September 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Soul to soul—this is your gentle reminder: your loved ones in the spirit world are not gone, and they are certainly not judging you. They continue to watch over you with love, encouragement, and support, and your connection with them is closer than you may realize.
Yet so many of the worries people carry about life after death come from misunderstandings that can block us from truly feeling their presence. This week, we’re clearing up the 5 Myths That Block Your Connection With Loved Ones in Spirit—insights that bring comfort, healing, and a deeper sense of spirit connection.
You’ll hear about:
– Why you’re not bothering your loved ones when you think of them or talk to them
– Why they’re not judging your choices from the other side
– Why they don’t know your exact future—and why that’s actually a blessing
– The truth that nobody is stuck or trapped in limbo
– And why your loved ones have not abandoned you, even if you don’t always sense them near
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Joy, hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit
speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni,joyful medium. I'm a working
psychic medium, energy healerand spiritual gifts mentor. This
podcast is like a seat at thetable in a secret club, but with
mediums, mystics and thespiritual luminaries of our
time. So come behind the velvetropes with me and see inside my
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world as I chat insider stylewith profoundly gifted souls, we
go deep, share juicy stories,laugh a lot, and it wouldn't be
a speakeasy without greatinsider secrets and tips. You
might even learn that you havesome gifts of your own so step
inside the spirit. Speak Easy.
Hey, beautiful soul. Welcome infor another episode of spirit
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speakeasy today, we are going totalk about the five biggest
misconceptions about life afterdeath. Consider this episode a
soul to soul, gentle reminderthat your loved ones in the
spirit world are not gone in anyway, and they're also not
judging you. They continue towatch over you with love, with
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encouragement and with support.
In fact, so many of the worriespeople carry about life after
death are based onmisunderstandings beliefs that
can actually get in the way offeeling connected to those we
love. So in this episode, we'regoing to clear up five of the
biggest misconceptions aboutlife after death, why you're not
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bothering your loved ones whenyou think of them or talk to
them from the other side, whythey're not judging you or your
choices from heaven, why theydon't happen to know your exact
future, and why that's actuallynot a bad thing. We'll talk
about the truth that no one isactually stuck or trapped in
some sort of limbo between thisworld and the other. We're going
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to get into that and why yourloved ones have definitely not
abandoned you, even if you can'talways sense them nearby. So by
the end of this conversation, myhope is that you'll feel
reassured, comforted, maybe havesome clarity if you have had
some of these fivemisconceptions yourself, and of
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course, reminded that the lovethat you share with those who
have already crossed over to thespirit world hasn't gone
anywhere. It's alive. It'spresent. And your love, as well
as their souls, continue on,just in a different way, guiding
you for the rest of your days.
So let's get into this. First ofthese five misconceptions,
you're not bothering them. Iwant to dispel this
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misconception in a way, a lot ofpeople have this idea that our
loved ones are either sitting insome like special heavenly board
meeting room that they can't getout of to come see us or come
visit us, or that they're inthese like classrooms, that the
doors are locked and they're ina faraway place, very busy On
the other side, too busy tocheck in. And the truth is,
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their souls are not bound bytime and space, the same way
that we experience it here, whenwe're in a physical body, their
souls have the flexibility tomove around once. We're not
limited in a physical body. Wecan even be in more than one
place at a time, which we'regoing to talk about in just a
few minutes. The truth is, Loveis an eternal bond, and when you
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think of your loved one, itnaturally calls their soul
close. So when they pop intoyour mind, they're already right
beside you, sharing time, space,love, energy with you right in
that moment, and it's a soul tosoul connection that we have
that is facilitated through thelove that we still share. You
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know, we all know that matter,energy doesn't disappear, it
just changes form. But the sameis true of love. It doesn't
disappear, it might just changeform. The love that we share is
still real. You don't even haveto schedule an appointment with
your loved ones. The connectionis natural and effortless, and
just thinking of them bringsthem close to you, and they can
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spend time with you wheneverthey choose and whenever you
choose. I like to think of itlike a conversation with someone
very close to you. You don'thave to shout, you don't have to
talk out loud to them whereveryou go. It really is a heart to
heart or soul to soulcommunication. I mean your
energetic heart, not yourphysical heart, but it really
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opens the door just when youthink of them, they're present.
Spirit people don't have totravel to reach you. They're not
in some far off place. They'realready near. The spirit world
is just an unseen world withinthis world. I really feel like
certain parts of quantum physicsare getting us a little closer.
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To our understanding of thiswith their the ideas around
dimensional realities, becauseeverything's existing right here
right now. They're very presentwith us in the here and now, and
you're not bothering them. Theyreiterate it through readings in
different ways, over and over.
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I'm thinking of a specificclient story with this one where
I had a client, she had lost achild, and the child was, you
know, an older teen, early 20s,when they passed, and it had
been several years, many years,and as I was doing a reading for
this client, when their kiddostarted to communicate and share
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details from the spirit world.
They were so relieved. And theyeven said to me, Oh, I'm so
relieved I had another mediumseveral years ago tell me that
they couldn't connect to mychild because my child had
already moved on to somethingelse. They were too busy. They
were doing something else. And Iam here to tell you that that is
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not the case. They can belearning and having adventures
and exploring on the other side,but they can also be close with
you, with your soul, in anygiven moment, and again, you're
not bothering them. So that isMisconception Number One.
Misconception Number two, thismight come as a shock to some
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people. They are not judging youfrom the other side. Spirit
always comes through with love,not criticism or judgment in the
way we think of it, in our humanmind, they might joke with you
and acknowledge something you'redoing that they wouldn't have
maybe approved of when they werehere in physical form. They
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might acknowledge a challengethat you experienced, or
something you might perceive asa mistake that happened in your
life. So they they of course,could acknowledge it. They can
know about that, but it's alwayscoming from a place of
understanding, of love, andnever from judgment. And that's
true even if the version of themthat you experienced in the
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physical meaning, if you had aperson in your life that was
very judgmental, let's just say,when they cross over to the
other side, they become more ofthe full soul version of
themselves, without the humancomplications and challenges
they see from a soulperspective, rather than from
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only our limited humanperspective. So that means that
they understand deeply theemotions of your struggles, the
reason behind choices, whetherthey roll out to be a positive
choice or challenging choice,from the other side, they can
understand why we're making thechoices that we're making, and
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even the pain that we've carriedas a result of choices, for
example, they don't show up likein judgment or wanting to
lecture us in a in a way thatfeels mean and harsh. They show
up with compassion. Judgmentreally is a human construct. On
the other side, it's aboutgrowth, healing, understanding,
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love. So when a loved oneconnects or spends time with you
or visits you, whether it'sthrough a medium, or whether
it's just in your own day to daylife. The quote, unquote
message, or what they would wantto share is about encouragement,
not condemnation. They don'thave that single minded
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perspective. And I've even hadthis be communicated during
readings in what might even feellike some very simple ways. I'm
thinking of this family that allchose to get some version of
matching tattoos. I'm trying toremember the exact story. I
don't know that they each hadthe exact same thing, but they
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each had a tattoo thatrepresented this matriarch of
the family who had passed away.
