Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast
by Christina and Lauren
Through the art of candid conversation and with the help of their community, cohosts Christina and Lauren tackle heavy topics with a blend of empathy, insight, and humor. We hope you'll join the conversation!
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Episodes
#117 How to Help When Everything Sucks: Part 1
49m · Published#116 Revenge of the Chronically Depressed feat. PROCRASTINATION
52m · Published#115 I Don't Want to Go Back In! feat. THE CULT OF EATING DISORDERS
1h 1m · Published#114 Guilt to the Max feat. MINIMIZATION
56m · PublishedWhat do you minimize and why? More importantly, what would it take for you to believe that it’s valid? In this episode, we tackle this question for ourselves and also hear what some of you had to say. Listen to hear how we minimized ourselves into “rock bottom” only to minimize some more, ways we flew under the radar by ignoring our needs, and why we should all be emotional maximalists.
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- Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
#113 You Don't Belong in a Box feat. LABELS
1h 1m · PublishedInspired by tabloid news, your attention-deficit cohosts have a conversation about labels in the mental health world. Topics and tangents include:
- Ways we feel stuck and ashamed in our eating disorders this week
- Glennon Doyle’s recent anorexia diagnosis and ensuing controversy
- Differentiating professional diagnoses and personal labels
- Labels we’ve given ourselves, labels others have given us, and labels we’ve reclaimed
- How online dating has changed the way we label ourselves
- Reddit and r/ProED (RIP)
- When it’s healthy to internalize labels and when to let them go
- Our most low-effort (but still delicious) palate cleanser yet
CONTENT WARNING: We talk about eating disorders more than usual on this episode, though we try not to go into detail when it comes to behaviors. No pressure to listen if this type of conversation is triggering to you in any way.
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Credits:
- Article: Author Glennon Doyle reveals anorexia diagnosis: ‘I did not believe it’
- Reddit thread: Glennon Doyle’s newest podcast episode. (Anorexia diagnosis)
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
#112 Hit the Brakes and Ruffle the Waters feat. BOUNDARIES
59m · PublishedToday's episode draws from listener feedback to discuss ways we can set boundaries for ourselves and what to do when your boundaries aren't respected. Topics (and tangents!) include:
- Getting reported on Instagram
- Our attempts to diagnose ourselves with ADHD (and what we learned thanks to Google)
- Listening to your gut and creating boundaries from a place of self-respect
- How to form boundaries when you have low self-esteem and worry about losing people
- How to say no and exit with grace
- Times we've broken our own boundaries
- Times someone else drew a boundary against us
- Physical boundaries, verbal boundaries, using body language to convey boundaries, and everything in between
- Lil Peep, Everybody's Everything, and substance use
- A bill of rights
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- Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
#111 Feel Your Feelings feat. FAMILY SECRETS
1h 9m · PublishedYour imperfect yet oh-so-professional cohosts return in the new year to dish about the past and take a messy look into family dynamics. (Dish about family? Look messily into the past? Take your pick.)
Topics (and tangents) include:
- The incident that blew up Lauren’s life right after we recorded our in-person episode two weeks ago
- More insurance nightmares
- The LIVE ON-AIR death of Gary the microphone
- A milestone for Christina and why she doesn’t want to talk about it
- How our respective families deal with secrets and what happens when they get out
- Our reactions when family members share they’ve been sharing similar struggles
- Thinking back to all the times we were f*cked up at family events and wondering why nobody said anything
- Anxieties around spilling our guts on the Internet for anyone to hear
- Ways addiction and depression has been talked about (and covered up) in our families
- Being vulnerable with people who don’t know how to respond
- Controversy around weed
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- Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
#110 We Met In Person!!
1h 13m · PublishedHappy New Year, hot and spicy pickles! Today we are FINALLY releasing the episode we made in Lauren's living room after meeting in person for the first time. We answer listener questions, give out tragic awards, and attempt to hold it together in the only ways we know how. Enjoy!
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Credits:
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
#109 One Spoon, Too Many Bowls feat. VULNERABILITY
57m · PublishedThis week we’re baring it all in an attempt to keep being honest on this stupid show. Topics include:
- Why we’re tired of being strong for the holidays (and in general)
- Ways we’ve been struggling and why talking about it is hard
- Mental roadblocks preventing you from seeking support
- Turning to substances and self-harm instead of being vulnerable
- Putting on a shell to protect yourself from being disappointed
- Being vulnerable at the wrong place or time
- Spilling your guts online vs IRL
- Drifting away from friends and blaming yourself
- Ways vulnerability has helped—and hurt—us
- Things you can do to make vulnerability more accessible
As we wrap up another year of Pickles and Vodka, we want to thank you for taking a chance and being vulnerable with us. Y’all keep us sane. (Or at least sane-ish.)
We are recording LIVE and IN PERSON for the first time ever next week! Follow us on social media to join the fun:
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- Email: [email protected]
- Christina's personal Instagram: @xtinajumper
- Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
#108 Fail As Hard As You Want To feat. RECOVERY
58m · PublishedIt's messy, it's nonlinear AF, and it's definitely not for everyone. We are, of course, talking about recovery. Today's Pickle Poll episode draws from listener comments and voicemails to discuss the following:
- How we define recovery (or lack thereof) for ourselves
- Chronic mental illness, losing hope, and seeing recovery as an unaffordable luxury
- The “anecdote equals fact” approach and why it pisses Lauren off
- How to get to a place where you actually want to recover
- How to replace self-destruction as an outlet
- The temptation to make recovery your entire identity
- Recovery gatekeepers and how Christina keeps people guessing
- Lapses, relapses, and everything in between
- Performative recovery and being honest with yourself
- Finding a reason to recover (and what to do if you don't have one)
Follow Pickles and Vodka for updates, guest inquiries, or to say hi:
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- Lauren's personal Instagram: @laurenafh (but mostly @picosauve)
Credits:
- Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive
Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast has 164 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 153:28:39. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 27th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 22nd, 2024 20:11.
