Feathers in My Face

Episode 2: What We Never SaidSome relationships are difficult to define because the usual categories never quite fit. In this episode, I share the story of J. and me as we moved from the ease and certainty of our childhood bond into adolescence—a time when separation, changing circumstances, other people's expectations, and the things we couldn't say began to alter a relationship that had always felt as natural as breathing.This is a story about what it means when another person becomes home: a secure place in the middle of instability, someone who knows you without requiring you to perform, and someone whose presence becomes woven into your understanding of love and belonging. It is also about the moments when words—or the absence of them—can change the direction of a relationship, and why the bonds we form when we are young deserve to be taken seriously.Permission SlipYou have permission to honor the significance of a relationship even when other people cannot understand, define, or measure what it meant to you.Heaven’s Mix Tape®I Miss the Us We Never Became — You & Me HarmonyMarry Me — Thomas Rhett Champagne High — Sister Hazel We Were Rich — Mark Wilkinson Never Knew a Heart Could Break Itself — Zach Hood Never Not Love You — Thirty Seconds to MarsThese songs are part of the story behind this episode. Due to copyright, the music isn't included in the podcast. Listen on your preferred music platform.Content NoteThis episode includes discussions of suicide, parental separation and divorce, adolescent drug use, depression, grief, emotional trauma, family instability, and religious faith.Privacy NoteNames and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals discussed throughout the series.Send us Fan MailFeathers in My Face® and Heaven’s Mixtape® are registered trademarks. If this episode stirred up a memory or story of your own, feel free to share it with us on the show’s fan page. Until next time, stay close to what stirred. There is more to remember.

What if your first soulmate was someone you knew as a child?In this episode of Feathers in My Face, we explore childhood soulmates, childhood friendship, intuition, attachment, grief, and the deep connections that shape us for life. Through one story of meeting a little boy in kindergarten and instantly feeling recognition, safety, and familiarity, this episode asks whether some bonds begin before we have words for them and keep shaping us long after childhood ends.Permission Slip:  If it felt real, it was. Episode 1 | Heaven’s Mixtape®These are the songs J and I chose for this episode. Each one carries something of the memory, recognition, safety, and longing at the center of this story.Waiting in the Dark by Cathartic Fall Empty Room by Jamie Miller Glitter by Patrick Droney The Promise by Tracy Chapman I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston Listener Note Due to copyright, we can’t share the music here, but we’ve listed the titles so you can listen on your preferred platform,A note for listeners: this series contains mature themes, including childhood trauma, emotional neglect, addiction, suicide, sexuality, spiritual experience, death, and grief.If this episode stirred up a memory or story of your own, feel free to share it with us on the show’s fan page. Send us Fan MailFeathers in My Face® and Heaven’s Mixtape® are registered trademarks. If this episode stirred up a memory or story of your own, feel free to share it with us on the show’s fan page. Until next time, stay close to what stirred. There is more to remember.

What if the child you once were recognized something the adult version of you was taught to forget?Feathers in My Face is a podcast about childhood bonds, grief, imagination, attachment, memory, and the defiant hope that love doesn’t end.Through raw storytelling and deeply personal reflection, this series explores the people who shape us forever, the parts of ourselves we abandon to survive, and the strange ways love continues reaching for us across time, silence, distance, and loss.This trailer is the doorway into the story.Content Note: This podcast contains mature themes including grief, suicide, addiction, trauma, emotional neglect, spirituality, and discussions surrounding death and enduring attachment. Listener discretion is advised.Names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals discussed throughout the series.Send us Fan MailFeathers in My Face® and Heaven’s Mixtape® are registered trademarks. If this episode stirred up a memory or story of your own, feel free to share it with us on the show’s fan page. Until next time, stay close to what stirred. There is more to remember.