So the next, you know, lowergenerations all decided to get
something in honor of her. Well,when she was here, the way she
communicated it in the reading,she was not the biggest fan of
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tattoos. She believed that youshouldn't mark your body. And
she had just some strong ideasand feelings
about specifically, tattoos, andshe communicated during the
reading that well, in her time,when she was in her adult years,
you know, culturally, theassumptions were different, and
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tattoos were maybe not soacceptable then, and that she
was working from an oldperspective, right, a
perspective that maybe thecurrent 2025, or, you know,
early 2020s we have a differentperspective in our cultures and
societies some of the time, notalways. There are still
certainly cultures and societiesthat frown upon. It, but she was
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just saying she understands,from her perspective in the
spirit world, the sentimentbehind the tattoos and the
sentiment behind wantingsomething that connected them
all that connected them to her,that really felt like a special,
sacred representation that theyeach wanted to have. She
understood all of thosesentiments, and actually she
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even mentioned some of thespecific designs that they had
chosen to honor her. And sheeven made some commentary about
liking some of the designsomeone had like a floral,
something that she had mentionedthat she really liked, and it
was actually her favorite flowerin that case, so they can have a
different perspective, adifferent understanding, even if
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they felt close minded when theywere here from the other side,
again, they are seeing from asoul perspective. So they're not
going to judge our choices or usin the same way. And they, even
though they're they have theirsame personality, they just have
a broadened perspective fromtheir soul perspective, and are
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not so stuck in maybe some ofthe ideas and mindsets that they
were when they were here. So Ihope that makes sense as number
two of our biggest fivemisconceptions about life after
death, number three of ourbiggest five misconceptions
about life after death is theydon't know your future. Spoiler
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alert, the future is not predecided. For us, we make
choices, and then things happen,and then we make more choices. I
don't believe that the future ispredetermined, and I have
learned over and over and overagain in readings this. This
really surprises people. Thisone, if they're in the spirit
world, why can't they tell mewhat's going to happen next? Why
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can't they tell me in what yearI'm going to have a baby, or
when I'm going to get married,or what the stock market's going
to do next year? Why can't theytell me this is a pretty common
misconception while our lovedones on the other side can see
some of our potential paths,right? Because any scenario or
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choice that we're entering,there's a group of options.
Right? It might be choosing, youknow, one path over another, it
might be the timing. It might beour free will contributions, the
action steps, but there's agroup of potentials of the way
things could go in any scenario.
But because of free will, ourfuture isn't fixed like that.
It's almost like if you choosedoor number one, this is what
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happens next. Door number two,this is what happens next,
right? And those choices lead toresults that are nuanced, day to
day, hour by hour, in ourexperience, and as we make free
will choices, and as everyonearound us makes Free Will
choices, these little nuancedetails of our lives shift and
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change and pivot right. Justthink about if you ever were
back in school when we're at theage where we're doing like team
projects with other kids, thinkabout the day that the project's
due, right? And you have topresent it, and everyone is very
stressed out. Well, that couldgo lots of ways. Maybe the
person who's supposed to givethe talking part of your
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presentation calls out sick thatday. Maybe the next person is
super prepared in a surprisingturn of events, right? So
there's lots of ways thatdifferent scenarios can roll
out. Our future's not fixedbecause of free will. So our
loved ones from the spirit worldcan nudge us. They can try to
guide us. They can help tosupport us in what our soul
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knows is the highest choice,right? I think in most
situations, let's be honest,depending on what's going on, we
know there's like a high roadchoice, there's a low road
choice, and some options in themiddle. So perhaps your loved
ones on the other side arenudging you lovingly towards
that high road choice. But theycan't control your free will.
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They don't give you absolutepredictions, since the future is
not pre decided, that is mylittle future is not pre
decided. Lecture. I'm workingwith some coffee today. You guys
know I don't usually get outsidecoffee, so let me just sit for a
second. Here. I am needing alittle kick energy. Today, there
is an incredible medium,arguably one of the greatest
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mediums of our time, who is nowon the spirit side herself. Miss
Mavis patella, p, i, t, t, I, L,L, A, if you are, if you are
interested in mediumship at all,I highly recommend that you
check out her work. She'sincredible, and she explains
this concept beautifully in herbook. She's She's several books,
but the one I'm talking about iscalled both sides of life,
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released in 2008 co written bySusan Farrow. And the way it's
explained in this book is thatour soul's journey is like a map
with many roots, many possibleroots. Right, and our loved ones
can see which direction looksmaybe like the easiest or the
most aligned, but they can'tdictate or know every single
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turn that we will take or thatthose around us will take. And
Davis has even said, I'm notgoing to get an exact quote
here, so please forgive me ifI'm if I'm missing words here a
bit, but the way I understandthis quote to be from Mavis is
spirit can point to the signposts or the guide posts, but we
as individuals must decide whichroad to take. So I hope that
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makes sense to you in theoverall prediction of things and
why they can't really see farinto our future. There's another
well known medium named JohnEdward. He often frames it as
that spirit, the spirit world.
Our loved ones in the spiritworld can shine a flashlight
down the path, but we still haveto take the action and walk the
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path, right? So for that reason,they don't have the future to
tell you they don't know eitheryou are creating the future day
by day, moment by moment, withthe choices that you make, what
you choose and what you don'tchoose. And remember sometimes
even not making a choice, likerefusing to make a choice, is
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still a choice, and stillcreates its own ripple of
results. So I invite you to justlet go of that misconception
about hoping that your lovedones on the other side will
predict the future, because it'snot pre decided for us. Let's
move on to our fourth of thesefive most common, biggest
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misconceptions about life afterdeath.
Spirit doesn't get lost.
Nobody's stuck, you guys, Ioften, I have people coming with
these fearful ideas that perhapstheir loved one is stuck or
lost. I again, just recently hada lovely young person who had
lost a parent, whose parent hadcrossed over not terribly long
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ago, and they said they had seena spiritual practitioner, and
that spiritual practitioner toldthem that their parent was lost,
was trying to get to the otherside, to reunite with the other
family in the spirit world, andthat they were lost and
struggling to cross over. And asyou may or may not be surprised
that specific practitioner, asmy client, told me, also had a
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cure for this, had somethingthey could do at a certain cost
to them, that this practitionercould get their person unstuck.
The spirit world is a world.
