Love Is Love
Love Is Love provides an authentic look into the healing process associated with mental health, a beacon for individuals resistant to addressing internal issues and trauma. This raw form of emotional expression serves to allow them to relate organically and create enough of a safe space to release those emotions.
The Prelude…
What’s inside
Compassion
Think I stopped lying to others right around the same time I started lying to myself. Felt like maybe if I tried hard enough, I could fake my way into some real happiness. The problem was my past affected my ability to put enough faith into others to even allow myself to show them who I really am.
Don’t take much for me to shut down, rather not say shit than let you fumble the only thing I got left that’s still pure, that last piece of me that ain’t black as midnight. My overthinking tells me they just don’t appreciate me enough, that’s the problem.
Passages
Pages
So for some reason, I felt it was progressive to apply all my effort to showing them our differences, rather than heal through our similarities. We might be more alike than we’d like to admit, & I never planned on admitting it.
Who Is Justin Murchison.
I noticed as I kept trying to elevate in different areas of my life, there were many layers that I hadn’t matured as much as I had assumed, traumas that I never gave myself a chance to heal from. I needed to forgive myself for some of my bullshit in order to overcome my own adversity.
I spent so many years perfecting the ability to internalize, taking pride in my inability to express emotion. I had to rid myself of the thought that expressing pain and emotion was a weakness. My ego was my crutch, diluting self-awareness, never allowing myself to really connect with others or have the feelings of a human being.
I was so caught up in what a Black man should be & how I’m “suppose” to function. Never noticed the level of my disassociation to emotion until I couldn’t feel anything in the moments that were meant to be some of my most fulfilling.
Every aspect of my life was numb, it was time to heal. I didn’t decide to write a book. I decided to journal and acknowledge what was going on with me, and unlearn the toxic traits holding me back from my potential Turns out, alone in my thinking and I no longer had to feel and believe that I was. May my own journey towards better mental health be exactly what you need to find the courage to start your own.
Justin Murchison
Podcasts Appearances
Let’s Start Healing
Embracing Adventure and Self-Discovery
Twenty-six-year-old Justin Murchison discusses the enlightenment that has come from life experiences, and self-discovery through travel and spirituality.
Let’s Start Healing
Ready and Real – Black Men Navigating 2020 Pt. 2 – Justin Believes
Justin Murchison joins the podcast from Denver, Colorado. The 28-year-old discusses his COVID-19 scare, how he rebounded when lost his way in life, learned to go within and trust his own instincts, and also how he has navigated 2020 as young Black man in America.
Let’s Start Healing
Speak Your Truth
Justin Murchison returns to discuss his upcoming book, Love is Love. His book of poems is a memoir of the highs, lows, and lessons of Justin’s life. The process of writing the book was a spiritual journey that the 29-year-old Colorado resident says was unexpected and he will never forget.
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