The Journeying Soul Podcast is merging with SurvivingLoss.org and going on hiatus. We’ll be back in September 2025. Come back for the new season and our new partnership with the Surviving Loss community. But until then, sign up for our mailing list, check out our past episodes, and stayed tuned! See you in September.
Listen to testimony from those who have been clinically dead and hear what they have to say about how the living should understand grief.
Learn about the universal journey that everyone is sent on when they lose a loved one and how that journey turns your soul towards greatness and transcendence.
Learn how to develop the spiritual power to manifest the life that you want, how to love this life’s incarnations along new lines, and master the way of letting go.
Want to know how to turn grief into greatness and transcend your losses to find new peace, new happiness, and new riches? Join host Helena Strauss and the Journeying Soul community! We dive into health crises, grief, and other catastrophes that deliver those who’ve endured them resilience and wisdom that they would never trade away.
Join us weekly and empower your life’s journey with quality information and learn how you, too, will get through the worst things you’ve never wanted to happen and earn your life wisdom.
Every soul is a journeying soul. Our community knows it. Even across great distances, connected only by our technology, we travel together.
our podcast hostess
Mary Helena Strauss began the first decades of her work life in the film and television business. She started her career at the Bottom Line nightclub in New York City while earning a BFA in Film and Television from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and interning at places like MTV. She went on to work at the William Morris Agency (now WME) and produce for various video divisions at Atlantic Records, Time Warner and BMG Entertainment.
In 2000, she started Elm Films and worked as a DVD producer. As the popularity of DVDs waned, Helena and Elm Films shifted towards production of educational films for colleges and universities but depending on how you look at it, either life got in the way or God had other plans.
Helena became a caregiver to her family: her father who died of Parkinson’s Disease, her sister who died of breast cancer, and her mother who is legally blind. She produced the Grief Monomyth and the Secret Maps Project, a suite of films for grief counselors as well as those who have experienced a loss of a loved one. All of her personal and professional experience has now evolved into the Journeying Soul podcast where she has fun and takes great pleasure in exploring the curious nature of life with her fellow travelers.
If your work or life experience can better inform and enlighten the Journeying Soul community, we would love to have you on the podcast! Just send us your details.
grief /ɡrēf/ noun
deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone’s death.
mono /ˈmänō/ adjective
a prefix that means “one, only, single”
myth /miTH/ noun
a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
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