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Soul-Centered Healing With Amy Marohn
A baffling illness. A stark choice. And a return with purpose. When master hypnotist and trans medium Amy Marohn reached the edge of life, she came back with a map for soul-centered healing that meets the body where it actually lives—messy, brilliant, and ready to change.
We sit down with Amy to explore how a five-year spiral of fatigue, pain, and autonomic crashes led to a diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis and, ultimately, a near-death experience that reframed everything. Amy explains why spiritual hypnosis isn’t parlor trickery but a disciplined practice that guides clients into theta states, where the higher mind can surface practical insights. She walks through her client journey—from a free consultation that clarifies goals and values to fully customized sessions that may blend grief counseling, mediumship, and trance healing. The result is a clear shift in philosophy: the practitioner isn’t the fixer; the client is the healer.
We also talk about opening the clair senses, channeling from childhood, and how skepticism can coexist with profound spiritual experiences. Amy’s take on “light worker” is refreshingly grounded: it’s not a title but a frequency that any career can carry, from engineering to espresso. Expect concrete tools too—like candle meditation to train attention, journal prompts that sharpen discernment, and simple practices for nervous system calm. Throughout, we honor medical reality while restoring personal agency, showing how mind, body, and spirit inform each other in sustainable recovery.
If you’re curious about bridging science and spirit, seeking support through grief, or ready to align your work with your calling, this conversation offers both inspiration and next steps. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review to help more listeners discover soul-centered healing.
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Well, hello, and welcome back to the Healthy Living Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Grumbine, and today we have a very special guest. Her name is Amy Marone, and Amy is a master hypnotist, a trans medium, and founder of Sensorium Hypnosis. She helps clients worldwide bridge soul-centered healing with authentic leadership. And she's got over 30 years of rehabilitation and healing and a decade focused on spiritual hypnosis and coaching. Amy, I don't need to say more than that. Welcome to the show. It's so great to have you here today.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, Joe, thank you so much. It's great to be here.
SPEAKER_02:Well, um, you know, I always like to get started. Uh, you know, our guests are wide varied from, you know, patients to doctors and and everything in between. And uh our listeners generally, you know, pop in, they're like, oh, who is this? And so, you know, I like to start off a conversation with who's Amy and what brought you here?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Joe, thank you so much. Um, well, I want to go backward in time, sure. Uh to a time in my life before I found the path that I'm currently on.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:And so, like so many, um, I just say generically light workers, uh, people who have a more spiritual perspective on their role. And um, you know, even before I stepped into this role, I knew I was here on the earth plane as a helper healer. Um I love it.
SPEAKER_02:I want to stop just for one second because I've noticed, you know, this podcast is focused on healthy living. And I've always said mind, body, spirit, but I realized in the past month or so, uh, many of our guests have been more focused on the spiritual side of things. I find that interesting and insightful because I think that you know the the body sort of mirrors what the spirit's doing. Um and you know, the body is like a reflection of what's happening in the real world, which is the energy. Anyways, I just threw that out there. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, it's it's an amazing observation. Um, you know, I had been working uh more in the corporate arena in the field of rehabilitation. My last uh position was helping working on a multidisciplinary team to get a pain management program open. Um, and my focus was working with injured workers and helping them get back into the workplace uh post-injury. So um, but during this time, Joe, I began to develop this mysterious illness um where I, you know, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, flu-like symptoms, on and on digestive issues. I mean, it was just something that was rippling through my immune system. Took um, this was a five-year journey of trying to find a doctor, the right doctor, a diagnosis, all of the things. And as time went on, my symptoms worsened and it became clearer and clearer to me that I would soon need to step away from the corporate world because my body just couldn't sustain the schedule, the travel, the responsibilities. And um, you know, to add insult to injury, I was going through a divorce.
SPEAKER_02:Oh no.
SPEAKER_00:Um, I was going to be the sole provider for my son, who was under 10 years old at that time. And my mother, who had lost her husband, moved out here to the Seattle area um to spend her retirement years with me, just had purchased a new house, and my entire immune system was falling apart. Um, yeah, and so you know, and again, it was a slow progression of getting sicker and sicker over a five-year time period, so it didn't show up out of the blue.
