Our desire to be good people makes us want to believe that we can and should be immune to “bad” feelings like frustration, pettiness, selfishness, and envy but we forget that everyone else feels these emotions sometimes too. Join us as we call ourselves out and discuss some of the common dick moves we all share.

In this episode, we ask the question: What would happen if we stopped masking and instead embraced our neurodivergent traits in everyday interactions? Join us in our chaotic and hilarious attempt to forge bonds, burn bridges, and discover whether neurodivergent traits are symptoms or superpowers.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Today, we’re exploring how to understand yourself and your partner better and how to communicate your mental health needs and get on the same page with your significant other.

Love can be wonderful but many of the catchy songs we find ourselves singing along to set the bar for relationships very low and are often toxic. If we absorb these narratives we may be misled into ignoring and potentially glorifying red flags. Today, we’re exploring the concept of love through songs that tell a different story, one that lines the path ahead with green flags to guide our way.

Grief isn’t caused solely by death. Grief can be triggered by any important loss we experience: loss of a job, loss of a relationship, or even the losses of innocence, ideals, and potential that so often accompany trauma. Join us as we take a deep dive into grief and loss.

In this episode, we’re discussing the social pressures that confront us at the start of each new year and exploring how to: determine if you really want or need to make changes; decide if the timing is even right for change; and create a plan that will help you make desired changes without burning out in the process.

The holiday festivities offer a brief, brilliant flash of distraction from the harsher aspects of the season; but when the winter wonderland fades into a stark landscape of short, cold, dreary days it can be hard to find a spark of hope and warmth in our lives. Join us, as we discuss what winter has to teach us and explore what hope actually is and how to find it, even on our darkest days.

While boundary setting is always important, that’s especially true this time of year when the pressure is on to play nice, play along, and put our own needs on the back burner. In this episode, we discuss some boundary setting basics to help you break out of people-pleasing tendencies, cope with difficult individuals, push back against the pressure, and say no when you need to.

Uh oh. The holidays are already upon us again. Tis the season, so they say, and while many people are giddy with excitement, some of us enter the holiday season with feelings of trepidation, anxiety, and grief. In this episode, we’re exploring how we can turn the tables on holiday traditions, push back against the pressures, find a little more joy and peace for ourselves, and generally just survive the season with our sanity intact.

Childhood trauma imprints on us like nothing else can. Our minds and bodies hold onto those memories for decades, expressing them again and again in ways both subliminal and overt. In this episode, we’re exploring all the ways in which childhood trauma can echo into your adult life; as well as how to recognize the impact on our lives, to understand why these patterns repeat, and to begin mitigating the damage it causes.

It’s that time again, to dress up as ghosts, ghoulies, and whatever else floats our happy little spooky boats. But what about the masks we wear every day, the social personas we slip on each morning when we venture out into the world? In this episode, we’re talking about the duality of the roles we play and the masks we wear, because if we’re really honest with ourselves, there’s a little bit of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in us all.

There’s a lot of information out there about trauma recovery; some is valuable and honestly, some is clichéd and irrelevant nonsense. It can be a challenge to discern the truth from the myths, especially early on in your healing journey. Today, we’re discussing some of the lesser known and lesser heard truths, both hard and hopeful, about trauma recovery that we’ve learned during our own recovery journeys.

How can you support someone who is struggling with their mental health, trauma recovery, or neurodivergence? This episode is loaded with tons of helpful resources, some clinical perspectives, and plenty of lived experience advice to help you bridge the gap between you and your loved ones.

Admit it. You have compulsions. Every human alive has some kind of compulsive thoughts, urges, and behaviors. Who knows, maybe ghosts do too. Join us for a hysterically funny exploration of the many everyday compulsions that are a universal part of the human experience.

Let's face it. Trauma is complex. It hits us where it hurts, the wounds are deep, and the scars often leave us feeling flawed. Today, we're discussing some of the ways trauma can negatively impact our self-esteem and sense of identity, but more importantly we'll also be diving deep into how we can change the narrative to take back our power.

We’re fed messages about the connection between beauty, health, popularity, love, and success. Some of these messages are insidiously subliminal while others are painfully overt. We’ve all felt the pressure to submit to these rules and felt insecure when we’ve found ourselves falling short of the beauty ideal. In this episode we explore the origins and perpetuation of beauty standards and discuss ways that we can break out of the cycle and love ourselves a little more.

Summer has been taking us for a crazy ride on this heat wave and we're ready to feel a chill in the air and down our spines. Gather around the campfire and we'll tell you some of our own scary stories and talk about the overlap between supernatural experiences, trauma, and mental health. Is what we've experienced real or are you just sitting at this campfire with a couple of crazy people?

So how do you make friends when your neurodivergent brain has difficulty navigating complex social scripts? To be honest, we're not entirely sure either but in this episode we're combining our observations with some seemingly basic logic and our own personal experiences to make a hopefully helpful guide to forming friendships.

Today, we're exploring a variety of coping strategies and treatment options, and not all of them are textbook. We've both lived alongside depression for most of our lives and if we've learned anything it's that each person's relationship with depression is unique; coping strategies are not one-size-fits-all; and humor can go a long way toward healing.

Depression is one of the most common mental health struggles that people experience. For some, it is a temporary response to a specific trauma or loss. For others, the battle with depression comes in waves, seldom has a triggering event, and will last a lifetime. Today, we're talking about what it's like to live with depression, getting into the gritty details of how it impacts your health, your relationships, and your life.