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Mental Health is Horrifying
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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 50
A spooky self-care podcast about the mental health benefits of horror. Journey into the horrifying depths with Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist (and all-around spooky ghoul), as she explores how mental health themes are portrayed in your favourite horror movies and beyond. Drawing on archetypes from final girls to horror villains, Candis provides guidance in each episode about how listeners can navigate their own mental health woes.
Mental Health is Horrifying is the recipient of two Canadian Podcast Awards — Outstanding Health & Fitness Series, and Outstanding Education Series.
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Undertone — How sound can heal (or curse) you
vendredi 8 mai 2026 • Duration 40:10
I say this with my full chest — Undertone was not lying when it said that it is "the scariest movie you'll ever hear." And I cannot un-hear it!
In this spoiler-free episode, I explore Undertone (2025) and the psychology of sound.
I talk about:
- How sound can help us form secure attachments
- The psychology behind "therapist voice"
- How sound helps regulate our nervous systems
- Why we are naturally drawn to live music as a primal act
- How silence can help grow your brain
- How the 8 of wands tarot card helps us explore our relationship to silence and the unknown
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Tarot for Creative Therapists — Join the waitlist for this course designed for mental health professions who want to learn how to confidently and ethically incorporate tarot into clinical work. (https://candisgreen.podia.com/tarot-for-creative-therapists)
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Theme music is by Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras via pixabay
Thunder by Music by John Britton from Pixabay
All sound effects and music via pixabay
See ‘Undertone’ with Dolby Atmos, or You’ll Miss Half the HorrorBady SL. The voice as a curative factor in psychotherapy. Psychoanal Rev. 1985 Fall;72(3):479-90. PMID: 3931132.
Soma CS, Knox D, Greer T, Gunnerson K, Young A, Narayanan S. It's not what you said, it's how you said it: An analysis of therapist vocal features during psychotherapy. Couns Psychother Res. 2023 Mar;23(1):258-269. doi: 10.1002/capr.12489. Epub 2021 Nov 18. PMID: 36873916; PMCID: PMC9979575.
Sawamura, Yasuaki, Why We Overstimulate Ourselves: How Sensory Overload Blocks Memory and Weakens Learning (March 31, 2025).
How Music Resonates in the BrainThe Blair Witch Project — Are we in a period of collective psychosis?
vendredi 24 avril 2026 • Duration 33:39
I was there! I was a teenager, there to experience the genius marketing surrounding The Blair Witch Project. It signalled a new era for horror, while the movie itself mirrors a complete uncertainty about reality.
In this episode, I explore found footage horror The Blair Witch Project (1999) and how it portrays collective psychosis.
I talk about:
- How an entire generation thought The Blair Witch Project was real (and what that was like!)
- How the genius marketing around the film created a sort of collective psychosis
- Current political and cultural unrest, and whether we are in a period of collective psychosis today
- How hypernormalization causes us to freeze and live out of alignment with our values
- How the 7 of cups tarot card showcases feelings of disillusionment and uncertainty
- How to use an ACT Matrix to identify your values, how you may have moved away from them, and how to find your way back
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 virtual psychotherapy for Ontario residents, along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Theme music is by Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras via pixabay
All sound effects and music via pixabay
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Man Vs. Machine by Anthony Milton in Toronto Life
For three weeks last spring, ChatGPT convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. Now he’s suing OpenAI, claiming its product dragged him down a rabbit hole of lies, caused him to spiral into delusion and destroyed his reputation
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DeBord
‘The Blair Witch Project’ at 20: Why It Can’t Be Replicated by Jake Kring-Schreifels in The New York TimesScary Movie — Laughing through the horrors
jeudi 23 octobre 2025 • Duration 24:53
In this special Halloween episode, I explore Scary Movie (2000), the connection between laughter and trauma, and its regulatory function as we navigate the horrors of our lives.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
For the month of October, use code ITSOCTOBER for 15% any program in the Final Girls Club.
- Your Halloween Blessings Kit —Halloween psychoeducation and rituals to help you connect with your own depths, enjoy the blessings this Halloween has to offer you, and harness Halloween’s true meaning, legends, and traditions as a pathway back to yourself.
- Illuminative Tarot for Working with Trauma — This is my most popular program! Learn how to move beyond tarot spreads and use tarot in creative ways to visualize trauma narratives, organizing principles, feelings, and experiences as a supportive partner in the healing process.
- Out of the Broom Closet — Move from shame to pride in claiming your identity as a witch.
- Through the Dream Veil — Heighten your psychic abilities by developing your own dreamwork practice.
