Ep 37: There Were No Spirit Guides

Hilah and Jessie acknowledge that they make a lot of stupid, false statements - but for two shrinks whose office is the backseat of a car- what do you expect?
Jessie has a crazy ketamine experience and traveled to the deepest level of her subconscious- which happens to be subterranean alien catacombs formed out of black rock, where the bodies of her trauma are literally buried. Check please!
They help a listener who may, or may not,  totally dislike her 22 year old stepson who stops by the house for munchies. Is he the problem? Or is the problem actually the fact that she's labeled him as a "CIS white male" ? they discuss "normal" child behavior vs. serious red flags.

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic  therapy podcast. 
Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

Disclaimer: The content of  this podcast  is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Hilah's dreams are fueling her writing, and ketamine treatments are fueling Jessie's anxiety and causing rageful PTSD episodes. If you've ever wondered about male mastrubation and blow jobs, this is the episode for you, so put your bib on! Hilah & Jessie help a listener who slept with a fellow member of her Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) group, which leads to a discussion about Borderline Personality Disorder, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, sex addiction, sexual anorexia, how to be alone, reframing role of love, and how groups founded by AA don't address patterns driven by mental illness and trauma. Maybe the key to everything is to just love yourself or just get a fucking hobby.

References:

• SLAA 
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Dr Ramani Durvasula 

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic  therapy podcast. 
Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

 Hilah's still drunk from the night before, but manages to trudge through this recording by eating fifteen different meals. Jessie's ketamine treatments are making her smarter and less relatable. In spite of these differences, they both agree - the dark void that is death totally chills them the fuck out- and people who have Near Death Experiences agree that it is superior to the fluorescent, relentless insanity that is life!
They counsel a listener who is dealing with radio silence from a new friend who just had a baby, and is newly sober.  They discuss the trauma of motherhood,  neurological deficits caused by Alcohol Abuse Disorder, post-partum, and how to support friends in the wake of radical life changes.
PLUS a bizarre mental illness NO ONE is talking about: Dorito Paste... IS IT DEMONIC?

P.S. lots of vomit talk

References:

• Neurological Effects of Alcohol Abuse Disorder
• Pregnancy Causes Lasting Changes in a Woman's Brain
• The Spiritual Child  By Lisa Miller,  Ph.d.

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic therapy podcast. 

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

Hilah starts the New Year off with climate anxiety and rude fever dreams. Jessie describes her first at-home Ketamine Treatment and the random neuroplasticity exercises she's doing(ish) - plus she meet someone who has ALSO had a transliminal event!
They discuss  harsh moms, inner-child wounds, Sudarshan Kriya meditation, miscarriages, and if Jessie should become a therapist with no physical or emotional boundaries. Finally, they offer counsel to a listener whose wife has lost interest in sex and monogamy, but refuses to get therapy.

References :

• Sudarshan Kriya Breathing Technique  
• SK research study 
• SK research study
• Yoga With Adriene: Ujjayi Breathing
• Yoga With Adriene: Alternate Nostril Breathing 
• The Cross Crawl Exercise
• Transliminal Altered Reality Episodes 1 & 2

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic therapy podcast. 

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

Hilah tells about her experience paying a psychic therapist to reveal a bunch of stuff she already knows about herself and how it ended up super depressing and sent her back to her old counselor. They talk about the dangers of overdoing it on talk therapy without also figuring out ways to cope and deal and become more resilient. Hilah is still considering getting another Akashic reading from the first person she talked with (ep 31) and Jessie's had enough of the nonsense but still believes in "regular psychics". Hilah recalls taking a personality and IQ test from the Church of Scientology. Jessie admits to once spending $600 on a phone psychic. No helpful advice is given in this episode.

References:
Episode 31 of Backseat Shrinks

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic therapy podcast. 

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

Hilah shares what she's learned from The Awakened Brain, a book by Lisa Miller, Phd. 
They help a listener who has been accused of being a gossip after sharing some inflammatory information about an acquaintance. Jessie establishes what constitutes malicious gossip and Hilah  points out the societal merits of gossip and also the Neanderthal origin story of gossip and how we all learned that mud isn't great for our digestive system. 
Sorry if this isn't a great description- Jessie isn't quite the great writer Hilah thinks she is. 

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic therapy podcast. 1

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

Hilah and Jessie carefully consider a young woman's problem with a loudmouth, jealous coworker. Hilah inexplicably goes off on a tangent about butthole/mouth development in utero. Then they circle back to the Q of the D and offer a helpful script for a gentle but necessary confrontation. It may or may not require some light lying, manipulation and subliminal insults. Finally, they demand you rate and review this podcast (5 stars) and tell your friends how much you love it.

About Backseat Shrinks:

With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic therapy podcast. 

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

* Trigger warning: Discussion of disordered eating

Jessie and Hilah help a listener who is worried that visiting her family for the holidays will trigger her bulimia. Hilah reveals her own past with disordered eating and Jessie relates her experience in Narcotics Anonymous and the notion of relapse as an erasure of progress. They offer tools that are backed by data (mindful eating, meditation) and some that have more limited research (Emotional Freedom Technique), and advise the writer to get comfortable with some discomfort because growth is uncomfortable.  Also, to NA : Jessie has a VERY cool keychain now with a RED bottle opener on it- so she WINS.

Disclaimer: The content of  this podcast  is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

References: 

• Mindful Eating
• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
• Raisin Exercise

About Backseat Shrinks:
With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic  therapy podcast. 
Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com

In this minisode Hilah and Jessie discuss lawless Texas towns and the witches that cook questionable meth in them. They help a listener whose teenage daughter is giving some nasty tude over the fact that he won't allow her girlfriend to sleep over. They decide that, in spite of his caution, there is likely still some fingering going on (not FANGering, which is a totally different form of vampire fingering) . Also will they go public with their COVID lies? Ehhhh- they'd have to do it in the hell scape that is Facebook- So fuck that.
P.S. What is "Snapchat" ? Asking 4 a friend!!

About Backseat Shrinks:
With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic  therapy podcast.

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com
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Hilah and Jessie reminisce about their acting days, alcohol-fueled bad behavior,  and pet peeves that lack origins. A successful, married mother of two writes in, admitting that her decades-long battle with Kleptomania has gotten out of control. Jessie and Hilah discuss the understudied impulse-control disorder and therapuetic modalities that may help treat it, as well as medications that could potentially offer relief.  Wise quotes are bandied about. They also give some great stealing tips for your next drug store run! 

References: 

• Case Study: Kleptomania and Potential Exacerbating Factors
• Kleptomania Diagnosis 
• Kleptomania Statistics

About Backseat Shrinks:
With nary a credential in sight, longtime friends Hilah Johnson and Jessie Tilton therapize each other and give advice to listeners with "hilarious insight and wisdom" in this comedic  therapy podcast.

Send your questions to backseatshrinks@gmail.com