Own Your Essence

Welcome to Own Your Essence , the podcast where healing meets empowerment! I'm your host, April DeMille—a psychic medium and life coach specializing in grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery. This is a space for deep conversations, powerful transformations, and raw healing. Each week, we’ll dive into soul-centered topics like psychic mediumship , the supernatural , metaphysical wisdom , emotional grief , addiction , mental health , spiritual wellness , and self-discovery . Through inspiring interviews and personal insights, this podcast is here to spread awareness, spark connection, and support your healing journey. If you're ready to set boundaries, reclaim your confidence, and step into your true power—you're in the right place. Let’s Own Your Essence together!

Own Your Essence is a religion podcast hosted by April DeMille, with 75 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

April DeMille hosts Own Your Essence, a religion show with 75 episodes published.

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  Episode #40

  Creative Healing: The Art Of Soul Portraits with Devorah Brinckerhoff

  Sep 27, 202649 minS2

  Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast and her services, then interviews artist Devorah Brinckerhoff, who created “soul portraits” from a mixed-media process she developed while working through trauma, shame, and family conflict. Devorah explains how using journals, letters, photos, and legal documents as art materials helped her witness rather than collapse into painful memories, shifting her energy and identity and enabling healing without having to speak details aloud. She discusses honoring the past without being defined by it, leaning into shadow work with compassionate witnessing, and how experiences shape but do not define one’s essence. Devorah shares her history of pre-verbal sexual abuse, suicidality, and later family estrangement and legal battles, plus her work offering courses, one-on-one sessions, TikTok lives with neurographic line drawings, and commissioned portraits using clients’ materials (including ashes) at varied price points, and her vision for traveling themed community art shows. Devorah Brinckerhoff is an artist with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and over 30 years of professional experience. Her creative process has always served as a release valve for experiences too big to process conventionally. Soul Portraits were born from necessity when Devorah found herself holding letters and legal papers from a family lawsuit. Her world no longer made sense, and she needed to understand her own truth. She began examining her personal materials: old letters, photos, notes from seventh grade — all the artifacts of her life. Ripping things up became her permission slip to let go of limiting beliefs and discover who she was beneath collective and cultural conditioning, familial messages, and lived experiences. This personal excavation became Soul Portraits — a three-layer art process designed to help people reclaim authenticity through their own materials. Instagram - @devorahbrinckerhoff Facebook - Deborah Hake Brinckerhoff Website: https://soulportrait.art ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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  Episode #39

  Grief, Intuition, And Spiritual Awakening With Ana Valezzi-Leckenby

  Sep 20, 202657 minS2

  Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast, her psychic medium readings and grief/trauma coaching, then interviews Ana Valezzi-Leckenby, a Values and Alignment Strategist and transformation/integration Coach. Ana explains unconscious values as drivers of motivation and results, and how misalignment can disrupt wealth, relationships, and purpose. She shares her path from corporate work into spiritual training after volunteering for an American psychic in Mexico, then returning to corporate due to shame and disappointment. Multiple losses: her mother’s death after diabetes complications, her husband’s terminal cancer and ongoing signs from him, and later her father’s rapid cancer diagnosis and death alongside an aunt, deepened her spirituality, intuition, and boundaries, including workplace betrayal after bereavement. Ana discusses grounding practices, discerning divine guidance from ego or wishful thinking, honoring different intuitive styles, and serving clients by helping them integrate healing and personal development through customized clarity calls. Ana Valezzi-Leckenby grew up in an ordinary environment but felt drawn early to personal growth and spirituality, influenced by her intuitive mother. Through teachings such as A Course in Miracles , Reiki, and hypnotherapy, she began developing her connection to healing and psychic awareness. She left corporate life to train under an American psychic, later returning while navigating two separate worlds. After experiencing profound loss, including the deaths of her mother and husband, she underwent a deep transformation and fully embraced her gifts. Today, as a Values and Alignment Strategist and transformation coach, Ana guides others through inner change, helping them integrate who they are becoming with clarity and confidence. anavalezzi.coaching@outlook.com @yourgenxcoach https://www.facebook.com/ana.valezzileckenby https://yourgenxcoach.substack.com https://linktr.ee/anavalezzi ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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  Episode #38

  Cosmic Conversations: Understanding Your Natal Chart With Rob Dorgan

  Sep 13, 202641 minS2

  ***This is part two of our conversation with Rob Dorgan. If you missed part one, be sure to check out last week’s episode.*** Podcast host April DeMille introduces part two of her conversation with professional astrologer, meditation and yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, and author Rob Dorgan (Awakening the Mystic). Rob explains his approach to identifying a chart’s “chairperson” (often the ascendant ruler) and reads April’s Western natal chart: Pisces sun, Cancer moon, Sagittarius rising, with Jupiter as chart ruler and the Moon in Cancer as a strong co-chair. He notes a “splash” chart pattern, strong water houses, and both rulers in the eighth house, linking her to deep transformation, mediumship, and helping others through grief and “dark night of the soul” experiences; April shares her daughter died by drowning and discusses homelessness and resilience. Rob highlights Chiron in her fifth house and discusses transits, including a recent Jupiter return and career/publishing expansion themes around 2027–2028. They close with ways to contact Rob and his weekly “Two Minute Tuesday” practice. Rob Dorgan is a certified yoga educator, international retreat facilitator, meditation teacher/devotee, and a practicing astrologer. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Modern European History. While working on his doctorate, the trajectory of Dorgan’s life path was drastically altered when he was introduced to the mystical arts of astrology and yoga. He left academia and, along with his partner, Steve Bolia, moved to Colorado to study and work with Linda Goodman, the author of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, Love Signs, Star Signs, and Gooberz. He then mentored many years with master astrologer and teacher of the Ancient Wisdom, Alan Oken. Dorgan began studying yoga in the 1980s. He studied with many teachers including Sianna Sherman, John Friend, and the preeminent Sally Kempton in meditation. Yoga, along with astrology, changed his life. Dorgan’s debut novel, Awakening the Mystic: A Novel of Cosmic Love and Healing, is part memoir and part fiction, it is full of real possibilities for the future of our human species and Mother Earth. He welcomes the opportunity to speak about the major themes of his book, including the ‘Astrological Chairperson of a person’s chart’ and becoming a Mystical Revolutionary. Email: theboyz@fuse.net Book Website: https://awakeningthemystic.net/ Personal Website: https://robandsteve.co/ FB: Rob Dorgan https://www.facebook.com/share/1NtquSdjzx/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: @itsrobandsteve YouTube: Rob & Steve Meditation Yoga - Awakening the Mystic ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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  Episode #37

