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Speaker 1: supernatural and the unexplained. Get ready now for Shades of

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Speaker 1: the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain.

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Speaker 3: Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've

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Speaker 3: been on a journey to prove the existence of life

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Speaker 3: after death. On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we

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Speaker 3: now know that our loved ones have survived physical debt.

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Speaker 4: And so blue.

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Speaker 3: We welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. We're going to

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Speaker 3: dive straight into our episode today with stories from our

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Speaker 3: listeners of signs they have received from their loved ones

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Speaker 3: in the afterlife. The first story you'll hear from Diane

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Speaker 3: Calderon in her own words.

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Speaker 5: Right now, I'm living in Arizona, it's the Chino Valley area,

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Speaker 5: which is north of Prescott, Arizona. My life with my

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Speaker 5: husband and my family here was basically quiet. We built

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Speaker 5: one home and we split our property. We built two

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Speaker 5: more homes. The third home my son, by then was

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Speaker 5: in the community college program for construction management. My son

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Speaker 5: is Matthew, and he designed that third home and he

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Speaker 5: It was an investment. We sold the home to our

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Speaker 5: area that Matthew would move to and fix up, and

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Speaker 5: that's where he was living in twenty fourteen when he

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Speaker 5: met with a tragic accident that took him out of

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Speaker 5: our life but into another world. During that period of time,

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Speaker 5: my husband, who was just a remarkably intelligent man, had

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Speaker 5: started to suffer from Louis body dementia. I became the

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Speaker 5: Matthew on the other side of life. Ten years ago

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Speaker 5: this week, Matthew was living in Phoenix. He was renovating

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Speaker 5: fixing it. We would sell it, we'd buy another one.

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Speaker 5: He'd been working pretty hard at that home, but here

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Speaker 5: at my home two hours away, my husband was declining.

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Speaker 5: His name is Sal sALS. Dementia was becoming a big concern.

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Speaker 5: So to get out and run errands, even running to

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Speaker 5: he could sometimes wander off or get upset he didn't

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Speaker 5: So ten years ago, this week, Matthew was here visiting.

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Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure you chose me as your mom, so

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Speaker 5: it right to the page that told me Edgar Casey

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Speaker 5: and some bluebirds flew along the car, and I thought,

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Speaker 5: I'm hearing songs like when Matthew was little, singing, you know,

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Speaker 5: That was on my mind as I came home. I return,

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Speaker 5: I get sal set up. I'm giving him his breakfast.

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Speaker 5: My whole world changed immediately. Long story short, Matthew had

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Speaker 5: The information from the detective broke my heart. I did

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Speaker 5: matt I can't believe this is happening. You were just

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Speaker 5: I said, I'll probably die before you, but just saying here,

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Speaker 5: to promise to come back and give a sign. You

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Speaker 5: have to give a sign. Matthew, Where's my sign? And

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Speaker 5: then at dawned on me, Sandra, I had that sign

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Speaker 5: that night, the night before, when I saw those lights,

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Speaker 5: that was my sign. I had asked the detective what

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Speaker 5: he was fine. That everything's going to be okay changed

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Speaker 5: my whole life. It helped me get through those next

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Speaker 5: are we going to do? Well, We'll do a celebration

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Speaker 5: of life, because that's what Matthew's all about. It helped

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Speaker 5: me tremendously through those first two weeks and then moving forward.

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Speaker 5: Matthew coming in with that sign that he was okay

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Speaker 5: led me on a journey to learn what the afterlife's about,

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Speaker 5: and to attend workshops and to meet people and to

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Speaker 5: an amazing journey, all thanks.

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Speaker 3: To matt Diane is one strong woman, as I'm sure

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Speaker 3: you can't agree. We'll hear more of her story with

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Speaker 3: Signs and also about the passing of her husband in

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Speaker 3: out to Helpingparents Heal dot Org. There's over sixteen thousand parents.

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Speaker 3: There are free resources. Even if you're not a parent.

