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Greetings Fuckers, and welcome! If it’s your first time here, thanks for seeing the words “traumatized motherfuckers” and getting curious. It’s a good indicator, we’re probably going to get along. If you’re returning after checking out season one, welcome back and thanks for continuing to wonder what’s goin on in your hellscape of a brain. Hopefully we’ve got some more answers.

But let’s tackle the elephant in the room. Or at least lightly pat him on the trunk. Where’s this show been for the past year-ish? Why’s it just comin back now?

Well, guys (nongendered), to be frank… this human over here had quite a t-word sortof year. Actually, two. Actually, five, but with a 6 month stretch of peace in between. Talkin estranged parent loss, reimmersion in the family system, new understandings of covert relational abuse throughout, animal companion trauma, destabilizing relationships, financial terror, and homelessness… to name a few things.

Coupled with finishing up my master’s degree, manual labor for family of origin obligations, and about four other jobs… I had to simplify to get by with my overwhelmed brain box. At a certain point, the whole system starts shutting down and getting less functional when you keep endlessly working instead of dealing with the full litany of your rapidly accumulated shit.

So, I’ve been pushing out weekly podcasts, and more, in the private, opt-in community this whole time. And we’ve learned aplenty of things in the past year together there. Happy to say, it’s grown and the community has hit new strides.

But I couldn’t keep up with the second stream – this one – through the t-mess. And didn’t really want to put that on public display, either.

At the same time, I decided I preferred wrapping everything we learned up together with a review-type flow, where all the shows fed into each other and painted a cohesive picture…

So, here we are! Doing that. Coming back and covering some of the major points from what’s been going on in the Blanket Fort since the beginning of 2022, in one flowing conversation. It’s been quite another year to be alive… ish. When not totally disassociated from the global terror.

Regardless, we’ve been there, putting in the work.

And that’s what I’m hoping to bring to you here, in the usual snappy, introductory and integrative, format, on this public platform. Reports on that work, and ways to start doing it yourself.

Cuz my life has been healing. Slowly. And non-linearly. This whole past year. After some reaaaaal t-word typical fodder for the dumpster fire that can be existence. And that means, it’s time to share what we’ve all learned through experience and research, so you don’t have to learn all those same lessons the hardest way.

We’re back with more complex lessons from a healing community.

And… I decided to do this thing fast, to make up for the times that things have been slow. These shows were written for weekly releases, but I figured… fuckit. The holidays are upon us. The loneliest time of year for some. The most challenging, but unfortunately very social, season for others. Who doesn’t need a little binge-fest to get through the tough times once in a while? Helps with the travel, isolation, and family terror. Plus, we’re going to cover a lot of topics that you might want to have on hand, whatever your family of origin setup might be.

Not to mention, there’s a free “fake family” holiday support discord that I made available to the masses. Just in case you are having a less-gay holiday adventure… we’re here for ya, leading up to and throughout the events. Find the link in the notes of this show. No reactive buttholes allowed – we get enough of that from our real families – you’ll be kicked out.

So. Ho-ho-ho, happy holidays if you’re listening when these drop. And, also feel free to hit up the free holiday episodes posted publicly on patreon, if you’re still feeling the burn. Search “holiday” and a few should come right up from this year’s special and ghosts of prior years’ past.

And that’s it!

My name is Jess, and these are the things we’ve learned together in our exploration of trauma – through the scientific literature and (unfortunately) real life – for the past year.

Fuckle up, we have some brain-changing stuff to share. Dive into the full community if you’re ready to rethink how you think and get back to recovering your whole life. Also linked in show notes.

And never forget, life may have dealt you some shit hands so far… but in the aftermath, you sure have become a wise, determined, real, and gutsy Motherfucker. You have everything you need to change your brain and your life. You’re not impossible to understand. You’re not broken, busted, damaged, or doomed. You’re on a difficult journey, but it’ll lead to an existence that actually aligns with the full, real You. It might even spark the same changes for others.

And you’re never alone in the moments when you doubt any of it. Your new friends and fake family are right here, tackling the same trek and learning from each other along the way.

This is Traumatized Motherfuckers, season two.

Cheers y’all. And always hail your Self.