Grief doesn’t always come from death alone—it also lives in lost futures, changing identities, and lives that unfold differently than we imagined. In this episode, Adina and Roberta explore the many forms of grief that accompany major life transitions and the importance of allowing ourselves to truly feel them.

Roberta shares her deeply personal journey of navigating multiple layers of loss at once: her partner’s gender transition, fertility struggles, and her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Adina reflects on her own experience of delayed grief after her brother’s death and the cost of not giving herself permission to slow down and mourn. Together, they discuss how cultural discomfort around grief often leads to silence, judgment, or unhelpful questions—and why compassion matters more than fixing.

The conversation expands to include intangible grief, spiritual surrender, and the alchemical process of transformation that can emerge when pain is honored rather than avoided. From faith and therapy to nature rituals, dreams, and community support, Adina and Roberta explore what it means to move through grief with self-compassion and trust in life’s unfolding.

In this episode, we explore:

• Grief caused by unexpected life changes and unfulfilled futures
• Navigating loss alongside gender transition and relationship endings
• Cultural misunderstandings around grief, death, and mourning
• Intangible grief, self-blame, and the loss of imagined identities
• Faith, therapy, and self-compassion as tools for healing
• Surrendering control and trusting life’s unpredictable path
• Pain as a catalyst for soul growth and transformation
• Death work, shadow work, and community-based healing
• Letting go of who we once were to make space for who we are becoming

This episode offers a gentle, honest space for anyone moving through grief—whether visible or unseen—and a reminder that you don’t have to push through pain alone.

Resource Mentioned:

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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Adina and Roberta reflect on the year ahead through tarot, astrology, and personal intention. They share their hopes for 2026, introduce a community tarot pull, and explore the energetic themes shaping January and beyond. From fierce feminine archetypes to planetary movements and retrogrades, this episode offers grounded guidance for navigating personal and collective change.

In this episode:

• January’s tarot card: the Princess of Swords
• Feminine strength, rebellion, and karmic cause & effect
• January 2026 astrology & the Capricorn stellium
• Mars in Capricorn for planning and steady progress
• Venus retrograde themes
• 2026 Tarot Card: Adjustment
• The astrological influences of luminaries, personal, and outer planets

✨ Reflect on how these energies are showing up in your life as we move into 2026!

Resources Mentioned:

Thoth Tarot

Financial Sorcery by Jason Miller

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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What if your body could be read like tea leaves, divining valuable insight into the past, the future, and even across timelines?

What if your body served as a benevolent guide on your soul's journey?

In this compelling conversation, Adina and Roberta welcome Physical Therapist Ruth Pike-Elliot to the show. Ruth describes her physical therapy practice, which integrates mind, body and spirit. Her unique approach to healing blends evidence based methods with intuitive insight and Akashic record reading. The conversation explores integrative healing paradigms, including osteopathic manual therapy and bodywork, heart-brain coherence, and the shortfalls of the traditional medical model. It also dives into practical tools for emotional and physical growth, homework to sustain change, and what it means to view the body as a wise, benevolent guide. This episode highlights the bridge between emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of healing through personal stories and practical insights.

What You’ll Learn:

• How heart-brain coherence can deepen healing access
• Techniques for releasing physical stress linked to trauma
• The importance of homework between therapeutic sessions
• The value of viewing the body as an ally, not an obstacle
• Practical steps toward embodied and spiritual healing

Ruth Pike-Elliot, MPT, LMBT is a physical therapist and holistic healer. She has studied with the Barral Institute, Herman and Wallace Institute, APTA, Summit Education group, The Akashic Alliance, Tami Lynn Kent for Holistic Pelvic Care™,and the Birth Healing Institute. She presented at the South East Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, Midsouth Women’s Herbal Conference, AB tech, Asheville School of Massage and Yoga and for Asheville birth workers.

Ruth's Website: ashevilleholisticpt.com

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If you enjoyed this episode, please share it. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and subscribe.

Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

The Home Witch

Organize & Feng Shui