#213 Tiffany Haddish
The comedian/dancer/actor shares about her mother's descent into mental illness (schizophrenia), the abuse she suffered at her hands, the year she spent in the foster care system and the strength she ...
20 Feb 20152h 8min
#212 Dean Trippe
The comic book artist and father talks about the role superheroes have played in helping his imagination and creativity heal the trauma he experienced as a child, and trying to break the cycle of aban...
13 Feb 20152h 6min
#211 Maggie Mull
The 28 year-old writer shares about being unemployed and an only child, her fear of abandonment, being born with club feet, body and sexuality shame and the depression that often makes everything feel...
6 Feb 20152h 29min
#210 Arianna C
The 40 year-old shares about her traumatic upbringing (incest, religious extremism, abandonment) and the ways her body and mind learned to cope; hallucinating, going numb and following strangers and e...
30 Jan 20151h 59min
#208 Renee M.
The Hispanic, 31 year-old PhD shares about the downside of raising herself up by her bootstraps; growing up knowing she couldn't depend on her passive mother or gambler father, and now finding her emo...
16 Jan 20152h 17min
#206 Listener Confessions 2
Listeners share their deepest darkest struggles and darkly hilarious "awfulsome" moments via email and surveys. Also a contemplation on the life and death of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn. See omnys...
2 Jan 20151h 45min
#205 Ian Gutoskie
The 37 year-old Canadian comic discusses his two psychiatric hospitalizations, his Bipolar II (with rapid cycling), how sports helped him channel his anger about his abusive dad and what he does to st...
26 Des 20142h 10min
#204 Lauren Ashley Bishop (voted #2 ep of 2014)
The 37 year-old comedian shares about the three traumas that led her to finally seek somatic therapy for her disassociating subtype of PTSD, how she's healing and the tools she uses to cope today. See...
19 Des 20142h 47min
