Welcome to The Bone Collectors, a podcast that dives deeply into the transformative power of death in all its forms—literal, spiritual, psychological, and beyond. Join us as we engage in profound conversations with authors, experts, and thought leaders about their most meaningful experiences with death, loss, and major life transitions. Together, we explore the insights and lessons gained from these powerful moments and how we can apply them to live fuller, more intentional lives. Tune in to discover how endings can become the beginnings of healing, growth, and solutions for a better world for us all. Hosted by Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D
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Have you ever felt cynical about the medical community and its attitudes about death? Or felt that modern psychiatry is a deadend? The amazing Dr. Anna Yusim will change your mind and give you hope!
Anna is always a bright spirit and a delight as she shares her own embrace of Spirituality in a rigorous medical community. She is wise, insightful and a woman who has broken stereotypes and limits in so many areas of her life and work.
Unlike her community of peers, Anna sees all manners of death, from the physical to the psychological as powerful invitations to experience the world and soul more fully!
Fascinating and inspiring.
Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City, Connecticut, California and Florida. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim helps influential people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work.
Dr. Yusim is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently working to create a Mental Health & Spirituality Program / Center at Yale with Dr. Christopher Pittenger, which will be a bridge between the Yale Medical School and Yale Divinity School.
Dr. Yusim is the Chief Medical Officer of Conscious Health, a holistic mental health treatment center based in California that bridges ancient psychospiritual wisdom with state-of-the-art, evidence-based mental health interventions like ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other treatment modalities. She is the Medical Lead for SuperMind, a mental health start-up based in Miami that utilizes personal coaching, binaural beat meditation technology and an EEG-based biofeedback systems to create targeted, precision mental health therapy for depression, anxiety and PTSD. She is also on the Board of numerous other enterprises in the mental health space, including Being Health, Plaey and Pause + Purpose.
Dr. Yusim has published over 320 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts.
Learn more at https://annayusim.com.
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How To Talk About Death & Dying: End of Life Conversations
Episode 9
Monday, May 26, 2025 • Duration 01:11:08
In a podcast all about the many faces and forms of death, it was time to talk to someone who helps people face the end of life - theirs and their loved ones.
It was truly a fascinating and enlightening conversation - to explore the end of life and how we think about it, how we treat it in society, and how we can do better to support people who are dying, and those people who support the dying or those who are wanting to face their own mortality with more wisdom, grace, and connection.
So many great perspectives drawing on research, academic views, and a progressive social commentary on how to live best with death.
Kathy is an unconventional death educator with a passion for palliative care and improving the end of life care for all. Kathy has been teaching and researching at Lakehead University for over a decade. In her work, Kathy inspires and challenges future healthcare providers to be prepared to care for individuals who are dying, and their families, in healthcare settings. Kathy leverages her experiences as a cancer survivor and as a palliative care provider to challenge us to have the important conversations about dying, death and life. Kathy strives to make an impact with her teaching, research and speaking to discover, share and communicate the information that we are all "dying to know."
Dr. Katherine Kortes-Miller is the Director, Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health (CERAH) https://cerah.lakeheadu.ca; Associate Professor, Research Chair on Aging and End of Life (2023-25). She is a gifted author, speaker, researcher and advocate.
With a Masters of Social Work and PhD her research experience is interdisciplinary and collaborative contributing to a broad range of fields of study including: social work, palliative care education, gerontology, and medical assistance in dying (MAiD).
She is committed to improving the care provided at the bedside for our most vulnerable and frail.
She is developing a research portfolio that will influence healthcare education and care at the bedside alongside improving organizational and healthcare policy.
Learn more at https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/K/kkortesm/node/40174
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Understanding the Nature and Importance of Boundaries with Molly Davis
Episode 44
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 • Duration 01:12:43
I love this important, practical and inspiring conversation about boundaries. Boundaries are such an important part of mental, emotional and spiritual health, and Molly Davis helps us understand the nature of boundaries on all these levels while offering some practical insights and some provocative perspectives.
