Podcast Episodes

2.11. Forming new lives | AKA - reintegration efforts for lasting change

Season 2 Episode 11

So we do this painful and energetically expensive inner work. And then what? Return to the same old lives? Naw, Fucker. That's the fastest way to hit "revert to draft." Once the integrative inner wor…

Published on 3 years ago

2.10. The resources needed for brain recovery | AKA - mediums for new perspectives

Season 2 Episode 10

Aiming for recovery, but finding that you never have the conditions to make progress?

Let's talk about what it takes for a brain to heal. The basic mediums of life that most of us are unable to access…

Published on 3 years ago

2.9. Loss of functionality | AKA - overcompensation, collapse, resisilence not resistence

Season 2 Episode 9

A brain is busy with all those survival processes running in the background and the second-by-second management of triggers and symptoms. So what happens when that system gets overloaded?

Today, we're…

Published on 3 years ago

2.8. Internal battles | AKA - healing your disintegrated brain

Season 2 Episode 8

Back to this self-limiting conversation... what happens when our "selves" are limited by incohesion? When we have inner wars over "the right thing," or oppositional memory and emotional responses con…

Published on 3 years ago

2.7. Self-limiting modes of existence | AKA - life halting programs and parts battles

Season 2 Episode 7

You've decided to enact new behaviors to change your life... only to find you can't actually put them into practice. You stall out and revert to old programs to your own bewilderment. Something is st…

Published on 3 years ago

2.6. Default Mode Network (DMN) | AKA - memory throwbacks, bodily disconnection, and sub-sensory fear

Season 2 Episode 6

So we all have a penchant for fear, it's a foundational aspect of PTSD. But what happens when our brain relay system is wonky due to those adaptations? 

Let's talk about the faulty DMN. How it throws …

Published on 3 years ago

2.5. Entrapment, defeat, suicidality, and relationships | AKA - it's not worth your whole life

Season 2 Episode 5

We know, trauma brains create patterns that can stall us out and keep us stuck. This is especially true when talking "relationships" of all forms. Unfortunately, leading many to feel permanently soci…

Published on 3 years ago

2.4. Filial obligation and family re-immersion | AKA - the family system trap

Season 2 Episode 4

The time comes for all of us; the family call to duty. And then what. We know it's going to trigger unwanted trauma reactions. But resisting often feels futile, immoral, and socially-punishing.

Let's …

Published on 3 years ago

2.3. “Perspective” | AKA - gaslighting, cognitive self-corruption, time distortions

Season 2 Episode 3

Perspective; A word with many meanings, depending on who's speaking it. Namely, the bane of, "that's just ONE perspective."

Let's talk about the real definition of the word, how it pertains to post-tr…

Published on 3 years ago

2.2. Retraumatization, backslides, and non-linear progress | AKA - current cult.ural triggerings

Season 2 Episode 2

Have you been struggling to make meaningful progress? Well, these global events don't help. Especially when they feel so... family-iar... to our trauma brains. 

Let's talk about the semi-accepted phas…

Published on 3 years ago