Start Here. 3 minute catchup.
Get up to speed in the shortest episode ever. I’m pushing out a bunch of “I need to get this off my brain” posts, talking real events of the past year resulting in real consequences. But if you want the shortest story… here it is. Cheers...
13. “Recovery” – Moving Forward from Trauma
You did it! Welcome to the last episode of the public platform miniseries! Just search “Traumatized Motherfuckers” wherever you stream to find the rest of the audio versions. For community, hundreds of episodes, worksheets, and more… hit...
1.13. CPTSD Recovery
Explore a comprehensive guide to Complex PTSD recovery, covering key steps from community support to finding purpose. Learn about the importance of trauma therapy, self-education, nature therapy, and building routines. Discover strategies for personal exploration, independence, and making significant life changes. Gain insights into the role of energy awareness and purpose-finding in trauma healing.
Blog Version: Top Brain Concepts 2021
Have the written word version of the episode, for your attentional efficiency. Cheers, Brainy Fuckers. Jess Top Brain Concepts 2021Download
6.30 Top Brain Concepts | 2021 Reflection
Today let’s do a broader recap of what seem to have been the best conceptual lessons we picked up in 2021 from the show. As in, the topics that changed the way we’re seeing our brains the most effectively and efficiently. Forever. In a way that we can never undo. The...
🍻 THREE HUNDRED Motherfuckers in a Fort?! 🍻
THIS many folks are officially sick and tired enough to join the worst club ever? Logistically, this blanket fort has to be my greatest ever created. Lotta bodies. Personally, seeing 300 CPTSD thrashers battling buggy brains altogether… also has to be the...
Energy Shifting?
Anyone else feeling some major changes happening / coming? Having more emotional access (for better or for worse)? Possibly feeling a bit “driftless,” waiting for things to take form? For me, there seems to be an increased healing and communing...
6.29 Top 5 Socially Learned Lessons | 2021 Reflection
There’s been a looot of learning in this hell-year. If you’re experiencing new events, you’re putting new data points in your brain. And what an “experience” it’s been. But if I had to condense the major takeaways into a “Top...
12. Losing your Self
This here is the blog version of the podcast stream miniseries on CPTSD, episode… maybe “the last of them.” When you’re ready for more shows, community, and working resources, see you in the MF Blanket Fort at...
1.12. Loss of “Self,” Learned Helplessness, and Executive Functioning
Explore the concept of loss of self in Complex PTSD and its impact on personal growth and decision-making. Learn how cognitive control, gaslighting, and learned helplessness contribute to a diminished sense of identity. Discover strategies for regaining autonomy, developing self-awareness, and reconnecting with your authentic self as crucial steps in trauma recovery.
6.28 Don’t Let Those Fuckers Get You Down | 2021 Reflection
“I want my own life,” we say. “Let’s see you try,” everyone retorts. Today, let’s talk about THE SANITY-MAKING INSIGHT of my 2021 – realizing how other people’s behaviors reflect their own mental disordering, even if...
11. Fawning, anxious attachment, and abuse.
Yo – time to talk about the survival F we all ignore in word form. This is the blog transcript of the podcast episode of the same name and numbering. Check the public platform for the full miniseries. Check the private stream for the full backlog of 200ish...
6.27 Fawning and Free-Will | 2021 Reflection
So how DO we actually determine who we are and what we want to accomplish? If my past year’s observations are right… We don’t. More often, other people’s trauma becomes our lifelong instruction manual. Let’s look at big themes underlying...
1.11. Fawning, Anxious Attachment, and Enmeshment
Explore the concept of fawning in Complex PTSD and its impact on relationships and self-worth. Learn about the characteristics of fawning behavior, its connection to anxious attachment, and how it originates in family dynamics. Understand the societal expectations that reinforce fawning and discover the importance of developing healthy boundaries in trauma recovery.
1.10. Family of origin & brain patterning
Here’s a holiday release for ya, part of a “let’s catch up on knowledge” miniseries on what we know about CPTSD so far. Merry whatever-you-do, and let’s talk about families fuckin things up. Mental illness seems to run in families,...
1.9. The trauma trap: avoidance, rigidity, isolation, and trauma-bubbles
Explore the concept of avoidance and isolation in complex trauma recovery. Learn about the “trauma bubble” and how it leads to neural rigidity and limited life experiences. Discover strategies for breaking the avoidance cycle, expanding cognitive flexibility, and challenging avoidant behavior patterns. Gain insights into the importance of neuroplasticity and exposure in trauma healing.