Meet Camille Dan

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Camille Dan. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Camille, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?

I have always been an independent person. The eldest of four children, I began helping my mother with my younger siblings at an early age. This instilled a sense of purpose to care for others with empathy and to set an example of responsibility and self-confidence. Purpose seemed to have a way of finding me. I chose to be a nurse and take care of critically ill and injured people, a job I loved and took considerable pride in. After struggles with infertility and a number of miscarriages, I gave birth to three sons and we adopted a daughter. I chose to be a stay-at-home parent for many years, and to be the best I could be for my children. Then, after eighteen years of marriage, came a difficult divorce. I found myself in a place I had never been before, a single mother of four children going to four different schools because of a variety of learning needs, without a career I could readily fall back on. My former husband had managed our finances for all those years while I took care of raising the kids. Luckily because of the divorce laws where we live, I didn’t have to worry that I could support my family. I just had to worry about how to do it. My sense of responsibility kicked in, and I set out learning how to manage finances. About a year later, I started my own private investment company that has been successful. It’s a bumpy road being a single parent, and not for the faint of heart but there was no shortage of love between my children and me.

I thought we were doing well until my son suddenly and tragically died five years ago on September 22, 2019. With him went a huge part of my heart and a huge part of me. I was lost in a fog of unthinkable grief. I had been a caregiver my whole life. My purpose was to be the best mom I could be, yet I failed to protect my child. I was sinking in a sea of guilt and sorrow without a life jacket. Grief hit like a tsunami. The disbelief of this out-of-order loss was paralyzing and hung over me like a dark cloud. I couldn’t come to terms with outliving my child. But through the shock of it, I knew that I had to get up every day to support my other children who were suffering the loss of their big brother. Fitness had always given me a reason to get up, and to rise up after devastation. So, I scheduled regular fitness training sessions in the early days after my loss. Friends showed up for me recommending things I could do to help me move forward. I began reading books and listening to podcasts on grief and healing. I had no idea of the vast number of resources available out there to help people get through unbearable grief. One recommendation was to get out in nature. This appealed to me, so I packed up for a trip to the lake house for some peace and quiet. It seemed like a perfect place for immersing myself in nature, and I felt sure it would offer me some relief from the heaviness of my trauma.

Autumn makes for a colorfully divine drive up north. By about an hour’s drive out, the hustle and bustle of city life and its pressures float away. I can actually put up a road sign at the site where this feeling begins. As the front-seat passenger, I let the drone of the engine lull me into a trance as I gazed out the window. The trees outside were just beginning to change color. The highway was lined with bright reds, golden yellows, and brilliant oranges. I began to cry when I was shaken by the realization that my son would never see this beautiful phenomenon again. Tears were streaming down my face. Suddenly, I heard my son’s voice say, “I see it.” Then, he said again, “I do see it, Mom.” I gasped. His voice was loud and clear, and very much his voice. He went on to say that the way he sees colors now is unlike anything I can imagine. “What you see might look beautiful, Mom, but what I can see looks brilliant, vibrant, and glowing. Colors beyond explanation. I see the energy that the trees are emitting.” This began a conversation with my son across the veil that still continues.

I read that keeping a journal of one’s grief is therapeutic, so I began recording my experience. Daily entries were cathartic and helped me to remember things that were quickly forgotten in the dense fog of my grief. Day by day, my journal became full of signs and messages from my son on the other side. Being a skeptic by nature, and a science-based learner, I doubted that any of it was real. There was no way I would tell anyone about this for fear of being called crazy. I certainly thought I was going crazy, hallucinating. Even crazier was that the signs seemed to be perfectly timed with whatever was going on in my daily life.

One day I was listening to a podcast called, We Don’t Die Radio, in which the host, Sandra Champlain, was interviewing a bereaved mother named Rosanne Groover Norris. As Rosanne told her story of her grief and connection across the veil with her departed son, Lee, I was blown away by the similarities to my story with my departed son, Aaron. I even thought I saw my son. While I was listening, a young man who looked nearly identical to Aaron crossed my path. This moment was the beginning of my spiritual awakening that led me from skeptic to believer to a knowing of something beyond the three-dimensional physical world we live within. I was at a fork in my journey, and I chose to take the spiritual path.

Since that day, I have been following the messages Aaron has delivered to me. His messages are full of loving guidance. Knowing his mom is a science-loving skeptic, he makes sure to educate me on the latest findings in physics, metaphysics, quantum physics, astronomy, Kabbalah, sacred geometry, mediumship, numerology, and such that back up his messages with physical evidence. It’s like he is giving me a crash course in science and spirituality. Sometimes it has taken more than a year since Aaron’s message before I read a newly published scientific discovery that supports what he told me. It turned out that keeping a journal was more than just a good idea. It has been a channeled record of Aaron’s messages that I can refer back to for evidence.

One day, Aaron told me I would publish my journal into a book. I had never authored a book before. But my grief journal told a story that I believed I should share. Even if only one person read it, I thought it was worth it. If my story could help someone through exceptionally difficult loss knowing that they are not alone, it was definitely worth sharing. So, I learned how to self-publish online and published my first book called, “Aaron’s Energy: An Unexpected Journey Through Grief and the Afterlife With My Brilliant Son”. More than one person has read it. In fact, it has been an Amazon international best-seller. People experiencing profound grief have been helped by reading my story, and I have been helped by the connections I have made by sharing it. I joined online support groups like Helping Parents Heal and The Compassionate Friends, and attended in-person conferences on grief, healing, and spirituality. I have been on podcasts and YouTube shows. I even met Sandra Champlain and Rosanne Groover Norris!

