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Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain...
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Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations.
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25 MAR 2025 · For this bonus episode, NK and Imani talk about navigating conflict, accountability, and grace for ourselves and the people we’re in community with. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-15-Transcript_-Conflict.pdf See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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11 MAR 2025 · Western science gives us names for the things that we know – the things that we can see and feel and touch. But it’s always been skeptical of the things we can’t measure. This skepticism dates back to Europeans’ first contact with indigenous cultures in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and the unfamiliar medicine that they found there. Today in the west, those healing modalities are often still characterized as “alternative.” Mexico City-based integrative psychiatrist Dr. Carmen Amezcua is passionate about psychedelic plant medicine – treatments that are still stigmatized and misunderstood, even though they’ve been shown to be effective at treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD. But she prefers to describe her treatments as complementary, not “alternative.” In this episode, somatics coach Holiday Simmons says somatics can help us reconnect to our intuition – the knowledge of our ancestors. Dr. Carmen Amezcua says western psychiatry doesn’t get to the root of our issues. And both say that ceremony is how we connect with ourselves, with nature, with our pasts, and with each other. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Transcript-Ep-14_-For-me-this-is-medicine-rndy.pdf LINKS
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by https://milkweed.org/author/robin-wall-kimmerer
- Southern Soul Wellness: https://southernsoulwellness.com/
- Dr. Carmen Amezcua: https://carmenamezcua.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2YyoZxza7A&ab_channel=Animalogic
- https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law/
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9665925/#:~:text=In%20recent%20years%2C%20accumulating%20evidence,et%20al.%2C%202021)
- https://theconversation.com/authentic-ayahuasca-rituals-sought-by-tourists-often-ignore-indigenous-practices-and-spiritual-grounding-231907
- https://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/06/27.html#:~:text=Based%20on%20a%20new%20national,adults%20used%20psilocybin%20in%202023
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25 FEB 2025 · Even though NK doesn’t live with the voice of constant criticism anymore, there’s still a lingering feeling that stands between her and her authentic self…or selves. In this episode she talks to social anxiety expert Dr. Aziz Gazipura about disrupting that pattern of social anxiety and learning to do something else. Dr. Aziz Gazipura is the author of the books The Solution To Social Anxiety and Not Nice, and the founder of the Center For Social Confidence. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Transcript-Ep-13_-Social-Anxiety.pdfSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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11 FEB 2025 · NK attends a workshop on divesting from people pleasing & begins to unravel a lifetime of grief and rage. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep12-All-the-Women-in-Me-are-Tired_Transcript.pdfSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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28 JAN 2025 · When Sal moved from California to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, they didn't know anyone. The solitude didn’t bother them…at first. But after their attempts at making new friends left them feeling confused, then rejected, then frustrated, their solitude turned into loneliness. In this episode, Dr. Ellen Lee explains how loneliness is a social condition. Dr. Marisa G. Franco talks about the science of making friends (and the romance of queer friendship), and Jasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez shows us what we can learn from fungi about building community in times of crisis. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-11-Transcript_-Loneliness.pdf Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WV7oswt3M&t=432s&ab_channel=Jacobin https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture_2020.pdf from https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/ Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make – and Keep – Friends by Dr. Marisa G. Franco Let’s Become Fungal! by Jasmine Ostendorf-RodriguezSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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14 JAN 2025 · Does being *too online* make it increasingly hard to hang on to an inherent sense of identity? Between the algorithm, the content creators, and the very online therapists, maybe it makes sense that more and more people are self diagnosing from online content – and are telling their IRL therapists about it. But what if the sense of belonging we get from claiming a diagnosis is just a stand in for what’s actually needed? With Nadira Goff (Slate), P.E. Moscowitz (MentalHellth), and Marcus Brittain Fleming (LCSW, Bandwidth Care). https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-10-Mental-Health-Tok_Transcript.pdf Links: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-mental-health-therapist-psychology?test_uuid=01iI2GpryXngy77uIpA3Y4B&test_variant=a https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/9/30/22696338/pathologizing-adhd-autism-anxiety-internet-tiktok-twitter https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-buzzfeed-ification-of-mental (Feb 2021) https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-closing-news-jonah-peretti-ben-smith-b2323888.