Molly Davis is a multi-talented teacher, cartoonist, author, and therapist, with credentials that include a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and a Master's of Science in Community Mental Health. Her range of work experiences have included substance use disorder and mental health counseling in outpatient, intensive-outpatient, family, educational, and residential treatment settings, as well as operating in leadership and administrative capacities.
https://boundaried.com
Instagram: @boundariedbootcamp
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The Convergence of Indigenous Wisdom, Spirit Work, and Modern Psychology with Asha Frost
Episode 43
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 • Duration 52:28
I certainly don't believe there is such a thing as a "better teacher" and it's not fair to play favorites. But I have to admit, the work of Asha Frost is something very special in the world today and whether it's her teachings, classes, books or her card decks, I think she's a very important voice that represents the convergence of Indigenous wisdom and modern psychological and spiritual healing with great clarity and integrity. I can't stress the importance of her work, and I was delighted to share in this insightful, uplifting, and heartfelt conversation.
Asha Frost is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Medicine Woman, a Homeopath and an Intuitive Mentor who believes wholeheartedly in the power within to heal our bodies, our spirits, our lives. She is able to clearly see one’s presence, power and medicine and invites people deeper into their own magical knowing. Her facilitation style empowers, uplifts and inspires with grace and deep love.
She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Guelph and a degree in Homeopathic Medicine, with a private practice for the past 14 years as a Healer and Soul Seer and has facilitated thousands of healing ceremonies through powerful circle and one on one work. She is a divine channel for deep healing and a visionary for a healed way.
Author of three books, her book, You Are the Medicine, and card decks with Hay House Publishing have achieved incredible success and focus on NBSP and guided healing work for wide audiences.
https://ashafrost.com
Instagram: @asha.frost
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Rethinking Life, Self, Healing and Reality with Dr. Kimberly McGeorge ND
Episode 42
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 • Duration 01:01:03
Wow. Well, if you want to challenge your assumptions about life and reality and explore both profound and simple ways to transform the way you experience life, this is definitely the conversation for you! Dr. McGeorge draws from her incredible and eclectic background to inspire us to think about health, self, Conscious, the soul, healing, and the very nature of everything we know differently. This conversation is wild and full and wonderful! Fasten your seat belt.
Dr. Kimberly McGeorge is an internationally renowned naturopathic doctor, energy healer, remote viewer, paranormal expert and consciousness teacher. Her extensive client list includes of some of the world's most talented healers and, for the past 25 years, she has worked on thousands of people around the world. Dr. Kimberly was born with the ability to remote view, see people's auras and was highly intuitive. While still in college, she helped police on many occasions. Finding she had a natural affinity with herbs, she worked as a herbalist and went on to create and distribute her own line of herbal organic products internationally. During this time, her personal practice expanded to multiple clinics throughout Columbus. Driven by her inner knowing that her healing work could be made much quicker, more affordable and amplified exponentially using technology, Dr. Kimberly consulted with an esteemed neurosurgeon and realized that the healing frequencies in naturopathy could be applied to all areas of her client's lives. Her latest ground-breaking program FrequencyMaster™ teaches how to master frequencies in your own life and trains other healers to use her own unique and successful methods.
https://www.secrettoeverything.com
Instagram: @secrettoeverything
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Mindfulness, Midlife Crisis, and Mastering Change with Ben Katt
Episode 41
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 • Duration 55:43
Ben Katt is just a pleasure to talk with and such an incredibly open, welcoming, wise and wonderful soul. Beyond his important work about the wisdom and power of the midlife crisis, he offers us beautiful insights about what it means to live well and authentically, and how to bring mindfulness effectively and beautifully into all we do.
Ben Katt has been helping people experience deep transformation and access lives of greater joy, compassion, and purpose for the past twenty years. His first book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife (St. Martin’s Essentials, February 2024), is a guidebook and memoir about the inner journey we all must embark on in order to live our fullest lives. Ben is the founder of the WITHIN Prison Meditation Project, serves as a hospice chaplain, and writes regularly about identity, purpose, creativity, and belonging in his weekly STILL newsletter.
