How do you know what to do when there is no obvious right answer?
Spirits Beside Us explores how to find clarity when fear, uncertainty, other people's opinions, past experiences, logic, and intuition are all telling you different things.
Hosted by bestselling author Chris Lippincott, Spirits Beside Us explores how to make clearer choices when logic, emotion, uncertainty, and inner knowing are pulling you in different directions. The show draws from psychology, ancient wisdom, and practical decision-making to help you separate the signal from the noise and move forward with greater confidence.
After three decades making high-stakes investment decisions as a professional investor, Chris began exploring consciousness, perception, and the less measurable side of how people know what they know. His perspective bridges analytical thinking and intuition—without pretending every important decision can be solved with more data.
Each week, we explore:
Decision Clarity: Stop overthinking and second-guessing and make difficult decisions you can trust yourself to act on.
Fear vs. Intuition: Distinguish genuine inner knowing from anxiety, conditioning, and outside voices.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life: Apply contemplative and spiritual teachings to uncertainty, purpose, identity, and everyday life.
Spirit & the Unseen: Explore consciousness, signs, the afterlife, and what our connection to something greater can teach us about living now.
Some of life's most important choices have no obvious right answer.
See clearly. Separate the signal from the noise. Make the decision.
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You’ve looked at the options. You’ve thought through the risks. Maybe you’ve even asked other people what they would do. Yet somehow, the more you think about the decision, the harder it becomes to make.
Sometimes the problem isn’t that you need more information. Anxiety, past experiences, fear of regret, and the need for certainty may be quietly changing the way you see the information you already have.
Using a real client story, I’ll show you why analysis paralysis happens, how your emotional state can affect decision-making, and how mindfulness and present-moment awareness can help you step out of the mental loop—without ignoring the facts or pretending uncertainty doesn’t exist.
What You’ll Learn
Why overthinking can create less clarity, not more
How past failures and fear of regret can influence present decisions
Why looking for more information can secretly become a search for certainty
How your emotional state can change your perception of risk and opportunity
How to tell the difference between missing information and mental looping
A simple mindfulness practice to return to the present moment and see your decision more clearly
Stuck on a Decision?
If you keep going back and forth, second-guessing yourself, or can't seem to figure out what's keeping you stuck, take my free Decision Clarity Audit.
It will help you identify what may be interfering with your clarity—fear, uncertainty, outside voices, past experiences, or something else—and show you where to begin.
03:16 — Fear, Past Failures & the Search for Certainty
06:29 — Mindfulness & the Power of the Present Moment
10:11 — How to Recognize Analysis Paralysis
12:00 — The Hidden Cost of Needing Certainty
18:28 — What to Do First When You Can’t Decide
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What Keeps Following You Into Every Situation?
Saison 3 · Épisode 20
jeudi 1 octobre 2026 • Durée 21:41
Different relationship. Different job. Different decision. So why do you keep ending up with the same feeling? If you keep repeating patterns in relationships, work, or decision-making, the answer may have less to do with your circumstances than you think.
What if the recurring problem isn’t actually the pattern—but evidence that a deeper pattern exists? Overthinking, people-pleasing, self-doubt, and constantly looking to others for reassurance can quietly shape what you do next. Greater self-awareness and self-trust can start with one deceptively simple question: What stayed the same?
You change jobs, relationships, circumstances, even the decisions you make. Yet somehow you can end up thinking, How the hell am I here again?
That doesn’t mean you created everything that happened to you. Bad bosses exist. Relationships fail. Financial problems are real. Life happens.
But between what happens to you and what happens next, there’s something worth examining: how you interpret the situation and how that interpretation influences what you repeatedly do.
Maybe you stop speaking up. Maybe you overgive. Maybe you look outside yourself for reassurance. Maybe you wait for certainty before acting. Or maybe you tolerate something until circumstances finally make the decision for you.
Chris breaks down the cycle of situation → interpretation → response → result and shows how a response that makes perfect sense in the moment can quietly reinforce the very experience you’re trying to escape.