Within our world, our souls havean intelligence. There is a
divine intelligence to thespirit side as well. So our soul
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is either incarnated in aphysical body or it's in the
spirit world. There's, there isno in between place to get lost,
to remember earlier we weretalking about, excuse me,
they're not traveling to somefar away place. I know that
often, culturally, we are taughtto think of heaven or the spirit
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world or the other side, beyondthe veil, right even the word
beyond makes us feel it has theintonation that it's a far away
place that they have to journeyto. And often in you know, we're
all taught about like ancientEgypt, for example, in school.
Well, depending what we'retaught, I guess we're, you know,
they're traveling down theriver, river Nile, through down
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the underworld, through theriver Hades. Well, it's not a
journey like that. Do they getto go on adventures and do
things on the other side? Sure,but there's not an in between
place that they are getting lostwhen they're leaving the
physical body. Crossing over isa natural process. It's like
being drawn back to love itself,back to the purest, truest
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version of yourself. I'm goingto take a quick sip of this
coffee, guys. It's pretty it'spretty good. Okay, so I think
part of the challenge with withthis idea of of souls getting
stuck in between worlds has todo with movies and ghost stories
and media kind of dramatizingthe idea of these stuck souls,
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tortured souls, but in truth,spirit transitions with ease.
The once the body shuts down,the soul is immediately in the
spirit world, and that's true nomatter the type of passing. So
that's the other sort of Part Bunder this nobody's stuck.
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Sometimes people get attached tothe idea that depending on the
nature of the passing, forexample, some people believe
that it's of a medical passing.
Of course, they would goimmediately to the spirit world.
But if it's a more challengingpassing, let's say completion of
suicide, for example, oh, well,then there must be some Limbo
place that they go to. Andthat's just not the case. That's
just not true. True. We'reeither in a body, and once our
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soul leaves the body, we areimmediately in the non physical
world, in the spirit world. Sothat transition is is natural.
We might interpret this likestuck energy as like emotional
residue in a place, for example,but it's not a person's soul
trapped forever. We might stillfeel the residual energy of a
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person, even if it's not thepresence of their actual soul in
a place, but it's not them stuckthere forever. The other little
piece of this that I think isreally interesting, that I don't
hear a lot of these, likeparanormal investigators talking
about so we have this idea formovie and these haunted type
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shows that places are haunted,right? And the way I understand
it is the soul's not stuckthere. Can they be there
visiting that place? Sure. Coulda psychic investigator be
picking up on or feeling orsensing or understanding
residual emotion of a trauma ora tragedy in a place. Of course,
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I felt that myself in placeswhere, particularly like tragic
or traumatic things havehappened as a sensitive
sometimes we can feel aresidual, heavy energy or sad
energy. Often I hear themterming it as like, quote,
unquote, dark energy. It justmeans heavy or sad or not great
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feeling. But it doesn't meanthat there's an evil spirit and
the other bit of it. So thatcould be one aspect of what's
happening. The other thing thatcould be happening is,
hypothetically, if there was anarchitect, let's just say that
designed a building and had aspecial interest in that
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building, they can go back andvisit that building. They might
be curious about the changesbeing made in that place, or the
redecoration being done. Theymight know that you love that
house, and they also love thathouse. And so you guys are
connected by this mutual love ofthis property. For example,
perhaps they left somethingbehind in that house that
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they're wanting to bringattention to. So there can be
lots of reasons, but it's notsomeone being stuck or trapped.
So please don't worry whetheryour own loved ones are stuck or
trapped. They transitionimmediately to the spirit side.
And the truth is, spirit isreceived with Love always.
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There's no limbo, no punishment.
Everyone is greeted by lovedones and helpers on the other
side. And I've actually evencome to learn that sometimes
those with the more tragic, themore traumatic, the more
difficult, passing are greetedwith even more love and helped
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to heal, helped to come to anunderstanding of, for example,
why they made the difficultchoices they made in their life
that perhaps led to theirdeparture. They're they're given
extra attention, extra care,extra nurturing. They're not met
with punishment or shipped offto some like Holding, holding
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loading zone or something. Eachsoul is welcomed and received,
uh, back home, that's trulywhere we spend most of our
existence. Let's say a very longhuman life in our present day
time is like 105 years is maybethe oldest person I've heard of
recently, and even that, in thegrand scheme of time is very
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short. So we we are going backhome to our natural residence of
our soul, right? So just knowthat it's a natural transition.
Nobody's stuck. Your loved onesare not in a limbo. They are
back with the family. They'refree to move about and that they
are not in a bad or stuck place,okay? So that is our fourth of
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these five misconceptions. Thefifth of the five biggest
misconceptions about life afterdeath is that they have not
abandoned you, even if yousometimes don't seem to feel
them anymore, even if they camein a dream only one time, but
then never again, they've notabandoned you. It's a big
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misconception again, thatsometimes people will say, Oh,
they've moved on. They're nolonger available. Or I used to
feel them very strongly, and nowI don't at all. Or some people
even say that they've never felttheir loved one at all. Please
know that is a limitation of ourhuman awareness. It's not
indicative that your loved onesaren't around you, that they
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don't know what's going on inyour life, that they're not
present with you. Sometimestheir soul's presence, as you
probably heard me say a milliontimes by now, can feel very
subtle. Sometimes it even feelslike it's coming in little waves
or little blips. Sometimes it.
They might energetically stepback a bit out of our awareness
to allow us to heal or grow onour own, because we have things
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that we want to do here. Oursouls are also trying to grow in
this experience and remember,like we talked about earlier,
they're coming from that soulperspective. So they want what's
in the most alignment with yoursoul, right? So they might take
a step back out of yourawareness. It doesn't mean that
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they're not there, it just meansyou're a little less aware of
them, because they're giving youa little space, taking off a
little bit of training wheels,maybe they're allowing you to
grow or heal. It's notabandonment, it's that they love
and respect you so much thatthey are honoring and supporting
your process and the process ofyour soul. They are always
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around you. I mean, they do giveyou privacy when you would want
privacy, don't get me wrong, butthey're not abandoning you.
They're always around you. Thefact that you don't necessarily
feel them. Doesn't mean they'renot gone. That can be for lots
of different reasons. It couldmean, for example, that you're
so physically focused, maybeyou're very busy. Maybe you have
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lots of tasks going on, maybeyou're raising a family, let's
just say, or seven dogs, or justhave a crazy schedule, and so
you're physically focused andnot available for the way we
subtly sense them from the otherside. Maybe you've been very
distracted. Maybe you have lotsof technology on around you
that's taking your time andattention so you're not aware of
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the subtleties of how they'llcommunicate. Or maybe you're not
even available for, let's justsay, like signs in the physical
world, because you're just sodistracted or absorbed in
technology too much to notice.
Maybe you have a lot of heavyemotions happening, even if the
emotions aren't related to theirpassing, right? Maybe
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something's going on in yourpersonal life or in the life of
someone close to you that'sgiving you a heaviness,
difficult emotions, a challenge.
