Shining Light Parents Episodes

Send me a Text Message Marla Hughes has worked with children her entire life in a number of different capacities. At the transplant unit of UCSF Hospital in San Francisco she taught children about exercise, nutrition and relaxation. She worked with Dr. Gerald Jampolsky at the Center for Attitudinal Healing, using art and music therapy to help young children who had life threatening diseases or who had a parent or loved one who was severely ill. Her podcast, Interviews with Innocence (interviewsw...

Send me a Text Message As the parent of a child who survived the passing of her sister, I know one of the biggest concerns, when a child dies early, is, "How do I help my other child?" Michele Benyo is a mom of two, a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, an early childhood parent coach, and the founder of Good Grief Parenting. After her 6-year-old son died of cancer, her 3-year-old daughter said, “Mommy, half of me is gone.” This heartbreaking statement defined Michele’s life purpose. Her mis...

Send me a Text Message In Part 3 of our conversation, I ask Alba questions to fill in some of the details of her experience. We learn what the accident is that caused Aurelia's passing. We learn more details about her dreams that predicted the event. And, we learn where Alba is today, after having had the experience. Alba Monn is an author and a mother who had a fascinating experience with the birth of one of her children, Aurelia. Alba had a near-death experience that changed her life. It was,...

Send me a Text Message In Part 2 of our conversation, Alba continues the story of her experience with Aurelia. Alba Monn is an author and a mother who had a fascinating experience with the birth of one of her children, Aurelia. Alba had a near-death experience that changed her life. It was, in actuality, a shared death experience, as you will learn when you hear her story. I’ve broken this very special episode into three parts. In parts 1 and 2, I get out of the way and let Alba tell her story...

Send me a Text Message Alba Monn is a mother who had a fascinating experience with the birth of one of her children, Orelia. Alba had a near-death experience that changed her life. It was, in actuality, a shared death experience, as you will learn when you hear her story. This is one of the most profound NDEs I have heard. I’ve broken this very special episode into three parts. In parts 1 and 2, I get out of the way and let Alba tell her story as she recalls it. It might be a bit confusing in p...

Send me a Text Message In this scintillating conversation, Dr. Kovacs and I discuss the nature of consciousness and who we are as human beings. We talk about the deep truths behind ancient myths. Dr. Kovacs has been exploring the nature of consciousness her whole life. This was greatly accelerated when, within a three-year period, her mother, her son, and then her husband were killed in three separate automobile accidents. While she had studied shamanism before her son’s accident, she and her hu...

Send me a Text Message Dolores Cruz grew up in Los Angeles where she attended USC as a Theatre Arts major. While working full time as an elementary school teacher, and part-time as a dance teacher at a local dance studio, she and Joey raised their 4 children – Nicholas, Jessica, Vanessa, and Eric. Dolores never hesitates to mention that Eric came as a total surprise, against the odds, and brought even more joy to their family than they already had as they continued to live a very busy, full lif...

Send me a Text Message Isabella Johnson is an incredible medium and human being with a healing heart. Isabella sees people in spirit as clearly, if not more clearly than she does those of us in the body. Isabella is a shining light mother who has experienced the passing of a daughter. She has also had a near-death experience. So, when Isabella speaks about the tragic passing of a dear loved one or about how life goes on after our bodies stop functioning, it's not just speculation. One of the q...

Send me a Text Message Judy Unger is a Shining Light mother. Judy's five year old son Jason passed away in 1992 at the tender age of 5 years old. Jason had a severe congenital heart defect. Judy's grief journey was unusual in that it was 18 years later, in 2010, at the age of 50, that Judy really began processing her grief. She joined Compassionate Friends and even led a group after Jason passed. But, it wasn't until her parents' health challenges in 2010 that Judy was broken open and experienc...

Send me a Text Message Paige's spiritual awakening came abruptly and forcefully after her 23-year old son, Bryan, was brutally murdered in September 2008. Just as the only world she’d ever known was shattered, a new world opened. A world filled with Hope, Spirit, and Love; a world that allowed her not only to continue having a relationship with her son, but a world that opened her own true self into being. In this interview Paige and I discuss some very tough questions that people ask after the...

Send me a Text Message Miami's Knight is a powerhouse. After her son Ty-Key took his own life with a gun, years after being shot and witnessing the murder of his best friend, Miami dedicated her life to healing herself and others. She is a gun violence prevention advocate. She is a certified grief counselor. She is an energy healer. In this interview, we discuss the events that led up to Ty-Key's passing and the journey Miami has been on since then. You can find Miami at: https://miamiknightll...

