🕊️ Freeing Souls: What Happens After We Die (Ep.36)

What happens after we die?

In this deeply personal and spiritually expansive episode, Nicole shares the extraordinary experiences that awakened her to the reality of the soul's journey, spirit release work, and what truly happens beyond this physical life.

From a miraculous healing experience during a severe ulcerative colitis flare… to helping her uncle peacefully transition after stage 4 cancer… to the moment she felt her grandmother’s soul pass through her body as she crossed into the light — this episode explores the profound connection between souls, spirits, consciousness, healing, and the journey beyond death.

Nicole explains:
✨ The difference between a soul and a spirit
✨ What happens during a soul review
✨ Why some souls become “stuck” after death
✨ How lost souls can remain connected to loved ones
✨ What it means to release souls into the light
✨ The role of the Akashic Records in spirit release work
✨ Why death is not something to fear
✨ Soul contracts, karma, past lives, and consciousness
✨ The deeper purpose behind pain, betrayal, and challenge

This episode is an invitation to remember who you truly are:
an infinite soul having a human experience.

If you've ever wondered:
• What happens after death
• Whether spirits are real
• Why some souls struggle to move on
• Or whether consciousness continues beyond this lifetime…

…this conversation may open something profound within you.

Namaste. 🕊️

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Welcome to Heal with Nicole Mixdorf. Let the journey begin. Welcome back, beautiful soul. I'm your host, Nicole Mixdorf. I am an Akashic light healer and an intuitive guide. And today we're diving into a topic I never thought I would really be talking about on this podcast, which is lost souls. So, what is a lost soul exactly? Well, you're gonna find out. I'll tell you a little bit about the difference between a soul and a spirit, what happens at the end of this lifetime, and why sometimes souls can get stuck on their journey and what is possible for us to do to support them in moving into the light. So this journey began long ago for me. I was in the middle of a really hard flare-up of ulcerative colitis, which was a chronic illness that plagued me on and off for over a decade. And in that time that I was dealing with a really horrible flare-up, that nothing was responding, helping it in any kind of way, I found this healer, a Chinese divine healing master. And there's a whole podcast episode about this incredible woman who blessed me with a healing miracle and literally healed me overnight. But one of the things that she did in that healing experience that I had with her was that she read a layer of my aura and she was able to tell me that I had five souls of family members that had passed away, some of them decades prior, that were stuck in my energy field. And their presence was actually preventing me from healing. And that realization really blew my mind at the time. I knew nothing about this. She told me there were two men and three women and gave me the age ranges because she could actually see them. And she basically said that their presence was making it hard for me to actually heal. And she gave me this very elaborate ceremony that I needed to do at home that was a fire ceremony. And I had to burn all these little origami papers. I had to make an altar, I had to say these prayers, I had to do all of this very, very specific stuff in order to release these souls on their journey. And when I did that, my symptoms disappeared. I mean, completely disappeared. And it blew my mind. And that was really amazing to me. One of those spirits that was stuck in my energy field was my daddy. My daddy passed away from cancer about 10 and a half years ago at this point. And yeah, his spirit, his soul was in my energy field because he didn't want to go. He didn't want to leave us. But he needed to be released to go forward on his own path, on his own journey. So that experience really opened my eyes to so many things. I mean, first of all, if you go back and listen to what happened in that story, I mean, it's like mind-boggling. The part about the spirits is just like one tiny little piece of that incredible experience that just changed me and it showed me that there's so much more to this life than meets the eye. I guess that's really the biggest takeaway that I had from that is that there's so much more to this world than we really understand. And there's some people walking this planet that just have special gifts. And Master Zhang was one of them for sure. She completely changed my life just being in her presence. It actually started to awaken more of my own spiritual gifts. I noticed that just being around her allowed me to connect more deeply into my own meditations. It just awakened something inside of me. And I've been on a beautiful journey of awakening ever since that. So when I found the Akashic Records many years ago on my journey to heal myself from chronic illness, one of the things that came forward in that training and certification I did, but also through my own experiences, was this concept of releasing lost souls. So let's maybe dial back a little bit and talk about what is a soul and what's the difference between a soul and a spirit. So you are a soul. That is your nature. That is who you are, that is what you are. You are a divine soul having a human experience. Your body is this beautiful vessel that gets to walk you through this life, but it's your soul that animates you. It's your soul that actually gives you the life. So you're a body and you have a soul. And your soul has a mission, it has a purpose. This life is not random. You did not come here randomly. You chose your parents, you chose your circumstances, you chose your mission. And that's hard for a lot of people to wrap their heads around, especially if they chose abusive, difficult situations to be raised into. But it's because there's a powerful mission that you are meant to awaken to. And sometimes we do that through challenge and we do that through heartache and hardship, because that is what makes us rise to become who we are meant to be. So we come into this life with all these soul contracts with different people to do different things. And when we get to the end of our lifetime, we do a soul review. We go through our life about everything that happened to us at the end of this life, all the things that we did, what we learned, all of our lessons, what the soul contracts were that we fulfilled, what are the ones that we didn't fulfill that we need to try again in the next lifetime to fulfill? What are all the belief systems that we created? What's the karma that we created by going against a soul contract? What's the karma that we burned