Reconnecting To Purpose: A Conversation With Gina Cavalier

Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast, her private psychic medium readings and coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery, then interviews author and mental health advocate Gina Cavalier, formerly a wellness program director at Sedona Mago Retreat Center and now working independently as The Liberated Healer. Gina shares decades of suicidal ideation, how she healed it, and emphasizes that suicidal ideation differs from other mental health issues and is worsened by shame, judgment, and criticism, including from toxic relationships. She describes tools such as daily grounding, meditation, running energy, visualizing soul “fingerprints,” and working with the spine and nervous system, plus proactively practicing tools before crises. They discuss burnout versus tiredness, taking mental health time, harmful “shitty advice” like manipulative spiritual upsells and victim-shaming manifesting talk, and the value of speaking suicidal thoughts aloud and building support pacts. Gina highlights her books, Planet Walking and Surviving Suicidal Ideation, and shares how to find purpose and gifts through one’s blueprint.Gina Cavalier is an author, speaker, mental health advocate, and Wellness Program Director at Sedona Mago Retreat Center. Her work bridges lived experience, nervous system awareness, and practical tools for reconnecting to purpose—especially for people navigating grief, burnout, or major life transitions. She is the author of Planet Walking: A Handbook for the Living and is known for bringing honesty, compassion, and grounded hope to conversations about healing.Instagram: Gina_CavalierYouTube: Gina Cavalier ✨ Work with April 1:1If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links:🔗 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Readinghttps://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille🔗 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading🔗 15-Minute Discovery Callhttps://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minuteSend us Fan Mail Working with April 1:1