SPEAKER_02:Um, and it didn't show up on any kind of test or anything or Lyme disease.
SPEAKER_00:I well, it was very interesting because I know now in retrospect, doctors were were looking in the wrong places, so to speak, weren't running the right tests, and so this what turned out to be an autoimmune disease wasn't even on their radar because it was a less common autoimmune disease. And and of course, a lot we you know the the medical field has made a lot of advancements in understanding this condition, but you know, go back 14 years ago, it wasn't even on their radar. So I ended up finding a doctor um back then uh in Michigan of all places who was able to put a name on this condition. It's called myalgic encephalomyelitis.
SPEAKER_01:Oh wow, yeah, it has a model.
SPEAKER_00:Emmy for short, I I get a little annoyed when um the medical profession puts the chronic fatigue label on it.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Um, I think they used to call it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, completely. I mean, it doesn't really explain um what what's happening to the body, right? It almost puts it in a site, and it has in the past put it in this psych category, right? Which is annoying because now we know that you know the cells in the body aren't functioning appropriately, right? And it's really most accurately a neuromuscular disease, it affects you know, inflammation of the brain and the spinal cord, it affects the muscles of the body, or like lupus, yeah, absolutely, and it it affects even um, you know, a lot of us have what's called dysautonomia and it dysregulates the entire autonomic system.
SPEAKER_01:Wow.
SPEAKER_00:So this beautiful soul in Michigan, who has since passed, actually had the condition himself.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Harvard uh educated doctor made tremendous advancements in the um diagnostic, uh diagnosing this condition and was using um antivirals actually, um, in large, you know, a large dosage to be able to treat this. Um, 10 months flying back and forth.
SPEAKER_02:That's a lot of travel.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, a lot of travel. Um, tried this protocol on me, it didn't work. Um, I missed the optimal window of time where this treatment could have possibly um, you know, um either lowered the volume or reversed the impact of this condition. 10 months in, you know, thank you so much for helping me. This isn't working. I literally come home, I I have to let go of my job, throw my hands in the air, and I said, God, either take me or heal me, but do not be this way, right? And Joe, I'm laughing. I mean, now my heart is smiling. Careful what you wish for.
SPEAKER_02:I get it.
SPEAKER_00:Right. And so I have a near-death experience, uh-huh. And uh, and I'm leaving so much out in terms of the ER, um, you know, uh three, four days in the cardiac unit under observation because my heart is beating too fast or too slow. I'm having these really weird um drops in blood pressure, what's called near syncope, these moments where I'm um my body feels like I'm gonna pass out tunnel vision, the whole thing. Wow, my body is an absolute disaster, and I have this near-death experience, not in the hospital, not during surgery, as you often hear of most commonly in near-death experiences. I'm at home, um, in bed by myself, my soul leaves my body, wow, and I have um what I'll explain I I can best describe as a clair audience and clairsentient experience where a voice or a thought enters my awareness, right? That said to me, Amy, are you ready to leave the earth plane?
SPEAKER_01:Whoa, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Are you ready to leave the earth plane?
SPEAKER_02:So clare audiencely, um now prior to this, was this something that you would have thought was a thing? Like, you know, where where was your mind before that? Were you yeah, okay, good.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. So, Joe, since since my childhood, I have felt a very, very strong connection to the etheric realm. Um, I grew up Catholic, although interestingly, I didn't espouse many of the you know class classic, you know, philosophies behind religion.
SPEAKER_02:I was there too. Yeah, absolutely. I don't know about that part. That doesn't seem you know, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And it's funny because uh, you know, even as a small child, my my teachers would send my religion papers home for my parents to sign because they were so off the wall. And and I had there was this, um, you know, my my parents and my teachers called it religion according to Amy, um, because it it certainly didn't fit within the framework of um Catholicism or Yeah, dogma just didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.
SPEAKER_02:I'm like, why? Because you said so?
SPEAKER_00:Like exactly.
SPEAKER_02:But where is this coming from, you know? Saying do this and believe this. And I'm like, eh, I'd rather see it and feel it first, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, that's that's exactly right. And at the same, I mean, I was very lucky because neither one of my parents, um, even though they were both raised Catholic, they were very progressive thinkers, okay, and they were educators, and so you know, it was a wonderful um, you know, place to be, um, to be able to ask some of the deeper questions at the dinner table.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right, right.
