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What If You’re Not Stuck... You’re Between Chapters?   We know how to mark the obvious moments in life. Births. Weddings. Deaths.   But some of the experiences that transform us most happen quietly. A marriage ends. A child leaves home. We retire. We move. A career comes to an end. Or one day, we simply realize that the person we have been is no longer who we are becoming. There may be no ceremony for these moments. No ritual. No clear line between the old life and the new one.   According to global ritual expert Barbara Biziou, that absence matters.   In this episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club, Barbara joins Sandie Sedgbeer to explore why ritual still has a place in modern life and how consciously marking our transitions can help us release what has ended.   Barbara also shares the ten books that shaped her spiritual path, including Autobiography of a Yogi, Initiation, Be Here Now, The Red Tent, and The Four-Fold Way.   Their conversation moves through ancestral patterns, sacred spaces, women's ceremony, ancient memory, consciouslanguage, and the missing Queen stage for women entering a new chapter. Barbara also shares the deeply personal story of how her sister's death led her toward the power of ritual.   Because sometimes moving forward isn't about forgetting the past. It is about honoring it, releasing what no longer belongs, and consciously choosing what comes next.   🎥 Watch here: https://youtu.be/IXZzHRXtIXI 📚 Explore Barbara Biziou’s 10 BestSpiritual Books: https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/barbara-biziou/ 🌐 Learn more about Barbara:https://www.barbarabiziou.com

✨ Don’t Miss What’s Next! Subscribe and tap the 🔔 to receive updates when new interviews, conversations, and live shows are released. A single book placed in Marcus Gillette’s hands changed the direction of his life. The Fifth Dimension introduced him to Sheila Gillette and the nonphysical teachers known as THEO. Two years later he met Sheila, and a year after that they were married. Yet Marcus’s role in this extraordinary partnership has never been simply to stand beside a channel.   He became the questioner, interpreter, and bridge between THEO’s teachings and the complicated realities of being human.   In this episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club, Marcus shares the 10 books that shaped his path, from TheCelestine Prophecy, On Death and Dying, and Ultimate Journey to Autobiography of a Yogi, Breath, and The Five Gospels.   His choices open a wide-ranging conversation about multidimensional experience, death and dying, the search forthe authentic words of Jesus, the science of breath, spiritual partnership, and the difference between a compelling teaching and a truth we have genuinely lived.   Marcus also explores the central idea behind conscious relationships: love is not something another person supplies.   Our relationships can reveal our wounds, fears, expectations, and patterns. But they can also become powerful classrooms for self-knowledge, responsibility, and unconditional love.   This is a conversation about the books that found Marcus at precisely the right moment—and the life he built from what they awakened in him.   Learn more about THEO: https://asktheo.com/about-theo Marcus Gillette’s 10 Best Spiritual Books: https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/marcus-gillette/   #MarcusGillette #THEO #SheilaGillette #NoBSSpiritualBookClub #SandieSedgbeer #ConsciousRelationships #UnconditionalLove #SpiritualAwakening #SpiritualBooks

✨ Don't Miss What's Next! Subscribe and tap the 🔔 to receive updates when new interviews, conversations, and live shows are released.   From Tolkien to Badass Gratitude – Myth, Tolkien & the Stories Beneath Our Stories with Brenda Knight   Can a book genuinely save a life?   Brenda Knight believes the right one can. Over a publishing career spanning more than 30 years, Brenda has championed books that help people navigate mental and physical illness, recovery, exclusion, fear, and profound change. Today, she is the founding publisher of Books That Save Lives, an imprint whose name states its purpose plainly.   Brenda is also an award-winning and bestselling author. Her Women of the Beat Generation received an American Book Award, while writing as Becca Anderson, she created the Badass Affirmations series, which has sold more than 500,000 copies. Her latest book, Badass Gratitude, explores gratitude as a daily practice of resilience rather than a demand to ignore what hurts. In this episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club, Brenda shares the 10 books that reveal another side of her: the Tolkienite, myth-lover, intuitive, garden witch, tree planter, and compassionate revolutionary.   Her choices span mythology, classic literature, audacious fiction, and books about the nature of narrative itself.   Join Sandie Sedgbeer and Brenda Knight for a candid conversation about the books that form us, the storiesbeneath our stories, and why a few words on a page can sometimes help someone remain in their story long enough to reach the next chapter.   Read Brenda’s 10 Best Spiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/brenda-knight Learn more about Books That Save Lives:https://www.booksthatsavelives.net Follow Brenda: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lowerhaightbk/