You’ll also hear a powerful mediumship story about a father whose repeated decision to hold back his emotions eventually became one of his deepest regrets—and why the small choices you make repeatedly may matter far more than one enormous decision.
What If Your Problems Aren’t Actually Separate?
Saison 3 · Épisode 19
jeudi 24 septembre 2026 • Durée 29:21
What if the problems in your life that seem completely unrelated are actually connected by something you haven’t noticed yet?
Money. Relationships. Work. Your health. Even the decisions you keep putting off. They may look like separate problems, but sometimes the same hidden belief is quietly influencing how you respond to all of them.
The tricky part? That belief probably doesn’t feel like a belief.
It feels reasonable.
“I’ll do it later.”
“It’s not that big a deal.”
“Whatever you want.”
“I can handle it.”
Those small, ordinary thoughts can reveal a much bigger story — especially when the same behavior begins appearing with different people, in different circumstances, and in completely different areas of your life.
Through the story of a woman facing four seemingly unrelated problems, Chris explores what happens when you stop examining each problem separately and start looking for what they have in common.
You’ll discover:
• How one hidden belief can influence multiple areas of your life
• Why repeated behavior can reveal beliefs you don’t consciously recognize
• How old beliefs influence what you tolerate, avoid, pursue, and accept
• Why your first intuitive signal often gets buried beneath rationalization and overthinking
• How to distinguish an isolated problem from a deeper recurring story
• What mediumship has taught Chris about the patterns we carry across different parts of our lives
Chapters
What If Your Circumstances Aren’t the Problem?
Saison 3 · Épisode 18
jeudi 17 septembre 2026 • Durée 26:23
What if your circumstances aren’t the real problem? Your beliefs and mindset may be quietly shaping your choices, life patterns, and what happens next.
You can change jobs, relationships, habits, or circumstances and still find yourself facing strangely familiar problems. That’s because an old belief can follow you into completely different areas of your life without you realizing the same inner story is still operating.
Two people can experience remarkably similar circumstances and make completely different choices afterward. Not because their beliefs magically created what happened, but because beliefs influence what we notice, how we interpret events, what we expect, what we tolerate, what we pursue, and what we do next.
That distinction is the difference between control and agency.
You cannot control everything that happens to you. But you can begin recognizing the beliefs and life patterns influencing how you respond.
And once you see the common thread, you may discover that problems you thought were completely unrelated are connected by an old belief you’ve carried for years.
What You’ll Learn:
• Why circumstances and beliefs can influence each other
• How two people can experience the same event and respond completely differently
• How beliefs shape choices, expectations, behavior, and outcomes
• Why old limiting beliefs can quietly affect relationships, career, money, and emotional health
• The difference between trying to control life and developing personal agency
• How past experiences can create beliefs that continue influencing your present
• How to recognize the common thread underneath repeating life patterns
Gone to the Other Side — Back in the Fall
Saison 3 · Épisode 17
mercredi 3 juin 2026 • Durée 02:40
After 114 episodes, 400,000 downloads, and listeners in 149 countries, the host of Spirits Beside Us has done something he never expected — he's gone quiet.
Not permanently. Not dramatically. Just honestly.
In this two-minute episode — possibly the most important one ever recorded and definitely the shortest — Chris shares what happened somewhere inside these last two years, why the spark that started this show quietly went out, and why sometimes the most intentional thing you can do is stop.
He'll be back in the fall. Spirit willing.
Until then — he's gone to the other side. The European side, specifically. With his wife. For their 30th anniversary. Which, if you think about it, is exactly where a man who talks to the dead should go to find himself again.
See you in the fall.
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Spirit signs, repeating numbers, intuition, synchronicity, and angel numbers like 11:11 often appear quietly before a spiritual awakening begins. A repeated song. A strange feeling you can’t explain. A conversation or symbol that keeps resurfacing until you finally stop and wonder: “Why does this keep happening?” At first, it all seems random. Until it keeps happening.
