In this episode, Melissa Kim Corter explores the psychological meaning behind nightmares, beginning with a vivid recurring dream from her childhood.

She breaks down how nightmares act as intense psychic messengers, revealing unprocessed emotions or unconscious material. Listeners will gain insight into dream analysis, sleep paralysis, and symbolic flooding.

Melissa also shares a client case involving a haunting dream of drowning, revealing how dream images can awaken memories and unlock hidden emotions.

Have you ever noticed that some of our most difficult challenges are the same ones that can call us into power? Is it possible that the psyche is present and very much alive within harrowing ordeals and unfathomable circumstances?

In this episode, I speak to the motif of The Bone Collector in forensics, film, fairy tales, and nature.

Today, we’re exploring the ways we gather the bones of an experience and uncover sacred gifts that can only emerge during dire circumstances.

Melissa discusses Baba Yaga, Amelia Donaghy (Bone Collector character), Hecate, and more...

Article referenced in episode: Hawaii’s ‘bone collector’ caterpillar wears body parts of dead prey By Will Dunham Reuters.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/04/28/hawaii-news/hawaiis-bone-collector-caterpillar-wears-body-parts-of-dead-prey/

Why, when we experience a synchronistic moment, does it tend to favor a positive experience? Is it possible that there is a shadow side to these types of alignments?

In this episode, I draw parallels between the tragic shadow aspects in the Gabby Petitio case and the haunting theme within the Grimm's tale, the Robber Bridegroom.

Today, we’re diving deep into synchronistic moments and how seeing the positive might be the ego's way of ignoring a deeper and darker truth.

Melissa discusses a crossroad moment in a fairytale that parallels a few crossroad moments in the Gabby Petito story.