Podcast Episodes

Sexism PTSD & The Body – Elizabeth Menzel

Elizabeth Menzel’s life’s work is understanding and healing trauma trapped in the body – including her own. Originally a trained physical therapist she became intrigued by the link between clients with fibromyalgia and a history of trauma. She found help in Somatic Experiencing and other modes of releasing trauma. She talks about the science of releasing tension and stress, PTSD and sexism – including sharing her own struggles coming from a childhood with an overtly misogynistic father.

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Female Domestic Violence Against Males – Daniel A

Daniel looks back at his relationship with his soon-to-be-ex-wife; turning from the woman of his dreams to a dangerously violent and unpredictable stranger. He talks about the myths around female on male DV and his experiences before leaving her

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Social Anxiety – Dr Ellen Hendriksen

The author of How To Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety, and Harvard Medical School Psychologist shares not only the science of Social Anxiety and ways to deal with it but some of her own battles with it.

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Jessa Reed – Surviving The Trailer Park & PTSD

Few guests have revealed as much of themselves as Jessa, a comic and podcaster (Mormon and the Meth-Head) We touch on being molested, fear of intimacy, addiction, mending relationships, sobriety, anger, psych wards, rejection, sexual fantasies most people would never share publicly (rape, being cheated on), psychosis, binge eating and the lengths we will go to get attention.

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www.JessaReed.com

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Clutter, Hoarding & Buying “Stuff” – Tracy McCubbin

Decluttering expert Tracy McCubbin shares about her experiences being raised by a hoarder and how she helps clients part with their stuff. She and Paul get into the topics of materialism, cheap-goods consumerism, compulsive shopping and using “stuff”, especially collecting to avoid feelings or issues in our lives.

 

From Unspeakable Tragedy to Meth Psychosis – Todd G

Paul’s friend shares about the co-dependent relationship with his longtime lover that ended in tragedy & Todd’s PTSD, porn & meth binges tailspinning into a showdown on his roof vs a SWAT team, before finally having a moment of clarity and getting his life together piece by piece.

Best Of: Tiffany Haddish

One of our best episodes – recorded in 2015 before she was famous (Girl’s Trip, Saturday Night Live) – Tiffany opens up about her horrific family life, being shuttled around the foster care system and finally finding her voice doing comedy.

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Singer-Songwriter Chris Smither

The blues-based singer-songwriter who has written for Bonnie Raitt and other artists started out in the epicenter of the NY/Boston folk scene among contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Eric Von Schmidt reminisces about his career, the art of songwriting, jamming with blues legends like Son House, his battles with alcoholism and what success means both professionally and personally.

He performs Train Home and Leave The Light On.

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Melissa Broder aka @SoSadToday Returns

The hilarious author and uber-popular Tweeter @SoSadToday delves into subjects covered in her latest book, The Pisces (and reads from it). She and Paul talk about romantic obsession, sexual compulsion that leads to shame and regret; the overall search to fill the nothingness in a futile attempt to know the unknowable and the animal part of the brain that overrides logic.