My Good Bad Brain

My Good Bad Brain

By Jarrett SleeperSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthEducationSelf-ImprovementPhilosophy
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My Good Bad Brain episodes

  • MGBB 16 - TOXIC SHAME

    We're back with a brain breather this week and in it I share about something called TOXIC SHAME which a therapist told me about a while back, introduced to me with a poem which I present in this podcast. It's a big and helpful concept, not like, in it's effect, but in having a name for this thing a lot of us carry. That weirdly corrosive center gifted to us by trauma. At least, that's my understanding of it. I got pretty intense with my self-talk in this one, I hope you find something useful in it. Hydrate, self care, be well.


    (Oh, if you dig this, of course please find us on patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain and also follow me @jarrett_sleeper on instagram and @jarrettsleeper on twitter and @jarrettsleeper on Facebook! You will find me doing MGBB stuff, poetry stuff, and a whole bunch of other general GAC)

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    38 min
  • MGBB 15 - Adam Busch
    Hey fam. Today actor, musician, all around living artist Adam Busch joins me for some good old MGBB ramble about being a person. I'm going to try some new things with the pod moving forward but this one was good ol' fashion hang and cosmic chat. Being a person stuff, art stuff, being ruled by narratives, anxiety and performance and adhd and lots of stuff. Oh, also, Adam wrote a song for this one. It's at the end and it's really beautiful, I've listened to it a lot.

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    2 hr 25 min
  • MGBB 14 - Brain Breather 4

    Well, hello y'all, back here with a Brain Breather. Just so you know, this is a few weeks ago that I did this one, that's how Brain Breathers work, if you dig 'em and want 'em fresh and hot they come out much earlier along the timeline on Patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain.


    This ep caught me a day or so after having a terrible depression bubble, I talk a bit about systems I decided to try of self-care and I'm happy to report, 5 weeks or so later on, the exercise regimen I got on back then TRULY worked! Not like fixing me forever but definitely making any derailment or episode I've had since be easier to manage and quicker to get back on track from. Anyway, hope you get something out of this BB ep, see you next week with another longer interview. If you didn't hear last week's interview about faith and brains and such with Erin Robinson, be sure to check that out! It was a GOOD one.


    Okay, self-care, hydrate, be well!


    (PS: If you're diggin' the pod, why not throw us a couple bucks on Patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain !? Something to consider! Ok, cool, thank you for consideration, bbbbbbbyyyyyye~~~!)


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    36 min
  • MGBB 13 - Erin Robinson

    Today the wonderful Erin Robinson, my good pal from ClevverTV, joins me to speak about faith. I mean, a lot of things, and as always mental health focused, but Erin is one of my few friends who is a truly practicing Christian and i wanted to talk to her about what part her faith plays in her sense of the world. She is very generously open about her experiences with death, leaving home, growing up around prejudice, eating disorders, and meeting her wrathful instincts with love. She's just terrific and we both got a bit emotional during this episode. I really hope you get something out of it or at least enjoy the convo.


    (Also, we're on SPOTIFY now! Yay! If you feel like supporting the pod, sign up to do so at patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain, or just leave a nice review! Very helpful stuff, thank you!)


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    1 hr 43 min
  • MGBB 12 - brain breather 3

    Heyooo, this is me, back with a little mini solo ep. Brain breather time. Reflecting on finding fault with oneself and making excuses versus explanations. I was a little anxious an gloomy on a gloomy day when I recorded this one. I do so hope you get somethin' out of it. See you next week with another inteview, be well my friends.


    Hey if you feel like it, toss some dough at www.patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain it's a super thing to do!

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    18 min
  • MGBB 11 - Reed Brice
    Reed Brice is a comedian and editor and all around cool person who has adhd and some other stuff and is also gay and trans. They came in off a rough day (who doesn't love being threatened with hate crime) and proceeded to have an incredibly open conversation with me about all kinds of stuff. I hope you enjoy this ep, it was one of my favorites to do!

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    2 hr 5 min
  • MGBB 9 - Elliott Morgan
    Coming off a really rough week in the world, I offer some of my strategies for making my depression brain do things it really doesn't want to do, like stay alive sometimes and segue into an episode that represents what I think is the surest way in the world to make life better and that is just spending time talking with friends you really love. Elliott Morgan is very funny and smart and in complete disclosure we got kinda too high on this episode, which is not normally something I do before interviews, and it's probably the least focused most truly good bad brain pinball extravaganza we've done yet but, you know what, it might be one of my favorites. I don't know. You'll love it or hate it. Maybe it'll work to just zone out and lose any sense of meaning and just hear Elliott and I bounce words off each other in the way we love to do.

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    3 hr 10 min
  • MGBB 8 - Brain Breather 1
    This is the first solo episode! I'm gonna, from now on, alternate week to week between a guest and a solo episode which I call a Brain Breather because it's just me letting my brain breathe a little bit. Same topics except instead of me being with a guest it's just me and me and you and my good bad brain.

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    30 min
  • MGBB 7 - Traci Stumpf
    Traci Stumpf (who is a host and comedian and also my friend) joins me to talk about hypocritspo, this is stuff we like to make fun of but then also we use hypocritically to actually try and improve ourselves, but also we talk about like... just making choices to change oneself? And being motivated by pain, especially shame of hating oneself as a child, especially when you're in your awkward puberty phase and how some of us carry fucked up ideas from that time for a long long time. What's the difference between shame and regret, stuff like that. In typical My Good Bad Brain fashion, we're all over the place.

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    2 hr 7 min

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A podcast about getting through life with a differently shaped brain. My Good Bad Brain aims to build a space of solidarity and validation for the neurodiverse. We do this with honest explorations…