Living Deeply with Markieta Carter

What does it mean to move through the world with deep awareness in a place shaped by tradition, expectation, and unspoken rules?

In this episode of The Southern Humanist with Markieta Carter, Markieta explores her lived experience as a Black, neurodivergent woman navigating the South through a humanist lens. She shares what it feels like to be highly perceptive in environments that often reward conformity, and how that awareness can be both a gift and a challenge.

From early experiences of reading the room and masking to the internal tension of questioning deeply rooted cultural and spiritual norms, this conversation unpacks the reality of living at multiple intersections. Markieta reflects on how humanism became an anchor—offering a framework grounded in compassion, accountability, and truth.

This episode also reframes sensitivity as strength, not weakness, and highlights the importance of honoring your nervous system, setting boundaries, and choosing authenticity over performance.

If you’ve ever felt “too aware,” too different, or out of alignment with your environment, this episode will remind you that your perception is not a flaw—it’s a form of clarity.

If this episode resonates with you and you’re ready to explore your own growth, awareness, and alignment on a deeper level, connect with Markieta at www.markietacarter.com to learn more and book a discovery call.

In this deeply honest and reflective episode, I open up about why I’m single again—and why this time feels different.

As a highly sensitive person, relationships can feel intense, consuming, and emotionally layered. I share how loving deeply can sometimes turn into overgiving, self-abandonment, and emotional burnout. But more importantly, I talk about the shift—what it looks like to finally choose yourself, honor your boundaries, and stop confusing emotional intensity with true connection.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt like they give too much in relationships, stay too long, or lose themselves trying to make love work.

Being single isn’t always a loss—sometimes, it’s a reset.

✨ If you’re ready to stop overgiving, rebuild your boundaries, and create healthier relationships without losing yourself…

👉 Let’s connect. Work with Markieta to start your relationship reset journey:🌐 www.markietacarter.com

This episode is a direct, compassionate conversation with parents about emotional boundaries with children. We define emotional incest (covert incest), clarify that it is not physical or sexual, and explain how it places children in adult emotional roles they aren’t equipped to carry.

Learn how emotional incest shows up—sharing adult problems, leaning on your child for comfort, advice, or validation, and treating them like a best friend—and why these patterns, even when born from love, can be harmful. The episode offers awareness and practical encouragement to shift toward healthier parent-child boundaries.

If you need help shifting creating a better dynamic in the relationship with your children, schedule a discovery call with me at www.markietacarter.com. 

This episode is a direct, compassionate conversation with parents about emotional boundaries with children. We define emotional incest (covert incest), clarify that it is not physical or sexual, and explain how it places children in adult emotional roles they aren’t equipped to carry.

Learn how emotional incest shows up—sharing adult problems, leaning on your child for comfort, advice, or validation, and treating them like a best friend—and why these patterns, even when born from love, can be harmful. The episode offers awareness and practical encouragement to shift toward healthier parent-child boundaries.

If you need help shifting creating a better dynamic in the relationship with your children, schedule a discovery call with me at www.markietacarter.com. 

Markieta explores how constant negativity in relationships—persistent complaining, criticism, and emotional dumping—slowly drains your energy and identity, especially if you are highly sensitive. She explains how to recognize this pattern and why it becomes normalized over time.

She offers practical steps to protect your well-being: acknowledge the pattern, stop absorbing what isn’t yours, set emotional boundaries, limit exposure, and release without guilt. The episode encourages choosing environments that bring peace and reclaiming your light.

Connect with Markieta at www.markietacarter.com.

Markieta introduces her new book, The Best Divorce, sharing how she transformed her life after leaving an unhappy marriage. Five years later she lives in her dream home, drives the car she wanted, and raises happy, healthy children in a household filled with laughter and peace.

She explains the work that led to this calm — therapy, self-regulation, affirmations, and finding strength within — and how choosing her own path, not a traditional role, allowed her to build a full, joyful life without lack.

In this episode of the Living Deeply podcast, Markieta offers a loving, affirming space for the LGBTQ+ community to breathe, accept themselves, and reclaim their worth. Through guided breaths and empowering affirmations, Markieta reminds listeners they are never too much, never wrong, and never something to fix.

She explores releasing shame, embracing identity with pride, setting boundaries, and cultivating relationships that honor and celebrate who you are. You\'ll leave feeling seen, resilient, and ready to continue your journey toward healing and living fully, freely, and unapologetically.

Connect with Markieta to dive deeper into your journey at www.markietacarter.com

In this soothing and empowering episode, Markieta Carter guides highly sensitive individuals through a series of affirmations designed to help them reconnect with their inner strength, emotional depth, and self-worth. The episode creates a calm, supportive space where listeners are encouraged to embrace their sensitivity as a gift rather than a burden.

Through gentle grounding, intentional breathing, and powerful affirmations, listeners are reminded that they are not “too much,” but instead deeply intuitive, compassionate, and resilient. The episode reinforces the importance of setting boundaries, honoring emotional needs, and creating environments that feel safe and nurturing.

By the end of the episode, listeners are left feeling centered, validated, and empowered to navigate life with greater confidence and self-acceptance—seeing their sensitivity not as something to fix, but as something to honor and use as a source of strength.

If this episode resonated and you’re ready to fully embrace your sensitivity and thrive in your personal life and relationships, take the next step. Schedule your discovery call today at: 👉 www.markietcarter.com

You don’t have to figure this out alone—support, clarity, and transformation are waiting for you. 💜

Markieta explores how highly sensitive people heal after a relationship ends, explaining why breakups feel deeper and how this depth is not a flaw but a strength.

She offers gentle, practical steps for rebuilding nervous system safety—small comforts, reduced overstimulation, protecting energy, allowing emotions—and emphasizes not rushing the process.

The episode invites listeners to redefine happiness, rediscover themselves, and take time to heal with compassion and support.

Connect with Markieta at www.markietacarter.com. 

Markieta, a queer, neurodivergent, humanist, highly sensitive coach, shares the raw experience of becoming single again and how this shift has sparked emotional recalibration. She explores how deep sensitivity can lead to absorbing others’ emotions, losing boundaries, and staying too long in relationships out of hope and investment.

In this episode she explains why she’s choosing herself now, how she’s rebuilding boundaries without guilt, and why being single can be an intentional reset rather than a setback. Listeners will find encouragement to trust their sensitivity and create relationships that don’t require shrinking or self-abandonment.

Connect with Markieta at www.markietacarter.com.