app01 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:13:37 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Permission Slip - Episodes Tagged with “#Healingjourney” https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/tags/%23healingjourney Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0500 I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise. en-us episodic You are allowed. Matt Kosterman I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise. yes Conscious living, Embodiment, Transformation, Inner healing, Trauma release, Psychedelic integration, Energy work, Nervous system regulation, Authentic expression, Conscious relationships, Spiritual awakening, Shadow work, Self-remembrance, Intuitive guidance, Healing trauma, Mind-body connection Matt Kosterman matt@mattkosterman.com S2 | E12 Jeremy Robinson https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e11-robinson d0c587db-3f0a-446d-a059-36302e5c990f Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman I sit down with Jeremy Robinson, a medicine sitter from Northern California, to talk about his path from a homeless, bullied Gen X childhood into a burnout-fueled reckoning with suicidal thoughts, and finally into years of deep work with ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin. We dig into guiding ethics, consent, the myth of the one-session cure, and the beauty of indigenous medicine traditions. 1:25:15 yes <p>I'm back with another episode of The Permission Slip, and this time I'm joined by Jeremy Robinson, a medicine sitter working out of beautiful Northern California. Jeremy's story starts long before he ever sat with a client — a latchkey Gen X kid raised in a strict fundamentalist household, quietly absorbing bullying rather than fighting back, until he ran away at eighteen and spent a year and a half homeless in Los Angeles, sleeping in unlocked cars on dealership lots.</p> <p>We trace how that early self-reliance carried him into a high-stress, high-hours corporate career — the kind that costs you six years of your daughter's childhood without you noticing — until COVID forced him home and the wall he'd been running toward finally arrived. Jeremy describes sitting by a pond, recognizing the shape of depression, and the moment he realized suicide had quietly become the only option his mind could see. That's the moment that scared him into calling his doctor, and the start of a very different road.</p> <p>From there we follow his journey into the medicine world: six weeks of talk therapy, then ketamine that cracked him open in ways he never expected, then MDMA and EMDR work that finally let him see his own father wound clearly, and eventually psilocybin, which stripped away every identity he'd built until only a steady, unwavering candle was left. We talk about what it meant to have a guide who never once assigned him meaning — who let him arrive at his own truth instead of handing it to him — and how that principle now shapes his own work with clients.</p> <p>Jeremy and I get into the practical and ethical texture of this work too: how he handles touch and consent in ceremony, how he vets whether someone is really ready for the medicine, why he always starts with ketamine before moving to MDMA and psilocybin, and how he pairs newer clients with people further along in their healing so no one has to carry their journey alone. We also talk honestly about the shadow side — the myth of the instant cure, the client who spent a year hitting himself with a sledgehammer before he could finally lay it down, and why this work is called "the work" for a reason.</p> <p>We close on lighter ground, trading notes on indigenous music traditions, the Huni Kuin tribe's medicine songs, the despacho prayer ceremony, and Sundance — reminders that this path, however hard, is also full of beauty. Special Guest: Jeremy Robinson.</p> psychedelic medicine, medicine sitter, plant medicine, ketamine therapy, MDMA therapy, psilocybin, EMDR, trauma healing, somatic healing, Gen X childhood, homelessness, corporate burnout, suicidal ideation, depression, father wound, guide ethics, consent in ceremony, integration circles, indigenous medicine traditions, Huni Kuin, ayahuasca, despacho ceremony, Apache traditions, Sundance, psychedelic ethics, healing journey I'm back with another episode of The Permission Slip, and this time I'm joined by Jeremy Robinson, a medicine sitter working out of beautiful Northern California. Jeremy's story starts long before he ever sat with a client — a latchkey Gen X kid raised in a strict fundamentalist household, quietly absorbing bullying rather than fighting back, until he ran away at eighteen and spent a year and a half homeless in Los Angeles, sleeping in unlocked cars on dealership lots.

We trace how that early self-reliance carried him into a high-stress, high-hours corporate career — the kind that costs you six years of your daughter's childhood without you noticing — until COVID forced him home and the wall he'd been running toward finally arrived. Jeremy describes sitting by a pond, recognizing the shape of depression, and the moment he realized suicide had quietly become the only option his mind could see. That's the moment that scared him into calling his doctor, and the start of a very different road.

From there we follow his journey into the medicine world: six weeks of talk therapy, then ketamine that cracked him open in ways he never expected, then MDMA and EMDR work that finally let him see his own father wound clearly, and eventually psilocybin, which stripped away every identity he'd built until only a steady, unwavering candle was left. We talk about what it meant to have a guide who never once assigned him meaning — who let him arrive at his own truth instead of handing it to him — and how that principle now shapes his own work with clients.

Jeremy and I get into the practical and ethical texture of this work too: how he handles touch and consent in ceremony, how he vets whether someone is really ready for the medicine, why he always starts with ketamine before moving to MDMA and psilocybin, and how he pairs newer clients with people further along in their healing so no one has to carry their journey alone. We also talk honestly about the shadow side — the myth of the instant cure, the client who spent a year hitting himself with a sledgehammer before he could finally lay it down, and why this work is called "the work" for a reason.

We close on lighter ground, trading notes on indigenous music traditions, the Huni Kuin tribe's medicine songs, the despacho prayer ceremony, and Sundance — reminders that this path, however hard, is also full of beauty.

Special Guest: Jeremy Robinson.