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Speaker 3: You can find their YouTube channel. It's one of the

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Speaker 3: few grief organizations that also believe in the afterlife. Parents

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Speaker 3: call themselves a Shining Light parents. And when I spoke

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Speaker 3: with Diane, it was the ten year angel versary of

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Speaker 3: her son Matt going to the spirit world. I'm happy

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Speaker 3: to report Diane went on to write her story in

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Speaker 3: a book called Living and Loving Life All Day, Every Day,

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Speaker 3: a mother's story of loss, love and connecting with the afterlife.

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Speaker 3: So let's go to the break and we'll be back

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Speaker 3: with more signs from Diane Calderon. You're listening to Shades

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Speaker 3: We're going to continue with listeners stories. This is Diane Calderon.

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Speaker 3: I ask her if there's some significance with bluebirds.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the bluebird has just became a remarkable sign that

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Speaker 5: reminds me of my son. Like I had mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 5: Now I knew he had died the night before, but

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Speaker 5: that morning I did not know it yet. And I'm

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Speaker 5: driving down the road to get the paper, and those

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Speaker 5: bluebirds showed up along my path. Was amazing to me, really, like,

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Speaker 5: where did these bluebirds come? They're not native to my area,

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Speaker 5: here they are along my path. So I thought, that's

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Speaker 5: pretty cool. They made me think of my son and

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Speaker 5: the little song, the zippity do to a song, and

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Speaker 5: then the over the rainbow song. So I connected the

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Speaker 5: bluebirds to that magical morning, which then turned into a

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Speaker 5: tragic day when I got the news about my son's death.

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Speaker 5: Yet the bluebirds felt like there was a connection. I

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Speaker 5: looked into what does a spirit animal mean? What does

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Speaker 5: a bluebird mean? And a lot of people think that

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Speaker 5: the birds bring us signs from our people on the

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Speaker 5: other side. So I decided the bluebird was the sign

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Speaker 5: that Matthew would be sending me. He sent me a

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Speaker 5: even more fantastic bluebird sign at Christmas. We're looking at

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Speaker 5: my first Christmas after losing Matthew. It had been a

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Speaker 5: hard year, sal had gotten worse. I had made some progress,

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Speaker 5: first Christmas without you, matt This is just so hard.

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Speaker 5: I wish you were here. I wish there was something

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Speaker 5: eating these red berries, and my astonishment was like, oh

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Speaker 5: my god, this is incredible. Oh this is wonderful. Matt

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Speaker 5: youa So the blue bird, the blue jay just became

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Speaker 5: a sign for me from Matthew. So the bluebird, the

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Speaker 5: blue feathers, that's important. That's Matthew's sign. Another big sign

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Speaker 5: his weekend, he mentioned having this beautiful drive down to Phoenix.

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Speaker 5: He had left early in the morning. He was ecstatic

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Speaker 5: prior to his passing, we were sitting outside. A rainstorm

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Speaker 5: brilliant idea like, hey, matt go get my camera. He

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Speaker 5: We posted that printed it on the little booklets that

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Speaker 5: So Matthew holding this photo became a big theme, Matthew

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Speaker 5: I don't get a lot of moisture up here. This

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Speaker 5: he had bought himself a journal, and in this journal

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Speaker 5: he had written on two pages. He wrote something on

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Speaker 5: the very opening page where he is saying, Oh, I'm

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Speaker 5: just resigned to I'll probably never have kids, but that's okay.

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Speaker 5: up the song, and it was a group called Mumford

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Speaker 5: and Sons, and the song was I Will Wait I

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Speaker 5: Will Wait for You. That became Matthew's song I Will

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Speaker 5: Wait for You. The lyrics to that song were telling

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Speaker 5: me that, Hey, Matthew wanted us to know that he's

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Speaker 5: over there on the other side, but that's okay. He's

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Speaker 5: going to be waiting for everybody. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 5: That song will come on at the most interesting times.

