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We came back from our planned break to speak about the Brown University shooting, the weight of living near it, and the everyday systems that fail to protect people. Healthcare costs, campus safety, and community care weave into a candid, grounded conversation.

• premium spikes, broken enrollment, and access gaps
• moral injury of vulnerability in a crisis
• what the videos miss and what students carry
• policing delays, dismissive responses, and data manipulation
• harm reduction versus root causes of violence
• campus safety tradeoffs and obvious fixes
• misinformation, victim‑blaming, and media noise
• practical community care after trauma
• small rituals, animals, and grounding for healing

We will be taking a break and will resume at the end of January

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Artwork and logo design by Misty Rae.


Special thanks to Joanna Roux for editing help.
Special thanks to the listeners and all the wonderful people who helped listen to and provide feedback on the episode's prerelease.


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Happy Holidays everyone. See you in 2026 and thank you for all the support.

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Artwork and logo design by Misty Rae.


Special thanks to Joanna Roux for editing help.
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Wendy returns for reunion episode. Per listener request Matt shares some of his own personal trauma and how it impacted his relationships before and after his resolution.

Below is the poem I wrote when I was 33. This is how raw the feelings were back then. Thankfully the pain has been healed.

I am a bastard, thanks to you.

I bet 33 years ago you never imagined,

your polluted seed would create

the man that stands here

I N V I S I B L E

Did you think your whimsical germination

would harbor feelings of resentment powerful enough

to create the persona I have built my existence on?

Or does my illegitimacy

deny me the right to claim

this hatred I have for you.

I can’t comprehend the void of feeling

Held within your perverse core

That would allow you to give me away

Forgotten and packed, out of your sight

Out of your mind, like a stuffed animal

Left on the side of the road

Battered

Lonely

Damaged…only

Somewhere out there is a child who mourns

Its loss, helplessly pleading with the parents to

save it, before the unthinkable happens.

Or did it already happen?

Lifeless cloth shell swollen with cotton

has more value, than I to you.

I can relate

I have fonder memories of my own toys.

Of course they were in my life more often

I protected them with every ounce of my soul

I hugged when they were sad

I kept them company when they were alone.

Unconditional love, whatever that is

And no one ever had to ask them why they didn’t have a father?

Or “Why doesn’t he love you?

Or what did you do to make him leave?

But I’m the bastard.

Packsaddle son swaddled in rags

and left out for the Monday night trash.

That’s what you did to me.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/no-time-to-die
License code: S4CEQWLNQXVZUMU4

Artwork and logo design by Misty Rae.


Special thanks to Joanna Roux for editing help.
Special thanks to the listeners and all the wonderful people who helped listen to and provide feedback on the episode's prerelease.


Please feel free to email Matt topics or suggestions, questions or feedback.
Matt@unitedstatesofPTSD.com