This Is Fine!

Mood: educational, mental health focused, medical, empowering

Welcome to our mini series, Adventures With Antidepressants (part A) with licensed therapist (and antidepressant aficionado) Rachel Wright, LMFT, host of The Wright Conversations podcast. Rachel has decades of experience as both a patient and a clinician; today she and Dominique share their personal experience with antidepressants, specifically Rachel’s success story with clinical ketamine treatment. Have some medical ketamine questions? The therapist has got the answers, with a first person patient POV.

Mood: educational, mental health focused, medical, empowering

Welcome to our mini series, Adventures With Antidepressants (part A) with licensed therapist (and antidepressant aficionado) Rachel Wright, LMFT, host of The Wright Conversations podcast. Rachel has decades of experience as both a patient and a clinician; she and Dominique discuss the importance of talking about antidepressants and mental health prescriptions in order to break stigmas, bust taboos, and make mental healthcare more accessible.

Mood: spiritual, transformational, chill

Find yourself a comfortable place to lay down and reset, folks! Breath work coach (and psychic medium!) Candice Rebollo guides you through roughly 15 minutes of transformational breathing that’ll give your brain a solid reboot (we start around minute 23, after we interview Candice). If you’re ready to dive deeper into your practice, Candice has set up special coaching sessions for This Is Fine! listeners here and here.

Mood: mystical, chill, educational, fun, comforting, optimistic 

Astro girlies, are you ready? Shannon is back with a forecast for Dominique’s (extremely biased) two favorite seasons: Virgo and Libra. This is fondly known — only to Dominique, really — as VIBRA season. If you’re feeling overwhelmed lately, THIS is the antidote.

We’re kicking it off with the New Moon in Virgo on 8/27, talking about starting fresh, and then taking a look ahead at major transits (*cough* Mars in Gemini for seven whole months *cough* and *cough* Mercury retrograde *cough*). What do you want to ~manifest~ bb? There’s some saucy cosmic weather to support you.

Here’s how to look up your chart and rising sign: go to astro-charts.com, set to Whole Sign house system, enter your birth data with *exact* birth time (this is important!). Locate where Gemini is in your chart (which house) to follow along more easily! And, revisit episode 1 and episode 6 if you need an educational refresher. We also now have an astrology education hub on our Patreon (!!) so definitely check that out.

Time stamps:

2:45 — New Moon in Virgo (8/27)

9:11 — Mars retrograde in Gemini (important!)

13:42 — NM in Virgo + Mars in Gemini

15:19 — More Mars in Gemini

25:10 — Saturn Returns (brief)

28:30 — Preparing for the season ahead

29:30 — How Mars in Gemini is affecting your chart/life

38:40 — Mercury Retrograde (shadow 8/20-9/9, Rx 9/9-10/2, shadow 10/16)

44:30 — What to do with this energy (routines, goals, etc)

54:00 — Virgo & Libra energies

1:03:20 — New Moon in Libra (9/25) *relationship manifestation*

1:07:05 — 60 second Recap/TL;DR (TL;DL???)

Mood: unhinged, silly, educational, validating 

Today is the day where we make two things clear: #hotgirlswithstomachproblems is a bonafide phenomenon, and talking about poop can save lives. And that’s according to hot doctor Susan Kais, MD, an IBS/IBD warrior herself, and a board-certified gastroenterologist and medical director. We also have Dominique’s bff Olivia Luce in the house, regulation hottie and another IBS warrior. We address the correlation between hotness and stomach problems, go over signs and symptoms, stigma bust, share treatment suggestions, and tell some horrifying poop stories. Literal shit talking. Enjoy!

Mood: personal, silly, chill

Peek behind the curtain of your favorite podcast! Get to know your host, Dominique, in this up-close-and-personal interview by award-winning* journalist (and her bestie) Cheyenne Arnold. Dominique is the guest in today's episode, in which Cheyenne asks about her childhood, hobbies, an interaction with T-Pain, her career, and dreams for This Is Fine!

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*the award referenced is 'best wedding guest'

Mood: educational, inspiring, comforting, chill, wellness-focused

Remy Park, creator of Veggiekins, a recipe-developer and chef, Taiwanese-Korean-Japanese-American, gluten-free sober vegan, matcha connoisseur, and absolute ray of sunshine joins us on This Is Fine! to chat about how her varied cultural background has influenced her wellness practices (including her fav Korean beauty tool), and how she’s taking care of her mental health, too.

Get a discount on Remy’s fav gua sha products at Mount Lai using code VEGGIEKINS10, and check out some of her other favs we talked about in this ep. (plus a few Dominique curated from this convo) here.

Mood: silly but profound, learning something cool

Liz Letchford, PhD kicks off our newest series, Validate Me Harder, Daddy in which we provide all the external affirmation, validation, and pats on the back you could ever ask for. In this episode, Dr. Liz talks about listening to our bodies (and how to actually DO that) in order to discover the "season" our body is in, what kind of movement we need, and why we might be having problems with our workouts. Do you feel like your workout routine sucks? Can't figure out why you hate yoga or bootcamp? We're going to find out why. Dr. Liz is as brilliant as she is hilarious, so to avoid peeing your pants from laughter, hit the head now... then grab your notebook, and buckle up. Need to feel better about yourself? Seen? Heard? Validation awaits!

Mood: mystical, educational, fun

Do you have a friend who says things like, “I’m probably crying right now because the Moon is in Cancer” …?? Well now you can actually learn what TF they’re talking about! Learn about the Moon phases, the lunar journey through the Zodiac (including a breakdown of your Moon sign!), and an explanation of the houses of astrology with this crash course from Shannon & Nina Aganza. This is a fundamental, foundational, beginner-friendly astrology lesson that’ll help you tune into the lunar cycles and get more out of your day to day life. To learn more from Shannon, visit MoonGathering.com, and to follow the lunar cycles through the year with Nina, visit Moon-Dweller.com.

Time Stamps:

10:30 — The Moon’s phases (new moon, waxing moon, full moon, waning moon)

22:36 — The Moon through the signs (Aries through Pisces)

23:10 — Moon in Aries

23:41 — Moon in Taurus

25:08 — Moon in Gemini

26:44 — Moon in Cancer

28:23 — Moon in Leo

29:29 — Moon in Virgo

31:18 — Moon in Libra

33:05 — Moon in Scorpio

35:17 — Moon in Sagittarius

37:16 — Moon in Capricorn

39:53 — Moon in Aquarius

40:56 — Moon in Pisces

45:50 — The Moon through the houses

52:45 — Zodiac rulership over the body parts (Aries through Pisces)

57:38 — Putting it all together (how to use this information)

Today's mini episode — a request from Olivia Luce — dives into the new American Girl Doll memes (many created by Barrett Adair on @hellicity_merriman), and why they're so popular right now.