443. Her Young Brother Knew He Would Die & How - Kristina Amelong

Kristina Amelong

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Speaker: Welcome to Soul Elevation, Guiding Your Ascension to New Heights. I'm your host, Cara Goodwin, and this is such a beautiful and profound episode with Christina Amalong.

Christina is the author of an excellent memoir called What My Brother Knew. Let me show you here. I've got it. I've got it here. Look at this beautiful book. 

There is so much in this book, from how her brother psychically predicted the exact cause of his own death, to Christina's journey of processing her grief and the trauma from not being able to do that, to the beautiful ways we can help someone transition into their deaths and the cultural stigma we have around death and dying. 

We also talk about colonics and enemas, and how they've helped her to overcome massive health issues, which I also found fascinating. [00:01:00] Christina Amalong lives on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin, just a few miles from where she grew up. From a working class childhood filled with abuse, addiction, and loss, she's overcome addiction and chronic illness, raised four children, and founded a successful holistic health business.

Optimal health network. 

She's developed natural protocols, which have helped thousands heal from a wide range of digestive and other chronic issues. And she's the author of what my brother knew, an emotional eye opening memoir about her journey from loss and abuse to healing and spiritual awakening. Her first book was 10 days to optimal health, a guide to nutritional therapy and colon cleansing. 

So we'll get into this amazing episode in just a moment, But first, I'm so excited to share about my book, Your Authentic Awakening, a guide to everyday spiritual living, this book is designed to help you reach new heights of spiritual awakening. It's full of spiritual guidance, practical [00:02:00] tools, and captivating personal stories, all working together to expand your consciousness and open your heart.

Find out more information on KaraGoodwin. com, including how to get your own signed copy. And now enjoy this episode. 

Kara Goodwin: Well, welcome, Christina. I'm so excited to have you here today. Thanks for coming on.

Kristina Amelong: You're so welcome. It's such an honor to be here with you, Kara, and your audience. Thank you.

Kara Goodwin: Well, you have this amazing memoir that's coming in May, What My Brother Knew. So let's start by telling us about your brother, Jay.

Kristina Amelong: Um, so my brother, Jay, he, um, very unusual human. Um, he and yet such a normal kid. He, uh, was very popular. He was very sports oriented. He was also into a lot of we were kind of wild running around our neighborhood. We had a lot of nature around, and so [00:03:00] we were just, you know, living a great outdoor life. And so he was always getting hurt.

But, um, he started when he was 12 years old. He started telling, um, myself, my mother, um, his friends and, um, at least one of his cousins that he would die young, that, um, it was fine. There was nothing we could do about it, that he wasn't upset about it, but it was going to happen, that it had something to do with the green car, that he'd be up above his body watching the paramedics try to bring him back to life, but they wouldn't be able to. And that he wanted to be buried at Neptune Cemetery in Ithaca, Wisconsin, and that he wanted the song Stairway to Heaven played at his funeral. Um, and for a year and a half before his accident, he was telling details of this story, you know, just spontaneously. And, um, May 27th, 1981, [00:04:00] he was hit by a car, a green car on his bicycle and, uh, dragged for quite a bit of time and under the car and died, um, two and a half hours later. And even now, when I tell the story, like the, the, the, the, the tears arise in my body, it's quite, it's quite something. It was, it was quite, it was very painful and tragic and And, and yet he walked to it with complete openness. It's a very, to this day, it's a very strange thing.

Kara Goodwin: It is, it's such a captivating story that he knew such detail and your memoir is fantastic. I highly recommend if you're listening to this. Go and get this book it's

Kristina Amelong: right.

Kara Goodwin: in, in that, the fact that he understood that he was going to die, the level of detail that he knew, which is intriguing in and of itself, because that, that points to there [00:05:00] being much more going on than just beyond.

Or much more going on beyond our physical materialistic understanding of life, that there is this consciousness that exists beyond time and space that he was tapping into. Um, but there is so, there's so much with this book. There are so many layers with it because your. Your journey with dealing with the, uh, with his death, dealing with the fact that he knew that it was happening and you guys didn't really know what to do with that level of information.

