After a long hiatus, we return to the new year to discuss lessons we've learned over the last decade, and our grim and unsettling hopes for the future. Ikki also shares the importance of love, returning to your past, and knowing when to walk away. While, in the badlands, Idil, struggling with a deadly flu, goes on an awkward rant about NGOs, and the collective unconscious. Finally, we discuss a future episode on PTSD and the workplace. Look forward to your feedback.

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The End is Nigh

A short banter episode in which we pontificate about the practice of meditation, discuss how Ikki got into meditative practices, and the benefits of meditation; particularly for mental wellness and clarity.

Meditations on Meditating

On this week's episode, we discuss the importance of friendship on our mental health; both the bad and the good. We also go on a rant about the energy vampires and how trust is overrated.

On Friendship: the good, the bad, and the energy vampire.

In honour of Friday the 13th, we discuss Idil's struggles with sleep paralysis, hallucinations, sleep entities, and what our fears reveal about our trauma and mental health.

Sleep Paralysis, Fears, and Mental Health

In which we discuss our two month hiatus, why we hate Paris, Ikky’s upcoming birthday, new opportunities, and pulling yourself out of an existential funk.

The Banter Episode

On today’s episode, Idil struggles with deep listening and we discuss why we went into hiding last week, and explain what spiritual assassins are. Ikki also teaches us about being an empathetic witness, cultivating empathy, and why if technology and cellphones turned the world into a mean place. We also snark on young people, and goes on a rant about the holy sanctity of friendship and admits she’s a trans-humanist.

On Empathetic Witnesses, Social Supports, and Procrastination.

In today's episode, we discuss some of the hidden symptoms that survivors of childhood trauma experience in adulthood. We also share our own personal journeys in surviving the symptoms of complex PTSD, which include depression, anxiety, disassociation, people pleasing, and emptiness. Also a warning for our listeners, we discuss some heavy topics like childhood abuse and mental health challenges.

Hidden Symptoms of Childhood Trauma

We discuss all forms of minimalism in pursuit of spring cleaning our lives, for both mental clarity and emotional healing. We also talk about mean people on twitter, the perils of unsubscribing from email subscriptions, and cleaning our minds.

Spring Cleaning our Digital, Personal, and Mental Lives in Pursuit of Clarity.

when was the last time you did something vulnerable, or felt vulnerable? Can you live your best creative life without vulnerability? And why is it so damn hard to be vulnerable and raw online? and in the matrix? We discuss all that, and more.

On being vulnerable online

we discuss disassociation, living life on autopilot, and how trauma informs disassociation.

Were you ever really here?

Welcome to baretown: a digital space, podcast for adult survivors of childhood trauma, Complex PTSD (C-PTSD), on a journey towards mental wellness and mindful living.

What's a baretown?

Welcome to baretown: join us for a deeply personal, and sometimes funny podcast for adult survivors of Childhood Trauma (Complex-PTSD)- hosted by Ikki and Idil, two lifelong best-friends talking about healing from trauma, mental wellness, the creative life, morality, and mindful living.

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