Have you ever felt cynical about the medical community and its attitudes about death? Or felt that modern psychiatry is a deadend? The amazing Dr. Anna Yusim will change your mind and give you hope! Anna is always a bright spirit and a delight as she shares her own embrace of Spirituality in a rigorous medical community. She is wise, insightful and a woman who has broken stereotypes and limits in so many areas of her life and work. Unlike her community of peers, Anna sees all manners of death, from the physical to the psychological as powerful invitations to experience the world and soul more fully! Fascinating and inspiring. Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City, Connecticut, California and Florida. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim helps influential people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work. Dr. Yusim is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently working to create a Mental Health & Spirituality Program / Center at Yale with Dr. Christopher Pittenger, which will be a bridge between the Yale Medical School and Yale Divinity School. Dr. Yusim is the Chief Medical Officer of Conscious Health, a holistic mental health treatment center based in California that bridges ancient psychospiritual wisdom with state-of-the-art, evidence-based mental health interventions like ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other treatment modalities. She is the Medical Lead for SuperMind, a mental health start-up based in Miami that utilizes personal coaching, binaural beat meditation technology and an EEG-based biofeedback systems to create targeted, precision mental health therapy for depression, anxiety and PTSD. She is also on the Board of numerous other enterprises in the mental health space, including Being Health, Plaey and Pause + Purpose. Dr. Yusim has published over 320 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts. Learn more at https://annayusim.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a podcast all about the many faces and forms of death, it was time to talk to someone who helps people face the end of life - theirs and their loved ones. It was truly a fascinating and enlightening conversation - to explore the end of life and how we think about it, how we treat it in society, and how we can do better to support people who are dying, and those people who support the dying or those who are wanting to face their own mortality with more wisdom, grace, and connection. So many great perspectives drawing on research, academic views, and a progressive social commentary on how to live best with death. Kathy is an unconventional death educator with a passion for palliative care and improving the end of life care for all. Kathy has been teaching and researching at Lakehead University for over a decade. In her work, Kathy inspires and challenges future healthcare providers to be prepared to care for individuals who are dying, and their families, in healthcare settings. Kathy leverages her experiences as a cancer survivor and as a palliative care provider to challenge us to have the important conversations about dying, death and life. Kathy strives to make an impact with her teaching, research and speaking to discover, share and communicate the information that we are all "dying to know." Dr. Katherine Kortes-Miller is the Director, Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health (CERAH) https://cerah.lakeheadu.ca; Associate Professor, Research Chair on Aging and End of Life (2023-25). She is a gifted author, speaker, researcher and advocate. With a Masters of Social Work and PhD her research experience is interdisciplinary and collaborative contributing to a broad range of fields of study including: social work, palliative care education, gerontology, and medical assistance in dying (MAiD). She is committed to improving the care provided at the bedside for our most vulnerable and frail. She is developing a research portfolio that will influence healthcare education and care at the bedside alongside improving organizational and healthcare policy. Learn more at https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/K/kkortesm/node/40174 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tina D’Amore is the founder and owner of 3 Crows Healing: Shamanic Medicine & Animal Whispering. A former educator, she works closely with her helping spirits to shift the spiritual causes of dis-ease. After overcoming a severe illness that caused multiple Near-Death Experiences, Tina is attuned to the magnificence of the worlds available to us, including the world we share together. Tina facilitates sessions with clients who reside in the US and in Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa and Australia with the sole intention of empowering her clients’ Inner Fire, intuitively creating sacred space to peel away layers of old programming. Tina empowers those who suffer from chronic illness to make lasting changes in the relationship between themselves and their dis-ease to reclaim their lives. I loved my conversation with Tina! We had met before and so had the chance to go deep into themes of near-death; facing death; and the ravages of illness and life setback as a part of the journey of healing and awakening to personal gifts and power. For me this was such an honest, provocative and exciting exploration of topics in healing, shamanic work, and the process of becoming authentic that most of us never really get to have or hear.  