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Bold Beautiful Borderline

Bold Beautiful Borderline

Sara Abbott, MSW, LCSW, LICSW

Host and Licensed Clinical Social Worker Sara Abbott, provide a raw, honest, and sometimes humorous look into what it means to live with Borderline Personality Disorder and a variety of other conditions. From relationships, to anger, to sex, and to recovery, she along with guests (and her husband occasionally!) provides a behind the lens view on the world’s most stigmatized mental illness. You find Sara on IG @borderlinefromhell

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - Impulsivity: The balancing act

Impulsivity: The balancing act

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12/20/20 • 27 min

Impulsivity is possibly the most fun and most devastating symptom of borderline personality disorder.
Be it impulsive sex, substance use, speeding, shopping, binge eating, or basically anything that gives immediate gratification in maybe not the most healthy ways... we’ve probably been there and done that.
But impulsivity it’s not necessarily a symptom we’d want to live without either! Being impulsive also makes us more fun, passionate, exciting, and spontaneous.
It’s all about balance.
This episode featured Laurie Edmundson who previously was a co-host of this project. You can find her at https://www.laurieedmundson.com and on IG @laurieanned where you will find ways to access The Super Feelers Club and other projects she works on.

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - Introducing the Bold Beautiful Borderline podcast
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12/13/20 • 8 min

This episode featured Laurie Edmundson who previously was a co-host of this project. You can find her at https://www.laurieedmundson.com and on IG @laurieanned where you will find ways to access The Super Feelers Club and other projects she works on.

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - What the heck is Borderline anyway?!

What the heck is Borderline anyway?!

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12/13/20 • 19 min

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is often characterized in the media in incredibly negative ways. Laurie and Sara go through each symptom of the disorder and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly about their experiences with each symptom. In future episodes they’ll go into more details and stories about each diagnostic criteria.
This episode featured Laurie Edmundson who previously was a co-host of this project. You can find her at https://www.laurieedmundson.com and on IG @laurieanned where you will find ways to access The Super Feelers Club and other projects she works on.

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - Laurie’s Biggest Shame: Eating Disorders 1
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04/18/21 • 69 min

Warning: This episode is hard as is very likely to be triggering to people who have experiences with disordered eating. Please listen with self love and take good care of yourself.

We have debated not publishing this episode many times as it is less about recovery and more about currently living with mental illness and actively struggling. It was the hardest episode we have ever recorded. That said, in some ways we hope that this episode offers a glimpse into the reality of really tough conversations, boundary setting, and the deep shame and struggles that can come from mental illnesses like eating disorders.

In this episode you will hear a lot of dysregulation, resistance, and resentment. Please know that Laurie and Sara are good - this is the reality of being in close friendships with BPD. We still love each other very much and have discussed how difficult this was for both of us at great lengths since recording.

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This episode featured Laurie Edmundson who previously was a co-host of this project. You can find her at https://www.laurieedmundson.com and on IG @laurieanned where you will find ways to access The Super Feelers Club and other projects she works on.

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - From tragedy to supporting others (feat. Lynn from Sashbear)
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03/12/23 • 43 min

On June 17th 2011, Sasha Courey lost her battle to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and died by suicide at the age of 20. Sasha was a scholarship athlete and a gifted student with a promising future. The pain associated with the BPD was too great and the system failed to support her needs. Sasha struggled to understand why the treatment that was “air to breathe” was so expensive and difficult to locate.

Sasha's family created the Sashbear Foundation in her legacy, and have been changing lives through advocacy and skills training ever since Sasha's tragic passing.

In this episode Sara and Laurie chat with Sasha's mom Lynn (Sashbear's Founder and President) about founding the Sashbear Foundation, how they support families, and her perspective of Sasha's story.

Particularly moving is Lynn's reflections on how she would have done things differently with the skills she has been able to learn in the last decade.

To learn more about Sashbear, please visit: https://sashbear.org/en/

For US based Family Connections supports please visit: https://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.org/family-connections/

This episode featured Laurie Edmundson who previously was a co-host of this project. You can find her at https://www.laurieedmundson.com and on IG @laurieanned where you will find ways to access The Super Feelers Club and other projects she works on.

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

For mental health supports:

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Welcome to your newest BBB mini-series!! Every Wednesday you will get a bonus episode until we've read EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER of the book Stop Walking on Eggshells that was republished as a 2nd edition in 2010.
Here's the deal - we are reviewing this book from a critical lens, but we only have so much ability to be critical as we're reading it from the perspective of someone having BPD and the partner of someone with BPD. These are our opinions and we hope to teach others how stigmatizing language damages us and the people who love those of us with BPD. We also point out some of the benefits of this book. This mini-series is NOT a shit on this book, nor is it a recommendation of this book. It is simply a critical review of a book that most people who have a BPD family member, partner, loved one, or friend has been recommended.
We are reviewing this book as consistent with Copyright Fair Use law:
1. We are not reading it in its entirety
2. We have purchased the book we are reading from
3. We are using it for educational purposes
4. We are using it for non-commercial purposes
5. We are reviewing a previous edition of the book that does not harm the current edition of the book or the future market of the book
6. We are using this work for “transformative” uses. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
This week we are reviewing the introduction of the book. Each week we will review one full chapter until the book is complete. Enjoy!
Shop our new merch! https://www.laurieedmundson.com/shop and visit our newly published website at boldbeautifulborderline.com to see what’s new

You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further @laurieanned and @saraswellnessway. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

You can also find Sara's business as a Mental Health Clinici

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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Today Lucia joins us on the pod again - see Tattoos and Piercings as Self-Harm? Round 2 feat Lucia & Talon where she was with us the first time - to talk about her diagnosis journey with BPD and the treatment planning she has done with her team.
Lucia has found great success treating the severity of her depression through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and we talk about that today.
Information on TMS can be found here: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-for-depression-2018022313335
This episode featured Laurie Edmundson who previously was a co-host of this project. You can find her at https://www.laurieedmundson.com and on IG @laurieanned where you will find ways to access The Super Feelers Club and other projects she works on.

