The Human Condition

The concept of coming out is something that the LGBT+ community has had to do for years. Although, letting people know that you're not "normal" and having to formally announce it isn't always the best experience.    In this final episode before the finale, Effy details her own journey with coming out, and comes out publicly online. In  a riveting discussion about what needs to change in and outside of the LGBT community, and the adversities we've had to face just by being ourselves, Effy asks the question: Why do we need to come out? Will the world ever be safe enough for us to NOT have to come out?    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!    

What do you do when the person you are and the person you look like aren't the same? In this final series of the first season of The Human Condition, Effy sits down with her long term friend Aria about her experience as a trans woman, and what it means to discover who you are.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!

In the last installment of the ACEs series, Ephie and Christy interview each other's lovers and try to get to center of what it's like being in love with someone that has experienced a high amount of adverse childhood experiences.    Zach and L tell us how they struggle with loving someone that was raised on survival rather than love, what they've learned, and how they've had to adapt to accommodate their loved ones' trauma responses.    In this riveting new series exploring love and trauma, Effy asks hard hitting questions. Do ACEs affect love? Does the way ACEs make us thing affect the way that we navigate the world? The answer is yes, and though we probably won't figure out the extent of it during this lifetime, it is something worth asking about.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!

In part two of this series, Ephie sits down with her friend, Christy, and talk about their ACEs, and the perspectives they have on the world because of the bad things that have happened to them before they could even drive a car or pay taxes.    Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs as they're shortened to, have affected who they are, how they think, and how they love, but it isn't ALL bad. In a conversation that is both profound, raw, and real, they confront the events that have made them, them.    In this riveting new series exploring love and trauma, Effy asks hard hitting questions. Do ACEs affect love? Does the way ACEs make us thing affect the way that we navigate the world? The answer is yes, and though we probably won't figure out the extent of it during this lifetime, it is something worth asking about.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!

Have you ever wondered how the things that you've experienced affected you? They probably do, more than you think. Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs as they're shortened to, not only affect us mentally, but they can have a negative impact on the physical wellbeing of a person as well.    In this riveting new series exploring love and trauma, Effy asks hard hitting questions. Do ACEs affect love? Does the way ACEs make us thing affect the way that we navigate the world? The answer is yes, and though we probably won't figure out the extent of it during this lifetime, it is something worth asking about.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!    

Have you ever wondered what happiness IS? What it means? How to get there?    Ephie definitely has. Exploring the concept of "happiness" and what it means, Ephie, with the help of her friend Katie, breaks down our obstacles to happiness, the easiest way to achieve it, and the secret to long lasting positive feelings (maybe, kind of, in the most human way possible).    While we don't understand the human brain too well, we DO understand ourselves. And, really, maybe that's the key to understanding our own personal satisfaction.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!

Death is something that touches us all. But, how does the death of one person affect the world of everyone around them? Why does it touch us all differently? If death touches us all, how come we all still grieve alone? Ephie came into this episode asking one question: How did my dad's death affect you? And, everything that comes with death, grief, loss, anger, questions, confusion, hatred, it all gets unpacked by Ephie, and her family, and her friends who were all touched by the loss of her father.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!  

Ephie explores the concept of perfect relationships and romance in this episode. She talks about the turbulent start to her own relationship, and tries to come to terms with what "real love" is.  "See, this isn't a love story. Not really. It's a life story. A terrible, harrowing life story that turned into a love story of two broken people supporting each other during the worst times of our lives." Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!

In this new series, Ephie dives into the magical world of the enneagram. The enneagram is a psychological personality typing test that identifies your core fears and desires, your basic traits, and points of improvement to strive for. In part two of this series, Ephie sits down with someone from each enneagram type and has long conversations with them about their existential fears, their motivations, their desires, to see if they actually do fit their enneagram types, and how it impacts their daily lives. This episode features some awesome guests (in Ephie's opinion, which is obviously the best opinion) like Connor Adams, host of Awkward Segway and Roll for Talk Show, and Ephie's mom (who is lovely and definitely worth listening to this episode for).   Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!

In this new series, Ephie dives into the magical world of the enneagram. The enneagram is a psychological personality typing test that identifies your core fears and desires, your basic traits, and points of improvement to strive for. In part one of the enneagram series, Ephie explores all nine types, the wings, the centers, and levels of development. Understanding WHAT the enneagram is is the first step into understanding how to utilize it, and to understanding yourself.    Want to keep up with The Human Condition? Follow us on Twitter here or our Instagram here! Want to ruin your feed by following Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter and Instagram!   This podcast episode includes the song "flowers (ft. nori)" by in love with a ghost   

In this episode, Ephie sits down with her old co-worker Matt, and they talk about the ups and downs, struggles and victories of dealing with PTSD. Both suffer from the same mental illness, yet it doesn't define them. Their lives, goals, aspirations, fantasies are different, but a part of their struggle as a human is the same.    Want to keep up with The Human condition? Follow our Twitter here or our Instagram here. Want to ruin your feed with posts from Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter or Instagram!  

The first episode of The Human Condition podcast, podcast host Ephie dives deep into what the human condition is, and explains the origins of her interest of the human condition itself. This first episode is a good look into the lore of Ephie, and explores one of the earlier memories of her childhood in a beautifully raw story about her father's death.    Want to keep up with The Human Condition? Follow us on Twitter here or our Instagram here! Want to ruin your feed by following Ephie? Make sure to check out her Twitter and Instagram!      

The Human Condition is a fresh new face in podcasting, bringing you authentic stories about what it's like being human. The Human Condition talks about the good, like love and whimsy, the bad, like loss and adverse childhood experiences, and the heavy, with topics like PTSD and suicide.   Listeners have called this show "incredibly raw and honest" and "poignant".   A mix between beautifully scripted writing, and incredibly true and real moments, The Human Condition is truly a podcast for everyone.   Want to keep up with The Human Condition? Follow us on Twitter here or Instagram here.  Want to ruin your feed by following Ephie? Check her out her Twitter and her Instagram!