Apr 7, 2019

Carl M. tells the story of his father's chaotic and traumatic life (and how that affected Carl).  Carl's grandfather abandoned the family and Carl's grandmother was mentally unstable and thus, Carl's father spent most of his own childhood physically ill and in institutions (hospitals and foster care).  We discuss,...

Mar 17, 2019

An Anonymous guest tells the story of how his childhood sexual abuse is tightly wound into his inability to "feel" heavy emotions (eg. when his best-friend died) and how later that manifested in what he now refers to as "Pure OCD".  Then, as a 30 year old, he was sexually assaulted in a hook-up-gone-HORRIBLY-wrong on...

Feb 10, 2019

Josh Van Leeuwen was raised in constant fear of hell + a culture of fear, intolerance, homophobia, racism, ETC.  Yet, he's one of the kindest, warmest people you're likely to meet.  So how'd a person raised in fear become such a compassionate being?  LISTEN IN ON MY TALK WITH HIM!

We discuss: 
his mother's...

Dec 31, 2018

(PART 1) Shayne Dyment returns (from ep 60) to talk about life as a free person!  He was recently released from prison--he served 20 years for multiple murder charges--and has LOTS of thoughts and observations about life on the outside.  The answer to "how does it feel" is not as straight forward as you may think......

Nov 12, 2018

PART ONE!  
From religious brainwashing to cocaine addiction to becoming a Christian missionary across the world, this is a story of a mother-of-two who is processing the abuse she experienced in her younger years. Her parents were hippies in the 70's but a bad trip led them to the Jesus Movement and later to become...