SPEAKER_00:My parents always challenge convention. Oh, okay. So I'm I'm really grateful for that. And so, but also as a child, um, I didn't realize it at the time, but I was channeling music in the entire realm. So at eight and nine and ten years old, with very little formal training, I would sit at the piano and these, you know, now I know these, you know, songs and melodies were just coming through me.
SPEAKER_01:Wow.
SPEAKER_00:And at a very young age, I was creating this, I wouldn't say terribly sophisticated music, but it music doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. Well, there you go. And and I and I worked with a number of musicians that that could help me uh um you know turn this music into um you know uh harmonies and instruments and fell into the right hands and I had the right mentors to help me create um you know more sophisticated music.
SPEAKER_01:Nice.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so and and I and I felt again um the real presence of spirit in my life, and I, while everybody else was doing math in the classroom, I'm writing music, I'm writing poems, I'm having this two-way conversation with the spirit world that made me look terribly ADHD um and incredibly unfocused and undisciplined. Um, but it ended up really my early beginnings of this incredible two-way communication with the spirit world.
SPEAKER_02:So I knew there was who did you yeah, who were you talking to, I guess. It's like, you know, there's so many, like there's people that are like either it's Jesus or it's evil spirits, and then there's other people that say, Well, there's sure a lot more than that going on out there, and there's this wide range of ancestors to angels, and and and what's your thoughts on all that?
SPEAKER_00:Um well, Joe, I say the all of the above. Um, you know, in my early beginnings, it was Jesus, right? Because that was my frame of reference, right? Um, but now, you know, 10 years of spiritual hypnotherapy, even my my clients have expanded my mind.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but of course.
SPEAKER_00:I've reached a place in my uh spiritual maturation or journey where I've come to believe that multiple things can exist simultaneously.
SPEAKER_02:Everything's possible, everything's possible, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. So, you know, I have this near death experience, my soul leaves my body, clair. I hear this voice. The voice asks me, Are you ready to leave the earth plane? Yeah, and the clairsentient part came next in my experience, Joe. And what I mean by that is um in this altered state, as I cross this threshold into this the the spiritual world, I'm downloaded the cumulative impact that my um death, my future death would have on my son.
SPEAKER_02:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00:And so I could oh it it is, it was profound, Joe, because in that moment, right? It was very futuristic. Yeah, I could imagine how that would impact my son. I could feel the grief and the sadness, I could feel the um this, the the you know, this feeling of being lost and abandoned and left unguided and unsupported, um all of that. And and in that moment, I was able to make the most informed and enlightened choice that I could make at that time. And Joe, I also realized in that moment that I had a soul contract with my son.
SPEAKER_02:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00:And and that had to do with being by his side and championing a champion of his or a guardian of his best interest here. Um and so I I made that choice, that very informed and enlightened choice. You know, as much as I'm physically suffering, I I need to come back.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And yeah, and and in that moment, the vo I'm just gonna call it the voice, even though it's you know, it's more of a a thought or um a mental awareness that's walking me through this decision. Uh I was told, well, if you go back in, you will live more intentionally.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I have no idea, Joe, what that meant. No idea. So back I, you know, the souls absorb back into the body. And almost like um, I mean, it was like science uh science fiction movie. Yeah, I wasn't so much seeing as I was hearing and feeling, okay, um, come back into the body, and my life moving forward was never the same. I then realized in terms of these clears and the gifts of the spirit, even though I believe we all have them, and even though, as we discussed a few minutes ago, you know, I I absolutely felt this strong connection. It was like now all of the clears were on, it was like me on steroids, spiritually, um within 4.0 completely within um days of that experience, Joe Joe. I was walking down my hallway and uh the voice said you're going back to school, which was crazy because I want to make it clear to our audience this was not a spontaneous physical healing, right? Right. I I still have this condition, it's by been diagnosed, there's no treatment, I don't know what the prognosis is.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Um, and then a couple days later, I the voice says you're going back for training to be a hypnotist.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Now that was crazy, Joe. I had never known a hypnotist.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. And it's not like one of your goals from a childhood or something like that.