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Speaker 5: I go to lunch with a dear friend of mine

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Speaker 5: I hadn't seen in a long time. We're sitting in

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Speaker 5: to me and said, oh, I'm so sorry that you

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Speaker 3: know that wasn't easy. You love him and that's just

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Speaker 3: a terrible disease. It takes people. But when he passed,

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Speaker 5: All those good things. Yeah, let me give a little

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Speaker 5: His decline was tragic. He reached a point where he

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Speaker 5: We had a lot of friends and relatives come. There

433
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 5: were hawks circling above us as we were doing the

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Speaker 5: tree ceremony, so we knew that was Sal saying hello.

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Speaker 5: When friends of Matthews came to build a garage for me,

436
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Speaker 5: the hawks were here flying over them, and my son's

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Speaker 5: friends said, oh, look, they're Sal and Matt watching us.

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Speaker 5: That is so cool.

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00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 3: Again, that was Diane Calderon, and yes, those signs are cool.

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00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: Diane points to terminal lucidity. When her husband Sal died,

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Speaker 3: he was bright and alert and told her he loved her,

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Speaker 3: and also how Sal saw Matthew and his mom before

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain

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00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 3: and this episode is touching stories from listeners. I received

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Speaker 3: this email from Christy and it really touched my heart because,

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Speaker 3: as many people know, I'm extremely close with my dear mother.

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00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 3: So here's what Christy has to say. Hi, Sandra, my

476
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 3: mom and I lived together pretty much all of my life.

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00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 3: We have a very close bond and share a deep love.

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00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 3: She is my best friend. She is my soulmate. When

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00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: she got sick, I quit my job to take care

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00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 3: of her. She was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis at

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00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 3: the age of eighty two and she went through a

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Speaker 3: procedure called TAVR. We were thinking that that was going

483
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 3: to be her cure, and it seemed to be for

484
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: a little while, but then her symptoms returned with a vengeance.

485
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 3: About a year later. She ended up passing February seventh,

486
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Speaker 3: at the age of eighty four. I lost my dad

487
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 3: back in nineteen ninety nine due to pancreatic cancer, and

488
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: Mom lost her beloved husband. We pulled together and somehow

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00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 3: got through it together. We both knew there was a

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00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 3: beautiful afterlife because we'd received signs from Dad. He was

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00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 3: constantly sending us feathers. Every single time I was at

492
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: the hospital with Mom, I would find feathers, and that

493
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 3: brought both Mom and I a great deal of comfort.

494
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 3: My first sign from him was when I saw him.

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00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: I actually saw him sitting in our car shortly after

496
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Speaker 3: he passed. I was leaving the library and there he was.

497
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 3: By the time I got to the car, he was gone. Now,

498
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: with Mom's recent crossing, the signs come daily in ways

499
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: I never knew possible. The very first sign I received

500
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 3: was the night after she passed, the TV started acting up.

501
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 3: I had never seen it do that before. I actually

502
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 3: thought the TV was going out, and I started looking

503
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 3: online to buy another one. Then I thought, wait, a

504
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: se sec that's Mom. And when I started talking to her,

505
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: the problems went away. And the TV went back to normal.

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00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 3: Four days after her crossing, I saw an orb and

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00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 3: then another one. The two orbs started along the ceiling

508
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 3: where she passed away here at home on our couch,

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00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 3: and they moved along the length of the wall, and

510
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 3: then I couldn't see them anymore. A couple weeks later

511
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 3: after her crossing, I remember going to pick up some

512
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: takeout food that I had called in at a restaurant.

513
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 3: I'm constantly talking to my mom on this particular car ride.

514
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 3: I was telling her how much guilt and regret I felt,

515
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Speaker 3: telling her how sorry I was for things I should

516
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 3: have and didn't do, and for things I shouldn't have.

