Bold Beautiful Borderline

Apr 21 2024 51
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Hosts Laurie Edmundson and Sara Amundson provide a raw, honest, and sometimes humorous look into what it means to live with Borderline Personality Disorder. From relationships, to anger, to sex, and to recovery, they bare all to offer a glimpse into the reality behind life with the world’s most stigmatized mental illness. You find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further @laurieanned and @saraswellnessway

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PART 2: Making Friends in New Places (Feat. Brittni)

Apr 21 2024 24 mins  
Today is PART II of our chat with Brittni. We're wrapping up her time on the podcast by chatting about how to make friends in new places and how she did so while traveling as a speech therapist. Register for DBT drop in here: https://www.thewellnesswayllc.com/s/appointments Support the Show.You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further

PART 1: Practicing Radical Acceptance In A Chaotic Family System (Feat. Brittni)

Apr 14 2024 45 mins  
Today you meet Brittni who will speak with us about her beautiful and difficult experience navigating family adversity and trauma as well as seeking DBT and how difficult that is in the Midwest. She is the perfect example of radical acceptance - perfect meaning there is not such thing as perfect. Ending up at radical acceptance is in fact PERFECT. We are honored to chat with Brittn

Poetry, love, and recovery (feat. Kali)

Apr 07 2024 48 mins  
Kali (kmpoetry14) hosts poetry workshops for people with BPD through Emotions Matter. She shares about her own lived experience, the moment she realized she had the ability to change, finding and redefining love, and the impact poetry has had on her recovery. Kali earned her MFA in 2010 from Lesley University. She has been published in GaslightMagazine, Boston Literary Magazine, Ba

Panic attack or HEART attack???

Mar 31 2024 53 mins  
Laurie has been undergoing A LOT of medical stress and she's been learning a lot about her health through this process. Maybe it hasn't always been severe anxiety - has there been something else going on???? Listen to find out. Support the Show.You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further @laurieanned and @saraswellnessway. You c

Addiction recovery, aging and regulation (feat. Kelly)

Mar 24 2024 40 mins  
Kelly is a critical care nurse who has been in recovery from substance misuse for almost 12 years. She shares her story of addiction, getting diagnosed with BPD, and how aging and menopause has been impacting her emotion regulation. Support the Show.You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day to day lives even further @laurieanned and @saraswellnessway. You can al

New Diagnosis AND ADHD Assessment??? (Feat. Laura)

Mar 17 2024 42 mins  
Today Laura joins us on the podcast to talk about their recent BPD diagnosis and how they're moving forward with life given this. They also had some spidey senses that perhaps they struggled with ADHD so we administered the ADHD self-reporting tool and spoke about the results. It was so fun to have Laura join us on the pod. You can find them on Twitch @glomdi or right here: ht

Weight Stigma in Healthcare (feat. Heather)

Mar 10 2024 69 mins  
Heather, RD, MHA, has recently completed a research study about weight stigma within the health system and how dieticians can advocate for the reduction of this harmful stigma. Many people living with mental health challenges, Laurie included, have experienced discrimination due to their size when trying to access care. Heather shares tips for both providers and clients on how they

Sara's Lifelong Trigger of Feeling Stupid and her LCSW Exam

Mar 04 2024 63 mins  
Listen - in this episode I go deep and it is painful. This episode involves a lot of dysregulation with my partner that you will see me experience live but you also see us begin to repair. I talk about my fear I'm a bad therapist, my fear I'll never be successful, and how rapidly one fear turns into the belief that my entire life is over. Buckle up, it's a wild ride.

Not rushing into relationships (feat. Monique)

Feb 25 2024 51 mins  
Monique (tiktok: bpd_cptsd_awareness12) was recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and has been on a journey of understanding how her formative years have impacted her mental health and adult relationships. She is working on not rushing into relationships until she can heal herself.Monique is from Australia and identifies as someone with "quiet bpd" and s

"That breakup was like death"

Feb 18 2024 59 mins  
Today, Sara and Talon discuss her breakup from a 2.5 year relationship that ended in August. Sara explores emotions she didn't know were related to the breakup and recalls how Talon experienced witnessing the breakup. It's a good insight into how strong the borderline emotional experience is. Support the Show.You can find Laurie and Sara on Instagram to follow their day t