Redefining Joy Through Life's Challenges
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today, I welcome Jody Gelb, Broadway actor and author of the heart-wrenching memoir She May Be Lying Down But She May Be Very Happy, to explore how joy can coexist with unimaginable loss. When Jody’s daughter, Louisa, was born with severe brain damage, her journey through grief, acceptance, and spiritual resilience redefined what it means to live fully. In this raw and deeply moving conversation, we discuss intuitive parenting, preparing for death with grace, and the sacred rituals that heal. Jody’s story is a masterclass in finding light in life’s darkest corners.
00:00 Jody Gelb’s Journey & Memoir
03:15 Louisa’s Traumatic Birth & Early Medical Crisis
08:30 Navigating Hope vs. Reality: Accepting Disability
15:10 Non-Verbal Communication & Intuitive Parenting
22:45 Finding Support: The Bridge School & Community
28:20 Preparing for Death
34:00 Sacred Rituals: Honoring Louisa’s Final Moments
40:10 Signs from Beyond: Dreams & Hummingbirds
45:00 Parenting After Loss: Dora’s Birth & Balance
48:30 Writing as Healing
50:00 Closing: Resources & Jody’s Message of Resilience
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| 0:00.0 | We need at our table of awareness, the logician, but equally we need the intuitive, we need the mystic. |
| 0:06.0 | I almost died. |
| 0:07.0 | I was allowed to go to the very precipice of death, of life and death, and look over the edge. |
| 0:13.0 | And I was allowed to behold what was there and allowed to come back. Most people aren't. |
| 0:18.0 | When we talk about being aligned with our self or being aligned with our soul or hearing our |
| 0:23.0 | higher self, that's really what we're talking about is being connected to that divine part of |
| 0:28.2 | ourself, that light-filled part of us, that is connected to God energy, that is connected |
| 0:32.5 | to everybody here and every experience we've ever had. |
| 0:36.4 | If more doctors, more professionals can open up to use intuitive gifts in their work, |
| 0:42.3 | that's really important. |
| 0:44.3 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium. |
| 0:53.3 | And here we explore life, death, mediumship, |
| 0:58.2 | near-death experiences, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 1:08.8 | How do you accept the unthinkable when the unthinkable happens? Everything was going right in the |
| 1:15.8 | delivery room until it wasn't for Jody Gelb. It was her first child and she was so excited to have a new |
| 1:23.5 | baby daughter and then her world came crashing down. Her new memoir, she may be lying down, |
| 1:32.1 | but she may be very happy, is a beautiful story of Jody's journey with her daughter and how she |
| 1:40.7 | coped with not only the tragedy of her life and how she had to adapt to what was |
| 1:49.7 | unexpected, but also how she prepared for her death. Today's episode is so moving. It touched me |
| 1:57.6 | in such deep ways. And I really want you to listen all the way through the end. |
| 2:02.7 | There was a crazy coincidence that happened with Jody and I. And it was really fun to share a mutual |
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