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]]> I'm back with another episode of The Permission Slip, and this time I'm joined by Jeremy Robinson, a medicine sitter working out of beautiful Northern California. Jeremy's story starts long before he ever sat with a client — a latchkey Gen X kid raised in a strict fundamentalist household, quietly absorbing bullying rather than fighting back, until he ran away at eighteen and spent a year and a half homeless in Los Angeles, sleeping in unlocked cars on dealership lots.

We trace how that early self-reliance carried him into a high-stress, high-hours corporate career — the kind that costs you six years of your daughter's childhood without you noticing — until COVID forced him home and the wall he'd been running toward finally arrived. Jeremy describes sitting by a pond, recognizing the shape of depression, and the moment he realized suicide had quietly become the only option his mind could see. That's the moment that scared him into calling his doctor, and the start of a very different road.

From there we follow his journey into the medicine world: six weeks of talk therapy, then ketamine that cracked him open in ways he never expected, then MDMA and EMDR work that finally let him see his own father wound clearly, and eventually psilocybin, which stripped away every identity he'd built until only a steady, unwavering candle was left. We talk about what it meant to have a guide who never once assigned him meaning — who let him arrive at his own truth instead of handing it to him — and how that principle now shapes his own work with clients.

Jeremy and I get into the practical and ethical texture of this work too: how he handles touch and consent in ceremony, how he vets whether someone is really ready for the medicine, why he always starts with ketamine before moving to MDMA and psilocybin, and how he pairs newer clients with people further along in their healing so no one has to carry their journey alone. We also talk honestly about the shadow side — the myth of the instant cure, the client who spent a year hitting himself with a sledgehammer before he could finally lay it down, and why this work is called "the work" for a reason.

We close on lighter ground, trading notes on indigenous music traditions, the Huni Kuin tribe's medicine songs, the despacho prayer ceremony, and Sundance — reminders that this path, however hard, is also full of beauty.

Special Guest: Jeremy Robinson.

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]]> S2 | E11 Joanne DiMaggio https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e11-dimaggio dfe9e4da-b06d-4710-9a28-e33d6dd5d347 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman In this episode, I sit down with reincarnation researcher, hypnotherapist, and author Joanne DiMaggio to explore past life regression, soul writing, and the karmic threads that connect our current struggles to lives we've already lived. 37:11 yes <p>I'm joined this week by Joanne DiMaggio, a reincarnation specialist, researcher, and author who's spent over 40 years helping people uncover the past-life roots of their present-day pain. Joanne grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood in a devout Catholic household, and I loved hearing how her earliest questions about faith and fairness — asked in religion class and met with detention instead of answers — set her on a lifelong search for a bigger framework. That search led her to Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery, and eventually The Search for Bridey Murphy, the book that cracked reincarnation wide open for her as a teenager.</p> <p>We talk about how she built her career from there: joining Edgar Cayce's A.R.E., founding her own past-life organization, earning her hypnotherapy certification, and later a master's in transpersonal studies. Joanne walks me through her two areas of focus — past life regression therapy and soul writing, a channeled form of written meditation she learned traces back through figures like Mozart. I shared my own recent past-life regression experience with her, including how the information came through for me not as imagery (I'm aphantasic) but as a distinct, located sense of "hearing" answers.</p> <p>The conversation gets especially compelling when Joanne shares case studies from her research — a man whose arthritis was confined only to his thumbs, traced back to a Civil War cavalry soldier who used his sword to disable enemy soldiers without killing them, and a woman with chronic sciatica linked to a past life as a jealous ballerina in revolutionary France, whose victim turned out to be her daughter in this lifetime. We also get into soul contracts, why some souls choose disability or hardship as a teaching tool for those around them, and why she sees a roughly 35% rate of spontaneous healing once clients understand the origin of their condition.</p> <p>Joanne closes by sharing what's next for her: a new book, Why Are There So Many Cleopatras?, answering the most common questions people ask her about reincarnation, and a new podcast called Healing Through Past Life Exploration.</p> <p>Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, is a respected expert on the topic of reincarnation and Soul Writing.™ A member of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) since 1987, Joanne earned her master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University. She has published numerous articles and presented talks on past-life exploration, the pre-life planning session, and Soul Writing™ to global audiences. In addition, she has been a guest on nearly 100 radio programs and podcasts. She conducts private past-life regression and Soul Writing™ sessions via ZOOM. For more information, go to: <a href="http://www.joannedimaggio.com" rel="nofollow noopener">www.joannedimaggio.com</a> Special Guest: Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt.</p> Joanne DiMaggio, reincarnation, past life regression, soul writing, karma, physical karma, hypnotherapy, Edgar Cayce, A.R.E., Association for Research and Enlightenment, transpersonal studies, Search for Bridey Murphy, Ruth Montgomery, Brian Weiss, Eben Alexander, near-death experience, spontaneous healing, soul contracts, chronic illness, ancestral healing, epigenetics, Catholic upbringing, Bridgeport Chicago, past life therapy, karmic patterns, inspirational writing, Norm Shealy I'm joined this week by Joanne DiMaggio, a reincarnation specialist, researcher, and author who's spent over 40 years helping people uncover the past-life roots of their present-day pain. Joanne grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood in a devout Catholic household, and I loved hearing how her earliest questions about faith and fairness — asked in religion class and met with detention instead of answers — set her on a lifelong search for a bigger framework. That search led her to Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery, and eventually The Search for Bridey Murphy, the book that cracked reincarnation wide open for her as a teenager.

We talk about how she built her career from there: joining Edgar Cayce's A.R.E., founding her own past-life organization, earning her hypnotherapy certification, and later a master's in transpersonal studies. Joanne walks me through her two areas of focus — past life regression therapy and soul writing, a channeled form of written meditation she learned traces back through figures like Mozart. I shared my own recent past-life regression experience with her, including how the information came through for me not as imagery (I'm aphantasic) but as a distinct, located sense of "hearing" answers.