This is a great conversation for healers and students of spirit to check out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kamin Samuel started her professional career as the U.S. Navy’s first female African-American helicopter pilot. She transitioned to having several small businesses and then to corporate as a web developer at a computer electronics company. Kamin moved up quickly working for several organizations, even serving as Vice President of Online Merchandising and Vice President of Global Website Operations at a billion-dollar company. This important conversation dives into her work on the film Courage to Thrive. In this uplifting and insightful interview Kamin discusses the life-giving lessons we can embrace - lessons she learned and refined through her film’s exploration of the incredible brokenness, breakdown, and impasse that three woman faced and grew threw to become powerful and successful women - shaping their communities and our world. The film explores the lives of women who have been underserved, underestimated and underinvested in. These women share how they faced adversity, and rewrote their narratives, to step into new levels of leadership in their careers and in the lives in new ways that they never imagined. Learn more about Kamin and her work - https://www.kaminsamuel.com/ https://couragetothrivedoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Garret Jackson is one of those rare people who hears the call at a young age and immediately takes action to learn, grow, and serve. Having committed deeply to contemporary training and studies in modern shamanic practice, Garret is a signifier of a new era of healing, in which we can find our way beyond appropriating the traditions of others, and instead cultivate our innate gifts through responsible pathways of new ancient wisdom and practice.  Garrett Jackson is a gifted healer and a wonderful guest offering some simple overviews and explanations of his work, especially for those new to the power of shamanic work. I found this interview refreshing in his clarity and directness. It is so helpful for people looking to understand the ways that we heal beyond predication and can communicate beyond this world. A skilled and experienced practitioner of shamanic healing, Garrett Jackson brings us back to basics and helps shed a light on what Shamanic Practices offer us in the so-called Modern World. Learn more about Garett's upcoming events at https://www.garrettpjackson.com/privateevents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a conversation that takes you from the ordinary to the mind-blowing extraordinary. Stay to the end as you listen to Alysa Rushton share her difficult story of struggle and despair, and onto a near death experience and transformation unlike most. Alysa looks and sounds like a cheery, and encouraging best friend who is ready to take you to the beach. But you will meet few people with a more  roughed wisdom and agile mind. I am always so grateful for time with Alysa - her depth of insight and power is rare. Her clarity is incredible. And when you reach the end of this discussion, you will be ready for more as I was. About Alysa - Following years of health issues Alysa Rushton found herself overweight and overmedicated - being prescribed over 28 medications - by the age of 27. A Near Death experience took her beyond this world, and gave her insights that stayed with her well beyond her experience. Building on her decades of experience training as an organizational development consultant and coach, today Alysa shares profound practices developed from her Near Death Experience.  She has a strong focus on energy, frequency and aligning our lives to tune into the best frequency of us.  She’s on a personal and planetary mission to help us tap deeper into love and oneness, and help us awaken to our full true potential as an expression of the Divine in physical form.  Links and resources for Alysa - Website: https://alysarushton.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alysarushton/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/alysarushton Facebook: www.facebook.com/alysarushton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first met Kellan at a Near Death Experience conference, where he spoke passionately about his incredible experience of professional, death and loss, personal transformation and his extraordinary experience of being physically dead. His honesty and energy were compelling, and I'm so honored that I have had the chance to get to know him since. This conversation is energizing, challenging, and I encourage you to be sure that you listen to his experience on the other side. Grounded in decades of extraordinary business, success, and now fueled by spiritual insight, he offers such an important perspective on life and death. Kellan has lived multiple lives and careers. He had a 30-year career in energy, including C-suite positions in the US and Canada. He has a 16-year career as a Life and Business coach and is known as the “Alchemist of the Soul.” He is the author of 18 books and counting with numerous #1 bestsellers, Kellan coaches an international clientele in business, mindset work and high-performance. He performed in a music group that had three albums chart #1 on the Billboard charts. He still writes, records