Let's Start Healing

Fran Jeffries, a longtime journalist and spiritual seeker, joins the show to share parts of her journey to becoming free in her spirit and growing in her relationship with God. Fran says she has worked through personal fears and become courageous in life and her spirituality.

Here are links to meditations and spiritual teachers mentioned in the intro.

Jazz Jones and MaD Miracles' Breath and Energy Movement Meditation

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Chakra Dhyana Chakra Meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdahlBxZZT4&t=1989s

Wayne Dyer - Three Magic Words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44ImQV46lF4&t=342s

Reflecting on the last 12 months, host Adrianne Murchison shares how grief and loss, and relationship letdown led to self-empowerment and certainty about the path forward in 2023.

Jahari Soward, a business woman in technology and the nonprofit world, shares how her relationship with God helped her to heal through loss and is an inspiration in her work and personal life.

One of her mantras is 'I am for equity because who I am matters.'

www.linkedin.com/in/jaharisoward

Atlanta-based songstress Robin Latimore shares how her parents sparked her love of music. Her dad had a passion for traditional and contemporary jazz as well as big band swing, and her mom pushed gospel and inspirational music. Robin developed a love for those two genres more than any other. She talks music, family and her foundation which benefits students who have cancer.

Guest Ron Rouse joins the podcast to share how with time on his hands after semi-retiring last year, he was at a crossroads looking back at previous life choices, and at his present need for more meaning, fulfillment and a relationship with God.

Guest Wes Patillo joins Let's Start Healing to discuss some of the emotional struggles of men when they don't feel free to live authentically and how life pressures can be a pressure-cooker. Patillo also gives his take on how men can feel lost when their sexual vitality starts to shift as they get older.

Host Adrianne Murchison is joined by podcasters Charles Gilbert and John 'Russ' Murchison discussion the meaning behind "For the culture' using Kendrick Lamar's song and video 'The Heart Part 5' as a jumping off point. Spirituality was weaved throughout the episode. If you've seen the video or heard the song, you know it would have to be. It was real conversation, deep and fun.

Gilbert is a producer of several podcasts including 'So, in the meantime'. Here is a link to his podcast YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbOikfspNOFLjtV9pv8PaOg

Author and life coach Lisa Marie Runfalo shares how she grew spiritually from a place of powerlessness to self-empowered after experiencing the death of her ex-husband and several trips from Europe to be by his side.

Host Adrianne Murchison discusses pushing forward through hard times, facing 'What the thing is for?' and trust in self and the power of energy. Also included is an update to the previous episode conversation on the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Laurie Gilbert, a recently retired manager of a family planning clinic in Buffalo, N.Y., discusses how the overturning of Roe v. Wade impacts underserved communities. The emotion behind a decision to have an abortion and the silence of men in support of a woman's right to choose is also discussed.