517
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 3: So I get into the restaurant and as soon as

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00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: I walk in, someone asks for Joyce. Joyce is my

519
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 3: mom's name, and the counter person kept repeating it. Anyone

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00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 3: here for Joyce Joyce? I said under my breath, I

521
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 3: am Nobody ever came to the counter. So then I

522
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 3: get my food and I'm heading home and I see

523
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 3: a license plate in front of me. It read be forgiven.

524
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 3: I was so deeply touched tears started streaming down my face.

525
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 3: I asked, Mom, how did you do that? I am

526
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 3: forever seeing her birth date, my birth date, my parents'

527
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 3: wedding anniversary, on the clock, receipts, license plates. Mom had

528
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: this thing with numbers when she was here in the

529
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 3: physical Oh, and she'll turn lights on and off. I

530
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: remember this past Mother's Day. It was the first one

531
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 3: without her here, and I went to the cemetery and

532
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 3: left her some roses. And while I was there, I

533
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 3: asked her to send me a song. On the drive

534
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 3: home from the cemetery, before I even exited, the song

535
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: black came on by Pearl Jam. I had just gotten

536
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 3: my first and only tattoo in her honor, it says

537
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 3: Joyce in her handwriting on my hand. The song seemed

538
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 3: to bring that up as well. I got home from

539
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 3: the cemetery and all I could see is this little

540
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 3: redbird a cardinal. I mean, every time I go outside

541
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 3: in the front yard, the backyard, this cardinal followed me

542
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 3: wherever I went. Mom passed away here at home, and

543
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 3: I was here on the couch when she crossed. I

544
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 3: was sleeping, but I remember getting jolted awake. I rushed

545
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 3: to her, and I knew I had a very vivid

546
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,239
Speaker 3: dream about her. After her passing, I'll never ever forget it.

547
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: I asked her to stay, she said I can't. I

548
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: asked her if she'll be back, She said, I don't know,

549
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 3: but my love is the sign always. It was like

550
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 3: she was right here next to me. She looked to me,

551
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 3: in her thirties, with this beautiful, bright white light surrounding her. Oh,

552
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 3: that dream brought me so much happiness. Her daily go

553
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 3: to sign every single day is knocking over pictures. I

554
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: have pictures everywhere, but the one she knocks down the

555
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: most is a picture of her holding me as a baby.

556
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 3: Now she's got my dad doing it too. Once in

557
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 3: a while he'll knock over a picture of him and

558
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 3: Mom together. That's never happened before. Only since Mom's passing

559
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 3: has that been going over. I joke and tell him,

560
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 3: you've been over there for almost twenty five years. Mom

561
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: hasn't been there a full year, and she's already teaching you.

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00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 5: Well.

563
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 3: I could go on and on with the beautiful signs,

564
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 3: but I think you get the idea. I knew there

565
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: was no way I could make it without my mom.

566
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 3: There was no way we could ever be a part.

567
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 3: But she shows me every day we're not. Our love

568
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: is never ending. Our bond is unbreakable. I soak this

569
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 3: afterlife subject up like a sponge. I can't get enough

570
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 3: of it. I'm forever researching, and it brings me comfort knowing,

571
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 3: not just believing, but knowing that our loved ones do

572
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 3: go on, our love goes on, we go on together.

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00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to cross over to be with my

574
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 3: parents again for all of eternity. But until then, I

575
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: know we're together here there, everywhere. I made Mom a

576
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,959
Speaker 3: cup of coffee today and just sat here talking to her.

577
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 3: I constantly talked to her. I feel her presence everywhere

578
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: in the car, at work, the grocery store. I know

579
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 3: she's with me. I never refer to her in the

580
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 3: past tense, and I hate it when people do that.

581
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 3: Some just don't get it. Oh and just this week,

582
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 3: the dashboard in the car showed up as low fuel.

583
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 3: I made it home and I told Mom to bless

584
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 3: me to get to work. The next day into the

585
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 3: gas station at lunchtime because my direct deposit hit. It's

586
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 3: anywhere between ten and eleven am, and the next day

587
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 3: was payday. I check out my balance the next morning

588
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 3: when I wake up, and the money is already in there.

