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Healing Through Grief: Insights From Soul Healer And Ascension Teacher, Isabelle Zimmerman

Podcast / April 18, 2024

Widowhood Real Talk with Tina | Isabelle Zimmerman | Healing Grief

“We will not ascend as a species without going through our grief.” In this insightful episode, Tina Fornwald speaks with Isabelle Zimmerman, a Soul Healer and Ascension Teacher on a mission to illuminate the transformative power of connecting with your Spirit Guides. Isabelle shares her expertise in HeartMath and meditation, emphasizing their benefits for grief and emotional healing. The conversation delves into Isabelle’s personal journey, her connection to Spirit Guides, and the transformative power of meditation. Gain valuable insights into the science behind HeartMath, the role of emotions in cellular memory, and the importance of releasing stuck energy for overall well-being. Isabelle’s unique approach to healing and her dedication to helping others navigate grief make this conversation a compelling and uplifting exploration of spiritual growth and self-discovery. Thank you for viewing this post. I am not a licensed therapist or professional life coach. I am sharing my experience of loving the same man for 32 years, a mother to two adult children, a retired military officer, a breast cancer survivor, and my connections with others. Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts should reach out to a suicide hotline or local emergency number in their country: Suicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World — Watch the episode here Listen to the podcast here Healing Through Grief: Insights From Soul Healer And Ascension Teacher, Isabelle Zimmerman Our guest is Miss Isabelle Zimmerman and she is going to provide us with some tools regarding heart mapping, meditation, and finding out how to get your while back. Let’s get into the conversation now. Isabel Zimmerman, welcome. Tina, I’m happy to be here. You’ve been in the Widowhood not just on a show because you’ve actually supported us and done things already, but I guess this is an official welcome to the Widowhood. Some people are meeting me for the first time. Where are we meeting you from? Where are you located in the world at this moment? Currently, I am in a little town called Spartanburg in South Carolina on the East Coast of the United States. Are you from there originally? I am not. I would say I’ve been blessed in living in many different places. My formative years were in Ohio, so I might be considered an Ohioan. In my adult years, I lived in Connecticut. Some people might call me a Yankee. I was thinking both of those places were cold. That’s what came to my mind immediately. What is the weather like in comparison to where you’re at and where you grew up? South Carolina is like spring here, so you can wear a light jacket. It’s warm and sunny. I mentioned that you have already supported the widowhood and I don’t want to do a disservice to the event that you supported. That’ll be a good way to segue into things you do and how you support other people. What do you think? That’s wonderful. Do you want to talk about the event you did for us? Tina and I met at a networking event and told her the work she’s doing is so important. My name is Isabelle Zimmerman and I’m an Ascension Teacher. What that means is that I help folks to connect to their spirit guides and to go into their soul field, which a lot of people would consider past life regressions. I’ve done over 1,000 regressions. I am very connected to spirit. I’m also a channeler. I would also consider myself, the new terminology, if you have not heard it, is called a lightworker. All that means is we assist our humans here, our friends here on this Earth to raise their vibration and connect to the unseen world, which are your spirit guides. Thank you for that. When you assisted us, I believe it was a meditation event before Christmas. Can you talk about like what that event was like and then maybe how it can be helpful for people who are grieving? Yes. Grieving is a process, whether it is this current incarnation or a past incarnation. Believe it or not, it is a process to grieve that loss, to feel that loss of love. That sadness can be very overwhelming and you can feel it in your body. Meditation allows you to release and soften that sadness. It allows you to be connected in the now moment. That meditation that we did, because I’m also certified in Heart Math and if you’re all inspired to look it up, it’s been around for 50 years. There’s a lot of science around it. There are extreme physiological benefits in meditation, but there are also spiritual benefits. Some people might consider prayer or connecting to nature, going for long walks or petting their animals. They get into a calmer state of mind. There are brain waves, theta, beta, delta, and alpha, and the theta brainwave is usually where I get the person for hypnosis, but you want to go into a calmer state out of beta, which would be anxious and into a delta. Tina, have you ever been able to sit in nature and feel this peace and calm? Yes. If you’re not in nature, you can get that same feeling through meditation. Thank you for that explanation. Now, I want to circle back a little bit. You mentioned about feeling grief in your body. Can you elaborate on that a little bit more, please? Yes. Massage therapists understand that our emotions are stored in your body. There are many massage therapists now. There is a lot of empirical data. They have uncovered that when they massage their client, they will spontaneously cry and release emotions. If you want to know the why and the science behind it, I recommend you look up Candace Pert. She did not win the Nobel Prize because she worked for another scientist at the time, and he won the Nobel Prize. It was her work. It was the time in