In this extended episode, international psychic medium Chris Lippincott explores the subtle ways spirit guides communicate through repeated signs, synchronicities, emotional nudges, timing, and patterns most people dismiss too quickly. You’ll learn why spirit signs rarely feel dramatic at first, how to tell the difference between coincidence and genuine spiritual guidance, and why many of the messages shaping your life only make sense later in hindsight.
If you’ve been questioning your intuition, overthinking spiritual signs, or wondering whether spirit may already be trying to reach you, this episode will completely change the way you see the quiet patterns unfolding around you.
What You’ll Learn:
• Why spirit signs usually feel subtle before they become impossible to ignore
• How repeated songs, numbers, symbols, and synchronicities may carry deeper meaning
• The difference between intuition, imagination, anxiety, and genuine spirit communication
• Why spirit guidance often feels confusing until you look back later and see the pattern
• How to stop dismissing the quiet signs that may already be trying to guide your life
Chapters:
00:00 — Why Spirit Signs Usually Start Small
03:02 — The 3 Main Spirit Signs Most People Ignore
Why You Keep Overthinking What Your Intuition Already Knows
Saison 3 · Épisode 15
mercredi 20 mai 2026 • Durée 38:02
Overthinking, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion may not be confusion at all… you may be overriding your intuition.
You replay conversations, second-guess decisions, and wait for certainty before moving forward. Self-doubt, nervous system stress, emotional heaviness, and overthinking quietly start reshaping your relationships, energy, intuition, and inner knowing long before you consciously recognize the pattern. Over time, you slowly stop trusting yourself without even realizing it.
Over time, repeated self-override creates emotional exhaustion, internal conflict, anxiety, nervous system stress, burnout, and disconnection from your own inner knowing. The strangest part? Most people don’t realize it’s happening until years later.
This conversation explores the hidden connection between intuition, gut feeling, overthinking, decision paralysis, emotional exhaustion, self-trust, and the physical toll of constantly negotiating against yourself.
What You’ll Learn:
• Why overthinking often disconnects you from your intuition
• The subtle moment people begin overriding themselves emotionally
• Why intelligent and analytical people often stay stuck the longest
• How repeated self-doubt creates anxiety, exhaustion, and nervous system stress
• Why your body often recognizes emotional truth before your mind admits it
• The hidden difference between fear, anxiety, and intuition
• How rebuilding trust changes your emotional clarity and decision-making
3 Repeating Signs Your Spirit Guides Want You to Notice
Saison 3 · Épisode 14
mercredi 13 mai 2026 • Durée 21:46
Spirit guides, repeated signs, intuition, and synchronicity often appear quietly… until the same message keeps showing up everywhere.
A repeated song. A recurring symbol. A strange emotional feeling you can’t explain. A thought that won’t leave you alone. What if these aren’t random coincidences at all?
Right while preparing this episode, the same message suddenly appeared three different times within just a few minutes — including the number 12:12, emotional sensations felt during mediumship blending, and an unexpected message about “3 signs.” A powerful reading involving Guns & Roses repeatedly appearing through music reveals how spirit guides often communicate through patterns instead of certainty.
If something in your life has been feeling “off” lately… if the same emotional tension, signs, symbols, dreams, or intuitive nudges keep returning… you may already be experiencing spiritual communication without fully recognizing it yet.
What You’ll Learn:
• How spirit guides communicate subtly through intuition, symbols, and emotional awareness
• Why repeated signs in different forms are often more meaningful than dramatic experiences
• How spiritual communication often arrives through subconscious signals and synchronicity
• Why spirit guides rarely shout — they repeat quietly through patterns and emotional cues
• How emotional heaviness and recurring tension may signal ignored intuition or spiritual misalignment
Chapters:
00:00 Recognizing Spirit Guide Signs
09:35 The Power of Repetition in Signs
Stop the Anxiety Hijack Instantly-3 Vagus Nerve Exercises
Saison 3 · Épisode 13
mercredi 6 mai 2026 • Durée 24:58
Your nervous system gets hijacked by a single text, and suddenly your heart is pounding like a trapped animal in your chest.