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/for-the-culture/202108/why-tiktok-diagnoses-are-on-the-rise https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a40787937/adhd-autism-in-women-tiktok-self-diagnosis-neurodivergence/ https://www.theverge.com/23823497/tiktok-dissociative-identity-disorder-doctors-backlash-diagnosis https://neuroqueer.com/throw-away-the-masters-tools/ Mad World: Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/girls-self-diagnosing-on-tiktok-arent? https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/changing-the-framework-disability-justice/See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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31 DEC 2024 · Instead of feeling happy when she learns that her cancer therapy is working, Jasmin is confronted with grief. In an effort to understand her own situation, she tries to find people who can relate. And in a collaborative art piece, Jazmine (JT) Green gives us a snapshot of what it feels like to finally learn to inhabit a body that could feel like home. “Embodied” is episode three of Little Devils – a show about the flaws that shape us. Little Devils is a TRZ Media Original and an independent production hosted by Jasmin Bauomy. See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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17 DEC 2024 · In the stories about Borderline Personality Disorder that Mala was familiar with, a borderline woman was always toxic – intense, erratic, angry, manipulative. And she was almost always the villain in someone else’s story. But no one ever talked about the *source* of the intense emotion – what was at the heart of it. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-8-BPD_Transcript.pdf More to read about borderline: https://www.businessinsider.com/borderline-personality-disorder-black-woman-misdiagnosed-2022-5?r=MX&IR=T https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/borderline-personality-disorder-diagnosis https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-borderline/ https://www.academia.edu/107173587/Borderline_Knowing_Re_Valuing_Borderline_Personality_Disorder_as_Counter_Knowledge https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/transcendent-luminescence-ravaging-flames-on-alexander-krisss-borderline/ https://aeon.co/essays/how-infinite-jest-tethered-me-to-life-when-i-almost-let-it-go https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/borderline-personality-and-self-understanding?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/either-all-psychopathology-is-personality https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2023.0062 https://aninjusticemag.com/i-have-forgiven-myself-for-my-pre-diagnosis-recklessness-cfd9f43fbde0 https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/ See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3 DEC 2024 · For Maryam, anorexia was a way to disappear. But outside the institutions meant to cure eating disorders, she learns to resist the binary of recovery or death. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-7-Anorexia_Transcript.pdf This episode was produced by Maryam Gunja and Phoebe Unter. And informed by… Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee Saving our own lives: a liberatory practice of harm reduction by Shira Hassan Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo https://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/cover_story/2015/12/we_need_to_reject_the_false_narratives_around_anorexia.html by Katy Waldman Strangers Among Us by Rachel AvivSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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19 NOV 2024 · Dr. Devon Price talks with NK about 2022’s Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. Masking is a coping strategy, a way that neurodivergent people (especially autistic people) learn to fit into neurotypical society, with uneven success. But like many coping strategies, masking can do more harm than good in the long run – and the act of unmasking is a small act of resistance against conformity. https://www.wearemolten.com/s/BC_E6_Transcript.pdf This episode also includes some clips from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhJDM6Bv1U&ab_channel=PurpleElla, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36-K-HW3syc&t=440s&ab_channel=I%27mAutistic%2CNowWhat%3F, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fLqs1po2cA&ab_channel=AllThingsEquitable, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiU1WRPJa-4&ab_channel=TheThoughtSpot, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8J4qa10W0&ab_channel=AutisticallyKofi Plus Devon Price recommends Amythest Schaber’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexCWZPJE6A&list=PLAoYMFsyj_k1ApNj_QUkNgKC1R5F9bVHs series, The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir by Anand Prahlad, and Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain...
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Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations.
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