and performs. Kellan also had a 40-year battle with undiagnosed and untreated Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), which led through a roller coaster of high-flying success and secret stints in rehab for addictions. In 2018, Kellan had a near-death experience as he lay in a coma for three weeks while doctors scrambled to both save his life and diagnose the lethal strain of MRSA, which had severely infected both lungs. From that experience came several books, most notably Meeting God at the Door - Conversations, Choices, and Commitments of a Near-Death Experience, and Down From The Gallows. Kellan's website - https://www.kellanfluckiger.com Listen to Your Ultimate Life with Kellan Fluckiger - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-ultimate-life-with-kellan-fluckiger/id1505919748 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is always a gift to spend time with John Lockley. I look up to him as one of my own teachers and a model of how to live culturally, rooted wisdom and lifeways with integrity and balance. This magnificent conversation unfolds almost like a ceremony as we explore the deeper lessons of healing, ceremony, and the power of the Spirit World as we discuss death, tradition, and traditional medicine. According to John's Xhosa elders, he is one of the first white men after Apartheid to become a fully initiated Xhosa sangoma (African Shaman). In the sangoma medicine path in South Africa, there are many different tribes/lineages that make up a rich and diverse tapestry of healing. South Africa has one of the oldest living shamanic cultures left in the world. John Lockley was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years to find a Xhosa teacher. Learn more at https://www.johnlockley.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation about human transformation and change was so deeply touching and powerful. Not only did Theresa and Bill share so much insight, but they also offered so much vulnerability and raw personal truth. What a beautiful time of sharing. Hosts of the powerful “My Inner Knowing Podcast”, facilitators, teachers, Theresa Hubbard and William Bird work together to offer incredible programs and content that can awaken wholeness and heal the heart. Drawing on her decades of work as a therapist and coach, and his decades of work as a lawyer, coach and council, they inspire and model an integrated approach in all they do. Learn more at https://myinnerknowing.com/pages/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I could not have imagined a better first guest for the bone collectors series. Michael Meade is an extraordinary author, teacher, and pioneer of mythology and the modern psyche was one of the earliest influences on my own journey and it was an absolute honor to interview him.  Compelling, challenging and profoundly insightful, this conversation dives into the heart of personal and social transformation. Confronting the myths that need to die, and the quest for Soul that tests the very limits of our human being. Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today. He is the author of Awakening the Soul, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny, Why the World Doesn't End and The Water of Life; and the creator of the Living Myth Podcast.  Michael Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artists, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples. Learn more about Michael and his work at https://www.mosaicvoices.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I love this important, practical and inspiring conversation about boundaries. Boundaries are such an important part of mental, emotional and spiritual health, and Molly Davis helps us understand the nature of boundaries on all these levels while offering some practical insights and some provocative perspectives. Molly Davis is a multi-talented teacher, cartoonist, author, and therapist, with credentials that include a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and a Master's of Science in Community Mental Health. Her range of work experiences have included substance use disorder and mental health counseling in outpatient, intensive-outpatient, family, educational, and residential treatment settings, as well as operating in leadership and administrative capacities. https://boundaried.com Instagram: @boundariedbootcamp  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I certainly don't believe there is such a thing as a "better teacher" and it's not fair to play favorites. But I have to admit, the work of Asha Frost is something very special in the world today and whether it's her teachings, classes, books or her card decks, I think she's a very important voice that represents the convergence of Indigenous wisdom and modern psychological and spiritual healing with great clarity and integrity. I can't stress the importance of her work, and I was delighted to share in this insightful, uplifting, and heartfelt conversation. Asha Frost is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Medicine Woman, a Homeopath and an Intuitive Mentor who believes wholeheartedly in the power within to heal our bodies, our spirits, our lives. She is able to clearly see one’s presence, power and medicine and invites people deeper into their own magical knowing. Her facilitation style empowers, uplifts and inspires with grace and deep love.  