589
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: I start up the car, no low fuel gauge comes on,

590
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 3: and it appears to have more gas than it did

591
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 3: the day before. I don't know how Mom does what

592
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 3: she does. It's truly amazing. I tell you, she never

593
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 3: ceases to amaze me. I even told her that when

594
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: she was here in the physical I do miss her

595
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 3: physical presence, her voice especially. I won't ever forget her

596
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 3: hugs or the beautiful sound of her voice. She'll also

597
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 3: make the passenger light in the car come on now,

598
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 3: and then I tell her, Mom, you're my copilot. In

599
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 3: and out of the car, I find feathers, usually gray, black,

600
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 3: or brown. Mom also sends me pennies. I keep them all,

601
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: even the receipts. Like I said, I could go on

602
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 3: and on. It's truly credible what they can do from

603
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: over there. Thank you, Sandra for what you do. I

604
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 3: am blessed to have found you, and no doubt my

605
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 3: mom led me to you. I listen to you every day.

606
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 3: I go through your podcasts and your YouTube videos like water.

607
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 3: I love them. I can't get enough of this topic.

608
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 3: I know your dad is guiding you too. If you've

609
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 3: read this all, thank you for taking the time. Most

610
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 3: sincerely Christy, Oh, Christy, thank you so much for sharing

611
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 3: those words. I know it's important for everyone to know

612
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 3: these signs are real. Slow down, pay attention, even journal them.

613
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 3: You can ask for signs from your loved ones, and then,

614
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 3: most importantly, pay attention. Here's the next story. This one's

615
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 3: from Karen Hi. Sandra, I just finished listening to episode

616
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 3: one six ' three and would like to share one

617
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 3: of my after death stories. My brother died of cancer

618
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 3: six years ago. About a month or two after his death,

619
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 3: both my husband and I noticed the TV in our

620
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 3: bedroom was just randomly turning on at all hours of

621
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: the day to a blue lost signal screen, so we

622
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 3: unplugged it for a few days, took the batteries out

623
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 3: of the remote, and checked to be sure no time

624
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 3: or mode or controls were set. The TV continued to

625
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 3: randomly turn on, especially at night or after I would

626
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 3: come home after running errands. One day, I decided to

627
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 3: talk out loud to it, and I said, if this

628
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 3: is you Stephen, Stephen is my brother's name, turn on

629
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 3: the TV because I'm coming upstairs. Well. I went upstairs

630
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 3: and the TV was on. I sat on my bed

631
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 3: and began asking some yes or no questions that I

632
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 3: knew the answer to, and the tear would go off

633
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 3: for no and turn back on for yes. I asked

634
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 3: if it was my brother, and it immediately turned on.

635
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 3: I called my husband on the phone and told him

636
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 3: what was happening, and I put him on speaker. With that,

637
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 3: my husband said Hi, Stephen, and all of a sudden,

638
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 3: at the sound of my husband's voice, the TV linked

639
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 3: on and off quickly three times. We were stunned. No

640
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 3: one will ever convince me that this was not my brother.

641
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 3: Let me add this. Although he died of lung cancer,

642
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 3: he was very debilitated from his battle with MS, and

643
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 3: his big screen TV was his most cherished possession. He

644
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 3: kept it on all day and all night for company

645
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 3: as he lived alone. Sandra, I love listening to you.

646
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking the time to read this. Karen, Karen,

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Speaker 3: you are most welcome and to anyone listening right now.

