In this deeply moving episode recorded near the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, hosts Katherine Finley and Miriah Feehery welcome spiritual counselor and energy medicine practitioner Marianne Mitchell for an intimate conversation about healing, community, and resilience. Marianne shares her daily spiritual practices, including prayer alchemy technology-a multi-step process rooted in Science of Mind that helps practitioners embody divine consciousness and maintain grounding through life's challenges. The conversation organically flows into a profound reflection on how Hurricane Helene impacted the Asheville and wider community, revealing powerful stories of neighbors coming together across all divides, from the Amish working alongside Baptist ministries to unlikely partnerships between people of vastly different political beliefs.

The episode explores how the disaster revealed a fundamental truth: that division is an artificial construct, and when stripped of outside influences like social media and news, humanity's natural instinct is to care for one another. Marianne shares her spiritual experiences during the storm, and discusses the ongoing work of grief, ancestral healing, and nervous system regulation in the aftermath. All three women reflect on the challenges of balancing the impulse to serve the wider community with the need to tend to their own families and nervous systems, ultimately arriving at Marianne's powerful insight that "all healing happens in community"-a truth demonstrated by WNC's response to Helene.

Find Marianne:

Website: https://www.bluestarmedicine.com/

Email: [email protected]

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@appalachianpriestess5757

Find Miriah at Wholebeingcounseling.com

Find Katherine at Sovereignheartcoaching.com