Stop Fearing Death and Start Doing This
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
I sat down with hospice nurse Julie McFadden to explore the profound intersection of biology and spirituality in dying. Julie’s viral insights demystify death, revealing how our bodies intuitively prepare for transition—and why mystical experiences like shared death encounters transform fear into awe. We discuss her book Nothing to Fear, the power of contemplating mortality, and how hospice care reshapes life’s priorities. Join us for a conversation that’s equal parts science and soul.
00:00 Introduction to Hospice Nurse Julie
00:55 Julie's New Book & Journal: "Nothing to Fear"
04:46 Viral Fame: TikTok, Death Education, and Taboos
06:41 Why Death Content Went Viral
11:05 Biology of Dying: How the Body Prepares
18:42 Contemplating Mortality to Live Fully
24:55 End-of-Life Planning: Wills, DNRs, and Family Dynamics
31:34 Hospice Myths: Prolonging Life vs. Quality of Life
41:15 Julie's Shared Death Experience Story
52:48 Deathbed Visions, Pets, and Mystical Phenomena
56:48 The "Death Stare" and Unexplained Comfort
59:17 Julie's Final Thoughts: Books and Journals
01:02:04 Closing: Gratitude and Takeaways
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| 0:00.0 | What if there was one thing that you could do to bring you closer to freedom and living? |
| 0:06.5 | That is what I'm talking with my friend, Julie McFadden, Hospice Nurse Julie, on the show, |
| 0:14.0 | who is on the show today all about. |
| 0:16.0 | So if you don't know Hospice Nurse Julie, I had her on the show a couple years ago. |
| 0:20.9 | She has, she is an incredible TikTok star. |
| 0:24.7 | That's not her claim to fame. |
| 0:25.9 | But she is all over TikTok YouTube with these incredible educational videos about hospice and what it looks like as we move closer to death and how really facing that can free us. And last year, |
| 0:39.9 | she had a new book come out called Nothing to Fear. And this summer, she's got a new journal |
| 0:44.1 | to go along with it called Nothing to Fear Journal, which is really a space to think about and reflect on |
| 0:50.3 | your mortality. It is an incredibly profound opportunity to really think about how you live your |
| 0:58.8 | life. And as always, I don't know that Julie can have a bad conversation with anyone, but I think |
| 1:03.7 | we had an awesome conversation. Just a lot of fun. She's so genuine. She's so authentic. |
| 1:09.7 | And we talked about the miracle and the mystical experience of actually dying, the biological experience of actually dying and how that is a spiritual experience, but also the spiritual experiences that we usually talk about this show and how profound those have been in her life and how they've |
| 1:28.0 | shaped her beliefs about death. So with that, I bring you today's interview with hospice nurse, Julie. |
| 1:33.9 | We need at our table of awareness, the logician, but equally we need the intuitive, we need the mystic. |
| 1:40.3 | I almost died. I was allowed to go to the very precipice of death, of life and death, and look over the edge. And I was allowed to behold what was there and allowed to come back. Most people aren't. When we talk about being aligned with our self or being aligned with our soul or hearing our higher self, that's really what we're talking about is being connected to that divine |
| 2:01.5 | part of ourself, that light-filled part of us, that is connected to God energy, that is connected |
| 2:06.3 | to everybody here and every experience we've ever had. |
| 2:10.4 | If more doctors, more professionals can open up to use intuitive gifts in their work, |
| 2:17.1 | that's really important. |
| 2:18.3 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 2:24.3 | I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium. |
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