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Speaker 3: If you have a story of a reason to believe

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Speaker 3: in the afterlife, perhaps a sign, perhaps you are with

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Speaker 3: a loved one and they could see the people coming

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Speaker 3: for them in the afterlife, whatever it may be, let

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Speaker 3: me know you don't need to have a book or

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Speaker 3: a podcast or anything like that real people telling real

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Speaker 3: stories helps all of us believe the afterlife is real

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Speaker 3: and that our loved ones are really around us. My

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Speaker 3: email address Sandra Champlain at gmail dot com. I just

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Speaker 3: ask that you give me a little time to get

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Speaker 3: back to you. I feel like I've gotten a little

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Speaker 3: famous lately, and I get lots of emails. But I

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Speaker 3: promise you I will get back to you. Coming up,

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Speaker 3: more great stories from listeners will be right back. You're

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Speaker 3: listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and

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Speaker 3: Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. There's more Shades of the Afterlife coming

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Speaker 1: right up.

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Speaker 7: Take us with you anywhere. This is the iHeartRadio and

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Speaker 7: Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain

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Speaker 3: with more stories from fellow listeners. This next story is

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Speaker 3: from Tricia. She says, Hi, Sandra, thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for your podcast shows. They've helped me recognize that these

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00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 3: stories are not coincidences. That my loved ones really are nearby,

675
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 3: and they help me transform deep seated grief into big love.

676
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 3: It's so easy to try to reason my way out

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00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 3: of these experiences as mere coincidences, but it is my

678
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: choice to embrace them, grow from them, and use them

679
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 3: to improve the quality of my life and help others.

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00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 3: In January of twenty twenty, my mom called to let

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Speaker 3: me know she wasn't feeling well and was going to

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00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 3: the emergency room. That led to a journey of doctor's

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00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 3: appointments and difficult health decisions. This was all compounded by

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00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 3: the COVID lockdown in healthcare, meaning that no visitors were

685
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 3: allowed for her six hour surgery, her stroke, and rehabilitation.

686
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 3: One example is that during her rehab I'd visit her

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00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 3: through a window, but because of her stroke, she couldn't

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00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 3: turn her eyes or head towards me, and it was

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00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 3: impossible to hear each other. Thankfully, during all of this,

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00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 3: her oncologist called and recommended I bring her home for

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Speaker 3: hospice care. I wish I would have been listening to

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00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 3: your show at this point, because it would have helped

693
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 3: me understand what was happening. The first miracle Mom lived

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Speaker 3: with us three and a half weeks in hospice. She

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00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 3: closed her eyes on a Sunday night and wasn't able

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Speaker 3: to talk or communicate with us again. On Thursday, as

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00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 3: I was driving to the post office to mail some

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00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 3: of her estate papers, I had a very strong feeling

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00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 3: that Mom could use a strong boost of love and support,

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00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 3: so she really knew that it was ok to pass.

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00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 3: So I pulled the car over and texted my neighbors

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00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 3: to come over, surround the windows of the sunroom that

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00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,439
Speaker 3: her hospital bed was located in, and sing the song

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00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 3: Amazing Grace to her that evening. As strong as that

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00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: feeling I had in the car, was that gut feeling.

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00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: I did question it because my mom was a very

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00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 3: private person and having others surrounding her on her deathbed

708
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 3: would not be in her comfort zone. Can you believe?

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00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 3: She passed as soon as I got home from the

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00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 3: post office. It turns out she didn't want the company.

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00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 3: Perhaps the feeling was for me. Mom knew she was

712
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 3: going to pass and that this would become her funeral service.

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00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 3: The neighbors surrounded the sunroom she had been staying in

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00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,439
Speaker 3: and sang Amazing Grace to walk her home. Miracle one

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00:43:55,719 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 3: b this miracle happened after Mom's surgery. Each time we talked,

716
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: she said to me, something is wrong. I can't sleep.

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00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 3: During our last conversation before her stroke, she was very

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00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 3: upset and said, Tricia, I need you to do me

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00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: a favor. Every time I go to sleep, I keep

720
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 3: having this dream. Please promise me that you'll do this

721
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 3: no matter what. I had moved to her house in

722
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Speaker 3: March from my house to help take care of her house,

723
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Speaker 3: her animals, and help her recover from surgery. When she returned.