off in this lifetime that we had created from past lifetimes? There's so much that happens. And then the soul moves on to do its own spiritual work, basically, and then to find a new mission, a new purpose, and come back and have the opportunity to experience itself once again, because that's what life is. It's consciousness experiencing itself. You are consciousness. That is you. You are the one who is observing your life, who thinks the thoughts in your head, right? You are the consciousness. That is your soul. Now, your spirit is the part of your soul that represents this particular lifetime. So it would be the physical form of you, the image of you, your personality, your motivation, your drive, your spirit is what pushes you forward to do things. So when you pass away, when someone passes away, their soul carries on on its own journey. But the spirit, which is the part of that soul that represented that lifetime, the spirit remains present. We can always connect to the spirits of our loved ones. And they're omnipresent. There's no such thing as time and space once we transcend out of this third-dimensional density that we live in now. There really is no time and space. So a spirit can be anywhere at any time, can be with you and 10 other people all at the same time. Anything is possible. But sometimes when someone passes away, either unexpectedly, tragically, in some kind of horrible accident, or if they take their own life, or if they just don't want to go, they're not ready. Sometimes the soul can get stuck and it doesn't move into the light to go through its process of life review and then to go on to do its own spiritual work to be able to continue evolving on its own soul path. And when that happens, these souls get stuck in the fourth dimension where they're sort of just floating around, kind of lost, and they tend to hang out in the energy fields of the people that they cared about. So loved ones and descendants, friends, et cetera. And one of the greatest gifts that you can ever do is to release a soul back into its journey to let it go back into the light. It's one of the gifts that I have that I'm able to do on the Akashic journeys that I guide my clients through and I guide myself through. And I'll share a couple of stories that I have about this that are deeply personal and really changed my life and changed what I know to be true. And I guess one of the biggest things I could say about this journey that I've been on, this spiritual awakening, is that I'm just open. I'm so open to receive. I am so open to have new experiences. I'm open to see things from a different perspective, to look at things in a different way, to challenge the beliefs that I've held for so long, to really give myself permission to make up my own mind about what is true, about what is possible. And that has evolved so much. As I have these incredible experiences, they continue to shape me and to change me and to awaken me to deeper and deeper truths. So when I started doing the Akashic healing work that I do, the very first person I ever worked with was my uncle, who had just gotten a diagnosis of stage four cancer. And it was in the lungs, and he had this horrible, horrible cough. And it was just, he was in a lot of pain and was dealing with a lot of anxiety. And that was a really intense experience. I went to see him. We were super close. And he was very spiritual, deeply, deeply spiritual guy. And when I was there trying to support him, I asked, you know, what is this illness connected to? And one of the things that came up was a generational wound on that side of the family, on my dad's side of the family, that went back seven generations. And this was a persecution wound where we had to hide the truth of who we are. And when that happens, it can create disease. And I was able to see that this was connected to 24 souls in our family lineage. And when I healed that, his cough instantly disappeared, which blew my mind. I mean, just blew my mind. And so I went home and a couple of days later, I think that was a Sunday, I called him on like a Tuesday, like two days later, and he wasn't feeling well. So I called the next day, Wednesday, and I wound up talking to my aunt, and she told me that the cough was gone, but there was a lot of anxiety, a lot of panic. And so, with the intention of just wanting to help him release the anxiety, I went into his records and started asking about what is this anxiety connected to? And different things came up from energetic experiences that he had in this lifetime that were unresolved, that needed to be released. There were some past lifetime connections to anxiety that I was able to help him let go of too. And knowing that he was coming to the end of his journey in this lifetime, I just started asking the question: what does he not need to carry into the next life with him? And I would get like, oh, this story or this belief system. Okay, got it. And like clearing that. What else does he not need to carry? Oh, this emotion, that emotion, you know, whatever it was, store anger, frustration, different kinds of things, right? We all carry that in us. So I was like clearing, clearing, clearing. What karma does he not need to take into the next life? I was like clearing all of these different things. And I just kept asking, what else, what else, what else? Until nothing else came forward. And his records just felt peaceful. And I was like, okay, like that felt really good to me. And I called in his highest self and told him how much I love him and that he has my permission when he's ready to let go, that he can just let go. And I closed his records and that was that. And I have to tell you, he, when I saw him a couple days prior to this, did not look like someone who was about to pass away. I mean, he was still talking, he was still eating, he could still walk around. And I've seen people pass away from cancer, several of them, and they were, you know, very different looking, like very skin and bones, hadn't eaten for like 10 days kind of thing. But that was not where he was at. I thought he probably has at least another month or two to go, is what I honestly believed. Well, after doing this clearing, within a couple of hours, I get a call from my cousin, his daughter, saying that his anxiety is gone. He's accepted death, and he went to sleep. And literally within hours, he just let go. And that was it. It was like so fast, so peaceful. And it freaked me out. Really freaked me out.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Honestly, I was like, oh my gosh, what did I do? Uh-huh. Like, I just wanted to help him let go of some anxiety. I did not intend to help him release and like, you know, move on and and pass away. Like that wasn't my intention.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

