The Healing Power Of Toxic Relationships With Dr. Stephen Edwards

The Healing Power Of Toxic Relationships With Dr. Stephen Edwards

Host April DeMille interviews author and speaker, Dr Stephen Edwards, about his book The Venus Flytrap. Edwards explains the book emerged from a tumultuous, toxic relationship that became a “dark night of the soul,” reflecting his own unresolved trauma, shame, and patterns. He discusses learning vulnerability and authenticity, the dangers of ignoring intuition and red flags, and the idea that people have pattern problems rooted in childhood. He shares concepts like the three universal fears (not being enough, abandonment, trust), attachment to identity and possessions, and the lesson of not trying to rescue or fix others. April relates her own toxic relationship recovery and celibacy period. Edwards outlines upcoming books, possible film/series plans, a community for sharing without shame, offers free first chapters, and a discovery call. Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards is an author and speaker focused on relationships, emotional awareness, and personal transformation. Having been married and divorced four times, his life experiences have given him a unique perspective on love, attachment, and recurring relationship patterns. Through both his personal journey and his work, he now helps others better understand themselves, take accountability for their choices, and create more conscious and fulfilling connections. https://bit.ly/4dmD1f0 [https://bit.ly/4dmD1f0] https://vft23.com/coaching-and-counselling/?utm_source=April+DeMille&utm_medium=Own+Your+Essence&utm_campaign=Podcast+Interview+-+April+DeMille [https://vft23.com/coaching-and-counselling/?utm_source=April+DeMille&utm_medium=Own+Your+Essence&utm_campaign=Podcast+Interview+-+April+DeMille] ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464867/fan_mail/new] Working with April 1:1

Finding Joy: Bracha Goetz On Overcoming Inner Emptiness

Host April DeMille interviews children’s author Bracha Goetz, who has written 45 books and a memoir, Nourish the Soul: Filling the Emptiness Within. Goetz describes her ages-12-to-32 journey with inner emptiness expressed through food addiction, bingeing, and extreme dieting while appearing successful at Harvard and medical school. A turning point came during a break in Israel, where learning spiritual teachings centered on gratitude restored meaning and “color” to life. She distinguishes gratitude as redirection rather than bypassing pain and shares the “Pleasure Ladder” (sensory pleasure, love, meaning, creativity, transcendence). Goetz discusses her books The Mother Who Always Said Yes, The Happiness Box, and Don’t Read This Book, emphasizing playful practice, neuroplasticity, and noticing blessings, and directs listeners to Growing Impact Publications. Bracha Goetz is the Harvard-educated author of 45 children’s books and a candid memoir for adults about her journey to joy, Nourish the Soul: Filling the Emptiness Within.  Her newest picture books include The Happiness Box and The Mother Who Always Said Yes.   They can be found at www.growingimpactpublications.com [http://www.growingimpactpublications.com/]. https://www.facebook.com/bracha.goetz.5/ [https://www.facebook.com/bracha.goetz.5/] https://www.facebook.com/BrachaGoetzBooks [https://www.facebook.com/BrachaGoetzBooks] https://www.instagram.com/brachagoetzbooks [https://www.instagram.com/brachagoetzbooks] And click here to download a free Pleasure Ladder chart: https://www.growingimpactpublications.com/pages/the-pleasure-ladder [https://www.growingimpactpublications.com/pages/the-pleasure-ladder] ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille] 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading] 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464867/fan_mail/new] Working with April 1:1

Unveiling The Psychic Medium: April DeMille In The Hot Seat

On the Own Your Essence podcast, guest host Stephanie Ann Webb interviews April DeMille, a psychic medium, grief coach, and trauma and toxic-relationship recovery specialist. April describes realizing her abilities in childhood, hiding them until age 38 due to fear, family reactions, and religious shaming, and later gaining confidence in owning her role. She says her intuition expanded most after her daughter’s death and explains how mediumship overlaps with grief and trauma work, attracting both traumatized humans and spirits. April emphasizes that grief is sacred, requires “sitting in the discomfort,” and is often avoided, contributing to addiction and illness; she encourages talking openly about loved ones and discusses how phrases like “everything happens for a reason” depend on a person’s stage of grief. She defines toxic relationships as dynamics involving mistreatment and loss of self, explains covert abuse and why leaving can be dangerous, critiques toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing, shares grounding practices like barefoot walking or baths, and invites listeners to book readings or discovery calls. Email April: Exordiumhealing@gmail.com aprildemille.com www.facebook.com/IAMaprildemille ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille] 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading] 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464867/fan_mail/new] Working with April 1:1

