2.12. Challenges of breaking the cycle | AKA – generational upset, NC, a new world
Explore the challenges and importance of breaking generational trauma cycles. Learn about family resistance to change, the impact on relationships, and the personal and societal benefits of trauma recovery. Understand the transmissibility of both trauma and healing, and discover strategies for maintaining recovery efforts despite opposition. Gain insights into the long-term effects of breaking trauma cycles on personal growth and future generations.
2.11. Forming new lives | AKA – reintegration efforts for lasting change
Explore the integration phase of trauma recovery, focusing on both internal and external processes. Learn about reconnecting with your body, managing anxiety, processing emotions, and integrating fragmented memories. Discover strategies for making behavioral changes, restructuring your environment, and overcoming fear to support long-term healing. Understand the importance of balancing inner work with external life changes for comprehensive trauma recovery.
2.10. The resources needed for brain recovery | AKA – mediums for new perspectives
Explore the essential resources needed for trauma brain recovery: time, space, and energy. Learn about the challenges of modern life in creating these resources and discover strategies for prioritizing self-care and setting boundaries. Understand the importance of restructuring daily life to support brain healing and cognitive restructuring. Gain insights into planning for long-term changes to support ongoing trauma recovery.
2.9. Loss of functionality | AKA – overcompensation, collapse, resisilence v. resistence
Explore the concept of loss of functionality in complex trauma recovery. Learn about personality parts, symptom masking, and the impact of trauma on executive functioning. Understand post-traumatic collapse and the importance of resilience in recovery. Discover strategies for managing symptoms and overcoming self-judgment during the healing process.
2.8. Internal battles | AKA – healing your disintegrated brain
Explore the concept of parts work in complex trauma recovery. Learn about fragmented personalities, how trauma impacts self-integration, and the importance of addressing these parts for healing. Understand the challenges of internal conflicts and self-limiting behaviors in CPTSD. Discover resources for understanding and working with parts to achieve a more integrated self and improved functionality in daily life.
2.7. Self-limiting modes of existence | AKA – life halting programs and parts battles
Explore the concept of self-limitation in complex trauma recovery. Learn about the various forms of self-limiting patterns, including beliefs, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and structures. Understand how trauma impacts personality fragmentation and creates self-limiting modes of existence. Discover strategies for overcoming these limitations and integrating fragmented parts of the self for holistic healing.
2.6. Default Mode Network(DMN) | AKA – memory throwbacks, bodily disconnection, and sub-sensory fear
Explore the neurological basis of PTSD through the Default Mode Network (DMN). Learn how trauma affects memory systems, fear responses, and self-awareness. Understand the impact of DMN dysfunction on daily life for trauma survivors, including hypervigilance and disassociation. Gain insights into the challenges of trauma recovery and the neurological mechanisms behind persistent fear responses.
2.5. Entrapment, defeat, suicidality, and relationships | AKA – it’s not worth your whole life
Explore the concept of entrapment in relationships and its impact on trauma recovery. Learn about the challenges of leaving toxic relationships, dealing with self-doubt, and the potential link between entrapment and suicidal thoughts. Discover strategies for setting boundaries, changing relationship dynamics, and recognizing when it’s time to end a relationship. Gain insights into building self-capacity and autonomy after trauma.
2.4. Filial obligation and family re-immersion | AKA – the family system trap
Explore the complexities of family obligations and re-immersion for trauma survivors. Learn about the challenges of filial duty, the impact on mental health, and strategies for navigating family dynamics. Discover the importance of setting boundaries, self-reflection, and balancing personal well-being with family expectations. Gain insights into managing emotional triggers and maintaining progress in trauma recovery while dealing with family obligations.
2.3. “Perspective” | AKA – gaslighting, cognitive self-corruption, time distortions
Explore the role of perspective in trauma recovery and mental health. Learn how childhood experiences shape our perceptions and perspectives, and how these influence our adult lives. Understand the impact of family dynamics on perspective formation and the challenges of gaslighting. Discover strategies for self-validation and reframing trauma-related perspectives for healing and personal growth.
2.2. Retraumatization, backslides, and non-linear progress | AKA – current cult.ural triggerings
Explore the challenges of trauma recovery during turbulent times. Learn about the non-linear nature of healing, including retraumatization and recovery setbacks. Understand the stages of trauma recovery and how societal issues can trigger CPTSD symptoms. Discover strategies for self-compassion and stabilization in the face of collective trauma.
2.1. “Not bad enough to be trauma” | AKA – the aftermath is what matters
Explore the challenges of trauma recovery during turbulent times. Learn about the non-linear nature of healing, including retraumatization and recovery setbacks. Understand the stages of trauma recovery and how societal issues can trigger CPTSD symptoms. Discover strategies for self-compassion and stabilization in the face of collective trauma.
2.0. Intro to Season Two
In this introduction to season two of Traumatized Motherfuckers, the host addresses their absence and the personal challenges they’ve faced. The podcast aims to share insights gained from a healing community, offering support and understanding to those dealing with trauma, family issues, and life’s difficulties. The host emphasizes the non-linear nature of healing and the importance of community support, especially during challenging times like the holiday season. They encourage listeners to engage with the podcast’s resources and remind them of their inherent strength and capacity for growth.
9.6 | 1. Ripping off the bandaid | Holistically Heal with Body-Emotional Work
SHOULD I have released these posts first? Eh, maybe. DO they have some slightly wonky audio from time to time…. Yesh. But here it is, and it’s a solid episode. TAKE IT. Actual description: Good news, this MF host has been retraumatized! Which means…...