SPEAKER_00:Completely. And I had never even Googled like what is the training of uh, I mean, I just said no idea. So now, but but the strange and beautiful thing is, Joe, I never even questioned uh the authenticity of this connection and this higher intelligence that I now knew and trusted was gonna guide me out of this um horrible illness, this um, you know, financial ruin that was created by you know having to leave conventional, you know, employment and um you know let go of this 30-year climb in my prior career, and and now, you know, all over again my mortgage and how am I gonna navigate a divorce and take care of this child? And um I went through the training and fast forward to now, Joe, it has been the most magnificent journey from classic hypnosis to spiritual hypnosis and a weaving in of all these other modalities, um, metaphysical healing, mediumship healing, uh, trance healing. Um and and I've I've had the glorious experience of the spirit world shaping every single tool and making it very a very unique imprint um of my life journey. Um and you know, just a very, very unique. I call it a self-healing modality.
SPEAKER_02:Nice, right?
SPEAKER_00:Because it's less about what I'm doing to or for my clients, it's more about what I'm empowering my clients to do for themselves.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and ultimately it comes down to that, you know, it's like uh uh people think you know, you're gonna go and get a guru or a healer or something like that, and they're gonna do something to you or for you. But the truth is, all they can even hope to do is get you to see what's inside of you and activate it or help you to activate it yourself.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely, Joe. That is that is so spot on, and and so you know, in the beginning of my journey as a hypnotist, I realized boy, classic or mainstream hypnosis isn't for me. Okay. Um, because you know, it's very script-based, it's very one size fits all. Um, in the beginning, right, when you're just getting your um feet wet as a hypnotist, it's actually in a lot of ways, very kind of Western medicine model in the set in the sense of, you know, you come to me with a problem and here's a solution. It's very descriptive, right? Yeah, and so within like six months to a year, I mean, in in a way, it's kind of important as a new hypnist to try that on, um, at least, and and again to to practice um, you know, helping your clients get into theta. But I have to say, um, you know, that it is the connection, I think, you know, uh as a spiritual hypnotist now to the etheric realm that can really advance the progression of your work because it's helping you tap into high frequency energies. And once you the key for me uh in terms of like the the framework and the um the shift in philosophy is that I came to understand through my own healing journey that the answers truly lie within each and every one of us. So I began to understand myself as more of a coach or a guide in helping other people tap in to their inner wisdom, right? To connect with the higher mind. And if they are of a spiritual mindset to even tap into the etheric realm, um, I kept uh I truly believe, you know, that the most effective healer of all is is you, the client, right, and and not me.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Um and I also believe that through these tools that spirit has helped me integrate into my practice that my job is now to help my clients ignite their inner healer.
SPEAKER_02:Nice, right? So when when a client comes to you, like you've got all these tools in your box. Yeah, so kind of walk me through, like say I'm I'm I'm your new client. Yeah, I say, hey, I've got this issue or I've got this health problem or whatever it is. Can you help me? How do we go from here?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well, so um people typically find me through podcasts. Okay, they typically find me through articles. I I blog, I'm I'm a passionate blogger on all kinds of wild spiritual topics. Um, and and I wrote a book. Um, this is uh uh this is Whispers Beyond the Veil channel teachings inspired by the spirit world. So that's typically not always, or people do a Google search um and they they typically type in like mind, body, soul healing or metaphysical healing or um mediumship healing. It's usually a spiritual term that that you know connects people to me. Then they they will find me on my website and they'll see uh um free spiritual healing consultation.
SPEAKER_01:All right.
SPEAKER_00:First point of entry. And here's why, Joe. Um, I think it's really, really important for people to get um uh some time with me to tell me more about um, you know, what are their goals? What are they working on in their life?
SPEAKER_02:What have they done?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, absolutely. Where are they now? And and paint me a picture, give me a vision of of where they want to be. Um, I have a lot of um, there's a lot of questions, um boxes they they check um before, you know, in the process of um scheduling that consultation that give me such a good idea of who they are spiritually as a soul and and what their core values are, and then um through this consultation, uh spirit guides me in asking some very poignant questions that help me know them better, and then it gives it it creates an opportunity for them to ask me questions, got it, and then through that process, Joe, I custom design uh or or make some recommendations about like what this could look like because every soul is is different, it has different different right and and they can book sessions um from there if it feels like a both a good fit both ways, right? Because I want to make sure um it's in the wheelhouse of what I do, or in some cases, do I have another colleague in my inner circle that might be a better point of entry, right? Right, right. This is a humble path, yeah, right. And I and I don't proclaim to be like the best practitioner forever, right?