What do you do with that? Do you, do you bubble wrap him and not let him leave his room so that that doesn't happen? Because he was so beloved, not only in your home, but You know, in the community. Um,

Kristina Amelong: I'm

Kara Goodwin: by virtue of your upbringing and, and kind of the times that we are in the society that we live in, um, [00:06:00] you weren't able to really process that grief.

You were never really able to express it. You didn't know what to do with it, and it was such a taboo thing. And so then how that impacted you, you know, because you're looking for some sort of outlet for these really heavy. Strong emotions and, and trying to process and integrate what happened. And there's no help with that.

And the way that it affected all the people who, you know, all the tangential people who touched Jay. Um, And then dealing with death, you know, as you move through life, as you kind of go through your spiritual journey and you're, you are able to kind of understand things and you do get tools. And

Kristina Amelong: go to the bathroom.

Kara Goodwin: let's dive a little bit into how

Kristina Amelong: I

Kara Goodwin: his, 

Kristina Amelong: to 

Kara Goodwin: um, accident and his death.

Kristina Amelong: someone I

Kara Goodwin: informed your spiritual journey? Like what comes up [00:07:00] for you when you think of your own evolution as understanding kind of why we're here and what's going on through the lens of dealing with Jay's death?

Kristina Amelong: Beautiful. Thank you. Um, well, yeah, just to reiterate the, it's still traumatizing because someone was, their body was, my brother's body was ripped apart. His head was exploded. It was terrible. Um, so. And so it's very traumatizing and, and, and then on top of that, um, right. There was no discussing it.

There was no exploring it. There was no awe and wonder about what exactly is the world such that a person could know that they were going to die, die very violently and then be, but be okay with that, that process would happen. And so. For the [00:08:00] longest time, even decades, I, um, first of all, didn't talk about it.

Um, was using drugs and alcohol to cope. And then once I got into the 12 step program, um, even then, and part of why in the book there's such those many layers where I had to like look at what happened in my young life, because all the pain was kind of into one thing. So I had to kind of parse out, okay, I'd had this difficult childhood and then, okay, now I can get to, oh, my brother, what, what happened with my brother?

And then I could start talking about it. And as I'm telling that story, um, instead of being told to not talk about it, um, people were like, wow, you should write a book about that. Wow. That's an incredible story. And also it just turned on every, and, and who knows, like, I mean, I've always been very close to the natural [00:09:00] world, nature, being by myself, running around in the marsh and all of these things.

So I've always had that. But this thing about what is the deepest nature of reality? Like I feel like because I've had to. Um, because I, because I feel like I'm a torchbearer to this story because there's, there's no story like this story. Right. And, and, and he wanted us to know that's such a big thing.

And I feel like even now that I've written the book and it's out there in the world, these conversations like. Why, you know, why did my brother so much want us all to know, right? And so he really wanted us to know and, um, but for instance, as one would read in the book, my mother never, never, never wanted to talk about it, never did talk about it. Um, and so including her last words to me were stop talking about dying. That's your thing. Um, she's like one day from her, from her death. [00:10:00] Um, and so. basically as I went along, then I had a couple, I kept having deep synchronicities like on his birthday, on his death day, um, these things would happen that would just be so profoundly like, um, his experience with something that I would hear or somebody I would meet or, or, Some information that would come to me at a particular moment, some experience. And so I kept turning to the inquiry basically of how could this be, what happened? And I want to talk about it. I want to explore it. And thus I A have had this beautiful opportunity of turning grief into awe and wonder. Um, and respecting the profound depths of pain and rage and confusion and fear that have lived in my body and [00:11:00] come through my body. And then also really, uh, using all of that to ever further heal my own soul and being and to come to understand the continuity of consciousness that we don't live in a materialistic world. Um, that, uh, precognition is. It's a thing that a lot of people experience that we shouldn't ignore a lot of these signs and synchronicities that come to our lives that seem unusual. And also a lot like this whole concept that I talk about in the book, like aloneness as a monastery, instead of feeling like. I used to have in my head all the time. Nobody likes me. Everyone hates me, but that doesn't exist in me anymore. But my aloneness is still something that is in my life. So that that's, I've said a lot there.

