Sona Bhatnagar | Wisdom from a Near Death Experience and Grief Healed
03/24/22 • 92 min
Sona Bhatnagar M.D. tragically lost her husband, Mohit, and son, Nachu, within ten months of each other. After navigating immense loss, negotiating with betrayal, and learning to walk the path of grief she founded griefhealed.com and the Grief Healed Meetup. She has made it her mission to help others find their way through all of the many losses we experience as humans, and find a way to forgive, heal, and move forward.
A few years after the immense losses of Sona's son and husband, she faced her own near-death experience (NDE). Sona shares about her NDE, greeting her son in spirit, and the comfort it provided.
Dr. Bhatnagar has been featured twice on Arianna Huffington’s website Thrive Global and Cleveland radio personality Philip Keller’s podcast Blind Faith Live! Real People. Real Miracles, where she discussed triumphing over grief on the episode “Life and Death."
She received her medical degree from the University of Florida and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Maryland. She has been a practicing physician for over 30 years and a Grief Recovery Specialist. She supplements her standard medical training with integrative medicine, including hypnotherapy, Reiki, Alpha, and Theta healing, Johrei and Pranic Healing, Matrix and Reconnective Healing, and Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Sona’s manuscript had been very well-received by her focus group of fellow physicians, internationally known spiritual healers, and members of her grief support group––all of whom found tremendous value in its content and encouraged her to seek publication to reach a wide audience. Additionally, during her son’s illness she received support from U2’s Bono and The Edge, as well as from Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert.
FB: @Sona Bhatnagar, M.D.
Instagram: @sonabhatnagarmd
Website: griefhealed.com
The book: Grief Healed
Join me on the Fall Retreat in Northern Michigan November 2-5th.
More info @ annfancy.com/retreat
Check out my Fall Retreat: annfancy.com/retreat
Sona Bhatnagar M.D. tragically lost her husband, Mohit, and son, Nachu, within ten months of each other. After navigating immense loss, negotiating with betrayal, and learning to walk the path of grief she founded griefhealed.com and the Grief Healed Meetup. She has made it her mission to help others find their way through all of the many losses we experience as humans, and find a way to forgive, heal, and move forward.
A few years after the immense losses of Sona's son and husband, she faced her own near-death experience (NDE). Sona shares about her NDE, greeting her son in spirit, and the comfort it provided.
Dr. Bhatnagar has been featured twice on Arianna Huffington’s website Thrive Global and Cleveland radio personality Philip Keller’s podcast Blind Faith Live! Real People. Real Miracles, where she discussed triumphing over grief on the episode “Life and Death."
She received her medical degree from the University of Florida and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Maryland. She has been a practicing physician for over 30 years and a Grief Recovery Specialist. She supplements her standard medical training with integrative medicine, including hypnotherapy, Reiki, Alpha, and Theta healing, Johrei and Pranic Healing, Matrix and Reconnective Healing, and Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Sona’s manuscript had been very well-received by her focus group of fellow physicians, internationally known spiritual healers, and members of her grief support group––all of whom found tremendous value in its content and encouraged her to seek publication to reach a wide audience. Additionally, during her son’s illness she received support from U2’s Bono and The Edge, as well as from Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert.
FB: @Sona Bhatnagar, M.D.
Instagram: @sonabhatnagarmd
Website: griefhealed.com
The book: Grief Healed
Join me on the Fall Retreat in Northern Michigan November 2-5th.
More info @ annfancy.com/retreat
Check out my Fall Retreat: annfancy.com/retreat
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More resources listed at alysonmcadams.com/resources
National Eating Disorder Association (free screening tool available) - https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
Association for Size Diversity and Health - https://asdah.org/
FEAST (mentioned early in the episode) - https://www.feast-ed.org/
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