Our loved ones aren't steppingaway from us in those moments.
They're actually as close asever, but it's our awareness
that is just too focusedelsewhere to be available to
sense them, because those heavyemotions often make it a little
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bit challenging to raise ourvibration to where we can more
easily feel them. I know this isgetting a little bit Woo, woo,
maybe for some of you at thispoint, but stick with me,
because this is applicable toeverybody, even if you don't
feel like you're a sensitiveperson who can sense loved ones
around. Sometimes, I've talkedabout this a lot before, but
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sometimes the fact is that thelanguage around all of the
spirit world and how we interactwith them, and what the subtle
senses are, the language doesn'tnecessarily match with our
experience. So even just in thisidea of feeling your loved ones
around from the other side. It'snot a feeling like a physical
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feeling, necessarily. It couldbe different every time, but
it's almost never going to beexcept maybe once in a blue moon
for some people, sometimes it'snot going to be them touching
you in a way that, like if a ifa dog that's in physical form
jumps on your lap and you feelthat type of touch, it's
typically not like that. It'svery subtle. It's a whisper, not
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a shout, and it's even quieterthan a whisper, because it's a
whisper without sound. Usuallyit's just a nudge, it's just a
thought, it's just them risingto your awareness or popping
into your mind when you weredoing something else. That's
you, sensing, feeling, knowingthey're around. It might feel
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like you're making it up, butyou're not. That is how they
communicate from the other side.
And something I often share withmy clients, as well as most of
us, have this group of go tomemories for any specific person
that we have this side or theother. But let's just use our
loved ones in the spirit world.
For this example, think ofsomeone specific that you love
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that's on the other side, andyou probably have a group of
memories that are like your goto highlight reel of the things
you think about with thisperson. Maybe there are some
tender memories, maybe there aresome up and down memories, but
whatever your group of memoriesare, you usually have this, like
I said, highlight reel ofmemories for an individual that
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we love on the other side, oneof the things that they will do
to spend time with us is bubbleup to our awareness a memory
that we haven't thought of in along time. So have you ever been
just going about your businessand all of a sudden a memory
pops up about a person on theother side that you're like, oh
my gosh, I haven't thought aboutthat in years. I totally forgot
that we went on that triptogether when we were young, or
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whatever it might be. That'sthem reminiscing, kind of
plucking that. From your soul'sawareness and moving it forward
into your mind, to reminiscewith you, to share with you, to
spend time with you. It's oftenthem bubbling up that memory to
your awareness. They haven'tabandoned you. It's just that
the way that they are presentfeels different than when we're
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in physical form. So that's partof what is happening, because
they are always around. I'veheard it given as almost like a
radio signal, an example where,if we think about radio waves,
right radio signals, for thoseof us that still have a radio in
our car or house somewhere, thesignal is constant. Right radio
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signals always beingtransmitted. So that signal is
constant, but sometimes ourtuner isn't picking up a certain
station. We can tune to onestation or another station, or
sometimes we might not be tunedto any station and it's
staticky, or it's quiet. It'snot that that signal is not
being broadcast. So if you thinkabout our dreams, signs in the
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world, synchronicities, thosememories that we talked about,
just the gentle thought of themcoming into your mind, or it's
it's a little subtler than theway I'm about to say it, but
like the memory of their voicesaying congratulations, or I
love you, or even a chuckle,kind of of their voice in your
mind. And it's much, much, muchsubtler than probably even how
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I'm saying it. Now, those areall hellos and support and love
from the other side, but they'reall ways that they're gently
reminding us that they're near.
It's not usually really loud, sothey're transmitting to us.
They're communicating to us.
They're emitting love for us andaround us. It's just that we
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might not be tuned exactlyproperly in that moment to feel
it. But it doesn't mean it's anyless coming to us from them.
It's us, not them, what I wantto say. So hopefully that clears
that up. They have not abandonedyou, even if you feel like
you're not actively feeling themanymore. And we've given lots of
exercise over the time of spiritspeakeasy, of how you can sit in
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your awareness and then inviteyour loved ones to come and
gently sit next to you. I doalso on my website, joyful
medium.com still have that freesign mini course, if you haven't
already taken it, it's calledsign magnet. And I also have
some exciting things coming upthis fall, that if you get on
that list, you'll get the links,you'll get notified. But that
sign course will teach you howto set up among other things,
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but one of the things thatteaches you how to set up
specific signs with your lovedones in the spirit world. And
it's not that that's the onlyway we can communicate with
them, but one, it sure is a funway. And two, sometimes when
we're very in our head, it canbe something a little
differently tangible that canhelp us know that they're
nearby. So if you sometimes arefeeling like, oh, have have they
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abandoned me? They haven't. Butif you're not feeling them,
there are some workarounds, butjust know that they're no less
with you, no less emitting loveto you and supporting you than
any other time, even if you feelnot aware they haven't abandoned
you. So as we wrap up today'sconversation of these five
biggest misconceptions aboutlife after death, I hope this
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can serve as a bit of a reminderto you that your loved ones in
the spirit world, they're neverfar away. They're not judging
you, they're not stuck. They'venot abandoned you. They're
walking with you, beside you,quietly, often, sure, but
they're still loving you.
They're still cheering you on.
They're still celebrating yourwins and comforting you and
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offering nurturing love andsupport through those challenges
or those hurdles that we allface in life. And you know,
sometimes it might feel likeit's in ways so subtle that we
might miss it, but they'realways there with love and
devotion around you. Andremember, this isn't just about
the people you were close to inthis life. This is kind of a
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little bonus misconception,maybe even if it's a loved one
that you never got to meet inyour entire lifetime, they're a
great grandparent, let's justsay someone you didn't get to
meet, or maybe someone that youknew a really long time ago,
that you you know didn't evenknow, passed away, or a family
member that you have totallyforgotten about or aren't
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thinking of. It might be someonethat you met just briefly,
right? That you don't thinkabout when you think about your
group of family who's in thespirit world, there are so many
souls supporting each of us, andeach of us has such a bigger
cheering section on the otherside than we usually even
realize. So with whoever you'rethinking about that you have on
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the other side that was eitherrelated to you or as an ancestor
to you through your career oryour practice, just know that
there are many, many, many moresouls showing up to support you.
You than even whoever has cometo mind throughout this episode,
because they're drawn to us bythe love that we share, and even
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if you didn't have a closerelationship with them, they
still love you through thatfamily bond, they still care
about you and what goes on inyour life. So clearing up these
misconceptions isn't aboutgetting the right answer, it's
about opening that door tocomfort, to healing and to that
soul to soul connection thatnever truly dies. So the next
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time you are wondering if youare bothering your loved ones,
when you are sending a thoughtor a prayer to them, or you're
worried if you can't feel themanymore and what's going on,
trust this truth. Love neverends. It just continues on in a
different way, the bond that youshare with your people in the
spirit world, all of thosesouls, no matter what
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incarnation they took, that bondthat love is eternal, and it's
as alive today as it ever was.