Most people treat stress with "positive thinking," but your body is stuck in a prehistoric survival loop, flooding your system with cortisol for a 21st-century problem. In this episode, we move past basic mindfulness and dive into the polyvagal theory hacks that act as a physical "off switch" for your fight or flight response. We’re giving you a biological toolkit for self-regulation and anxiety relief to pull you out of stress mode and back into your window of tolerance.
Discover why your current breathing exercises might actually be keeping you in a state of panic and learn the 2-second "double-inhale" (the Physiological Sigh) that forces your heart rate to drop instantly.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
The Biological Hijack: Why your modern nervous system treats a mean text like a saber-toothed tiger, triggering a massive release of cortisol.
The Vagus Nerve "Highway": How to stimulate the physical handle of your soul to shift from "survival mode" to "spiritual flow".
The "Voo" Chant: A somatic experiencing technique that uses low-frequency vibrations to "massage" your internal organs and break a freeze response.
Stealth Orientation Scanning: A relaxation technique that uses stress management secrets to reset your brain’s threat detection without anyone in the room noticing.
Total Mental Health Recovery: How to "cleanse your altar" by physically removing adrenaline so your vibrations can rise.
Chapters
00:00 Understanding the Biological Hijack
Stop the Overstimulation: 10-Min Forest Grounding
Saison 3 · Épisode 12
lundi 4 mai 2026 • Durée 14:23
Stop the Overstimulation of Tech Fatigue. Close your Mental Tabs and reset your Nervous System in this 10-min Somatic Forest Grounding.
Are you carrying a pounding heart and digital overwhelm home with you? Your body is reacting to the "metallic dings" and emotional hijacks of your inbox, leaving you stuck in a state of physical tension. In today’s Monday Mini, we leave the glowing screens behind to enter the "Forest of the Quiet Mind."
Join evidential medium and best selling author Chris Lippincott as he guides you through a calming visualization meditation through a forest of tall green pines. This is wonderful for stress relief and helps you reconnect with your inner peace. Using different calming techniques including deep breathing, this is great for relaxation and mental health. Perfect for starting your week with mindfulness and tranquility.
In this 10-minute grounding ritual, you will:
Escape the Digital Noise: Cross the threshold of the "Sentinel Pines" to leave the stress of the world behind the white picket fence.
Activate the Diving Reflex: Use the forest’s cool air to naturally slow your heart rate and exit the Fight or Flight response.
Cleanse Your Altar: Journey to a sun-drenched clearing to clear the "mental leaves" off your internal altar and find your spiritual home.
Dump the Cortisol: Visualize prehistoric stress chemicals draining out of your limbs and back into the Earth.
The Wednesday "Counter-Attack"
Grounding is only the first step. You are calm now, but the "storm" will return. Tune in this Wednesday for the Physical Counter-Attack: I’m giving you the Polyvagal science and we'll practice three Somatic Exercises that you can use even in a crowded elevator to shatter stress in real-time.
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The goal isn’t self-blame. It’s awareness. Because once you can see what you keep bringing into different situations, you may discover that you have far more influence over what happens next than you realized.
What You’ll Learn
Why changing your circumstances doesn’t always change your experience
The difference between what happened to you and what you repeatedly did next
How interpretation can influence your response—and reinforce the outcome you expected
The simple question “What stayed the same?” and how to use it when a problem keeps returning
Why overthinking, people-pleasing, avoiding conflict, and seeking reassurance can make perfect sense beneath the surface
How small decisions repeated over time can quietly become a life pattern
Chapters
00:00 — How the Hell Am I Here Again?
03:07 — The Mistake We Make When Circumstances Change
06:15 — When Overthinking Becomes the Pattern
09:12 — What Happens Between the Event and the Outcome
13:20 — The Question: What Stayed the Same?
17:33 — When Small Decisions Become a Life Pattern
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• A simple three-column exercise for uncovering the belief beneath your own choices
00:00 The Hidden Pattern Behind Your Problems
02:22 Meet Lisa: Four Different Problems?
