Soul Stories with Ariela HaLevi

Living Fully After Everything Falls Apart

In this deeply moving episode of Soul Stories with Ariela, Howard Snooks shares the extraordinary journey of a life shaped by service, grief, reinvention, and resilience. Howard opens up about growing up in rural Colorado, working inside a controversial psychiatric hospital during the rise of patients’ rights, becoming a clinical social worker, and building a long career helping families and children through crisis. But it was the year 2015 that changed everything. After the end of a 34-year marriage, the loss of multiple family members, a traumatic accident, and a complete unraveling of the life he thought he knew, Howard found himself in what he describes as a “bubble” of grief and dissociation. Together, Ariela and Howard explore what it means to survive soul-shattering moments and slowly gather the scattered pieces back together. This conversation dives into aging, loneliness, purpose, spirituality, death, therapy, plant medicine, relationships, and the beauty of bridging generations. Howard’s honesty, wisdom, and humor make this episode a powerful reflection on what it truly means to keep living fully, even after life takes an unexpected turn. A soulful and heartfelt conversation about grief, healing, meaning, and becoming whole again.

She Quit Her High-Stakes Career to Save Her Soul.

What if losing everything was the only way to find yourself? Today, we follow a high-powered executive who traded her corporate "machine" for a silent mountain. After years of suppressing her intuition to perform, a "Dark Night of the Soul" forced her to stop. In the silence of Santa Cruz, she met her fiercest protector—a Black Jaguar—and learned that healing doesn't happen in the mind; it happens in the soul. We don't have to escape the world to find peace. Whether it’s a deep breath or a quiet walk with a dog, the "sacred space" is always within reach. Have you ever had a "light bulb" moment where you finally listened to your gut? Tell us your story in the comments. #SoulStories #SpiritualAwakening #HealYourself #LifeLessons #Intuition

When You Stop Striving

What happens when a high-achiever nearly loses everything — and chooses not to rebuild the same life? In this episode of Soul Stories, host Ariela HaLevi sits down with coach, author, and community builder Kyle Emanuel Brown, who shares how a near-death experience with sepsis in 2019 cracked him open and led him toward a life of radical authenticity. Kyle opens up about shedding the hustle identity, building heart-centered community in Colorado, facing his deepest fears through vision quests and shamanic training, and what it truly means to trust yourself from the inside out. If you've ever felt like you were chasing the wrong thing, this conversation will hit home.

Your Soul Knows the Way: Astrology, Anger & the Path Back to You

In this soul session, Ariela sits down with Amanda Frederick, somatic coach and evolutionary astrologer, for a conversation that goes deep, fast. Together they explore how your birth chart holds the map to your soul's growth, why the body is the missing piece in most spiritual work, and what it actually means to move toward your north node, not from your head, but from the inside of your bones. From ancestral healing and past life patterns, to anger as a portal to power, to the radical idea of getting turned on by your grief, this episode doesn't talk about healing in theory. It is healing. If you've ever felt too much, disconnected from God when you weren't "being good," or like there's a wilder, truer version of you waiting underneath the good girl, this one's for you. #HealingPodcast #WomenWhoHeal #SomaticCoaching #AstrologyPodcast #SpirtualPodcast #InnerChildHealing #EmbodiedWoman #FeminineHealing #PodcastForWomen #ConsciousLiving

Unlearning Anxiety and Finding Safety Within A Deep Spiritual Conversation

What if your anxiety isn’t just yours? In this deeply moving episode of Soul Stories, Rabbi Caryn Aviv shares how ancestral memory, Jewish history, and lived experience intertwine to shape the anxiety so many of us carry. Through vulnerability and wisdom, this conversation opens a doorway to understanding how our nervous systems respond to fear, uncertainty, and the need to belong.   Together, we explore the power of pausing, self-compassion, and reconnecting to the body as a path toward healing. This episode is an invitation to step out of survival mode and into a more grounded, loving relationship with yourself.   #SoulStories #ArielaHaLevi #SpiritualPodcast #SpiritualAwakening #ConsciousLiving #HealingJourney #Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #DivineFeminine #DivineMasculine