Finding Joy: Bracha Goetz On Overcoming Inner Emptiness

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

Fun, Raw, And Unpredictable: Random Questions with April And Steph

Unhinged Q&A: Toxic Traits, Discernment, Manifesting, and Embarrassing Moments Host April DeMille and co-host Stephanie Webb do a lighter, “unhinged” episode of Own Your Essence, asking each other surprise questions. April names over-explaining as a defended toxic trait tied to people-pleasing and needing to justify herself, and both discuss autonomy, discernment vs. judgment, and trusting intuition. April describes a rare mediumship experience where a famous spirit seemed to seek permission to move on, challenging her beliefs about crossing over. Stephanie shares leaving a black-and-white, evangelical upbringing and embracing manifestation teachings despite fear of hell. They talk about instantly judging someone and being proven right, whose thoughts they’d read (Stephanie says the president), outgrowing seeing others’ “potential,” misophonia rage, beliefs they now cringe at (curses; reiki/psychics as evil), what they’d be arrested for, self-competition, useless talents, roasting themselves, embarrassing moments, and their “enter a room” theme songs. 00:00 Welcome and Setup 01:33 Toxic Trait Overexplaining 05:04 Afterlife Belief Challenged 10:24 Manifesting and Leaving Religion 12:57 Judgment vs Discernment 16:55 Reading Thoughts and Power 18:19 Outgrowing Potential Guilt 22:38 Energy Reading and Misophonia 25:31 Cringe Past Beliefs 25:38 Garage Psychics Curses 27:31 Deconstructing Church Fear 29:11 Trusting Inner Authority 30:14 Arrested No Explanation 32:20 Secret Competition 35:37 Useless Talents Tongues 36:59 Roasting Yourself 40:33 Embarrassing Moments 43:26 Parents You'll Miss 46:40 Theme Songs Goodbye ✨ 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