And so maybe you can help parse out what you want to go deeper into or not.

Kara Goodwin: Well, and, you know, there is, [00:12:00] there's a lot there, there's a lot in your, in your journey, you know, one of the things that I loved so much was the, you know, you had all those years of, of hiding what was going on inside or not being, you know, like we talked about, you, you weren't allowed to talk about it, you didn't have any outlet for those feelings.

I think it was when you lived in London, then you came across a certain modality. Where people just were holding space for whatever came through. And that was a new experience for you of being able to express the tears. And they were like, yes, do it, do more like tell, yeah, just hold it. And you're so embarrassed and you're feeling ashamed and it's.

It's like, I'm so sorry that I'm, you know, and, and it's so clear, like how cathartic that was to just have people not trying to make it better, but just letting [00:13:00] you like be like water, like just let it flow through you so that it could. this frozen energy that was within you, this frozen trauma could thaw and be expressed.

Can you share, I don't even remember what that modality was called, but, and then you became a facilitator in that too, but I love that.

Kristina Amelong: Right. That's beautiful. I love that metaphor about becoming like water, right? It's like, and what I was just saying about how the energy was stuck in me and it was turned against me and like, there's something wrong with me and self hatred and all of that. But once I was able to discover re evaluation co counseling, um, I was, um, given the blessing of finding a lot of people in community who I could set up a half an hour each with an hour each.

I mean, I've done hundreds of hours of this, um, where you just, uh, set a time or [00:14:00] you take turns and you just fully put your attention on the person and you fully are encouraged, allowed, um, to. Beat pillows, scream at the top of your lungs, just sob and sob and sob, and to not feel like you have to stop after a minute or 30 seconds or you're too much, um, and to really be able to process out these energies, just completely invaluable to be able to have those gifts of peer counseling, basically.

Okay.

Kara Goodwin: And this was another profound thing with your book and your experience was [00:15:00] when your mom, you, you did allude to this, but when your mom was going through her dying process.

At the end of her life and how you were able, there was so much healing. It felt that came through for your relationship with her. And also just for you to be able to have a different experience around death. I know several people right now who either their parents are going through a dying process, a transition, or it's, it's right there on the horizon, or they have just gone through it.

And. It's hard. I think a lot of people get stuck with, um, we don't want to feel like we're rubbing salt in the wound. Like if somebody is dying, it's maybe we feel it's more polite to pretend that that's not happening so that they don't have to face it. Um, tell me your thoughts and your experience on, on that [00:16:00] perspective.

Kristina Amelong: Um, even now I feel it like human beings have an interior and that interior is, is really probably the most important part of. Who we are is all that is going on, on our insides. And so, so often we just learn to shut down and get smaller and smaller on our interior. But what I found from facing death is that especially around death, there's like a potency. There's a beauty, a truth, a goodness. There's so much love. Um, even though right up to the moment of my mom's death, we had a, we had, her and I hadn't healed, but because I had come to see death as something that was such a beautiful, part of living, um, right. I was able to, [00:17:00] um, help her, uh, well, a, be with her and really prioritize her, even though. I didn't know how long it would take. It was taking a lot of my time. Um, I was with her every day for six months before she passed. She wasn't all that nice to me a lot of the time. But it didn't matter because I can feel this eternal journey that I'm having with my mother. Um, and so I could let go of the narratives that were hanging around in this lifetime and I could just be in the total devotion to this human being that brought me into the world.

Right? And that I was helping ushering into the next world. And so in the context of doing that, Because I could see that she was dying, um, she had, uh, COPD, so she was basically drowning in her own lungs and she was having less and less capacity to breathe and now she had been put on morphine. So I started inviting her sisters over and, [00:18:00] and some of her friends for a meal, for Euchre, these kinds of things.

