Friday Cry Date

In which I discuss a practice I started in lieu of setting New Year's Resolutions (something I was never good at). This content is also available in written form on my blog at www.fridaycrydate.com/blog Contains some strong language.

Contained in this Episode 4 of Friday Cry Date, you'll hear our host Kara Viatori interviewing Robert Cox, host of the podcast Mindful Recovery, contributing author on www.huffingtonpost.com, and trauma therapist in the Kansas City area. We hear about Robert's beginnings and inspirations as a therapist, his belief on working with so-believed "untreatable" personality disorders (narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, etc), his work with autistic clients, and a host of other topics. Those other topics discussed include:How the brain protects us by processing scary experiences in our emotional center (amygdala)How the body stores traumaEmotional releases after deep tissue/stretching work Cultural ideas of avoiding pain Beauty in our broken spaces within Cultural stigma around antidepressents How dopamine, SSRIs, drugs and serotonin function You may want to refer to this image of the brain during our discussion of how it functions/processes trauma:    

What leaving my church, getting fired, and coming out all have in common.  

Here I discuss what a cry date actually looks like, a few ideas of hosting your own, some ways I opened up in the past, and some things you can do to open up at your own cry dates, if you choose to have one for yourself or a few friends. A brief rant on how people like to police other's emotions. We also shortly venture into what is up for me this week, since I have to cry at some point, of course! Topics covered include potentially triggering topics such as tragic death, and strong language.  

Episode 1: Where grief, a regional burn, and binge-watching OITNB meet. Includes a short intro into the Cry Date idea.