And yet, this was the very first person I had ever worked on in the Akashic was this experience, the very first person after my training. And this experience blew my freaking mind. And after that, when I started working with people, I just kept having these miracles just facilitated one after the next after the next. And it was like, what is happening? This is crazy. Well, clearly I've been doing this work for lifetimes, right? That's why it just comes so natural to me. Now, fast forward, and my grandmother was coming to the end of her journey after 98 long, amazing years. And she had such an incredible, incredible life. But she lived on the other side of the world. And I wasn't able to be there with her as she was passing. And before she passed, I was able to talk to her on the phone. And I asked her if she was okay with me doing some healing work for her. And she said yes. And she had just kind of slowly stopped eating. You know, there wasn't anything particularly wrong with her. She didn't have an illness of any kind or anything like that. She just kind of stopped eating. So it's like her spirit was not fighting as much. It wasn't as strong. Anyway, I did a very similar experience that I did with my uncle, where I just kept asking her records, what does she not need to carry forward into the next life? And whatever came forward, I just cleared and released, cleared and released, cleared and released for her. And I just kept asking again and again, okay, what else? Oh, this needs to go. Got it. Clear that. This belief system, this emotion, this experience, this karma. You know, I just kept clearing everything. And again, her records just felt so peaceful. And so I just closed up her records and that was that. And that was like one evening, I believe. And the next morning, I got a message from my family over there saying, wow, she's taken a really deep turn. The doctors think that she's gonna pass anytime. And before it was like weeks away, kind of a thing, which didn't surprise me given that I was helping her release all the things that she was holding. So I went into her records again. This time with the intention of actually helping her to let go, which is not what I did with my uncle. It was very different. So this time I went into her records and I called in her highest self and I spoke to her and I gave her so much love and I gave her permission to go. And then I said the mantra, the prayer for releasing souls. And I said it in such a way that it was when she's ready. When she's ready, can she be guided to go wherever she's meant to go into the light? And I called in Archangel Azrael, which is the archangel that helps guide souls when they pass, who I work with when I do that kind of work. And I am not kidding you. The moment I said this prayer, and the words by my will, so it is. Like as soon as the words came out of my mouth to finish that prayer, this shiver ran through my body. Like I started shaking, just shaking. It was like this cold, like shiver, and I didn't know what was happening. And I just sat there and I was like shaking, shaking, shaking, like feeling this, not understanding. And then all of a sudden, I just started bawling my eyes out, just crying, sobbing, deep, deep, deep sobbing. And it was like my body knew before it registered in my mind, I she just passed away. Like she passed away in that exact moment. And I was feeling her soul go through my body as a thank you. And after I finally calmed down, I didn't know what to do because obviously, like I was on the other side of the world. I started sending messages to my cousin, like, did she just pass? And they weren't with her. And they're like, I don't know. Did you feel something? And so I told them yes. And anyway, I had to wait over an hour for this confirmation to come in. So I spent this weird hour in this like limbo place of, I know she just died, but I didn't like have that confirmation of it. I went and got a candle in the kitchen and I lit it for her. And I started walking back to my bedroom with the candle. And I said, Okay, if she's passed away, keep this flame lit as I walk through the house. You know, if she's still alive, blow this, blow this candle out. You know, and I didn't, I wasn't holding my hand in front of it to block the wind. I just held it in front of me, like walking through the house with plenty of wind air to put it out, and it stayed lit. Like I knew she just died in that moment. And I finally did hear from my cousin that, yeah, that literally was the exact moment that she passed. That was the exact minute that she died, was the moment that I said this prayer to release her soul, and I felt her, and I felt her, and that changed me.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