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Speaker 3: Her surgery was at the end of April. Mom's request was,

725
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Speaker 3: I keep dreaming that the neighbors on the north side

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00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 3: of my house and the neighbors on the south are

727
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Speaker 3: going to have a fight. There will be guns, and

728
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 3: it will be very bad. Please pack up your stuff

729
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 3: and the animals and go back to your house. Mom

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00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 3: had her stroke and the animals. Mom and I moved

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Speaker 3: to my home in May. She then passed away in

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Speaker 3: early July. In August, there was a police altercation in

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Speaker 3: Mom's hometown. Riots broke out. People came from across the

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00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 3: country to fight on the streets of her small town,

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Speaker 3: both on the north and south side. Businesses and cars

736
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 3: burned down, windows, broken, looting, and there was national news

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00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 3: coverage for months. This all happened within less than a

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00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 3: mile from Mom's house. Mom's dream was right. Miracle one

739
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 3: see about Mom's house. Years before her illness, my mom

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00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 3: had a neighbor that made her feel uneasy. She kept

741
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 3: saying that guy wants my house. After she passed, I

742
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 3: was cleaning her house, grieving, doing major repairs. It was

743
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 3: very hard for me. My family, neighbors and friends helped

744
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 3: a lot. But I was at the house alone, taking

745
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 3: car loads of stuff to Goodwill the dump and I

746
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 3: needed extra muscle, so I knocked on the neighbor's door.

747
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 3: It turns out he was an angel and helped me

748
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 3: clean and repair the house, and as you can guess,

749
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 3: he asked me if he could buy the house. I

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00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 3: did sell it to him, miracle. Two months after Mom passed,

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00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 3: I got a message from my mother. Things felt very

752
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 3: dark in those days. I felt like I was walking

753
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: around in a dark shadow and nobody could help. Some

754
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 3: people judged saying get over it already. I was sitting

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00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 3: in my living room crying, feeling grief, and I heard

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00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 3: Mom's voice in my head. Tricia, She said it like

757
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 3: she used to say my name in high school when

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00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 3: she was frustrated with me. Tricia, stop it. I am

759
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 3: more than my illness. I want you to remember me

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00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 3: like this. And then she gave me an image of

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00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 3: the two of us going for a ride in our

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00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 3: maroon Chevy and Paula with the black seats, listening to

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00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 3: music when she was a young mom. I was just

764
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 3: five or six years old, and we were singing to

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00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 3: the music, enjoying the sunshine, and there was joy in

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00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 3: her heart. It was a very strong feeling and image.

767
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: It was clear to me that she could feel my grief.

768
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 3: She could feel my guilt, my perception of lost opportunities,

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00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 3: and it had been going on for a long time.

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00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 3: When does it end? This moment was pivotal. It was

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00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 3: the beginning of change, and the miracle keeps giving. So

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00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 3: I put on my earbuds and went for a walk.

773
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 3: As I was walking, I was thinking about my mom

774
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 3: driving in the car and the music that we listened to,

775
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 3: and I felt inspired to switch my playlist to the Carpenters.

776
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 3: Let me explain that Mom and I would drive to

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00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 3: my aunt and uncle's house most weekends when I was

778
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 3: a child. It was a happy time because I got

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00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: to be with my mom. She was a single mom

780
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 3: who worked a lot of overtime to pay the bills.

781
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 3: I also got to play with my cousins. Can you

782
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 3: believe that the song that popped up was Karen Carpenter

783
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 3: singing riding in the car listening to the radio. It

784
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 3: was on a loop for two and a half minutes,

785
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 3: and it played over and over again. I was amazed.

