Have you ever experienced something so scary that you thought your life was over? Perhaps your entire life flashed before your eyes? Maybe you even felt frozen, or felt a rush of adrenalin so powerful that you could have sprinted a marathon? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have experienced something that psychologists call ‘trauma’.

Our self-perception can shift throughout any given day in response to our daily roles and circumstances, but life after loss abruptly shifts everything all at once–including our identity.

When we initially experience loss, our inner world feels as though it has come to a screeching halt, and on some level it actually has.

I’ve been in a good place spiritually for the past few years, and it wasn’t until—in the twilight of my life as it were—my first book was published that things started to go awry.

My mother died the same day I had an emergency appendectomy.

What is your first thought when someone says, “9/11”? The majority of people in the U.S. would reply without effort: “Twin Towers,” “World Trade Center,” or “terrorist attack.”

Each one of us has an experience of being human that is particular to who we are at our core and what we’ve lived over time.

Corbie Mitleid’s is such a gifted psychic and intuitive medium that she has a worldwide following, completing well over a thousand readings a year (in addition to teaching, providing psychic parties, performing speaking events, and authoring books).

Calendar dating (and time of day, for that matter) is a human construct and, although it’s based on the seasons of the year, basically random.

Within one phone call and a technically-derailed interview, we became friends. There was an instant, easy familiarity between us that makes one think that certain connections are not happenstance.