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Managing Grief Through Art: The Canvas Of Life, Death, And Love With Noemi Beres

Podcast / November 2, 2023

The grief journey is full of streaks of dark and bright colors blended with the wonders of pain, love, and hope. The journey of loss doesn’t have to be dark; it can be a colorful spectrum when we are managing grief through art. In this conversation, Noemi Beres, the co-founder of Podcast Connections, paints us the picture of how her painful journey of loss changed through art. When grief drowns us, other aspects of our lives, like health, slowly deteriorate, so Noemi provides us with some artistic therapeutic mediums for healing. In that place of grief, she shows us hope that we can live life again. If you want to learn more about how art can help your healing process, then this episode is one you won’t want to miss. Walk with Noemi in her journey and see how she casts the colors on the canvas of life, death, and love. Thank you for viewing this post. I am not a licensed therapist or professional life coach. I am sharing my experience of loving the same man for 32 years, a mother to two adult children, a retired military officer, a breast cancer survivor, and my connections with others. Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts should reach out to a suicide hotline or local emergency number in their country: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/suicide/suicide-prevention-hotlines-resources-worldwide — Watch the episode here Listen to the podcast here Managing Grief Through Art: The Canvas Of Life, Death, And Love With Noemi Beres Hello, Widowhood. Our guest is Miss Noemi Beres. She is the Cofounder of Podcast Connections, but she is also an artist. She is best known for her unique and witty mixed-media hand-sewn collages on canvases made from old photos, postcards, colorful yarn, textiles, and old buttons. She had a group exhibition in Italy and Cyprus. She collects small bits of pieces she finds fascinating and incorporates them into mixed media collages. They usually have a vintage vibe. She sews her memories together. She is happy to discuss how art helps her cope with grief and stress in changing the world. Let’s get into the conversation now. Noemi, welcome to the show. It’s lovely to be here. Where are you at right now? I am visiting my mom in Hungary in Central Europe, but I usually live in Cyprus. It’s a 2.5 to 3-hour flight from there. Are you there with family or did you go solo? We’re visiting with family. Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. I appreciate that. I wanted to have this conversation for a couple of different reasons and bring you to the Widowhood. One is the business that you do. It can be intriguing for someone as their life has shifted and trying to figure out what to do. People are looking for different things to do. They may want to tell their story. They may want to go on to business for themselves. You have a lot to add to that. Some things you do with the art and then your own personal journey. It would be a good conversation to highlight to the Widowhood. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. I’m happy to share my story with you. Let’s hear a little bit of your story. I know you said you live in Cyprus, but where did you grow up? We don’t want to just get to the good part. We want to get to the part of how you became who you are. I was born and raised in Hungary in Central Europe in this small town. I went to high school here and then I went to Budapest, the capital, to finish my studies. I have a Master’s degree in Danish Linguistic History Literature. I’m a linguist by trade. I’m going to celebrate my 20th anniversary when I moved abroad from Hungary. I didn’t live for a long time in Hungary. First, I moved to Ireland. I lived there for seven years, then to Cyprus with my family. It’s been twelve years and counting now. It’s a long time. That’s a lot. You put everything there. I’m not sure which question to ask and where to go. You said you grew up in Hungary. What is this space you’re in now compared to your upbringing? Right now, I am in my childhood room. This was the place where I was doing my studies, my art, dreaming about life, and who I was going to become when I got older. It’s always special to come back home and walk down memory lane. The other day, I was biking. I like to exercise and I love biking too. It’s a very nice flat area where I live so it’s beautiful. I visited my old school. I saw the old places and where I went to when I was a kid. It’s an interesting feeling to come back home. It’s a nice feeling and mixed emotions. I was thinking. We are recording this episode in the room where you grew up, dreaming of who you would become and now you have become. What does that look like to see how the dreams have developed and manifested over time? Also, the struggles of life and complications. How do you feel about that space? It’s so interesting because I remember one summer I visited home. I found one of my diaries or my journals. That was pretty interesting because I didn’t remember that I wrote that down. I wrote that I would love to live in Ireland. I would love to live in that beautiful place because that’s my dream place to be and everything. I completely forgot about that statement that I manifested when I was about 15 or 16. I found this journal and I was amazed. It’s like, “I was living my dream back in Ireland for seven years because that’s what I manifested when I was fifteen.” That was pretty interesting. Despite the fact that I went through a lot of trauma

