Super Feeler is out for the summer!!!!! 

I'll be back in September with some of the best episodes yet and even more opportunities to connect with the community through peer support. 

Find the links to all of the announcements in this episode below!

• Register for Peer Support
• Support The Show on Patreon for Free or by Donation
• Reach Out to Share Your Story on the Show
• Leave a Review for the Show on Apple Podcasts
• Rate the Show on Spotify
• www.laurieedmundson.com
• Find me on Instagram @thesuperfeeler or @laurieanned

Thank you for EVERYTHING you do to make my life better. Sending you all love for an awesome August - see you soon!

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Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

Shane (@cvvnty_boi44) joins for a solo episode to share about his life story. From experiencing a hard divorce as a child, to cross country moves, breakups, navigating substance use, transitioning, and discovering his BPD and ADHD, Shane's personal journey is a rollercoaster that led him to finding the Queer community he so loves and becoming a Super Feeler! 

Shane's story highlights the challenges faced by the queer community and the ongoing journey of self-discovery and acceptance as well as the struggle that self-medicating with substance use can add to mental health issues. 

Reach out to Shane to learn more about his Queer Support Group by DMing him on instagram @cvvnty_boi44

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

Impulsivity is so much fun and so harmful often at the same time. It is really the most dialectic of the borderline personality disorder symptoms. 

Together the panel shares about our experiences with impulsivity and how it presents as part of BPD and ADHD. 

We finish off the episode sharing how we have learned to manage our impulsivity to prevent some of the harms associated without losing our fun and exciting lives that are often brought in through impulsivity. 

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

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Darcy is Miss Personality Northern Alberta and uses her platform to talk about borderline personality disorder. 

While Darcy hasn't been diagnosed with BPD she identifies with the disorder. Together we explore the impact of her childhood circumstances including a really challenging divorce, and how she found her voice through pageantry. 

Learn more about personality pageants click here.

Find her on instagram @darcystanly and @catchthesplit

Find her blog here. 

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

Chronic feelings of emptiness are a tough symptom to describe if you haven't experienced it before. In the third episode of the BPD Symptoms Mini Series Laurie is joined by Kat, Shane, and Shannon to talk about one of the lesser understood but deeply impactful symptoms of BPD.

We touch on where this feeling (or lack of feeling)  shows up in our lives, its connection to dissociation and childhood trauma, and what helps when the emptiness feels overwhelming. 

Link to Jeni Haynes Interview

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

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Jennifer is a marriage and family counsellor living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). She shares her personal journey, including her experiences with therapy, the importance of receiving the correct information/diagnosis in order to plan treatment, parenting, and the stigma she’s experienced. 

 
Jennifer has spent a lot of time talking to her kids in an age appropriate way about her BPD and explaining what it means. This is helpful to her so she can stop the "hand-me-down" disordered thinking.  

*just a note that Laurie refers to Jennifer in the episode as a counsellor rather than a therapist. That's Laurie's Canadian talking. Jennifer is a Licensed Marriage and Family THERAPIST so for the purpose of this episode please consider those to be synonymous words.* 

Some of the resources that helped Jennifer the most are:

The books she's read to/with her kids:

• Meltdown Moments: Helping families to have conversations about mental health and their feelings and experiences
• An Umbrella for Alex
• Millie the Cat has Borderline
• Lizzy Lives In An Angry House: Learning to thrive in the midst of an angry environment
• The Weather House: Living with a parent with BPD

The books she's used for herself/her clients:

• Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with BPD
• I Hate You-Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
• The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma - Julie Brown Yau
• The Courage to Heal - Bass and Davis
• Trauma Treatment Toolbox - Sweeton
• The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills - Wise

And here are the two articles Jennifer wrote in December 2024:

• The Question That Ended My Marriage
• My Broken Brain Breaks My Kids’ Hearts 

Laurie's to watch BPD documentary: 

A Football Life documentary about BPD hero Brandon Marshall

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

It's week 2 of the BPD Symptoms mini series! This week, Laurie, Heather, Kat, and Shane sit down to talk about the rollercoaster of intense relationships — you know, the ones that swing between idealization and devaluation, splitting, with favorite people and kind of take over our lives.... 

We unpack what it’s like to move through the world with the ability to connect deeply in the first moment, the fear of losing it, and the positives and negatives of the intensity of the relationships. 

We talk A LOT about splitting and favorite people/persons. 

From family to friendships to romantic partners — including polyamorous and non-traditional setups — we reflect on what makes relationships so complicated (and so meaningful) for those of us with BPD.

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

Meredith Meyer, LMFT, from the DBT Linehan Board of Certification comes on The Super Feeler Podcast to talk about the significance of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) certification and full DBT programs that are properly aligned with Marsha Linehan’s vision.

We also discuss what brought DBT into Meredith’s life, its application in marriage and family therapy, the importance of peer support,

If you’ve always wondered what it means to have “full/comprehensive” DBT, why certification is a thing, how to find the best DBT therapists, or are looking into certification for yourself this is episode will be a super helpful listen!

We talk a lot about the need for accessible mental health treatment and the significance of finding the right therapist or program.

Find links for everything we talked about here!

• Center for DBT and families
• NEA-BPD
• Core research on DBT
• DBT-LBC (see here for webinars, blog, certification info etc)
• Meredith’s team
• Questions to ask DBT Providers as a client
• DBT in Schools/DBT Steps Curriculum
• World DBT Association
• New DBT Skills Training Manual (to be released in August)

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

Welcome to a brand new Super Feeler mini-series!

Every other week, we're diving deep into the nine symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with a panel of people who live it!

In our first episode, we’re talking about frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment — a symptom that many of us feel in our bones. We get into what this looks like in relationships, parenting, friendships, and how we've started to build more self-trust and resilience. 

This series will feature some Super Feelers you already know and love (Dave, Shannon, Kat and Heather) and welcomes a new member to our panel Shane! 

FYI Laurie's mic was abandoning her on this episode so the audio quality is not as good as usual - it'll be back to it's normal quality next week! SORRY!!!! Even the perfectionist in me couldn't force these fine folks to re-record an entire episode because of a tech issue. 

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!

Michelle, the creator of the IG page @the.mindful.wildflower shares about her journey with BPD, diving head first into DBT and what it was like to move across the country, quit her job and go through a breakup all at once. 

Michelle shares her journey of navigating friendship, healing and recovery in a new place and how it has motivated her to help others learn DBT skills. 

 GIVEAWAY!!!! Go to @the.mindful.wildflower on instagra to enter! You could win:

• The Mindful Wildflower Skills Card Deck
• The Mindful Wildflower and Super Feeler stickers
• Handmade bracelets
• 2 months FREE of the highest tier of The Super Feeler Patreon page

Check out her sticker collection here! 

Support the show

If you want to support the show, dive deeper into the world of super feeling and for tons of bonus content please consider subscribing to the Super Feeler patreon page.

Click here to register for The Super Feelers Club (the peer support group)

If you are needing mental health support or someone to talk to, please connect with your local crisis line or call or text 988 in Canada or the US or find a local line

Don't forget to follow us on social media (@thesuperfeeler) and subscribe to our podcast for new episodes and updates. Your subscriptions, downloads, and reviews mean the world to us!

Thank you for listening!