51 min
Interview with Karen V. Johnson Spiritual Media Blog Podcast
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- Spirituality
Karen V. Johnson is the author of Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. In 2014, her twenty-seven-year-old son, Ben died of a heroin overdose. She shares on her website: “it never occurred to me to see grief as a journey of transformation, or to find the blessings in the grieving process, or about allowing myself to grow into the state of living with grief. I had to figure it out by myself. It was a lonely path of self-discovery that was not mainstream and not accepted.” She decided to retire, sell her house, and went on a two-and-a-half year journey that took her all over the world on a search for meaning in her tragic loss. This was especially surprising to others considering she had spent the previous thirty years as a criminal and energy law attorney and administrative law judge in Washington D.C.
During our conversation we talk about the following:
How she moved from a state of sadness and despair over her son’s death to finding greater meaning and purpose in it
Her two year journey across the world learning how to use energy medicine and shamanic healing practices
Specific advice and ceremonies people can use to help them transform their grief
How people can better manage sadness, guilt, anger, and despair when they are grieving
How she transitioned from being an administrative law judge to having a deeply fulfilling career as an author, consultant, and energy medicine practitioner
How you can follow your dreams and create a deeply fulfilling life
Karen V. Johnson is the author of Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. In 2014, her twenty-seven-year-old son, Ben died of a heroin overdose. She shares on her website: “it never occurred to me to see grief as a journey of transformation, or to find the blessings in the grieving process, or about allowing myself to grow into the state of living with grief. I had to figure it out by myself. It was a lonely path of self-discovery that was not mainstream and not accepted.” She decided to retire, sell her house, and went on a two-and-a-half year journey that took her all over the world on a search for meaning in her tragic loss. This was especially surprising to others considering she had spent the previous thirty years as a criminal and energy law attorney and administrative law judge in Washington D.C.
During our conversation we talk about the following:
How she moved from a state of sadness and despair over her son’s death to finding greater meaning and purpose in it
Her two year journey across the world learning how to use energy medicine and shamanic healing practices
Specific advice and ceremonies people can use to help them transform their grief
How people can better manage sadness, guilt, anger, and despair when they are grieving
How she transitioned from being an administrative law judge to having a deeply fulfilling career as an author, consultant, and energy medicine practitioner
How you can follow your dreams and create a deeply fulfilling life
51 min