170: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster & guest spiritual teacher Sherry Gideons170: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster & guest spiritual teacher Sherry Gideons
UK Health Radio Podcast
Ken D. Foster talks with spiritual teacher and near-death experience researcher Sherry Gideons about her two near-death experiences, life review and lessons on love, presence and calm. They connect addiction, pain and everyday habits with conscious choice, breathwork and clear intention for creating a different life.
44:44•30 May 2026
Near-Death Experiences, Love and the “Planet of Addiction” with Sherry Gideons
Episode Overview
- Living in the present and becoming an observer of your own thoughts can shift long-standing patterns and habits.
- Breathing practices and calming the nervous system help move from fear and survival into peace and clarity.
- What you give emotionally – love, fear, anger, joy – tends to return, acting like a mirror for your inner state.
- Commitment and consistency, like regularly going to the gym, are essential for changing ingrained behaviours.
- Getting clear on what you truly want in relationships, health, finances and spiritual life is a crucial first step toward change.
“Calm is my power.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation on UK Health Radio’s Voices of Courage zooms in on something many people quietly wonder about: what actually happens when we die – and what happens if we come back. Host Ken D. Foster chats with spiritual teacher and near-death experience researcher Sherry Gideons, who shares how two near-death experiences in 1997 and 2004 completely shifted her life.
Once a driven bodybuilder chasing perfection through extreme dieting, drugs and steroids, Sherry describes how a massive heart attack led to an experience of “becoming one with everything that existed” and realising “we were all love… we have never been separate from love.” Sherry talks about the “life review” she experienced, where she saw her life like a film and felt the impact of her actions through other people’s eyes.
She explains that, in her view, this isn’t punishment, but a way to see what we’ve given – fear, love, anger, joy – and to recognise where we’ve forgotten our inherent wholeness. You’ll hear how homelessness, living in the Sequoia National Forest, and chance meetings (like cycling 10 miles with a toddler to one of Michael Beckwith’s early churches) became part of her training ground for understanding human struggle.
Ken connects this to everyday habits and addictions, calling Earth “the planet of addiction,” whether it’s food, alcohol, drugs, sex or shopping, and stresses that pain often becomes the wake-up call for change. Together they talk about living in the present, using breathwork to calm the nervous system, and choosing thoughts consciously – “calm is my power,” as Sherry puts it.
They encourage listeners to get clear on what they actually want, become observers of their own self-talk, and build new habits with commitment and consistency. It’s a conversation that blends science, spirituality and very human messiness, all aimed at one simple question: what kind of life are you choosing, right now? What would happen if you treated every moment as a fresh chance to choose differently?
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