Something Happened Talk Show: Seniors' Accounts of Overcoming Challenges

After being struck by lightning in 2010, Susan could see, hear and smell beyond our 3 dimensions. She has spent the better part of 11+ years researching and trying to understand the heightened sensitivities of not only herself, but others.

Seniors are no strangers to death. Part of aging is bearing witness to the death of others. Each death we experience brings back memories of other losses. How do we find meaning in life after losing someone critical to our well-being? This episode will follow one woman's journey to overcome grief.

After a series of life altering traumatic events, including the dissolution of her marriage, the loss of her only source of income, and the falling away of close friendships and relationships, workshop facilitator, meditation coach, poet and visual artist Susan Madison had a spiritual epiphany. She discovered the essence of matriarchal love- a timeless potent art so magical and so powerful Madison claims, it was systematically hidden and muted through religious doctrine and laws over the past three or four thousand years out of fear. In discovering what she calls a God-given magic elixir, she realized that it was the key to true happiness and bliss and her calling was to share it with others.

Spiritual Improv is all about listening to the inner voice. Listening fuels my writing. It is a friend at the supermarket when deciding what to buy and supports what meals to prepare, among other things. Spiritual Improv supports courage to listen to the heart, mind, body and to step out of the box of conformity, emotional safety and comfort.

I was drowning. A powerful undertow at Fire Island had me in its grip. Suddenly I was 50 feet from the shore and I didn't know how to swim. I believe I was brought back from certain death for a reason. I believe I was meant to live on purpose, to guide others to do the same, and tell their stories like I'm telling mine. Writing can be a way of telling the life you've lived, and about times when you didn't know how to swim through it. It can convey the way it made you who you are, how you survived. Writing can heal, create kindred community and give you new perspectives. It is a power tool that can change you as you change the world. In this episode of “Something Happened”, Dorothy Randal Gray, shares how she helps people use tools that already live inside the soul - a creative longing, a sense of clarity and purpose, a willing heart seeking avenues of expression. When you write and put that soul between the lines, you access a source of unlimited creativity, transformation and empowerment. You learn how to swim without going under.

Inherent to our human evolution, many experience a dark night of the soul where inner chaos leads to awakening, expansion, and growth. Our soul, the light of our being, the divine part of us that is connected to all that is us, guides us through the eyes of love to a remembrance of who we truly are and our purpose on this Earth. Sometimes, it is only through pain and suffering, that we can let go of the attachment to fear that the ego uses to control our life and keep us from remembering and experiencing our true essence—unconditional love. Love is the alchemy that allows us to return home to our highest and truest self.

Katherine Tandy Brown says, If you want to soar, you must identify and release what holds you back. Life can be full and rich only if you’re willing to make that happen and be ready when opportunity knocks. Any change that appears to be a positive move forward is doable if you prepare physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. All it takes is “packing your parachute” wisely so you can trust your gut, “jump” into a new space, and thrive. In this episode of “Something Happened,” Katherine will share how she came to know the art of parachute packing and how you can use it to live your best life.

Katye Anna’s life changed course 27 years ago while she was doing an internship at York House AIDS Hospice in Pennsylvania. She was always good at holding space for people as they were cycling off from this physical dimension. She witnessed firsthand how hard it was for the people who came there to die. She also witnessed the fear people had about what would happen to them, if anything, after they died. Many of the people who believed in heaven also believed in hell. While the hospice nurses gave great physical care, many of them believed that dead was dead. They would comfort the dying by telling them they were going to heaven, but when questioned, they could not say with certainty what would happen after death. It was during this time Katye Anna coined the phrase, “Birthing Into Spirit”. She believed physical death was a part of the journey of the soul. It was not an ending, but a beginning. In this episode, Katye Anna will talk on the topic: The Journey of the Soul. She has dedicated her life to helping people have conscious lives, so they can have a conscious death. As a teacher of soul, she helps her students and clients talk about life so when the time comes, they will be able to view physical death as stepping into a different part of the Journey of the Soul.

Love is the answer to all of our problems, but it is our greatest challenge. Dr. Jean Marie Farish’s dark night of the soul was a pivotal point in her life’s journey. Overcoming faulty beliefs of perfectionism and people pleasing, she realized that worthiness is our Divine birthright, and is not dependent upon the perceptions of others. She will share her ‘Spiritual Epiphany’ during her stay in Malaysia, the ‘Pearl of the Orient, that revealed, “It’s all about Love”, and how she found her way home in this peaceful, beautiful tropical, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious land. Dr. Jean Marie helps people move beyond their faulty beliefs and deep conditioned fears to create a new “LOVE STORY’. She will share the nine ingredients in the ‘Recipe of Love’, adopted from Henry Drummond’s Analysis of Love, that laid the foundation for transcending language and culture with a renewed sense of self, conscious living, and heightened awareness of Divine Love. After writing her memoir, “The Long Journey Home” about her transformational journey, SOMETHING HAPPENED! Her proposal was one of 35 global award winners of the 4th Annual Transformation Author Experience writing contest. Her award was Viki Winterton’s prize to be featured on the cover of PUBLISHED! Magazine along with a global interview. This was the beginning of her mission to spread the “Messenger of Love” writings, teaching and VoiceAmerica Empowerment Show, LOVE LIGHT.

On this Episode, Dr. Queen Ida White, will focus on the opportunities she took advantage of in her life to make a difference. A quote from one of her favorite songs is: “If I can help somebody as I travel this road, then my living will not be in vain.” Dr. Queen Ida says that many of those significant opportunities helped her to mentor many young people through the school system, and through early adulthood as well as helped her to be a coach to many pageant hopefuls. Dr. Queen Ida’s Formula for Living became, and still is Connect, Care and Commit. She says, “Follow it well and you will get to Celebrate.”

Gary Rogers will share how he has built a 6-figure online coaching business with a simple webcam and a 60-second Elevator Pitch! Gary says that anyone who has a marketable business can do exactly the same thing. You’ll learn things in this episode that you never dreamed possible. This is one episode you don’t want to miss!

Anaiis Salles introduces the concept of The Wisdom Body/contrast with Tolle's Pain Body and shares attributes of The Wisdom Body and how it communicates with your conscious mind.

In this Episode, Kelly shares her journey of going from the ugly scar-faced girl to the Most Inspirational Person of 2020.