We start our episode with Edward processing news that he received that morning about one of his highest needs clients has passed away the day before. Edward and Jason discuss the loss and the combination of relief and grief that these situations bring up. Jason starts off on a tangent the stops himself, but Edward picks it up due to his own frustration with the care system in his area. This takes a turn as Edward and Jason compare their experiences in the Human services field as well as the differences in how the many companies, they have worked for handle client hospitalizations.

Our Deep Dive this week comes from trigger work Edward was doing, that prompted him to research the effects of experiencing gaslighting as children. In addition to discussing the effects of being gaslit as a child Edward and Jason go through a list of common phrases and situations that they both experienced as children. Sharing their own experiences, Edward and Jason break down some of these common forms of gaslighting into categories of which parent they received them from, if there were intentional(used with the specific intent of manipulation), unintentional (used due to a trauma response from their own parent’s experiences), and cultural norm ( used due to cultural views from the time period they grew up in or their parents grew up in. ) This in depth look addresses what growing up with parents that gaslit was like and what the challenges have been in their adult lives moving through and healing.