Euchre, her favorite game, which comes through in the memoir a lot. But, uh, this particular moment that you're talking about that's in the memoir, um, I had to leave and come home and walk my dogs. And when I. Take a shower. And when I had come back, she was being lifted up by her hospice nurses and she was barely conscious. And when she saw me, she kinds of perks up and the day before her sisters had come and I talked to them. I don't think it's going to be that much longer. And maybe my mother had overheard this or whatever, and she perked up and she looks me right in the eyes and she said, stop telling people I'm dying.

That's your thing. Those were her very last words to me. And so this thing about death and, you know, the importance of death and facing death and holding death. So as someone who's been on both sides of these processes [00:19:00] and not talking about it and talking about it. I do have to say that like embracing it, talking about it, facing the pain, sobbing for however many hours it takes, raging, all of that, like there's so much beauty and so much aliveness and so many gifts that come from being able to do that work and being able to be present with the dying, with the dying process, with that we're going to die, right?

Kara Goodwin: Yeah, that's so beautiful. Um, I did notice that euchre was an ongoing theme and which is funny because I live in Indiana and I thought that was an Indiana thing.

Kristina Amelong: That is a Johnson thing, Kara.

Kara Goodwin: I beg to differ.

Kristina Amelong: Come on.

Kara Goodwin: Well, I, we may be two of, of the only people who know what Euchre is. I don't think it's gotten a lot of traction outside of the Midwest, but it's so much fun. I love it.

Kristina Amelong: everyone that I [00:20:00] know how to play Euchre, so I've spread it throughout the whole world a bit. Maybe, you know, the book will make Euchre the big thing in the future. A great game,

Kara Goodwin: It is. Yes. Now there's another theme that I noticed and I may edit this out depending on if this goes anywhere, but, um, there were several times where I noticed that as you're back in a memory, you, you talk about like maybe you're making dinner and then you swat a fly on your neck and then you're sitting in somebody's truck and you swat a fly on your leg and I, I noticed that pattern, but I, you, I wasn't, I think I noticed it too late to be like, is this a metaphor for something?

Is that like a, is there more to it? Or was that just to kind of add some, some color?

Kristina Amelong: Well, I'm curious, do you have a sense of what the metaphor would be if you were to perceive it as a [00:21:00] metaphor?

Kara Goodwin: Well, would it, well, I'm trying to think because I think this is why I'm like, by the time I caught onto it, I couldn't remember the other context, but I feel like there was one time when you were just. In the kitchen as a child cooking and Jay was still alive because I was thinking if it was around death, if it's this, this like gnat that we, you know, want to swat away or, you know, it's a nuisance.

Um, but I, I, I don't know.

Kristina Amelong: Well, I think you're, this is beautiful that you're bringing this up. Like, Um, and I haven't thought about this in a lot of detail, but, uh, but think you're right. A and B. Um, I wrote this book out of a contemplative writing process and for me, the natural world and is just so woven into my existence, being a farm girl, living in Wisconsin, getting out all the time in the [00:22:00] woods and walking my dogs.

And so. So there's that level of it that that part of the world is very much just woven within. And then I think it also, um, cause there's a scene with the spider. If you remember that, um,

Kara Goodwin: I don't remember the spider offhand.

Kristina Amelong: long legs, which is

Kara Goodwin: Oh yes,

Kristina Amelong: a spider. It's,

Kara Goodwin: that's right. Yes. And you say that. Yeah.

Kristina Amelong: I have to say that cause my editors made me say that. Um, so I think a yes, it's it's the quality of the ever present and the way we're always pushing that away, but that that ever present is such a core force in our lives and then also. One of the things that I'm talking about and want to also bring to the global conversation is that we are facing all these existential risk and all these metacrisis and the extinction of a lot of species and [00:23:00] way that people like, how do we look at the future? Such that we're facing it directly and we're not catastrophizing the future and we're not losing hope over the future were, and we're creating a positive memory of our future, but we're looking towards our future. You know, Jay looked at his future with a completely open heart and his was a path of death and I've, you know, my goal is to help usher humanity through these metacrisis to a much more beautiful future. Then we currently seem to be facing with all the various crises that we're facing. And so part of it is bringing in just the reality of this bigger world that we're living in and our intimate relationship with it. So I really appreciate that question. And also when I reread the book, like a month ago to get ready for these interviews, I was kind of in awe of the way that the insects are woven through.