786
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 3: Miracle too be every time I would feel the grief

787
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 3: of my loss, I'd flip my awareness to the image

788
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 3: Mom shared with me. Instead of feeling grief, every time

789
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 3: I thought of her, I would feel my joy. We

790
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 3: could share that there was an underlying thread of darkness

791
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 3: left over from being Mom's only child. Making health decisions

792
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 3: for her after her stroke based on the wishes she

793
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 3: shared when she told me her living will. It wasn't

794
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 3: easy to make those decisions, and so I was carrying

795
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 3: that darkness around with me. About a year after the

796
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 3: Carpenter's miracle, Mom shared another vision with me. It was

797
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 3: her and I riding in the car again. Usually the

798
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: spotlight would be on her, remembering how happy she was

799
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,959
Speaker 3: and how she wanted me to remember her that day,

800
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 3: the spotlight moved from her across the front seat of

801
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 3: the car to me. She said, Remember what it felt

802
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 3: like to be you, riding in the car with all

803
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 3: of that joy in your heart. Remember yourself like this miracle. Three.

804
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago, our beloved Burmese mountain dog

805
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 3: of eleven years got really sick and we had to

806
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 3: put her to sleep. We had to ask ourselves, is

807
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 3: her suffering outweighing her joy? And the answer was yes.

808
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 3: I went for a walk the day after we put

809
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 3: her down, experiencing moments of strong grief and tears. It

810
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 3: had been a series of gray days, and there was

811
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 3: a small bit of sunshine at that moment, peeking through

812
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 3: the clouds. That little spark of sunshine helped me remember

813
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 3: my mom's wish. To shift how I was remembering her,

814
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 3: I asked myself, I wonder how it feels to Stella,

815
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 3: our dog, to feel my grief every time I think

816
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 3: of her. So I let the grief fill me up. Then,

817
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 3: somehow I was able to take that strong grieving emotion

818
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 3: and switch it to gratitude. I kept saying to Stella,

819
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 3: thank you for sharing your love, thank you for being

820
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 3: in our family. Every time I felt the grief, the darkness,

821
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 3: I'd let it fill me up, then flip it. I

822
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 3: pictured her face, remembering feeling her fur, and thanked her.

823
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 3: It was very powerful to do this every time I

824
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 3: felt grief. On my walk. The next day, I was

825
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 3: racing the daylight and the sun was setting, and the

826
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 3: sun looked exactly like Stella's eye looking at us from

827
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 3: the floor. Here's Trishia's last miracle. My mother in law

828
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 3: was a lovely person and she passed way too early

829
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 3: for our family. She always greeted us with a smile

830
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,919
Speaker 3: and her big heart shining. Even the way she said

831
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 3: your name when she said hello made you feel really

832
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 3: happy about yourself. Her passing was very difficult for our family.

833
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 3: It really affected our lives. I was ready for a

834
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 3: career transition at the time, and I strongly believe she

835
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: guided me to the career I'm doing now. She was

836
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 3: very spiritual and she recognized that in me, but I

837
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 3: was stuck in grief and I was backsliding. Her way

838
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 3: of communicating was much more subtle than my mom's way

839
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 3: of communicating. It's more like she's putting things in my path.

840
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 3: After she passed, I asked if I could have some

841
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 3: of her books from her library. She had hundreds of books,

842
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 3: and I only took one box full. It seems like

843
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 3: the books keep multiplying even though I only took the

844
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 3: one box of books. I keep finding her books all

845
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 3: over my house. She has never been in my house,

846
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 3: but they keep appearing with her name in them and

847
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 3: special highlighting in notes that she took. The Other day,

848
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 3: my husband and I were moving furniture, and sure enough,

849
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 3: we found another book. She keeps showing up through her

850
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 3: books and these notes in miraculous ways. All of these

851
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 3: miracles could easily be dismissed as coincidences. Sandra, your podcasts

852
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 3: help me recognize they are miracles. Tricia, thank you so

853
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 3: much for sharing your mom, stepmother, and Stella. Someone told

854
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 3: me this past week to take out the word just

855
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 3: when we say it was just my imagination. Our loved

856
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 3: ones communicate through our imagination. It sounds like we're talking.

857
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 3: But if we relive those happy memories, you may just

858
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 3: find some signs and some messages you didn't expect. It's

859
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 3: the end of our show. I do hope you come

860
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:53,359
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