(CW: brief talk of suicide & self harm) Alexis explains how white supremacy and racism has drastically impacted her mental health as a black womyn.  She talks growing up in white spaces; needing to work X times harder than white people to get half as much; and the power of collective/communal trauma & healing. We also discuss: depression; suicide + self harm; dissociation; feeling HIGHLY sensitive + emotional; challenging parents; learning to trust people; embracing softness & vulnerability; breaking the cycle of emotional repression; grieving; unlearning colonialism; learning to support and BE supported; feeling lonely; and SO much more!  SUPPORT via PATREON*: patreon.com/feelinweird/ Buy MERCH: kyeplant.bandcamp.com/  DONATE via Paypal  Review, Rate & Subscribe on  Apple Podcasts Instagram: @feelinweirdpod Website: www.feelinweird.com Email: feelinweird@gmail.com   Here's a list of EVERY regular & bonus Feelin Weird episode :) *Please consider contributing $5-50/month to  support the show (and receive ~100 bonus episodes)

99. Blackness & Mental Health

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    This is the last episode of Feelin Weird! Welcome to the celebration of LIFE for this podcast.  Gaby, Dagenson, Goose, Producer Kye and I all pay our respects to the podcast--along with MANY other listeners and past guests.  We send the podcast off into the abyss wrapped in LOVE. My offering to you: listen to this intentionally.  Sit or lay down and close your eyes--imagine that you are at the funeral with all of us.  Let this be an opportunity to grieve and celebrate something you loved, cared about, and are losing. Recorded June 10-15, 2023.    Buy My Art/Merch: https://kyeplant.bandcamp.com/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/feelinweird Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/feelinweird Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feelinweirdpod/ Website: https://www.feelinweird.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/feelinweirdpod Contact: feelinweird@gmail.com  A list of EVERY Feelin Weird episode:https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-list-of-63882616   

132. The FUNERAL of Feelin Weird!

My conversation with the LIFE-CHANGING support group I created (and facilitate) called The Spirit Fingers Collective! Recorded Jan 29, 2023.  Buy MERCH: https://kyeplant.bandcamp.com/ SUPPORT via PATREON*: https://www.patreon.com/feelinweird  DONATE via Paypal Review, Rate & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Instagram: @feelinweirdpod Website: www.feelinweird.com Contact: feelinweird@gmail.com  Here's a list of EVERY regular & bonus Feelin Weird episode :) *Please consider contributing $5-50/month to support the show (and receive ~100 bonus episodes)

131. Life-Changing Support Groups (w/ The Spirit Fingers Collective)

CW: contains talk of death, surgery, suicide, & grief. Sara returns!!! (ep 4) to talk about being humbled by a CATASTROPHIC year in her life AND how she learned to TRULY love herself through it.  This story is VERY touching and beautiful! Also Producer Kye & Gaby show up to talk about MAGICAL T-SHIRTS We also discuss: there is PURPOSE on the other side of pain; THE END OF FEELIN WEIRD; AA & 12-step recovery; things not going the way we want; addiction & soothing; wanting to create from love, not fear; NEEDing others; being a creative AND needing to step away from social media; learning hard lessons; feeling AND avoiding pain; taking the fear-armor off; and MORE. Recorded July 8, 2022 (intro/outro April 11&12, 2023).  Buy MERCH: https://kyeplant.bandcamp.com/ SUPPORT via PATREON*: https://www.patreon.com/feelinweird  DONATE via Paypal Review, Rate & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Instagram: @feelinweirdpod Website: www.feelinweird.com Contact: feelinweird@gmail.com  Here's a list of EVERY regular & bonus Feelin Weird episode :) *Please consider contributing $5-50/month to support the show (and receive ~100 bonus episodes)

130. Death, Grief & Learning SELF-LOVE

Dayle Hendrix returns (episode 120) to talk about death & destroyers, creative endings & new beginnings, surviving capitalism, and the pre/post-apocalypse need for REAL community. We also discuss: Re-learning how to play and celebrate and have fun; Honouring and embracing destroyer/death energy; Running towards your demons; The SHADOW self; The fear of what’s inside; Being an artist AND trying to survive capitalism; Foraging for food; Elders & the internet age; Death & killing as apart of the life process; Avoiding death & discomfort; Welcoming all the parts; Trying to be “good” as a way of avoiding truth & authenticity; Community & belonging; Capitalist transactional relationships; Having basic needs covered in order to thrive; Capitalism does not support community; Relationship is healing; Being a part of community with challenging members—diversity rather than a homogenous blob; Learning how to be in real relationship with people; Holding two seemingly opposing truths at once; We are tender, beautiful & challenging creatures who NEED each other; Growth vs shut-down/fear; The spark of life is still there underneath all the hurt, it doesn’t die; and more! SEND A <3minute recording to producerkye@gmail.com before DEC 15, 2022! Dayle's podcast: MOODY Recorded May 16, 2022 (intro/outro Dec 3, 2022).  SUPPORT via PATREON*: https://www.patreon.com/feelinweird Buy MERCH: https://kyeplant.bandcamp.com/  DONATE via Paypal Review, Rate & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Instagram: @feelinweirdpod Website: www.feelinweird.com Contact: feelinweird@gmail.com  Here's a list of EVERY regular & bonus Feelin Weird episode :) *Please consider contributing $5-50/month to support the show (and receive ~100 bonus episodes)

129. Get me a Bigger Shell, I'm GROWING!

Send a LESS THAN 3 minute audio file before DEC 15, 2022 to producerkye@gmail.com to be a part of the "GOODBYE FEELIN WEIRD listener audio collage".  You are welcome to be anonymous if you choose. It's time for me to move on.  Thank you to all of those who have supported me and my art. Recorded Oct 20, 2022.  SUPPORT via PATREON*: patreon.com/feelinweird/ Buy MERCH: kyeplant.bandcamp.com/  DONATE via Paypal Review, Rate & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Instagram: @feelinweirdpod Website: www.feelinweird.com Contact: feelinweird@gmail.com  Here's a list of EVERY regular & bonus Feelin Weird episode :) *Please consider contributing $5-50/month to support the show (and receive ~100 bonus episodes)

99. Blackness & Mental Health

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