Sacred Soul Sisters

Grief Has No Timeline: Reconnecting with Children in Spirit

• Justina Sharp • Season 1 • Episode 16

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The veil between worlds grows thin when love forms the bridge. In this deeply moving episode, I explore the extraordinary ways children in spirit connect with their grieving families and how parents can recognize and nurture these sacred connections.

Drawing from my two decades as a Reiki Master and medium, I share heartfelt insights about the increasing number of parents seeking connection with children who have crossed over. These remarkable spirits demonstrate an astonishing capacity for communication, working tirelessly to orchestrate signs, synchronicities, and meaningful coincidences that reassure their loved ones of their continued presence.

We explore the energetic dynamics of grief and communication—how our vibration naturally lowers during profound grief while our loved ones exist at higher frequencies. Like tuning a radio, both sides must work to meet in the middle. I offer practical guidance for strengthening these connections through automatic writing, establishing personal signs and symbols, and trusting your intuitive knowing when you sense your child nearby.

Perhaps most importantly, this episode validates that grief follows no prescribed timeline. When society expects you to "move on" after days or weeks, remember that your journey belongs to you alone. Your child understands this completely and continues sending love through each phase of your healing.

For those navigating the unimaginable terrain of child loss, know you're not alone. Your child's essence remains vibrantly present, their light undiminished—just transformed. They witness your struggles, celebrate your moments of joy, and frequently say, "Thank you for turning my mommy's light back on" when you reconnect with your inner spark.

Follow me on Instagram @AngelReikiJourney or visit AngelReikiJourney.com to learn more about personal sessions. Together, let's honor the enduring bond between parents and children that transcends even death's boundary.

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  ***If you are navigating grief at this time, please know you are not alone, We are all sending you so much love during this time.***

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Speaker 1:

Hello there, I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to my podcast, sacred Soul Sisters. My name is Justina. I am an Asui, holy Fire and Angel Reiki Master with over 20 years of practice, and I'm your host. I can't wait to let others feel the love of community and remind us of the importance of coming together instead of coming apart. Now let's take a deep breath together in through our nose and a long exhale out of our mouth. This is my intentions in a poem to set the tone for our sacred soul sister community. Here you go.

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Welcome, dear soul, to this sacred space where all are embraced with love and grace, From every land, from near and far. No matter who you are, you're a star. Feel the warmth, the light, the peace. Let your spirit find release. Here we gather hearts aligned to uplift, to heal, to realign. Breathe in deeply, feel your glow, let your light expand and flow. As I pour into you with love, so true, your cup overflows, your soul renews. Together we rise in love. We stand lifting vibrations hand in hand. A mission of light, a journey divine. Thank you for sharing your soul with mine.

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Welcome to the Sacred Soul Sisters space, a home of love and sacred embrace. I'm so glad you're here, hello, welcome to episode 16. How are you? How is life? How are you managing through the craziness of all the different things that are going on in the world? I hope that you are returning to your inner light and your inner love and reminded that you're fully supported in this process, that you're fully supported in this process. There's a lot going on out there, so I get it, but I think spirit is calling us, in any fashion we can, to try to do our best to hold the light within and trust that we are fully supported and to send so much love to all of those that are in the line of all of the crazy, horrid things that have taken place this year and are continuing to. I should say we do have divine help trying to work incredibly at trying to balance this world and to support each and every one of us.

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And, however, we do live in a world right of good and not so good, so to speak, and that is what creates a balance, because each of us are made up of good and not so good. You know that's part of being human. Some people seem to lean a little bit further on different sides, but our job, more than anything right now in this world is to do everything we can to send love, and that can look like just smiling at somebody in the grocery store. You know we've got a lot going on and we often don't know what is going on in someone's life, even when they appear to have it all together Right. So any small moment of kindness you know someone dropped something, pick it up. Moment of kindness, you know someone dropped something, pick it up. Someone's hands are full. Open the door. Open the door for them anyway, even if their hands aren't full. Smile at them. When people are kind to you as well, tell them thank you. Take a moment to say thank you. You may be the only one that did in the last six months. Please do that. Any small urge you have ever to compliment someone, to show gratitude to someone, to do anything that can bring that light even brighter in someone, do it, especially now. Do it Hello, hello.

