The Illuminated Woman

So many of you reached out to me asking for a miniseries on the Goddess Asteroids, so here's the first episode in this exciting miniseries exploring the Goddess Asteroids, offering insights into their impact on our spiritual and emotional lives!

In this episode, we embark on a powerful journey into the wisdom of Ceres, the Great Mother asteroid, and her role in astrology, self-care, and healing the mother wound. Whether you're new to astrology or deeply immersed in it, Ceres offers a profound reflection on how we nurture ourselves and others, the cycles of loss and renewal, and the balance between giving and receiving.

Join me as we explore:

• The significance of Ceres in astrology – Why she is considered the Great Nurturer and how she represents self-care, nourishment, and resilience.
• The mythology of Ceres and Persephone – How the cycle of love, loss, and rebirth plays out in our own lives.
• Ceres in your birth chart – What her placement reveals about your self-care style, relationship with nourishment, and emotional well-being.
• The balance of giving and receiving – How Ceres teaches us to care for ourselves while still holding space for others.
• Healing the Mother Wound – How Ceres helps us break generational patterns, reclaim self-worth, and embody feminine power.
• Aligning with nature’s cycles – Using Ceres' wisdom to ground yourself, embrace change, and cultivate a deeper connection with the Earth

I also shared some journal questions to reflect on to help you connect with your own Ceres energy.

Mentioned in the episode:

• Episode 78 (of the Grief With Grace podcast)
• Book your personal Goddess Asteroid reading to learn where Ceres (and the other 3 major Goddess Asteroids) are in your chart and how to utilize their gifts and energies
• My Reclaim Your Calm breathwork audios will help you connect to the energies of the Goddess Asteroids

Do you have your copy of my free guide, 4 Steps to Connect with Your Higher Self? If not, get yours here!

How do you find the strength, the fortitude, the emotional resilience to keep moving forward in life after trauma or loss? This week's guest, Dahlya Brown Shook provides tips and insights from her vast background. Listen in as we discuss:

• How Dahlya’s journey led her from being an artist to occupational therapist to becoming a medical intuitive
• Her long path through the Western medical model for treating her depression and anxiety
• Looking for answers and solutions outside of herself that lead to addictions
• Why she thought occupational therapy hung the moon
• Her late entry into learning “the skills of the living”
• Why she used to be afraid to use her voice
• Some of the other self-harming behaviors she engaged in
• The modalities she utilized to wean herself off of antidepressants
• The shift her life took at 40 years of age - and the courageous path she embarked upon
• Realizing her purpose in this life is greater than her certifications and degrees
• The reclaiming and remembering of her psychic gifts
• Turning what she used to think were her liabilities into her superpowers
• Why she’s grateful for the opportunity to change her pain into purpose - and what she’s received in that process
• Learning that empathy is her strength, not her weakness
• The trap of the victim mindset
• The other components of physical dis-ease that are often ignored or overlooked
• What you can see through your own journey
• What Dahlya had to do before exploring her medical intuitive abilities
• What might actually be happening when we have physical symptoms such as headaches
• The effects we may experience of picking up emotions that aren’t even ours
• How I healed two frozen shoulders without surgery or pharmaceutical medications
• Why the “quick fix” for health issues isn’t necessarily the best option
• Where the Western medical model has done us all a disservice - and where it can be absolutely necessary
• Are you making time for prevention or only for damage control, i.e. sickness?
• How Dahlya’s medical intuitive abilities come up when she’s working with her clients
• Dahyla’s advice for sensitives who live with other people
• How old traumas can resurface - and the opportunities we’re given when they do
• The concept of emotional resilience and why it's necessary when we're on a healing journey

You can connect with Dahlya on Instagram or through her website. And be sure to get your copy of her free Brain Optimization Toolkit!

Do you have your copy of my free guide, 4 Steps to Connect with Your Higher Self? If not, get yours here!

I’m so excited about this week’s podcast because I’m bringing you another male perspective to the conversation around grief. As the mother of sons and grandmother to grandsons, I happen to love and adore men. And from my research, conversations, and experience, men are taught even less about grief, and expressing their feelings in general, than women are. Today, we’re going to talk with a bereaved father, Jim Mueller, who channeled his grief into a beautiful book called “Lyrics Of A Broken Heart.”

• Luke’s moments of joy
• Why what matters isn’t about what you accomplish in the world - and what is important
• How opening ourselves up to love opens us up to loss
• How he’s extended Luke’s Spirit as a way to not get lost in the grief, but rather to use it to give to others
• What he doubted about his writing
• The message Luke’s godfather received for Jim after Luke’s passing - and Jim’s initial reaction to it
• The thing we can’t force ourselves to do
• What he believes is the most important thing for us to do in grief
• How he fell into the abyss of God
• What happens when we shine a light on the thoughts and emotions of our grief
• The question he asks himself when he meets someone who’s grieving
• The gift we can find in grief - if we choose to
• What he learned from a patient with disabilities when he was a chaplain in a hospital
• His experience with Lawrence Welk’s daughter, and her near-death experience
• What happened when he used mantras and energy healing on Luke in the NICU
• The concept of emotional wholeness - and the journey to attain it after grief
• The hard choices we often have to make with loved ones who are seriously ill
• What he did with Luke’s pictures after Luke’s passing
• The importance of surrender and not pushing against what is
• When his grief began to melt away
• When he was able to finish the book
• Why his book is very uncomfortable for men

Be sure to pick up a copy of Jim's book on Amazon or your local bookstore.
And please come over and give my Facebook page, Grief With Grace Podcast, a Like! I do weekly card readings on Mondays and will be sharing other things on that page.

Do you have your copy of my free guide, 4 Steps to Connect with Your Higher Self? If not, get yours here!

When someone we love returns to Spirit, the one thing most of us want is to know our loved one still exists somewhere, in some form. Mediums are one way of communicating with those on the Other Side. There's another way, and Ellisa Levant Beaver shares her journey and experience with us in this episode. We cover a wide range of topics, so prepare to suspend some belief as we discuss:

• How her son’s passing led her to the work she now does
• How being open and curious about death and what happens when we leave this earthly life started her spiritual journey
• What is EVP?
• How Souls in Spirit communicate through EVP
• The wide array of people who practice EVP (some of these will surprise you!)
• Other forms of communication, such as ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) and visual images
• What we’re really connecting with through these various methods
• How she’s able to communicate with non-verbal human beings from children to the elderly with Alzheimer’s
• The process she uses to communicate with Souls, living or in Spirit
• The role that ever-evolving technology plays in these communications
• Do the voices of our loved ones in Spirit sound the same as when they were in their human body?
• How she uses a recording of someone’s earthly voice in creating messages from someone in Spirit
• How she records the messages
• The technology available in Spirit
• Her journey to learning to develop images with the renowned Brazilian researcher, Sonia Rinaldi
• How Spirits create the images she records
• The types of communications and messages the come through from loved ones in Spirit
• Something that makes EVP unique and different from mediumship

Learn more about Ellisa through her Facebook Group or by joining her Patreon channel

Learn more about Sonia Rinaldi here

You can watch Calling Earth here
Please come over to the Grief With Grace Podcast page on Facebook and let me know what most amazed you from this episode!

Do you have your copy of my free guide, 4 Steps to Connect with Your Higher Self? If not, get yours here!