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

For mental health supports:

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - BPD Book Club - Chapter 4 Part 1 (feat Talon)
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04/26/23 • 51 min

Welcome to your newest BBB mini-series!! Every Wednesday you will get a bonus episode until we've read EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER of the book Stop Walking on Eggshells that was republished as a 2nd edition in 2010.
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts at: boldbeautifulborderline.com
Here's the deal - we are reviewing this book from a critical lens, but we only have so much ability to be critical as we're reading it from the perspective of someone having BPD and the partner of someone with BPD. These are our opinions and we hope to teach others how stigmatizing language damages us and the people who love those of us with BPD. We also point out some of the benefits of this book. This mini-series is NOT a shit on this book, nor is it a recommendation of this book. It is simply a critical review of a book that most people who have a BPD family member, partner, loved one, or friend has been recommended.
We are reviewing this book as consistent with Copyright Fair Use law:
1. We are not reading it in its entirety
2. We have purchased the book we are reading from
3. We are using it for educational purposes
4. We are using it for non-commercial purposes
5. We are reviewing a previous edition of the book that does not harm the current edition of the book or the future market of the book
6. We are using this work for “transformative” uses. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
This week we are reviewing the first chapter of this book. Each week we will review one full chapter until the book is complete. Enjoy!
Shop our new merch! https://www.laurieedmundson.com/shop and visit our newly published website at boldbeautifulborderline.com to see what’s new

You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further @laurieanned and @saraswellnessway. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

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Our mental healthcare needs to be personalized to us and our specific biology. Today, Sara and Dr. Evelyn Higgins talk about the work she's doing to make that happen. Wired For Addiction provides an individually tested biomarker 31-page report that hopes to negate the often ineffective and dangerous “try-it-out” phase of medications by isolating the individual’s specific genes and the associated interaction with the drugs and drug types listed in the report. In matters of health, life, and death, empirical evidence should not be the standard of care. These are their beliefs as a company. Sara and Evelyn talk what, why, and how on individual genetic mental healthcare.
WATCH THE TED TALK:
https://tedxjacksonville.com/talks/evelyn-higgins-addiction-researcher/
WEBSITES:
https://www.wiredbiohealth.com/
https://www.wiredforaddiction.com/
https://doctorhiggins.com/

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

For mental health supports:

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Bold Beautiful Borderline - BPD Book Club - Chapter 1 (feat. Talon)
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03/29/23 • 55 min

Welcome to your newest BBB mini-series!! Every Wednesday you will get a bonus episode until we've read EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER of the book Stop Walking on Eggshells that was republished as a 2nd edition in 2010.
Here's the deal - we are reviewing this book from a critical lens, but we only have so much ability to be critical as we're reading it from the perspective of someone having BPD and the partner of someone with BPD. These are our opinions and we hope to teach others how stigmatizing language damages us and the people who love those of us with BPD. We also point out some of the benefits of this book. This mini-series is NOT a shit on this book, nor is it a recommendation of this book. It is simply a critical review of a book that most people who have a BPD family member, partner, loved one, or friend has been recommended.
We are reviewing this book as consistent with Copyright Fair Use law:
1. We are not reading it in its entirety
2. We have purchased the book we are reading from
3. We are using it for educational purposes
4. We are using it for non-commercial purposes
5. We are reviewing a previous edition of the book that does not harm the current edition of the book or the future market of the book
6. We are using this work for “transformative” uses. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
This week we are reviewing the first chapter of this book. Each week we will review one full chapter until the book is complete. Enjoy!
Shop our new merch! https://www.laurieedmundson.com/shop and visit our newly published website at boldbeautifulborderline.com to see what’s new

You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further @laurieanned and @saraswellnessway. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

You can also find Sara's business as a Mental Health Clini

Send us a text message to be anonymously read and responded to!

Support the show

You can find Sara on Instagram @borderlinefromhell. You can also find the podcast on IG @boldbeautifulborderline

Corey Evans is the artist for the music featured. He can be found HERE
Talon Abbott created the cover art. He. can be found HERE
Leave us a voicemail about your thoughts or questions on the show at boldbeautifulborderline.com
If you like the show we would love if you could rate, subscribe and support us on Patreon.
Patreon info here: https://www.patreon.com/boldbeautifulborderline?fan_landing=true
Purchase Sara's Exploring Your Borderline Strengths Journal at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Your-Borderline-Strengths-Amundson/dp/B0C522Y7QT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGQBWJRE3CFX&keywords=exploring+your+borderline+strengths&qid=1685383771&sprefix=exploring+your+bor%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

For mental health supports:

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How many episodes does Bold Beautiful Borderline have?

Bold Beautiful Borderline currently has 209 episodes available.

What topics does Bold Beautiful Borderline cover?

The podcast is about Addiction, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Bpd, Dbt, Personal Journals, Mental Health, Wellness, Therapy, Podcasts, Recovery, Health and Emotions.

What is the most popular episode on Bold Beautiful Borderline?

The episode title 'Impulsivity: The balancing act' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Bold Beautiful Borderline?

The average episode length on Bold Beautiful Borderline is 46 minutes.

How often are episodes of Bold Beautiful Borderline released?

Episodes of Bold Beautiful Borderline are typically released every 6 days, 20 hours.

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The first episode of Bold Beautiful Borderline was released on Dec 13, 2020.

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