So I hope that this conversationhas been meaningful for you, and
that it's just opened your mindto how many of these
misconceptions might have beenblocking or challenging your
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relationship with your lovedones on the other side, and
maybe you got stuck in some ofthese misconceptions. Please let
me know below, I am so gratefulas always, for you being here
with me. I am wishing you allwonderful things, especially the
wisdom and truth that your lovedones are around you, supporting
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you, still connected to you bythe Love that you share. Always,
Big hugs. Lots of love. Bye fornow from inside
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Hey, beautiful soul. Welcome infor another episode of spirit
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speakeasy today, we are going totalk about the five biggest
misconceptions about life afterdeath. Consider this episode a
soul to soul, gentle reminderthat your loved ones in the
spirit world are not gone in anyway, and they're also not
judging you. They continue towatch over you with love, with
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encouragement and with support.
In fact, so many of the worriespeople carry about life after
death are based onmisunderstandings beliefs that
can actually get in the way offeeling connected to those we
love. So in this episode, we'regoing to clear up five of the
biggest misconceptions aboutlife after death, why you're not
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bothering your loved ones whenyou think of them or talk to
them from the other side, whythey're not judging you or your
choices from heaven, why theydon't happen to know your exact
future, and why that's actuallynot a bad thing. We'll talk
about the truth that no one isactually stuck or trapped in
some sort of limbo between thisworld and the other. We're going
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to get into that and why yourloved ones have definitely not
abandoned you, even if you can'talways sense them nearby. So by
the end of this conversation, myhope is that you'll feel
reassured, comforted, maybe havesome clarity if you have had
some of these fivemisconceptions yourself, and of
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course, reminded that the lovethat you share with those who
have already crossed over to thespirit world hasn't gone
anywhere. It's alive. It'spresent. And your love, as well
as their souls, continue on,just in a different way, guiding
you for the rest of your days.
So let's get into this. First ofthese five misconceptions,
you're not bothering them. Iwant to dispel this
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misconception in a way, a lot ofpeople have this idea that our
loved ones are either sitting insome like special heavenly board
meeting room that they can't getout of to come see us or come
visit us, or that they're inthese like classrooms, that the
doors are locked and they're ina faraway place, very busy On
the other side, too busy tocheck in. And the truth is,
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their souls are not bound bytime and space, the same way
that we experience it here, whenwe're in a physical body, their
souls have the flexibility tomove around once. We're not
limited in a physical body. Wecan even be in more than one
place at a time, which we'regoing to talk about in just a
few minutes. The truth is, Loveis an eternal bond, and when you
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think of your loved one, itnaturally calls their soul
close. So when they pop intoyour mind, they're already right
beside you, sharing time, space,love, energy with you right in
that moment, and it's a soul tosoul connection that we have
that is facilitated through thelove that we still share. You
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know, we all know that matter,energy doesn't disappear, it
just changes form. But the sameis true of love. It doesn't
disappear, it might just changeform. The love that we share is
still real. You don't even haveto schedule an appointment with
your loved ones. The connectionis natural and effortless, and
just thinking of them bringsthem close to you, and they can
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spend time with you wheneverthey choose and whenever you
choose. I like to think of itlike a conversation with someone
very close to you. You don'thave to shout, you don't have to
talk out loud to them whereveryou go. It really is a heart to
heart or soul to soulcommunication. I mean your
energetic heart, not yourphysical heart, but it really
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opens the door just when youthink of them, they're present.
Spirit people don't have totravel to reach you. They're not
in some far off place. They'realready near. The spirit world
is just an unseen world withinthis world. I really feel like
certain parts of quantum physicsare getting us a little closer.
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To our understanding of thiswith their the ideas around
dimensional realities, becauseeverything's existing right here
right now. They're very presentwith us in the here and now, and
you're not bothering them. Theyreiterate it through readings in
different ways, over and over.
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I'm thinking of a specificclient story with this one where
I had a client, she had lost achild, and the child was, you
know, an older teen, early 20s,when they passed, and it had
been several years, many years,and as I was doing a reading for
this client, when their kiddostarted to communicate and share
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details from the spirit world.
They were so relieved. And theyeven said to me, Oh, I'm so
relieved I had another mediumseveral years ago tell me that
they couldn't connect to mychild because my child had
already moved on to somethingelse. They were too busy. They
were doing something else. And Iam here to tell you that that is
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not the case. They can belearning and having adventures
and exploring on the other side,but they can also be close with
you, with your soul, in anygiven moment, and again, you're
not bothering them. So that isMisconception Number One.
Misconception Number two, thismight come as a shock to some
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people. They are not judging youfrom the other side. Spirit
always comes through with love,not criticism or judgment in the
way we think of it, in our humanmind, they might joke with you
and acknowledge something you'redoing that they wouldn't have
maybe approved of when they werehere in physical form. They
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might acknowledge a challengethat you experienced, or
something you might perceive asa mistake that happened in your
life. So they they of course,could acknowledge it. They can
know about that, but it's alwayscoming from a place of
understanding, of love, andnever from judgment. And that's
true even if the version of themthat you experienced in the
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physical meaning, if you had aperson in your life that was
very judgmental, let's just say,when they cross over to the
other side, they become more ofthe full soul version of
themselves, without the humancomplications and challenges
they see from a soulperspective, rather than from
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only our limited humanperspective. So that means that
they understand deeply theemotions of your struggles, the
reason behind choices, whetherthey roll out to be a positive
choice or challenging choice,from the other side, they can
understand why we're making thechoices that we're making, and
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even the pain that we've carriedas a result of choices, for
example, they don't show up likein judgment or wanting to
lecture us in a in a way thatfeels mean and harsh. They show
up with compassion. Judgmentreally is a human construct. On
the other side, it's aboutgrowth, healing, understanding,
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love. So when a loved oneconnects or spends time with you
or visits you, whether it'sthrough a medium, or whether
it's just in your own day to daylife. The quote, unquote
message, or what they would wantto share is about encouragement,
not condemnation. They don'thave that single minded
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perspective. And I've even hadthis be communicated during
readings in what might even feellike some very simple ways. I'm
thinking of this family that allchose to get some version of
matching tattoos. I'm trying toremember the exact story. I
don't know that they each hadthe exact same thing, but they
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each had a tattoo thatrepresented this matriarch of
the family who had passed away.