Filial Obligation & Anxiety… In All Yer Shit Relationships
Hey motherfuckers. Let’s jump into a topic that many of us feel, but probably few of us allow ourselves to put into words. Filial obligation and caregiving anxiety. Meaning, the servitude we often feel towards our family members – aging parents, in particular,...
8.22 Video audio: Relationships on a Loop
Dunno if it helps to hear without the video, but figured I’d do the work and let you tell me the answer. Here’s JUST THE AUDIO for the video that was released to everyone on Patreon! A short summary of what we covered last week. Let me know if it helps or helps no one...
Refinding the Self
You know by now… Hit up the audio version of this post wherever you podcast! If yer on the market for a million more shows like these, plus the biological, behavioral, and psychological bases of all our trauma shittery… You know where to go! Hit up the...
Life on Abuse | Achievement Addict
See you in the Fort. Cheers Fuckers! Brains develop cellular connections based on reinforcement and punishment. When a brain cannot receive reinforcements for its normal behaviors, it learns new ones. When that is a pervasive experience, being socially punished for...
Society and Trickle-down Trauma
This is the blog version of the same-named mini podcast episode. II yer up for more talk on society, brain development, and wtf is happening out there … come hang with 200+ hour-long episodes on all things trauma. AND be sure to check the public-facing patreon...
Internalizing Triggers, Dis-integrating from Your Real Self
Hey Fuckers! This is the blog version of the mini summary podcast episode. If you’re itching for more details on parts, mind control, and escaping from your zoo … come hang with 200-some other full-length episodes on this fuckery.Plus, if you wanna dive in...
Overcompensate-Collapse-Getbackup | Backslides and Resilience in Trauma Recovery
You know the drill. This is the blog version of the mini summary podcast show . If you’re itching for more details on the damnations of your life so far… come hang.Find us at patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers anytime,where we’re all communing and...
7.23 Recovery vs. Relationships | The Recovery Resource We Lack is Time
So everything is hell in my world. How about yours? Coming to you live from a crusty hotel room, sortof sick, and beyond exhausted after a family blowup… Let’s bring up some old topical trends: Your trauma recovery versus sneakily abusive relationships....
15. PTSD Perspective Gaslighting
This is the transcript of the public podcast platform episode of the same name! A “wrapup” of what we’ve been covering in the Blanket Fort all month. To hop in and get the deeper details, right away, just hit up Patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers...
14. Time Distortions
Whoops… forgot to get this posted. This is the easy listenin’ public Time Distortion episode, available wherever you stream if ya search “Traumatized Motherfuckers.” For ALL the deets, hit up Patreon.com and search the same; “Traumatized...
BONUS 7.4 Time Distortions Pt. 5 | Help Yer Self
The subjective misinterpretation of time doesn’t define you. It’s just been a cognitive calculation error. Correct the variable in your human logic that creates your misperception… and you can start rewriting this whole math problem. Time is just the medium of living....
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.
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...
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.
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.
6.26 Closing 2021; Better Brains for 2022
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....
BONUS 6.25 Trick | “Avatar” | Create Cohesive Autobiography & Regulated Brain
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...
6.22 IV. Tips, Tricks, and Exercises for Control of Brain Processes
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...
1.8. Losing Control of Your brain: Triggers, Spirals, Addiction, Self-harm, Bad Habits
Explore the neuroscience behind trauma recovery and mental health in this podcast episode. Learn about neural networks, triggers, and thought patterns that contribute to feeling out of control. Discover how understanding brain function can lead to regaining mental control and breaking negative habits. Gain insights into neuroplasticity and its role in trauma healing.
6.21 III. Working WITH Trauma Brain; Implications of Understanding Processing Priorities
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...
Blog/Visuals for Working WITH Trauma Brain Pt II
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...
6.20 II. Working WITH Trauma-Brain; Order of Trauma-Processing
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...
6.19 I. Working WITH Brain Limitations; Early Concepts
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.”...
1.7. Anxiety, Obsession, Hyperactive thoughts; The High Energy Hellscape
Understanding the interconnected nature of high-energy mental health disorders like anxiety, obsession, and ADHD can be crucial for effective trauma recovery. By recognizing these conditions as part of an energetic spectrum, individuals can learn to manage their symptoms through energy regulation, critical thinking, and grounding techniques. Focusing on the present moment and challenging predictive thought patterns may help reduce anxiety and improve overall well-being. Regular exercise and mindfulness practices can also play a significant role in managing these conditions.
1.6. Depression, Shame, Rumination; The Low Energy Gang
Explore the interconnected nature of depression, shame, and rumination in this podcast episode. Learn about the neuropsychological basis of depression and how negative thought patterns perpetuate mental health struggles. Discover strategies for managing your inner critic, breaking self-defeating cycles, and fostering a healthier relationship with your thoughts and emotions.
1.5. Life Numbing Dissociation
This is the blog version of the public podcast miniseries episode of the same name. To find out more about your life on CPTSD, hit up any streaming service and search “complex trauma.” If you’re ready for deeper dives into these conversations with...
6.15 Long-term Recovery; Your “Self” Circuit
So we talk an awful lot about the “key” to managing this lifelong battle of You vs. Bad Brains. Problem being… we’re great at short bursts of success, but not so skilled at the consistently managing our negative thoughts and feelings over time....
1.5. Life-Numbing Dissociation
Explore the concept of dissociation in trauma recovery. This podcast episode delves into the neurological basis of dissociation, its various types, and how it affects daily life. Learn about emotional and intellectual dissociation, depersonalization, derealization, and dissociative identities. Gain insights into the triggers for dissociative experiences and discover resources for further understanding and healing.