Karen Hager: Navigating Profound Loss: Lessons From Grief, Love, and Resilience

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When we think about change, we usually imagine positive transitions. But sometimes, life delivers a transformation we never wanted.

This week on The Change Effect, Karen Hager, intuitive guide and spiritual teacher, returns to the podcast to share her experience after the loss of her beloved partner, Kathy, following a seventeen-month battle with cancer. In a conversation both deeply tender and inspiring, Karen and host Noelle Van discuss the reality of grief, the upheaval it brings, and the surprising places where love and strength reveal themselves in the midst of heartbreak.

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Karen Hager is an intuitive guide and psychic channel known for her compassionate, no-nonsense approach to the spiritual journey. She conducts more than 1,200 private intuitive sessions each year with people from around the world looking for Spirit-led guidance. Karen is a passionate advocate for intuitive development, and her classes and events focus on empowering students to connect with their own natural intuitive awareness, deepen their spiritual practice, and open themselves to abundance.

In this episode, Karen and I discuss:

• Karen and Kathy’s journey from college sweethearts to raising a family together for nearly 40 years.
• Navigating Kathy’s rare cancer diagnosis and her sudden passing.
• Coping with loss while managing logistics, boundaries, and grief.
• Karen’s path to resilience and redefining life after loss.
• The truths of grief: no one-size-fits-all process and non-linear healing.
• Practical and emotional prep for loss—and the power of self-compassion.

Karen's story of transformation through loss is a powerful reminder that even in its most painful forms, change can reveal the enduring force of the human spirit and the ways love continues to shape us.

Change is inevitable. That’s why I designed the Day by Daybook®, a guided journal to help you face the discomfort of those shifts in life that are pushing you to that next level of growth and learning. Get your Day by Daybook® here.

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פרקים

1. Introduction of Karen (00:00:00)

2. Return to Michigan: Love and Loss (00:04:35)

3. Kathy’s Loss of Her Mother (00:07:14)

4. Preparing for Life's End (00:12:07)

5. Protecting Privacy Boundaries (00:13:35)

6. Life's Interrupted Pause (00:16:57)

7. Grieving and Finding Daily Strength (00:19:51)

8. Feeling Her Presence Daily (00:23:41)

9. Spiritual Confidence in Loss (00:25:33)

10. Understanding Personal Grief Experience (00:29:00)

11. Understanding Grief and Self-Reflection (00:32:47)

12. Choosing Joyful Healing (00:35:34)

13. Plan for Loss, Not Emotions (00:39:31)

14. Finding Humor in Hardship (00:42:02)