Out of the Fog with Karen Hager on Empower Radio

Today's guest had the great fortune to work with amazing teachers his wonderful, funny, difficult, and loving dogs. They kept him going in times of great stress, fear, and loss. Along the way, he was given opportunities to remember, over and over, how to love. Dogs are healers, Michael Overlie says, and he knows they can help lead you back to your self.

My guest today says that is time to become your own soft spot to land. What if you could stop trying to FIX you and become your own best ally? In today's episode, Elena Sonnino will share how to form an alliance with intuition and your body to navigate the journey of your life.

Romance and love addiction are real. You may know someone who is constantly in search of the next “love high” or jumps from one relationship to another. Or they may be consistently drawn to toxic partners who are abusive and manipulative. Sherry Gaba brings deep insight into these patterns, and shares wisdom to help break free of these addictive cycles.

Daniel Shapiro shares the reality of the fifteen years he spent living and caring for his wife while single-handedly raising three young children. He often found himself looking for guidance as he struggled to figure out what is right, what is okay, what is wrong, what is just human, and how to bear it all.

Emotions are something we experience. They don't define us. In this episode, Amanda Hainline talks about how we can shift our emotional state to release stress, anxiety, and sadness. She will share tools we can use to help gain control of our emotions and feel better within five minutes.

Today's guest knows that living in your feminine brings more flow, abundance and fulfillment to life. But what does it mean to invite feminine energy, and to ground our lives in that space? Elé de Posson shares her wisdom about magnetizing our paths to receive more good things.

Feeling exhausted, confused, and stressed out? This has been another tough year, and we may have survived intense emotions and spiritual pain. The Rev. Earl Johnson joins me to offer guidance on maintaining hope and relationships with people and things that matter, finding comfort during hard times, and entering the new year with hope.

Listener favorite Dr. Michael Lennox is here with astrological insights for the new year! Join us for a peek into 2022 and get Michael's take on what to look forward to … and what to be aware of … in the months ahead.

2021 brought unexpected challenges and changes to all of us. Kathy and Karen are no exception. In this interview,

Want to know why new year's intentions fail—often before January is even over? Want to start off 2022 maximizing the chances for fulfilling your dreams? Dr. Alice Chan joins me to share the secrets of living your best life in the new year!

Karen brews a strong cup of tea and answers listener questions in this special year-end episode. Who knows what will fall out of the mailbag? Tune in to hear her musings on intuitive development, abundance, connecting with guides … and whatever else comes up.

Amy Dempster, host of the Earth Keepers podcast, shares wisdom about how we can reclaim our power in places with paranormal activity, and how we can clear and protect our own personal energetic fields as well.

Nightmares can shake us out of sleep and mirror our real-life worries. Dream interpreter Stase Michaels will talk about how to handle bad dreams, and give us tools for deciphering their meaning. We'll also look at how we might keep daily anxieties from becoming invasive bad dreams.

Are you highly sensitive? Empathetic? Empathic? An empath? Accepting and embodying your empathic nature is an intentional path towards balance and belonging to yourself. Signe Myers Hovem demystifies empathic receptivity, believing that it is not a “gift” or “power” but a feature of one's sensory perception and intuition, an ability that allows us to live in extended communication with nature and humanity.

Medical intuition is not a gift limited to only a few. My guest today says that you are already wired to tap into medical intuition, and so is everyone else! Tina Zion says that learning to understand ourselves this way will sharpen our intuition and change our lives.

Chanda Parkinson utilizes her spiritual gifts, tarot, and astrology to support others through transitions in life with clarity and deep compassion. No stranger to introversion, Chanda seeks to live in the grey matter of life, leaving lots of room for exploring the playground of her own mind, and the rich, wild, sometimes animated thoughts that drive her creativity on the daily.

Today's guest knows firsthand that intuition and love are central to healing, and to navigating any of life's challenges. After a 20-year journey through Environmental Illness, Maryanne began to teach and help others. She'll share simple, powerful tools to help listeners access their own healing power in their lives.

