Supporting someone with mental health challenges isn't always easy. In this episode we are talking about what helps, what hurts, healthy boundaries and how to show up for someone you love without losing yourself in the process. From both sides of the conversation, we'll explore the realities of loving someone who is struggling with their mental health and why support doesn't have to mean sacrificing your own well being. All while over caffeinated...sorry for that

Trigger Warning: this episode contains discussions of drug use and overdose. This week I sit down with two incredible women. Mina and Camie to talk about grief after losing the people they loved most and becoming widows FAR to young. Both loses came suddenly. One from and overdose, the other succumbed to complications from Covid. Different circumstances, same truamatizing and earth shattering silence afterward.

Anxious attachment meets dismissive avoidant and nobody has a good time. We're talking emotional whiplash, the pain of the discard, no contact and how both attachment styles can become absolutely toxic when fear takes over.

Anxious attachment

Avoidant attachment

A relationship dynamic scientifically engineered by Satan himself.

This week Dee talks about attachment styles, dating people wired completely differently than you and how quickly love can turn into one person chasing while the other person emotionally downloads into airplane mode.

Vulnerable, chaotic, self aware and just funny enough to keep us from crying in the target parking lot....AGAIN

Breakups have potential to turn adults in active threats. Not only to themselves , but to everyone within texting distance. This episode covers rebounds, cheating, relationship hopping and some of the wildly irresponsible ways people cope when love goes to hell and takes you with it.

No transition. No warning. Just one last normal weekend that nobody knew was the last… and then suddenly we’re all inside, wiping down groceries like we’re in a low-budget apocalypse and hoping we don’t accidentally breathe wrong. People were scared to touch, scared to leave their home, scared it was just a matter of time before it covid got them. And somehow the solution was: stay home, don’t see anyone, and try not to lose your mind in the same place you now eat, sleep, work, and spiral. Isolation didn’t just make people lonely… it changed them. Some people never came back. Some people realized they didn’t want to. Kids missed entire experiences of growing up, seniors missed the moments they were supposed to close their childhood with, and parents got promoted to full-time teachers overnight with zero training and no preparation. And while all of that was happening… we turned on each other. Masks, vaccines, opinions… like fighting each other was somehow going to fix any of it. Also… we all developed anxiety and just kept going to work anyway. So that’s fun. Things look normal now. But it’s not the same normal. And if you feel a little off still… yeah. That makes total sense.

Turns out my breaking point isn't utter chaos. Its vomit.

I understand my patterns, which is great because I'll likely be repeating them. This time with confidence!