Trusting the Unseen: A Conversation About Mediumship, Soul Work, and Awakening a New Path

In this personal and expansive conversation, Adina chats with Monica LeBlanc about transition, trust, and spiritual awakening. Monica—a licensed therapist, coach, and writer based in Asheville—opens up about stepping away from traditional models of work and embracing a more intuitive, unconventional path.

They explore Monica’s personal and professional path, including awakening to her spiritual and extra-sensory gifts. With warmth and vulnerability, Monica shares moments from her childhood, powerful therapeutic encounters, and her ongoing process of embracing her psychic abilities.

This episode is a rich exploration of how we heal ourselves, trust the unknown, and make space for new dimensions of identity to emerge.

Topics Covered:

• Letting go of "masculine energy" in career transitions
• The intersection of therapy and spirituality
• Discovering mediumship and psychic gifts
• Differentiating intuition, empathy, and spiritual messages
• Honoring consent in spiritual work
• Family healing through spirit communication
• Learning to trust your experiences without external validation

Monica Leblanc is a therapist, coach, freelance writer and enneagram teacher. Based out of Asheville, NC, she sees clients who are navigating boundaries and limits with their family of origin. She uses a combination of IFS, the enneagram, experiential modalities and DARE to help recovering people pleasers alchemize their pain into purpose and meaning and create alignment in their choices. Monica spends time with her clients in sessions or intensives to help generate shifts where they feel stuck. 

Monica teaches the enneagram in the embodiment tradition which is a lineage based in body energetics and utilizing awareness of our enneagram pattern for personal growth and alignment. She teaches public workshops, offers corporate retreats, and has online courses. 

Monica was also the premier therapeutic writing contributor to Deepak Chopra’s online magazine, Chopa Global. She contributed topics including but not limited to boundaries, grief, and working with ancestral trauma. She is currently blogging and working on various writing projects. 

Monica's website: monica-leblanc.com

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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