Checking In Replay: w/ Dr. Anita Phillips
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this special throwback episode, Michelle and Dr. Anita Phillips are planting the seeds! Dr. Anita Phillips discusses her comparison between gardens and the human body. She also shares her personal attachment to championing mental health conversations in religious spaces and the benefits of EMDR.
For more on Dr. Phillips and her new book, visit: https://www.anitaphillips.com/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.6 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:30.2 | Coming up on this week's episode of checking in is someone so near and very dear to me. |
| 0:33.4 | Dr. Anita Phillips, she is a trauma therapist. |
| 0:41.8 | She's one of the folks who called me in December of 2018 when for the second time of that year where it felt like my world literally was coming to an end, like really, really, really coming |
| 0:48.5 | to an end. And it was Dr. Anita Phillips who called me and I believe that that was one of the phone calls in that time that saved my life. |
| 0:57.7 | And I'm thankful for her. |
| 0:59.3 | And you get to hear how she is so awesome and how she is out here saving lives through her ministry. |
| 1:07.7 | Not only is she a licensed trauma therapist. |
| 1:11.6 | She is a powerhouse minister, y'all. |
| 1:14.6 | And I love how she merges faith and mental health. |
| 1:18.6 | She is the one where she says prayer is a weapon. |
| 1:22.6 | Therapy is strategy. |
| 1:24.6 | And I personally have known that to be true. So you guys pull up a seat and get ready |
| 1:32.8 | for my friend, Dr. Anita Phillips. Hey everybody, you know, I count all episodes of checking it as special because everybody's special, you know. |
| 1:47.1 | But listen, this is truly, truly, truly an extra special podcast for me today because I feel like she could be anywhere else in the world. |
| 1:56.9 | But she is showing up to be with us today. |
| 2:00.4 | She is trusted with Oprah Winfrey, the Oprah Winfrey Network, woman evolved. |
| 2:06.8 | She is a trauma therapist, a minister, a life coach. |
| 2:11.9 | She has her own podcast called In the Light. |
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