The conversation gets especially compelling when Joanne shares case studies from her research — a man whose arthritis was confined only to his thumbs, traced back to a Civil War cavalry soldier who used his sword to disable enemy soldiers without killing them, and a woman with chronic sciatica linked to a past life as a jealous ballerina in revolutionary France, whose victim turned out to be her daughter in this lifetime. We also get into soul contracts, why some souls choose disability or hardship as a teaching tool for those around them, and why she sees a roughly 35% rate of spontaneous healing once clients understand the origin of their condition.

Joanne closes by sharing what's next for her: a new book, Why Are There So Many Cleopatras?, answering the most common questions people ask her about reincarnation, and a new podcast called Healing Through Past Life Exploration.

Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, is a respected expert on the topic of reincarnation and Soul Writing.™ A member of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) since 1987, Joanne earned her master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University. She has published numerous articles and presented talks on past-life exploration, the pre-life planning session, and Soul Writing™ to global audiences. In addition, she has been a guest on nearly 100 radio programs and podcasts. She conducts private past-life regression and Soul Writing™ sessions via ZOOM. For more information, go to: www.joannedimaggio.com

Special Guest: Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt.

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]]> I'm joined this week by Joanne DiMaggio, a reincarnation specialist, researcher, and author who's spent over 40 years helping people uncover the past-life roots of their present-day pain. Joanne grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood in a devout Catholic household, and I loved hearing how her earliest questions about faith and fairness — asked in religion class and met with detention instead of answers — set her on a lifelong search for a bigger framework. That search led her to Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery, and eventually The Search for Bridey Murphy, the book that cracked reincarnation wide open for her as a teenager.

We talk about how she built her career from there: joining Edgar Cayce's A.R.E., founding her own past-life organization, earning her hypnotherapy certification, and later a master's in transpersonal studies. Joanne walks me through her two areas of focus — past life regression therapy and soul writing, a channeled form of written meditation she learned traces back through figures like Mozart. I shared my own recent past-life regression experience with her, including how the information came through for me not as imagery (I'm aphantasic) but as a distinct, located sense of "hearing" answers.

The conversation gets especially compelling when Joanne shares case studies from her research — a man whose arthritis was confined only to his thumbs, traced back to a Civil War cavalry soldier who used his sword to disable enemy soldiers without killing them, and a woman with chronic sciatica linked to a past life as a jealous ballerina in revolutionary France, whose victim turned out to be her daughter in this lifetime. We also get into soul contracts, why some souls choose disability or hardship as a teaching tool for those around them, and why she sees a roughly 35% rate of spontaneous healing once clients understand the origin of their condition.

Joanne closes by sharing what's next for her: a new book, Why Are There So Many Cleopatras?, answering the most common questions people ask her about reincarnation, and a new podcast called Healing Through Past Life Exploration.

Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, is a respected expert on the topic of reincarnation and Soul Writing.™ A member of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) since 1987, Joanne earned her master’s degree in Transpersonal Studies and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University. She has published numerous articles and presented talks on past-life exploration, the pre-life planning session, and Soul Writing™ to global audiences. In addition, she has been a guest on nearly 100 radio programs and podcasts. She conducts private past-life regression and Soul Writing™ sessions via ZOOM. For more information, go to: www.joannedimaggio.com

Special Guest: Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt.

