The Dead Life with Allison DuBois

Do our souls choose our parents before we're born; and if so, what does that mean for people who grow up with abuse, trauma, or toxic families?
In this episode of The Dead Life, Allison DuBois and Sophia answer listener call-in questions about reincarnation, soul choices, family relationships, and what happens when the people we're related to aren't the people we want beside us in the afterlife.
Allison also explores whether we're reunited with toxic family members after death, why painful experiences can shape our soul's journey, and how healing can come from what we choose to do with those experiences.
Then, a listener shares an extraordinary story about hearing “Unforgettable” while doctors were telling her she would never become pregnant. Allison discusses music as a sign from deceased loved ones and shares some of the remarkable songs that have reminded her that her own father was still close.
Do we choose our parents? Can we choose who surrounds us in heaven? And can a song arrive at exactly the right moment as a message from someone on the other side?
Allison and Sophia take on some of your deepest questions about life, death, family, healing, and signs from heaven.

Why can the people we love the most sometimes be the hardest to hear from after they die?
In this episode of The Dead Life, Allison DuBois and Sophia answer an emotional call from a woman carrying the trauma and survivor’s guilt of witnessing her boyfriend’s murder—and discuss why grief, guilt, and trauma can make it difficult to recognize signs from the other side.
Then Allison explains ways to become more receptive to communication from loved ones who have passed and reveals something even Sophia didn’t know: years ago, Allison began writing messages on the backs of family photographs so that, after she’s gone, she’ll have another way to communicate with her daughters.
Plus, Allison shares some very practical advice for the living: make a will, make your wishes clear, and don’t leave your family to fight over what you leave behind.
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What happens on the other side to someone who spent their life hurting the people closest to them?
This week, Allison and Sophia answer listener call-ins about some difficult questions surrounding death, trauma, justice and forgiveness. First, a caller asks whether the parents of murdered or missing children, including the Beaumont children, learn the truth about what happened once they cross over. Allison explains why communicating with victims isn’t as simple as asking them who committed the crime, and why she is especially careful when working with children who experienced violent deaths.
Then, a listener asks a deeply personal question about her malignant narcissistic mother: What happens to a narcissist when they die? Are they forgiven? Do they have to face the pain they caused? And can we be forced to spend the afterlife with someone we wanted nothing to do with in life?
Allison shares what she has experienced in readings with troubled and sometimes very dark personalities, why she believes we eventually understand the wounds that shaped the people who hurt us, and why forgiveness doesn’t necessarily mean spending eternity together.
Plus, Allison and Sophia discuss The Lovely Bones, near-death experiences, karmic lessons—and the possibility of revisiting episodes of Medium to reveal which stories were closer to Allison’s real life than viewers might think.
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The Lindsay Clancy trial has captivated and divided millions, but for me, it raises a question that go far beyond the courtroom: what happens in the next life after something unthinkable happens in this one?
Past life regressionist Jonathan Robinson returns to The Dead Life as Allison asks what he has seen when people remember being violent in previous lives, and whether victims can carry the trauma of how they died into their next incarnation.
Could an unexplained phobia come from a past-life death? Can recurring childhood nightmares be memories? Can a birthmark correspond to a wound from another lifetime? And what happens when the victim and the person who hurt them meet again in another life?
Jonathan shares remarkable regression cases involving guilt, murder, childhood trauma, witches and healers, unexplained birthmarks, and even people discovering that relationships in their current lives may have begun centuries ago.
It’s a conversation about the scars we carry, the lives we may have lived before—and whether even the darkest experiences follow us when we come back.
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What really happens in the moments before we die?
Allison sits down with Catherine Duncan, a former hospice chaplain, spiritual teacher, and author of Everyday Awakening, whose extraordinary relationship with death began when she was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer and given just a 20% chance to survive.
Years later, a near-death experience would change the course of Catherine’s life again, ultimately leading her to hospice and trauma chaplaincy, where she witnessed more than a thousand people at the end of life.
Catherine and Allison compare what they’ve experienced around death and the spirit world, from dying patients seeing loved ones who have already crossed over, to angels, dark energies, near-death experiences, cord cutting, suicide, and what may happen during a life review.
Through it all, Catherine shares one lesson she believes her years beside the dying made unmistakably clear: we do not die alone.
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