Living with Ghosts
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation with filmmaker Stephen Berkley left me in awe. His documentary Life with Ghosts reveals how his mother’s crippling grief transformed when she began communicating with spirits. We explore automatic writing, induced after-death communication therapy (IADC), and why therapists MUST listen to clients’ spiritual experiences. As a psychologist and medium, I’m passionate about bridging science and spirituality—especially for those drowning in loss. If you’ve ever felt a loved one’s presence or questioned the afterlife, this episode is your validation. Plus: I’m launching a course for clinicians on spiritually informed therapy! Join me as we tear down the walls between grief and grace.
00:00 Film "Life with Ghosts": Grief & the Afterlife
00:54 Podcast Intro & Stephen Berkley Welcome
02:03 Stephen's Mother: Complicated Grief Crisis
04:04 Ethel’s Automatic Writing Revelation
06:09 Skepticism vs. Spiritual Connection
12:37 Grief Counselor’s Dismissal of ADC
15:46 Scientific Backing: Dr. Dewi Rees Study
21:48 Induced After-Death Communication
28:31 Stephen’s Personal Spirit Communication Practices
33:40 Mainstreaming ADC: Research & Resistance
39:15 Therapists & Spiritual Openness
41:48 Film Impact & PBS Release
44:33 Where to Watch & Closing
TEPHEN BERKLEY
· Watch Life with Ghosts: lifewithghosts.com
· www.grief2growth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Outstanding. A masterpiece. Groundbreaking. This is what people are saying about Steve Berkeley's most |
| 0:08.6 | recent film, Life with Ghosts. Life with Ghost is a story about his mother's experience with grief |
| 0:16.4 | and how she coped with her grief versus how other people cope with their grief when they can |
| 0:23.1 | connect to the other side. This podcast, this movie is so important as we are shifting. I believe we |
| 0:31.4 | are on the cusp of a critical shift in spiritual health, in mental health, and we have to be |
| 0:37.3 | acknowledging the experiences that |
| 0:38.9 | so many people are having that not only help them in their life, but help them so profoundly with |
| 0:46.2 | their grief that they feel better. And in today's conversation, we hear from Steve, who |
| 0:52.4 | discusses his own mother's grief and how stuck she was and how |
| 0:57.2 | when she began to open up to the possibility that maybe there were ghosts and she could connect |
| 1:02.3 | with them, her grief shifted. But also for those of you who are therapists out there, |
| 1:07.8 | how important it is for you to listen to your clients, listen to your patient |
| 1:12.8 | stories about these experiences, and maybe even open your mind to what is possible. |
| 1:18.4 | So with that, I'm so excited to bring you today's episode with Steve Berkeley, Life with |
| 1:23.6 | Ghosts, but also for those of you who are a part of my community, I'm getting ready, |
| 1:29.2 | fingers crossed to hopefully launch a course for clinicians, specifically around spiritually |
| 1:35.3 | informed therapy. So this is going to be something that I'm looking at possibly doing a group |
| 1:41.7 | movie around and being able to talk about it. So please make sure to listen. |
| 1:47.0 | This is such, such important work. And I'm so passionate about the work that Steve is doing and |
| 1:52.0 | bringing this into the zeitgeist because it is so needed. I believe it is where we are headed, |
| 1:58.2 | but it is so important. So with that, here's today's episode with Steve Berkeley. |
| 2:03.3 | We need at our table of awareness, the logician, but equally we need the intuitive, we need the mystic. |
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