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Brutal Vulnerability

Lauren McQ & Rebecca Rush

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A recovery podcast about things that nice ladies don't discuss. Pod hosted by Rebecca Rush of Vulnerability: A Comedy Show, held at The Hollywood Improv, and Lauren McQ of @BrutalRecovery, a recovery meme page on Instagram.
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Constant Conflict

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01/18/22 • 75 min

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Lauren and Rebecca delve into the forgotten attachment style, called both mixed and disorganized, having qualities of both anxious AND avoidant. It is created when your caretaker and abuser are the same person. How we become addicted to trauma, the 6 forms of abuse, in relationships, brainwashing, dissociation, brain damage, and the power of reflection. On the Patreon we discuss our darkest secrets yet, involving a mentor taking the ultimate advantage and whether or not someone hired a hit man to murder their own family.

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This episode sponsored by WorkitHealth.

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01/18/22 • 75 min

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Metaphorical Hot Carl

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01/11/22 • 59 min

Attachment theory episode two - avoidants! Deactivating strategies - tools to keep love at arms length, assets to avoidant attachment style, 8 things you can do today to stop pushing love away, the phantom Ex, pining for the one, mistaking self reliance for independence. Rebecca's social media block list and Lauren's avoidant beaus on the Patreon.

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01/11/22 • 59 min

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Mad Woman's Ball

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11/30/21 • 42 min

Welcome to the first episode! Cohosts Rebecca Rush & Lauren McQ delve into the history of the modern mental asylum up to 1900. Nellie Bly's 10 Days In A Madhouse, Mad Woman's Ball, The Yellow Wallpaper, Saint Dymphna; Patron Saint of Insane, Dorothea Dix, Female Hysteria, High Royd's, and getting sectioned. Check out the Patreon for twenty minute video episodes after each show where they get more brutal and more vulnerable. This one is the ladies personal first time in the psych ward stories!

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11/30/21 • 42 min

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Be The Hot Fudge Sundae

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12/28/21 • 63 min

To complete the eating disorder series, Lauren and Rebecca explore the wild world of food addiction. Victims of childhood sexual abuse are far more likely to become obese adults. Bingeing after sex, just wanting to FEEL FULL. Compulsive eating as anorexia of the soul. Food is less stigmatized than alcohol but being fat? Isn't. On Patreon we discuss how our eating got weird in Covid.

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Recommended Reading:

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth

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12/28/21 • 63 min

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Hulu & Hurl

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12/21/21 • 57 min

Welcome to our exploration of bulimia, whose movies all have secret in the title. Do bulimics come from chaotic families? Who knows, we basically stopped covering it in the media in 2005. Famous bulimics include Lady Gaga, Jane Fonda, Elton John, and Princess Diana. The link with addict brain, private self torture vs throwing up public, brain over binge (terrible) and do our binge/purge desires go down as we focus on *gasp* self nurture?

Patreon ep details the anatomy of a binge.

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12/21/21 • 57 min

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Eating Disorder Cookbook

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12/14/21 • 71 min

Welcome to the first three episode arc of the podcast, on eating disorders. Anorexia is up first. Lauren & Rebecca discuss, fear foods, Karen Carpenter, Amy Winehouse, The Best Little Girl In The World, Lene Marie Fosson, Wasted, the ana creed, the thin commandments, progression of restriction, and watching the Food Network while starving on purpose. Lauren moderated a pro-ana message board in the aughts. In the Patreon episode, we discuss our personal histories with the most admired (and deadly) of the eating disorders.

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Best Little Girl In The World by Steven Levenkron

Wasted by Marya Hornbacher

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12/14/21 • 71 min

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Protest Not Perfection

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01/04/22 • 67 min

The first of a four episode series on attachment theory, Lauren and Rebecca cover the anxious attachment style. Negative self/positive other positioning, protest behavior, the need to acknowledge and accept your true needs, the anxious - avoidant trap, activating strategies, hypervigilance to social cues, core beliefs, and how attachment injuries occur. On Patreon they discuss anxious relationship behaviors they've witnessed and acted out.

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Bibliography: Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

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01/04/22 • 67 min

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02/01/22 • 74 min

The podcast has it's first guest, KCL Anderson, author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters as Lauren and Rebecca discuss emotionally immature parents. Being born feeling everything that is forbidden in the family, the dream that one day our parents will magically become different people, role reversal, and remembering that not everyone wants to be happy. On patreon they discuss the toxic dynamics of the family group chat.

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02/01/22 • 74 min

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Mental Health, Interrupted

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12/08/21 • 44 min

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." - Dorothy Parker Another dive into the history of the modern mental asylum, this time from 1900 to today. Hosts Lauren MCQ and Rebecca Rush discuss Girl, Interrupted; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Lobotomies; Sylvia Plath; Deinstitutionalization (and therefore recriminalization) of the mentally ill (Thanks, Reagan!); electroshock therapy; The Bell Jar; Zelda Fitzgerald, and more. Lauren once asked her Dr for electroshock therapy to help her stop thinking about a man. This Patreon episode is about each of the hosts second (and hopefully final) experience in the psych ward. If that isn't a sign this partnership was meant to be, what is?

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1. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

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12/08/21 • 44 min

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Security, Now?

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01/27/22 • 74 min

In the final installment of the attachment theory series, Lauren and Rebecca investigate the mythical secure attachment style. Secures are 50% of the population and nobody we know. How to move toward building a secure base, meet your needs, and be lovingly conscious. The small good things you do in relationships add up! On Patreon we discuss close encounters of the secure kind.

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How many episodes does Brutal Vulnerability have?

Brutal Vulnerability currently has 43 episodes available.

What topics does Brutal Vulnerability cover?

The podcast is about Culture, Addiction, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Society, Psychology, Mental Health, Wellness, Mentalhealth, Sobriety, Podcasts, Recovery and Alcoholism.

What is the most popular episode on Brutal Vulnerability?

The episode title 'Constant Conflict' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Brutal Vulnerability?

The average episode length on Brutal Vulnerability is 72 minutes.

How often are episodes of Brutal Vulnerability released?

Episodes of Brutal Vulnerability are typically released every 7 days, 4 hours.

When was the first episode of Brutal Vulnerability?

The first episode of Brutal Vulnerability was released on Nov 30, 2021.

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