Podcast Resources

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.

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.

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.

Happy Valentine's Day! Or Not! You'll get no judgement from us. Embrace the commercial holiday with chocolates, flowers, or whatever else strikes your fancy; and join us as we break down and bust some myths about love and relationships.

Today we're talking all about baggage! We all got it! We all bring it into our relationships! That's why it's important, when we're looking for love, to find someone who has baggage that fits well with our own.

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.

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

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.

This time 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.

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.

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.

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.

Depression is one of the most common mental health struggles that people experience. For some, it is a temporary response to trauma or loss. For others battling depression it comes in waves, seldom has a triggering event, and can last a lifetime. What’s it like to live with depression? Let’s get into the gritty details of how it impacts your health, your relationships, and your life.

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.

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 we're combining our observations with some seemingly basic logic and our own personal experiences to make a hopefully helpful guide to forming friendships.

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?

We’re fed messages about the connection between beauty, health, popularity, love, and success. 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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s a lot of information out there about trauma recovery; some is valuable and honestly, some is clichéd and irrelevant nonsense. 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 healing journeys.

Happy Halloween! 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.

Childhood trauma imprints on us like nothing else can. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love can be wonderful but many of the catchy songs we find ourselves singing along to set the bar for relationships very low, and may even be toxic. 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.

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.

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.

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.

The winter is melting away and with spring finally here we feel revived, refreshed, and ready for some goodies and games with our loved ones. Nothing illustrates these ideas better than Easter baskets and Easter egg hunts, so join us as we take an allegorical journey to discover the wonderful things that come with being neurodivergent.

One of the biggest challenges that comes with experiencing childhood trauma or being neurodivergent is that we often don’t get the opportunity to discover our identity until we are adults. Join us as we discuss the highs and lows of this self-discovery journey and how music can help us define ourselves.

Join us as we explore the anxiety ABCs to give you a real-life review of some coping mechanisms, tools, and skills that are commonly used or recommended.

Victimhood is loaded with complicated, uneasy feelings and it’s kind of expected that we should jump straight from being traumatized to being a resilient survivor and the hero of our own story. But does a superhero themed bandage actually heal our wounds? Join us as we take a more neutral and destigmatizing look at victim mentality.

What does a day in the life of a neurodivergent person look like? Well, that depends. We are a large community with a vast set of eccentricities, challenges, and gifts but even with all this diversity we also share many things in common. Join us as we discuss and compare notes on how autism and ADHD influence our lives, motivations, routines, and relationships.

Join us as we explore some of the life lessons we learned from iconic 90s cartoons and how our perspectives of them have shifted since we grew up.

Join us as we destigmatize some commons fears and phobias and seek to understand why we feel fear; how to determine if we’re being irrational; and what to do about it when our fear gets the better of us.

We’re in the sweltering stretch of summer and you know what that means... It’s #hotgirlsummer time. Or is it? There’s plenty enough room for all of us, whether you’re a hot girl, a goblin girl, or something else entirely. As they say: You do you, Boo.

Feelings just tend to happen and we don’t often give them much thought or effort. But maybe we should. Emotions and our relationships with them can actually be really complex, and by exploring them more fully we gain a much richer understanding of ourselves and our experience of the world.

Nearly all of us are feeling the effects of the combined chaos in the world, so, what are we to do? Well, when truth becomes stranger than fiction it might actually be beneficial to explore what real-world survival skills fictional pop culture protagonists can teach us to help us survive the pre-apocalypse.

Let’s all allow our inner child to express themselves through a series of timed challenges that are as fun as they are fascinating. There will be lots of unmitigated joy, some internal battles of will, and some unexpected heartfelt moments; which is honestly exactly what a lot of us need right now.

Gather around the campfire with us while we dip our toes into the spooky realm to explore some classic urban legends and discuss whether these stories are worthy of passing along to scare yet another generation.

Over the river and through the woods, to our traumatic holiday memories we go. Buckle up folks, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride! We may not be able to pick our families, but we can choose whether we laugh or cry at the madness and chaos they bring to us. Allow us to regale you with some insane tales that may feel very familiar and relatable to those of you who grew up in dangerously dysfunctional homes.

Santa always comes bearing a loaded mixed bag of both good and bad, making it easy to get overwhelmed and forget the reason for the season. No, we’re not going to say Jesus because we believe that the holiday season is not one-size-fits-all, and that everyone should have a chance to enjoy it on their terms and for their own reasons. Join us as we explore a plethora of possible reasons that might help you find your holiday spirit.

How’s everyone doing out there? If the answer is “Not so great” we feel you. If you’re struggling with your mental health or your relationships this year then how much forced “holly jolly” can you take? We’ve put together a list of mostly offbeat Christmas movie and song recommendations to help you survive the rest of this holiday season.

If you’re a neurodivergent person, chances are you’re used to feeling out of step with the rest of the world. But what if we’re not actually the problem? It’s entirely possible that we’ve been gaslit our whole lives into believing things about ourselves that are egregiously untrue or misrepresented and then pressured into fixing things about ourselves that were never broken to begin with.