My Good Bad Brain
87 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsA podcast about getting through life with a differently shaped brain. My Good Bad Brain aims to build a space of solidarity and validation for the neurodiverse. We do this with honest explorations of life with mental health challenges, especially depression, anxiety, ADHD, and the general existential dread of being alive today. Soomehow, from this, a sense of invisible connection, community, and possibility arises.
If you're thinking about killing yourself: do not.
Self - care, hydrate, be well.
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Episodes
MGBB 35 - everything is everything with Avital Ash
December 19, 2018 22:23 - 2 hours - 136 MBAvital Ash, a terrific comedian and writer and actor and all around artist type, has a lovely and longer than I expected (what else is new) talk with me about, well, everything? She has some depression and anxiety and other things and we talk about all of it, we talk about darkness and turning that into light, it's just a typical good bad brain mindjam sesh and I hope you dig it as much as I did. If you like the show, please consider leaving a nice review or even throwing some cash at patre...
MGBB 34 - alternatives to standard, heteronormative love and happiness with Jason Scardamalia
December 13, 2018 03:36 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBThis episode is a conversation with my pal Jason Scardamalia, who lives with me. The comfort and closeness of this makes it almost feel like a brain breather, I think. We discuss the standard models of heteronormative fulfillment and companionship, how we especially as straight men are allowed to feel love and happiness, and the reality of alternatives we have found in our real life of living together and having nourishing friendships with our social circles. We also get into aging and the i...
MGBB 33 - TRAUMA with Dr. Nicholas Barr
December 03, 2018 07:21 - 2 hours - 129 MBThis is the first episode we've done with a mental health professional! Dr. Nicholas Barr is a PhD who has mainly focused his therapeutic studies and work on the area of trauma, especially with combat veterans and homeless youth populations. I talk to much, I think I was maybe kind of anxious or something, I got way more emotional and divulgey on this one at times than I usually do. Nick is really great about it anyway! We had a fascinating talk about trauma, what is it, what does it mean wh...
MGBB 32 - stayin' positive with joslyn davis!
December 03, 2018 07:14 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBMy good pal Joslyn Davis comes around and we talk about how she stays so Joslyn! Truly Joslyn is a very uniquely bright person, I believe, yet I feel we have a lot in common. I wanted to ask her how she has a brain that seems to think and speed along similarly to mine without it driving her off into the dark parts of town. It's a delight! Also, my apologies, I messed up recording this so the audio quality of the interview isn't as good as it usually is. It kinda sounds like you're listening...
MGBB 31 - veterans, PTSD, jiu jitsu, CBD with jonathan jinez
November 21, 2018 21:50 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBFriend and Army veteran Jonathan Jinez sits down for an open talk about PTSD, growing up touched by violence, jiu jitsu, the path to finding help after leaving the service, and the work he does now with marijuana and particularly CBD as a medicine. He's a wonderful guy with a mean toe hold, I hope you get something helpful out of this lovely episode. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 30 - Healing Trauma with Mom (Guest: Christine Mason)
November 14, 2018 09:12 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBChristine Mason is my mom but is also objectively brilliant and wonderful. We jump off from the topic of trauma healing, trauma work, violence rehabilitation. Horrible violence touched my mom's life early and she had kids young and she's made a life out of growing and healing, join us for this talk. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 29 - Living Your Personal Legend
November 14, 2018 09:10 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBHello helloooo here's a solo ep about reading the signs and omens, speaking the true language of the world, and generally figuring out how to stop the itch in the back of your soul that is your destiny. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 28 - FUCK BREAKUPS
November 01, 2018 22:59 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBI wrote this ebook a while back, you can find it on amazon actually complete with stupid censorship i thought was useful for search or something at the time but was really dumb to do. just search amazon for "fuck breakups jarrett" and it will come up. https://www.amazon.com/Fu-k-Breakups-Jarrett-Sleeper-ebook/dp/B00EJ2AUE6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541113085&sr=8-1&keywords=fuck+breakups+jarrett that's the link also, if you like the pod, please consider leaving us a nice review or throwing s...