Meeting so many people worldwide who shared similar stories led to publishing my next book, “Gathering at the Doorway: An Anthology of Signs, Visits, and Messages from the Afterlife”. It’s a collection of over forty personal accounts, scientific research findings, and photographic evidence of life after life with forewords from well known, best selling authors and experts in the field, Suzanne Giesemann, renown spiritual teacher/medium/former US Navy commander and Aide to the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Creator of Messages of Hope, Bless Me, SIP of the Divine and The Awakened Way/Subject of documentaries/Sought after keynote speaker with millions of followers, and Sandra Champlain, Host and Creator of two top-ranked podcasts on Apple/iHeart Radio/and other platforms with millions of followers/Award-winning documentary producer of “Rinaldi” and We Don’t Die Films/Sought after speaker/Creator of weekly Free Sunday Gatherings, mediumship classes, and demonstrations, and Robert Ginsberg, Co-founder of Forever Family Foundation/Host of Signs of Life Radio/Co-creator of medium certification evaluation program, and with endorsements from Mark Anthony JD The Psychic Explorer, Dr. Mark Pitstick of the Soul Phone Foundation, Kimberley Meredith Medical Intuitive/Medium Healer/Public Speaker, and Jacob Cooper LCSW/NDE Experiencer/Past-Life Regression Guide.

I donate 100% of my book sales in memory and in honor of my son to grief and bereavement support services, mental health and addiction research, care, and shelter, youth and young adult social development programs, afterlife communication research, and to urgent medical needs worldwide.

Meeting so many like minded people all over the world, it seemed like a good idea to have a website where more people could find me, my books and events, and resources for grief and healing. Since I donate all of my earnings, I decided to create my website myself. I found out that it was easy to do on my own by following the instructions on a free website builder. Within a day, www.aaronsenergy.com was launched.

From there, I created the online book club called, “The Book Club Across the Veil”, on Facebook Groups and Instagram, currently with over 3,000 followers and members combined and growing. Members and followers share books and book recommendations on the subjects of Grief and Healing, Spirituality, Metaphysical, Afterlife, Mediumship, Past Lives, Supernatural, Paranormal, Numerology, NDE, Sacred Geometry, Spiritual Tools, Meditation, and more. Each month, a Book of the Month is posted with the club’s gold badge as our current read. The book and its author are spotlighted for the whole month, and readers are encouraged to share their comments, ratings, and reviews. Authors post their books and book promotions for free on the Facebook Group page. On my website, there is a Book Club webpage where members can see all of our books of the month plus over 300 four and five star titles of recommended reading with hyperlinks to purchase sites. The list of recommended reading is frequently updated with new books.

Once again, purpose has found me.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

Camille Dan is the mother of four children, and grandmother of two. She has professional experience as a Critical Care Registered Nurse, a Medical Technical Consultant for Feature Films and Television, a Private Investment Manager, and she is the Self-Published Author of “Aaron’s Energy: An Unexpected Journey Through Grief and the Afterlife With My Brilliant Son” (2021), publisher and curator of “Gathering at the Doorway: An Anthology of Signs, Visits, and Messages from the Afterlife” (2022), a chapter contributor to “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving, Loss, and Healing” and “The Beauty of a Grieving Mother”, and founder of The Book Club Across the Veil. She appears on many podcasts, radio, YouTube shows, and live events. Camille is involved in philanthropy and many charities. 100% of Camille’s book sales are donated to charity organizations supporting grief, bereavement, and healing, mental health and addiction research and services, youth and young adult social development programs, afterlife communication research, and urgent medical needs worldwide. See www.aaronsenergy.com for further information.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Looking back, the three most important qualities, skills, and areas of knowledge for me that have been the most impactful in my journey have been resilience, gratitude, and my nursing training. I would say that gratitude is part of resilience because it is such a huge factor in healing. I can’t imagine a life without gratitude. Without it, you set yourself up for a life of disappointment and perceived failure. Life won’t always meet our expectations. But, gratitude helps us to keep getting up and trying again. Grief is the biggest lesson in resilience that we all eventually learn from loss. Everyone alive has experienced loss in some way at some point. Resilience is how we choose experience the journey through it. Nursing training taught me compassion, empathy, humanity, responsibility, and the value of human life. It also taught me how to act in an emergency. The lessons and skills I learned as a nurse made me a better parent and a better person.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

“We Don’t Die: A Skeptic’s Discovery of Life After Death” by Sandra Champlain is such an important book for me because it started my journey of transformation after heart-shattering loss. This book appeared and spoke to me at exactly the time I needed it. I refer to it often when my grief feels overwhelming and when my skepticism gets the better of me. Sandra Champlain really gets it. A former skeptic herself, she writes openly and honestly about her own transformation after loss. Her book is so well written, her story is truly compelling, and she offers many helpful recommendations and resources for grieving people in need of healing. Since the release of her international best selling book, Sandra has become a powerful force in healing grief, afterlife studies, mediumship, and spiritual awakening. Her incredible volume of work can be found on her website, www.wedontdie.com

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.aaronsenergy.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookclubacrosstheveil
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookclubacrosstheveil

Image Credits

Tom Sandler Photography
Sandra Champlain
Suzanne Giesemann
Brian D. Smith
Irene Weinberg
Lisa Snyder
Rosanne Groover Norris
Sonia Rinaldi
Leslie Fear