Episode 253 - When Spirit Holds Us: Healing, Compassion, and the Passing of My Beloved Pet Daisy with Brooke Grove

In this deeply meaningful episode of Interviews with Innocence, we welcome Brooke Grove—a complex trauma survivor-thriver, near-death experiencer, former psychotherapist, author, and multidisciplinary integrative healer working in co-creation with Spirit.

Brooke’s journey bridges both the scientific and spiritual worlds. With advanced degrees in Clinical Psychology, Marital and Family Therapy, and Clinical Art Therapy, she spent years working within traditional psychotherapy before being called into a more expansive path of healing that integrates consciousness, energy medicine, and spiritual guidance.

Her work today draws from an extraordinary range of training and experience, including Shamanic Energy Medicine, Quantum Fieldwork, Transpersonal Neuroscience, trauma-informed psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic-assisted integration. Through this multidimensional approach, Brooke helps people explore, transmute, and transform deeply rooted emotional and energetic patterns.

During our conversation, Brooke shares how profound life experiences—including trauma and a near-death experience—expanded her understanding of consciousness and opened the door to a deeper partnership with Spirit in her healing work.

We also explore the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted healing and the importance of ethical guidance, integration, and spiritual awareness when navigating expanded states of consciousness.

In a very personal moment during the episode, I share how Brooke supported me during the passing of my beloved labradoodle, Daisy. Her compassion, presence, and spiritual perspective brought comfort during a tender and emotional time, reminding me that healing and connection often appear when we need them most.

This episode is a beautiful exploration of resilience, spiritual awakening, and the ways we can transform life’s most challenging moments into opportunities for growth, compassion, and deeper connection.

Brooke’s upcoming memoir, The Beauty in the Broken Glass, shares her powerful story of trauma, transcendence, and the journey toward healing and light.

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Welcome to Interviews with Innocence, a podcast about children, spirituality and consciousness. I am your host Marla Hughes.

Each week I will be interviewing authors, philosophers, spiritual teachers, yogis, parents, doctors, scientists and many more, who will share with us anecdotes, past live stories, near death experiences, research and much more about the wisdom children bring into this world, and how we can transform our lives with this knowledge.

I ask that you keep an open mind, listen carefully and enjoy this adventure with me. And I look forward to you joining me each Thursday for a new episode of Interviews with Innocence.

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Welcome to Interviews with Innocence, a podcast about children, spirituality and consciousness. I am your host Marla Hughes. Each week I will be interviewing authors, philosophers, spiritual teachers, yogis, parents, doctors, scientists and many more, who will share with us anecdotes, past live stories, near death experiences, research and much more about the wisdom children bring into this world, and how we can transform our lives with this knowledge.

“I believe our young are our teachers, they are after all the masters of living in the present moment, enjoying the messiness of life, curious of the universe and all it’s dimensions, and not concerned with ego or comparisons.” - Marla Hughes

Show Notes:

  • Who am I?

  • Why I began this podcast

  • Who this podcast is for

  • What you can expect from this podcast

  • How this podcast will explore the spiritual lives of children

  • How the big questions in life can be answered by our very young

  • My hope for you listening to this podcast

“My hope is that these interviews will help you consider the wisdom our young share, to remind us to slow down, be more present, loving, grateful, and childlike. And of course, to be curious about the big questions.” - Marla Hughes

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“After a personal tragedy and a spiritual awakening I began to ask myself "‘what is the meaning of life, why are we here?’” - Marla Hughes