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]]> S2 | E9 Dr. Katie Simons, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, Psychedelic Medicine Facilitator and Coach https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e9-simons b630c178-e2ea-495b-8975-8246b3dedd75 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman In this episode, I sit down with Katie Simons — a doctor of pharmacy turned hypnotherapist, somatic breathwork facilitator, and psychedelic medicine guide — for one of the most wide-ranging and personally resonant conversations I've had on the show. We trace her journey from a decade inside the VA healthcare system to stepping fully into the healing space, and dig deep into psychedelics, nervous system regulation, integration, and what it actually means to be healed. 1:10:12 yes <p>Katie Simons came to the healing world the long way around. With a doctorate in pharmacy from Idaho State University and ten years inside the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System — working in internal medicine, medication safety, and eventually as a patient safety manager — she had every credential the western medical world could offer. And then COVID happened, and the whole thing cracked open.<br> In this conversation, Katie and I trace her origin story from pharmacist's daughter to closeted psychedelic explorer to full-time medicine guide and hypnotherapist now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first psychedelic experience — an epiphany on MDMA at a Phish show in her early twenties — cracked open a question she couldn't put back: Is this how happy I could actually feel? That question lived quietly alongside her professional life for years, until burnout, a divorce, and a first encounter with ayahuasca in 2022 collapsed the compartmentalization for good.<br> We get into the pharmacology of psilocybin and MDMA — including a remarkably clear-eyed look at the actual risks (and frequent fearmongering) around drug interactions with SSRIs and SNRIs. Katie brings her clinical background to bear here in ways that feel genuinely useful and grounding, not alarmist. We talk about harm reduction for solo journeys, what to look for (and watch out for) when seeking a facilitator, and why psychedelics aren't a replacement for the inner work — they're a tool that breaks the chains, but you still have to walk out of the cave yourself.<br> We also explore somatic breathwork, hypnotherapy, and the subconscious belief systems that keep the nervous system locked in survival mode long after the original wound has passed. Katie's framework for what healing actually means — not the absence of hard feelings, but access to choice — is one I keep turning over. And I get honest about my own stumbling blocks: the addiction to suffering, the pressure to perform as someone who's "done the work," and the places where my own nervous system still has the wheel.<br> This one goes deep. I'm grateful Katie was willing to go there with me.<br> Special Guest: Katie Simons.</p> Katie Simons, psychedelic medicine, psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, mushrooms, hypnotherapy, somatic breathwork, nervous system regulation, harm reduction, psychedelic facilitation, integration, default mode network, SSRIs and psychedelics, drug interactions, VA healthcare, doctor of pharmacy, patient safety, burnout, healing, subconscious belief systems, transpersonal hypnotherapy, microdosing, ketamine, medicine journeys, ceremonial healing, dieta, solo journeys, psychedelic safety, test kits, fentanyl strips, DanceSafe, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Santa Fe, meditation, inner child work, parts work, trauma, religious conditioning, nervous system collapse, freeze response, somatic healing, ayahuasca ceremony, Costa Rica, Burning Man, Phish, the holistic apothec, Permission Slip podcast, Season 2 Katie Simons came to the healing world the long way around. With a doctorate in pharmacy from Idaho State University and ten years inside the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System — working in internal medicine, medication safety, and eventually as a patient safety manager — she had every credential the western medical world could offer. And then COVID happened, and the whole thing cracked open.
In this conversation, Katie and I trace her origin story from pharmacist's daughter to closeted psychedelic explorer to full-time medicine guide and hypnotherapist now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first psychedelic experience — an epiphany on MDMA at a Phish show in her early twenties — cracked open a question she couldn't put back: Is this how happy I could actually feel? That question lived quietly alongside her professional life for years, until burnout, a divorce, and a first encounter with ayahuasca in 2022 collapsed the compartmentalization for good.
We get into the pharmacology of psilocybin and MDMA — including a remarkably clear-eyed look at the actual risks (and frequent fearmongering) around drug interactions with SSRIs and SNRIs. Katie brings her clinical background to bear here in ways that feel genuinely useful and grounding, not alarmist. We talk about harm reduction for solo journeys, what to look for (and watch out for) when seeking a facilitator, and why psychedelics aren't a replacement for the inner work — they're a tool that breaks the chains, but you still have to walk out of the cave yourself.
We also explore somatic breathwork, hypnotherapy, and the subconscious belief systems that keep the nervous system locked in survival mode long after the original wound has passed. Katie's framework for what healing actually means — not the absence of hard feelings, but access to choice — is one I keep turning over. And I get honest about my own stumbling blocks: the addiction to suffering, the pressure to perform as someone who's "done the work," and the places where my own nervous system still has the wheel.
This one goes deep. I'm grateful Katie was willing to go there with me.

Special Guest: Katie Simons.

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]]> Katie Simons came to the healing world the long way around. With a doctorate in pharmacy from Idaho State University and ten years inside the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System — working in internal medicine, medication safety, and eventually as a patient safety manager — she had every credential the western medical world could offer. And then COVID happened, and the whole thing cracked open.
In this conversation, Katie and I trace her origin story from pharmacist's daughter to closeted psychedelic explorer to full-time medicine guide and hypnotherapist now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first psychedelic experience — an epiphany on MDMA at a Phish show in her early twenties — cracked open a question she couldn't put back: Is this how happy I could actually feel? That question lived quietly alongside her professional life for years, until burnout, a divorce, and a first encounter with ayahuasca in 2022 collapsed the compartmentalization for good.
We get into the pharmacology of psilocybin and MDMA — including a remarkably clear-eyed look at the actual risks (and frequent fearmongering) around drug interactions with SSRIs and SNRIs. Katie brings her clinical background to bear here in ways that feel genuinely useful and grounding, not alarmist. We talk about harm reduction for solo journeys, what to look for (and watch out for) when seeking a facilitator, and why psychedelics aren't a replacement for the inner work — they're a tool that breaks the chains, but you still have to walk out of the cave yourself.
We also explore somatic breathwork, hypnotherapy, and the subconscious belief systems that keep the nervous system locked in survival mode long after the original wound has passed. Katie's framework for what healing actually means — not the absence of hard feelings, but access to choice — is one I keep turning over. And I get honest about my own stumbling blocks: the addiction to suffering, the pressure to perform as someone who's "done the work," and the places where my own nervous system still has the wheel.
This one goes deep. I'm grateful Katie was willing to go there with me.

Special Guest: Katie Simons.