SPEAKER_02:Right, you're just out there trying to help people, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00:And then um uh, you know, I and I also want to make sure that that it, you know, we're aligned in our in our goals and my recommendations fit within the framework of, I mean, the client is the expert in their own journey, so again, it's gotta be very humble and I have to, and it has to come from a place of spiritual integrity, and so once we map out what that looks like, they can do their sessions virtually, or if they're local to me, they're you know, they can pop in and and do these in in person, nice, nice. Um, and it's all customized, so it isn't some people are very, very sophisticated and they've done a lot of work and they're like, I want to come and I I I want you already know what they're looking for, yeah. Yeah, I want to open my clears, I want to have more fluid communication with spirit. Other people are like, you know, they come for grief and loss. I just lost my wife, yeah. And um, you know, I want to do, you know, can can can you help connect me with her? Um, can we do some grief and loss therapy? I'm a metaphysical minister too, so you know, I can do the personal counseling end of things, and we can also weave in spiritual hypnosis and mediumship, all the things.
SPEAKER_02:Nice, okay, nice. Well, as I suspected, we're gonna get into a conversation and run out of time before we even scratch the surface. But this is a point where I like to see if I can get you to kind of wrap your thoughts up into one sort of a parting thought that we can leave our listeners with. And then I most uh sincerely want to invite you back because I feel like we just have barely touched the surface of this conversation and there's so much more to talk about. But uh yeah, why don't you see what we can do to wrap up your thoughts into uh one or you know, a central idea to leave our guests with and then uh and then once again show everybody how we can reach you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, absolutely. Well, Joe, I I just want to say, um, you know, I I absolutely love what I do, and for a lot of people, um part of their spiritual evolution is finding their what I call career calling. Um, and and and if I could relay one message to um other incredible light workers who are working across every industry under the sun, right? Lightworker um and helper healer isn't a title, it's a frequency. Yeah, be an engineer, right, and be a light worker, you can be an IT professional or um own a string of coffee stands and be a light worker, right? So I want to make that clear. Um, if you are um wanting to work independently on your spiritual journey, this book that I recently wrote, uh Whispers Beyond the Veil, Channel Teachings Inspired by the Spirit World, you can find it on Amazon. I'm not pumping this, this isn't coming from ego. Um, this is a spiritual curriculum. Every chapter has journal prompts. The purpose of this book is to help light workers connect with the most authentic version of themselves, um, and also if they're interested, connect with the spirit world. Each and every one of us is a medium, by the way.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, this is our birthright. And so if you're a quiet soul and you want to do self study, that's the book. If you feel like you want a little bit more guidance on your spiritual path I'm here um there's tons of light workers around the globe you can just go to my website it's sensorium hypnosis dot com s t n s o r I um sensorium means senses sensorium hypnosis dot com and from there you can connect to my YouTube channel my book consultations a ton of free blogs I'm gonna try to be diligent with putting more free materials up on my website um for other light workers and my YouTube channel which you can connect with on my website by the way has lots of free meditations um and guided you know just guided meditations my candle meditation is um it's free and it helps people get into a deeper theta state or a trance state and um light workers are really enjoying that so beautiful beautiful well I mean it's been an absolute joy and again hopefully we can schedule soon to Kev you come back and continue this conversation. I feel like we just barely got started talking um and like we talked about in the beginning you know the goal of this podcast is to create a community and I feel like I've got a new friend so this oh Joe likewise I I have just so enjoyed you enjoy your show thank you for all the beautiful work you do and for providing this incredible platform um for all of us people working out of our basements.
SPEAKER_02:I love it I love it yeah we're all doing this together it's so homespun.
SPEAKER_00:I love it.
SPEAKER_02:I love it. Well this has been another episode of the Healthy Living Podcast. I'm your host Joe Grumbine and I want to thank all of our listeners that make this show possible and we will see you next time.