They're so. Like [00:24:00] evenly and like, I didn't plan that. So there is a magic that the book itself is manifesting. That's that, that inspires even me.

Kara Goodwin: I love that. Yeah. I mean, and as a child of the, you know, I grew up in the eighties, born in the seventies. I, it also just harken back to, you know, when we had windows open and the air conditioning wasn't so prevalent, we were just, it, things weren't as comfortable. You would have. Flies around more often. I feel then, then we then exist now, like everything is just a little more like insulated.

So it kind of like hearkened me back to, you know, nostalgia with, with that, um, as well. So there was that element and layer too, but, um, yeah, I love it. There was just so, so much, so many layers. And I love that that was kind of just magic for you because like you say, it was sprinkled out. So [00:25:00] like, it felt precise, you know, and, and that's why I was saying like, it was like a pattern that showed up, but I love that it was just an organic thing that kind of happened.

Kristina Amelong: Well, so I, I am a contemplative writer. I really struggled to create a hole and to hold that and make it happen. So I ended up working with a team of people to manifest the book. And so there is a certain quality of magic in working with way, or the way I worked with one of my daughters, because she helped with, Pulling the book together and then multiple editors. So I feel like we're highlighting also that, that, that the symphony of humans, but also the symphony of the spirits, the insects, the natural world, they all have, cause I don't think any of us like did that well

Kara Goodwin: Deliberately.

Kristina Amelong: It really just came through.

Kara Goodwin: That's magical. And [00:26:00] that gives me chills too. Oh, wow.

Kristina Amelong: right? Because so many of us have these spiritual experiences that are quite profound, but we, they aren't often witnessed. And so to come on to your podcast, Soul Elevation, and to feel into that space and, and to speak about it a bit more and to say, yeah, there's magic going on

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Kristina Amelong: now.

And that's something that's accessible to all human beings. And especially the more we. examine ourselves and also the deeper mysteries of the cosmos. Congratulations.

Kara Goodwin: in there that got kind of matured from how I had put them and then going back and rereading it, or I, I like Recorded the audio [00:27:00] book recently.

And so I was rereading it as I was reading it out loud. And there were things in there that just, I was like, Oh my God, it didn't even mean to do that. But there were, for example, three sub sections in a row. And I remember like creating the titles for them. And it just so happens that there are three 80 songs and I did not.

Like I, I remember being like, okay, what's a good thing and oh, so emotional. I loved that Whitney Houston song. And so I, but I didn't realize that they were, and I realized when I was doing it, oh, this is a song and, and that's what I liked about it. That's why I chose it. But I didn't realize they were one after another.

All three were under one category, like one section. And I was like, Oh my gosh, looking back, that looks so deliberate. And I'm like, that was completely an accident. I didn't realize they were on top of each other like that, you know?

Kristina Amelong: [00:28:00] Sure,

Kara Goodwin: makes me think of your business because you have the Optimal Health Network, which I want to give you a chance to talk about because I'm fascinated by the work you're doing with Optimal Health Network.

But before we get into what that is. The whole way that came about and Jay in spirit form, his involvement in talking about synchronicities and, and the profound messages that he's given you throughout your life. Um, would you care to share about that?

Kristina Amelong: I would love to. And just one more note about since we're on words. I've heard many an artist like Elizabeth Gilbert, et cetera, talk about the way that the ideas come down. And so just a shout out to the possibility of. ideas directly working through us with us. So that's beautiful. Um, so yeah, uh, um, Jay died, anything that happens [00:29:00] that is around his birthday, around his death date, or has a similar quality to his direct experiences, um, Um, uh, I instantly do those things.

I never questioned them. And so regarding my business, well, first of all, I got chronically ill. So I started doing all that emotional work. I got into the 12 step program and this was like my mid twenties and then to late twenties. And then when I went into my thirties, then I started being chronically ill where I, um, just had terrible pain, gut pain. So I had celiac disease, multiple chemical sensitivities, all of that. And so in the process of, uh, learning how to get well, first of all, I tried to go to the regular doctor and they wanted to cut out my colon, which luckily I didn't do that and things like that. And then a friend told me about colon hydrotherapy, um, and Donna Gates, the body ecology diet.

