Accepting our emotions as they come can be really frickin' hard. In today's episode, Ladybird and Taz discuss feeling and accepting our emotions as they come to us. Many of us have been numbing our emotions for as long as we can remember. Feeling our feelings is scary and hard, but its such a necessary step to healing. How are you feeling today? 

Music: Mauricio Hernandez

Winter is coming. In todays episode Ladybird and Taz talk about seasonal affective disorder ("winter blues"), how it affects us, and how we deal.  Depression sucks, let's talk about it. 

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline- 800-273-8255

Music: Mauricio Hernandez

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Welcome back Trauma Gang! We are back again for some weekly trauma and mental health support. On today's episode Taz shares the story of her freshman year of college from hell, and is happy to be here to talk about it. 

Music: Mauricio Hernandez

Gang, we have such an awesome special episode for y'all this week! We got the amazing opportunity to sit down and chat with author, public speaker, mental health advocate, and founder of Listen, Lucy.  Jordan Corcoran! The work Jordan is doing is so amazing and we are here to help spread the word! Go check out Jordan's website and books! We are obsessed with the children's book "Little Lucy and the Butterflies"!  We had such a great time talking with Jordan and can't wait to link up again in the future! 

http://listenlucy.org/  --Website

Music: Mauricio Hernandez

Welcome to the Trauma Gang! In this week's episode we start our Trauma sharing series. Ladybird begins things by sharing her trauma with us, and talks about what began her on her journey. Healing from traumatic events can be extremely isolating and Trauma Gang was created as a form of support and to remind us all that we are not alone. 

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This week, hosts Ladybird and Taz talk about the delayed recall of trauma. Ladybird shares a little of her story of her first hand experience with delayed recall of childhood trauma. Taz shares a bit about the recall of a traumatic sexual assault. We both discuss therapy and how much it has helped us cope and process thru all of these traumatic events. EMDR is the therapy we mention all the time. Please email us with all of the things, we would love to hear from you. 

Jim Hopper website mentioned : https://www.jimhopper.com/ 

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The physical symptoms of PTSD often appear the same as the physical symptoms of ADHD. Due to this, it is commonly misdiagnosed at no fault of anyone really.  Ladybird and Taz have both previously been diagnosed with ADHD when we were younger and later in life realized those symptoms were actually all part of the PTSD. We discuss our time being prescribed adderall, and inquire about the effects of the drug on actual ADDers. 

Please email us with your stories or anything!

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Hosts Ladybird and Taz discuss their first reactions to a recent insta video (link below) posted by Rhymesayers rapper Dem Atlas. We talk about our own personal experiences and relationships with narcissists. Red flags are the warning signs our bodies first recognize when dealing with narcissists, what are some red flags you have experienced?? It's never too early, or late to get the f*** out of a shitty relationship of any kind.

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Music: Mauricio Hernandez

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We Love Music. Hosts Ladybird and Taz talk about music and how it has helped us heal. Music has been there for us during the hardest and lowest points of our lives. As well as the amazing and high points of our lives. We don't know where we would be without music. 

Apologies for the low quality sound at the very end. (I forgot to turn my mic back towards my face after my uke solo..oops.) 

Our phenomenal into/outro music by the talented: Mauricio Hernandez

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TED talk Karla Hawley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWQnTUunhuY

Ladybird and Taz discuss Fight or Flight, and Freeze and Fawn, and how we have been personally affected by them.

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