Metamorphosis Unleashed: Navigating Life's Transitions with Grace

About Metamorphosis Unleashed: Navigating Life's Transitions with Grace

Welcome to *Emerging with Grace*, the podcast that's here to help you embrace life's transformative moments and emerge stronger than ever before. In a world filled with stereotypes, stigma, and unexpected challenges, this podcast is your beacon of hope, offering insights, stories, and strategies for thriving through life's toughest transitions. Our host, Marquita Garrett Ph.D., is passionate about mental wellbeing and understands that change and trauma touch us all. Whether you're a woman navigating the journey through the stages of life or simply someone searching for inspiration and guidance, this podcast is for you. Through thought-provoking conversations, expert interviews, and real-life stories, we aim to achieve three core outcomes: 1. **Graceful Transitions:** We want women and everyone else to embark on their life journeys with grace, embracing change as an opportunity for growth and renewal. 2. **Surviving Trauma and Change:** Life can throw unexpected curveballs at us all, but we're here to remind you that you can not only survive but thrive in the face of adversity. Trauma and change are not the end of your story; they're just a chapter. 3. **Discovering Life After:** It's heartbreaking to see people give up or carry their burdens indefinitely. Our mission is to show you that there is life after every setback, no matter how challenging it may seem. We'll tackle the tough questions, including "Why me?" and "What does the future hold if...?" Join us on this transformative journey as we explore the cocoon of life, unravel its mysteries, and help you emerge as the beautiful butterfly you were meant to be. Subscribe today to *Emerging with Grace* and let's navigate life's transitions together, one graceful step at a time.

Publisher

Marquita Garrett Ph.D.

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Nov 2023

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   046 The Grief No One Names: IPV and the Mother-Child Bond

   The Grief Between a Mother and Her Child About this episode: This conversation explores an often-overlooked consequence of intimate partner violence (IPV): the disruption of the mother-child relationship and the profound grief that can follow. Abuse can begin altering this relationship long before the abusive partnership ends — affecting attachment, emotional availability, parenting, trust, and the child's perception of the mother. Even after the abuse ends, the relationship may remain deeply changed and, in some cases, may never be fully repaired. We examine IPV as a family-system injury and sit with the grief of losing the relationship a mother and child once had — or might have had under different circumstances. About our guest: Michelle Chaney - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) - Certified Associate Counselor–Alcohol and Drug (CAC-AD) - Certified Clinical Trauma Professional - Certified Grief-Informed Professional - Licensed psychotherapist and founder of Healthy Connections Counseling, LLC - Clinical expertise in trauma, grief and loss, IPV, attachment, and complex relationship dynamics - Integrative, trauma-responsive approach to emotional well-being across the lifespan What we discuss: - IPV as a family-system injury — not only harm to an individual - How abuse alters the mother-child bond before the partnership even ends - The impact on attachment, emotional availability, parenting, and trust - How a child's perception of their mother can be shaped by the abuse - Why the relationship may remain changed long after the violence stops - Grieving the relationship that was — and the one that might have been - Estrangement, deferred dreams, and broken relationships as secondary losses - Pathways toward understanding, repair, and self-compassion The many forms of grief explored: - Anticipatory grief: mourning a loss that is expected or unfolding before it fully arrives - Disenfranchised grief: grief that isn't openly acknowledged or socially validated - Acute grief: the intense, immediate wave of loss in its early aftermath - Profound grief: deep, far-reaching loss that touches identity and daily life - Prolonged grief: grief that persists intensely over an extended period - Secondary grief: the ripple losses — relationships, dreams, connection — that follow the primary one A note for listeners: This episode includes candid discussion of intimate partner violence, trauma, and grief. Please listen with care for yourself. Support (U.S.): The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 — call 1-800-799-7233, text START to 88788, or chat at thehotline.org. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

2. 

   11 Aug 2026

   045 Black People Die By Suicide Too: Breaking the Silence

   Black People Die By Suicide Too About this episode: Ms. T-Kea Blackman, MPS, CPRS, RPS, is a nationally recognized, multi-award-winning peer recovery specialist, social entrepreneur, speaker, and author who joins us to discuss the rising rate of suicide in the Black community and the stigma that keeps it hidden. Drawing on her own lived experience of carrying suicidal thoughts since middle school — while excelling academically and personally — she shares how she transformed private pain into public purpose through her nonprofit, Black People Die By Suicide Too. About our guest Ms. Blackman: - Nationally recognized, multi-award-winning peer recovery specialist - Social entrepreneur, speaker, and author - Graduate of Howard University and Georgetown University - Currently pursuing her doctorate - Avid 10K runner and co-founder of a business - Founder of the nonprofit Black People Die By Suicide Too What we discuss: - The rising rate of suicide in the Black community — and why it's under-discussed - Her lived experience: carrying sadness and ideation since middle school - Being high-achieving and ambitious while silently struggling - Navigating her mental health without hospitalization or medication - How openness broke stigma among her family and peers - Inside Black People Die By Suicide Too and its support groups - Why community and peer support save lives - Balancing healing with ambition — doctorate, running, entrepreneurship About the nonprofit: Black People Die By Suicide Too is a nonprofit that holds support groups for people who have attempted suicide, those experiencing suicidal ideation, and anyone carrying these feelings. Its mission is to break stigma and build life-saving community. A note for listeners: This episode includes candid discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, and mental health struggles. Please listen with care for yourself. Crisis support (U.S.): Call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7. Online chat: 988lifeline.org. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911. Please follow her Social Media: IG: @t_keablackman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/t-kea-blackman/ Organization IG: @blackpeoplediebysuicidetoo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-people-die-by-suicide-too/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Black-People-Die-By-Suicide-Too/61560460779550/

3. 

   28 Jul 2026

   044 What Happens When You Have One Good Parent!

   When Kimberli, Owner and CEO of So Salsa, LLC, lost her husband to a heart attack at 34, she had a 2 -year-old, a 7-month-old, and a life that no longer looked like the one they had planned together. He was her first love, a devoted father, and in a single day, he was gone. That was eleven years ago. Today, she is a single mother of two thriving kids — smart, athletic, kind — raised on the memory of a father they barely got to know, kept alive through pictures, videos, and the stories she refuses to stop telling. She has forged a life with her mother beside her, juggling work, an attempt at going back to school, and a small salsa business that has blossomed. This is a story about what it means to be the provider AND the safety. To carry grief while carrying a household. To feel anxious about raising good kids in a world that often feels like chaos — and to do it anyway, with a home that is the opposite of that chaos. This is a story about what happens when you have one good parent. So Salsa, LLC www.SoSalsa21@gmail.com Because the answer, it turns out, is quite a lot. A note for listeners This episode includes candid discussion of the sudden loss of a spouse and the grief that follows. If it resonates with something you're carrying, please be gentle with yourself as you listen and consider reaching out to someone you trust.

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• Dr Micah Allen
• Trish Hill
• Anya Hildreth

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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