So the next, you know, lowergenerations all decided to get
something in honor of her. Well,when she was here, the way she
communicated it in the reading,she was not the biggest fan of
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tattoos. She believed that youshouldn't mark your body. And
she had just some strong ideasand feelings
about specifically, tattoos, andshe communicated during the
reading that well, in her time,when she was in her adult years,
you know, culturally, theassumptions were different, and
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tattoos were maybe not soacceptable then, and that she
was working from an oldperspective, right, a
perspective that maybe thecurrent 2025, or, you know,
early 2020s we have a differentperspective in our cultures and
societies some of the time, notalways. There are still
certainly cultures and societiesthat frown upon. It, but she was
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just saying she understands,from her perspective in the
spirit world, the sentimentbehind the tattoos and the
sentiment behind wantingsomething that connected them
all that connected them to her,that really felt like a special,
sacred representation that theyeach wanted to have. She
understood all of thosesentiments, and actually she
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even mentioned some of thespecific designs that they had
chosen to honor her. And sheeven made some commentary about
liking some of the designsomeone had like a floral,
something that she had mentionedthat she really liked, and it
was actually her favorite flowerin that case, so they can have a
different perspective, adifferent understanding, even if
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they felt close minded when theywere here from the other side,
again, they are seeing from asoul perspective. So they're not
going to judge our choices or usin the same way. And they, even
though they're they have theirsame personality, they just have
a broadened perspective fromtheir soul perspective, and are
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not so stuck in maybe some ofthe ideas and mindsets that they
were when they were here. So Ihope that makes sense as number
two of our biggest fivemisconceptions about life after
death, number three of ourbiggest five misconceptions
about life after death is theydon't know your future. Spoiler
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alert, the future is not predecided. For us, we make
choices, and then things happen,and then we make more choices. I
don't believe that the future ispredetermined, and I have
learned over and over and overagain in readings this. This
really surprises people. Thisone, if they're in the spirit
world, why can't they tell mewhat's going to happen next? Why
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can't they tell me in what yearI'm going to have a baby, or
when I'm going to get married,or what the stock market's going
to do next year? Why can't theytell me this is a pretty common
misconception while our lovedones on the other side can see
some of our potential paths,right? Because any scenario or
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choice that we're entering,there's a group of options.
Right? It might be choosing, youknow, one path over another, it
might be the timing. It might beour free will contributions, the
action steps, but there's agroup of potentials of the way
things could go in any scenario.
But because of free will, ourfuture isn't fixed like that.
It's almost like if you choosedoor number one, this is what
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happens next. Door number two,this is what happens next,
right? And those choices lead toresults that are nuanced, day to
day, hour by hour, in ourexperience, and as we make free
will choices, and as everyonearound us makes Free Will
choices, these little nuancedetails of our lives shift and
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change and pivot right. Justthink about if you ever were
back in school when we're at theage where we're doing like team
projects with other kids, thinkabout the day that the project's
due, right? And you have topresent it, and everyone is very
stressed out. Well, that couldgo lots of ways. Maybe the
person who's supposed to givethe talking part of your
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presentation calls out sick thatday. Maybe the next person is
super prepared in a surprisingturn of events, right? So
there's lots of ways thatdifferent scenarios can roll
out. Our future's not fixedbecause of free will. So our
loved ones from the spirit worldcan nudge us. They can try to
guide us. They can help tosupport us in what our soul
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knows is the highest choice,right? I think in most
situations, let's be honest,depending on what's going on, we
know there's like a high roadchoice, there's a low road
choice, and some options in themiddle. So perhaps your loved
ones on the other side arenudging you lovingly towards
that high road choice. But theycan't control your free will.
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They don't give you absolutepredictions, since the future is
not pre decided, that is mylittle future is not pre
decided. Lecture. I'm workingwith some coffee today. You guys
know I don't usually get outsidecoffee, so let me just sit for a
second. Here. I am needing alittle kick energy. Today, there
is an incredible medium,arguably one of the greatest
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mediums of our time, who is nowon the spirit side herself. Miss
Mavis patella, p, i, t, t, I, L,L, A, if you are, if you are
interested in mediumship at all,I highly recommend that you
check out her work. She'sincredible, and she explains
this concept beautifully in herbook. She's She's several books,
but the one I'm talking about iscalled both sides of life,
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released in 2008 co written bySusan Farrow. And the way it's
explained in this book is thatour soul's journey is like a map
with many roots, many possibleroots. Right, and our loved ones
can see which direction looksmaybe like the easiest or the
most aligned, but they can'tdictate or know every single
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turn that we will take or thatthose around us will take. And
Davis has even said, I'm notgoing to get an exact quote
here, so please forgive me ifI'm if I'm missing words here a
bit, but the way I understandthis quote to be from Mavis is
spirit can point to the signposts or the guide posts, but we
as individuals must decide whichroad to take. So I hope that
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makes sense to you in theoverall prediction of things and
why they can't really see farinto our future. There's another
well known medium named JohnEdward. He often frames it as
that spirit, the spirit world.
Our loved ones in the spiritworld can shine a flashlight
down the path, but we still haveto take the action and walk the
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path, right? So for that reason,they don't have the future to
tell you they don't know eitheryou are creating the future day
by day, moment by moment, withthe choices that you make, what
you choose and what you don'tchoose. And remember sometimes
even not making a choice, likerefusing to make a choice, is
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still a choice, and stillcreates its own ripple of
results. So I invite you to justlet go of that misconception
about hoping that your lovedones on the other side will
predict the future, because it'snot pre decided for us. Let's
move on to our fourth of thesefive most common, biggest
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misconceptions about life afterdeath.
Spirit doesn't get lost.
Nobody's stuck, you guys, Ioften, I have people coming with
these fearful ideas that perhapstheir loved one is stuck or
lost. I again, just recently hada lovely young person who had
lost a parent, whose parent hadcrossed over not terribly long
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ago, and they said they had seena spiritual practitioner, and
that spiritual practitioner toldthem that their parent was lost,
was trying to get to the otherside, to reunite with the other
family in the spirit world, andthat they were lost and
struggling to cross over. And asyou may or may not be surprised
that specific practitioner, asmy client, told me, also had a
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cure for this, had somethingthey could do at a certain cost
to them, that this practitionercould get their person unstuck.
The spirit world is a world.
Within our world, our souls havean intelligence. There is a
divine intelligence to thespirit side as well. So our soul
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is either incarnated in aphysical body or it's in the
spirit world. There's, there isno in between place to get lost,
to remember earlier we weretalking about, excuse me,
they're not traveling to somefar away place. I know that
often, culturally, we are taughtto think of heaven or the spirit
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world or the other side, beyondthe veil, right even the word
beyond makes us feel it has theintonation that it's a far away
place that they have to journeyto. And often in you know, we're
all taught about like ancientEgypt, for example, in school.
