Claim OwnershipSomething Heavy: A memoir on childhood trauma and Complex PTSD
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This podcast is about my healing journey from childhood trauma and being recently diagnosed with Complex PTSD. This is my story, this is my creative outlet... If it can help me, maybe it can help you too.
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Hello world... This episode is me diving into my pattern/belief that the proverbial other shoe is always going to drop, and how it doesn't allow me to truly enjoy life.
Hello world... This chapter is about what boundaries and needs are and how they effect my life by not being the best to set and enforce them.
Hello World.... You have questions, I have answers... Well I try to have them. This episode is part 1 of a Q&A series after getting a lot of feedback and questions about the episodes.
Hello World.... This chapter/episode I discuss why I am not the biggest fan of celebrating my birthday.
Hello World.... This chapter/episode dives into my survival pattern of people pleasing and how that affects my personal life with friendships and relationships.Here is a link for the book I talked about in this episode:https://www.amazon.com/Adult-Survivors-Emotionally-Abusive-Parents/dp/1648482635
Hello World.... This chapter/episode dives in to the role I've always had with my parents, and how I've gone out of my way to parent them.
Hello World.... This chapter/episode discusses my pattern of denying or minimizing parts of my childhood trauma and how I am learning to heal from it.
Hello world... This episode is a 2025 year in review. Start my mental health journey last December it felt fitting to give a review of all the good, bad and in between 2025 showed me.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is how I handle the holiday season for the last 15+ years with family and friends.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is a brief amount on some of the symptoms I have with C-PTSD and how it effects me.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is part 1 of giving credit to some of the parental figures I've gained in my life.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is about my realization that some friendships aren't worth keeping when there's year of data showing that they aren't a good friend to me.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is about the 4 F's (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn) of Completex PTSD and my experience with each one.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is about the yearly feeling I get around the time of my Dad's passing and how it eats at me for reasons I'm trying to figure out.
Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is the first of many parts of me exploring the difference between familiarity and safety
Recorded 08/2025Hello world, Tobey here... This chapter/episode is a follow-up after meeting with my sister. Her empathy for our Mom made me reflect on my lack of empathy for our Mom and, most importantly, for myself.
Hello world, Tobey here... This Chapter/Episode is about the concerns I have with sharing my story, the pattern of oversharing my story to people who are new to my life while also not sharing it with my long time friends.
Hello world, Tobey here... This Chapter/Episode is about my relationship, or lack therof, with my sister. Talking about our first times discussing our childhood, and my realization that we've been in constant competition with each other growing up.
Hello world, Tobey here... This Chapter/Episode is about a weekend I had attending a giant wrestling show with the bros, how much it meant to me and how it healed some parts of my inner child.
recorded 7/12/25Hello world, Tobey here... This Chapter/Episode is about being let down by family members as a youth.Hope you enjoy and excited to hear any and all feedback.
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