Sometimes it takes a catastrophic event to wake us up. We're diagnosed with a life-changing illness, end a long-term relationship, unexpectedly get laid off, or face an event that utterly upends life as we know it. We all encounter these turning points, so how shall we face them? Radha Ruparell shares wisdom about how we can rise with courage through tough times and use those lessons to unlock our greatest selves.

Can you create more joy and meaning in your career, even if you don't love your job? Beverly Jones says you have more power than you realize and that you can start to make changes right away. Tune in to hear practical strategies to help you find more satisfaction and success on the job and in your life.

Anxiety-related disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting more than 40 million adults aged 18 and older; and more than 25 percent of teenagers ages 13 to 18. Wendy Tamis Robbins will share how we can free ourselves from the prison of anxiety through self-compassion and the hard work of introspection.

How can we be true to ourselves while staying connected to our partner in a relationship … whether it's old or new? Intuitive relationship healer Deb Acker shares how to identify when our intuition is speaking to us and how we can use intuition to create more exciting and vibrant relationships.

Have you struggled to push past your money set point and find a level of financial ease and success? Madeline Gerwick knows that you can shift your money patterns and your bottom line. She'll share a wealth of tools and practices (what works … and what doesn't) from her many years of helping people transform their relationship to money and jumpstart their prosperity.

Feeling good is a foundational piece of attracting what you want in life. Wondering what might be holding you back from making a bigger impact personally or professionally?

How can we move the world from fracture to a more cohesive system? Dr. Kristen Donnelly explains the power of curiosity and how people change their world views versus how they change their habits.

Our beloved companion animals are more than just good friends. Animal intuitive and healer Lynn McKenzie believes they can help us change our lives and fulfill our soul purpose. You'll hear how tapping into animals on a deeper level can help us grow spiritually and transform personally.

People are more powerful, more capable of making miracles than they know. My guest today believes that miracles don't randomly happen—we create them.

The convenience of the online world has a dark side. As we increasingly depend on virtual environments for learning, connection, and work, we can be more vulnerable to predators. Dr. Michael Nuccitelli is here to share best practices for staying safe online and avoiding cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and online attacks.

How can you get through the worst of what life throws at you? Alexandra Chauran offers techniques and wisdom for healing and handling trauma. Through her years spent developing strategies for moving through hardships, she believes you can rebuild your life in the wake of illness, divorce, death, and other trauma-inducing circumstances.

How do our thoughts and feelings sync up with opportunities to get what we want? Dr. Melanie Dean combines psychology, molecular physics and quantum physics to answer that question. She'll share wisdom about how activating our energy fields can transform our lives.

Our bodies are speaking to us all the time. Emily A. Francis believes that we can decode that language, opening us up to access the body's innate wisdom, healing, and joy. We'll learn about how emotional trauma is stored and held within the body, and how we can shift negative energy.

Holly Copeland will share her journey as a scientist and biohacker, blending neurotech and ancient wisdom traditions and hack her consciousness from chaos into clarity. We'll learn how she cracked the code to upgrade from “ordinary mind” and discover the peaceful, calm and resilient presence within all of us.

When Mike Anthony's father unexpectedly died, his family was devastated. But when a phone call came out of the blue delivering a complete stranger's message that Mike's dad had contacted her from “the other side,” it kicked off a chain of events that entirely changed Mike's skeptical mindset about life, death, and the transcendent nature of love.

Mindfulness mentor Hunter Clarke-Fields talks about the benefits of mindfulness for parents. Learn mindfulness practices to re-train our brains to handle difficult emotions and the importance of self-compassion for parents. She'll share why parents resort to yelling and how to create willing cooperation from your child using skillful communication.

Garden mindfulness is a powerful spiritual practice leading to self-discovery, wisdom, and connectedness. It can help us heal ourselves and the world. Joann Calabrese will shine a light on this practice and highlight ways to deepen our connection to the green world and our spiritual selves.