What if humanity's next great awakening isn't about acquiring more knowledge—but remembering something we'veforgotten?   For more than 20 years, Martha Alter-Hines worked as a social worker, psychotherapist, and bodyworker, helping people navigate trauma, healing, and life's most difficult challenges.   Today, her work takes her into very different territory.   As a channel, astrologer, healer, and teacher, Martha explores Gaia, consciousness, the cosmos, and what she calls “living the one light.”   In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club, Martha joins Sandie Sedgbeer to discuss the books that shaped her worldview and explore: • spiritual awakening and discernment• Gaia and humanity's relationship with the earth• astrology and channeling• consciousness and human potential• inner earth beings• humanity's changing relationship with the planet• and why remembering who we truly are may be one of the most important challenges of our time   Whether you're deeply immersed in spiritual exploration or simply curious about life's bigger questions, this conversation offers thoughtful perspectives on awareness, connection,transformation, and purpose.   Learn more about Martha Alter-Hines:https://www.livingtheonelight.com 📚 Check out Martha Alter-Hines' 10Best Spiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/martha-alter-hines/ 🌎 Explore more 10 Best Spiritual BookLists:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/10-best-lists/   ✨ Don't Miss What's Next!Subscribe and tap the 🔔 to receive updates when newinterviews, conversations, and live shows are released.   #Gaia #Consciousness #SpiritualAwakening #Astrology #Channeling #EarthWisdom #LivingTheOneLight#SpiritualBooks #NoBSSpiritualBookClub

✨ Don’t Miss What’s Next! Subscribe and tap the 🔔 to receive updates when newinterviews, conversations, and live shows are released.   Some people come to spirituality through a crisis, a mystical experience, or a sudden glimpse of something greater.   Jennifer K. Hill’s awakening began with a rather less celestial revelation: Someone finally told her she was an a*****e.   She was 23, fiercely ambitious, bristling with defenses, and leaving a trail of damaged relationships behind her.   That painful moment began a 21-year examination of how she spoke, loved, led, and treated herself—a journey she nowchronicles with disarming honesty in her new book, Recovering A*****e.   Today, Jen is an entrepreneur, speaker, TV and radio host, executive coach, and founder of the Jen Hill Tribe, a curated global network of founders, investors, and operators.   In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club, Jen shares the 10 books that shaped her journey and explores: • the difference between apology and actual change• how self-awareness can transform relationships• the ego traps hiding inside personal growth• her Golden Triangle of Connection• the importance of meaningful human connection• how to build communities where people feel seen rather than treated like transactions   And, of course, we ask the important question: Does a recovering a*****e ever actually graduate?   Learn more about Jennifer K. Hill: https://www.jenhilltribe.com Jennifer K. Hill: https://jenniferkhill.com Check out Jennifer’s 10 Best Spiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/jennifer-k-hill/   #JenniferKHill #RecoveringAsshole#HumanConnection #ConsciousLeadership #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth

Leadership has long been associatedwith authority, performance, and control.   In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club, Zoe Holland MBE explores another possibility—leadership rooted in love, courage, creativity, truth, and care.   Together, Sandie and Zoe discuss: • the ideas behind Crafted by Heart• Brigid's influence• grief and healing• the Silk Elephant movement• compassionate leadership• accountability and boundaries• leading without losing yourself   They also explore an important question: Can love-led leadership remain effective when difficult decisions, conflict, and accountability are required?   This conversation offers a thoughtful look at leadership that values both humanity and responsibility.   Learn more about Zoe: https://www.zoehollandmbe.com Zoe’s 10 best spiritual books Link: https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/zoe-holland/   #Leadership #WomenInLeadership #CraftedByHeart #LeadershipDevelopment #Compassion

Rachel Wayte believed her singing career was over. Years later, her voice returned—but not for the opera stage. It became an instrument for healing.   In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club, Rachel shares the books that transformed her understandingof energy, intuition, grief, consciousness, and the unseen forces that shape our lives.   This conversation explores: • how sound becomes medicine• trapped emotions and energetic alignment• why success without purpose eventually feels empty• the bridge between science and spirituality• rediscovering your true voice   Learn more about Rachel:https://rachelwayte.com Check out Rachel's 10 Best Spiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/rachel-wayte/   #FrequencyHealing #SoundHealing #EnergyHealing #SpiritualGrowth #Consciousness

Rachel Wayte once believed she had lost her singing voice forever. What returned wasn't another career—it became acompletely different calling. In this episode, Rachel shares how frequency, sound, intuition, and the books that shaped her journey led her from the opera stage into energy healing and vocal alchemy.

