How We Get Thru Podcast: Wellness, Healing & Spiritual Tools for Growth in Real Life · Jen Hershey

S3 Ep 86 Chronic Illness, Past Lives & Purpose with Beth Renov, LCSW

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Beth describes seeing a client’s great-grandmother from Italy before the client confirms her history.

1. How We Get Thru Podcast: Wellness, Healing & Spiritual Tools for Growth in Real Life centers on chronic illness, past lives, and purpose with Beth Renov, LCSW. 2. Beth Renov is described as a fellow therapist and intuitive guide, and the host is also a therapist trying to navigate spirituality in healing work. 3. The episode asks how therapy and spirituality can be blended while still keeping discernment, autonomy, and ethical boundaries. 4. Beth says she works with clients from two to seven years, which shapes her approach away from short-term crisis therapy. 5. The host and Beth talk about therapists being warned that certain choices could risk a license, especially when they move outside the traditional therapy box. 6. Beth says she and the host both think therapists are already channeling in some way, because they pick up on energy in the room and in the relationship. 7. They discuss discernment as knowing what resonates for a person instead of handing over power to readings, demons, or relationship advice. 8. Beth says she is susceptible to information because everything piques her interest, which makes it important to separate intuition from anxiety and fear. 9. She says desperate people can latch onto any answer that confirms a bias, whether that bias is negative self-belief or wish fulfillment. 10. Beth describes a childhood of hearing furniture move in an attic, feeling drawn to witches and magic, and knowing things about a college roommate’s baby before the birth. 11. She says a client who worked with herbal tinctures led to a sudden image of a great-grandmother from Italy, with rolling hills, a farm, and a porcelain basin. 12. Beth says that same client later confirmed the great-grandmother’s life story, including sending sons to Rome and living alone after her husband died. 13. She says that confirmation felt like proof that her gifts were real and that the details came through clearly without prior knowledge. 14. Beth says she went through a period of weekly psychic visits because the experience felt out of control and she wanted more certainty. 15. She says psychics repeatedly told her she came from a long line of witches, had past lives, and had a fast-turnover spirit-guide team. 16. Beth connects her chronic illness to trauma, saying her body forced her to notice that she was not okay before she could do energy work. 17. She says being gay in the 1990s pushed her to shut parts of herself down, and that healing trauma opened those parts back up. 18. The conversation keeps returning to the idea that medical, emotional, spiritual, and physical factors are intertwined rather than separate. 19. The tone is a conversational interview with direct personal examples, frequent back-and-forth, and a strong focus on lived experience. 20. People interested in therapy, intuition, chronic illness, and queer healing may like this episode; listeners wanting a strict clinical or non-spiritual discussion may skip it.

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A tender, spiritually open conversation about chronic illness, inner knowing, and the overlap between therapy and spirituality.

Beth Renov brings a therapist's eye and an intuitive streak to a conversation about chronic illness, coming out, family dynamics, and the habit of trusting inner knowing before anyone else signs off on it.

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If therapy and spirituality belong in the same room, start here.

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