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]]> S2 | E8 Luke Lindstrom, Conscious Channel and Intuitive Healer https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e-lindstrom 66e0d2ce-4d02-4dc9-84a0-138e33c08c84 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:30:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman In this episode, I sit down with Luke Lindstrom — intuitive healer, channel, and peer support worker — who I met at a Paul Selig workshop here in Chicago. Luke shares his remarkable journey from a deeply shut-down, isolated teenager in the suburbs of Detroit to a 28-year-old who channels higher guidance and works daily with some of the most marginalized members of our community. We talk about somatic therapy, the healing power of aloneness, conscious channeling, pornography addiction, romantic relationships, and what it really means to treat every human being as an extension of yourself. 1:13:20 yes <p>I first crossed paths with Luke Lindstrom at a Paul Selig workshop last fall, and from the moment we started talking I knew I wanted to get him in front of a microphone. Luke is 28 years old, grew up outside of Detroit, and by his own description was barely functioning by the time he finished high school — isolated, angry, lost in pornography addiction, and cycling through therapists who never asked the right questions. What turned things around wasn't a prescription or a traditional talk therapy breakthrough. It was a somatic therapist in Texas named Steven Terrell who looked at Luke in their very first session and said, simply: you are so angry. That moment of being truly seen cracked something open.<br> From there, Luke's path wound through Loyola University, Sivananda yoga, a deep immersion in the channeled teachings of Matt Kahn, and eventually his own emergence as a conscious channel — someone who describes the experience as a kayaker being guided by a stream, personality and divine intelligence meeting somewhere in the middle. He's built a YouTube channel and social media presence around that work, and he posts multiple times a week.<br> What I find most striking about Luke isn't the channeling itself — it's the lived honesty he brings to everything adjacent to it. He talks openly about pornography addiction and the years it took to genuinely resolve it, not through white-knuckling but through learning to meet himself with love and curiosity. He talks about being 28 and never having been in a romantic relationship, and he doesn't frame that as a wound — he frames it as clarity. He believes you can't receive a real partnership until you've stopped needing one to feel whole.<br> We also go deep on his day job as a peer support worker in a mental health residential facility, and what it's taught him about stigma, humility, and the razor-thin line between stability and homelessness. Luke's perspective on the unhoused people he encounters — both at work and around his Old Town neighborhood — is one of the most grounded, unsentimental expressions of unity I've heard on this show. He's not theorizing about oneness. He's making friends with the guy outside the grocery store.<br> We also touch on Ho'oponopono, Paul Selig's attunements, somatic body work, the chemical imbalance myth, antidepressants, judgment as a form of avoidance, and the way pain in the body just wants to be acknowledged. A rich, wide-ranging conversation recorded on Valentine's Day — the first day of the Fire Horse in the Chinese calendar. Felt auspicious.<br> Special Guest: Luke Lindstrom.</p> Luke Lindstrom, intuitive healer, conscious channeling, trance channeling, Matt Kahn, Paul Selig, Sivananda yoga, somatic therapy, Steven Terrell, nervous system regulation, pornography addiction, sexual fantasy, self-love, aloneness, romantic relationships, soulmates, codependency, peer support, mental health, homelessness, stigma, unity consciousness, Ho'oponopono, attunements, antidepressants, chemical imbalance myth, trauma, family of origin, divorce, anger, isolation, healing journey, self-worth, reparenting, body wisdom, Permission Slip podcast, Chicago, spiritual growth, personal development, wellness I first crossed paths with Luke Lindstrom at a Paul Selig workshop last fall, and from the moment we started talking I knew I wanted to get him in front of a microphone. Luke is 28 years old, grew up outside of Detroit, and by his own description was barely functioning by the time he finished high school — isolated, angry, lost in pornography addiction, and cycling through therapists who never asked the right questions. What turned things around wasn't a prescription or a traditional talk therapy breakthrough. It was a somatic therapist in Texas named Steven Terrell who looked at Luke in their very first session and said, simply: you are so angry. That moment of being truly seen cracked something open.
From there, Luke's path wound through Loyola University, Sivananda yoga, a deep immersion in the channeled teachings of Matt Kahn, and eventually his own emergence as a conscious channel — someone who describes the experience as a kayaker being guided by a stream, personality and divine intelligence meeting somewhere in the middle. He's built a YouTube channel and social media presence around that work, and he posts multiple times a week.
What I find most striking about Luke isn't the channeling itself — it's the lived honesty he brings to everything adjacent to it. He talks openly about pornography addiction and the years it took to genuinely resolve it, not through white-knuckling but through learning to meet himself with love and curiosity. He talks about being 28 and never having been in a romantic relationship, and he doesn't frame that as a wound — he frames it as clarity. He believes you can't receive a real partnership until you've stopped needing one to feel whole.
We also go deep on his day job as a peer support worker in a mental health residential facility, and what it's taught him about stigma, humility, and the razor-thin line between stability and homelessness. Luke's perspective on the unhoused people he encounters — both at work and around his Old Town neighborhood — is one of the most grounded, unsentimental expressions of unity I've heard on this show. He's not theorizing about oneness. He's making friends with the guy outside the grocery store.
We also touch on Ho'oponopono, Paul Selig's attunements, somatic body work, the chemical imbalance myth, antidepressants, judgment as a form of avoidance, and the way pain in the body just wants to be acknowledged. A rich, wide-ranging conversation recorded on Valentine's Day — the first day of the Fire Horse in the Chinese calendar. Felt auspicious.

Special Guest: Luke Lindstrom.

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]]> I first crossed paths with Luke Lindstrom at a Paul Selig workshop last fall, and from the moment we started talking I knew I wanted to get him in front of a microphone. Luke is 28 years old, grew up outside of Detroit, and by his own description was barely functioning by the time he finished high school — isolated, angry, lost in pornography addiction, and cycling through therapists who never asked the right questions. What turned things around wasn't a prescription or a traditional talk therapy breakthrough. It was a somatic therapist in Texas named Steven Terrell who looked at Luke in their very first session and said, simply: you are so angry. That moment of being truly seen cracked something open.
From there, Luke's path wound through Loyola University, Sivananda yoga, a deep immersion in the channeled teachings of Matt Kahn, and eventually his own emergence as a conscious channel — someone who describes the experience as a kayaker being guided by a stream, personality and divine intelligence meeting somewhere in the middle. He's built a YouTube channel and social media presence around that work, and he posts multiple times a week.
What I find most striking about Luke isn't the channeling itself — it's the lived honesty he brings to everything adjacent to it. He talks openly about pornography addiction and the years it took to genuinely resolve it, not through white-knuckling but through learning to meet himself with love and curiosity. He talks about being 28 and never having been in a romantic relationship, and he doesn't frame that as a wound — he frames it as clarity. He believes you can't receive a real partnership until you've stopped needing one to feel whole.
We also go deep on his day job as a peer support worker in a mental health residential facility, and what it's taught him about stigma, humility, and the razor-thin line between stability and homelessness. Luke's perspective on the unhoused people he encounters — both at work and around his Old Town neighborhood — is one of the most grounded, unsentimental expressions of unity I've heard on this show. He's not theorizing about oneness. He's making friends with the guy outside the grocery store.
We also touch on Ho'oponopono, Paul Selig's attunements, somatic body work, the chemical imbalance myth, antidepressants, judgment as a form of avoidance, and the way pain in the body just wants to be acknowledged. A rich, wide-ranging conversation recorded on Valentine's Day — the first day of the Fire Horse in the Chinese calendar. Felt auspicious.

