Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast

Your cohosts are FINALLY back together again with more hot recovery takes! Tangents include our moms, spirituality, and social media censorship. Enjoy! How to follow us and join the conversation: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast Email:  picklesandvodkapodcast@gmail.com Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper Lauren's personal Instagram:...

Christina is joined by Orion to share a new project and talk about why we struggle with the word "recovery". Tangents include religion, relapse, and screaming into the void. Sources: Self-Medication and Degrees of Harm (Tori Williams Douglass, White Homework) How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell How to follow us and join the conversation: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickle...

We haven't been doing well. On this episode, we talk about it. Content warning for death, suicide, drugs, and eating disorders. How to follow us and join the conversation: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast Email:  picklesandvodkapodcast@gmail.com Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper Lauren's personal Instagram: @picosauve...

As we prepare to leave 2023 in the past, we revisit questions we posed last year and determine whether our answers have changed. Watch the conversation on video for the full experience! (Pico lovers will not be disappointed.) Before enjoying this episode, make sure you catch #110 We Met In Person ! How to follow us and join the conversation: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles a...

We look back on meeting in person almost a year ago, which is about how long it took Christina to edit the footage. Watch #110 on Youtube now! How to follow us and join the conversation: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast Email:  picklesandvodkapodcast@gmail.com Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper Lauren's personal Instagram:...

We respond to a voicemail from a listener going through rock bottom. Tangents include emotionally immature awakenings, our thoughts on interventions, compartmentalization as survival, and how to recreate dead online spaces. Enjoy? Follow Pickles and Vodka to join the conversation: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast Email:  picklesandvodkapodca...

We're not sure how, but the podcast is 5! Join us for recovery updates, what we've learned while making this show, which episodes we still think about, and how we plan to challenge ourselves in the future. Thank you to all our listeners who contributed to this episode! Want to get involved? Here are some places to reach out: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka:...

Grab your monocle and join us as we digest Heathers (1988) with our friend Orion! TRIGGER WARNING: This film deals heavily in themes of suicide, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other sensitive topics. While we attempt to broach these in a respectful way, they are unavoidable in this episode. As always, trust your gut and stay safe. Did you know the podcast turns 5 years old soon? If we've...

One of us has a breakdown on air and the other is forced into the role of both interviewer and therapist. Somehow, we push through. Did you know the podcast turns 5 years old in a few weeks? If we've meant anything to you in whatever capacity, let us know by December 1st to be featured in a special anniversary episode. See below for ways to contact us: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Faceb...

Lauren brings the topic this week and we soon find ourselves up to our elbows in discomfort. Along the way, we ask ourselves...why DO we chase rock bottom? And what happens when we find out it doesn't exist? TRIGGER WARNING: while we avoid numbers and most details, we tell some personal stories involving weight, substance abuse, and self-harm on this episode. As always, stay safe. (And don&#39...

How do you responsibly find the balance between caring too much and too little about a cause? Is it possible (or healthy?) to pick and choose what to care about? How do you take care of yourself now so you can show up to care about other things later? We answer these questions and more on another vulnerable episode. Enjoy! Thanks Orion for today's listener voicemail! See below for ways to cont...

This week we talk about showing up when the world is on fire and nothing we do feels like it makes a difference. Plus, Christina spirals on two hours of sleep and Lauren reveals a hidden talent. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, or just to say hi: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast Email:  picklesandvodkapo...

Our attempt at a loosey-goosey episode gets heavy faster than you can say "fear of death". We talk about struggling to love yourself when you hate humanity, speculate about our breakup patterns, and call each other out on our respective growth. Pico disagrees with us on multiple occasions. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, or just to say hi: Instagram...

This week our friend and longtime listener Orion joins us to talk about growing up in a cult, coming to terms with his trans identity, why he developed an eating disorder, and how to be in recovery when everything is chaos and you want to die. Plus, Lauren makes an accusation and Christina loses the script entirely. Enjoy! This episode contains content that may be sensitive for those dealing with...

This week we pop off about the unfortunate state of—well, everything. Topics include struggling in eating disorder recovery, getting blindsided at work, censoring yourself in therapy, and what we wish we could tell people about our toxic coping mechanisms. Enjoy? Christina's essay: I Went on a Trip Last Week. So Did My Eating Disorder. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes...

It's a big day because we're interviewing our first guest as cohosts! Vikki is here to talk about the events preceding—and following—meeting Lauren on the internet 20 years ago. From religious baggage and bulimia buddies to landing in eating disorder treatment after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, Vikki shares what has helped her arrive on the other side of "normal". (Spoiler...

This week we revisit the idea of normalizing mental health and whether our experiences have helped us accomplish this. Tangents include our quest for guests, comfort shows, Portia de Rossi’s anorexia memoir, medical hot takes, capitalism, and a massive breakthrough in the case of the mystery farm animals. Enjoy! Books we mentioned in this episode: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by...

On this episode, we give some personal updates after last week's reveals, share some listener feedback, and beg for guests. We DEFINITELY don't have an entire segment about vaping. Enjoy! Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, or just to say hi: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka Podcast Email:  picklesandvodkapodcast@gmail.com...

This week we practice getting uncomfortable and share what's been happening since our unplanned hiatus. Topics include being honest with yourself, fresh starts, not wanting help, waiting for change, and how much sharing is too much sharing. Plus, Christina forgets Lauren’s birthday on air and we prove once and for all that we’ve lost control of this podcast. Enjoy! Follow Pickles and Vodka for...

We share listener responses to the question "What keeps you functioning?" and the conversation goes off the proverbial rails. Lauren makes multiple confessions, Christina gets a diagnosis, and we revel in our professionalism. Enjoy! Content warning for eating disorders, addiction, and suicide. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, or just to say hi: Insta...

What does it even mean to function, anyway? On this episode, we discuss the concept of high functioning and whether or not we agree with it. Tangents include money, vaping, anxiety, and trying too hard to take matters into our own hands. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, or just to say hi: Instagram:  @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook:  Pickles and Vodka Podcast...

Lauren returns from residential treatment and all hell breaks loose. Just kidding...or are we? Thanks Vikki for this week's listener voicemail! And thanks to everyone who reached out to Lauren in her absence. We love you all and can't wait to get back to our regular program–whatever that looks like. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, or just to say hi: I...

This minisode brought to you by technical difficulties and listener Vikki. The sound is funky because Christina made an oopsie, but nothing matters and we're existentially exhausted. Enjoy! Mild content warning for substance abuse, weight, and suicide. Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, Follow Pickles and Vodka for announcements, behind the scenes content, o...

Happy Pride! Join Christina and her friend Teddy for a vulnerable conversation about gender identity, sobriety, eating disorder recovery, art, and advocating for yourself in a world determined to silence you. This week's guest was Teddy (xe/xem/they/them). Follow @teddy.hikes on Instagram or visit www.teddyhikes.com for thoughts on travel, recovery, and self discovery. Lauren will be back next...

Christina talks kittens, social media, community, and finding your voice in a cacophony of doubt and depression. Lauren calls in from treatment and fights off avian intruders. Enjoy! Follow Pickles and Vodka for biweekly polls, behind-the-scenes updates, or to say hi: Instagram: @picklesandvodkapodcast Facebook: Pickles and Vodka Podcast Twitter: @PicklesVodka Email:  picklesandvodkapodcast@gmail....