All Episodes

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #226 – James M.

252 - Toxic Guilt: Why You Feel Like You’re in Trouble When You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #225 – Attachment Blindness

251 - Attachment Blindness: Why You Miss Real Betrayal & See Harm That Isn't There

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #224 – When You Just Want a Parent

250 - What a Real Amends From a Parent Requires: Naming the Impact & What Happens If You Never Get It w/ Dr. Ken Adams & Leilani Sinclair

249 - Why You Don't Let Yourself Feel Good: Guilt, Grief & Finding Joy When You're Struggling w/ Dr. MC McDonald

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #223 – Jeremy

248 - When Your Body Has the Memory and You Don't: Repressed Memories & Somatic Healing w/ Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #222 – What You Hide Hardest

247 - What Happens When Only One of You Does the Work: Family Role Dynamics and What Repair Actually Takes w/ Dr. Angelica Shiels

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #221 – Getting the Support You Need

246 - Finding a Trauma Therapist Who Won't Harm You: Red Flags, Self-Disclosure & What to Ask w/ Amber Trejo & Megan Walsh

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #220 – 5 Kinds of Fears

245 - The Other Side of Fear: Life After the Wound Stops Being Your Identity w/ Bethany Webster

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #219 – Nicole F.

244 - What Lives in Your Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Complex Trauma w/ Hannah Fraser Moore

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #218 – Turning Toward Self: Inside Safe Within

243 - The Caregiving Trap: When the Parent You're Estranged From Becomes Your Responsibility w/ Katherine St. Claire

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #217 – Imposter Syndrome

242 - Imposter Syndrome Through the Lens of CPTSD: Confronting the Fraud Inside

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #216 – The Return of Haley

241 - Inside an Emotional Flashback: Recognizing One, Surviving One & What's Underneath

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #215 – Things You Learned Were Normal That Never Were

240 - Borderline or Abandoned? What Separates a Personality Disorder From Untreated Relational Trauma w/ Susan Anderson

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #214 – Lynda S.

239 - Chronically Stuck in Your Head: How Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Quiets the Overthinking Mind w/ Joe Flanders

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #213 – The Return of Moustache Mike

238 - The Deathbed Reckoning: Facing Unhealed Trauma and Family Wounds at the End w/ Kat Courtney

Shitshow Saturday #212 - When Scarcity Fuses With Self-Worth

237 - Stopping The War Within: Understanding Your Patterns Through Parts w/ Britt Frank

Shitshow Saturday #211 - Why Asking For Help is Hard

236 - The ADHD Nervous System: Rewiring What Your Body Needs to Actually Function w/ Kristen Carder

Shitshow Saturday #210 - Why We Struggle Socially

235 - The Obligation Myth: What You Owe the Parent Who Hurt You w/ Lisa Stinson

Shitshow Saturday #209 - Ana S.

234 - Wired for Abandonment: How Somatic Work Heals What Talk Therapy Can't w/ Valerie Rubin

Shitshow Saturday #208 - Wanting to Be Chosen

233 - The Gift of Grief: When Loss Becomes the Door You Couldn't Open On Your Own w/ Joe Ryan

Shitshow Saturday #207 - How Do I Know I'm Healing?

232 - Healing Together: A Couple's Journey Through Repressed Trauma w/ Tarah & EJ Kerwin

Shitshow Saturday #206 - Impossible Self-Expectations

231 - Why Your Relationships Keep Triggering You Even After You've Done the Work w/ Patrick Teahan

Shitshow Saturday #205 - The Return of Sam B.

230 - The Shame Triangle: The Inner War That's Keeping You Stuck w/ Jessica Fern & David Cooley

Shitshow Saturday #204 - When Your Parent Shared Too Much or Not Enough

229 - The Codependency Bottom: When Sobriety Cracks Open the Trauma Underneath w/ David Deane Haskel

Shitshow Saturday #203 - Why Can't I Just Let Myself Feel Good?