MGBB 27 - ego and work and fulfillment
October 19, 2018 00:22 - 21 minutes - 20 MBI want to be better, I want to be a better me, I want to be a better me in the world. I think my compass for this is often wrong. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 26 - mental health awareness day
October 12, 2018 22:25 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBHey guys. Been havin' a weird one, so here's me goin' through it. I try to avoid this podcast being too like personal processing therapy and a little more broad and applicable about the theoretical, philosophical aspects of mental health but... eh, today I talk about some stuff. Stuff about my dad, my patterns of relationship, and I also spoil A Star is Born about halfway through so... just know that. Thanks a lot, check out the Patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain if you like the pod, or give us a n...
MGBB 25 - adhd emotional flooding, reacting to reactions, toxic masculinity
October 03, 2018 00:48 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBHey guys. I had a birthday and it was during a lot of other tough things and a lot of old bad tapes got played in my head and I was, well, I was full on good bad brain for sure. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 24 - narcissism, anxiety, space for loki
September 26, 2018 18:23 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBHey family. Gonna switch to more solo eps for a while. I jumped off this week talking about anxiety attacks I was having and thoughts I was having related to an article about what narcissists see when they look in the mirror which of COURSE I, with the weekly podcast named after my own brain, was interested in reading! Hope you get something out of the ol' pinball brain. If you like the show consider reviewing us nicely on itunes or checking us out at patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain Get bonus c...
MGBB 23 - What if I'm fine?
September 18, 2018 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBHey y'all. I've been feeling honestly like... fine? It's weird to feel that way when your identity feels so wrapped up in constantly being NOT fine. You know? In this very Brain Breathey Brain Breather I explore this thought. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 22 - Koda (listening, the burden to get well)
September 12, 2018 17:15 - 2 hours - 115 MBMy friend Koda, a beautiful and brilliant musician, photographer, all around person, and he posted something this day I'm gonna copypasta "the burden to get well should not be placed entirely on those who suffer. there is a universal thread that ails all of us - unwittingly or not. listen to the people who are hurting, who struggle to get out of bed, who are haunted." I was gonna do a Brain Breather this week but after reading that in conjunction with some other synchronous messages in my lif...
MGBB 21 - dishsoaping and zero days talkin bout self sabotage
September 05, 2018 07:06 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBA lil bb ep with yours truly brain breathing through some busy days, getting what we want, self sabotage or dishsoaping, why we might do this, how it can be good or bad, and the concept of zero days and how easy it is to not have them any more. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 20 - a weird experience with Death.
August 28, 2018 16:25 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThis episode is about death. It's weird. I saw someone die a few weeks ago and it was very awful and strange. I just spend this time thinking about it, the nature of it and my personal history with it, which is quite mundane. Death is part of life and equally as incomprehensible. I think this episode is not elegant, I think I say fucked up things, I think maybe I am fucked up. My Good Bad Brain so far has shown me that my honest weirdness and confusion and probably general incorrectness reson...
MGBB 19 - Zachary Campbell (body dysmorphia)
August 21, 2018 08:19 - 2 hours - 124 MBA delightful convo with Zachary Campbell, primarily about body dysmorphia but we get off and talk about all kinds of stuff. Zachary is an amazing, beautiful person. I hope you get something helpful out of our talk. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 18 - The Universe Is On My Side Except When It's Not.
August 14, 2018 05:24 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBA solo ep, as usual every other week, Jarrett talking to Jarrett about getting through life with My Good Bad Brain. Today is about the power of narratives and using an understanding of them to help maintain an understanding of paradox to help ourselves improve ourselves. Also the question of intent comes up, the utility of self coaching with brainless navy seal tough guy stuff, picking and choosing what serves us or doesn't, video games as a helpful paradigm for testing positive thinking and...
MGBB 17 - Lisa Schwartz (OCD, Anxiety, A New Study on Trigger Warnings)
August 06, 2018 06:27 - 2 hours - 116 MBThe wonderful Lisa Schwartz has done a lot of stuff on YouTube and has written and produced and performed in lots of shows and performed at a lot of birthday parties but you can find all that out with google, if you don't already know. Today we talk about fun stuff our good bad brains get up to, Lisa talks about her OCD and Anxiety and we talk about impending death and curiosity vs. judgment and the strange what is going on here "humanity" of YouTube and reality TV. I hope you love it! (Oh, a...