During such painful times, the idea of cultivating personal happiness might seem trivial—selfish, even—but it might be more important now than ever before. Empowerment coach Shannon Kaiser says that with evidence showing positive moods boost our immune system, joy isn't something to feel guilty about. It's a smart strategy.

While most of us hear about what we can do externally to address the climate crisis, Jack Adam Weber's wholly unique book, Climate Cure, addresses what we can do internally to act in meaningful ways. He believes that the climate battle must not be fought but healed inside each of us, and among enough of us. In this interview he shares what this healing is all about and how to become what he calls “medicine for our times,” which is to be a potent part of the solution.

We are all made of four basic elements – Water, Air, Earth, and Fire. When we're in pain, says today's guest Debra Silverman, it means these elements are out of balance in our lives. The key is to be able to discern your own personality and understand where you can strengthen the parts of your elemental nature that are out of balance.

After a horrific divorce and being diagnosed with incurable Stage IV lung cancer, Veronica Villanueva took back control of her life. In this episode, she'll share tools you can use to fight your own battles and emerge healthier and happier.

We all know sugar is bad for us, but why is it so hard to eliminate it from our diet? Michael Collins shares his wisdom about sugar addiction, how sugar affects the body, and the path to detox.

Are you an empath? If so, it’s been a hard year to be a sensitive person. Empaths need special tools to learn how to hold their boundaries in the close quarters of a pandemic and how to clear the energy that we pick up from others. Energy healer Lisa Campion will discuss easy but powerful ways to help sensitives manage their energy, even in difficult times.

Healing is not about something missing, wrong, or broken about you. Healing is an awakening to your wholeness and choices to live well, no matter the circumstances. Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett and Alicia Whitsett offer tools for discovering the power of your mind to claim your wholeness and heal your life.

We’ll explore Dr. Shelley Kaehr’s work with genealogical regression. She teaches that alleviating the suffering of your ancestors can help you extend loving kindness to your own generation … and even to those who have yet to be born.

Can you transform the story of your life? Teri Wade’s here to share wisdom about finding out what your story really is, what it’s made of, and how it can really change … fast. Listen to hear how to write yourself out of the fog!

What blocks you from making changes? So many of us set intentions and then watch them fall away. Jill Thiry, founder of Club Change, joins me to talk about setting intentions that stick, using kindness to establish practices, and ultimately plant your intentions as new habits in your life.

The ancient discipline of Vedic astrology provides a logical narrative that reveals the bigger picture and helps followers make sense of their path in life. Dr. Katy Jane, a Sanskrit & Vedic scholar and skilled Jyotishi, sheds light on how to move forward in the new year with Vedic astrology.

How can we move through these turbulent times with ease and grace? Spiritual lifestyle expert Trish McKinnley offers practical tips and insights for using the forgotten tools of the universe to raise our vibration and change our lives.

Astrologer Dr. Michael Lennox brings us an overview of 2021. The big transit of the year is Saturn (reckoning, hard lessons, karma) in a Square (conflicts/obstacles) with Uranus (lighting, instability, anything can happen, sudden and unexpected change). This will be the single major transit of the year and will hit three times in February, June, and December.

Relationships are facing new challenges in the time of COVID-19. Everyone – whether they are coupled or single, is wondering how love will survive the pressures of social distancing, and what love will look like after the pandemic has passed. Dr. Gary Salyer will talk about what it means to feel safe and loved when things are so different than they were a year ago, and how singles and couples can continue to grow in love for themselves and for each other.

Exploring the Akashic Records can help you claim your wholeness and accelerate spiritual awakening. Melissa Feick will share how working through karmic patterns can help raise our vibration and expand consciousness.

Everyone seems to have advice for us about how to spend our “pandemic free time.” Exercise. Eat right. Read good books (not fun books, good books). Learn to play the (insert instrument here). Write your memoir. If your “free time” has you “shoulding” all over yourself, you’ll enjoy this fresh perspective on personal development from Kathy Henry.

What does it mean to be kind in today’s world when we need it more and understand it less? Houston Kraft discusses the gap between believing and doing, being nice and being kind, and how to form meaningful habits that orient us toward compassion.