grief is like a Jackson Pollock painting.” – Brad Wolfe “There is room for art, music and even comedy in that sacred transition we call death.” Episode Summary: Have you ever thought about YOUR death? Really thought about it? In this episode, we literally talk about life, death and the space between with Brad Wolfe and Dara Kosberg from Reimagine. Reimagine is a non-profit founded by B...
Jul 15, 2021•56 min•Season 3Ep. 191
Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergence? – A Ghost Story “The dark presence that had been haunting me, I now understand to be my native ancestors, who have been calling my name since I was a child.” –Listener Episode Summary: What is our perception of reality? How do we understand reality? How do we understand these perceptions in the realm of psychology and psychiatry, and when we are diagnosing mental illness? Perhaps mental illness is on a spectrum, and not as cut and dry as the DSM and symptom...
Jul 12, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 190
A Medium Walks into a Psychiatrist’s Office with Al Powers and Brittany Quagan “The voices are real. Real experiences. They deserve to be taken seriously as real human experiences; as real as anybody else’s.” – Dr. Al Powers Episode Summary: Have you ever heard voices? Do you know anyone who hears things when others don’t? Are they delusions -- or are they spiritual experiences? Does it matter? In this episode, we talk with Dr. Al Powers, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist on faculty at the Yale ...
Jul 08, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 189
Raising our Vibration into the 5th Dimension and Beyond with World-Class Medium Ginette Biro Ginette says 2020 was all about, “Going inward to ourselves, discovering who we are, what we’re all about, what truths resonate with us. Being called to find what is right for us, to get rid of triggers and traumas, to come to a place of peace to navigate these next several years.” Episode Summary: Have you been hearing people talk about the 5th dimension? What does that have to do with living a life ful...
Jul 01, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 188
“We should all have the goal of emotional wellness. Because if we manage ourselves emotionally, we forestall a lot of physical disease that could be coming.” – Lisa Samet “Life is full of challenges, we will never get rid of those challenges. But we can navigate them better.” – Lisa Samet Lisa Samet, ND, is a well-known health practitioner who has appeared on the Dr. Oz show to promote homeopathy and naturopathic healing. She has an international practice based in Montreal, specializing in homeo...
Jun 24, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 187
“We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.” – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor “We are not thinking creatures who feel, we are feeling creatures who think.” – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor JILL BOLTE TAYLOR is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 186
This is really hard for me to do… I have been creating podcasts for 2 ½ years, I love interviewing all these amazing guests! So many people have reached out lately that I have a huge backlog of guests Our community has grown organically – all because of you. Thank you! I love your ghost stories, and hearing from all of you about how the podcasts impact your life Integrity is everything to me – for me, and the interviews themselves. I want to continue to dive deep into what we are all curious abo...
Jun 14, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 185
“Life only matters because we die.” – Alua Arthur “There is something absolutely miraculous about standing at the doorway of existence. I am absolutely humbled by it every time. Rather than it being heavy, there is a lightness of being that goes along with it because there is such a mystery to this human ride.” – Alua Arthur Alua Arthur is a death doula, attorney, adjunct professor, and ordained minister. Her goal is to bring grace and compassion to the cycle of life by planning for it and effor...
Jun 10, 2021•47 min•Season 3Ep. 184
"We don't see things are they are. We see things as we are." Life, Death and the Space Between podcast listener shares her story of a recurring dream that caused her to reexamine and reexperience her past through more mature lens, releasing decades old sadness and grief, finding a new peace. Ghost Stories is a way for listeners to tell their amazing stories of the metaphysical. If you have a great story to tell, something similar to this, contact you have had with your loved one who has passed, ...
Jun 07, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 183
“The research has shown there are ways to improve dream recall. Some people say each dream is an unopened letter. But not all dreams are meaningful; we get a lot of junk mail.” – Dr. Josh Black, Grief Dream Researcher Dr. Joshua Black is a researcher in grief dreams, with a special focus on dreams of the deceased. Josh is one of the leading researchers in this field. In his research, Josh examines why some bereaved individuals dream of the deceased while others do not, the experiences of people’...
Jun 03, 2021•47 min•Season 3Ep. 182
“Do epic shit every day.” – Chris Meyer Chris Meyer is a lawyer, filmmaker, funeral home owner and author of a new book, "Life in 20 Lessons: What a Funeral Guy Discovered about Life, from Death" is like "This is my Life" meets "Tuesdays with Morrie." Meyer spent 14 years in the funeral business assisting grieving families and in one case, the soon to be departed, in planning funerals. It was a life chapter he never intended to write, but he feels grateful for, given the impact the career detour...
May 28, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 181
“Hopefully we don’t believe everything we think.” – Ji Hyang Padma Ji Hyang Padma has combined an academic career with her vocation as a spiritual teacher. Ji Hyang served as Director of Spirituality & Education as well as a Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College for fourteen years. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Harvard University, Boston University, Babson College, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute. Ji Hyang Padma currently serves as a chaplain at the University...
May 24, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 180
