7.22 Empower Your Self | On the human rights war
TW: body autonomy It’s time for your Self to stand. PS – Yeah, I know. MORE shit has happened. Clearly, this bitch (the world and myself) is on fire. Let’s use the flames to light the way forward ay? Cheers. And have a safe holiday...
7.21 Cheers | Yer Self can’t take it anymore
Editor’s Note: Yo, we’ll talk societal trauma in a minute. Can’t keep up. Bear with, facing my 2020-22 final boss rn and doin my best to spin those plates. Whatta time it’s been to be… not really alive on the inside, anyways. With all the...
7.20 Supplement: Resistance Vs. Resilience
Let’s talk. So we think it’s a good idea to aim for resilience – give yourself some fucking grace if life scrambles your brains and you can’t shut it out. That’s the least we can do for our selves after this whole battle we’ve been in together. BUT… you do...
7.19 Perspective Resilience Vs. Resistance | urnottaweakassbitch
Resilience… toxic or the goal? You found out about complex trauma. You’ve reframed your past to understand your present. You’ve developed new thoughts that carry you through each day into a less shit-stained future. And then… those thoughts can be reversed,...
7.18 Your Newly Diagnosed Perspective; Barriers, Supports, and Self-Stigma | Research
So, even getting to a CPTSD diagnosis can be hard. USING that diagnosis effectively can be even harder. There are still barriers to recovery on practical, financial, and social fronts. Our new mental health labels can create stigmatizing conditions from the outside...
7.17 Your Undiagnosed Perspective | “When you don’t know what’s wrong” Research
So, you’ve built some traumatized perspectives. But what happens before you KNOW about them? Have you heard the term “PTSD” applied to your life yet? Do you believe it? And if not, how are you explaining the full shitlist of symptoms that’s...
7.16 Family vs. “Enlightened Society” Perspectives | Social Psychology Concepts
Ya know, we’re already this deep into it… Might as well talk about how family culture vs. larger cultural standards can double down on self-shaming perspectives and brain melting confusion. Then, let’s try to spot the patterns in yer own brain....
7.15 CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVES
Let’s get less bleak. What can you DO about perspectives that might not be fitting your authentic experiences or modern life? How do we challenge old beliefs, and why ARE they so hard to disrupt? You don’t have to carry your family trauma. But you’re...
Episode Supplement: Filial Piety
Freezing in a Thin Coat in Obedience to His Stepmother Min Tzu-chien had lost his mother at a young age. His father remarried and had two more sons with his second wife. She always dressed her own sons in thickly padded robes. But to her stepson she gave only a thin...
7.14 Your GENERATIONALLY Traumatized Perspective | Research Deepens
Let’s call this one a “slow burn that builds.” The filial piety mosquitos are worth the full listen. Moving from implicit to more explicit family narratives… How ELSE does trauma transmit? Not just through households, but through the...
An “outside” podcast you wanna hear
https://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes/2022/3/10/radhule-weininger Hey Fuckers! Long time, no sanity to share outside resources 😵🙃😴 Thought I’d holler about this one from MY favorite brain-busting podcast, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour. This guest is...
Have you been carrying other people’s trauma?
Just wondering… Besides your own firsthand shitshows, how many of us have also been “secondhand traumatized” by modeling and verbal transmission early in life? Did folks protect you from bad times and bad brain behaviors? Or, weirdly...
7.13 Your COMPLEXLY Traumatized Perspective Pt. 3 | Discussion
Let’s chat more about the often subtle, flippant, and hidden social influences that automatically build up to become a “traumatized life” when your hungry brain is still figuring out the planet. Plus, the frustrating experience of seeing unhealthy...
7.12 Your COMPLEXLY Traumatized Perspective Pt. 2 | Research
If we can take on traumatized perspectives through secondhand exposure and other people’s words… what chance does a young brain have? And CAN it recognize events as “traumatic” without other experience? Let’s talk about ACES and the...
7.11 Your COMPLEXLY Traumatized Perspective Pt 1 | Intro
A tale of two children, and two different lifelong perspectives. How is this “traumatized perspective” problem a lot more damning from a young age? Sometimes, it’s all in the numbers. The complicating factors that perpetuate one perspective as a...
Perspective Exercise Worksheet
Here you go! Here’s the supplemental transcript/exercise detail from the Yer Traumatized Perspective Pt. 4 Exercise episode! Chaining example included. Hope yer well! Have a great Sunday, Fuckers. Hail your Self. Jess...
7.10 TMFG Happy Hour | Squirrel Control, Gray Rocking, Spring Revolution
Education helps. But so does feeling less shitty once in a while. Let’s talk trauma with a lighter tone. Welcome to the first Motherfucking Happy Hour.
7.9 Yer Traumatized Perspective Pt. 4 | Exercises
So… how do you know if your perspective is the right one for you? If you’re operating on old or inaccurate information? If your stupidass emotions are skewing everything? Don’t listen to me. But here are my suggestions. Wordy exercise prompts, comin...
