by Jess | Dec 31, 2021 | Our Complex Trauma Learnings So Far, Public Content, Public Podcast, Public Season 01, Series
Here’s a holiday release for ya. Merry whatever-you-do, and let’s talk about families fuckin things up. Mental illness seems to run in families, do’nnit? Turns out, there’s some biological mirroring mechanisms you might want to hear...
by tmfrscom | Dec 31, 2021 | Git Changing | Advanced, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Transcripts, Workbooks
Ya know, I spit a lot of “maybe try this” points at you in this 2021 wrapup episode. Let’s make this easier to accomplish. Here’s the transcript/worksheet version of the episode to lighten your load. Again, Happy New Year,...
by Jess | Dec 31, 2021 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Git Educated | Intermediate, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content
HAPPY NEW YEARS, FUCKERS! Thank satan, it’s over. Now let’s convince our brains of that. “What a time to be alive,” has been one of my top responses to the past year. AKA – what a swirling, head-spinning mess of chaos and upset....
by Jess | Dec 28, 2021 | Bonus Episodes, Git Changing | Advanced, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content
So, processing memories is hard work. Processing memories from INSIDE confusing, negative, overwhelming brains to create a lifelong story of “Self” is even harder. Going through the emotional and experiential recollections might sink you before you ever...
by tmfrscom | Dec 26, 2021 | Brain Operations, Exercises, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content
How do we make some of these processing events take place, in line with the hierarchy of how your brain wants to expend energy, anyways? Welp, first of all, we can take a bottom-up, emotionally-driven approach. Can we streamline the way most of us get stalled out and...
by tmfrscom | Dec 25, 2021 | Git Educated | Intermediate, Holiday Survival, Subscriber Content
Card repost from 2020. Cuz this year, I had none of the things necessary to make a new one. Luckily, the message aged well. Whether you’re all alone or just feeling like it, while surrounded by people you can’t believe you’re genetically tethered...
by Jess | Dec 23, 2021 | Our Complex Trauma Learnings So Far, Public Content, Public Podcast, Public Season 01, Series
So, let’s say your brain is on fire 24/7. Your body is doing the same. You’re uncomfortable every moment, from the inside and out. You, very literally, are too sick and tired to deal with another obstacle or point of pressure. So… You reasonably...
by tmfrscom | Dec 22, 2021 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Brain Operations, Git Changing | Advanced, Git Educated | Intermediate, Holiday Survival, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Workbooks
So, we’ve covered a lot of brain activity lately. Now lets see those concepts in action – through the lens of a common trauma problem, “Reactivity.” Here’s a simplified 5R hierarchy of brain responses, explaining some of your “not...
by Jess | Dec 20, 2021 | Brain Operations, Exercises, Git Changing | Advanced, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Workbooks
PTSD is synonymous with “bad brain function.” We get lost in the weeds more often than not, lagging with slow processors working with disjointed information. But, now we know how brains prefer to operate – from the animal functions, upwards to the...
by Jess | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog, Education, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog, Public Season 01, RECOVERY, Transcripts
So this probably doesn’t need to be said again by now, but trauma’s most devastating effect is probably feeling like you’re going batshit insane, per all the cognitive disorders we’ve already discussed. It’s bad enough to be consistently depressed, anxious, and...
by tmfrscom | Dec 16, 2021 | Git Changing | Advanced, Git Educated | Intermediate, Subscriber Content, Transcripts, Working With Trauma Brain
It’s all about *Implications.* Here’s how we can actually SEE this brain hierarchy of processing in real life – and the ways its immediately useful to keep at the front of your mind (if you can access it). You know, in written form, in case you...
by Jess | Dec 16, 2021 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Git Educated | Intermediate, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Working With Trauma Brain
Get the full story all at once. It’s time for Part III of this Neurobiological Education and Application series, designed with this very information in mind to aid in learning and reflecting most efficiently. Today, we’re talking about the real life...
by Jess | Dec 16, 2021 | Our Complex Trauma Learnings So Far, Public Content, Public Podcast, Public Season 01, Series
What’s the difference between your past high-functionality and current fears of “losing your fucking mind”? Bad information that was programmed into faulty neural networks being activated more regularly in ways that override the accessibility of...
by tmfrscom | Dec 14, 2021 | Git Educated | Intermediate, Subscriber Content
Update 8-14-23: the full catalogue now lives on the web site … and there’s a detailed episode guide here! We always need reminders about this tricky “Private RSS Code” thing that unlocks all the private platform episodes (old and new)… so...
by Jess | Dec 13, 2021 | Git Changing | Advanced, Git Educated | Intermediate, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Series, Subscriber Content, Transcripts, Working With Trauma Brain
Hey hey “working on it” Patrons! Welcome back to this experiment in breaking down information for overwhelmed brains. Here’s your next task; reading and reflecting on this visual version of the Deep Details episode just released to your...
by Jess | Dec 13, 2021 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Brain Operations, Git Educated | Intermediate, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Series, Subscriber Content, Working With Trauma Brain
Trying a more neuro-realistic approach! Releasing these scientific conversations in absorption-enabling pieces. In this episode, we have Part II; the neurological details that easily explain the logical flow of trauma processing and recovery stages. Wonder why you get...
by tmfrscom | Dec 12, 2021 | Polls, Subscriber Content
Anyone noticing a “riled up” energy lately? Having a bit of personal / social tumult? Or is it just everyone in MY life flinging shit at spectators? Not sure if I’ve mentioned this on the show before, but there’s something to be...
by tmfrscom | Dec 9, 2021 | Brain Operations, Git Changing | Advanced, Git Educated | Intermediate, Subscriber Content, Transcripts, Workbooks, Working With Trauma Brain
Here we go! You’ll find the transcript/blogged version of the episode released today, along with doods to help see things the way I understand them. Working-WITH-Trauma-Brain-Pt-IDownload SO I just told you this morning, I’m breaking up research-dense...
by Jess | Dec 9, 2021 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Brain Operations, Git Educated | Intermediate, Patron Season 06, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Working With Trauma Brain
Trying a more neuro-realistic approach! I’m going to be releasing these scientific conversations in more manageable bittles instead of throwing your brain into “everything I’ve learned over the course of years from ten directions, all at once.”...
by Jess | Dec 8, 2021 | Blog, Education, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog, Public Season 01, RECOVERY, Seasons, Transcripts
You know, you know…This is the blogged and visually-oriented version of the public podcast episode by the same name. Hit up the audio edition if you’re more of a conversational learner. On that open airwaves platform, we’re in the midst of a quick...
by Jess | Dec 8, 2021 | LIVING with Complex Trauma, Our Complex Trauma Learnings So Far, Public Podcast, Public Season 01, RECOVERY
Time to talk about perhaps the largest post-traumatic complaint. It’s time for Anxiety. (When isn’t it?) Let’s also chat about those highly related conditions often driven by anxiety… Obsession and Scattered Thinking. The link between all of...
by Jess | Dec 6, 2021 | Our Complex Trauma Learnings So Far, Public Content, Public Podcast, Public Season 01, Series
You know the team well. They all travel together. One feeds into and strengthens the next. And getting away from them feels inescapable. It’s a Traumatized Motherfucker’s worst friends; rumination, shame, and depression. Which cognitive hellhole comes...
by Jess | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog, Education, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog, Public Season 01, RECOVERY, Transcripts
Look! These doods are even released on time! You know the drill by now… This is the blogged and visually rich version of the public podcast platform miniseries, where we’re describing what’s understood about CPTSD from our research and real-life...