Well, depending what we'retaught, I guess we're, you know,
they're traveling down theriver, river Nile, through down
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the underworld, through theriver Hades. Well, it's not a
journey like that. Do they getto go on adventures and do
things on the other side? Sure,but there's not an in between
place that they are getting lostwhen they're leaving the
physical body. Crossing over isa natural process. It's like
being drawn back to love itself,back to the purest, truest
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version of yourself. I'm goingto take a quick sip of this
coffee, guys. It's pretty it'spretty good. Okay, so I think
part of the challenge with withthis idea of of souls getting
stuck in between worlds has todo with movies and ghost stories
and media kind of dramatizingthe idea of these stuck souls,
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tortured souls, but in truth,spirit transitions with ease.
The once the body shuts down,the soul is immediately in the
spirit world, and that's true nomatter the type of passing. So
that's the other sort of Part Bunder this nobody's stuck.
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Sometimes people get attached tothe idea that depending on the
nature of the passing, forexample, some people believe
that it's of a medical passing.
Of course, they would goimmediately to the spirit world.
But if it's a more challengingpassing, let's say completion of
suicide, for example, oh, well,then there must be some Limbo
place that they go to. Andthat's just not the case. That's
just not true. True. We'reeither in a body, and once our
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soul leaves the body, we areimmediately in the non physical
world, in the spirit world. Sothat transition is is natural.
We might interpret this likestuck energy as like emotional
residue in a place, for example,but it's not a person's soul
trapped forever. We might stillfeel the residual energy of a
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person, even if it's not thepresence of their actual soul in
a place, but it's not them stuckthere forever. The other little
piece of this that I think isreally interesting, that I don't
hear a lot of these, likeparanormal investigators talking
about so we have this idea formovie and these haunted type
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shows that places are haunted,right? And the way I understand
it is the soul's not stuckthere. Can they be there
visiting that place? Sure. Coulda psychic investigator be
picking up on or feeling orsensing or understanding
residual emotion of a trauma ora tragedy in a place. Of course,
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I felt that myself in placeswhere, particularly like tragic
or traumatic things havehappened as a sensitive
sometimes we can feel aresidual, heavy energy or sad
energy. Often I hear themterming it as like, quote,
unquote, dark energy. It justmeans heavy or sad or not great
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feeling. But it doesn't meanthat there's an evil spirit and
the other bit of it. So thatcould be one aspect of what's
happening. The other thing thatcould be happening is,
hypothetically, if there was anarchitect, let's just say that
designed a building and had aspecial interest in that
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building, they can go back andvisit that building. They might
be curious about the changesbeing made in that place, or the
redecoration being done. Theymight know that you love that
house, and they also love thathouse. And so you guys are
connected by this mutual love ofthis property. For example,
perhaps they left somethingbehind in that house that
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they're wanting to bringattention to. So there can be
lots of reasons, but it's notsomeone being stuck or trapped.
So please don't worry whetheryour own loved ones are stuck or
trapped. They transitionimmediately to the spirit side.
And the truth is, spirit isreceived with Love always.
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There's no limbo, no punishment.
Everyone is greeted by lovedones and helpers on the other
side. And I've actually evencome to learn that sometimes
those with the more tragic, themore traumatic, the more
difficult, passing are greetedwith even more love and helped
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to heal, helped to come to anunderstanding of, for example,
why they made the difficultchoices they made in their life
that perhaps led to theirdeparture. They're they're given
extra attention, extra care,extra nurturing. They're not met
with punishment or shipped offto some like Holding, holding
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loading zone or something. Eachsoul is welcomed and received,
uh, back home, that's trulywhere we spend most of our
existence. Let's say a very longhuman life in our present day
time is like 105 years is maybethe oldest person I've heard of
recently, and even that, in thegrand scheme of time is very
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short. So we we are going backhome to our natural residence of
our soul, right? So just knowthat it's a natural transition.
Nobody's stuck. Your loved onesare not in a limbo. They are
back with the family. They'refree to move about and that they
are not in a bad or stuck place,okay? So that is our fourth of
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these five misconceptions. Thefifth of the five biggest
misconceptions about life afterdeath is that they have not
abandoned you, even if yousometimes don't seem to feel
them anymore, even if they camein a dream only one time, but
then never again, they've notabandoned you. It's a big
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misconception again, thatsometimes people will say, Oh,
they've moved on. They're nolonger available. Or I used to
feel them very strongly, and nowI don't at all. Or some people
even say that they've never felttheir loved one at all. Please
know that is a limitation of ourhuman awareness. It's not
indicative that your loved onesaren't around you, that they
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don't know what's going on inyour life, that they're not
present with you. Sometimestheir soul's presence, as you
probably heard me say a milliontimes by now, can feel very
subtle. Sometimes it even feelslike it's coming in little waves
or little blips. Sometimes it.
They might energetically stepback a bit out of our awareness
to allow us to heal or grow onour own, because we have things
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that we want to do here. Oursouls are also trying to grow in
this experience and remember,like we talked about earlier,
they're coming from that soulperspective. So they want what's
in the most alignment with yoursoul, right? So they might take
a step back out of yourawareness. It doesn't mean that
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they're not there, it just meansyou're a little less aware of
them, because they're giving youa little space, taking off a
little bit of training wheels,maybe they're allowing you to
grow or heal. It's notabandonment, it's that they love
and respect you so much thatthey are honoring and supporting
your process and the process ofyour soul. They are always
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around you. I mean, they do giveyou privacy when you would want
privacy, don't get me wrong, butthey're not abandoning you.
They're always around you. Thefact that you don't necessarily
feel them. Doesn't mean they'renot gone. That can be for lots
of different reasons. It couldmean, for example, that you're
so physically focused, maybeyou're very busy. Maybe you have
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lots of tasks going on, maybeyou're raising a family, let's
just say, or seven dogs, or justhave a crazy schedule, and so
you're physically focused andnot available for the way we
subtly sense them from the otherside. Maybe you've been very
distracted. Maybe you have lotsof technology on around you
that's taking your time andattention so you're not aware of
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the subtleties of how they'llcommunicate. Or maybe you're not
even available for, let's justsay, like signs in the physical
world, because you're just sodistracted or absorbed in
technology too much to notice.
Maybe you have a lot of heavyemotions happening, even if the
emotions aren't related to theirpassing, right? Maybe
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something's going on in yourpersonal life or in the life of
someone close to you that'sgiving you a heaviness,
difficult emotions, a challenge.
Our loved ones aren't steppingaway from us in those moments.
