Episode 40: Mary Chester Wasko
Retired rheumatologist Mary Chester Wasko discusses the disconnect between faith and medical training. She reommends that spirituality should be included as part of medical training as a dimension of health and wellness in dealing with health challenges. She sees her life as a pilgrimage and her own journey has taken her to the Camino, the cathedrals of Europe and includes a trip to Rwanda.
Episode 39: Richard Raynault
Richard Raynault AKA "Richard the Creator" grew up with a father who created the first psychic fairs in North America and who worked with a deep trance psychic to communicate with spirits. Richard also communicated with "the Evergreens," a collective of spirits, and together they created the Dragonfly, an electronic communication tool that can be used by any of us. During this episode, Richard consults my spirit guides to get a question answered for me.
Episode 38: Frank Annese
Frank Annese has more than 30 TV and movie credits to his name. You may have seen him on Murder She Wrote, Baywatch, Days of Our Lives, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, MacGyver, Knight Rider, or on the big screen in any of 9 different movies including The Godfather Part 111, The Departed, and The Town. Now you can see and hear him in his new role as the CEO of Heavenly Media and Your Communications. Experience his transformation during this episode of Your Spiritual Journey.
Episode 37: Sarah Soltow
Sarah Soltow found her way to Reiki and healing energy work in 2009 after a long career in education. Originally from West Virginia, she and her Lutheran minister husband, Fred moved to Phoenix for 6 years until January 2020 when they moved back east to live just outside of Richmond, Virginia. Her journey to wholeness includes Reiki, crystals, and vibrational energy work. She finds connection with healing in the land around her. She continues to explore the role of the facial system (the body's connective tissue) and its ability to receive and transmit intuitive and healing energies. She is also a fiber artist who creates basketry with pine needles provided by a tree in her front yard.
Episode 36: John and Heidi Kowalchyk
The producers of the Northeast Reiki Retreat for the past two years, John and Heidi Kowalchyk are both Alliance of Divine Love Interfaith ministers, Reiki Masters, sound therapists and drum circle facilitators. They are the founders of Ripple Effect Spiritual Therapies, a ministry focused on energy-healing and they offer programs and retreats for people of all ages and backgrounds at their home retreat center and venues throughout the country.
Episode 35: Debbie Holden
Rev Deb has been a teacher of the deaf for over 31 years, teaching in two countries and two states. She is a Reiki Master, a life coach and an Arbonne consultant as well as a Reverand with Alliance of Divine Love. She joins us from London to share her thoughts of love.
Episode 34: Tracey Underhill
A car accident in 2016 changed everything in the life of Tracey Underhill. Her career as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and internationally recognized track and field athlete and competitive bodybuilder had ended abruptly, opening up new opportunities to explore energy work, Reiki, emotional intelligence, and health and wellness. Listen in to her amazing spiritual journey.
Episode 33: Bill Vandivier
Bill Vandivier has traveled multiple career paths including music, child development, banking and social service. His spiritual path led him away from commercial banking and into working for the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, where he helped low-income homeowners to make essential repairs and providing financial counseling to help them avoid foreclosure.
Episode 32: Christine McHenry
Retired pediatrician, Christine McHenry left the medical field to become a spiritual director. Her ability to reconcile science and spirituality helped to mold her as valued spiritual counselor.
Episode 31: Sherrie Laryse
“On Path” is a wisdom memoir that provides a number of truths worth remembering. “Nothing in you is broken or needs fixed - you just need a new perspective” is one of my favorites. Listen in and discover yours.
Episode 30: Singh Ajmani
Logix founder Singh Ajmani discusses his journey from India to Pittsburgh, PA and the Sikh way of life in India and the U.S.
Episode 29: Bob & Adam Dove
Dr. Bob answers questions from his son, Adam, about his spiritual journey and the founding of this podcast to kick off season 3 of Your Spiritual Journey.
Episode 28: Stephanie Sipusic
Double lung transplant recipient and strong believer in synchronicity Stephanie Sipusic shares her journey from Catholicism to Now Creations. Along her journey she received help from Overeaters Anonymous, Archangel Michael, a sound healer, a priest who introduced her to “Conversations with God” and Neale Donald Walsh, and Vince Lisi of Now Creations.
Episode 27: Anna Gatmon, PhD
From super model to modern mystic, Anna Gatmon, PhD began her journey in Israel, and ended in the U.S. by way of France and Sweden. She is multi-lingual and multi-talented. Listen to her fascinating spiritual journey and be inspired.
Episode 26: Rev. Mary Ann Trifaro
Reverend Mary Ann Trifaro discusses her journey from childhood Catholicism to becoming a minister at the Center for Spiritual Living of Greater Pittsburgh. She was a Science of Mind minister in Denver for 14 years, prior to coming to Pittsburgh 20 years ago to lead her current church.
Episode 25: Wyatt Melius
Wyatt Melius, Reiki Master, sound healer, life coach, ex-preacher who tried to “pray the gay away,” leads us through the wild ride of his spiritual journey. He was a landscape designer who now operates “Rooted In Sound” and helps other along their journeys.
Episode 24: Ken Parme
Ken Parme is a walking miracle as a pancreatic cancer survivor. He authored (along with his wife, Rebecca) “In the Gaze of the Divine” which chronicles his battle with cancer from both the patient’s and the caregiver’s perspective. His journey from Catholicism, to atheism, to Evangelical, to a strong spiritual center is one we can all learn from.
Episode 23: Paulette Glover
Paulette Glover had a Near-Death Experience in 2012 that changed her life. Her full surrender to God’s will gave her new life following a heart attack. Listen to this intriguing story of a Special Ed. teacher who became a Reiki Master and White Light healer with a story to tell about mindfulness, as the author of “Mindfully Ever After.”
Episode 22: David Russell
Join David Russell as he discusses his journey from “goat boy” to Laughter Yoga and Compassionate Communication trainer, from GED to M.Ed. and from alcoholic to sober for 30 years. Professional childcare worker and professional counselor, David’s journey takes many twists and turns that ends with a lesson in auctioneering for us all.
Episode 21: Sheila K. Collins
Sheila Collins, PhD is the author of “Stillpoint: A Self-Care Playbook for Cargivers to Find Ease and Time to Breathe and Reclaim Joy”(second edition co-authored with Christine Gautreaux), “Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal” (2013), and the soon-to-be released “The Art of Grieving,” shares her wisdom with us. She currently directs the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an Interplay-based improvisational troupe that helps individuals and organizations tell their stories.