If you experienced childhood trauma and are still carrying the wound beneath your story, healing your inner child may be less about fixing what's broken and more about remembering who you really are.

In this episode Jessica Rooks, host of Awaken Your Authentic Self a show for empaths and old souls navigating awakening and trauma healing, sits down with John R. Spender, a 45-time international bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, and founder of A Journey of Riches, a global storytelling movement featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries.

John couldn't read or write until age ten and experienced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse during childhood. Yet a teacher recognized his creativity when he wrote "Sausage Man from Outer Space". That moment became part of a remarkable journey that eventually led him to become a bestselling author, filmmaker, mentor, and advocate for sharing the wisdom found in our stories.

This conversation goes beyond overcoming adversity. Jessica and John explore childhood trauma, identity, healing, belonging, resilience, and authentic self-discovery, and what happens when we begin separating who we are from what happened to us.

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨How childhood trauma can shape identity, beliefs, and the stories we tell ourselves

✨Why rewriting your story isn't the same as healing the wound underneath it

✨What John's travels through more than 75 countries revealed about identity, purpose and belonging

✨What hundreds of personal stories taught him about the blind spots we often cannot see in our own lives

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Perhaps healing isn't about becoming someone new. Perhaps it's about remembering who you've always been.

About John R. Spender

John R. Spender is an internationally bestselling author, filmmaker, transformational coach, speaker, and writing coach. He founded A Journey of Riches, a global book series and storytelling platform featuring more than 400 co-authors from over 50 countries. Profits support Jewels Children's Home in Bali.

His documentary, The Gift in Adversity, explores how difficult experiences can become catalysts for self-discovery, purpose, and meaningful change.

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Connect with John R. Spender

Website: https://ajourneyofriches.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ajourneyofriches3672

Book Series: A Journey of Riches

Documentary: The Gift in Adversity

Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

Website: www.UniversityEarth.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

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What if the people you've lost - your mother, your father, the person you never got to say goodbye to - what if they never actually left?

In this episode of of Awaken Your Authentic Self, host Jessica Rooks sits down with Chris Lippincott, international evidential psychic medium, trance medium, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and host of Spirits Beside Us, to explore mediumship, afterlife communication, signs from spirit, grief healing, spiritual awakening, intuition, consciousness, and connecting with loved ones beyond physical death.

Before becoming a professional medium, Chris spent 30 years as a senior buy-side equity analyst on Wall Street, holding an MBA and CFA Charterholder designation. His journey from a world built on logic, data and measurable evidence into evidential mediumship creates a fascinating bridge between skepticism, spiritual experience, and the search for proof.

As an evidential psychic medium and trance medium, Chris focus' on specific information and messages that can be verified by the people receiving them. His work explores how loved ones and spirit guides may communicate through signs, synchronicities, dreams intuition, physical sensations, and unexpected moments of knowing.

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨What Chris' out-of-body experience revealed about consciousness - and what happened when his Wall Street-trained mind encountered something it couldn't explain

✨What evidential mediumship actually means, why verification matters, and how specific information from spirit differs from generalized spiritual impressions

✨The single most repeated message Chris says spirit delivers through thousands of readings - and why it may be the message someone listening today most needs to hear

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If you're exploring afterlife communication, grief healing, intuition, and signs from spirit, continue your journey with:

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Connect with Chris Lippincott

Website: https://montclairmedium.com/home

Free Meditation: https://montclairmedium.com/free-meditation

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@montclairmedium

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087212560779

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulbschool/

Podcast: Spirits Beside Us

Book: Spirits Beside Us: Gain Healing & Comfort from Loved Ones in the Afterlife

Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

Website: www.UniversityEarth.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

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Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

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Love doesn't end. Sometimes, we simply have to learn how to recognize the ways it continues.

What if the pain you're carrying isn't yours?

What if some of the patterns, emotional wounds, grief, or energetic imprints you've spent years trying to heal began before you ever had a chance to choose them.

In this conversation Cindy Bain joins host Jessica Rooks on Awaken Your Authentic Self to explore ancestral healing, Reiki healing, spiritual awakening, grief, Spiritually Transformative Experiences )STEs), near death experiences, and after-death communication - and what can happen when we begin to look at healing through both a grounded and spiritual lens.

Cindy's has spent more than 24 years practicing Reiki, becoming a Reiki Master in Tibetan/Usui, Karuna, and Holy Fire Reiki. She is also a Professional Member of the International Center for Reiki Training.

Her personal journey includes mystical experiences, near-death experiences, moments of enlightenment, spiritually transformative experiences, and after-death communication - experiences that profoundly shaped the healer she became.

At the heart of this conversation is a question that may change the way you understand your own healing:

What if something you've been trying to heal isn't actully yours to begin with?

In This Conversation, You'll Discover:

✨What ancestral healing means and how inherited patterns, family experiences, and energetic imprints may influence the way we experience our lives

✨How Cindy's journey through grief, spiritual awakening, Reiki, and Spiritually Transformative Experiences changed her understanding of healing and consciousness

✨What after-death communication can feel like, including Cindy's personal experiences of connection with her father after his death

✨How Reiki healing may support people navigating emotional overwhelm, anxiety, grief, trauma, exhaustion, and patterns that seem difficult to shift

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Connect with Cindy Bain

Website: https://cindybainreiki.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Recharge_with_Reiki

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recharge_with_reiki

Renewal Journey: https://www.cindybainreiki.com/renewal-journey

Connect with Awaken Your Authentic Self

Website: www.universityearth.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/

Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

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