DREAMTAPE 1
July 31, 2018 00:32 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBSo, this is an old thing I put together and was reminded of when someone sent me a message about it last week. They said they still listen to it when they go to sleep and I thought that was pretty nice. I explain the idea in the opener, but it's a not quite ASMR not quiet ambient meditation not quite music not quite poetry reading not quite podcast collection of all those things and I just called it a Dreamtape. Something to zone out to or workout to or chill to or do chores to or fall asleep...
MGBB 16 - TOXIC SHAME
July 30, 2018 20:31 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBWe're back with a brain breather this week and in it I share about something called TOXIC SHAME which a therapist told me about a while back, introduced to me with a poem which I present in this podcast. It's a big and helpful concept, not like, in it's effect, but in having a name for this thing a lot of us carry. That weirdly corrosive center gifted to us by trauma. At least, that's my understanding of it. I got pretty intense with my self-talk in this one, I hope you find something useful...
MGBB 15 - Adam Busch
July 24, 2018 03:49 - 2 hours - 132 MBHey fam. Today actor, musician, all around living artist Adam Busch joins me for some good old MGBB ramble about being a person. I'm going to try some new things with the pod moving forward but this one was good ol' fashion hang and cosmic chat. Being a person stuff, art stuff, being ruled by narratives, anxiety and performance and adhd and lots of stuff. Oh, also, Adam wrote a song for this one. It's at the end and it's really beautiful, I've listened to it a lot. Get bonus content on Patreo...
MGBB 14 - Brain Breather 4
July 16, 2018 18:09 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBWell, hello y'all, back here with a Brain Breather. Just so you know, this is a few weeks ago that I did this one, that's how Brain Breathers work, if you dig 'em and want 'em fresh and hot they come out much earlier along the timeline on Patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain. This ep caught me a day or so after having a terrible depression bubble, I talk a bit about systems I decided to try of self-care and I'm happy to report, 5 weeks or so later on, the exercise regimen I got on back then TRULY wor...
MGBB 13 - Erin Robinson
July 10, 2018 01:01 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBToday the wonderful Erin Robinson, my good pal from ClevverTV, joins me to speak about faith. I mean, a lot of things, and as always mental health focused, but Erin is one of my few friends who is a truly practicing Christian and i wanted to talk to her about what part her faith plays in her sense of the world. She is very generously open about her experiences with death, leaving home, growing up around prejudice, eating disorders, and meeting her wrathful instincts with love. She's just ter...
MGBB 12 - brain breather 3
July 02, 2018 05:30 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBHeyooo, this is me, back with a little mini solo ep. Brain breather time. Reflecting on finding fault with oneself and making excuses versus explanations. I was a little anxious an gloomy on a gloomy day when I recorded this one. I do so hope you get somethin' out of it. See you next week with another inteview, be well my friends. Hey if you feel like it, toss some dough at www.patreon.com/mygoodbadbrain it's a super thing to do! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
MGBB 11 - Reed Brice
June 25, 2018 23:13 - 2 hours - 114 MBReed Brice is a comedian and editor and all around cool person who has adhd and some other stuff and is also gay and trans. They came in off a rough day (who doesn't love being threatened with hate crime) and proceeded to have an incredibly open conversation with me about all kinds of stuff. I hope you enjoy this ep, it was one of my favorites to do! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 10 - BB2: what you can do to help
June 19, 2018 04:11 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBDONATE raicestexas.org alotrolado.org firrp.org aclu.org CALL commoncause.org/find-your-representative VOTE vote.org RALLY rallylist.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 9 - Elliott Morgan
June 12, 2018 02:33 - 3 hours - 173 MBComing off a really rough week in the world, I offer some of my strategies for making my depression brain do things it really doesn't want to do, like stay alive sometimes and segue into an episode that represents what I think is the surest way in the world to make life better and that is just spending time talking with friends you really love. Elliott Morgan is very funny and smart and in complete disclosure we got kinda too high on this episode, which is not normally something I do before i...
