Hi friends,

We (HB & LB) have had so much fun doing this and we can’t wait to keep going! That said, we are going to honor our own needs/schedule/lives and practice what we preach by taking a summer break! So this is NOT goodbye, just, be back soon.

Thank you for being here and all of your support. We truly can't express how grateful we are for all of you on this journey with us.

Have a great summer! :)

Love,

Heather & Marisa

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Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development. 

This week is exciting because we’re officially midway through our first season of MHM! So thank you, listeners, for being on this journey with us and helping us carry out our mission of helping people feel seen and heard and less alone. We have had so much fun doing this and we can’t wait to keep going! That said, we are going to honor our own needs/schedule/lives and practice what we preach by taking a summer break! We will BE BACK in September!

BUT to celebrate our mid season point and the journey we’ve come on thus far we have a super special episode with some incredible guests!

In the episode, we talk about all the Disney Heroines MHM has discussed so far. We get into our guest’s favorite characters, quotes, and more. We also dive into some deeper topics such as how Disney has contributed to societal beauty standards, the pressure of turning sixteen, and so much more! 

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Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development.

This week on MHM we are talking about The Little Mermaid herself, ARIEL with special guest Kari Lu Cowell!

Kari (no pronouns, just Kari) is a multi-passionate creative, yoga mentor & instructor, witch, reluctant medium, and love coach. Kari identifies as non-binary, queer, neurodivergent, and a transracial, transnational adoptee from Taiwan.

In this episode, we talk about how the seaweed isn’t always greener on the other side. We discuss Ariel’s complicated relationship with her father. We talk lust vs love. And YES, we debate the topic of Ariel changing herself to be with a man. Our discussion might not go where you think!

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Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development.

In this episode, your hosts HB & LB discuss the FIRST Disney Princess: SNOW WHITE!

We dive deep into Disney’s first animated feature and discuss our favorite scenes, characters, and quotes, and the groundbreaking nature of the movie.

Some things we cover include: the unconscious kiss (*gasp*), societal beauty standards, jealous parents/caregivers, trauma responses, and found family.

Links referenced in the episode:

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If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, feel free to share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review.

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Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development. 

This week on MHM we are talking about the magical frog princess, TIANA with special guest Robin Nixon! Robin is a body neutral, LGBTQ, fat cosplayer who promotes mental health awareness and acceptance for cosplay for any shape, size, gender, color, and age. Robin also has adhd and autism and always fights for inclusion and awareness. Their pronouns she/her/they and they’ve been cosplaying for 8 yrs.They love cosplaying disney princesses whom they relate to. As a lifelong Disney fan, Robin’s fav movie of all time is the little Mermaid and fave character is scar from lion king and we are SUPER excited to have Robin on to discuss Princess Tiana with us! 

In the episode, we talk: hardworking vs. overworked/overachieving, digging deeper with your dreams, discovering what you need on the path to what you want, and some of the more problematic elements of Disney having their characters of color often shape-shift. 

Find Robin:

Insta:  @RobinNerdyCosplay

Tiktok: @RobinNerdyNixon

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Music by: Little HB ⁠@nothallieberry ⁠

Your Hosts: Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development. 

This week on MHM looks a little different. HB & LB wanted to talk about Pocahontas and while she is considered a Disney Princesses – and is definitely an empowering Disney character – we know that the Disney movie is nowhere near the true story of Matoaka. So, out of respect, we aren’t going to do a full, traditional episode. 

After some discussion between us and feedback from Indigenous folks and friends, we understand it’s hard to navigate the nuance of this colonized, whitewashed story. We had talked about maybe bringing on an Indigenous Disney fan to discuss the movie but then also received the feedback that could be seen as asking for emotional labor. But we fully and completely recognize the Disney-fied character has been empowering and inspiring to many. 

It’s not easy to separate and compartmentalize the Disney movie and the true story. But as delicately as we can, we'd like share what we like about the Disney character and empowering takeaways we may have noticed from the movie. 

Youtube video by Swiftstart also referenced in the Esmeralda Episode: https://youtu.be/2kW7XkgIjp4

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Mental Health Multiverse podcast and for spending time with us!

If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, feel free to share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review.

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Become a Patron: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/MentalHealthMultiverse⁠ 

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mhmthepodcast

Email us: ⁠[email protected]⁠ 

Subscribe to MHM on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mentalhealthmultiverse⁠ 

Follow Heather (HB): ⁠www.instagram.com/heatherboddy⁠ 

Follow Marisa (LB): ⁠www.instagram.com/littlebent_notbroken⁠ 

Buy us a coffee: ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mhmthepod⁠ 

Music by: Little HB ⁠@nothallieberry ⁠

Your Hosts:

Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development. 

This week on MHM we are FINALLY talking about Cinderella with special guest Chloe! comes from Albany, New York and has been a lifelong Disney Princess fanatic. She's been cosplaying for 7 years and working as a professional princess and character performer for 4. In October of 2022 (just 6 months ago!) she opened her own business, Fantasy First Character Entertainment, which provides character performances for events of all sizes and audiences of all ages. Fantasy First has a variety of characters, but their most popular and most booked are their princesses! Her favorite is Cinderella and we had a really good time debunking some myths about this misunderstood princess. 

We talk: breaking cycles of abuse, the power of kindness and friendship, subconsciously internalizing problematic messaging, and most importantly, LB finally gets to dispel some of the common misconceptions about Cinderella as a “disempowered” princess. 

Find Chloe & her business on instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/local_h0ney/

https://www.instagram.com/fantasyfirstce/

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Mental Health Multiverse podcast and for spending time with us!

If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, feel free to share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review.

CONNECT WITH US:

Become a Patron: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/MentalHealthMultiverse⁠ 

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mhmthepodcast

Email us: ⁠[email protected]⁠ 

Subscribe to MHM on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mentalhealthmultiverse⁠ 

Follow Heather (HB): ⁠www.instagram.com/heatherboddy⁠ 

Follow Marisa (LB): ⁠www.instagram.com/littlebent_notbroken⁠ 

Buy us a coffee: ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mhmthepod⁠ 

Music by: Little HB ⁠@nothallieberry ⁠

Your Hosts: Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development. 

This week on MHM we talk all about the main characters of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with special guest Abelle! Abelle is a queer non-binary person who’s also a lifelong nerd, artist, and fan of all things spooky. They’re also a giant animation nerd who absolutely loves geeking out about what makes it such a unique medium for storytelling and expression. We are so excited Abelle was able to join us for this discussion. 

We talk about the more problematic areas of Hunchback as well as reasons we love the three main characters - who all serve as the damsel in distress of this story at some point throughout the film. Some themes that come up in our conversation include religious trauma/upbringing, racism and unconscious bias, manipulation/abuse, and jealousy/lust. Is this the DARKEST Disney Movie?

Find Abelle on twitter: @boopabelle 

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Thank you for listening to this episode of the Mental Health Multiverse podcast and for spending time with us!

If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, feel free to share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review.

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Your Hosts:

Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development. 

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development.