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So today I wanted to talk a little bit about I've had a pretty big increase in clients that unfortunately have lost children. So there is a lot of grieving parents out there and that have lost children to a multitude of different things, whether it is tragedy, whether they have taken their life, whether it is illness, whether it doesn't matter. I want to be really clear about that. It doesn't matter how it happens, it's still horrible and it still is so big, it's so big. Our children mean the world to us. I mean, speaking as a parent, like I can't imagine or fathom the gut-wrenching feelings that these parents go through and these siblings and these cousins and these friends. I mean we could go on and on, but I've had an increase in the amount of grieving parents that I've been seeing and I really want to talk about the incredibleness of children, and when I say children I don't always mean they're two years old or whatever. They could be 25. Your child is your child, right, could be 25. Your child is your child, right.

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But I will say it is children that I have worked with so far and this is just my experience. Probably, like I want to say, 24 and under seem to be the most active over there. Like not as like a blanket statement because adults, when they pass, they're active too, but children are absolutely incredible. I have had the honor of connecting with these children and their hearts are enormous and they work tirelessly to get little signs out of them to their parents and their siblings, and and they connect like they. They have this way of really reaching out to everyone, like all the other kids, and it's like, hey, I'm gonna, we're going to work together and we're going to set this up.

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So, like your mom runs into my mom and it's like totally sort of weird because they don't live in the same town or anything. And and like my mom's out of town and she runs into your mom at I don't know the, the gas station or something, and and then they bump into each other and somehow they start talking about us and realize that they both lost somebody around the same age and da, da, da, da. So they feel like they have support and and, hey, let's work together to like increase the energy to let our parents feel that we're near. Like when they get that split minute of like, oh my gosh, it feels like you're here and I want to assure you that when it feels like they're there, they're there. I promise you, they are there. Every time you start to think of them, they are there. Every time you start to think of them, they are there. They are so incredible. They've been some of the most inspiring sessions.

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I'm going to cry, oh my gosh, come on Trying to keep it together, but my heart just warms and grows so much with these children and the amount of love they have for their parents and and I want to there's so much that changes when you, when you cross over right and there is, even if there was a lot of turmoil right before, if there was fighting right before or anything like that I want to assure you that they love you. They love you and when you get over on the other side of the veil. It's not about going on and on and relishing in all of the worst days anybody ever had. It's so much about what can I do to feed the soul of those that I left behind. They may not say it just like that, but they're so incredible and I feel like their energy is so magnified as they pull all of their resources together and they start to connect to all of these other children that have passed and find all of these ways to in order to get to someone right. So I just really wanted to say that, and I want you to know as well that if you are a grieving parent, a grieving sibling, that you're not alone, that there is a whole network of groups Helping Parents Heal is another great resource to turn to. These are online. A lot of them have different support groups that go into things. I've worked on trying to come up with a resource list that I've obtained from a lot of the grieving parents, of resources they've been given to you know, help support them through this journey, and this doesn't matter if your child passed away yesterday or your child passed away 15, 20 years ago.

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I want you to know that, while we do still have to figure out ways to function in this world, there's no time limit on grief. Like you, I feel like sometimes in society and, of course, a lot of workplaces, they're like oh you, could you get three days. You know if, if you lose your child or if you lose your a parent, you get three days. Okay, who the hell came up with three days? I don't know about you, but three days, nope, not over it, still miss them, still crying myself to sleep. It's a really okay, that's a whole nother tangent. I probably shouldn't get on that, but you know what I mean.

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Like, grief is a very, very real thing and I want you to know you're not alone in this. You are not alone in this. I want you to know that. You can continue to call on those that have passed. I want you to know that you can call on your spirit team, call on your angels. Again, when we're talking about spirit world, you always want to say now, because they don't have the same time schedule, we do right, like yeah, no, no, if you don't say now, they could show up in eight years and be like, hey, I'm here, and that's not super helpful in eight years. Right, you are not alone. You are not alone and you are so, so, so loved, not only by the universe, god, but by your past loved one. You're not alone. I just really want you to know that.

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So in this increases session, something else that has kind of, uh, been interesting is, I feel like the kids kind of pop back in every now and then, even after a session, and they say thank you a lot to me, like God, it's going to make me cry, oh, my gosh, um. And they bring this childlike love to it and it's um, and it's with this like little voice that thank you for turning my mommy's light back on. Thank you for turning dad's light back on. Thank you for reminding them that I'm not far, that I'm right here with them. It's definitely one of the hardest things, but it is one of the most beautiful things as well To be able to witness this kind of love. It's enormous.

