We Woke Up Like This

About We Woke Up Like This

Grieving Awake is a podcast about awakening the heart through life's sacred thresholds. It's an exploration of what it means to listen to the soul and become more fully human through grief, loss, love, and the experiences that change us forever. Through conversations that weave together consciousness, grief, contemplative practice, intuition, mysticism, science, and the mystery of being human, we explore how life's greatest thresholds can awaken us to a deeper relationship with ourselves, each other, and Spirit. Every conversation is an invitation to become more heart-led, more intuitively guided, and more deeply connected to Spirit.

Publisher

Joya Sosnowski

Category

education · religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Nov 2023

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

61 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   He Lost His Son at 23. Then Grief Became a Doorway. | Steve Ferrara

   Send us Fan Mail Grief doesn’t politely arrive. It kicks the door in, rewrites your nervous system, and dares you to make sense of a world that suddenly feels impossible. I’m joined by Steve Ferrara, a former financial CEO and lifelong spiritual seeker, to talk about what happened after his 23-year-old son, Christopher, died in a car accident and why even decades of spiritual study didn’t protect him from breaking wide open. Steve shares the raw early terrain: the anger, the screaming at God...

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   17 Sept 2026

   A Medium Speaks on How to Feel Your Child's Presence (And Why It's Simpler Than You Think)

   Send us Fan Mail Grief can make the world feel smaller overnight, but it can also reveal a bigger reality you didn’t know how to name. From the Helping Parents Heal Conference, I sit down with Nicole Newman, a medium, teacher, and bereaved mom living in Maui, to talk about what happened after her son died and why so many people report after-death communication. Nicole shares how her journey began with something simpler than “hearing a voice.” She calls it communing: lying down, getting quiet...

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   16 Sept 2026

   Why My Life Review Only Showed the Good (And What That Means) - Holly Porter's NDE Story

   Send us Fan Mail The ICU is supposed to be the end of the story, but for Holly it becomes the beginning. After catching COVID in 2021, her oxygen crashes, her organs start to fail, and she’s rushed from the ER to the ICU with slim odds of survival. What follows isn’t just a medical crisis, it’s a consciousness-shaking account of out-of-body experiences, a near-death experience, and the confusing, painful reality of waking back up in a body that’s still fighting to breathe. We talk through th...

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• Colleen Kern
• Industry experts
• Tannaz Hoissenpour
• Laura Walton
• Reverend Joya

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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