Let's Start Healing

While discussing their lifelong friendship, host Adrianne Murchison and best friend Tonya Guzman share how they each dealt with their fathers' many affairs while growing up. The friends reveal how it affected their own relationships, why they've remained close for decades while living in different cities for most of that time and how laughter has been such a sustaining force between them. 

In this first podcast episode of 2021, Let's Start Healing host Adrianne Murchison has an uplifting conversation with a professional counselor who shares a spiritual journey in recovery from alcoholism, studying 'A Course in Miracles' and coping with a personal loss. The line, 'We say, "God is, and then we cease to speak' is from "A Course in Miracles" Lesson 169 titled 'By grace I live. By grace I am released.'

Podcaster Charles Gilbert returns Let's Start Healing to share his spiritual journey, discovering God in new ways, and how he has moved through life's ups and downs. Charles lives in Buffalo, N.Y. and produces several podcasts including the popular "Views from the 2." He was a guest on Let's Start Healing's Ep. 47 - a Ready and Real segment on "Black Men Navigating 2020."

Guest Rhoda Carty joins the podcast to discuss tools that helped her to get through periods of depression in the past. Rhoda is a retired real estate agent living in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area and a mother of adult twin daughters. Spirituality is central to Rhoda's life. 

In the third installment of Black men navigating 2020, John Murchison II of Chesapeake, Virginia and co-host of The Gridiron Guys Podcast gives his take on social unrest and pandemic life. 

Justin Murchison joins the podcast from Denver, Colorado. The 28-year-old discusses his COVID-19 scare, how he rebounded when lost his way in life, learned to go within and trust his own instincts, and also how he has navigated 2020 as young Black man in America. 

Justin, host Adrianne Murchison's nephew, was a guest on Ep. 9 and inspired listeners discussing spirituality, why men need fathers, and loss, grief and redemption. 

Host Adrianne Murchison shares a technique she learned in letting go of things she can't control. She learned this releasing technique called The Sedona Method by watching and listening to teacher Hale Dwoskin. 

Adrianne says that meditating with this concept helped her get through break-ups, deal with frustrating people and recently an overall annoying day. 

For more information visit sedona.com or look up Hale Dwoskin and The Sedona Method on YouTube. 

Stephanie Dean, a spiritual sister to LSH host Adrianne Murchison, joins the podcast to discuss how she has navigated all things 2020: The pandemic, being white in a climate of social unrest, facing the dynamics of her own ego and a shift to being willing to claim that she is enough. 

Dean lives with her husband and sons in the Atlanta, Georgia area and analyzes date in her work in corporate America.

Podcaster Charles Gilbert, 34, of Buffalo, N.Y. joins Let’s Start Healing as a guest to discuss navigating 2020 as a young Black man and during a heightened time of social unrest. Gilbert produces three podcasts, View From the Two, Gridiron Guys, and Royal Club Wrestling Podcast. He talks with LSH host Adrianne Murchison about being a single father, relationships, Black women, mental health, PTSD, sports and the loss of Kobe Bryant, how young black men react to Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King - and more - if that’s not enough. Follow Charles on Instagram @innerchi_52.

The emotional challenges of 2020 have taken a toll, from the coronavirus pandemic to protests sparked by the death of George Floyd. For host, Adrianne Murchison, loneliness has played a role. She shares how her spirituality is bringing her through and inspiration she received while re-watching a scene from "The Wire."