Me? Patient? Babe, I want things done yesterday. I ride on impulsivity. Based on my birth chart - it's a birth right...but one that needs some mastering. Healing has required me to be patient or try to learn to be patient, but I almost want it to be done? I'm like 'Ok, I've been patient long enough, let's get going!!!' Unfortunately - that's not how healing works.

Healing is not linear. Just because some things are good now, doesn't mean they'll be good forever..or maybe they will be, but then some other shit's gonna come up. While healing does go up over time, life will keep lifeing.

Personally, with a TBI, every day is a surprise of new side effects. Yes, even all these years later. Because, say it with me, brain *clap* injury *clap* recovery *clap* is *clap* life *clap* long *clap.*

Oh - and do you think PTSD goes away quickly? No, no, no - it just often changes the way it presents, leading you to think you've handled it all, but you haven't entirely.

With the debut of this podcast, the completion of my surgeries, and lots of other life changes, I am finally in a place of being able to address a lot of what I've been forced to push down in order to survive and keep myself moving. And most of it -well, actually all of it, if we're being honest - I didn't even realize I was pushing down.

That's why we have experts like neuropsychologists, psychologists, therapists, and life coaches who all us out!!!

Both mentally & physically, flare ups of conditions can occur. New hurdles will appear. Sometimes, when you're confident you've figured something out, you realize there's a whole other piece you gots to handle - or what you thought you had handled says 'bitch, I'm back.'

Patience is the softest form of love. If you love yourself, you owe it to be patient with yourself. If you love others, you owe it to them to be patient with them.

We all need more patience. We are all deserving of patience.

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Ever had a heart-to-heart with the Universe? I did! - On shrooms, of course. In this episode, I share what was dragged out of me from somewhere deep inside—truths about who I am, how I love, and why we’re all here (spoiler: the job description for being human is very simple and easy - but we overthink and make it harder different than you think). We’ll talk trust, friendships, the cosmic inside joke we’re all in on, and that feeling when your subconscious finally decides to spill the tea (which is what shrooms do!!!) . It’s part revelation, part comedy, part “wait… what just happened?”—and you might just hear something you already knew.

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Do you believe in giggling? Do you believe in hehe-ing? Do you believe in haha-ing? And do you believe that it can heal you?! I preach it, I scream it, I yell it - and so does Dean Lin, cohost of the Definitely Delusional podcast.

I mandate that laughter saved me and I wouldn't be where I am today - as recovered, healed, happy, and back to life I am today, if it hadn't been for my ability to giggle while my life getting railed with a cheese grater.

Dean is a comedic genius who has battled - and fucking won - his own monstrous pile of trauma. When I say monstrous pile, I mean rehab 3 separate times. And how did Dean get through it as gracefully ass he did to be excelling at life today? Laughing.

Sometimes the emotions we feel about something are so intense that if we don't laugh we'll cry, I choose to laugh, Dean chooses to laugh.

Win most, lose some

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Dean's Recommendation:

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-body-keeps-the-score-bessel-van-der-kolk-md/1117229987

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