Send me a Text Message Ali Norell's 5-month-old daughter passed into Spirit at just 5 months of age. Ali was already a natural-born medium. But, after Romy's passing, Ali lost belief in everything spiritual. In this interview and her book, Ali tells of this journey from belief to the loss of belief and back to knowing that her daughter Romy is still part of the family, along with her husband and three other children. Ali's experiences with Romy have been verified by other mediums who have conne...

Send me a Text Message Isabella is an evidential certified Medium, Medical Intuitive, Grief Recovery Specialist, and Remote Viewer. Isabella has committed her life to providing healing and comfort to the bereaved. She allows herself to be a pure channel for those in Spirit wishing to have a continuing conversation or closure with their loved ones still in the physical. I met Isabella when I sat for a test reading for her certification program. Isabella is an amazing natural medium who has alwa...

Send me a Text Message The mission statement of Helping Parents Heal is: Sharing the Journey from Bereaved to Shining Light Parent. Conrad and Paolo Leslie embody this journey. Their beautiful only son Nicolas was murdered by a terrorist in Nice, France on July 14, 2016. Conrad and Paola were obviously devastated by Nicholas' passing. Conrad is an accomplished engineer and business owner. He has taken a no-nonsense approach to finding his way since Nicolas' passing. Paola has taken a different ...

Send me a Text Message Nell Rose Foreman lost her beautiful 23-year-old son Jack to a horrific 9-month battle with Glioblastoma, an insidious brain cancer that began just after he graduated from college. Shortly after his transition, she started getting signs from Jack. One of his signs, a picture of his light being, was taken at the beach this summer and recently published in the IANDS and Helping Parents Heal newsletter. Jack communicates a mission to her: to let people know that there is no...

Send me a Text Message Diana experienced the death of her spouse at the age of 37, now 17 years ago. Her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer and was gone in 111 days. She was left behind with a broken heart and 3 teenage sons who struggled through adolescence without a father. Before he left, he told her he would help her from the other side. His words were true; he has been guiding her throughout his physical absence through signs and synchronicities. She says that the love and loss of her...

Send me a Text Message I met Lindsay a few weeks ago. A mutual friend introduced us. After talking with her a few minutes I knew I had to have her on the podcast. Lindsay is the Shining Light mother of two boys in spirit. A year and a half after her boys transitioned in a fire, Lindsay was blessed with a baby girl. Lindsay says immediately after her boys passed, she mothered them through their transition. Well versed in several healing modalities, Lindsay first worked on her own healing then be...

Send me a Text Message I have known Irene for a couple of years. Irene and I met at a weekend conference. She has become one of our best friends over the course of time. Irene is the Vice President for Helping Parents Heal and the Conference Chairperson. Irene's daughter Carly has been inspiring Irene since her passing. Irene has been actively involved with Helping Parents Heal, starting a thriving affiliate group in Bluffton, SC as well as heading up our two conferences. The second Helping Par...

Send me a Text Message Michelle is the Shining Light Parent of Olivia, who made her transition to the spirit world in 2009. Michelle's life of spiritually transformative experiences began with a White Light experience at the age of 12. Michelle feels that over the nine years since Olivia passed she has had the purpose in life to serve others. Michelle has immersed herself into spiritual studies since becoming a certified hypnotherapist, shaman, and Reiki practitioner. Her husband Harvey and her...

Send me a Text Message Dana Stinson-Cumby is the Shining Light Parent of Noah who passed away in September of 2017. In this episode, Dana relates a Near Death Experience that she had early in her life. It's a veridical NDE in that Dana saw things when she was out of her body that were later confirmed by others. Dana had a series of synchronicities that led her to a Shared Death Experience (a profound experience whereby a loved one, caregiver or bystander shares in a dying person’s initial transi...

Send me a Text Message Elizabeth Boisson is the founder of Helping Parents Heal, an international organization dedicated to helping parents after the loss of a child. Two of Elizabeth's children have transitioned; her daughter, Chelsea, in 1991 and her son, Morgan, in 2009 from severe altitude sickness while on a student trip to the Base Camp of Mt Everest in Tibet. Immediately after Morgan's passing, Elizabeth created the Facebook group Parents United in Loss. Then in 2012, she joined forces ...