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A mother-daughter podcast about trauma, PTSD, chronic pain and more. Tune in each week to hear up close and personal stories about harrowing medical experiences, drug addiction, accidents, and finding our way through. Kim is the mom living in Pennsylvania and Anna is the daughter living in Australia! Join them and their special guests as they laugh, learn, and overshare about what they have been through.
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Join us this week for the second installment of our Coping Skills miniseries! Do you ever feel at a loss when your boundaries get crossed, unsure of how to appropriately communicate your thoughts or feelings? Or maybe you feel like you use your assertive voice TOO forcefully and end up alienating or hurting the people with whom you’re trying to foster healthy relationships? Well, this episode is for you! Listen in as we cover how to use your assertive voice, how to identify WHEN to use it, and how to honor yourself in a world where everyone has different values. We hope you enjoy listening, and we’ll see you next year!
Join us this week for the start of our new miniseries, "Coping Skills!" In this series of episodes, we walk through several different aspects of healthy coping. This week, we cover Core Values, which are the key to determining what your healthy boundaries are. Have you ever wondered why something bothers you and not others? Well, you’re about to find out! Stay tuned for more Coping Skills in the coming weeks!
Join us this week as we discuss (and argue) over how to navigate your relationships - both with yourself and others - in the aftermath of trauma. Vulnerability should increase as trust increases, but that can be hard for people with trauma! If that’s not interesting enough, there’s also a special guest appearance from a certain lawn-chores-obsessed husband.
Join us this week as we interview another guest STAR, Damien Linnane: an abuse survivor, ex-convict, world renowned artist, PhD candidate, and social activist. As an autistic trauma survivor, Damien walks us through his life story and how he got from prison to being a powerful voice for the vulnerable.
Join us this week as we launch our newest season. Hear about what we've been up to and what's coming next. This year we will have even more interviews, laughs, and episodes (hopefully) than last year.
Join us this week as we discuss narcissism, the common confusion around the term, and how it compares to confidence. You’ll also get to hear Kim and Anna yell at each other a bit. Thanks for listening!
Join us this week as we hear from another guest STAR! Sophie, Anna’s Australian friend who has been recently diagnosed with ADHD, gives us an inside look into what it’s like to be an adult woman discovering, grappling with, and adjusting to the reality of this condition. It doesn’t sound easy, but we are inspired after hearing from her and we think you will be, too!
That’s right: we’re back. After another unplanned hiatus, we invite you to join us this week as we discuss ADHD and it’s interactions with trauma, it’s impact on women, and more! We even take an online test to dive deeper into some of the more common symptoms! And that's not all… tune in NEXT EPISODE to meet one of Anna's friends recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. Thanks for listening!
Join us this week for our Season 4 comeback episode! You thought we ran out of steam? Correct. But only for a few months. Now, we’re back and better than ever, and we’ve got things to SAY! Tune in to this episode for a recap on what we’ve been up to and a preview for what’s in store for Season 4! Thanks for joining us!
Join us this week as we talk about what it’s like to reach out for a person in the middle of a traumatic event. What effect does it have when you reach out and find your person there? What about when you don’t? If you can bear Anna’s incomprehensibly bad story-telling technique, you might just find out.
Join us this week as we cover when and how to speak up for yourself during therapy, a setting that often has an unintended silencing effect on trauma survivors. We also cover (partially in a bad Australian accent) how COVID restrictions and intermittent isolation can affect those with already-isolating chronic disabilities. Don’t worry, though: even with all these hard topics, there’s still a LOT of laughter, and in this episode, there’s even a competition where you can win international CANDY! Good luck!!!
Join us this week as we sit down with Dr. Mark Talbot and hear his stories of chronic suffering and loss, along with his thoughts on how to best endure the storms of heartache we all experience. Dr. Talbot shares about his book, "When The Stars Disappear," and wields his knowledge of philosophy and theology to share insight behind one of the biggest questions in life: “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
Therapy can be one of the most helpful things in trauma recovery! But if it's not done in a way that is sensitive to your trauma, it also has the potential to hurt. Join us this week as we talk about how the power dynamic of therapy and other types of health care can be triggering to trauma survivors. We share our views on being trauma-informed and we also laugh a lot at the incredulity of our lives. Woohoo!
Join us this week as we hear from special guest STAR Casey Lee on losing her unborn child through ectopic pregnancy. As Casey walks us through her trauma narrative of love, loss, and recovery, she shares her insights on surviving pregnancy loss and the support that helped her most. This struggle affects so many women worldwide; it’s definitely an episode you won’t want to miss.
We're back with Season 3 of the podcast! Join Kim, Anna, and their returning special guest AUNT DEBBIE (!!!) to hear about the fitness challenge that they found online and completed together! Enjoy us cutting one another off, arguing about what is interesting, and trying our best to stay connected despite the isolating effects of COVID and trauma. We can't wait to dive into Season 3 with all of you! YAY!
Join us this week as we conclude Season 2 and take a look at perfectionism and PTSD! Anna and Kim tackle tough questions like whether or not everyone is TRULY unique and how to get your money back when you are outside the return window. We also dive into disappointing others and staying true to yourself as well as how unconditional acceptance can help you stay grounded.
Join us this week for a Not Ideal Thanksgiving Special Episode! We cover topics such as how many syllables the word ham has, how to live through a building evacuation (hint: the answer is frozen yogurt), and how to stay connected during the holidays while physically separated from family.
Join us this week as we interview the hosts of Our Journal Podcast! Molo and Neo are from South Africa and they talk with us about their mother/daughter relationship and so much more! Molo also runs a non-profit organization called InspireZA which seeks to increase child literacy in South Africa. They also share about The MINA Foundation which is an organization seeking to end period poverty - find out more in this episode!
Join us this week for another special guest STAR episode (because all of our guests are shining stars) with Miss Angie! Tune in for testimony about people pleasing, bullying, and how we get stuck using short-term fixes for emotional pain. Our key message is this: people pleasing is a trap that can result in losing YOU! Enjoy this lively discussion about keeping people safe without losing yourself in the process.
Tune into this episode if you’re in need of some genuine, belly-laughing fun! Kim and Anna RACE to discuss their most recent, and AMAZING, impulse decision while also reading some of our favorite reviews that YOU GUYS have left for our podcast on iTunes! If you’ve ever left a review for us, definitely have a listen — we may have shouted you out! We also discuss a cinnamon roll adventure for our fellow foodie followers and give new meaning to the phrase "That's A Wrap!" You won't believe it either.
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