05:19 When the Same Story Shows Up Everywhere
10:24 The Hidden Connection Between Her Problems
11:39 The Core Belief: “My Needs Come Last”
16:43 How to Spot the Pattern in Your Own Life
21:17 How to Find the Belief Underneath Your Behavior
You may discover that the most useful question isn’t, “How do I fix all these different problems?”
It may be:
“What do I repeatedly do — even when the circumstances change?”
Because sometimes you don’t have four unrelated problems.
Sometimes it’s the same story wearing four different outfits.
Listen Next:Why You Keep Overthinking What Your Intuition Already Knows
Once you recognize the belief underneath the pattern, the next challenge is learning how to separate what you genuinely sense from fear, conditioning, self-doubt, and mental noise.
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Love and Light,
Chris
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• A simple exercise for identifying the core beliefs influencing your choices
• Why changing your inner story can change what you tolerate, pursue, and accept
• How greater self-awareness can create meaningful personal growth and change
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction: Why Circumstances Don't Tell the Whole Story
00:27 The Relationship Between Circumstances and Beliefs
00:56 How Two People React Differently to the Same Event
01:22 The Power of Beliefs in Shaping Outcomes
01:52 Beliefs Are Not About Math or Specific Situations
02:20 The Impact of Limiting Beliefs on Multiple Life Areas
02:49 The Difference Between Control and Agency
03:18 Recognizing and Challenging Old Beliefs
03:46 The Exercise to Identify Core Beliefs
04:15 The Importance of Recognizing the Underlying Story
04:43 Conclusion: Changing the Inner Story to Change Your Life
Listen Next:
“Why You Keep Overthinking What Your Intuition Already Knows”
Spotting the belief is only the beginning. The next step is learning how to separate your actual inner signal from fear, conditioning, self-doubt, anxiety, and all the mental noise surrounding it.
If this conversation resonated with you, subscribe and share it with someone who may be trying to fix what’s happening around them without recognizing the story operating underneath it.
Love and Light,
Chris
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07:52 — My Wild 12:12 Spirit Sign Experience
11:18 — The Guns N’ Roses Reading That Changed Everything
19:13 — Intuition vs Imagination — How To Tell The Difference
24:14 — The Biggest Lesson My Spirit Mentor Ever Taught Me
34:14 — Spirit vs Emotion — The Critical Difference
42:11 — Why Spirit Often Makes Sense Much Later
53:22 — My Asheville “Clear Mountain” Story
1:07:28 — 4 Powerful Exercises To Recognize Spirit Guidance
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Chapters:
00:00 Understanding Emotional Exhaustion and Overthinking
02:49 The Impact of Overriding Yourself
05:31 The Disconnect Between Mind and Body
08:25 Recognizing Subtle Signals of Intuition
11:11 The Role of Trust in Decision Making
13:52 The Consequences of Emotional Paralysis
16:58 Rebuilding Trust and Clarity
19:42 Navigating Fear and Intuition
22:18 The Journey Back to Self-Trust
Listen Next:
“The Real Reason You Can’t Decide”
If this conversation resonated with you, follow the podcast and share it with someone who may quietly be stuck in the same pattern.
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Have repeated signs, synchronicities, symbols, dreams, or intuitive feelings been showing up in your life lately? The answer may already be closer than you think.
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06:54 Navigating the Window of Tolerance
11:27 Practical Exercises for Stress Relief
20:03 Applying Techniques in Real Life Situations
Stop building a temple on a landslide. Learn how to physically force your heart rate down and keep your connection to peace wide open.
Listen to the episode titled “Stop the Overstimulation: 10-Min Forest Grounding” to close your Mental Tabs and reset your Nervous System in this 10-min Somatic Forest Grounding.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Stress and Relaxation
02:37 Journey into the Forest of Calm
05:04 Cleansing Your Altar
07:16 Reflection and Self-Discovery
09:23 Returning to the Present
10:43 Preview of Upcoming Techniques
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