Nexus Family Healing
Restoring Hope. Reshaping Futures.
A podcast featuring honest, candid conversations about family and mental health
In This Family, a new podcast hosted by Dr. Michelle K. Murray, President/CEO of Nexus Family Healing and licensed marriage and family therapist, explores the impact of mental health within families through honest, candid conversations. The podcast features public and private figures sharing raw, relatable stories about mental health challenges and triumphs. The series highlights how mental health affects the entire family—and how resilience and courage can lead to healing.
If you or a loved one is struggling, help is available. Please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255, or text HOME to the Crisis Text Line at 741741.
David Ambroz shares his childhood experience of homelessness, family instability, and foster care while navigating his mother’s severe mental illness. He reflects on resilience, forgiveness, and his journey to becoming a successful leader, author, and advocate for children in the foster system.
Author Jessica Guerrieri shares her personal experience with alcoholism, recovery, and mental health, including OCD and trauma. She discusses how these challenges shape her novels and reflects on sobriety, relapse, and the power of honesty and determination in healing.
Comedian Adam reflects on losing his sister Lydia to suicide, their close bond, and his own mental health struggles. He discusses his film See You When I See You and his efforts to raise awareness, honor Lydia’s life, and challenge misconceptions about suicide through storytelling and advocacy.
Meg Kissinger, author of While You Were Out, tells how she persevered, found answers that were hard to come by, and got to a healthier place. It’s an inspiring conversation about mental illness, loss, healing, and hope.
Dr. Joseph Lee, President and CEO of Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, joins Dr. Michelle K. Murray for an enlightening discussion on addiction, recovery, and family healing.
Gary Gulman has been making people laugh for many years as a top touring comedian and frequent guest on late night shows and star of multiple HBO specials. He’s a professional success by any measure. But that didn’t stop him from having a mental breakdown in his forties. In this revealing conversation with Nexus Family Healing CEO Dr. Michelle K. Murray, Gary reveals the depressive and anxious tendencies of his youth, his struggles connecting with his parents, and how a traumatic event fueled his depression.
Deborah Jackson Taffa reflects on growing up between cultures, struggling with belonging, and a painful lack of connection with her mother. She shares how those experiences impacted her mental health, and how her father’s love became a powerful source of validation and healing.
Author Rebekah Taussig shares her experience growing up with a disability, navigating depression, and learning to understand herself in a world shaped by ableism. In this conversation, she reflects on identity, motherhood, and the shift from seeing herself as deficient to recognizing systemic barriers.
Author Isaac Fitzgerald reflects on a childhood shaped by substance use, violence, and mental health struggles, including the loss of his mother to suicide. Despite these challenges, he shares how love, literature, and community helped guide him toward healing and a more hopeful path.
Author Ashley C. Ford shares her experience growing up with a mother who was both loving and abusive, while her father was incarcerated for most of her life. In this conversation, she reflects on making sense of those complex family dynamics and how they continue to shape her identity, relationships, and healing as an adult. It’s a powerful look at understanding where we come from, and how it impacts who we become.
Actor Paul Scheer reflects on his childhood with an abusive stepfather and how those experiences shaped his relationship with anger, conflict, and identity. Through therapy and conversations with his wife, he began to understand the lasting impact of that trauma and how it showed up in his adult life. He shares how he’s working to break those patterns and build a healthier relationship with himself and his family.
Actor and writer Joel Kim Booster shares his journey growing up in a deeply religious adoptive household where his sexuality and mental health struggles were not accepted. After his parents discovered he was gay by reading his journal, Joel left home at 17 and began building a life on his own while later navigating a diagnosis of bipolar II disorder. In this candid conversation, he reflects on self-acceptance, boundaries with family, and the path toward reconciliation and stability.
