Welcome to all my friends are queer. On this podcast, I document my life as I live it, with the goal of sharing my experiences as a fat, disabled, Chicanx, queer person. In a world lacking queer representation, I feel it is important to share my story publicly with no filters, just raw vulnerability. Some recurring themes include queer liberation, fat liberation, mental health, healthcare, and queer culture.
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Reaction to The Originals Season 5, Episode 6. Of course the three stooges of this cursed episode are men. My girl deserved SO MUCH BETTER TREATMENT 😭
Commentary: The Red Pill documentary by Cassie Jaye
mercredi 29 janvier 2025 • Durée 50:16
It's like... If I only saw TERFs as my impression of the feminist movement, I would have hated it. Just as I hated the men's rights activism movement for the extremists I saw online in my early 20s. I learned a lot from this documentary, and it has expanded my views in healthy ways. I stopped identifying as a feminist online when I felt the movement was too cringey--something people would misjudge me on. I didn't want to be viewed as a radical or be placed alongside them, but I never stopped taking a feminist stance or supporting some important women's rights issues. I've always been an activist. Rather than renounce feminism, I'll adopt men's rights activism, too. I have already done that in many ways in the past 5-10 years, it's just something I can now say with confidence. The concept of dialectics revolutionized my world view. If you think they can't coexist, you're wrong. If they could work together, all the progress they (both sides) claim to be nearly impossible would be happening already.
growing pains (hit different when you're transgender)
samedi 28 décembre 2024 • Durée 56:32
it's a lonely feeling to look around at a virtually non-existent support system. EVERYTHING has changed over the past two years. it's hard to know which direction to choose to move forward. discussion about complex and abusive family dynamics. life has really taken my history of fighting against the odds and put me to the test. in some ways, I feel like a failure... pero, I chose to make these impossibly painful life experiences shape me into a better person and role model. maybe I'm less of a failure than I give myself credit for?
The Psychotic Episode
Saison 3 · Épisode 2
mercredi 2 août 2023 • Durée 01:29:03
TW: discussion of rape
(if there's any trigger warnings I'm missing, please tell me in the Q&A section and I will update it!)
CW: recapping the events that led up to my mortifying psychotic episode last year, and all of the messiness that goes along with it. I recently mass deleted a ton of triggering videos and photos from this time period so I don't get bombarded with the memory notifications this year (coping ahead DBT style) and it forced me to face the experiences I have been repressing for nearly a year. I'm really looking forward to reprocessing in EMDR for the next 3 months, I'm hopeful it will give me relief and help me manage my PTSD symptoms more effectively.
Beus Pond
Saison 3 · Épisode 1
samedi 3 juin 2023 • Durée 26:43
My reflections on the difficult mental health situation I've been working through for almost a year. Getting stable again is hard, especially when you're homeless. The tides seem to be changing in my favor, so it's good that I document the positive things in my life right now.
Welcome to the Depressive Episode
Saison 2 · Épisode 1
samedi 31 décembre 2022 • Durée 20:12
Manic switch is officially off, welcome to the pits of depression hell 😅
DBT Intensive Outpatient Treatment - week 4
Saison 1 · Épisode 8
mercredi 13 octobre 2021 • Durée 01:15:22
Topics covered: The Dime Game - how ask for something strongly or say no strongly (5:43); willingness, wise mind, and distress tolerance (23:45), nutrition and dialectical stance (40:07), accumulating positives (50:35), emotional regulation, the function of emotions, and boundary setting (1:00:05) | Support my fundraiser for mental healthcare: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rae-survival-fund
DBT Intensive Outpatient Treatment - week 3
Saison 1 · Épisode 7
samedi 2 octobre 2021 • Durée 01:38:56
Consolidating lessons from my third week in intensive mental health treatment | ➡️CW: GIVE (interpersonal / relationship effectiveness and communication) (8:18), vulnerability factors (PLEASE) (9:37), mindfulness and coping ahead (16:40), checking the facts (18:21), schemas (specific / individualized vulnerabilities) (19:05), dialectics (2 opposites can be true at the same time) (22:22), change (it's the only constant and it's transactional) (27:30), emotional disregulation (32:42), walking the middle path (thinking and acting dialectically) (33:45), HALT (related to vulnerabilities and emotional regulation) (39:02), opposite-to-emotion action (emotional regulation, anchoring stability in emotions) (41:13), HOW skills (non-judgmentally, one-mindfully, effectively) (45:15), sleep (how it effects health and wellness) (50:30), WHAT skills (observe, describe, participate) (54:24), radical acceptance (59:02), turning the mind (1:10:20) distress tolerance skills ACCEPTS (distraction) and IMPROVE (improve the moment) (1:14:00), coping ahead (emotional regulation) (1:23:30), beginner's mind (1:29:10) | TED talk referenced - One More Reason to Get a Good Nights Sleep: https://youtu.be/MJK-dMlATmM |
Support my fundraiser for mental healthcare: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rae-survival-fund
DBT Intensive Outpatient Therapy - week 2
Saison 1 · Épisode 6
samedi 25 septembre 2021 • Durée 01:17:40
A long and winding and very stream-of-consciousness summary of my second week in IOP. | "There's no amount of guilt that can change the past, and no amount of anxiety that can change the future." | ➡️CW: distress tolerance (11:55), behavioral change analysis (15:10), TIPP as an emergency lever for intense emotion (17:45), wise mind ACCEPTS (24:27), mindfulness (29:53), stress (31:35), mindfulness of others / observe, describe, participate (39:10), interpersonal effectiveness (45:30), DEAR MAN (objective effectiveness) (45:45), FAST (nurturing self-respect) (49:18), problem-solving for justified emotions (51:55), dialectal stance (1:00:05), boundaries (building self-esteem and self-worth while being mindful of self-validation) (1:01:00), GIVE (interpersonal effectiveness / effectiveness in relationships, with others, and with the world) (1:08:01), building mastery (1:10:32) |
Support my fundraiser for mental healthcare: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rae-survival-fund
Life as Therapy / DBT Intensive Outpatient Therapy - week 1
Saison 1 · Épisode 5
vendredi 17 septembre 2021 • Durée 01:18:49
This week I recap my sister Kristi's visit to Milwaukee and all of our shenanigans, as well as my first week of the DBT IOP (dialectical behavior therapy intensive outpatient program) and my return to work. | "Anger can be the bodyguard for fear or other emotions." | ➡️CW: experiential (art) therapy (41:45), validation (47:25), transparency (51:11), emotional regulation & happiness as a skill (53:04), the function of emotions (58:03), vulnerability factors (59:40), emotional reflection through checking the facts (1:02:13) | TED talks referenced - Do you like me? Do I?: https://youtu.be/5nwSjRA3kQA - You Don't Find Happiness, You Create It: https://youtu.be/9DtcSCFwDdw | Support my fundraiser for mental healthcare: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rae-survival-fund
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