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
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 47 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 I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect. |
| 0:14.0 | Do you sense something that's not right? |
| 0:18.3 | Do you smell something that's not right? |
| 0:22.0 | You looked in your refrigerator. |
| 0:25.8 | You've looked in the microwave to see if you left something. |
| 0:28.5 | You looked in the stove. |
| 0:32.7 | You've looked in the trash and you're like, no, my, everything is gone. |
| 0:36.3 | But still there's something that smells. |
| 0:44.4 | It's probably something on the inside of you, something internal, something that we'll discuss that's called spiritual hygiene. |
| 0:54.7 | And we've got somebody here today who Oprah Winfrey describes as the most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, and teacher on the planet. |
| 1:00.3 | You'll find out who, because they're no stranger to checking in. |
| 1:06.4 | So pull up a chair, get your tea, get your coffee, your water, whatever it is that you want to sip on, because this episode is going to be something that you'll need, you'll download, |
| 1:13.6 | you'll share with others. So please, please, please join me in a few moments. |
| 1:21.8 | I am so thrilled, so unbold. I don't have all the adequate words and I'm so grateful to have a New York Times bestselling |
| 1:34.5 | author, spiritual guide. I told your publicist I was not going to do this. I was going to do this |
| 1:41.2 | in pre and in post. But I'm so thankful, y'all. She is no stranger |
| 1:47.6 | to checking in. She's no stranger to helping us fix ourselves. Her new book, Spiritual Hygiene, is out |
| 1:57.3 | already. Y'all get ready because Miss Queen, oh, just all the things, Ms. Iola Vanjant is here. |
| 2:09.6 | Hi there. Hey, it's so good to see you. Too, you're looking bright and cheering. |
| 2:17.4 | Listen, I am all the things. I told you're looking bright and cheering. |
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