She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Guelph and a degree in Homeopathic Medicine, with a private practice for the past 14 years as a Healer and Soul Seer and has facilitated thousands of healing ceremonies through powerful circle and one on one work. She is a divine channel for deep healing and a visionary for a healed way. Author of three books, her book, You Are the Medicine, and card decks with Hay House Publishing have achieved incredible success and focus on NBSP and guided healing work for wide audiences. https://ashafrost.com Instagram: @asha.frost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wow. Well, if you want to challenge your assumptions about life and reality and explore both profound and simple ways to transform the way you experience life, this is definitely the conversation for you! Dr. McGeorge draws from her incredible and eclectic background to inspire us to think about health, self, Conscious, the soul, healing, and the very nature of everything we know differently. This conversation is wild and full and wonderful! Fasten your seat belt. Dr. Kimberly McGeorge is an internationally renowned naturopathic doctor, energy healer, remote viewer, paranormal expert and consciousness teacher. Her extensive client list includes of some of the world's most talented healers and, for the past 25 years, she has worked on thousands of people around the world. Dr. Kimberly was born with the ability to remote view, see people's auras and was highly intuitive. While still in college, she helped police on many occasions. Finding she had a natural affinity with herbs, she worked as a herbalist and went on to create and distribute her own line of herbal organic products internationally. During this time, her personal practice expanded to multiple clinics throughout Columbus. Driven by her inner knowing that her healing work could be made much quicker, more affordable and amplified exponentially using technology, Dr. Kimberly consulted with an esteemed neurosurgeon and realized that the healing frequencies in naturopathy could be applied to all areas of her client's lives. Her latest ground-breaking program FrequencyMaster™ teaches how to master frequencies in your own life and trains other healers to use her own unique and successful methods. https://www.secrettoeverything.com Instagram: @secrettoeverything Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Katt is just a pleasure to talk with and such an incredibly open, welcoming, wise and wonderful soul. Beyond his important work about the wisdom and power of the midlife crisis, he offers us beautiful insights about what it means to live well and authentically, and how to bring mindfulness effectively and beautifully into all we do. Ben Katt has been helping people experience deep transformation and access lives of greater joy, compassion, and purpose for the past twenty years. His first book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife (St. Martin’s Essentials, February 2024), is a guidebook and memoir about the inner journey we all must embark on in order to live our fullest lives. Ben is the founder of the WITHIN Prison Meditation Project, serves as a hospice chaplain, and writes regularly about identity, purpose, creativity, and belonging in his weekly STILL newsletter. Ben is a certified advanced meditation teacher of the 1 Giant Mind technique, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and was an ordained minister for over a decade. Previously, he led The On Being Project’s work in supporting religious and spiritual leaders in the work of social healing. Ben is an expert at adapting ancient personal development practices for modern contexts in order to help people wake up to who they are and why they are here. https://www.benjaminkatt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beyond his incredible work in the world of organizational wellness and transformation well-being, Joel Bennett definitely stands out as a powerful thinker and someone who has done more to help us understand time and how to live consciously in relationship to all its facets then just about anyone else I can think of. Join us for this incredible conversation that will help you to think about change, time, and well-being in new ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation is full of surprises and powerful messages about how to live a full and meaningful life. With sexuality as a leading edge to the conversation, we quickly discover that Elsbeth and Freddy are really masters of energy and purpose in all areas of life. Authenticity, intuition, social evolution and clearing up confusions around what sexual energy really is and isn't are just some of the important topics we cover. Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver have assisted thousands of couples and singles create lasting intimacy and fulfillment in their life and relationships. They are featured on Showtime’s  documentary series Sexual Healing andthe Emmy Award-winning NBC show Starting Over, best-selling authors of Sexual Enlightenment endorsed by world-renowned Spiritual Pioneer Dr. Michael Beckwith. They are the co-founders of TantraNova Institute in Chicago and the originators of June 1st National Intimacy Day. Free gift mentioned in interview Introduction to Sexual Meditation - Video Class Learn distinctions and practices of Sexual Meditation to access and channel your creative spark https://tantranova.lpages.co/introduction-to-sexual-meditation/ TantraNova website  https://www.tantranova.