Ben is a certified advanced meditation teacher of the 1 Giant Mind technique, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and was an ordained minister for over a decade. Previously, he led The On Being Project’s work in supporting religious and spiritual leaders in the work of social healing. Ben is an expert at adapting ancient personal development practices for modern contexts in order to help people wake up to who they are and why they are here.
https://www.benjaminkatt.com
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The Mastery and Mystery of Time: Exploring the Essential Elements of Life
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 • Duration 01:03:32
Beyond his incredible work in the world of organizational wellness and transformation well-being, Joel Bennett definitely stands out as a powerful thinker and someone who has done more to help us understand time and how to live consciously in relationship to all its facets then just about anyone else I can think of. Join us for this incredible conversation that will help you to think about change, time, and well-being in new ways.
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Rediscovering Sex, Energy, & Wholeness: Remembering True Power & Connection with Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver
Episode 39
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 • Duration 55:44
This conversation is full of surprises and powerful messages about how to live a full and meaningful life. With sexuality as a leading edge to the conversation, we quickly discover that Elsbeth and Freddy are really masters of energy and purpose in all areas of life. Authenticity, intuition, social evolution and clearing up confusions around what sexual energy really is and isn't are just some of the important topics we cover.
Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver have assisted thousands of couples and singles create lasting intimacy and fulfillment in their life and relationships. They are featured on Showtime’s documentary series Sexual Healing andthe Emmy Award-winning NBC show Starting Over, best-selling authors of Sexual Enlightenment endorsed by world-renowned Spiritual Pioneer Dr. Michael Beckwith. They are the co-founders of TantraNova Institute in Chicago and the originators of June 1st National Intimacy Day.
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Introduction to Sexual Meditation - Video Class
Learn distinctions and practices of Sexual Meditation to access and channel your creative spark
https://tantranova.lpages.co/introduction-to-sexual-meditation/
TantraNova website
https://www.tantranova.com/
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Radical Optimism: Connecting Activism and Spiritual Growth with Paul Zeitz
Episode 38
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 • Duration 01:02:40
The core intention behind this podcast is to help people understand the connection between personal and planetary healing. It seems there are a few experts out there who are making the connection such a profound, eloquent, and practical way as Dr. Paul Zeits. In this incredibly insightful conversation, we talk about the seven steps to becoming a love-centered activist. Listen carefully and be sure to check out his work online!
About Paul Zeitz MD:
Dr. Paul Zeitz is a veteran leader on the front lines of multiple global and domestic movements and a preventive medicine physician, epidemiologist, author, and award-winning champion of global justice and human rights. He has been on the front lines of the global AIDS movement, climate transformation, racial and gender equity, authentic democracy, sustainable development, and child welfare in the U.S. and around the world.
In his forthcoming book, Revolutionary Optimism: Seven Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist, Zeitz shares an indispensable roadmap for personal and global liberation, with a clear, step-by-step guide—a timely remedy and cure of anxiety, hopelessness, and the potentially the super crises facing our world.
revolutionaryoptimism.com
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Conversations With Bernie (Part 2): Life Lessons from a Legendary Healer
Episode 37
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 • Duration 01:30:25
At the wise and vibrant age of 91, Bernie Seigel MD is one of a handful of people who can truly be said to have transformed the world of healing, cancer recovery, chronic illness recovery, and self-help in the modern era. In this free-form sharing, Dr. Bernie shares profound and well-tested insights about life, love, healing, and caregiving. It plays like a wonderful and heartwarming visit with a dear old friend, and a master healer.
Bio:
Bernie Siegel (born October 1932) Dr. Siegel attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers. In 1978 he originated Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utilizing patients’ drawings, dreams, images and feelings. ECaP is based on “carefrontation,” a safe, loving therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal lifestyle changes, personal empowerment and healing of the individual’s life.
For many, Bernie needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today.
Bernie has been named one of the top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet by the Watkins Review.
website: www.BernieSiegelMD.com
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