It just did. And that's not a story I ever thought I would tell.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

Because this isn't common, right? Like this isn't normal. It actually is normal, it's just not common for people to do this kind of work and to understand even what I'm saying. But it was so beautiful, and she's so free right now of that. You know, when I do akashic journeys, one of the things that I do every time we go into past lifetimes or different experiences that need to be released, and it's typically from past lifetimes. I always ask if there's any lost souls. And sometimes there are. With or myself, you know, if I'm doing work on myself, I've had that come up. And it's typically from lifetimes where there was a tragedy where somebody died tragically, or there was a war, or something like that, where somebody died, people died unexpectedly. Sometimes there are lost souls that were stuck in those experiences. And in those instances, I will do the releasing ceremony and release them back into the light. And every time I do that, it's like the most wonderful feeling washes over me, like the most wonderful warmth and love and celebration. It's the best feeling in the world. It's such a mitzvah. It's such a gift, it's such a blessing to do that kind of work and to allow them to move forward on their own journey because they're meant to. And I've had that come up for lots of friends who've had a loved one who passed, especially if somebody took their own life. I've had many situations come up like that, working with clients, working with friends who had a loved one who passed that way. And every time I've checked in, yeah, their soul was sort of stuck in that fourth dimension. And we were able to release them on their journey so that they can carry forward and move on on their path, which is such a beautiful blessing. And I think it is for all of the people that are here, their loved ones, just to know that they're they're safe. And that's, I guess, the biggest message of all is to understand that being a spirit, being a soul is our nature. That is who we are. This physical form, this physical life that we're in, this is really the dream. This is really the experience that we're just having right now. And then we get to go have a whole nother one. But when we leave this world, that's going home. There's nothing to be afraid of in going back home, going back into the light, reconnecting with your truth, with your full essence, knowing who you are, knowing the light that is you. One of the most amazing things about this life is that when we choose to come here, we choose to come with amnesia. We choose to come forgetting our divine nature, forgetting that we are oneness. We choose disconnection when we come into this life because it's through that disconnection that we're able to have these different experiences. We're able to experience everything that there is to be alive. We want to experience every emotion that is possible on the scale of emotions, from the joy and the bliss and the happiness and excitement all the way to the betrayal and the sadness and the heartache and the pain and every emotion in between. They're all divine. One isn't better than the other. They're just different experiences. Our soul sometimes will come into life and say, I want to learn about betrayal in this lifetime. So they look at their soul family and say, Hey, who wants to do betrayal with me this time? And one of our soul family will say, I'll do it with you this time. And then you come in, and that's the experience you get to have, and you get to overcome it, and you get to learn how to love yourself in the process, because that's the gift. The gift is learning how to love yourself from that betrayal. It all has a purpose. All the most painful things that we go through are put on our path because we're meant to overcome them, because we're meant to learn from them, because there's some gift, some lesson that we're meant to uncover and master. And the evolution of who we become on the other side of the challenge, that's the gift.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

That's that's the whole reason for it.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

We get to become more us, more of who we really are. And every single lifetime that we get to go through brings us closer and closer and closer to truly reconnecting with source after experiencing all there is to experience. But we have free will when we come into this body. We get to make our own choices. And sometimes those choices are aligned with our greater soul plan, and sometimes they're not. And that's okay. And that's how we start gathering up karma that we need to clear in the next lifetime. That's why we have to repeat lessons over and over again until we finally figure it out and learn and choose differently. It's all beautiful, it's all divine. Everything about this life is pure magic. And if you could even understand for just a moment how powerful you really are. When you learn how to connect to your truth, to connect to your intuition, to connect to your light, anything is possible for you. Suddenly you lift the veil and you can see things for what they are very differently. You break free of the matrix and you're able to understand what life really is. And this is a powerful moment in time where we are remembering, where so many people are starting to wake up and remember. And instead of living a life completely unconscious, they're starting to awaken to their own consciousness. They're starting to awaken to their own infinite potential because we are infinite. You are infinite. You are a miracle. You are the light. You're the light that shines through all of us. And I love the word namaste, which is pretty typical to say at the end of a yoga class. You know, we put our hands together in prayer and we bow and we say namaste. And that really means the light within me recognizes the light within you. And when we are both in that place, we are one.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

So with that, my beautiful friend, namaste.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

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