Melissa McCloud spent more than ten years living with chronic leg pain before a Quantum Hypnosis session revealed amessage that changed the direction of her life.   In this episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club, Melissa shares her journey from weight loss coaching to Dolores Cannon’s Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, or QHHT.   This conversation explores: • body wisdom and chronic pain• QHHT and past-life regression• messages from the Higher Self• life purpose and personal transformation• the books that shaped Melissa’s path   What if healing begins not with fixing—but with listening?   Learn more about Melissa: https://www.detroithypnotherapy.com/ Check out Melissa McCloud’s 10 Best Spiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/melissa-mccloud/   #QHHT #QuantumHypnosis #PastLives #HigherSelf #BodyWisdom

Melissa McCloud lived with chronic leg pain for more than ten years—until a Quantum Hypnosis session revealed a message she could no longer ignore. In this episode, Melissa shares how that experience changed her life and led her into the world of QHHT, past-life regression, body wisdom, and the guidance of the Higher Self.

What happens when someone you love dies, but your relationship with them doesn’t feel over? Roger Hanson spent thirteen years sharing his life with spiritual teacher and author Story Waters.   After Story’s death, Roger experienced their connection in a profound new way. He shares how grief became a doorway into deeper consciousness, creativity, and purpose.   In this episode of The No BS Spiritual Book Club, Roger explores: • love and loss beyond physical separation• the meaning of stepping into your God Self• continuing consciousness after death• creativity as a pathway to spiritual expression• transforming grief into purpose• The Bridge at Story’s Crossing and creating spaces for connection• the books that shaped his spiritual journey   The insight is simple: Sometimes loss does not end a connection. Sometimes it transforms it.   Learn more about Roger Hanson:https://www.rogerhansonlove.com/godself-art Explore Roger Hanson’s 10 BestSpiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/roger-hanson/#RogerHanson #StoryWaters #GodSelf #SpiritualGrowth #Consciousness

What happens when someone you love dies, but your relationship with them doesn’t feel over? Roger Hanson spent thirteen years sharing his life with spiritual teacher and author Story Waters. After Story’sdeath, Roger experienced their connection in a profound new way—one that led him to step more fully into his own God Self. This deeply personal conversation explores grief, continuing consciousness, creativity, spiritual partnership, and how love can transform even after physical separation.

Perdita Finn describes herself as a writer, witch, and co-founder of The Way of the Rose—but her work is far less about fantasy than it is about relationship: with the earth, theancestors, the unseen, and the stories we've forgotten.   In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club, Perdita shares the books that shaped her understanding of death, ecology, the divine feminine, the burning times, ancestral wisdom, and what it means to belong more deeply to the living world.   This conversation explores: • the forgotten wisdom of the ancestors• the burning times and the feminine wound• death as part of life rather than its opposite• witchcraft, animism, and ecology• the relationship between women and the earth• collective healing, remembrance, and belonging   Rather than asking us to escape the world, Perdita invites us to enter it more fully—with curiosity, reverence, and a willingness to listen.   Learn more about Perdita: https://takebackthemagic.com/ Check out Perdita Finn's 10 Best Spiritual Books: https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/perdita-finn/

Perdita Finn is a writer, witch, and co-founder of The Way of the Rose. In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club,she shares the books that shaped her understanding of ancestors, death, ecology, the divine feminine, and the unseen world.   Together, Sandie and Perdita explore what the burning times still have to teach us, why the wisdom of the ancestral mothers matters today, and how reconnecting with the earth can become a deeply spiritual practice.

Fear shaped much of Sharon Hall's early life. Raised with deep religious conditioning, she spent years believing life was something to survive rather than trust.   Over time, through motherhood, shadow work, and years of personal transformation, Sharon discovered somethingprofound:   The power she had been searching for had never disappeared—it had simply been buried beneath fear and old beliefs.   In this episode of The NO BS Spiritual Book Club, Sharon joins Sandie Sedgbeer to explore: • fear and religious conditioning• shadow work with compassion• raising a neurodivergent son• energy healing• self-trust and empowerment• the books that shaped her journey   One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation is simple: Real empowerment isn't something you find outside yourself.It's something you remember.   Learn more about Sharon Hall: https://sharonhall.org Explore Sharon Hall's 10 Best Spiritual Books:https://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.com/c/sharon-hall/   #FearToFreedom #ShadowWork #SelfTrust #SpiritualGrowth #HealingJourney