REPLAY: Spiritual Hygiene_ Cleaning What You Can’t See with Iyanla Vanzant
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this deeply moving episode of Checking In with Michelle Williams, Michelle sits down with spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant for an honest, soul-shifting conversation about spiritual hygiene.
Together, they explore what it means to clean internal debris, confront unhealed pain, release inherited trauma, and stop carrying what was never ours to hold. Iyanla breaks down why awareness, honesty, boundaries, grief, and personal responsibility are essential to true healing — and why love sometimes means speaking truth, even to family.
From relationships and generational patterns to faith, fear, self-worth, and forgiveness, this episode is a reminder that healing is not about perfection — it’s about courage, compassion, and daily practice.
This conversation isn’t just something you listen to — it’s something you sit with.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.4 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:07.4 | Just stories. |
| 0:09.1 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:10.9 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:13.8 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:18.4 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pujabhad show, |
| 0:21.2 | and the IHeart Radio app, |
| 0:22.9 | Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:24.2 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:27.6 | Come for the honesty. |
| 0:29.2 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:35.5 | a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect. |
| 0:42.9 | Do you sense something that's not right? Do you smell something that's not right? You looked in your |
| 0:50.4 | refrigerator. You've looked in the microwave to see if you left something. You looked in the stove. You've looked in the microwave to see if you left something, you |
| 0:56.4 | looked in the stove. You've looked in the trash and you're like, no, my, everything is gone, |
| 1:02.4 | but still there's something that smells. It's probably something on the inside of you, something |
| 1:09.0 | internal, something that we'll discuss that's called |
| 1:12.4 | spiritual hygiene. And we've got somebody here today who Oprah Winfrey describes as the most |
| 1:18.7 | powerful spiritual healer, fixer, and teacher on the planet. You'll find out who, because they're no stranger to checking in. So pull up a chair, |
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