They're actually as close asever, but it's our awareness
that is just too focusedelsewhere to be available to
sense them, because those heavyemotions often make it a little
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bit challenging to raise ourvibration to where we can more
easily feel them. I know this isgetting a little bit Woo, woo,
maybe for some of you at thispoint, but stick with me,
because this is applicable toeverybody, even if you don't
feel like you're a sensitiveperson who can sense loved ones
around. Sometimes, I've talkedabout this a lot before, but
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sometimes the fact is that thelanguage around all of the
spirit world and how we interactwith them, and what the subtle
senses are, the language doesn'tnecessarily match with our
experience. So even just in thisidea of feeling your loved ones
around from the other side. It'snot a feeling like a physical
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feeling, necessarily. It couldbe different every time, but
it's almost never going to beexcept maybe once in a blue moon
for some people, sometimes it'snot going to be them touching
you in a way that, like if a ifa dog that's in physical form
jumps on your lap and you feelthat type of touch, it's
typically not like that. It'svery subtle. It's a whisper, not
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a shout, and it's even quieterthan a whisper, because it's a
whisper without sound. Usuallyit's just a nudge, it's just a
thought, it's just them risingto your awareness or popping
into your mind when you weredoing something else. That's
you, sensing, feeling, knowingthey're around. It might feel
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like you're making it up, butyou're not. That is how they
communicate from the other side.
And something I often share withmy clients, as well as most of
us, have this group of go tomemories for any specific person
that we have this side or theother. But let's just use our
loved ones in the spirit world.
For this example, think ofsomeone specific that you love
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that's on the other side, andyou probably have a group of
memories that are like your goto highlight reel of the things
you think about with thisperson. Maybe there are some
tender memories, maybe there aresome up and down memories, but
whatever your group of memoriesare, you usually have this, like
I said, highlight reel ofmemories for an individual that
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we love on the other side, oneof the things that they will do
to spend time with us is bubbleup to our awareness a memory
that we haven't thought of in along time. So have you ever been
just going about your businessand all of a sudden a memory
pops up about a person on theother side that you're like, oh
my gosh, I haven't thought aboutthat in years. I totally forgot
that we went on that triptogether when we were young, or
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whatever it might be. That'sthem reminiscing, kind of
plucking that. From your soul'sawareness and moving it forward
into your mind, to reminiscewith you, to share with you, to
spend time with you. It's oftenthem bubbling up that memory to
your awareness. They haven'tabandoned you. It's just that
the way that they are presentfeels different than when we're
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in physical form. So that's partof what is happening, because
they are always around. I'veheard it given as almost like a
radio signal, an example where,if we think about radio waves,
right radio signals, for thoseof us that still have a radio in
our car or house somewhere, thesignal is constant. Right radio
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signals always beingtransmitted. So that signal is
constant, but sometimes ourtuner isn't picking up a certain
station. We can tune to onestation or another station, or
sometimes we might not be tunedto any station and it's
staticky, or it's quiet. It'snot that that signal is not
being broadcast. So if you thinkabout our dreams, signs in the
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world, synchronicities, thosememories that we talked about,
just the gentle thought of themcoming into your mind, or it's
it's a little subtler than theway I'm about to say it, but
like the memory of their voicesaying congratulations, or I
love you, or even a chuckle,kind of of their voice in your
mind. And it's much, much, muchsubtler than probably even how
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I'm saying it. Now, those areall hellos and support and love
from the other side, but they'reall ways that they're gently
reminding us that they're near.
It's not usually really loud, sothey're transmitting to us.
They're communicating to us.
They're emitting love for us andaround us. It's just that we
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might not be tuned exactlyproperly in that moment to feel
it. But it doesn't mean it's anyless coming to us from them.
It's us, not them, what I wantto say. So hopefully that clears
that up. They have not abandonedyou, even if you feel like
you're not actively feeling themanymore. And we've given lots of
exercise over the time of spiritspeakeasy, of how you can sit in
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your awareness and then inviteyour loved ones to come and
gently sit next to you. I doalso on my website, joyful
medium.com still have that freesign mini course, if you haven't
already taken it, it's calledsign magnet. And I also have
some exciting things coming upthis fall, that if you get on
that list, you'll get the links,you'll get notified. But that
sign course will teach you howto set up among other things,
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but one of the things thatteaches you how to set up
specific signs with your lovedones in the spirit world. And
it's not that that's the onlyway we can communicate with
them, but one, it sure is a funway. And two, sometimes when
we're very in our head, it canbe something a little
differently tangible that canhelp us know that they're
nearby. So if you sometimes arefeeling like, oh, have have they
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abandoned me? They haven't. Butif you're not feeling them,
there are some workarounds, butjust know that they're no less
with you, no less emitting loveto you and supporting you than
any other time, even if you feelnot aware they haven't abandoned
you. So as we wrap up today'sconversation of these five
biggest misconceptions aboutlife after death, I hope this
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can serve as a bit of a reminderto you that your loved ones in
the spirit world, they're neverfar away. They're not judging
you, they're not stuck. They'venot abandoned you. They're
walking with you, beside you,quietly, often, sure, but
they're still loving you.
They're still cheering you on.
They're still celebrating yourwins and comforting you and
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offering nurturing love andsupport through those challenges
or those hurdles that we allface in life. And you know,
sometimes it might feel likeit's in ways so subtle that we
might miss it, but they'realways there with love and
devotion around you. Andremember, this isn't just about
the people you were close to inthis life. This is kind of a
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little bonus misconception,maybe even if it's a loved one
that you never got to meet inyour entire lifetime, they're a
great grandparent, let's justsay someone you didn't get to
meet, or maybe someone that youknew a really long time ago,
that you you know didn't evenknow, passed away, or a family
member that you have totallyforgotten about or aren't
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thinking of. It might be someonethat you met just briefly,
right? That you don't thinkabout when you think about your
group of family who's in thespirit world, there are so many
souls supporting each of us, andeach of us has such a bigger
cheering section on the otherside than we usually even
realize. So with whoever you'rethinking about that you have on
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the other side that was eitherrelated to you or as an ancestor
to you through your career oryour practice, just know that
there are many, many, many moresouls showing up to support you.
You than even whoever has cometo mind throughout this episode,
because they're drawn to us bythe love that we share, and even
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if you didn't have a closerelationship with them, they
still love you through thatfamily bond, they still care
about you and what goes on inyour life. So clearing up these
misconceptions isn't aboutgetting the right answer, it's
about opening that door tocomfort, to healing and to that
soul to soul connection thatnever truly dies. So the next
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time you are wondering if youare bothering your loved ones,
when you are sending a thoughtor a prayer to them, or you're
worried if you can't feel themanymore and what's going on,
trust this truth. Love neverends. It just continues on in a
different way, the bond that youshare with your people in the
spirit world, all of thosesouls, no matter what
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incarnation they took, that bondthat love is eternal, and it's
as alive today as it ever was.
So I hope that this conversationhas been meaningful for you, and
that it's just opened your mindto how many of these
misconceptions might have beenblocking or challenging your
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relationship with your lovedones on the other side, and
maybe you got stuck in some ofthese misconceptions. Please let
me know below, I am so gratefulas always, for you being here
with me. I am wishing you allwonderful things, especially the
wisdom and truth that your lovedones are around you, supporting
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you, still connected to you bythe Love that you share. Always,
Big hugs. Lots of love. Bye fornow from inside
spirit speakeasy, you.
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