Speak Plainly Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Some days are crap. I think we all know that. But for chronic stress adapted people we have bad days more often than others. Sometimes if we are lucky our bad days can turn into good days. but most of the time it wont. So what do we do then? That's what today's podcast is about. I woke up and spent the first 90 minutes of my day crying. But I made this episode anyway. So...

Send us Fan Mail Last weeks episode was on boundaries and this weeks episode is an extension of the theme. We are exploring Non-Negotiable boundaries! This type of boundary I personally believe to be very important for Chronic Stress Adapted people especially early in our healing journey. As animals we all naturally protect the wounds we've suffered. If we switch that up from a passive reflec...

Send us Fan Mail Todays episode is all about boundaries. This episode explores what they are why we need them  and why everyone is so bad at them. We also cover why boundaries can be extra difficult for people with stressful childhoods or chronic stress adapted people. If you are bad at taking care of your own needs while great at helping everyone elses you may have boundary issues. If you struggl...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everybody and welcome back! Sorry for our extended absence but have we got a show for you. Today's topic is exploring guilt and shame. We talk about where these feeling come from what purpose they serve and which one we should avoid at all costs.  Music by Wutaboi   Patreon www.patreon.com   Buy me a coffee at  www.buymeacoffee.com/owlmedicine   Social Media Facebook: www...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everybody we're back with another Episode! This one is about why we fall in love with, date and  marry the WRONG person! WE all do it. We don't really have a choice it seems. Ive taken notes over the years on relationship trends. And I've taken what I know about psychology attachment theory developmental psychology and and the biology of behavior and looked at t...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode explores a moment I'm quite proud of. Recently, I accidentally and successfully went toe to toe with my narcissistic father. He tried gaslighting me and failed to do. Listen to find out how the conversation went and what cool echos are still rippling from the event. If you know someone struggling with handling a narcissist in their life consider sending t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is one you will NOT want to miss!!! Today's episode is a DOOZEY! It covers 2 separate phenomenon that are pretty well known and very well established. I explain the neuro-biological mechanism (reticulator activating system) that creates the experience of the new car phenomenon and how when it piggy backs off the Stockholm like Syndrome of childhood how it can PER...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about my favorite philosophers of all time. Espiranza Baroch (benedict) Spanoza. He is the greatest philosopher of all time in my opinion and one of the greatest in the opinion of many much more important people than I. It was even said that "post Spinoza one is either a Spinozist or no kind of philosopher at all."  Even though his focus was using logic t...

Send us Fan Mail As promised part 2 is all about the origins of health insurance in the United States. This episode covers when and where health insurance started, who pushed for and who pushed against nationwide healthcare coverage and why. There is a lot of history here that is all quite informative but time is limited. If I missed anything that you think should have been discussed please let me...

Send us Fan Mail You ever wondered how the US medical system got so royally f*ucked? I have. This episode is the first in a series on the history of the American Medical system from the pharmaceutical era  at the turn of the 20th century to now. We start here with Abraham Flexners report on the state of Medical Education in the us in published in 1910. This report changed American healthcare more...

Send us Fan Mail Firstly I would like to apologize for my absence these last few weeks. My best friend in the world got cancer and was circling the drain.  I almost had to put her down twice. As important as meeting deadlines and consistency are to me my relationships are more important. I hope they are for you too.  During the last month, thanks to help from my friends and family, I have had the...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about how to know in your body what wise decisions feel like. We know what anger sadness joy and fear feel like. Its easy to know when we are being foolish because we know the sensation of it. We are aware of and can name our emotional states because we are familiar with the sensations we are feeling in our body and have given those sensations names like fear,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode FOOD is the center of the conversation. We all know home-cooked food is the best food. But not just for the taste! Did you know home-cooked and LOCAL foods are the single best thing a person can do at home for the environment. There are so many other benefits to being involved in your own food preparation.  Today's episode covers a few: Tips for a fun and safe...

Send us Fan Mail This is the last in a series of 4 podcasts related to Rethinking Broken the book. If you have been following along you should know about ACE's what they are, what they indicate as well as your score. You should know what a strengthness is, why they exist, who has them, how they developed and the third episode in the series gave examples from my life where leveraging my streng...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Valentines day! Nothing is sexier than knowing your limits and playing to your strengths. In the last episode I discussed a key concept in my book called strengthnesses. I talked about who has them what they are where they come from and why they're both good and bad.  In this episode I wanted to give you some specific example of how if you plan accordingly you can lever...

Send us Fan Mail I am so excited about today's episode. It all about a core concept for the book. Strengthnesses are the defining attributes of traumatized individuals that are both strengths and weaknesses at once. The determining factor as to which side of the strengthness coin you will wind up displaying is the environment.  Everyone has attributes. Highly traumatized people have that plus...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Owl discusses the ACE study. The first of its kind and a landmark study that explored the connection between childhood adversity and adult health outcomes. The results were shocking. The president of the American pediatric society said that ACEs are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat in the nation. Learn about the connection between adversity and...

Send us Fan Mail  Today's episode gleans information from new studies that looking into gratitude practices and how to build the most beneficial one. It turns our I've been doing it not really wrong but certainly inefficiently according to the new data. I tell you the benefits of a gratitude practice, the way most people including me set up their gratitude practices and what the science...

Send us Fan Mail A phone call from a friend reminded me of something extremely powerful and often overlooked that I think is worth talking about. I think its important to recognize on a podcast that has a lot of self help kind of information and tools for people to improve their lives that there is a side of things that will undoubtedly show its face. When that happens its not meant to be over com...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks episode is all about what is happening behind the curtains, in those moments when we throw in the proverbial towel. There is an elegant and complicated dance happening primarily between dopamine, epinephrine, nor-epinephrine and nociceptin. Some of this dance you have control over and some you don't. By the end of this episode you'll know what each of those ne...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a little different than previous. I wanted to be more transparent this year and make it as honest as possible. Its a resolution of mine for this year to not hide who I am behind what I know.  So this Episode is extremely personal. It is the story of my Abandonment trauma from my family how it was patched by a friend and then how the universe decided to "test&q...

Send us Fan Mail If you think you're a crappy meditator in today's episode I tell you why that's probably a good thing.  There is so much information available today on mediation and mindfulness but since its roots are foreign  we don't fully understand their context. That lack of understanding mixed with the piece meal surplus availability of so many types of meditation has cr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I share my  best and worst Christmas's memories. (they're a bit dramatic) The highs and lows of Christmas can be a lot. Once you've identified with love and hate about a thing like Christmas the two extremes become less interesting. I live in a reality where something as large as Christmas is complex interrelated and context dependent. Neither good o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode i talk about the work of Esther Gokhale and explore the ways in which we injure ourselves specifically our backs culturally and individually; from sitting too much to my years in the military to taking the stairs. Back pain is very real but it doesn't need to be so common. Support the show Music by Wutaboi Email us at speakplainlypodcast@gmail.com   Buy me a c...

Send us Fan Mail I have always hated celebrating my birthday. The idea of it has always seemed so selfish to me. I have a younger sister with a December birthday too and I remember when we were poor enough it was a real struggle. My mom barely made ends meet all year and when December came around it was extra food extra heat Christmas AND two birthdays she needed to supply for while living paychec...