She lost both her sons. One to murder. One to tragedy. Her mother passed. Her youngest battled mental health. But Marcia Earhart didn’t break — she rebuilt.

In this powerful conversation, Erick sits down with Marcia, founder of The Sterling Rose Sanctuary, to explore deep grief, unspoken pain, spiritual healing, and the process of learning to live again.
This isn’t theory. This is a raw, lived journey through hell and back.

You’ll hear how grief affects the body, how trauma rewires the brain, and what healing really means when nothing makes sense anymore.
Marcia shares how she found purpose again and how you can too.

If you’ve lost someone.
If your soul is tired.
If you feel like you’ll never be whole again…
This is the one to watch.

ABOUT MARCIA EARHART
Marcia is a Life Grief Trauma Brain Mental Health First Responder Coach, Mediator, and HeartSync Minister.
She’s the author of Gripping Grace in the Garden of Grief A Place for the Heart — a raw and redemptive journey through loss and resurrection.
She’s also the founder of The Sterling Rose Sanctuary, a nonprofit that walks with people through trauma, grief, and deep emotional healing.

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Gripping Grace in the Garden of Grief A Place for the Heart
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Email: thepearlyone@gmail.com

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Welcome back to Raw Minds. I’m your host Erick.

Today’s episode is about ADHD, men’s mental health, addiction, and purpose. Not from a textbook. From lived experience.

I sit down with Ron Souers, coach, speaker, and host of the podcast Dont Mind Me I Just Have ADHD. Ron works with men navigating adult ADHD, addiction recovery, depression, and identity struggles later in life.

Ron believes ADHD is not a flaw. It is a different operating system. In a world built for linear thinking, neurodivergent men are often told they are broken, lazy, or failing. This episode challenges that narrative directly.

We talk about adult ADHD in men, why it often goes undiagnosed for decades, and how it shows up as addiction, burnout, anger, depression, shame, and self sabotage. Ron explains why so many men turn to substances, overwork, or isolation before they ever understand what is actually happening in their brain.

This conversation also goes deep into recovery.

We talk sobriety, emotional regulation, personal responsibility, and building a purpose driven life without pretending to be someone you are not. Ron shares lessons from his own journey and from coaching men who feel misunderstood, exhausted, or stuck in cycles they cannot explain.

This episode covers men’s mental health honestly. ADHD. Addiction recovery. Depression. Emotional intelligence. Identity. Purpose. And why men over forty are often carrying decades of unspoken damage.

If you are a man who feels different, scattered, burned out, addicted, or disconnected from who you thought you would be, this episode will hit close to home.

This is not motivation talk.
This is clarity.
This is responsibility.
This is Raw Minds.

IN THIS EPISODE

Adult ADHD in men
ADHD and addiction connection
Late diagnosis and identity collapse
Neurodivergent minds and purpose
Men’s mental health stigma
Sobriety and recovery
Emotional regulation
Depression in men
Breaking shame cycles
Building a purpose driven life
Why men stay silent
How ADHD can be a strength

This conversation is honest.
It is uncomfortable.
And it matters.

CONNECT WITH RON SOUERS

Website
https://dadhdwss.com/

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085316747632

TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@ron.solo1

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/ronnyreel/

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-souers-9162b1a0/

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If this episode hit you, like it, comment, subscribe, and share it.
Raw Minds reaches people because men stop staying silent.

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Canada
Call or text 988 any time.

United States
Call or text 988.

Everywhere else
Use your local crisis line or emergency number.
You are not weak. You are needed here.

Welcome back to Raw Minds. I’m your host Erick.

Today’s episode is uncomfortable. It’s not polite. And it’s necessary. I sit down with Matt Melvin, author of Bullied Behind Bars, to talk about prison trauma, bullying behind bars, men’s mental health, and what incarceration really does to the human mind. Matt made one impulsive decision while working at a car dealership.

That decision sent him to prison. What followed nearly destroyed him. In Bullied Behind Bars, Matt lays out life inside the prison system as someone already marked. Gay. Christian. Trump supporter. Later diagnosed with autism. Those labels made him a target inside a system that punishes difference instead of protecting human life.

His story documents prison bullying, gang threats, physical assault, sexual assault, rape, denial of mental health care, and repeated time in solitary confinement. It shows what happens when the criminal justice system stops seeing a human being and starts seeing a problem to manage.

This conversation goes far beyond the book. We talk fear, isolation, survival, and the psychological damage caused by incarceration and solitary confinement. Matt opens up about being denied mental health care while clearly breaking, being targeted by gangs, and living in constant fight or flight while inside prison.

He also talks about where healing actually started after release. Journaling. Men’s groups. Faith. Vulnerability. Forgiveness. Letting go of ego. Turning pain into purpose instead of letting it destroy him.This episode explores men’s mental health, prison trauma, autism in the justice system, bullying, criminal justice reform, and recovery after incarceration. It is a raw look at what many incarcerated men experience but rarely feel safe talking about.

This episode is for anyone who has ever been bullied, silenced, locked up, written off, or felt trapped in their own mind. It’s also for parents, families, and anyone who believes conversations about prison reform and men’s mental health need to go deeper than slogans and surface-level takes.

This is Raw Minds at its core.

Real stories. Real pain. Real accountability.IN THIS EPISODE

Prison life from the inside

Bullying behind bars

Gang violence and constant fear

Sexual assault in prison

Solitary confinement

Denied mental health care

Living in fight or flight

Journaling as survival

Finding faith in isolation

Forgiveness and healing

Men’s groups and real vulnerability

Why silence destroys men

Criminal justice reform Turning pain into purpose

This is not a soft conversation.

It’s real. It’s raw. And it matters.

CONNECT WITH MATT MELVIN

Websitehttps://bullybehindbars.com

Instagram @bullybehindbars

FacebookMatthew.Melvin.5621

X @BarsBullied

Emailbullybehindbars@gmail.com

Matt is available for speaking engagements, men’s groups, and conversations that actually help people. Reach out.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Bullied Behind Bars is a raw, firsthand account of surviving prison as someone already marked as different. It exposes bullying, violence, sexual assault, and systemic failure inside the criminal justice system, while also showing the power of journaling, faith, accountability, and forgiveness.

The book is available on Amazon.

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If this episode hit you, like it, comment, subscribe, and share it.

Raw Minds reaches people because you do.

IF YOU’RE IN CRISIS

Canada

Call or text 988 any time.

United States

Call or text 988.Everywhere else

Use your local crisis line or emergency number.

You are not weak. You are needed here.