Sunny Haas is Gigantic

*Explicit for salty language only* Sunny’s back to the storytelling of season one, with the continuation of her 16th year and beyond. Join your host as she weaves you into the events that began shifting her life wildly and created the groundwork for the freedom she so desperately needed. While it may not have been the most perfect launch, it was everything to the woman she is now. She thinks she’s...

*POSSIBLE TRIGGERS* : The usual salty language here and there. There is a brief stretch of intense bully speak after my spoken into abs welcome. From the point the music hits after I say “on with the show… until the 17:20 mark, you may want to skip if cruelty speech is too much right now. For what it’s worthI don’t blame you if it is.* Aaaaaaaaand we’re back! Lordy was this episode floppy. The sou...

*Explicit warning is for salty language. Some mention of self harm is mentioned but not extensively or in any great detail.* We made it listener! Episode 14 and the season finale has finally arrived and Sunny’s digging in deep on her Sophomore year of high school. Still devoted to the marching band she committed her attention and loyalty to, our host stumbles across the modern day version of villa...

*Explicit for salty language* It’s Freshman year of high school and Blanche has pushed Sunny into certain academic failure by demanding she take Algebra when our host barely scraped thru remedial middle school math. One of them knew Sunny had mild dyscalculia and it wasn’t Sunny, but the job was to make her adoptive mother look like she was an amazing parent and failure was not an option. Luckily...

* marked EXPLICIT for salty language * In the continuing struggle to find a more palatable social mask, Sunny finds herself baffled at the growing tensions of her fellow tweens in middle school. Between the lines of all the typical pressures of growing up, the marginalized Gen Xers start fighting back… and also with each other. Danger mounts from more adventurous friends pushing our host ever hard...

In this installment we find Sunny scaling the exponentially rocky terrain of a post-legal-separation household ran with an iron fist by a narcissistic sociopath matriarch, while a checked out chain-smoking grandmother who hated her treated her the way people do when forced to share space with an animal they find repugnant, all while narrowly escaping regular beatings by an angry adoptive brother w...

In Episode ten, we rejoin Sunny as she’s passed through the gauntlet of Elementary School and is preparing herself Junior High (Middle School) and young adulthood. New friendships are forming and old ones are seeing signs of wear, but your host has a plan to level up with the new kids her classmates and she will integrate with from other feeder schools in the area. Somewhere among them is a test o...

In this episode, host Sunny discovers there’s a fine line between lies and education, lies and entertainment and that some folks aren’t even aware that they’re lying. Delving deeper into questions around why her experience differed so wildly from her peers, she decides that if being a sad sack is so repugnant, then becoming an interesting person was the focus for the foreseeable future. *This epis...

**ATTENTION: possible triggers included in this episode include thoughts of self harm, child abuse, sexual assault and child endangerment. Listen responsibly. Adult language is also used. Join Sunny for part two of her tumultuous tenth year, as she tries to escape the unending upheaval of a chaotic home life with a sociopathic narcissist mother a ghost of a father and a brother who longs to be an...

**ATTENTION: possible triggers included in this episode include thoughts of self harm, child abuse, sexual assault and child endangerment. Listen responsibly. In this installment of Sunny’s origin story, we follow her through navigating the Girl Scouts’ answer to “Far Camp” and how neurodivergents may react to being separated from their caregivers even when they aren’t safe or kind. She’ll also se...

**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode contains depiction of developing an eating disorder, child neglect / abuse and an admission of a love of Disco (truly, some people in my life are apt to become quite apoplectic when it comes to the lifestyle choice of embracing Disco 🤷🏼). A little over halfway through the linear storytelling season of Sunny Haas is Gigantic, Seraphina weaves through her early com...

*TRIGGER WARNING : Explicit for adult language, mention of suicidal ideation and various abuses of an adopted child with Autism and ADHD.* What did Sunny do to give herself a fresh lease on hope and decided, at age 7, that she was going to stick it out and do her damnedest to survive long enough to escape a highly volatile, dangerously abusive home life with her adoptive family who keeps trying to...

In this Episode, Sunny delves further into the challenges of navigating a treacherous home life, sketchy vacations and the pitfalls of panty purchases in 1975 San Jose, California. A tiny taste of Gen X insight tucked into the continuing tale of being a pre-birth adoptee who was being lied to by everyone but her new best friend, about her origin, her learning disabilities and the health issues tha...

*Explicit rating is for curse words only* If you’ve not listened to episodes one and two, best to start there as we are in serial mode while she establishes her bonafides of why her, why now and just how gigantic? In this week’s episode, Sunny details even more of the tools she formed in order to navigate the tricky terrain of her earliest foundational years and how she cultivated her creativity w...

**ATTENTION: please be sure to listen to the trigger warning in the beginning of this episode all the way through. While I have turned on the explicit content warning for the public, it’s not the language but some of the graphic elements of this episode that may be a concern . Death, sexual assault, child abuses are some of the themes you will encounter. I have deliberately formulated the way I’m...

Join Seraphina Haas as she introduces her podcast where she discusses her experiences growing up a Gen X, neurodivergent woman who didn’t know she was living with strangers for the first decade of her life in the 1970s to 2001 eras of Northern California. Here she dips her toe into the story of how she navigated living several realities that were not hers, while unaware that her neurological proce...