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Some things that may help, along with those resources that I gave you, and definitely reach out if you want to book a session too. We could do zoom or in person. But what I want to tell you is you know you can. I don't know how familiar everybody is with automatic writing, but that is something that you can do with your loved one as well, right? So that could look like if you have a little area in your house or someone else's house. I mean, I wouldn't recommend just walking up in someone's house. You don't know, you probably don't want to do that, but if there's some area that you can be sort of closed off, a little bit like um, and you know you won't get interrupted, and maybe have a couple of candles, a notebook, an ink pen or you could do a computer too.

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I find that for some reason, the computer doesn't work as well for me when I'm doing automatic writing, and I'm not sure why that is, but I'm sure, if you just go in with the intention, that the computer is going to work just as well, that you know energy flows where intention goes, so it probably could work fine. But you know, set up a couple candles, probably have some tissues with you, make sure you have something to drink, some water, some tea, kind of sit down for a minute, just close your eyes and just say a prayer, you know, and ask whoever you're wanting to contact to come in. Say, please, come in now. I ask you to work through me in this writing, tell me what you would want me to hear, or you can ask questions. You can say I really want to know what you think about about the new house or something like that, like just random examples, and then when you start writing, just go with it. Like you can say here I am, I'm writing, I have no idea what I'm doing.

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This is sort of weird, but Justina told me to do this on a podcast and they want me to reach out to you and da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, you know, and eventually things will start happening. But it's very important in the beginning of it to say a prayer and ask your spirit team to be with you, ask their spirit team to assist them in the process and really make sure that you're able to calm yourself. And you can do that, you know, with three very slow inhales and exhales, just kind of calm yourself. Maybe even do a short meditation. I have that one morning meditation on one of my previous episodes. You could do that. You could just fast forward through the beginning and listen to the I think it's about eight minutes, the meditation right before, just something to be able to get you kind of in the zone.

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The other thing I want to let you know is that it does require energy in order for them to communicate with us, because their energy is much higher than ours, right, and just at like a normal level, like if we were totally balanced and feeling great on a day. Their energy is still on a much higher vibration I guess is a better word when we are in grief, especially full-blown grief, our energy level, our frequency, goes down quite a bit, right. So if they're not experienced and communicating to those of us that are here, it's going to be quite difficult, especially at first, for them to get their energy level down right, um to to match ours in order, cause we got to kind of be on the same. You know, like on a radio dial I feel like some people are laughing at a radio. What's that? Okay, so that's what we used to listen to like before back in the anyway.

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But you would like tune into different stations and it's, like you know, on, say, a scale of like 96 to 106. And in order for us to communicate effectively, we have to be on 101. Okay, so let's say, you typically run around 96, 97, but you're in grief, so you're like 80, not even registering on there, and they're like 106 or something. You get what I mean. So they've got to bring down their energy, you've got to bring your energy up. So sometimes that's really really hard to do because grief is heavy. It's very, very heavy, right.

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So I just want you to be patient with yourself, I want you to give yourself grace and I want you to know that just because you do not feel them at this time, it does not mean they are not here. Let me say that again Just because you do not feel them right now does not mean they are not here. Okay, and the more you practice with this, the more tools you develop in order to create this connection and you can also tell them different things. Right, you can say every time you're here, will you please show me? Or every time you have a message for me, that's a better thing, because every time you're here they would have to do it like 24-7 because they're with you a lot. That's a better thing, because every time you're here they would have to do it like 24-7 because they're with you a lot.

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So I would say every time you're trying to get my attention, show me a hawk or a cardinal bird or a whale, I don't know. You know you could come up with whatever you wanted it to be, but giving them some sort of direction and then, as time goes on and as you're able to increase your frequency and as their ability to continue to uh, try to reach you and all of that increases, then you'll find that things will start. You'll just kind of organically start building your own way of communicating, right, so it's incredible, but I just, I just feel like I have to say so often, it doesn't mean they're not there, it doesn't mean they're not there, and so many things can be a sign sometimes and be open to how they show up, right, like so, if you're telling them a blue whale and in your mind you're sort of thinking like I want a blue whale to pop out of water. If you're not by water, a blue whale is probably not going to. But let's say you go to a restaurant and you go to sit down at your table and the table right in front of you has a little blue whale on it. There's your sign. Take it. Um. Sorry, don't mean to be bossy, but there's different things. Anyway, however, with that being said, there are lots of instances too that that, um, spirits are able to communicate right away, and it blows my mind that they're able to do that so fast, right? So sometimes, within minutes, you will get a sign from your past loved one. So I just want you to.

