Soul Stories with Ariela HaLevi

In this premiere conversation, Ariela HaLevi sits down with spiritual mentor, oracle, and intuitive Carissa Johnsen for an open and unguarded talk about God. Ariela gave Carissa only one word to prepare with, God, trusting that the divine needs no script. Together they share how their relationship with the divine has reshaped their lives, and why naming God out loud, especially within the spiritual world, has been both edgy and deeply liberating.Carissa opens up about losing the business, the identity, and everything she had placed above God, and how that unraveling became a doorway back to the presence that was always within her. They explore spiritual malnourishment in a world full of healing tools, prayer as a simple conversation rather than a performance, movement as feminine devotion, and the teaching that changed everything for Carissa: you were never broken, you have always been whole. This is a conversation for anyone longing to feel God as a living relationship rather than a concept, and to remember the wholeness that was theirs all along.

In this brave and intimate conversation, Ariela HaLevi welcomes back somatic coach, nurse, and mother Amanda Frederick for a first-of-its-kind episode: a live shamanic session held right inside the quantum field. Together they explore why some healing simply can't happen through talk alone, and what becomes possible when we move it through the body, the ancestral lines, and the soul instead. Through real-time energy work, ancestral mapping, and a tender soul retrieval, they release the inherited weight Amanda was never meant to carry, the hands around her throat, and the old belief that she had to be "good" to be safe. This episode invites listeners to move beyond the box women are taught to live inside and into a place of spaciousness, sovereignty, and their own free, wild truth.

In this deeply moving episode of Soul Stories with Ariela, Howard Snooks shares the extraordinary journey of a life shaped by service, grief, reinvention, and resilience.Howard opens up about growing up in rural Colorado, working inside a controversial psychiatric hospital during the rise of patients’ rights, becoming a clinical social worker, and building a long career helping families and children through crisis. But it was the year 2015 that changed everything.After the end of a 34-year marriage, the loss of multiple family members, a traumatic accident, and a complete unraveling of the life he thought he knew, Howard found himself in what he describes as a “bubble” of grief and dissociation. Together, Ariela and Howard explore what it means to survive soul-shattering moments and slowly gather the scattered pieces back together.This conversation dives into aging, loneliness, purpose, spirituality, death, therapy, plant medicine, relationships, and the beauty of bridging generations. Howard’s honesty, wisdom, and humor make this episode a powerful reflection on what it truly means to keep living fully, even after life takes an unexpected turn.A soulful and heartfelt conversation about grief, healing, meaning, and becoming whole again.