[00:30:00] So I started doing that and that, none of that was related to Jay that I was aware of. , once I started doing colonics at the time I had owned, cause I had worked at McDonald's for six years. And then I, um, bought a food cart in Madison, Wisconsin. We have all these food carts that bend on the library mall on the university of Wisconsin Madison campus and the farmer's markets. And so I was running this restaurant, a falafel restaurant, um, for. Another six years and I was getting, well, I was sick. I was in pain all the time. And so, um, from getting colonics, I thought I'm going to open up a colon therapy store. And it was a little bit of a wrestle with my life partner at that time, because he was like, huh, what's that?

And who's going to come to that? And how are you gonna make money doing that? But I did it anyways. And very quickly, I had a great clientele and that was successful. And one of the things that happened is that a gentleman [00:31:00] who lived in Chicago, so that's like a three hour, two and a half hour drive, he found me on the internet or, um, somehow, and he came to see me for colonics.

And as he's on my colon hydrotherapy table, Um, he starts telling me how he came to need colonics. So his story is that, um, and he was called JP Bauman and his story is that he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle and when he came out of his coma, his colon didn't work. He, you know, he couldn't have a poop. And so he was, he was told to use laxatives or whatever, but he, he ended up on using enemas and he liked to go get colonics on occasion. And so he came to me and he told me, he said, you should open up an enema store on the internet. And this is like 19. 98. And so the internet is just getting going. Um, [00:32:00] it's not very popular who, you know, what open up and plus enemas were like the evil twin.

I'd been taught that you do not do enemas. They don't help people and you just do colonics. And so I had to overcome that. But because A, he had the same accident, and also the crazy thing is that his name is the same. JP stood for J. Phillip. And also a month prior to that, I had worked with a woman on my table, on my colon hydrotherapy table, who, whose initials were also the same, but her name was Janet. I can't remember her middle name, maybe her middle name wasn't the same. But she had the identical birthday of J. And so September 3rd, 1967, and she was a webmaster. And so I immediately, when, when JP said you should open up an animus store, I immediately called her up like while he's on the table, I said, Janet, do [00:33:00] you want, cause I think we had become instant friends because, you know, she had the same birthday as my brother. And, um. I called her up and I said, Hey, you want to open up an enema store? And she said, yes. And then right away she went on GoDaddy and she bought the URL enemabag. com. And from that moment, the three of us worked together. to open up my internet site and now it's called the optimal health network. I also have enema bags still, but optimal health network dot com is where we do most of the work. And yes, I have this beautiful opportunity because of that to work with people all over the world on all sorts of issues, um, around their health from irritable bowel cancer, fibromyalgia, just. Detoxing. Um, we do a lot of hair tissue, mineral analysis, and, um, I do services here. I do massage. I do prostate massage.

And so I just, I have a very [00:34:00] intimate world of work where I'm helping people heal. And in part it was because of my own tragedy of getting chronically ill and also very much came to fruition because I listened to these, um, synchronicities that are around J's. experience.

Kara Goodwin: Wow. And how did your health improve?

Kristina Amelong: So my health is great now. I mean, I'm always therapeutically,

Kara Goodwin: Mm hmm.

Kristina Amelong: PRP therapy, as I had 

Kara Goodwin: Right. Yeah. Uh huh.

Kristina Amelong: um, but yeah, I, I, I no longer have multiple chemical sensitivities and I largely feel great. Well,

Kara Goodwin: analysis, that helps you understand if you're deficient in minerals. Is that right?

Kristina Amelong: so you take your hair and they, they send it to a lab and they measure your minerals, both. Your healthy minerals, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, et cetera. And it [00:35:00] also measures lead, mercury, aluminum. And so we, um, take the healthy minerals and it, it, we find out if they're low. So if we need to supplement those, but also we put ratios together.

