Super Feeler: A BPD Podcast
Dive into the experiences of living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Hear powerful stories from individuals with lived experience, their families, researchers, and mental health professionals. Each episode provides a strength-based perspective on mental health, filled with humor, raw emotion, and validation.
Every other week you will learn from a group of Super Feelers about how they navigate the world using Dialectic Behavioural Therapy skills.
Whether you’re navigating these challenges yourself, supporting a loved one, or simply looking to understand more about the complexities of emotional regulation, Super Feeler is here to inform, inspire, and connect.
Subscribe to the pod to find hope, understanding, and community on your feed every week.
Together, we explore the complexities of these conditions in a way that celebrates the beauty of feeling strongly.
Episodes
89 episodes
Suicide Isn't Selfish, an Autism story (feat. Chris)
This week's guest Chris shares his powerful story of receiving an adult diagnosis of autism, being subjected to horrific emotional abuse and stigma because of it, and surviving suicide. Suicide and stigma are experieced for people without BPD t...
Bonus - Laurie's Story from the "If These Trees Could Talk" Podcast
Bonus little episode featuring MY story for a change! This is actually from our dear Super Feeler friend Shannon's amazing podcast If These Trees Could Talk. Make sure you go over to her feed to follow the show because it's amazing!...
Family Stories: Through Hell and Back (feat. Bella and Cheryl)
Bella (they/she) struggled immensely with major depression, insomnia and BPD for many years. Cheryl, Bella's mom, facilitates Family Connections with the Sashbear Foundation and has found a beautiful community of support and learni...
Evolution and Neuroscience Develops New Understanding of BPD (feat. Valerie)
Valerie Porr shares her extensive experience as an advocate and her long journey to understand the science underlying borderline personality disorder. Her hopes is that with greater understandings of the role of evolution and neuroscience...
Family Stories: A Mother's Advocacy Journey (feat. Rita Brown)
Rita Brown is an award winning prominent advocate for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in Australia. Days after we recorded this episode she was presented with the Medal of the Order of Australia - an incredible honor. We d...
A Car Accident That Changed Everything (feat. Sarah)
Sarah shares about her experience surviving a very traumatic car accident that led to a BPD diagnosis, the impacts of substance use on her life and what having BPD means to her. We also dive into physical and emotional abuse at the ...
BPD Relationships: Rakesh and Katie
Rakesh and Katie BOTH have borderline personality disorder and met at a BPD support group (not endorsed by the Super Feeler podcast in any way)....Their story is so cute and the way they support each other through the early pa...
BPD, Bipolar, Poetry and Advocacy (feat. Valéry)
Valéry Brosseau, is a social worker, poet, advocate and the CEO of Validate Mental Health.She lives with BOTH bipolar 2 and borderline personality disorder and we discuss what that means, how the present differently and what has helped h...
BPD Relationships: Gwen and Jason
Gwen and Jason join the Relationship Series to discuss their new relationship where they are both suspected of having borderline personality disorder. We discuss what this unique relationship dynamic looks like, how they navigate ch...
Impacts of Adoption on Abandonment (feat. Elaine)
Elaine's life will be forever changed by being adopted by a white family and moved from the Philippines to the USA. Now 28 years old she was recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and has been doing a lot of self-discovery thro...
BPD Relationships: Kati and Carl
Kati and Carl join the BPD Relationships Mini Series to talk about their love story, how they support each other when things seem to all be going wrong, and of course the importance of communication. Their love story is on the short...
The Healing Powers of Anger and Humor (feat. Margeaux Feldman aka @softcore_trauma)
Margeaux Feldman is the creator behind the IG page @softcore_trauma, the author of Touch Me I'm Sick, and Substack writer. They join the podcast to talk all about the importance of humor in living with trauma, learning how to process our suppre...
BPD Relationships: Chris and Christina
Christina and Chris (already off to an adorable start with the names) join the BPD Relationships Mini Series to talk about what is was like to finally find the emo boy of Christina's dreams, their nightly ritual to make sure there's open commun...
Making Music in the Middle of the Mess (feat Alana Hil)
Singer-songwriter Alana Hil joins the show and chats about how her lived experience with BPD shapes her world and her art. Alana reflects on travelling the world, navigating challenging relationships and the complicated LA scene she find...
BPD Relationships: Brittany and Justin
Meet Justin and Brittany two awesome passionate people that Laurie actually knows IRL! Last year Justin was diagnosed with BPD following a really chaotic period of their relationship that they had to work through together...
Processing Through Journaling (feat. Michelle)
Michelle (@the.mindful.wildflower) joins the podcast for a second time to talk all about how journaling has become a tool in our wellness journeys. She started journaling in highschool, and I started a couple of years ago...
BPD Relationships: Shannon and Scott
You know Shannon from our other mini series (literally all of them) and this time she's joined by her incredible husband Scott to talk all about their relationship!The themes of their relationship success is lots of communicat...
Untangling Labels of Psychopath, Antisocial and Borderline Personality (feat. Nine)
Nine has been diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and labelled a psychopath by psychiatrists. We dive into the impacts of significant childhood trauma on their diagnoses, the cultural differences aro...
BPD Relationships: Aaron and Laurie
We're kicking off a brand new called BPD Relationships! In this series we're diving into one of the most misunderstood areas of life for people living with Borderline Personality Disorder.Relationships are often wher...
First Survival, Then Self Discovery (feat. Danny)
Danny has a historical diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and works as a social worker in the mental health field. He is passionate about destigmatizing BPD and believes that validation is the key to working with BPD clients.
BPD Symptoms: ICD Criteria
Well it's officially our final episode of the BPD Symptoms Series! In this episode we technically aren't talking about DSM criteria for borderline personality disorder but instead we're talking about the different diagnostic model that is used ...
The Impact of Intergenerational Trauma on BPD (feat. Gwen)
Gwen's story is one that many Super Feelers can relate to. With many generations of complex trauma that impacted each generation in different ways, she came to the realization that the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) go back a...
BPD Symptoms: Self Harm
Self-harm is something that the majority of people with BPD experience at some point in their lives (prevalence estimates range from 50-80+%).We decided to separate suicide and self-harm for the purposes of this mini series because the t...
Being Open About Your Needs at Work (feat. Christina)
Christina joins Super Feeler to talk about her experiences navigating borderline personality disorder (BPD) in the workplace and relationships. We discuss her experiences with advocating for her needs at work, the importance of skills and sobri...