The Atlanta Mission podcast
Shedding light on some of the city’s toughest issues
“The very thing you’re running from is what you need to face.”
For Elliot, that realization didn’t come easily. After a lifetime of feeling like he didn’t matter, and learning to push people away before they could hurt him, he found himself at a point where something had to change. In this episode of Unseen Atlanta, Elliot shares what it looked like to stop running, face the past, and begin doing the hard work of transformation. His story is a powerful reminder that growth often begins in the very places we’ve spent the most time avoiding.
“If you keep carrying the same old bricks, you’re gonna keep building the same old house.”
After the loss of his wife, Eric found himself trying to cope with grief in ways that only made things worse. In this episode of Unseen Atlanta, he shares how unprocessed grief led him deeper into addiction, and what it looked like to finally confront what he was carrying. Eric’s story is about the moment things begin to shift in your life, and the decision to start rebuilding, one step at a time, in the midst of deep pain.
“It’s gonna be like a road trip… that’s stationary.”
That’s how Shanae explained sleeping in a car at Racetrac with her kids, trying to make the best of an impossible situation.