So for instance, when you put the calcium to magnesium together, you find out if you're overeating carbohydrates, the calcium to phosphorus together. If you need more protein. If you, when you put the, um, uh, is it the calcium potassium? I don't remember all the details, but one of them ratio wise is the thyroid ratio.

Two of them are about adrenal health and how well you're handling stress. The zinc to copper ratio is all about your hormones. And so it's a great tool, um, 15 minutes of time with me to help analyze it and give a full protocol. And, um, yeah, I get, I work with, um, a hundred people every month around this stuff and [00:36:00] give them protocols and, help people have better lives.

Kara Goodwin: Wow. What if you color your hair? Can you still do it?

Kristina Amelong: Yeah. You just need to let it grow out a little bit so that the, cause you, you're taking the roots cause you want the growth that's closest to your scalp anyways,

Kara Goodwin: Mm hmm.

Kristina Amelong: that's giving us the information Now, versus, you know, if you take it from here, that's what was going on.

Kara Goodwin: Okay.

Kristina Amelong: ago,

Kara Goodwin: Yes.

Kristina Amelong: do have to let it grow out a little bit.

Kara Goodwin: Okay.

Kristina Amelong: Yeah, and even if it's partly colored, like, half colored, it's still useful.

Kara Goodwin: Okay.

Kristina Amelong: Yeah, it's super great.

Kara Goodwin: Yeah, I think I might need to look into that.

Kristina Amelong: Oh,

Kara Goodwin: That'd be awesome.

Kristina Amelong: with you.

Kara Goodwin: Awesome. Good. Well, this has just been amazing. I do want to show your book because it's also such a great cover, but I, I want to emphasize again to everybody listening what my brother knew. This is such, [00:37:00] it's such a great book.

It's so vulnerable as well. Something just fell out of it. Um, it's so it's so vulnerable. It's so honest. Um, and I think that that also helps people because we can be so hard on ourselves thinking, you know, we're not grieving, right? Or, you know, we've had these traumas and it makes us less than or whatever it is that we tell ourselves.

So when we come across such a raw, Yeah. Story that's told with such honesty and such an open heart. It really helps to, for us to like meet ourselves, you know, warts and all.

Kristina Amelong: I'm so honored to be participating in that. And also to highlight this whole thing about the intersection between trauma and spirituality. Um, that is a I think of the human being and our growth process that that. These areas where we have the most suffering and the most pain are [00:38:00] rich with the most possibility for growing. so to not be afraid of the depths of our darkness and to really that with the right support ideally and to find our way through. And right, there's no one right way to do grieving. Everyone has their own very unique personal way and that is the right way for that person.

Kara Goodwin: Right. Yeah. So beautiful. So Christina, please tell everybody how they can find your book and how they can connect with you.

Kristina Amelong: So, my book is available at all the major booksellers. It comes out on May 27th, 19 or 2000, whatever this year is 2025 and,

Kara Goodwin: That's Jay's death day, right?

Kristina Amelong: Yeah. And I didn't even pick that. The publisher

Kara Goodwin: You're kidding.

Kristina Amelong: Yeah. And I didn't even, I had to, cause in this copy, there's some errors, the advanced reader copy and I didn't have the date right.

And they picked, [00:39:00] even though the date wasn't right,

Kara Goodwin: Wow.

Kristina Amelong: it. So that's fascinating,

Kara Goodwin: Oh my gosh. Wow.

Kristina Amelong: So it's his death anniversary, the day the book comes out. And I hear that. another writer, I don't know, do you know this, the best day to buy the book is the day it comes out. That really helps it zoom up in the Amazon

Kara Goodwin: yeah.

Kristina Amelong: so, um, and, uh, but also the two websites are ChristinaAmalong.

com and also OptimalHealthNetwork.

Kara Goodwin: Beautiful. Well, thank you so much for coming on today. I've really loved talking to you and thank you for everything.

Kristina Amelong: already, are we?

Kara Goodwin: We are, maybe we'll have to do another one.

Kristina Amelong: Totally be open to that. I'm having such a wonderful time being with you.

Kara Goodwin: Oh, likewise. Thank you so much for coming on.

Kristina Amelong: You're welcome. Thank you. 

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