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.

Today, we're talking about the convoluted connection between reality and personal experience. Join us as we blind-record our individual accounts of a single traumatic event in our childhood and then discuss the contradictions in our stories, as well as how our subjective experiences have shaped the adults we are now.

This time, we hope you'll listen in for a more light-hearted and humorous discussion about what gets under our skin to hear as neurodivergent adults living in a "normative" world. And please, join our chorus of angry laughter and take a jab at society too by telling us what things you hear that annoy the heck out of you as a neurodivergent person.

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family and traumatic home we're guessing there were a few things you really hated being told as a kid. Today, we're discussing some of the frustrating and infuriating messages we heard while growing up, both from within and from outside our family. What phrases did you hear that got under your skin?

Today, we're talking about how you can begin to budget your f*cks or spoons or pies or whatever you choose to call those limited resources. Laugh with us as we share our own struggles and victories with f*ck budgeting; and gather some shiny, new budgeting tools to add to your own toolbelt too.

This time we're talking about the difference between "I don't give a f*ck." and "I can't give a f*ck." When you have mental health struggles, a trauma background, or are neurodivergent there is a distinction between the two. In this episode, we're covering a few examples of how ingrained societal pressures and differences in the way our minds work can influence us and challenge out ability to budget our limited number of f*cks.

Come listen in as we discuss all the rational and ridiculous ways we can live...mostly peaceably, with our social anxiety.

Come listen in as we discuss all the rational and ridiculous ways we can live...mostly peaceably, with our social anxiety.

This time around we're talking about the antiheroes of the psyche. These are the double-edged swords of coping skills and mechanisms that we all use to help us survive. Join us as we explore the antihero in us all.

Today we're talking all about baggage! We've all got some! We all bring it into our relationships! That's why it's so important, when we're looking for love, to find someone who has baggage that fits well with our own. What does that look like? Let's figure it out together.

Happy Valentine's Day! Or Not! You'll get no judgement from us either way. We all know this is a commercial holiday so embrace it by grabbing yourself some chocolates, flowers, wine, or whatever else strikes your fancy; and join us as we break down and bust some myths about love and relationships.

We’ve all heard this term, but what does it actually mean? In this episode, we discuss what a mental health check-in is, from a holistic perspective, and we talk about how to do one for yourself. Hint: It’s not just all in your head.

In this episode, Autumn and Ivy talk about the challenges of learning to accept yourself when you're continually influenced by your neurobiology, mental health, past trauma, and social experiences.

In our first episode we take a deep dive into the meaning of trauma. We look at the medical definition, the cultural reality, and use our own personal stories to explore what it looks like in real life.