The Water We Swim In

In this powerful conversation, we’re joined by Chanti Castaño —artist, healer, and founder of Soluna Medicines—to explore the realities of healing from childhood sexual trauma. Together, we name the often unspoken: the overlap of pleasure and violation, the confusion it creates in the body, and the long process of rebuilding safety, trust, and agency. This episode offers language for experiences m...

Gentle disclaimer: the nature of this podcast is conversations about edgy stuff. This episode contains mentions of self-injury. Listen from a grounded, regulated place. In this episode, we are joined by writer and activist Clementine Morrigan for a thoughtful conversation on how early relational harm shapes identity, attachment, and survival strategies. Together, we explore how family systems orga...

A spacious, survivor-centered conversation about birth control, fertility, and bodily sovereignty. Through personal stories, ancestral context, and lived experience, we explore how hormonal birth control and medicalized pregnancy prevention can reinforce dissociation, freeze, and the outsourcing of safety for many survivors of se ual trauma. Rather than offering prescriptions or medical advice, th...

Gentle disclaimer: the nature of this podcast is conversations about edgy stuff. Listen from a grounded, regulated place. In this episode, we explore how se ual tra uma can shape desire, intimacy, and relational patterns in ways that often go unseen. Rather than prescribing what sexuality should look like, this conversation centers on discernment—how to tell the difference between true choice and...

Gentle disclaimer: the nature of this podcast is conversations about edgy stuff. Listen from a grounded, regulated place. (The audio on this episode is admittedly subpar, but we are rolling with it! Please bear with us. Upgraded audio coming next week!) A slow, honest conversation about the relationship between trauma, the body, and food. Ashley and Samara share parts of their own lived experience...

Gentle disclaimer: the nature of this podcast is conversations about edgy stuff. Listen from a grounded, regulated place. Ashley and Samara talk honestly about alcohol as a survival strategy after trauma. Not from a place of pathology or labels, but from lived experience. We explore what drinking gave us when our nervous systems were overwhelmed, what it protected us from feeling, and the moment w...

Untangling the narratives that keep harm in the shadows, and calling in a more honest conversation. Gentle disclaimer: the nature of this podcast is conversations about edgy stuff. Listen from a grounded, regulated place. A mini conversation exploring the “misses” in public discourse and media coverage of the Epstein case, and the collective defenses that keep us from facing how widespread this ha...