Transcript: Traumatized Perspective Pt. 3
Here’s the wordy version of the most recent post, in case it helps you to follow along! Been having a hard time getting these out, because I think it’s illegal to share the research portions without permission. So… Shhh. Keep it to...
7.8 Your Traumatized Perspective Pt. 3 | Implications
So now we know what contributes to a “PTSD Perspective”… and it’s not exactly what you might think. What else can we learn about the development of the neural framework you’ll use to assess the entire world over a lifetime? Today,...
POLL! Factors that affected your trauma perspective
So, now we know… “PTSD activating factors” heavily include perceived resource changes and lack of social support before and after a potentially traumatic event. How does that fit in with YOUR perspective? Did you come from a chaotic...
7.7 Your Traumatized Perspective Pt 2 | Research
So let’s dig in. IS there a “right time to be traumatized?” Or are there about a billion individual factors that build up to create a Perspective of fear, survival, and continual shit-happenings? Today, let’s hear from a few experts on PTSD...
Important!!! We can send cash directly to Ukrainians on the ground!
Friends of MFs everywhere… We can get money straight into the hands of people trapped in Ukraine! My brother lived there for years. He still knows folks on the ground, trying to get out or get safe. And he’s made bank connections. We’re all...
7.6 “Your Traumatized Perspective” Pt.1 | Hypocrisy and Re-definition
“That’s just ONE perspective,” they say. As though it could work any other way when you’re one organism with one brain. Ever find yourself debating the word “Perspective,” itself? Notice that you’re actually fighting over your...
7.5 Ukraine, Your T-Brain, & How to Help.
Feeling unable to help yourself and others? There are ways to help your brain and their fight. Let’s talk through some options. Motherfuckers stand by their brothers. We stand for the end of abuse. We stand with Ukraine. ✊ If you haven’t already, consider...
7.3 SPECIAL Time Distortion Pt. 4 | Hell Reset
Break Glass In Case Of Emergency. So, maybe it’s helpful to have a “save my perspective” episode for rough times? Something to reassure you in the moment? To get yer head out of the tar pits? Let’s give it a shot. Today, validating that TIME...
7.2 Time Distortions Pt. 3 | Implications
So we’ve researched… Now what connections can we draw between the distorted views of time characteristic to so many mental health battles? It’s about more than negativity, emotional, and survival bias. Turns out, we have a way to moderate our own...
7.1 Time Distortions Pt. 2 | The Research
Time moving too slow? Too fast? Somehow… both? Let’s talk about what research can tell us – what are the trends of time perception in PTSD, BPD, ADHD, Anxiety and Depression? How does “time orientation” fit into this? What’s an...
7.0 Time Distortions Pt 1 | Opening Concepts
Sometimes too fast, often times too slow. Dragging through each second, numbing them as possible. Yet losing track as they slip and slide, somehow. So how’s your relationship with the clock? PTSD, BPD, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, and time perception; a tale of...
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...
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
🍻 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...
6.28 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...
2021 Reflection Episode Worksheet!
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,...
6.24 Exercise – Force Yer Brain Processing, Bottom-Up
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...
A Ho-Made Card – Happy Holidays Fuckers
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...
6.23 (MF Holidays) | Managing “Reactivity”
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...
Transcript for Pt III 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...
Reminder! How to access the full podcast catalogue!
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...
Raise of hands…
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...
Blog & Visuals; Working WITH (Trauma) Brain Limitations Pt I
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...
“Self” Images
Hey Motherfuckers, Happy Sunday. I hope you made it through the long weekend alive. Personally? I just spent two days emotionally and cognitively recovering from Thanksgiving… and I didn’t even see a single slice of turkey on Thursday. The hate hangover is...
Thanksgiving Special
I just wanted to reiterate the message *plus* add a comprehensive graphic to break down the typical family traditions. Remember, you’re not alone in feeling “alone” this holiday season. A bunch of Fuckers are right there with you, trying to...
6.14 Family Holiday Survival
HERE WE FUCKING GO. Who’s ready to kickoff the season of family shitshows? Before you get your brain destroyed by the people who are supposed to care about you the most, TMFRs is here to help you remember a few important things about what their actions really...
Worksheet: Closing Background Brain Processes
Who wants a concise rundown of what we’re talkin bout this week on the private show? Because you MFing got one coming. Here’s a quick summary sheet with “steps” included, aimed to help you discover and shut down shitty brain programs. ...
And here’s a worksheet version of that “Attachment Program Development” Video
In case you wanted to stick these shitty drawings somewhere for later reference…. Like, when your family, partner, or loved ones are driving you to unwanted brain programs activations… Here’s a PDF version of the Attachment video. ♥ And a...
Ripping off the Video Bandaid – Here I Am.
In the midst of chaos, life gets boiled down to self-protection and survival basics. The brain isn’t super interested in “being vulnerable to strangers.”