We Should Unpack This

TW: Discussions of anxiety and trypophobia This week we're getting personal because we're talking about our own anxiety and what's helped us deal with it! This week we're distracted by Mickey's breast reduction recovery, Aaron's inner child being WAY older than Mickey's, and our shared struggle with people pleasing and bad boudnaries! I hope y'all enjoy the episode!

Hey everyone! This week we're unpacking a podcast classic: Am I the A**hole?? The lack of self awareness of people on the internet never ceases to amaze me to settle in because we’re talking about a couple doozies today! Highlights include a questions like is it okay for therapists to ask for tips? and can you forbid your partner from being religious? Let us know that you think!

This week we're unpacking dream interpretation! Not only because it's one of the most common questions therapists get but also because Mickey has the weirdest dreams and it felt only right to share the chaos of that with y'all! Sound off in the comments- do we think dream interpretation is real and have you kept your own dream journal?

This week we're unpacking whether sad beige everything truly is taking over the world! There has been an increasing amount of beige permeating the interior design world and now people are spray painting their kids Christmas toys beige? This week episode covers discussions of anti-capitalism, healthy child development, and a quick diatribe into the Kardashian's influence on culture at large so grab...

Hey everyone! We're back and ready to unpack Bethany Beal's Sex Conversations! Come hang out with us while we try to figure out whether these conversation starters are actually helpful for disgusting heathen relationships or if they are really just geared for fundamentalist couples!

Hey everyone! This week Aaron is helping us unpack STAN Culture! Is it inherently toxic and problematic or can it provide value and benefits in it's own way? Come hang out with us as we unpack our own music tastes, problematic artists from Brendon Urie to Ye, and the biggest question of them all: can you separate the music from the artist?!

Today we’re unpacking the concept of male normative alexithymia because its been the subject of a lot of discussion on TikTok and beyond! So let’s talk about it, answer the question of what the heck it even is and unpack how it’seffected us and our marriage too!

Hey everyone! This week we're unpacking probably one of the most disheartening twitter threads I think I may have ever encountered... the "phase where you start hating your girlfriend." Like these absolutely have to be some weird dark corner of the internet fiction right? No way anyone would tweet these with their full chest... right?

We're talking about something that I never thought would happen for me because of medical fatphobia and a whole bunch of other barriers but here we are! I'm nervous and excited to share a part of my life that's much more personal and sensitive than I normally would so thanks in advance for respecting that. I hope y'all enjoy the episode!

Hey everyone! This week Aaron is bringing the updates you never asked for. We're unpacking Tim Ballard and the on-going investigation into Operation Underground Railroad along with Danny Masterson updates... and as a fun bonus Mickey unpacks fundamentalism and the Duggars.

Hey everyone! This week we're unpacking all things Love is Blind Season 5! Specifically episodes 1 -3 and oh boy did they give us plenty to talk about this week... and by them we of course mean Uche, Lydia, and Aaliyah. Where do we even begin with the audacity?!

Hey everyone! This week's episode we're doing some polyamory vocabulary and learning about different relationship styles like parallel, kitchen table, lap sitting polyamory and figuring out which one best describes our style of polyamory! There's some hot takes about veto power and Mickey and Aaron share some of their own hard limits in terms of relationship styles! We hope y'all enjoy the episode...

Hey everyone! This week we're unpacking the Danny Masterson conviction along with the character statement letters from Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis and their "apology" video. With a special suprise guest, Scientology! Because of course the story gets worse.

This week we're unpacking Paul and Morgan's (or just Paul I suppose) video addressing my recent commentary about their fundamentalist and restrictive rules about media! We're getting into my history with my ED and fatphobia and talking about how Paul missed the mark yet again so settle in!

This week we're discussing both of our own experiences with religion growing up and sharing our origin stories on our religious deconstruction! Today we're unpacked our Christian and Catholic upbringings, a brush with fundamentalism, and sharing what the final nail in our religious coffin was!

Anyone who's been on the channel for any length of time knows the bone I have to pick with wellness culture, diet culture, and celebrities celebrating capitalism so that's what we're getting into today! We're talking about Gwyneth Paltrow, Travis Barker and Liquid Death's enema partnership, and celebrity wellness culture today to name a few things!

We're talking about resentment, Gottman's couple's research, and the relationships of Paul and Morgan and Girl Defined today! There really is a lot to unpack here so we hope y'all enjoy the episode!

Welcome back to the podcast! This week we're unpacking our birth charts, our relationship, and the crossover between astrology and therapy with Bitty and Puja from Mutual Reception! Tangents from this week include our thoughts about religion & deconstruction, some insight into Mickey and Aaron's relationship, and lots and lots of giggling about the stars exposing our secrets! We hope y'all lov...

Hey everyone! This week we're unpacking our experience with unlearning the relationship escalator and what relationship anarchy means to us and finally something we don't agree on! Kind of... When it comes to dating, are labels important? Do they make a difference? Come helps us figure it out on this weeks pod!

Welcome back to the There's a Lot to Unpack Here ! This week we're unpacking gender, growing into our aesthetics, toxic masculinity, and a little bit of identity development! We've both done our own growing in regards to how we show up in the world and finding our comfort zones so we're excited to share that with you today! We hope you enjoy the episode and let us know what you wanna hear us talk...

Hey everyone! Welcome to the first episode of There's a Lot to Unpack Here and today we're unpacking our decision to be child free by choice! It's been quite a journey to arrive at this decision and we're talking today about how we unpacked familial and cultural expectations, grieved the future we thought we'd have, and gave ourselves permission to embrace who we really are instead. We hope you lo...

Welcome to the show! Episode 1 dropping July 13th @ 12pm PST!