MGBB 8 - Brain Breather 1
June 04, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBThis is the first solo episode! I'm gonna, from now on, alternate week to week between a guest and a solo episode which I call a Brain Breather because it's just me letting my brain breathe a little bit. Same topics except instead of me being with a guest it's just me and me and you and my good bad brain. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 7 - Traci Stumpf
May 28, 2018 23:24 - 2 hours - 116 MBTraci Stumpf (who is a host and comedian and also my friend) joins me to talk about hypocritspo, this is stuff we like to make fun of but then also we use hypocritically to actually try and improve ourselves, but also we talk about like... just making choices to change oneself? And being motivated by pain, especially shame of hating oneself as a child, especially when you're in your awkward puberty phase and how some of us carry fucked up ideas from that time for a long long time. What's the ...
MGBB 6 - Zeke Thomas
May 21, 2018 06:52 - 2 hours - 112 MBZeke Rodrigues Thomas is a producer and voice over artist and writer and improviser and surfer and all around really terrific person. He is also my friend and long time creative compadre. He is also sober, he has been for a long time, and we talk a lot about addiction, "the ism", and discuss some simple subjects like god and the masculine instincts to break things and fuck things. Good Bad Brains indeed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 5 - Lee Newton
May 15, 2018 02:51 - 3 hours - 167 MBLee Newton is an extraordinary individual who has a backwards heart that has forced her to face mortality every day of her life, to the point of actually dying for a bit. Somehow this experience has made her one of the most loving people I know but, more importantly, one of the absolute funniest. We talk FOR-EV-ER. Check it out! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 4 - Mitchell Davis
May 07, 2018 20:37 - 2 hours - 155 MBWell, I'll be honest, this one feels a bit messy. I did a long pretty raw opening section about some intellectual and philosophical struggles I'm having surrounding the culture at large, Kanye West, and we get into some issues of the nature of being problematic, having privilege as an oppressor, spurred by Kanye's recent heel turn and a very thoughtful letter from a listener about a word I use. Mitchell is wonderful, we talk about our experiences interacting with our identities and how that r...
MGBB 3 - Lily Marston
April 30, 2018 18:29 - 2 hours - 115 MBAfter Jarrett talks a bit about practical strategies for getting through a lame depressive episode over the last week, he is joined (I, I am joined, I am writing this, weird) by Lily Marston (henceforth referred to as Lilz) is a producer, editor, and host at Clevver, a YouTube lifestyle and culture network that I work at sometimes also.work at. Observing her for several years as she built a channel no one cared about into the driving relevant engine of a bigass YouTube businesss has been ver...
MGBB 2 - Miles Thompson
April 23, 2018 22:39 - 2 hours - 116 MBMy best friend Miles Thompson is the most inspiring person I know. He is a James Beard Nominated Chef and all around genius who just happens to have Bipolar 1. He's incredibly open and honest about his experiences with that but we also discuss everything from time, the nature of what makes art hit us or not, and late night Del Taco binges and how burrito butts are the best part. Join our Good Bad Brains for another wild ride. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
MGBB 1 - Grace Helbig
April 23, 2018 22:32 - 2 hours - 119 MBFirst episode! It's happening folks. Grace talks with me about fear, change, combat sports, our need for certainty, anxiety, and... man I don't know what we didn't talk about. Follow along with our Good Bad Brains. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MGBB 0 - My Good Bad Brain Teaser
April 17, 2018 08:50 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBThis is it folks, this is My Good Bad Brain! Well, it's a Teaser, they say you gotta have a teaser, and I made it a little solo minisode talking a little about what the heck's even goin' on here! I'm crazy delighted that you're here, that this is happening, I've been having a ton of conversations with brilliant, beautiful people and lemme tell ya... this pod's gonna be a WILD!! Full episodes drop next week! If you're planning to tune in a bunch, consider going over to http://www.patreon.com/m...