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Sleepy Hollow — Somatic therapy with the Headless Horseman
jeudi 9 octobre 2025 • Duration 30:13
In this special Halloween episode, I explore Sleepy Hollow (1999) and its portrayal of the importance of working somatically to process emotions.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
For the month of October, use code ITSOCTOBER for 15% any program in the Final Girls Club.
- Your Halloween Blessings Kit —Halloween psychoeducation and rituals to help you connect with your own depths, enjoy the blessings this Halloween has to offer you, and harness Halloween’s true meaning, legends, and traditions as a pathway back to yourself.
- Illuminative Tarot for Working with Trauma — This is my most popular program! Learn how to move beyond tarot spreads and use tarot in creative ways to visualize trauma narratives, organizing principles, feelings, and experiences as a supportive partner in the healing process.
- Out of the Broom Closet — Move from shame to pride in claiming your identity as a witch.
- Through the Dream Veil — Heighten your psychic abilities by developing your own dreamwork practice.
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Mother! — Mother Nature’s Mental Health w/ Chloe Hurst
jeudi 4 septembre 2025 • Duration 48:55
On today’s episode, I have the absolute joy of talking to my friend Chloe Hurst aka The Goth Garden about psychological horror Mother! (2017) and its portrayal of what happens to mother nature’s mental health when we push her too far.
Chloe and I explore how mother earth feels when we constantly ask her for more more more. Chloe shares the mental health life and death cycles of a gardener, and how we can all do our part to make the earth a more hopeful place.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
About Chloe Hurst
Chloe Hurst is the owner and creatrix of The Goth Garden located in Carleton Place, Ontario.
By day, Chloe is a Director of Visual Communications for a marketing agency, while also operating her own branding design studio catered to fellow gothic and alternative businesses. Every night during gardening season you will find her elbow deep in the soil tending to her goth garden, consistently adding new dark beauties to her collection. The Goth Garden was brought to life entirely through local garden centres and Canadian online vendors, enabling Chloe to craft and share her unique vision with fellow plant lovers – quickly becoming one of the standout gardening trends of 2024.
Follow Chloe Hurst (aka The Goth Garden)
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Do you like my podcast logo? Chloe designed it! www.contempomint.com
Your Favorite Scary Movie — Interview w/ Ashley Cullins on how Scream changed us
jeudi 21 août 2025 • Duration 43:27
In this horrifying book review episode, I talk to Ashley Cullins — the woman who literally wrote the book on the Scream franchise, Your Favorite Scary Movie. She is basically Gale Weathers. We discuss this iconic Kevin Williamson franchise, and how Scream not only changed horror, but how it has changed all of us too.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
About Ashley Cullins
Ashley Cullins is an award-winning entertainment journalist with over a decade of experience. After graduating with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School, Ashley began her career in broadcast news before making the jump to print. Your Favorite Scary Movie is her first book.
Your Favorite Scary Movie by Ashley Cullins
Midsommar — I’m afraid of women’s circles
jeudi 7 août 2025 • Duration 43:40
In this episode, I explore Midsommar (2019) and its portrayal intersubjectivity, group dynamics, and why I’m afraid of women’s circles.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Mothered by the Work: What Therapy Gave Me and Took Away by The Tarot DiagnosisI Know What You Did Last Summer — Emerging adulthood is a killer
jeudi 17 juillet 2025 • Duration 27:41
In this episode, I explore I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its portrayal of the horrors of emerging adulthood.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties by Jeffrey Jensen ArnettImmaculate Conception — Handing our humanity over to tech billionaires... what could go wrong?
vendredi 4 juillet 2025 • Duration 15:32
On this horrifying book review episode, I’m talking about Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang and its exploration of what happens when we hand over our humanity and mental landscapes to tech billionaires.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Phantom of the Paradise — The mental anguish of the creative soul w/ Angelica Cresci
jeudi 19 juin 2025 • Duration 59:43
In this episode, I chat with Angelica Cresci — occultist, content creator, writer, and astrologer — about Phantom of the Paradise (1974) and its portrayal of the mental anguish of artists, and selling your soul to get noticed as a creative.
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
About Angelica Cresci
Angelica Cresci is an occultist, content creator, writer, and astrologer based in Salem, MA. Angelica has been a Hades devotee for nearly a decade and specializes in glamour, Hellenistic mythic astrology, and chthonic magick. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Salem State University and is the host of Diaries of a Witch Podcast. When she's not staring at the stars, making content, or teaching, she spends her time writing.
Website: https://www.angelicacresci.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelicascresci
Diaries of a Witch Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AngelicaCresci/podcasts
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/angelicacresci/
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy (virtually across Ontario, and in-person in Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services, but individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club. Visit my website to learn more.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
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