#15 - Peggy Oberthier - The great escape: breaking free from who you thought you had to be

#15 - Peggy Oberthier - The great escape: breaking free from who you thought you had to be

A prison riot is not the kind of moment anyone would choose, yet it can be the moment that rewrites everything. I’m joined by Peggy Oberthier, a spiritual mentor, healer, speaker, and author whose life took a sharp turn after a traumatic experience working in a youth detention center. What followed wasn’t just recovery, but a full identity reset: the collapse of external validation, the ache of rejection, and the urgent question of who we are when our roles and achievements fall away. Peggy shares how grief and trauma can act like a forge, burning off what’s performative and exposing what’s true. We talk about why so many of us tie self-worth to being needed, being competent, or being praised, and how that pattern shows up as stress in the body. From meditation and breathwork to sound healing, EFT tapping, and Reiki, Peggy describes the practices that helped her move from a hardened atheist mindset into a direct experience of presence, healing, and connection. We also explore the tension between skepticism and spirituality, and her search for language and frameworks that can meet a scientific mind without flattening the mystery. As her path unfolds, Peggy explains what it means to be a medical intuitive, how she “scans” for emotional and energetic blockages, and why healing often begins when we stop resisting our feelings and start meeting them as sensations. We also get honest about the social cost of transformation: quitting drinking, changing friendships, and learning when to share and when to stay quiet. If you’re navigating anxiety, loss, burnout, or a spiritual awakening you didn’t see coming, you’ll find grounded insight, practical tools, and a surprising amount of humor. Subscribe for more conversations like this, share the episode with someone who needs it, and if you enjoy the show, leave a review so more people can find it. https://www.peggyo.com.au/ https://www.instagram.com/peggyoberthier/

#14 - Lincoln Stoller - Beyond comfort: why growth lives on the edge

A thousand-foot fall tends to clarify what matters. Lincoln Stoller joins me for a wide-ranging conversation that starts on a steep slope of Mount Robson and quickly turns into something bigger: how we meet uncertainty, how we build real resilience, and why the stories we tell about “luck” often hide the role of preparation, awareness, and responsibility. Lincoln’s life crosses borders that most people keep separate. He has worked in science and technology, including time around NASA and years in physics and astronomy, while also practicing as a therapist and exploring altered states of consciousness. We dig into the false choice between science and spirituality, why pop interpretations of quantum physics can mislead, and the more useful lesson he takes from it: outcomes aren’t as clean or exclusive as our minds want them to be, especially in relationships where words like honesty, commitment, and love mean different things to different people. We also talk about indigenous cultures and community-based responsibility, plus the cultural gap between traditional shamanic practice and modern Western psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Lincoln shares a grounded view of plant medicine, set and setting, agency, and the hard part most people skip: integration. We close with practical tools from his clinical work, including heart rate variability, biofeedback, neurofeedback, dream work, and how to create enough mental space to respond instead of react. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves big questions, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

#13 - Vandana Atara Noorah - Soul healing: where the light enters you

Your mind can replay the past like a broken playlist while your body quietly carries the cost. That’s where this conversation with Vandana Atara Noorah lands: in the real, lived space where anxiety shows up in your stomach, your heart, your throat, and your nervous system, and where healing becomes something you can feel, not just think about. We start with Rumi’s line “The wound is the place where the light enters you,” then move into what Vandana calls divine light energy healing. She shares how her path sharpened through a major life pivot: leaving a painful marriage, protecting her child, and choosing a rebirth instead of survival mode. From there, we dig into what Reiki is (loving universal life force energy), how chakras can help you spot blocks, and why remote Reiki sessions can still be effective when you’re not in the same room. Vandana also opens up her broader toolkit: guided meditation, hypnotherapy, visualization, color therapy, and gentle ways to work with intuition. We talk about “skillful means” for meeting beginners where they are, plus deeper concepts like soul contracts, generational patterns, cord cutting, and why repeating relationship dynamics can be a clue rather than a curse. If you want practical steps, she offers grounded daily practices like walking meditation, earthing, time in nature, movement, and inner child healing that helps you unmask and come back to yourself. If you’re ready for more calm, more clarity, and a healing journey that doesn’t require pretending you’re fine, hit play. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. https://vandanalighthealing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/vandana_light_healing

#12 - Ali Christos - Knowing beyond thinking: Quantum hypnosis, healing, and higher awareness

Your mind already knows more than your anxiety will admit, and sometimes the fastest way to hear it is to quiet the noise instead of fighting it. We’re joined by Ali Christos, a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner, music producer, and author, to break down what QHHT really is and why it’s less about “woo” and more about accessing a deeper layer of consciousness. We walk through how Dolores Cannon’s QHHT guides someone into a deep theta brainwave state, the same neighborhood of awareness you touch right before sleep. Ali explains how a full session unfolds, from the long pre-session interview to the trance journey where clients may experience past lives, symbolic scenes, or other timelines, followed by a powerful Q and A with what many call the higher self. If you’re skeptical, we also translate “higher self” into practical terms: the least reactive, most integrated inner intelligence you’ve felt before through intuition, clarity, or sudden insight. We also get real about safety, intense memories, and integration. Healing isn’t always a fireworks moment during hypnosis; it often shows up afterward as dreams, emotional release, new boundaries, calmer reactions, and decisions you’ve been avoiding. Ali shares stories from his practice that highlight what can change when you stop performing your life and start aligning it. If you’re curious about hypnosis, past life regression, the subconscious mind, spiritual healing, and practical integration, hit play, then subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the conversation. https://www.qhhtwithali.com/ [https://www.qhhtwithali.com/] https://www.instagram.com/qhhtwithali/ [https://www.instagram.com/qhhtwithali/] https://www.instagram.com/unapologetically_princeali/ [https://www.instagram.com/unapologetically_princeali/] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26DDCOAXB8_KAY1qOMSaygSNCaEaWGqp [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26DDCOAXB8_KAY1qOMSaygSNCaEaWGqp]

#11 - Laura Rose - Knocking on heaven's door: Life, death and inner knowing

Death, grief, intuition, and healing are topics most people avoid until life forces the conversation. I’m joined by Laura Rose, founder of Sacred Soul, an intuitive energy channel, spiritual medium, and end-of-life guide whose work is rooted in a hard-earned transformation through depression, panic attacks, and chronic physical pain. What makes Laura’s perspective land is how practical it is: she speaks plainly about what “stuck energy” feels like in the body, why some of us walk around carrying other people’s emotions, and how energy clearing can create real relief when nothing else seems to work. We also dig into intuition in a world that prizes the analytical mind. Laura breaks down the clair senses in a way that’s easy to recognize in yourself: clairsentience (feeling), claircognizance (knowing), clairvoyance (seeing), and clairaudience (hearing). If you’ve ever had a split-second gut reaction and talked yourself out of it, you’ll hear a new way to understand that signal, build trust with it, and still use logic to take the next step. From there, we move into mediumship and end-of-life doula support, including how Laura thinks about the transition of dying, why proof and closure can soften grief, and how caregivers can find peace when a loved one can’t communicate clearly. We end with simple, actionable ideas for honoring someone’s wishes in hospice or a hospital, including the role of advanced directives in reducing fear and confusion for families. Subscribe for more grounded conversations on healing and growth, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway or question. https://www.sacredsoul444.com/ [https://www.sacredsoul444.com/] https://www.instagram.com/sacredsoul444/ [https://www.instagram.com/sacredsoul444/] https://www.facebook.com/SacredSoul444/ [https://www.facebook.com/SacredSoul444/] https://www.youtube.com/@SacredSoul444 [https://www.youtube.com/@SacredSoul444]