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]]> S2 | E7 LeRoy Gordon, Fitness and Yoga Instructor, a Reiki Healer and a Men's Group Leader https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e7-gordon 3c32aa7a-2574-4d07-afd4-7f03e7965efc Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman I sat down with LeRoy Gordon — a man who grew up in Cabrini Green, became a police officer, toured as a pro wrestler, and has now found his calling as a yoga instructor, Reiki healer, and men's group leader. We trace his remarkable journey from childhood trauma and survival mode to deep healing work through Landmark, plant medicine, men's groups, and radical honesty in relationships. 1:12:15 yes <p>LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns.<br> We dig into how he almost joined the Navy SEALs out of sheer restlessness, how a CM Punk sighting at a WWE show finally gave him permission to chase his childhood dream of pro wrestling, and how the pandemic brought that chapter to a close and cracked open a new one. LeRoy shares how Landmark Forum was his first real taste of sitting with other people and processing what he'd been through, how an MDMA ceremony on his birthday helped him finally connect with his mother in a three-hour conversation that changed everything, and how ayahuasca and men's group work took him even deeper.<br> We also get into his experiments with polyamory and how the radical communication it demands made him a better partner across the board, his recent ADHD discovery and how it reframed decades of restlessness and relationship patterns, and how Reiki, tarot, and yoga have become the unexpected through-line tying it all together. LeRoy is now leading his own men's circles, teaching yoga at Fourth Movement Studio in Logan Square, and building something that bridges the worlds of physical transformation and inner healing — and this conversation is a front-row seat to how he got there.</p> <p>Bio</p> <p>LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive.</p> <p>Email: <a href="mailto:Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com" rel="nofollow noopener">Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com</a> </p> <p>Instagram: /royflashgordon <br> Threads: /royflashgordon<br> Substack: <a href="https://sovereignsols.substack.com" rel="nofollow noopener">https://sovereignsols.substack.com</a><br> Special Guest: LeRoy Gordon.</p> trauma, healing, pro wrestling, yoga, Reiki, men's groups, Landmark Forum, plant medicine, MDMA, ayahuasca, polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, ADHD, neurodivergence, consent, divine masculine, personal development, Chicago, fitness, Cabrini Green, LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns.
We dig into how he almost joined the Navy SEALs out of sheer restlessness, how a CM Punk sighting at a WWE show finally gave him permission to chase his childhood dream of pro wrestling, and how the pandemic brought that chapter to a close and cracked open a new one. LeRoy shares how Landmark Forum was his first real taste of sitting with other people and processing what he'd been through, how an MDMA ceremony on his birthday helped him finally connect with his mother in a three-hour conversation that changed everything, and how ayahuasca and men's group work took him even deeper.
We also get into his experiments with polyamory and how the radical communication it demands made him a better partner across the board, his recent ADHD discovery and how it reframed decades of restlessness and relationship patterns, and how Reiki, tarot, and yoga have become the unexpected through-line tying it all together. LeRoy is now leading his own men's circles, teaching yoga at Fourth Movement Studio in Logan Square, and building something that bridges the worlds of physical transformation and inner healing — and this conversation is a front-row seat to how he got there.

Bio

LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive.

Email: Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com

Instagram: /royflashgordon
Threads: /royflashgordon
Substack: https://sovereignsols.substack.com

Special Guest: LeRoy Gordon.

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]]> LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns.
We dig into how he almost joined the Navy SEALs out of sheer restlessness, how a CM Punk sighting at a WWE show finally gave him permission to chase his childhood dream of pro wrestling, and how the pandemic brought that chapter to a close and cracked open a new one. LeRoy shares how Landmark Forum was his first real taste of sitting with other people and processing what he'd been through, how an MDMA ceremony on his birthday helped him finally connect with his mother in a three-hour conversation that changed everything, and how ayahuasca and men's group work took him even deeper.
We also get into his experiments with polyamory and how the radical communication it demands made him a better partner across the board, his recent ADHD discovery and how it reframed decades of restlessness and relationship patterns, and how Reiki, tarot, and yoga have become the unexpected through-line tying it all together. LeRoy is now leading his own men's circles, teaching yoga at Fourth Movement Studio in Logan Square, and building something that bridges the worlds of physical transformation and inner healing — and this conversation is a front-row seat to how he got there.

Bio

LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive.

Email: Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com

Instagram: /royflashgordon
Threads: /royflashgordon
Substack: https://sovereignsols.substack.com

Special Guest: LeRoy Gordon.