228 - Bracing for Impact: Why Trauma Blocks Joy & Good-Feeling Emotions w/ Jeannine Rashidi

Shitshow Saturday #201 - When Healing Dismantles "Truth"

227 - Daughters of Narcissistic Fathers: The Golden Child's Grief w/ Taylor Pearl

Shitshow Saturday #200 - The Return of Jenny

226 - Losing Yourself in Love: Why You Become Whoever They Need You to Be w/ Tammy Sollenberger

Shitshow Saturday #199 - The 4 Alarms of Hypervigilance

225 - The Deepest Wounds, the Darkest Shame: Covert Incest, Relapse & Radical Self-Compassion w/ Paul Gilmartin

Shitshow Saturday #198 - The Return of Nate

224 - Scared to Be Seen: Finding Authenticity Through Parts Work w/ Jesse Deal

Shitshow Saturday #197 - Wendy N.

223 - Love That Looks Like Rescue: Trauma Bonds & Outgrowing Relationships w/ Marina Triner

Shitshow Saturday #196 - Sarah O.

222 - Feeling What You've Been Thinking: Embodying Your Emotions w/ Cory Scott

Shitshow Saturday #195 - Katie M.

221 - The Perfect Daughter Trap: Learning Who You Are Without Them w/ Vevian Vozmediano

Shitshow Saturday #194 - Fear In All It's Forms

220 - The Trauma You Didn't: Unconscious Wounds & Epigenetics w/ Mark Wolynn

219 - Phone Addiction Through the Lens of Trauma: The Truth Behind Your Screen Time

Shitshow Saturday #192 - Why You Can't Ask For Help

218 - Finding Your Voice Through Intimacy: Beyond Freeze, Fear, and Fawning w/ Leah Carey

Shitshow Saturday #191 - Courtney B.

217 - Good Kid, Quiet Wreckage: Relational Shame, the Silent Treatment & The War You Waged on Yourself w/ Maggie Nick

Shitshow Saturday #190 - The Betrayal Wound

216 - How Trauma Becomes Sexual Compulsion: Shame, Betrayal & Technology Addiction w/ Duane Osterlind

Shitshow Saturday #189 - The Many Faces of Dysfunction

215 - Repeat or Recover w/ Dr. Tian Dayton: The Cost of Relational Trauma

Shitshow Saturday #188 - Crystal

214: Challenging the Narrative on Personality Disorders w/ Dr. Peter Salerno: Is It Always Trauma?

Shitshow Saturday #187 - Same Family, Different Childhoods (Amy & Kristie)

213: The Truth About Estrangement: Boundaries, No Contact & Grief w/ Dr. Sharon Martin

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #186 - The Many Faces of the Inner Critic

212: The Survive and Thrive Spiral: Combining IFS and Polyvagal Theory w/ Ruth Culver

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #185 - Trevor

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #184 - Christmas Debrief

211: Nate Postlethwait - Building a Life Your Nervous System Can Handle

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #183 - Navigating Safety Inside & Out

210: Dissociated & Disconnected - When Feeling Nothing Was How You Survived w/ Andy Carlson

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #182 - Healing Your Inner Teenager

209: How "The Body Keeps the Score" - Making Sense of Stored Trauma, Survival Mode & Functional Freeze

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #181 - Tabitha W.

208: When Each Parent Leaves a Different Scar - From Attachment Wounds to Parenting Triggers, Rage & Repair w/ Amber Trejo

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #180 - Andrea A. (...but not me)

207: The Messy Road of Long-Term Recovery — Codependency, Shame & Nervous System Triggers w/ Dr. Sarah Michaud

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #179 - Surviving the Season

206: The Connection Wound - Healing Trauma-Driven Isolation & Emotional Loneliness w/ Crappy Childhood Fairy

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #178 - The Pain of Not Belonging

205: Addicted to Chaos - Boundaries, Triggers & Rebuilding Self-Trust w/ Amy Fiedler

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #177 - Fellow Travelers: ACA 12 Steps

204: The Deeper Truth About Fawning - How Survival Turns Into Self-Abandonment w/ Ingrid Clayton

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #176 - When Attachment Gets Complicated

203: The Nervous System Side of Attachment - Understanding Anxiety, Avoidance & Safety Through the Body w/ Heidi Priebe

SHITSHOW SATURDAY #175 - Employment Struggle Sesh