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Enthusiastically Spiritual: Uplifting Conversations on Mindfulness, Trust, Intuition & Spiritual Perspectives

Death, Spiritual Messages & Cardboard Paul an Interview with Michelle Bourke

Enthusiastically Spiritual: Uplifting Conversations on Mindfulness, Trust, Intuition & Spiritual Perspectives

Teresa & Tom Shantz - Mindfulness & Spirituality Experts

Education, Intuition, Spiritual Guides, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Psychic, Self-improvement, Cleansing, Balance, Universe, Healing, Direction, Spiritual, Energy, Inner Guidance

5.0138 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail #9: Death, Spiritual Messages and Cardboard Paul are discussed as Teresa interviews Michelle Bourke. In May 2016, Michelle lost her husband of 25 years to melanoma. After a long battle that spanned nearly 8 years Paul finally died peacefully at home surrounded by Michelle and their children. Even in the final weeks of his life Paul still retained his razor-sharp wit, humour and tenacity for all that life had to offer. During this time Paul and Michelle grieved together a...

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to another episode of Enthusastically Spiritual. I'm your host Theresa Shants.

0:07.0

In this episode, I'm going to interview a dynamic spiritual way shower named Michelle Burke.

0:14.4

Michelle has quite the story, and it starts back in 2016

0:18.6

when her beloved husband Paul of 25 years

0:21.2

passed away from Melanoma. After that she began speaking to him

0:25.0

spiritually and wrote the book Conversations with Paul. Prior to him's passing

0:30.9

away they had talked about traveling the world, and in 2017, she created

0:36.5

a cardboard cut out of Paul and indeed traveled the world.

0:41.5

And after that she wrote the book book Traveling with Cardboard Paul. It's an

0:46.2

amazing story. I hope you'll listen on because we're going to have some fun

0:49.7

today. Welcome Michelle.

0:53.0

Thanks, Theresa. I'm really happy to be here and excited.

0:58.0

Great, I'm excited to have you and for me when I've met you Michelle you've got such a presence to you such energy such really and the

1:06.8

enthusiasm that goes behind this podcast and I just really wanted to have you on here and not really knowing a lot of the story behind

1:15.2

Paul and your journey with Paul and also with the cardboard version of Paul.

1:19.1

So there were some things that really stood out to me as I was reading part of the book today was really like, you know, the life purpose of what you went through with Paul and how it kind of got you to where you're right now and what you're currently doing with the book and all the

1:35.4

travels you've been.

1:36.4

So do you want to share a bit about that with your current, your life purpose?

1:40.3

Yeah, well that's always a big question, isn't it? Our life purposes where we spend our whole life

1:47.3

prior to work out what it is and it might be just as simple as meeting your soulmate and experiencing life with them and for me

2:00.4

I've asked his questions many many times before or when a loss poll was why did he leave when he did?

2:06.0

Because he was 61 years old when he passed away.

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