Episode Details

Most trauma recovery models assume the threat has ended: you heal after the harmful relationship is behind you. But what if one relationship has to continue — a parent, a co-parent, a colleague — potentially for years? This episode explores what one writer calls the "dual-firewall problem": running strict information control with one person while staying open and vulnerable with everyone else. Both firewalls are correct. Neither can be run by the same settings. We dig into the ICD-11's framing of interpersonal disturbance as a core CPTSD feature, a grounded-theory study on how group compassion — not psychoeducation — drives change, and what STAIR and ESTAIR offer for context-specific skill use. Plus: why the phase-based treatment debate is still live, and what the research genuinely can't tell us about switching costs. Episode #613850 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/613850