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An Introduction To Heartfulness: How This Heart-Based Practice Can Help You Deal With Grief And Loss With Atul Patel

Podcast / May 18, 2023

When you lose a loved one, being able to live for them and for yourself is the best gift you can give to the departed. Mr. Atul Patel, a Heartfulness trainer, joins us on the show today to show us how we can use the practice of Heartfulness to learn the landscape of our inner body and use it as a way of honoring our departed loved ones. Mr. Patel gives us an introduction to Heartfulness and shows us the powerful ways in which it can transform our lives. Tune in and learn how to balance your inner self and learn to have peace and calmness as you go through this journey of widowhood. — Watch the episode here Listen to the podcast here An Introduction To Heartfulness: How This Heart-Based Practice Can Help You Deal With Grief And Loss With Atul Patel Our conversation is with Mr. Atul Patel. He is a Heartfulness trainer. This conversation will be very helpful for you as different people are struggling with depression. Different people are struggling with confusion, anxiety, and anger. Having an opportunity to learn how to work through all these different feelings in your body may prove helpful and be a very good coping skill. Learning the landscape of your inner body and being able to use that in a way to honor our loved ones and the gift of being able to live for them or for ourselves may prove helpful for you. Let’s get into the discussion now. Welcome to this episode with Mr. Atul Patel, a Heartfulness leader. Thank you so much for having me here. Atul became connected to me because as we go through this journey of grief, I know that there’s not one way to deal with it. Everyone has a different concept of this and a lot of things happen with the body as you go through grief. A very good friend of mine Ramish connected me to him, and the information that he will share with us, I think you will find helpful. We live in a body that I know we don’t always know so much about how it works, and to be able to connect with other people and get a better perspective of the body that we live in, and how grief impacts our body and our energy is something that we often don’t look into because we live lives in our own little spectrum to be able to reach, connect, and find value in what other people have to share. Right now, we are at a point in our life where we are open to hearing things we may have never looked at before, but realize that it’s an opportunity to be able to learn, and he has something for us to learn. Thank you, Tina. It was a nice welcoming message. I’m happy to be with you and I would rather say I’m honored to get this opportunity to share what we have to share in terms of what Heartfulness can offer. Losing a loved one and go getting through that experience is very central, and every one of us goes through it at some point. Our loved ones, the people around us, and especially our life partners are central to our existence. Losing them or suddenly not having them as part of our life creates a huge vacuum and we get bewildered about how to handle that. You mentioned something about our bodies. Most of our experience in this world is through our body, our eyes, and our senses. A relationship is a major part through which we connect with each other also through the body, understand each other, listen to each other, and try to acknowledge the feeling of love and compassion for each other. When this happens, when we suddenly don’t have our loved ones around us, our body does get confused. We don’t know what to do. We feel a lack of energy. We feel a lack of purpose in our life. If this experience happens in a traumatized way, then it creates an even much more tragic impact on us. Unfortunately, what happens is many of us as we have gone through this experience, repeat this experience mentally again and again. When we go through that experience mentally again, we are in a sense reliving that experience and the sadness and grief, that has affected us. Our brain, in a sense, reproduces those chemicals and tries to help us to cope with it. In a sense, we are reliving that experience by having those chemicals produced. It creates a domino effect and makes us even intensify that experience. Now the question comes up, how do we make that experience, the space or grief, which is created in our heart, how do we transcend it? How do we handle that so that we make this experience and express our love for our loved ones in a much more transcending manner? You mentioned if it’s in a trauma situation, then instantly, the idea is to continually play it back over and over in your mind, and neither of those things that we have control over. We don’t have control over the way our loved one passes. It increases the trauma and that shock that happens when a loved one passes, whether they have been sick for years and you know that their passing is intimate, or if it’s a car accident and someone knocks on your door. That instance shock of knowing that your loved one is no longer here, the brain is struggling. The body is trying to make sense of the world that keeps going on, and you are right there. That is crucial to understand how to manage that. The body gets in shock mode. The brain doesn’t know how to handle it, and all of a sudden, at the mental plane, we are trying to figure out some life, which was something fulfilling, meaningful,

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