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What happens a lot of times is, I think, we get kind of in a rut of like oh my God, they're not here. Oh my God they're not here. Oh my God they're not here. Oh my God they're not here. Oh my God they're not here. And then we're sort of blocking ourselves from seeing different things and and in the meantime, in the background, they're playing their favorite song. It comes on on the radio. It comes on on the radio in the morning it comes on the radio. In the afternoon it comes out.

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You know you're like there's different ways that things are coming, because it's not for lack of trying. They definitely want you to know that they're okay and they are there and every time you're thinking of them, I'm telling you they are there and they can be in so many places at one time. Right, when you're in spirit form, you can be in so many places at one time so you can be with mom and dad, right, okay, sorry, this has just been so dear to my heart. I am so grateful and so honored. I thank everyone that comes to me and I am so deeply touched by every session that I get the opportunity to do that. I get the opportunity to feel this incredible love between people, and love really is what it's all about. Love carries such a big frequency and when we really try every day I'm not talking about, you know, when we're deep in grief.

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I want you to know that when you're deep in grief, it's okay and enough that you took a couple drinks of water today and you got up and walked to the bathroom to go pee, right, like. I want you to know. That's okay, Right, like I want you to know that's okay. I also want you to know three days not enough, just to be clear, anyway and I want you to know to seek help when you feel like you can't make it or you can't go on. Your loved one would want you to seek help. They want you to be good. They want you to be the best version of yourself. So, please, please, please, seek and be open to support.

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I know it's hard for a lot of us to accept the offers of help, the offers of hey, can I make dinner for you? Hey, can I call and get pizza delivered for you tonight and your family? Hey, can I do your laundry this week? The answer is yes, tell them. Yes, I want you to know you're worthy, and I know it's hard. I know it's hard, but I want you to know you mean so much to those that are here as well. You are so incredibly loved and your loved one that passed is reaching out every minute, every second they can, sending and showering you with love, showering you with love and trying to figure out the best possible signs and symbols and ways that they can communicate with you. No, they're not far. They're in a different form, but they're not far. I also want you to know that I am sending you all the biggest hug, the biggest hug, and reminding you that you can call your angels, and any angel that resonates with you, and ask them to hold you and just hold you and just hold you some more and allow you to release the tears, because it hurts, it's a raw kind of hurt.

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I want you to take a minute today. If you know anybody that has went through something like this, somebody that's currently going through it, somebody that went through it 10 years ago or two days ago, and if that person is you, I want you to take a minute to send love to your soul. If that person is not you, I want you to send love to that person that comes to mind. And if you can't think of a specific person, send a general feeling of love, send it out, ask your spirit team to carry that love, that beautiful, loving, healing energy, and send it to all of those going through the grief process, whether it's a child, whether it's a sibling, whether it is a friend, whether it is a spouse, whether it is a parent, whoever is going through grief. We've all been touched in some way or form from grief, and I want you just to take a pause for a minute and put your hands on your heart and really feel that love that is coming to you. Right, this very second, from your spirit team, from those past loved ones, just saying I love you. I love you, I am filling you with healing energy and I'm so grateful for who you are. I am so grateful for who you are, thank you.

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Okay, guys, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day, and I'm sorry if I sound all nasally my allergies are really giving me a hard time, but I wish the absolute best for you. I hope you have a great rest of your week and we will talk again soon. Okay, all right, hey, everyone. I wanted to take a quick second and say thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so grateful for you.

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Thank you for listening to this podcast, and I want to take a minute and ask for a quick favor. If, when you're listening to an episode, if you could please just take a second, place your hand on your heart and take a deep breath in through your nose and a long exhale out of your mouth and just set the intention to send love and light to every single person listening right now, yesterday and in the future, I think together we just might be able to raise the vibration of this world. I'm so excited and please follow me on Instagram at AngelReikiJourney. Visit my website to book an appointment with me at AngelReikiJourneycom and please follow this podcast. Sacred Soul Sisters. Thank you so much and I can't wait to talk to you again soon. Have a great day.