Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

At our paranormal afterlife, my mission is to explore evidence that we continue beyond physical death.

These episodes encompass reincarnation, near-death experiences,

spirit communication, deathbed visions and other extraordinary phenomena.

This week I am talking to the author Candice Talmage about her book, The Afterlife Healing Circle.

Candice has written for numerous media that include Businessweek, Forbes,

the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times.

She also writes the Green Stone of Healing speculative fiction series

under the byline, C.L. Talmadge.

Candice, thank you very much for being a guest on the Past Lives podcast.

I read your book.

It was really interesting.

Can you tell us about your background?

Well, my background is really pretty normal.

I mean, you know, I grew up, went to college, got a job in journalism.

But I never really accepted the conventional explanation for just about anything,

all right, especially when it came to issues of spirituality and healing, which were two of my,

two of my real interests, but I didn't really have any way to express them in my day-to-day job.

I was just a writer and a journalist and a business reporter, that kind of thing.

But my own issues kept weighing on me, and when you have emotional and spiritual issues,

they don't get any better as you get older they

they tend to get worse and worse and that was what happened for me so out of

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