  Mystical Revolution: An Interview With Astrologer Rob Dorgan

  Sep 6, 202646 minS2

  ***This is part one of our conversation with Rob Dorgan. Be sure to come back next week for part two.*** Host April DeMille introduces her Own Your Essence podcast, her psychic medium readings and coaching, and guest Rob Dorgan, a professional astrologer, meditation and yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, and author of Awakening the Mystic. Rob shares leaving an academic PhD track after an epiphany and an astrology reading in the 1980s that led him into yoga and astrology, noting his grounded approach helps skeptics take esoteric practices seriously. He explains his memoir-fiction method and why it enables honesty and creative freedom, including audience engagement about what is real. Rob describes the “chairperson” of a chart as typically the ruler of the ascendant (with possible co-chair/committee), influenced by his Saturn-return dreams of a chart “council.” He outlines the mystical revolution as rising compassion and oneness, discusses Patanjali’s five kleshas (ignorance, ego, attachment, aversion, fear of death), and cites outgrowing organized religion after being rejected as a gay man. They close by previewing part two, where Rob reads April’s natal chart. Rob Dorgan is a certified yoga educator, international retreat facilitator, meditation teacher/devotee, and a practicing astrologer. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Modern European History. While working on his doctorate, the trajectory of Dorgan’s life path was drastically altered when he was introduced to the mystical arts of astrology and yoga. He left academia and, along with his partner, Steve Bolia, moved to Colorado to study and work with Linda Goodman, the author of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, Love Signs, Star Signs, and Gooberz. He then mentored many years with master astrologer and teacher of the Ancient Wisdom, Alan Oken. Dorgan began studying yoga in the 1980s. He studied with many teachers including Sianna Sherman, John Friend, and the preeminent Sally Kempton in meditation. Yoga, along with astrology, changed his life. Dorgan’s debut novel, Awakening the Mystic: A Novel of Cosmic Love and Healing, is part memoir and part fiction, it is full of real possibilities for the future of our human species and Mother Earth. He welcomes the opportunity to speak about the major themes of his book, including the ‘Astrological Chairperson of a person’s chart’ and becoming a Mystical Revolutionary. Email: theboyz@fuse.net Book Website: https://awakeningthemystic.net/ Personal Website: https://robandsteve.co/ FB: Rob Dorgan https://www.facebook.com/share/1NtquSdjzx/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: @itsrobandsteve YouTube: Rob & Steve Meditation Yoga - Awakening the Mystic ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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  Episode #36

  Healing Through Intuition: Insights From Alisha Kapani

  Aug 30, 202647 minS2

  Host April DeMille introduces the Own Your Essence podcast and her services (psychic medium readings and coaching for grief, trauma, and toxic relationship recovery), then interviews Alisha Kapani, a former chemical engineer turned mind-body mentor who helps people heal emotional root causes of illness by shifting consciousness, addressing limiting beliefs and stored emotions. Alisha shares that severe depression, rooted largely in self-abandonment and suppressed emotions from an abandonment-triggering relationship, led her to mind-body medicine and rapid healing, after which clients organically sought her help and corporate work felt misaligned. They discuss listening to body signals (light/heavy “yes/no”), not forcing, and why conventional approaches fell short when driven by rejection and bypassing. April shares her chronic illness and hair loss as a lesson in surrender and root causes. Alisha connects abundance blocks to worthiness, shame, and resistance to feminine receiving, emphasizing intention, self-care, and trust. Alisha recommends The Awakened Woman’s Guide to Everlasting Love and The Queen’s Code and shares joy in dance and play. Alisha Kapani is a former Chemical Engineer turned Mindbody Mentor after struggling with severe depression for 5 years. She assists clients all over the world to tap into their body’s wisdom to resolve illness and access their highest possibilities for vitality and abundance. Website https://alishakapani.com/ Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/ajkapani YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/c/alishakapani?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alisha_kapani/?hl=en Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alishakapani 3 Ways to Raise Your Vibration Fast Free Bundle: https://alisha-kapani.mykajabi.com/3-ways-to-raise-your-vibration-fast ✨ Work with April 1:1 If you’re looking to work with April privately, here are the booking links: 30-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading-with-april-demille 45-Minute Intuitive Breakthrough Reading https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/intuitive-breakthrough-reading 15-Minute Discovery Call https://calendly.com/ownyouressencepodcast/breakthrough-discovery-call-15-minute Send us Fan Mail

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