Journey Through The Dreamscape: Decoding Soul Messages With Claire Falcon

***This is part two of our conversation with Claire Falcon. If you missed part one, be sure to check out last week’s episode.*** Host April DeMille welcomes psychic medium and intuition teacher Claire Falcon to Own Your Essence and shares her services for psychic readings and coaching. Claire demonstrates her dream-interpretation framework using April’s recorded dreams, emphasizing identifying the dream’s overarching emotion, then analyzing symbols and people as aspects of the dreamer, especially within family “soul group” dynamics. They discuss a dream involving family members, a Holy Bible with a family tree, betrayal, addiction, pornography, sex-work themes in the family, and a Frankenstein-like attacker repelled with wasp spray, interpreting it as emotional/psychological processing, boundaries, vulnerability, and breaking ancestral cycles, reflected in April’s son Brayden and cousin Carrie. They connect a separate “missing a flight” dream to relationship themes, Aries season, and astrology, and note a lighter Easter/engagement-ring dream as transition and rebirth.  Claire Falcon is a psychic medium and teacher of intuition based between Berlin and Pennsylvania. Rooted in Jungian dream interpretation and astrological wisdom, Claire specializes in guiding seekers to reclaim their birthright: intuition as celestial beings having a human experience. She's known for teaching clients to distinguish anxiety from intuition, decode dreams for soul guidance, and reconnect with the mystical in everyday life. If you want to start tonight with your dream studies, grab her free workshop, where she'll also show you how your dreams are delivering guidance you might be missing. It's one of the fastest ways to start living from your intuition.  → Just click Free Class here: https://www.clairefalcon.com/new-page-3 clairefalcon.com [http://clairefalcon.com/] contact@clairefalcon.com [contact@clairefalcon.com] Instagram: @penn_falcon ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille] 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading] 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464867/fan_mail/new] Working with April 1:1

Unlocking Intuition: Dreams, Astrology, And Mediumship With Claire Falcon

***This is part one of our conversation with Claire Falcon. Be sure to come back next week for part two.*** Host April DeMille welcomes guest Claire Falcon, a psychic medium and intuition teacher who uses dream interpretation and Western astrology. Claire shares her origin story: vivid dreams since childhood, frequent dream visitations, and a pivotal Berlin experience hearing and seeing a spirit who communicated details of a recent overdose death, prompting her to train professionally after recognizing the healing impact of readings. The conversation focuses on dreams as a unique state of consciousness for intuition and healing, teaching sleep hygiene and recall, universal vs personal symbolism, dream incubation and intention, categories of dreams (physical, emotional/psychological, spiritual, prophetic), and how dreamwork can empower people to heal PTSD, manage nightmares, set boundaries with spirits, and even resolve recurring dreams and past-life themes; Claire also describes aligning dream messages with astrology. Claire Falcon is a psychic medium and teacher of intuition based between Berlin and Pennsylvania. Rooted in Jungian dream interpretation and astrological wisdom, Claire specializes in guiding seekers to reclaim their birthright: intuition as celestial beings having a human experience. She's known for teaching clients to distinguish anxiety from intuition, decode dreams for soul guidance, and reconnect with the mystical in everyday life. If you want to start tonight with your dream studies, grab her free workshop, where she'll also show you how your dreams are delivering guidance you might be missing. It's one of the fastest ways to start living from your intuition.  → Just click Free Class here: https://www.clairefalcon.com/new-page-3 clairefalcon.com [http://clairefalcon.com/] contact@clairefalcon.com [contact@clairefalcon.com] Instagram: @penn_falcon ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille] 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading  https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading] 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute [https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464867/fan_mail/new] Working with April 1:1