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The core intention behind this podcast is to help people understand the connection between personal and planetary healing. It seems there are a few experts out there who are making the connection such a profound, eloquent, and practical way as Dr. Paul Zeits. In this incredibly insightful conversation, we talk about the seven steps to becoming a love-centered activist. Listen carefully and be sure to check out his work online! About Paul Zeitz MD: Dr. Paul Zeitz is a veteran leader on the front lines of multiple global and domestic movements and a preventive medicine physician, epidemiologist, author, and award-winning champion of global justice and human rights. He has been on the front lines of the global AIDS movement, climate transformation, racial and gender equity, authentic democracy, sustainable development, and child welfare in the U.S. and around the world.  In his forthcoming book, Revolutionary Optimism: Seven Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist, Zeitz shares an indispensable roadmap for personal and global liberation, with a clear, step-by-step guide—a timely remedy and cure of anxiety, hopelessness, and the potentially the super crises facing our world. revolutionaryoptimism.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the wise and vibrant age of 91, Bernie Seigel MD is one of a handful of people who can truly be said to have transformed the world of healing, cancer recovery, chronic illness recovery, and self-help in the modern era. In this free-form sharing, Dr. Bernie shares profound and well-tested insights about life, love, healing, and caregiving. It plays like a wonderful and heartwarming visit with a dear old friend, and a master healer. Bio: Bernie Siegel (born October 1932) Dr. Siegel attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.  He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers. In 1978 he originated Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utilizing patients’ drawings, dreams, images and feelings. ECaP is based on “carefrontation,” a safe, loving therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal lifestyle changes, personal empowerment and healing of the individual’s life.  For many, Bernie needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. Bernie has been named one of the top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet by the Watkins Review. website: www.BernieSiegelMD.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This fabulous interview is full of insights about the nature and process of healing. Jonathan Hammond wrote the wonderful book The Shaman's Mind, and draws from the wisdom in this excellent resource, as well as from his extensive studies and practice as a holistic healer in this lively and helpful conversation. Join us for an interview filled with insights for healers, people doing their own healing work, and anyone interested in the transformative process. About Jonathan Hammond: Jonathan Hammond is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, a certified Master Teacher in Shamanic Reiki, Usui, and Karuna Reiki, and is the Advanced Graduate Studies Advisor for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide. He teaches classes on shamanism, spirituality, energy healing, and Huna at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Penn State University, One Spirit Learning Alliance, and Glidewing Online Courses. Jonathan has training and certifications in Cherokee Bodywork, Huna and Ho‘oponopono, and he is an ordained Alakai (leader or guide) through Aloha International. He has completed all core curriculum through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, he has been initiated through the Minoan Fellowship in Wicca, and he has completed intensive training in the therapeutic facilitation of psychedelics with Inward Bound, Ireland. Jonathan has worked and studied alongside shamans in Mexico, Brazil, Bali, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Hawaii. He now spends his life deeply committed to empowering and healing people by bringing indigenous Earth wisdom to the modern world.  His first book, The Shaman’s Mind - Huna Wisdom to Change your Life is available wherever books are sold. He also has an album of shamanic journeys and meditations entitled The Shaman Within that is produced by Hemi-Sync.  Website: www.jonathanhammond.com Instagram: @jonathan_hammond_maui Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 91 years of age, Dr. Bernie Seigel has an endless reservoir of wisdom to share on how we heal, what matters most, and what it means to be truly human. Jump into this wonderful conversation as you feel the joy of sitting with a true master. Stories, teachings, and wandering thoughts of wisdom and light - it's all here!  Dr. Bernie Seigel Bernie Siegle MD is nothing short of a modern-day legend. A Yale-trained surgeon, Bernie transformed his practice and life’s work when he discovered that mindset, spirituality, and lifestyle changes were as powerful and effective as any medical intervention - especially in the treatment of chronic illness. He has written a library of bestselling books and pioneered the field of mind-body medicine. berniesiegelmd.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices