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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And you're here. Thanks for choosing the iHeartRadio and Coast
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Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and
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your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi.
I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
On each episodisode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
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that our loved ones have survived physical death, and so
will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I love
Shades of the Afterlife so much that I woke up
this morning dreaming that I was recording an episode the
episode was about movies about the afterlife. It did take
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me a little while to realize it was just a dream.
And I've already done an episode on that, so if
you haven't heard it, go way back episode forty Hollywood
and The Hereafter. It's some of my favorite movies about
the afterlife, plus celebrities who believe in the afterlife. Very interesting.
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Also on episode one hundred and fifty, I spoke with
film producer Steven Simon from the movie What Dreams May Come.
Remember that with Robin Williams, he not only has a
belief in the afterlife and a Noah, but he does
automatic writing with his wife, who resides in the Hereafter.
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Also back on episode one hundred and fifty seven, I
spoke with movie director Stephen Gray and producer Jens Jacob
on their new movie After Death, which was all about
near death experiences. Now some of my favorite movies. Number
one on the list is a comedy defending your life.
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Of course, I love What Dreams May Come. There is
made in Heaven, Heaven can Wait. Matt Damon had a
film called Hereafter. So that's just to name a few.
And now my subconscious mind can easily rest that we
spoke about the movies today. Don't forget that. You can
get a list of all Shades of the Afterlife episodes
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by category, plus a free copy of my book We
Don't Die, a skeptics Discovery of Life after Death, and
some other pretty cool bonuses if you join my email list,
it's called the Insiders Club to give it a fancy name,
but you can find it at the bottom of the
page at We Don'tdie dot com. I probably dreamt about
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Shades of the Afterlife because I spent the entire day
yesterday reading and answering your emails, and so many of
you shared your signs from your loved ones, so I
want to read them today. And if you have signs
or a story you'd like to share with me or
just share with me, you can email me at Sandra
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Champlain at gmail dot com. Before I begin reading some
of these emails, I want to share with you some
words that really touched me to the core. On our
Sunday gathering number two hundred and fifty two, and of
course that's our free non denominational online service on Zoom.
Our guest medium who gave the medium demonstration and also
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did our address is a Scottish medium named Stephen trolland
his mom passed just a few weeks before. He shared
some incredible words that brought me to tears, as if
his mom was talking to him from the afterlife. Stephen
says this about his mom. No matter what troubles she
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went through, she would always say I'm fine, I'm fine.
Even after calling the ambulance, and he was in the
ambulance with her. She laid there with her eyes closed,
holding his hands. She opened her eyes and said to him, Stephen,
I'm fine. So these words that he wrote are titled
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I'm fine. So if you want to make yourself comfortable
and think of your loved one as if they're telling
you these words. When I slipped away from physical sight,
remember that my love still lives. Don't learn to live
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without me. Just learn to live with my love in
a different way. And if you need me, listen to
your heart even now in this very moment, as truly,
my living presence is within these very words. And I'm
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not just memories, you know. Just ask ask me to
be within your precious moments because I'm there, I'm here,
and I'm fine. Do me a favor. Love yourself like
I do here. I can still care for you. Just
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speak to me whenever you wish for me to sit
with you, or even just a man, what would I
say or do. Don't learn to live without me. Just
treasure me in your own unique way, our way, like
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you have always done. Because I'm there, I'm here, and
I'm fine. Just like the stars are wrapped around the earth,
I do the same with you now, in this very moment,
with my living love still blossoming, wrapped around and within
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your world. And just like the stars that will always
and forever shine, I will still shine with you. I'm there,
I'm here, and I'm fine. You will still miss me,
but your hardships will soften through time. You see all
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this is just the nature of life, And just like
it is in nature for the stars to softly fade
into the morning sun. Although you can't see me, I'm there,
I'm here, and I'm fine, and I am with you
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learning to live with me and my love in this
new way. You are not alone. Remember that nature it
cannot lie. So think of us here now as part
of nature of life. We are all part of life,
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weaved within its beauty. I am everywhere anywhere you wish
me to be. But most of all, I'm there, I'm here,
and I'm fine. Distance, it does not matter, and remembering
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that nature cannot lie, and our love being a big
part of it. This for me is the binding strength
that continues to be the thread of life that still
weaves our soul, our heart, and mind together and through
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this thread, and in time your thoughts of separation and
hardships will soften. But I'll help you. And there are
many times that you may not know it, but I
will gently and softly kiss your mind and just hug
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you with my presence to help ease you where no
words are needed, like I have always done, but with
thought being a natural and living expression of nature, I
can still softly weave my love within yours so you
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can still know that I'm there, I'm here, and I'm fine.
The beauty of life is within everyone, and it is
still within me too, and the expression of life is everywhere.
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The only difference now is our perception and how you
look for me and find me in your moments. Now,
our moments, I am within every breath and every heartbeat.
I'm there, I'm here, And remember remember to love yourself
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the way I do. And then I'll be fine, Stephen
trolland went on to say that it's important to keep
those we love present in our life. That what we
give our attention to in life, we give our power,
and if we give our power, we give our presence.
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And by doing that, we're giving ourselves healing, and we
bring new perspectives into our life. And we're giving our
attention to those we love in the spirit world because
that is the meeting place for us, he said, We've
each only got a short space of time, and remember
everything you see. Every heart could say a thousand words,
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and there's lifetimes of thoughts and emotions, and beauty is
in each and every one of us. We come together
with those we love in this life and in the
spirit world, and we can bring out the best in
each other. I think that beauty will see that in you.
Our souls want us to live a loving and fulfilled life.
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What do you want to give your attention to? He says.
Out of every demonstration he gives and the thousands of
readings he's done over the years, each and everyone has
the same message that our loved ones want us to
see the best in ourselves. If you're fine, then they
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are that we each have a job to do now.
Our job is planting the seeds of richness of those
you love in the spirit world, in the hearts and
minds of others, to give to allow new seeds new life,
time to blossom, time to nurture, and nurture that within
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our children, our grandchildren, and our friends, that we each
have an unlimited amount of possibilities within us. To find
out more about our wonderful friend, medium Stephen Trolland you
can go to his website which is Soulfully Embraced dot com.
And if you wish to watch that full Sunday gathering,
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his full address and his medium demonstration, just go to
Weedo'tdie dot com, click on the Sunday Gathering page and
click on Sunday Gathering number two hundred and fifty two,
the theme being finding Beauty in Grief. I've never been
fond of expressions like the gift of grief, but I
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can tell you, fifteen years after the death of my dad,
had I never gone through such intense grief, I would
have never done the research that I have done, and
I would never be your host of Shades of the
Afterlife today. So for me, there was a gift. It's
time for us to go to the break and when
we get back, we'll hear some of your emails to
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me and signs from your loved ones. You're listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of
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the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Now I'd like to read
some of your emails. This one came from Connie. She says, Hi, Sandra,
I appreciate you sending your book, but I already have
it on audible and enjoy it very much. As a
licensed clinical social worker who worked in nursing homes, then
a private psychiatric hospital after retirement from there, in private
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practice until the age of seventy nine, with a third
of my practice doing home visits with ill and dying patients,
as well as at a convent with the religious, it
has been my privilege to witness a fair amount of
deathbed visions, the most common one being who are all
these people in my room? But my favorite story concerns
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my ex husband, who was one among many who didn't
believe in anything after death. My son constantly said to him, Dad,
send me a purple elephant. When you get to the
other side, I would say to my son, that's impossible.
Give him something easier to find, But my son insisted
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that his father send a purple elephant. My husband died
on Thanksgiving morning in twenty nineteen, before the pandemic, at
the age of ninety, after having a stroke. Not long afterwards,
my daughter was invited out to lunch by a friend
who had no knowledge of the above. She was invited
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to a new restaurant in an out of the way
place in Long Eye Island. Guess what now. Connie ended
her email there. I waited. All of a sudden, I
got a second email with a giant picture on It
is the front of the restaurant with a huge statue
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of a purple elephant. Thank you for sending that, Connie
Kay wrote me, and she said, Dear Sandra, I was
listening to your Shades of the Afterlife episode one ninety six.
I'm a little behind. On the podcast. You mentioned a
memory from your ex boyfriend who had transitioned coming in
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on your phone. I had to email you immediately about
a story of such a thing happening to my sisters
and I on the day we were giving my dad
an eightieth birthday party. My stepmom had transitioned tragically six
years prior to his eightieth birthday. He had really suffered
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a lot of grief and guilt through the years after
her death. We wanted to give my dad a special
eightieth birthday party. He seemed really sad because he said
he always thought if he made it to eighty, she
would still be with him. My stepmom was quite a
bit younger than my dad, and he never thought that
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she would go before him. We secretly invited several close
friends that he had not seen in years to his party.
On the morning of the party, I had gotten up
and was in the bathroom getting ready for the morning.
I was really thinking about my stepmom and how I
wished she could be there, that it would have made
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his party perfect. Then the light started flickering in the bathroom.
I thought, that's strange. I then walked out to pick
up my phone to take it with me outside to
have morning coffee with my sisters. One sister and I
lived together, but the other one lives with my dad
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in a different town, which was where the party was at,
so we don't get together very often. As I picked
up my phone. It said, you have memories with Nancy
s that's my stepmom. I opened the memory and what
was there is on the attachment I sent you. It
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was from eight years ago. Not one time in those
eight years have I ever received that memory until that day,
the exact same day as my dad's eightieth birthday party,
when all of us sisters were together. She was definitely
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there with us and him. And the message that was
on the attachment said, a message for my daughter in
my eyes, there is no one that can equal your beauty,
no one that can describe how much you mean to me,
nothing that could lessen my love for you as you
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have it now and for all of eternity, no matter
how old you might be, you will always be my
little girl to me. And that was from Nancy. Two K,
Thank you so much for sharing that K. This next
email came from Catherine. She writes, Hello, missus Sandra. My
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name is Catherine and I was a hospice nurse for
twenty four years. I lost my daughter Lexi in a
car accident, and I've been listening to your show, which
I absolutely love. I wanted to share some of the
incredible signs I've received since her passing, as they have
brought me both comfort and awe. The first sign came
the day Lexi passed away. She had her own apartment
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in a two flat home that I own. The hoodvent
in her apartment fell halfway off on the very day
she died, as if it was almost a message her.
After the funeral, we played the song if I Die Young.
On the way to the cemetery, we passed a group
of motorcycles and one of the bikers was playing that
very song on his harley. If you know that song,
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you'll understand how rare it is to hear such a
feminine song played on a harley. Everyone heard it, from
the funeral director to the pastor, and we were all
in disbelief. Another sign came when I was driving down
the highway. My daughter had been an assistant manager at
Dollar General, and her funeral photo was taken in a
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field of sunflowers, her favorite flower. Suddenly, a Dollar General
truck appeared in front of me, displayed a symbol of
a mother and a daughter holding hands surrounded by sunflowers.
It was like Lexi was reminding me that she was
still with me. There was a time I visited at
Alexi's sister's house and asked if she had any cream
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for my coffee. She mentioned she only had milk, which
was probably expired. The expiration date it was Lexi's birthday.
One of the most emotional signs was on Lexi's crash report.
Instead of listing her actual birthday, the report mistakenly displayed
my other daughter's birthday. A powerful sign involved my mother
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when she was being evaluated for a possible als diagnosis.
She went home, opened her computer, and the first thing
that appeared was the Bible verse Lexi had tattooed on
her body. It was Matthew six thirty four, Do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself.
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That verse has become a source of peace for our family.
Another significant moment happened when I was driving with my
son and thinking about Lexi. Out of nowhere, a dump
truck from the same company involved in her car accident
pulled out in front of us, as if to remind
us that she was close. Shortly after Lexi passed, I
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helped a friend pass out Halloween candy. Her elderly neighbor
who had dementia, was seeing people in her home since
I was a nurse, she asked me to check on her.
The woman described seeing a young girl who matched Lexi's
age and appearance. As we talked, she shared that she
had lost her son in a car accident the same
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way I lost Lexi and at a similar age. When
she told me the name of the cemetery where he
was buried, it turned out to be the same cemetery
as Lexi. I felt drawn to find his plot even
among the thousands there, and incredibly, the fourth one I
approached was his located kitty corner from Lexi's resting place.
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Most recently, I was having a rough day thinking about
Lexi and decided I was going to go to the
thrift shop. Something made me continue to go there, even
though I was kinda hesitant on going in and thought
about turning around. When I walked in and on an
end cap there was a stocking with L E XI,
which is Lexi's name. It was even crooked, which was
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the same way Lexi had her name on her name tag.
I ended up buying the stocking and hanging it up
this Christmas. I could go on with so many other
powerful signs, but these are a few that have felt
deeply significant to me. I believe in the afterlife because
of experiences like these, as well as the countless patience
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I cared for during my years in hospice, who described
being visited by deceased loved ones before they passed. Catherine
gave me her phone number and said she would love
to share more stories. I reached out to Catherine to
see if we may do an interview with her and
hear her voice and hear more about Lexi and some
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of the stories of people that passed in hospice. Thank
you so much, Catherine for sending me this. We got
another email from another Catherine. She says, Hi, Sandra, I
told you about a telephone call I received from my
deceased brother. So here it is. Although I had three
older brothers, all of whom are in spirit, one I
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was particularly close to pat. Every Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day,
we would call each other from wherever we were in
the world France, Washington, Minnesota, Ireland, etc. It didn't matter.
It would typically go like this. He and his family
would open the presence we had sent them, and then
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they would call to thank us. Several hours later because
of the different time zones, after we opened our gifts
from them. We would call his family back and thank
them for our gifts. After a relatively short but intense
six month or deal with esophagus cancer in two thousand
and one, he passed in June of that year. Fast
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forward to Christmas Eve that year. I had been doing
last minute Christmas errands, returning home about six pm to
notice the red light blinking on the answering machine. It
would have been two hours later in Minneapolis. At that
time I listened to the message. I heard nothing but static,
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but then within the static my brother Pat's voice saying
Merry Christmas. And then I heard a nickname that only
he and I knew. I'm absolutely certain of what I heard.
I listened to it probably fifty times. After a bit,
my son came home and I told him listen to
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this message, and I watched his face turn white. He said,
it sounds like Uncle Pat wishing you merry Christmas. Not
being one to enjoy after death communications, he high tailed
it out of there. Then in sequence, my husband and
daughter each came home and listened to it. No one
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has any doubts that it was the voice of my brother.
To this day, it was the greatest Christmas Present ever. Friends,
I love your stories. Please keep sending them to me.
We're going to head to the break and when we
come back, we'll hear some more stories. You're listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
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Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of
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the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain, and right now we're featuring
emails that I've received from your fellow listeners. This one's
from Dana. She's at I Sandra. I know that you
occasionally produce episodes of the podcast that are devoted to
signs from our loved ones in the spirit world, so
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I thought i'd share one of many that you might enjoy.
If you ever decide to do another signs episode, feel
free to use it or not. It certainly wouldn't hurt
my feelings if you don't.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Dana here. It is one of the many times that
I was driving across the vast desert that makes up
much of the drive between my home in Austin, Texas
and my mother's home in San Diego, California, I was
listening to one of your podcast episodes that you had
dedicated to signs sent by our loved ones. I had
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been extremely close to my maternal grandmother when I was
a child, and when she passed in two thousand and seven,
it broke my heart. Of course, the years passed and
the hurt healed, but I talked to her often, even
though I never asked for or expected a sign from her.
When You're our episode had concluded, I decided to ask
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her for a sign. I asked out loud, as you
had suggested I do. I asked her to send me
a pink feather. You said, to be specific, Sandra, And
when I was satisfied that I had made myself clear
and that she must have heard me, I turned the
radio back on and waited for my sign, which I
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expected to come in about two weeks. A half an
hour later, I pulled off the highway to stop into
a goodwill thrift store. I am a vintage clothing in
housewares dealer by trade, and often will stop at thrift
shops while I am traveling to see if I can
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find any treasures. I went in, found a cartful of stuff,
and walked the cart out to the parking lot to
my car to empty my newly purchased loot. Everything was
perfectly normal. I turned around to return the cart to
the interior of the store when a small white feather
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rolled across my path. I looked at it and thought, oh,
a feather, But then I was disappointed to see that
it was not pink but white, or was it? As
I looked closer, I noticed that the small feather was
actually a very pale pink color. I thought that maybe
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it was just the light and that I was trying
to force a puzzle piece into the wrong spot, so
I just rolled past it, and then I stopped dead
in my tracks when another definitely pink feather rolled across
my feet. I felt a shock of electricity surged through
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my body and all my hair stood up on end.
As I bent down to pick up the second feather,
I suddenly saw pink feathers in three different shades flying
all around my feet, where there had been absolutely none
anywhere less than three minutes before. I looked around to
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see if anyone was wearing a pink feather jacket or
a boa or something, but there was no one anywhere
near me. It was absolutely astonishing. There was absolutely no
doubt in my mind that she was making herself known,
and it would have been just like her too, not
to just send one pink feather, but to do it
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up in a big way and send me as many
as she could muster. She never did anything halfway. Since then,
I have received many more signs from her and from
other loved ones as well. Since I learned from you
that all I have to do is ask and to
pay attention, I have had some incredible gifts from my
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loved ones in spirit. Thank you again for everything you do.
I know I've said it before, but you are really
changing lives friend, Dana. Thanks so much, Dana, sending you
so much love and keep the stories coming. Our next
story comes from Marylyn and in it she refers to
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Phil Dike's Phil and his wife Carrie McLeod are the
medium tutors that I trust the most to teach medium classes.
So here are her words. I hadn't been meditating that
much lately, but yesterday did an hour meditation that Phil
Dikes had on YouTube. At the end of the meditation,
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I silently asked my daughter Amy to please visit me
in my dreams that night. I hadn't been receiving many
signs lately, Sandra, I had the most amazing visitation dream
from Amy that I've ever had in the last three years.
In the dream, we discovered another room in our house.
It was her old room, but bigger, with a queen
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size bed in it, but we hadn't opened the door
since she passed. I opened the door and the room
had so much dust in it, but it was pretty,
so I thought I would clean it up and we
would store all of her art in it. It was
a perfect place for that. Dad came in the room
with me, and I said, let's leave the bed for
guests to sleep in. And I began to take the
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blanket off, and just then I felt a live figure
with me. It was Amy, a little younger. I felt
her whole outline as she was moving, and I could
see her brownish hair. I said, Amy, where have you been?
She said, Mom, I've been night gazing. I kept touching
her body, proving she was still alive, and I said
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to her Dad record her words. I hugged her and
hugged her, and just then I woke up again. I
was meditating the night before for an hour, and I
asked her to come in my dreams for a visitation.
It's the asking for signs and visits. That's what I've
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finally learned. We have to do, not beg but simply ask,
and you never know when a sign or a visit
will come. I had woken up and gone back to
sleep and had this visitation somewhere between seven and eight
thirty in the morning. I think that is an easy
time for our loved ones to visit us because we
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fall back into a deeper consciousness, a much higher vibration.
I couldn't be happier. Thank you so much, Sandra, Carrie
and Phil. Thank you so much, Marilyn for sharing that.
I have recorded several different episodes about dreams, and I
clearly remember doctor Janet Pete Alatto. That was episode one
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point eighty four. Yes, the importance of talking to our
loved ones and asking for signs and meditating, but she said,
when you wake up in the morning, you're in that
zone somewhere between awake and a slow and we can
jumpstart our own dreams with our loved ones and picture
them with us and let it unfold, and it's an
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easy time for them to join us in that day
dreamy state. And the other episode one fifty six about
lucid dreaming this sounds very much like what Marilyn was experiencing.
I know for myself when I get that second sleep,
you know, when the bladder wakes you up somewhere in
the middle of the night and you get a couple
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more hours of sleep, that's when these clear dreams can
tend to happen. So if we are in communication with
our loved one asking for signs, having that intention, I
hope if you haven't heard those episodes, you go back
and check them out, because there's nothing more comforting than
feeling a hug from your loved one, hearing their voice,
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waking up and knowing it was the real thing. Let's
continue with the words I got from Paul. He said, Hi,
and last week I had a session with the medium
who was on your show, and I was completely blown away.
I used the yes, no, and not sure technique, and
she was accurate about ninety five percent of the time.
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It felt surreal. I couldn't believe all the information she
was saying, especially when she delivered the exact message I
had asked my dad to convey as evidence of the afterlife.
You see, when my dad passed away, I visited him
in the funeral home three times from his passing, no
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one removed his glasses, and he wore them throughout during
the rest. On my final visit before the funeral service,
I decided to take off his glasses and I took
them home and put them in a pouch for a keepsake.
No one was with me when I did this, and
only my mom knew about it. Before my session ended
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with the medium, I had asked my dad to mention
what I did as a sign, knowing that no one
else would know. Amazingly, she brought up the topic of
me taking the glasses off his face. She even said
that my dad joked, why did you do that, Paul,
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I couldn't see afterwards, a remark that perfectly matched my
dad's sense of humor. You can only imagine how astonished
I was. This was such an incredible experience, and I
want to thank you again for your show and providing
a platform to explore and open our minds to these possibilities.
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You are truly blessed for the work you do. Kind regards, Paul, Paul,
thank you so much. I think for each and every
one of us, it's easy to share when we find
something that makes a difference. For ourselves something or someone.
Now Paul brings up mediums and on my first podcast,
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which you can still find today, we Don't Die, a
radio that is on YouTube. Over the course of almost
five hundred episodes, I've interviewed in full length a lot
of people, many of whom were mediums. I have to
be honest, in the first many years that podcast is
now eleven years old, but in the first many many
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years I just interviewed anybody who had a story about
the afterlife. It wasn't till the last two or three
years I would say that the mediums that I've had
on I have asked them point blank, do you offer
a money back guarantee. There's something called a ten minute guarantee.
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You want to be sure if you go to a
medium that they have that guarantee. For whatever the reason.
Maybe the signal's not right between your loved one and them.
But if you aren't getting good evidence in the first
ten minutes, the medium reading to an end and you
don't pay. I may read more stories from fellow listeners
when we get back, but I have an instinct to
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share some words from parents who have children residing in
the unseen world. You see many of the emails that
I got were not stories of signs, but there were
stories of heartbreak. The great author Richard Bach said, don't
be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before meeting again,
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and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for
those who are friends. We will see them all again,
and I'll see you again just after the break. We'll
be right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife
on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
and you've been hearing some lovely emails that people have
sent me. I wish I could say all the emails
I received were joyful messages of signs and reunions. But
to be honest, ninety percent of the emails I receive
are letters of grief. It is a tough journey, as
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you know. If you do not yet have a copy
of my book again, please go to Weedn'tdie dot com.
The bottom of the page, you can enter your name
and your email address says you get the first few
chapters of my book. It's the entire book. Chapter ten
is one of the most important chapters about grief and
moving through the process. Things we can do, things that
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are out of our control. There are many emails I
receive from parents. No matter what kind of grief you experience,
it's all brutal. But for parents listening, please go to
Helpingparents Heal dot org if you're not a parent, they
have great resources that you can find on their YouTube
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channel through their website. In our last segment together, I
want to read some words from these parents. They're called
Shining Light Parents. I love that there's a page on
their website with some of the book titles written by
these parents. Shining Light Parents Speak, Helping Fathers, Heal. Still
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right here, gathering at the doorway. Mom, I'm not gone.
We're not done yet. Pop. My lessons from the other side,
Resilient grieving, Hello from Heaven, Grief to Growth, Messages of hope,
My search for Christopher on the other side, Conversations with
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Clo we Never left You to Heaven and back, and
dozens and dozens and dozens more. Not too long ago,
on episode two one three, I got to speak with
doctor Mark Pittstick, who put together a book along with
four Shining Light parents including one hundred and thirty stories
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from other Shining Light parents. Within Helping Parents Heal, we
talk about the great book that they put together, and
I thought today, in our last segment together, I'll read
some of the stories from some of the parents again.
This is from the book Shining Light Parents Speak. The
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title of chapter two is Sensing your Child's Presence. Our
children have graduated from Earth School, but they are not
far away. They are in a different realm, dimension, or
vibrational reality that many of us cannot detect with our
five senses. However, a sixth sense and other ways to
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perceive them can come into play. This chapter answers the
question have you learned to optimally sense your children's living presence.
Members of Helping Parents Heal have shared how their kids
communicate through a vast array of signs. A bird, a
license plate, a song on the radio, a touch, or
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even a whisper. These connections are easily dismissed by people
who have no need for them and consider them to
be mere coincidences. But those of us who have had
these pleasantly surprising signs and synchronicities have no doubt they
are from our children. There is an unexplainable resonance that
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accompanies these validations when you know, you know. The following
accounts of one hundred and thirty affiliate leaders in Caring
Listeners interviews are just a small sampling of those told
by many thousands of members of Helping Parents Heal. This
book offers an excellent representation of the continued connections we
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have with our children. They are always with us because
love never dies and relationships continue. Siama's mom, Marie said,
she said to me once, I'm going to send you
a rainbow. There were no clouds in the sky. But
by the time I got home, maybe three minutes later,
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my husband said, there's a rainbow outside, but it's not raining.
Chris R's Sun Shawn communicated with his parents right away
after his transition from Earth at the age twenty three.
On the night we decided to discontinue Shawn's life support,
we left the hospital and sat out on the patio
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as the sun went down illuminated over the hospital. The
sky looked just like a giant pair of angel wings.
We always called him our angel boy, and his middle
name was Gabriel. Deb N knows that it helps to
keep in communication with her son, Dean, who changed worlds
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at twenty four. I love getting signs from Dean and
I always thank him. His ability to provide them is
just incredible. On Thanksgiving Day, I was out in my
mother in law's backyard overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and this
hummingbird was flying around as the sun was setting. I said, Dean,
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it would be really nice if you could help me
out here and let me take a picture of that
hummingbird in front of the sunset. The little hummingbird landed
on top of a bush, lined up with the sun
and sat there for ten minutes as the sun set.
That's the kind of thing that he's really responsive to.
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I just believe it. It's a choice, but it takes
time to get there. I know he's here, I recognize it.
Ask him for signs, and he just shows up with them.
Barb says her son, Jordan is amazing. I sit outside
and we can ask for a falling star and he
will provide it. My husband and I were camping and
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it was super cold. We wanted to go inside, so
he gave him a countdown. By the time we got
to four, there went a shooting star right where we
said it was going to be. Jordan passed at the
age of twenty five. One of the first signs was
a tiny frog, says Bibet, mom to Daniel, who transitioned
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from Earth at age twenty five. Daniel loved frogs, and
since his passing we've received hundreds of frogs. One time,
I was desperate for a sign and asked him for
a frog, even though it wasn't the right season for them.
I got up and opened a cabinet in the house,
and a frog jumped out and landed on my leg.
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It's been to us to magical. Marilyn's son Kevin made
his transition from Earth after a three and a half
year illness. I wish I could say I hear him
and see him as clearly as some other people do.
But I do talk to him all the time. I
get signs, and I feel the love he has for
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his family will never go away. His love is the
only truth. I find coins, shells in the shape of
a heart, and birds seem like they are talking just
to me. Amy says in the first month and a
half after he passed, Chris was sending messages like crazy,
but I wasn't getting it. I knew something was happening
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because the bathroom lights would flicker every night. I'd go
in there and they were flickering. I'd leave the bathroom
and they stop flickering. Then I'd get in bed and
the bedside light would flicker. I was in such a
fog that I thought there was something wrong with the
electricity in the house. Finally I met someone who said, oh,
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that's Chris. Our children try to get our attention in
any way they can, including through lights, phones, and home electronics.
In these cases, parents often try to figure out if
there's a logical reason for these incidents, but when there isn't,
they conclude it has to be their child getting their
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attention and saying hello, because there is no other explanation
for how these things can happen. I didn't believe in
survival of consciousness after death, remarks Ramona, whose daughter Mia
was one month old when she moved into the next realm.
But Mia sure tried from the first day to communicate.
When we came home from the funeral, and of course,
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imagine the state I was in. We were eating at
the table with my parents, MIA's godparents, my husband, and
two other daughters. There was a printer in the room,
which was definitely turned off. Suddenly it turned out by
itself and printed a blank page. This is something that
even my husband, who is a techie, can't explain to
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this day. When it's turned off, it's turned off. Lights
are a huge sign from my son, says Lisa h
whose son Shane changed world at sixteen. My husband is
a video designer. There were many screens to contend with
when Shane was here. Shortly after Shane passed, my husband
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and I witnessed a sequence of rainbows spontaneously going across
a screen while watching a game my husband had created
just for Shane, but it was never coded that way.
It was my son manipulating it and coming through to us.
My husband has since developed away for Shane and his
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own daughter to communicate with us, using a light show
in his room. Carly's mom, Irene says, I have learned
that I can continue to communicate with carl that I
still have a relationship with her. I talked to her
all of the time and encourage her to send me
signs which I get in the forms of songs, rainbows,
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and dream visits. And one of my dream visits, I
asked her, are you with me. She said, I'm always
with you, but I'm busy. I have a life here.
If you call on me, I will be there, But
here I have many things to do. Beverly says her
son Mason, who made his transition from Earth at age nineteen,
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is pretty active. Shortly after he transitioned, I had a
visitation dream where he just let me know that he
was okay, healthy and healed. It was very strong. When
you have very strong signs, trust your intuition. You'll know
if it's something more than wishful. Thinking parents should trust
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that the love and the bond with their child is eternal.
It doesn't end, and when their physical body transitions, many
parents have an awareness of their child's presence through their senses.
Some say they have seen their child objectively right in
front of them, even for just a moment. They may
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hear their child's voice call them or whisper I Love
you in their ear, and many feel their child's physical touch,
a warm surge of energy, kiss on the cheek, sweet hug,
or silly poke on the arm while falling asleep. These
glimpses may not happen very often, but even the memory
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of that one time can create smiles for a lifetime.
Those were literally just a few pages from the book
Shining Light Parents Speak. Don't forget to come visit me
at We Don't Die dot com. Check out our free
Sunday gathering with medium demonstration and more before we go.
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I just want to remind of the words from Stephen
trolland I'm there, I'm here, and I'm fine. Your loved
ones really are with you and you will see them again.
I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
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I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
On each episodisode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know
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that our loved ones have survived physical death, and so
will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I love
Shades of the Afterlife so much that I woke up
this morning dreaming that I was recording an episode the
episode was about movies about the afterlife. It did take
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me a little while to realize it was just a dream.
And I've already done an episode on that, so if
you haven't heard it, go way back episode forty Hollywood
and The Hereafter. It's some of my favorite movies about
the afterlife, plus celebrities who believe in the afterlife. Very interesting.
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Also on episode one hundred and fifty, I spoke with
film producer Steven Simon from the movie What Dreams May Come.
Remember that with Robin Williams, he not only has a
belief in the afterlife and a Noah, but he does
automatic writing with his wife, who resides in the Hereafter.
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Also back on episode one hundred and fifty seven, I
spoke with movie director Stephen Gray and producer Jens Jacob
on their new movie After Death, which was all about
near death experiences. Now some of my favorite movies. Number
one on the list is a comedy defending your life.
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Of course, I love What Dreams May Come. There is
made in Heaven, Heaven can Wait. Matt Damon had a
film called Hereafter. So that's just to name a few.
And now my subconscious mind can easily rest that we
spoke about the movies today. Don't forget that. You can
get a list of all Shades of the Afterlife episodes
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by category, plus a free copy of my book We
Don't Die, a skeptics Discovery of Life after Death, and
some other pretty cool bonuses if you join my email list,
it's called the Insiders Club to give it a fancy name,
but you can find it at the bottom of the
page at We Don'tdie dot com. I probably dreamt about
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Shades of the Afterlife because I spent the entire day
yesterday reading and answering your emails, and so many of
you shared your signs from your loved ones, so I
want to read them today. And if you have signs
or a story you'd like to share with me or
just share with me, you can email me at Sandra
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Champlain at gmail dot com. Before I begin reading some
of these emails, I want to share with you some
words that really touched me to the core. On our
Sunday gathering number two hundred and fifty two, and of
course that's our free non denominational online service on Zoom.
Our guest medium who gave the medium demonstration and also
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did our address is a Scottish medium named Stephen trolland
his mom passed just a few weeks before. He shared
some incredible words that brought me to tears, as if
his mom was talking to him from the afterlife. Stephen
says this about his mom. No matter what troubles she
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went through, she would always say I'm fine, I'm fine.
Even after calling the ambulance, and he was in the
ambulance with her. She laid there with her eyes closed,
holding his hands. She opened her eyes and said to him, Stephen,
I'm fine. So these words that he wrote are titled
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I'm fine. So if you want to make yourself comfortable
and think of your loved one as if they're telling
you these words. When I slipped away from physical sight,
remember that my love still lives. Don't learn to live
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without me. Just learn to live with my love in
a different way. And if you need me, listen to
your heart even now in this very moment, as truly,
my living presence is within these very words. And I'm
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not just memories, you know. Just ask ask me to
be within your precious moments because I'm there, I'm here,
and I'm fine. Do me a favor. Love yourself like
I do here. I can still care for you. Just
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speak to me whenever you wish for me to sit
with you, or even just a man, what would I
say or do. Don't learn to live without me. Just
treasure me in your own unique way, our way, like
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you have always done. Because I'm there, I'm here, and
I'm fine. Just like the stars are wrapped around the earth,
I do the same with you now, in this very moment,
with my living love still blossoming, wrapped around and within
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your world. And just like the stars that will always
and forever shine, I will still shine with you. I'm there,
I'm here, and I'm fine. You will still miss me,
but your hardships will soften through time. You see all
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this is just the nature of life, And just like
it is in nature for the stars to softly fade
into the morning sun. Although you can't see me, I'm there,
I'm here, and I'm fine, and I am with you
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learning to live with me and my love in this
new way. You are not alone. Remember that nature it
cannot lie. So think of us here now as part
of nature of life. We are all part of life,
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weaved within its beauty. I am everywhere anywhere you wish
me to be. But most of all, I'm there, I'm here,
and I'm fine. Distance, it does not matter, and remembering
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that nature cannot lie, and our love being a big
part of it. This for me is the binding strength
that continues to be the thread of life that still
weaves our soul, our heart, and mind together and through
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this thread, and in time your thoughts of separation and
hardships will soften. But I'll help you. And there are
many times that you may not know it, but I
will gently and softly kiss your mind and just hug
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you with my presence to help ease you where no
words are needed, like I have always done, but with
thought being a natural and living expression of nature, I
can still softly weave my love within yours so you
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can still know that I'm there, I'm here, and I'm fine.
The beauty of life is within everyone, and it is
still within me too, and the expression of life is everywhere.
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The only difference now is our perception and how you
look for me and find me in your moments. Now,
our moments, I am within every breath and every heartbeat.
I'm there, I'm here, And remember remember to love yourself
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the way I do. And then I'll be fine, Stephen
trolland went on to say that it's important to keep
those we love present in our life. That what we
give our attention to in life, we give our power,
and if we give our power, we give our presence.
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And by doing that, we're giving ourselves healing, and we
bring new perspectives into our life. And we're giving our
attention to those we love in the spirit world because
that is the meeting place for us, he said, We've
each only got a short space of time, and remember
everything you see. Every heart could say a thousand words,
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and there's lifetimes of thoughts and emotions, and beauty is
in each and every one of us. We come together
with those we love in this life and in the
spirit world, and we can bring out the best in
each other. I think that beauty will see that in you.
Our souls want us to live a loving and fulfilled life.
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What do you want to give your attention to? He says.
Out of every demonstration he gives and the thousands of
readings he's done over the years, each and everyone has
the same message that our loved ones want us to
see the best in ourselves. If you're fine, then they
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are that we each have a job to do now.
Our job is planting the seeds of richness of those
you love in the spirit world, in the hearts and
minds of others, to give to allow new seeds new life,
time to blossom, time to nurture, and nurture that within
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our children, our grandchildren, and our friends, that we each
have an unlimited amount of possibilities within us. To find
out more about our wonderful friend, medium Stephen Trolland you
can go to his website which is Soulfully Embraced dot com.
And if you wish to watch that full Sunday gathering,
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his full address and his medium demonstration, just go to
Weedo'tdie dot com, click on the Sunday Gathering page and
click on Sunday Gathering number two hundred and fifty two,
the theme being finding Beauty in Grief. I've never been
fond of expressions like the gift of grief, but I
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can tell you, fifteen years after the death of my dad,
had I never gone through such intense grief, I would
have never done the research that I have done, and
I would never be your host of Shades of the
Afterlife today. So for me, there was a gift. It's
time for us to go to the break and when
we get back, we'll hear some of your emails to
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me and signs from your loved ones. You're listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of
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the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Now I'd like to read
some of your emails. This one came from Connie. She says, Hi, Sandra,
I appreciate you sending your book, but I already have
it on audible and enjoy it very much. As a
licensed clinical social worker who worked in nursing homes, then
a private psychiatric hospital after retirement from there, in private
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practice until the age of seventy nine, with a third
of my practice doing home visits with ill and dying patients,
as well as at a convent with the religious, it
has been my privilege to witness a fair amount of
deathbed visions, the most common one being who are all
these people in my room? But my favorite story concerns
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my ex husband, who was one among many who didn't
believe in anything after death. My son constantly said to him, Dad,
send me a purple elephant. When you get to the
other side, I would say to my son, that's impossible.
Give him something easier to find, But my son insisted
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that his father send a purple elephant. My husband died
on Thanksgiving morning in twenty nineteen, before the pandemic, at
the age of ninety, after having a stroke. Not long afterwards,
my daughter was invited out to lunch by a friend
who had no knowledge of the above. She was invited
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to a new restaurant in an out of the way
place in Long Eye Island. Guess what now. Connie ended
her email there. I waited. All of a sudden, I
got a second email with a giant picture on It
is the front of the restaurant with a huge statue
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of a purple elephant. Thank you for sending that, Connie
Kay wrote me, and she said, Dear Sandra, I was
listening to your Shades of the Afterlife episode one ninety six.
I'm a little behind. On the podcast. You mentioned a
memory from your ex boyfriend who had transitioned coming in
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on your phone. I had to email you immediately about
a story of such a thing happening to my sisters
and I on the day we were giving my dad
an eightieth birthday party. My stepmom had transitioned tragically six
years prior to his eightieth birthday. He had really suffered
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a lot of grief and guilt through the years after
her death. We wanted to give my dad a special
eightieth birthday party. He seemed really sad because he said
he always thought if he made it to eighty, she
would still be with him. My stepmom was quite a
bit younger than my dad, and he never thought that
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she would go before him. We secretly invited several close
friends that he had not seen in years to his party.
On the morning of the party, I had gotten up
and was in the bathroom getting ready for the morning.
I was really thinking about my stepmom and how I
wished she could be there, that it would have made
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his party perfect. Then the light started flickering in the bathroom.
I thought, that's strange. I then walked out to pick
up my phone to take it with me outside to
have morning coffee with my sisters. One sister and I
lived together, but the other one lives with my dad
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in a different town, which was where the party was at,
so we don't get together very often. As I picked
up my phone. It said, you have memories with Nancy
s that's my stepmom. I opened the memory and what
was there is on the attachment I sent you. It
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was from eight years ago. Not one time in those
eight years have I ever received that memory until that day,
the exact same day as my dad's eightieth birthday party,
when all of us sisters were together. She was definitely
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there with us and him. And the message that was
on the attachment said, a message for my daughter in
my eyes, there is no one that can equal your beauty,
no one that can describe how much you mean to me,
nothing that could lessen my love for you as you
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have it now and for all of eternity, no matter
how old you might be, you will always be my
little girl to me. And that was from Nancy. Two K,
Thank you so much for sharing that K. This next
email came from Catherine. She writes, Hello, missus Sandra. My
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name is Catherine and I was a hospice nurse for
twenty four years. I lost my daughter Lexi in a
car accident, and I've been listening to your show, which
I absolutely love. I wanted to share some of the
incredible signs I've received since her passing, as they have
brought me both comfort and awe. The first sign came
the day Lexi passed away. She had her own apartment
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in a two flat home that I own. The hoodvent
in her apartment fell halfway off on the very day
she died, as if it was almost a message her.
After the funeral, we played the song if I Die Young.
On the way to the cemetery, we passed a group
of motorcycles and one of the bikers was playing that
very song on his harley. If you know that song,
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you'll understand how rare it is to hear such a
feminine song played on a harley. Everyone heard it, from
the funeral director to the pastor, and we were all
in disbelief. Another sign came when I was driving down
the highway. My daughter had been an assistant manager at
Dollar General, and her funeral photo was taken in a
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field of sunflowers, her favorite flower. Suddenly, a Dollar General
truck appeared in front of me, displayed a symbol of
a mother and a daughter holding hands surrounded by sunflowers.
It was like Lexi was reminding me that she was
still with me. There was a time I visited at
Alexi's sister's house and asked if she had any cream
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for my coffee. She mentioned she only had milk, which
was probably expired. The expiration date it was Lexi's birthday.
One of the most emotional signs was on Lexi's crash report.
Instead of listing her actual birthday, the report mistakenly displayed
my other daughter's birthday. A powerful sign involved my mother
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when she was being evaluated for a possible als diagnosis.
She went home, opened her computer, and the first thing
that appeared was the Bible verse Lexi had tattooed on
her body. It was Matthew six thirty four, Do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself.
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That verse has become a source of peace for our family.
Another significant moment happened when I was driving with my
son and thinking about Lexi. Out of nowhere, a dump
truck from the same company involved in her car accident
pulled out in front of us, as if to remind
us that she was close. Shortly after Lexi passed, I
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helped a friend pass out Halloween candy. Her elderly neighbor
who had dementia, was seeing people in her home since
I was a nurse, she asked me to check on her.
The woman described seeing a young girl who matched Lexi's
age and appearance. As we talked, she shared that she
had lost her son in a car accident the same
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way I lost Lexi and at a similar age. When
she told me the name of the cemetery where he
was buried, it turned out to be the same cemetery
as Lexi. I felt drawn to find his plot even
among the thousands there, and incredibly, the fourth one I
approached was his located kitty corner from Lexi's resting place.
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Most recently, I was having a rough day thinking about
Lexi and decided I was going to go to the
thrift shop. Something made me continue to go there, even
though I was kinda hesitant on going in and thought
about turning around. When I walked in and on an
end cap there was a stocking with L E XI,
which is Lexi's name. It was even crooked, which was
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the same way Lexi had her name on her name tag.
I ended up buying the stocking and hanging it up
this Christmas. I could go on with so many other
powerful signs, but these are a few that have felt
deeply significant to me. I believe in the afterlife because
of experiences like these, as well as the countless patience
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I cared for during my years in hospice, who described
being visited by deceased loved ones before they passed. Catherine
gave me her phone number and said she would love
to share more stories. I reached out to Catherine to
see if we may do an interview with her and
hear her voice and hear more about Lexi and some
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of the stories of people that passed in hospice. Thank
you so much, Catherine for sending me this. We got
another email from another Catherine. She says, Hi, Sandra, I
told you about a telephone call I received from my
deceased brother. So here it is. Although I had three
older brothers, all of whom are in spirit, one I
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was particularly close to pat. Every Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day,
we would call each other from wherever we were in
the world France, Washington, Minnesota, Ireland, etc. It didn't matter.
It would typically go like this. He and his family
would open the presence we had sent them, and then
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they would call to thank us. Several hours later because
of the different time zones, after we opened our gifts
from them. We would call his family back and thank
them for our gifts. After a relatively short but intense
six month or deal with esophagus cancer in two thousand
and one, he passed in June of that year. Fast
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forward to Christmas Eve that year. I had been doing
last minute Christmas errands, returning home about six pm to
notice the red light blinking on the answering machine. It
would have been two hours later in Minneapolis. At that
time I listened to the message. I heard nothing but static,
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but then within the static my brother Pat's voice saying
Merry Christmas. And then I heard a nickname that only
he and I knew. I'm absolutely certain of what I heard.
I listened to it probably fifty times. After a bit,
my son came home and I told him listen to
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this message, and I watched his face turn white. He said,
it sounds like Uncle Pat wishing you merry Christmas. Not
being one to enjoy after death communications, he high tailed
it out of there. Then in sequence, my husband and
daughter each came home and listened to it. No one
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has any doubts that it was the voice of my brother.
To this day, it was the greatest Christmas Present ever. Friends,
I love your stories. Please keep sending them to me.
We're going to head to the break and when we
come back, we'll hear some more stories. You're listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
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Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of
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the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain, and right now we're featuring
emails that I've received from your fellow listeners. This one's
from Dana. She's at I Sandra. I know that you
occasionally produce episodes of the podcast that are devoted to
signs from our loved ones in the spirit world, so
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I thought i'd share one of many that you might enjoy.
If you ever decide to do another signs episode, feel
free to use it or not. It certainly wouldn't hurt
my feelings if you don't.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Dana here. It is one of the many times that
I was driving across the vast desert that makes up
much of the drive between my home in Austin, Texas
and my mother's home in San Diego, California, I was
listening to one of your podcast episodes that you had
dedicated to signs sent by our loved ones. I had
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been extremely close to my maternal grandmother when I was
a child, and when she passed in two thousand and seven,
it broke my heart. Of course, the years passed and
the hurt healed, but I talked to her often, even
though I never asked for or expected a sign from her.
When You're our episode had concluded, I decided to ask
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her for a sign. I asked out loud, as you
had suggested I do. I asked her to send me
a pink feather. You said, to be specific, Sandra, And
when I was satisfied that I had made myself clear
and that she must have heard me, I turned the
radio back on and waited for my sign, which I
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expected to come in about two weeks. A half an
hour later, I pulled off the highway to stop into
a goodwill thrift store. I am a vintage clothing in
housewares dealer by trade, and often will stop at thrift
shops while I am traveling to see if I can
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find any treasures. I went in, found a cartful of stuff,
and walked the cart out to the parking lot to
my car to empty my newly purchased loot. Everything was
perfectly normal. I turned around to return the cart to
the interior of the store when a small white feather
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rolled across my path. I looked at it and thought, oh,
a feather, But then I was disappointed to see that
it was not pink but white, or was it? As
I looked closer, I noticed that the small feather was
actually a very pale pink color. I thought that maybe
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it was just the light and that I was trying
to force a puzzle piece into the wrong spot, so
I just rolled past it, and then I stopped dead
in my tracks when another definitely pink feather rolled across
my feet. I felt a shock of electricity surged through
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my body and all my hair stood up on end.
As I bent down to pick up the second feather,
I suddenly saw pink feathers in three different shades flying
all around my feet, where there had been absolutely none
anywhere less than three minutes before. I looked around to
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see if anyone was wearing a pink feather jacket or
a boa or something, but there was no one anywhere
near me. It was absolutely astonishing. There was absolutely no
doubt in my mind that she was making herself known,
and it would have been just like her too, not
to just send one pink feather, but to do it
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up in a big way and send me as many
as she could muster. She never did anything halfway. Since then,
I have received many more signs from her and from
other loved ones as well. Since I learned from you
that all I have to do is ask and to
pay attention, I have had some incredible gifts from my
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loved ones in spirit. Thank you again for everything you do.
I know I've said it before, but you are really
changing lives friend, Dana. Thanks so much, Dana, sending you
so much love and keep the stories coming. Our next
story comes from Marylyn and in it she refers to
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Phil Dike's Phil and his wife Carrie McLeod are the
medium tutors that I trust the most to teach medium classes.
So here are her words. I hadn't been meditating that
much lately, but yesterday did an hour meditation that Phil
Dikes had on YouTube. At the end of the meditation,
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I silently asked my daughter Amy to please visit me
in my dreams that night. I hadn't been receiving many
signs lately, Sandra, I had the most amazing visitation dream
from Amy that I've ever had in the last three years.
In the dream, we discovered another room in our house.
It was her old room, but bigger, with a queen
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size bed in it, but we hadn't opened the door
since she passed. I opened the door and the room
had so much dust in it, but it was pretty,
so I thought I would clean it up and we
would store all of her art in it. It was
a perfect place for that. Dad came in the room
with me, and I said, let's leave the bed for
guests to sleep in. And I began to take the
(31:18):
blanket off, and just then I felt a live figure
with me. It was Amy, a little younger. I felt
her whole outline as she was moving, and I could
see her brownish hair. I said, Amy, where have you been?
She said, Mom, I've been night gazing. I kept touching
her body, proving she was still alive, and I said
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to her Dad record her words. I hugged her and
hugged her, and just then I woke up again. I
was meditating the night before for an hour, and I
asked her to come in my dreams for a visitation.
It's the asking for signs and visits. That's what I've
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finally learned. We have to do, not beg but simply ask,
and you never know when a sign or a visit
will come. I had woken up and gone back to
sleep and had this visitation somewhere between seven and eight
thirty in the morning. I think that is an easy
time for our loved ones to visit us because we
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fall back into a deeper consciousness, a much higher vibration.
I couldn't be happier. Thank you so much, Sandra, Carrie
and Phil. Thank you so much, Marilyn for sharing that.
I have recorded several different episodes about dreams, and I
clearly remember doctor Janet Pete Alatto. That was episode one
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point eighty four. Yes, the importance of talking to our
loved ones and asking for signs and meditating, but she said,
when you wake up in the morning, you're in that
zone somewhere between awake and a slow and we can
jumpstart our own dreams with our loved ones and picture
them with us and let it unfold, and it's an
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easy time for them to join us in that day
dreamy state. And the other episode one fifty six about
lucid dreaming this sounds very much like what Marilyn was experiencing.
I know for myself when I get that second sleep,
you know, when the bladder wakes you up somewhere in
the middle of the night and you get a couple
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more hours of sleep, that's when these clear dreams can
tend to happen. So if we are in communication with
our loved one asking for signs, having that intention, I
hope if you haven't heard those episodes, you go back
and check them out, because there's nothing more comforting than
feeling a hug from your loved one, hearing their voice,
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waking up and knowing it was the real thing. Let's
continue with the words I got from Paul. He said, Hi,
and last week I had a session with the medium
who was on your show, and I was completely blown away.
I used the yes, no, and not sure technique, and
she was accurate about ninety five percent of the time.
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It felt surreal. I couldn't believe all the information she
was saying, especially when she delivered the exact message I
had asked my dad to convey as evidence of the afterlife.
You see, when my dad passed away, I visited him
in the funeral home three times from his passing, no
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one removed his glasses, and he wore them throughout during
the rest. On my final visit before the funeral service,
I decided to take off his glasses and I took
them home and put them in a pouch for a keepsake.
No one was with me when I did this, and
only my mom knew about it. Before my session ended
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with the medium, I had asked my dad to mention
what I did as a sign, knowing that no one
else would know. Amazingly, she brought up the topic of
me taking the glasses off his face. She even said
that my dad joked, why did you do that, Paul,
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I couldn't see afterwards, a remark that perfectly matched my
dad's sense of humor. You can only imagine how astonished
I was. This was such an incredible experience, and I
want to thank you again for your show and providing
a platform to explore and open our minds to these possibilities.
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You are truly blessed for the work you do. Kind regards, Paul, Paul,
thank you so much. I think for each and every
one of us, it's easy to share when we find
something that makes a difference. For ourselves something or someone.
Now Paul brings up mediums and on my first podcast,
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which you can still find today, we Don't Die, a
radio that is on YouTube. Over the course of almost
five hundred episodes, I've interviewed in full length a lot
of people, many of whom were mediums. I have to
be honest, in the first many years that podcast is
now eleven years old, but in the first many many
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years I just interviewed anybody who had a story about
the afterlife. It wasn't till the last two or three
years I would say that the mediums that I've had
on I have asked them point blank, do you offer
a money back guarantee. There's something called a ten minute guarantee.
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You want to be sure if you go to a
medium that they have that guarantee. For whatever the reason.
Maybe the signal's not right between your loved one and them.
But if you aren't getting good evidence in the first
ten minutes, the medium reading to an end and you
don't pay. I may read more stories from fellow listeners
when we get back, but I have an instinct to
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share some words from parents who have children residing in
the unseen world. You see many of the emails that
I got were not stories of signs, but there were
stories of heartbreak. The great author Richard Bach said, don't
be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before meeting again,
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and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for
those who are friends. We will see them all again,
and I'll see you again just after the break. We'll
be right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife
on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,
and you've been hearing some lovely emails that people have
sent me. I wish I could say all the emails
I received were joyful messages of signs and reunions. But
to be honest, ninety percent of the emails I receive
are letters of grief. It is a tough journey, as
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you know. If you do not yet have a copy
of my book again, please go to Weedn'tdie dot com.
The bottom of the page, you can enter your name
and your email address says you get the first few
chapters of my book. It's the entire book. Chapter ten
is one of the most important chapters about grief and
moving through the process. Things we can do, things that
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are out of our control. There are many emails I
receive from parents. No matter what kind of grief you experience,
it's all brutal. But for parents listening, please go to
Helpingparents Heal dot org if you're not a parent, they
have great resources that you can find on their YouTube
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channel through their website. In our last segment together, I
want to read some words from these parents. They're called
Shining Light Parents. I love that there's a page on
their website with some of the book titles written by
these parents. Shining Light Parents Speak, Helping Fathers, Heal. Still
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right here, gathering at the doorway. Mom, I'm not gone.
We're not done yet. Pop. My lessons from the other side,
Resilient grieving, Hello from Heaven, Grief to Growth, Messages of hope,
My search for Christopher on the other side, Conversations with
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Clo we Never left You to Heaven and back, and
dozens and dozens and dozens more. Not too long ago,
on episode two one three, I got to speak with
doctor Mark Pittstick, who put together a book along with
four Shining Light parents including one hundred and thirty stories
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from other Shining Light parents. Within Helping Parents Heal, we
talk about the great book that they put together, and
I thought today, in our last segment together, I'll read
some of the stories from some of the parents again.
This is from the book Shining Light Parents Speak. The
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title of chapter two is Sensing your Child's Presence. Our
children have graduated from Earth School, but they are not
far away. They are in a different realm, dimension, or
vibrational reality that many of us cannot detect with our
five senses. However, a sixth sense and other ways to
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perceive them can come into play. This chapter answers the
question have you learned to optimally sense your children's living presence.
Members of Helping Parents Heal have shared how their kids
communicate through a vast array of signs. A bird, a
license plate, a song on the radio, a touch, or
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even a whisper. These connections are easily dismissed by people
who have no need for them and consider them to
be mere coincidences. But those of us who have had
these pleasantly surprising signs and synchronicities have no doubt they
are from our children. There is an unexplainable resonance that
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accompanies these validations when you know, you know. The following
accounts of one hundred and thirty affiliate leaders in Caring
Listeners interviews are just a small sampling of those told
by many thousands of members of Helping Parents Heal. This
book offers an excellent representation of the continued connections we
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have with our children. They are always with us because
love never dies and relationships continue. Siama's mom, Marie said,
she said to me once, I'm going to send you
a rainbow. There were no clouds in the sky. But
by the time I got home, maybe three minutes later,
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my husband said, there's a rainbow outside, but it's not raining.
Chris R's Sun Shawn communicated with his parents right away
after his transition from Earth at the age twenty three.
On the night we decided to discontinue Shawn's life support,
we left the hospital and sat out on the patio
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as the sun went down illuminated over the hospital. The
sky looked just like a giant pair of angel wings.
We always called him our angel boy, and his middle
name was Gabriel. Deb N knows that it helps to
keep in communication with her son, Dean, who changed worlds
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at twenty four. I love getting signs from Dean and
I always thank him. His ability to provide them is
just incredible. On Thanksgiving Day, I was out in my
mother in law's backyard overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and this
hummingbird was flying around as the sun was setting. I said, Dean,
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it would be really nice if you could help me
out here and let me take a picture of that
hummingbird in front of the sunset. The little hummingbird landed
on top of a bush, lined up with the sun
and sat there for ten minutes as the sun set.
That's the kind of thing that he's really responsive to.
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I just believe it. It's a choice, but it takes
time to get there. I know he's here, I recognize it.
Ask him for signs, and he just shows up with them.
Barb says her son, Jordan is amazing. I sit outside
and we can ask for a falling star and he
will provide it. My husband and I were camping and
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it was super cold. We wanted to go inside, so
he gave him a countdown. By the time we got
to four, there went a shooting star right where we
said it was going to be. Jordan passed at the
age of twenty five. One of the first signs was
a tiny frog, says Bibet, mom to Daniel, who transitioned
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from Earth at age twenty five. Daniel loved frogs, and
since his passing we've received hundreds of frogs. One time,
I was desperate for a sign and asked him for
a frog, even though it wasn't the right season for them.
I got up and opened a cabinet in the house,
and a frog jumped out and landed on my leg.
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It's been to us to magical. Marilyn's son Kevin made
his transition from Earth after a three and a half
year illness. I wish I could say I hear him
and see him as clearly as some other people do.
But I do talk to him all the time. I
get signs, and I feel the love he has for
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his family will never go away. His love is the
only truth. I find coins, shells in the shape of
a heart, and birds seem like they are talking just
to me. Amy says in the first month and a
half after he passed, Chris was sending messages like crazy,
but I wasn't getting it. I knew something was happening
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because the bathroom lights would flicker every night. I'd go
in there and they were flickering. I'd leave the bathroom
and they stop flickering. Then I'd get in bed and
the bedside light would flicker. I was in such a
fog that I thought there was something wrong with the
electricity in the house. Finally I met someone who said, oh,
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that's Chris. Our children try to get our attention in
any way they can, including through lights, phones, and home electronics.
In these cases, parents often try to figure out if
there's a logical reason for these incidents, but when there isn't,
they conclude it has to be their child getting their
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attention and saying hello, because there is no other explanation
for how these things can happen. I didn't believe in
survival of consciousness after death, remarks Ramona, whose daughter Mia
was one month old when she moved into the next realm.
But Mia sure tried from the first day to communicate.
When we came home from the funeral, and of course,
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imagine the state I was in. We were eating at
the table with my parents, MIA's godparents, my husband, and
two other daughters. There was a printer in the room,
which was definitely turned off. Suddenly it turned out by
itself and printed a blank page. This is something that
even my husband, who is a techie, can't explain to
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this day. When it's turned off, it's turned off. Lights
are a huge sign from my son, says Lisa h
whose son Shane changed world at sixteen. My husband is
a video designer. There were many screens to contend with
when Shane was here. Shortly after Shane passed, my husband
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and I witnessed a sequence of rainbows spontaneously going across
a screen while watching a game my husband had created
just for Shane, but it was never coded that way.
It was my son manipulating it and coming through to us.
My husband has since developed away for Shane and his
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own daughter to communicate with us, using a light show
in his room. Carly's mom, Irene says, I have learned
that I can continue to communicate with carl that I
still have a relationship with her. I talked to her
all of the time and encourage her to send me
signs which I get in the forms of songs, rainbows,
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and dream visits. And one of my dream visits, I
asked her, are you with me. She said, I'm always
with you, but I'm busy. I have a life here.
If you call on me, I will be there, But
here I have many things to do. Beverly says her
son Mason, who made his transition from Earth at age nineteen,
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is pretty active. Shortly after he transitioned, I had a
visitation dream where he just let me know that he
was okay, healthy and healed. It was very strong. When
you have very strong signs, trust your intuition. You'll know
if it's something more than wishful. Thinking parents should trust
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that the love and the bond with their child is eternal.
It doesn't end, and when their physical body transitions, many
parents have an awareness of their child's presence through their senses.
Some say they have seen their child objectively right in
front of them, even for just a moment. They may
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hear their child's voice call them or whisper I Love
you in their ear, and many feel their child's physical touch,
a warm surge of energy, kiss on the cheek, sweet hug,
or silly poke on the arm while falling asleep. These
glimpses may not happen very often, but even the memory
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of that one time can create smiles for a lifetime.
Those were literally just a few pages from the book
Shining Light Parents Speak. Don't forget to come visit me
at We Don't Die dot com. Check out our free
Sunday gathering with medium demonstration and more before we go.
(49:59):
I just want to remind of the words from Stephen
trolland I'm there, I'm here, and I'm fine. Your loved
ones really are with you and you will see them again.
I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for listening to
Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network.
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