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]]> S2 | E5 Karen Kubicko, Psychic Intuitive, Reiki Master & More https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e5-kubicko c6550dd8-3979-4fa2-ac70-66132d3d069b Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman I sat down with Pittsburgh-based psychic, hypnotist, and past life regressionist Karen Kubicko to talk about how two near-death experiences — one during an emergency C-section and another in a car accident — blew open her spiritual gifts and set her on a path of soul-level healing work. Together we explored past life regression as a tool for breaking deep-rooted patterns like abuse cycles, fear, and anxiety, and we got into how empathic sensitivity, spirit guides, and intuition can be understood, managed, and reclaimed. This one is a grounded, practical, and deeply personal look at what it means to wake up to the truth that we are far more than our current human experience. 1:12:35 yes <p>Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.<br> In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York.<br> Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them.<br> Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics:</p> <p>How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like</p> <ul> <li>The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down</li> <li>Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance</li> <li>Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with</li> <li>Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever</li> <li>Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom</li> </ul> <p>Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.<br> This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now.</p> <p><strong>About Karen</strong></p> <p>Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.<br> Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past<br> lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives.</p> <p><strong>Connect with Karen</strong></p> <p>Email: <a href="mailto:Karen@KarenKubicko.com" rel="nofollow noopener">Karen@KarenKubicko.com</a><br> Website: <a href="http://www.KarenKubicko.com" rel="nofollow noopener">www.KarenKubicko.com</a><br> Book a Personal Session: <a href="https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko" rel="nofollow noopener">https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko</a><br> YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko</a><br> Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko</a><br> Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko</a><br> LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/</a><br> X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ <a href="https://x.com/KarenKubicko" rel="nofollow noopener">https://x.com/KarenKubicko</a><br> Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ <a href="http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/" rel="nofollow noopener">http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/</a><br> RedBubble (art &amp; merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ <a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko</a><br> Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2<br> E1, 2014).</p> <p>For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: <a href="https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/</a> Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.</p> past life regression, hypnotherapy, psychic intuitive, near-death experience, spirit guides, soul healing, Karen Kubicko, Brian Weiss, empath, empathic sensitivity, intuition development, Reiki, channeling, root cause healing, ancestral healing, hypervigilance, abuse recovery, whole soul reading, past life therapy, spiritual awakening, consciousness, chakras, archangels, Omega Institute, EFT tapping, manifesting, timeline shifting, Pittsburgh psychic, metaphysics, inner knowing Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.
In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York.
Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them.
Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics:

How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like

  • The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down
  • Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance
  • Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with
  • Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever
  • Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom

Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.
This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now.

About Karen

Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.
Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past
lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives.

Connect with Karen

Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com
Website: www.KarenKubicko.com
Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko
YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko
Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko
Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko
LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/
X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko
Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/
RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko
Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2
E1, 2014).

For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/

Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

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]]> Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.
In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York.
Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them.
Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics:

How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like

  • The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down
  • Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance
  • Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with
  • Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever
  • Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom

Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.
This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now.

About Karen

Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.
Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past
lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives.

Connect with Karen

Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com
Website: www.KarenKubicko.com
Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko
YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko
Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko
Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko
LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/
X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko
Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/
RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko
Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2
E1, 2014).

For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/

Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

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]]> S1 | E15 Janell Riedl - Pilates Instructor & Intuitive https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e15-riedl 28168212-a60f-4f7c-a407-523b0de77c25 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman In this episode, I talk with my Pilates instructor and friend Janell Riedl, whose intuitive, body-based work has helped unwind decades of tension and trauma for me. We explore how the body holds emotion, how release actually happens, and how Janell blends Pilates, energy work, and nervous-system awareness into a powerful healing practice. This is a conversation about letting go, trusting your body, and following the path that leads you back to yourself. 1:15:03 yes <p>Join me as I sit down with someone who has been a beautiful and powerful force in my healing journey — my Pilates instructor and friend, Janell Riedl.<br> After resisting the call of Pilates for a long time, three years ago I found Janell. She has been guiding me unwinding my twisted fascia, waking up dormant muscles, getting overactive muscles to calm down and helping me release decades of stored tension and trauma. She is not your typical Pilates instructor; Janell is also an intuitive, an energy worker, and a teacher in the truest sense — someone who learned the hard way, followed her intuition, and kept leaning into the deeper layers of her own evolution.<br> We talk about her path from theater major to bartender and aspiring rock star, to leaving a toxic relationship, to living with an energy intuitive in Oregon who cracked her open to her real gifts. We chat about how the body stores emotion and how shaking can reprogram the nervous system. Our talk ventures into why letting go is harder than holding on, and how intuition guides her work with clients.<br> We also dive into spiritual openings, core unwinding, fear conditioning, ego, and why you can’t heal a body you’re judging. This episode is a small window into the magic that happens when someone merges technical mastery with intuitive knowing.<br> This is a conversation about healing, trusting your path, and remembering that the journey is the point. Special Guest: Janell Riedl.</p> Pilates, Healing, Energy Work, Nervous System, Trauma Release, Somatic Work, Embodiment, Intuition, Spiritual Growth, Fascia, Core Strength, Personal Transformation, Conscious Movement, Mind-Body Connection, Chicago Wellness Join me as I sit down with someone who has been a beautiful and powerful force in my healing journey — my Pilates instructor and friend, Janell Riedl.
After resisting the call of Pilates for a long time, three years ago I found Janell. She has been guiding me unwinding my twisted fascia, waking up dormant muscles, getting overactive muscles to calm down and helping me release decades of stored tension and trauma. She is not your typical Pilates instructor; Janell is also an intuitive, an energy worker, and a teacher in the truest sense — someone who learned the hard way, followed her intuition, and kept leaning into the deeper layers of her own evolution.
We talk about her path from theater major to bartender and aspiring rock star, to leaving a toxic relationship, to living with an energy intuitive in Oregon who cracked her open to her real gifts. We chat about how the body stores emotion and how shaking can reprogram the nervous system. Our talk ventures into why letting go is harder than holding on, and how intuition guides her work with clients.
We also dive into spiritual openings, core unwinding, fear conditioning, ego, and why you can’t heal a body you’re judging. This episode is a small window into the magic that happens when someone merges technical mastery with intuitive knowing.
This is a conversation about healing, trusting your path, and remembering that the journey is the point.

