My Good Bad Brain

Here we are here we are here we are. I talk with Clayton Farris, who is very much a kindred spirit. Also a performer, and I'll warn you there tare more ACTORS to come on this show but here's the thing: aren't we ALL pretending to be people? So doesn't it make sense that people who professionally pretend to be people would be interesting to talk to about what being a person is? Check him out on instagram @claytonfarris and, yeah, enjoy our convo please.

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Hi, I am bad at this part because it's usually not long after I've finished recording and editing the podcast and it has that quality of oh my god I'm so close to done please can I just turn this in already and jesus i just listened to myself for so long now I need to write about what i said again it's just like, damn. but anyway, the title is accurate, i talk about pride and some politics and then have a talk with my friend kat foster who is an actor and a person and a friend. we did each others podcasts this week, go check out our convo first https://apple.co/2UcmKRu and then you can do this one, which is part 2 of a one long afternoon hang and talk we did. Her pod is called Acting Real and it's about how actors use acting in their real lives, spiritual, mental, physical, emotional. I've always felt acting was more ritual magic than like idk job so it was pretty cool to do. It was a real honor to be on there too because she has a some really big actors on there and she's like a big real actor and it's just like wow cool well here i shall join you to talk about also being a magician and how it informs my life and much less so from a sheerly professional one.

anyway, be well, hydrate, self-care, check out patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain if you have enough money to financially support things you like and you also like this show, it's very appreciated, and if you like the pod and don't have enough money to share, no prob, if you feel like it you could also leave a ncie review for the show, i think it helps with, like, algorithms.

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Hi my good bad brain friends. We have officially made it to year 2 of this thing. I thought I'd kick off with a brain breather. For topics, I asked on my instagram for some ideas of stuff people might want to hear about and i got a lot of terrific responses. I ran with a few that jumped out at me, for some reason or another, and they're basically just the topics there in the title.

I'm excited to see what else happens in this new year, I'm glad to be back to the pod, thank you for being here with me. I hope you get somethin' useful out of today's show. Self care, hydrate.

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Today I had another listener join me, and I continue to love these convos. Her name is Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips, she is a writer and editor in North Carolina. We talk about generalized anxiety disorder, persistent depressive disorder, and plenty about our typical existential good bad brain stuff. We also talked about empathy and its relationship to technology, I wanted to do this because Kaitlin has a book coming out called The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World and it comes out in February of 2020. Here's a link so you can check that out https://www.amazon.com/Future-Feeling-Building-Empathy-Tech-Obsessed/dp/1978691203/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=kaitlin+ugolik+phillips&qid=1556751497&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull .

If you'd like to be a guest on My Good Bad Brain, email me at [email protected].

If you get somethin' outta the pod throw some money at it at patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain or just leave us a nice review, those really help!

Self care, hydrate, be well.

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Here is the full text that Jim tweeted at Ariana and I had some reaction to: "The word 'depressed' can be spoken as DEEP REST We can choose to view depression not as a mental illness but as a state of Deep Rest, a spiritual exhaustion that we enter into when we are de-pressed (pressed down) by the weight of the false self, the mask, the mind-made story of "me". We long to stop pretending, and express our raw truth! To give voice to our secret loneliness, our shame, our broken hearts, boredom and brilliant rage! Depression's call to truth needs to be listened to and understood, not analysed or medicated away. There is no shame in your exhaustion. We are all exhausted, my love. Slow down today. Allow yourself to rest, deeply. And weep. And breathe. And begin again. Now. I say, our depression is holy,. It contains the seeds of new life." - Jeff Foster

If you'd like to be a guest on My Good Bad Brain, email me at [email protected].

If you get somethin' outta the pod throw some money at it at patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain or just leave us a nice review, those really help!

Self care, hydrate, be well.

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Hi! Okay, today is our first listener interview. Lyndsay Cromwell called in all the way from the Netherlands. She's had some depression and anxiety experiences she talks about as well as dealing with a few years of really difficult family stuff, including the death of her mother. I think you'll find plenty of resonance with what she shares, I certainly did. I think this might be what the pod was meant to be all along. If you'd like to be a guest on My Good Bad Brain, email me at [email protected].

If you get somethin' outta the pod throw some money at it at patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain or just leave us a nice review, those really help!

Self care, hydrate, be well.

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This is a brain breather. The brain breathers are becoming more abstract and also more personal, I suppose. I started intending to be exploring certain feelings of fractured identity and ended up explaining a kind of emptiness I've been experiencing. I hope you get something out of spending time here in this odd little jacuzzi of my brain juices.

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Check me out on instagram.com/jarrettsleeperpoetryandmotion

Be mine be mine be mine be mine.

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Today I talk with Kevin Abrams, a producer and writer and generally creative fellow. I intended to talk about facing mortality, a thing he experienced this last year due to illness, and the conversation really ends up being about whether or not we, and people we know and love every day, are actually capable of change. I enjoyed this immensely, I hope you do as well.

If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it, go over to http://www.patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain and you can follow jarrett on instagram @jarrettsleeperpoetryandmotion

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Here's a brain breather, a solo ep this week. I'm thinking a lot about being alone. There is such importance in us fomenting connection and togetherness and reminding each other we are not alone in our existence, our joys and struggles alike. But what about being alone? I have come to love my aloneness and find great value in it, when I use to fear it rather deeply. Alone isn't really alone. It's hanging out with yourself. Which is very scary if you don't like yourself. So, y'know, here are a lot of thoughts on that. Also this week I am doing a jiu jitsu tournament and I've been on a caloric deficit for weeks cutting weight and so that probably has a lot to do with my headspace.

If you would like to support the pod, check out http://www.patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain and if you dig the show leave us a nice review and share it with pals. Also we're on Stitcher now, I'm not really familiar with the platform, but we're on it.

Thanks y'all. Be well, hydrate, self-care.

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I spend a lot of the opening of this discussing the state of the pod and things I'd like to try moving forward. If you want to jump to just listening to Ava Gordy and I have a talk about gender identity and beauty culture, and money weirdness, and dance, and all kinds of other things as we share good bad brain space, that starts at about 22:24.

If you listen to the first chunk and think you'd be interested in being on the pod, the email to send to is [email protected]

I look forward to continuing this journey with y'all.

Self-care, hydrate.

-jarrett

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