Special Guest: Janell Riedl.

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]]> Join me as I sit down with someone who has been a beautiful and powerful force in my healing journey — my Pilates instructor and friend, Janell Riedl.
After resisting the call of Pilates for a long time, three years ago I found Janell. She has been guiding me unwinding my twisted fascia, waking up dormant muscles, getting overactive muscles to calm down and helping me release decades of stored tension and trauma. She is not your typical Pilates instructor; Janell is also an intuitive, an energy worker, and a teacher in the truest sense — someone who learned the hard way, followed her intuition, and kept leaning into the deeper layers of her own evolution.
We talk about her path from theater major to bartender and aspiring rock star, to leaving a toxic relationship, to living with an energy intuitive in Oregon who cracked her open to her real gifts. We chat about how the body stores emotion and how shaking can reprogram the nervous system. Our talk ventures into why letting go is harder than holding on, and how intuition guides her work with clients.
We also dive into spiritual openings, core unwinding, fear conditioning, ego, and why you can’t heal a body you’re judging. This episode is a small window into the magic that happens when someone merges technical mastery with intuitive knowing.
This is a conversation about healing, trusting your path, and remembering that the journey is the point.

Special Guest: Janell Riedl.

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]]> S1 | E11 Shweta Shyamani - Mind Body Therapist https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e11-shyamani 53d3b770-b788-4421-8291-afbe6ca13bde Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman I talk with healer and hypnotherapist Shweta Shyamani about leaving a high-powered career, finding purpose through energy work, and why real healing begins when we finally let ourselves feel. 58:53 yes <p>In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Shweta Shyamani, a clinical hypnotherapist, energy intuitive, and co-leader of Rewilding Retreats for Women. Shweta shares her powerful journey from corporate success to soul-centered healing—walking away from an MBA-driven marketing career just days before 9/11 and eventually finding her calling in energy medicine and Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT).<br> We talk about how unresolved emotions and energy imbalances can manifest as physical illness, why traditional talk therapy often keeps us looping in old stories, and how techniques like RTT, EFT tapping, and hypnotherapy help people access deeper layers of healing. Shweta also opens up about her mother’s decades-long illness, which became the catalyst for her path as a healer, and about her retreats that help women reconnect with their feminine essence, emotional truth, and sense of belonging.<br> It’s a rich, heartfelt conversation about courage, intuition, and what happens when we finally choose alignment over achievement. Special Guest: Shweta Shyamani.</p> energy healing, hypnotherapy, Rapid Transformational Therapy, RTT, mind-body connection, feminine energy, self-discovery, emotional release, spirituality, trauma healing, alternative medicine, retreats, personal growth In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Shweta Shyamani, a clinical hypnotherapist, energy intuitive, and co-leader of Rewilding Retreats for Women. Shweta shares her powerful journey from corporate success to soul-centered healing—walking away from an MBA-driven marketing career just days before 9/11 and eventually finding her calling in energy medicine and Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT).
We talk about how unresolved emotions and energy imbalances can manifest as physical illness, why traditional talk therapy often keeps us looping in old stories, and how techniques like RTT, EFT tapping, and hypnotherapy help people access deeper layers of healing. Shweta also opens up about her mother’s decades-long illness, which became the catalyst for her path as a healer, and about her retreats that help women reconnect with their feminine essence, emotional truth, and sense of belonging.
It’s a rich, heartfelt conversation about courage, intuition, and what happens when we finally choose alignment over achievement.

Special Guest: Shweta Shyamani.

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]]> In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Shweta Shyamani, a clinical hypnotherapist, energy intuitive, and co-leader of Rewilding Retreats for Women. Shweta shares her powerful journey from corporate success to soul-centered healing—walking away from an MBA-driven marketing career just days before 9/11 and eventually finding her calling in energy medicine and Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT).
We talk about how unresolved emotions and energy imbalances can manifest as physical illness, why traditional talk therapy often keeps us looping in old stories, and how techniques like RTT, EFT tapping, and hypnotherapy help people access deeper layers of healing. Shweta also opens up about her mother’s decades-long illness, which became the catalyst for her path as a healer, and about her retreats that help women reconnect with their feminine essence, emotional truth, and sense of belonging.
It’s a rich, heartfelt conversation about courage, intuition, and what happens when we finally choose alignment over achievement.

Special Guest: Shweta Shyamani.

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]]> S1 | E10 Rich Priddis - Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e10-priddis 6a272be0-401e-40d2-a7d5-b0b02e7e18bc Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:30:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman Rich Priddis opens up about breaking free from religious conditioning to embrace conscious sexuality, embodiment, and deep healing. A powerful story of courage, consent, and coming home to the body. 1:09:41 yes <p>CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering. </p> <p>In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.<br> We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.</p> <p>Rich's website - <a href="https://www.richpriddis.com" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.richpriddis.com</a> Special Guest: Rich Priddis.</p> Rich Priddis, conscious intimacy, sexual healing, tantra, ISTA, embodiment, consent, shame release, shadow work, sacred sexuality, Mormon deconstruction, permission to feel, body awareness, self-love, energetic healing CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering.

In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

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In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

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