Things I Learned From My Mama

CW: We talk about emotional manipulation.

Back from our hiatus, and this one's a doozy!

This week's episode addresses some heavy matters, including health, mental health and illness, emotional manipulation, and healing from emotional manipulation. How do you heal from emotional pain and manipulation when your healing is contingent on someone who refuses to heal?

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

Our mom is a gold medalist in the Olympics of assuming and jumping to conclusions. 

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

(Apologies for the bad audio quality. We had some issues with our microphone this episode). Like most American students, we hate school. We hate it so much that we talked about it for over an hour. 

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

... but we ended up talking about Disneyland the entire time. 

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

In a tale as old as time, we got yelled at by our mom. The ugly side of living with an overly ambitious overachiever. 

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

We talked about the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election because we're so original (also Thi got sidetracked).

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

Making friends is hard. Keeping friends is even harder for us, especially when mom's there. Join us as we talk about how our childhood impacts our ability to make lasting relationships, even through adulthood. 

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

What happens when you can't let go? Thu & Thi talk about how it impacts their relationship with their mom and their relationship with themselves. 

Art credit:

Music - Jay Onua (https://ffm.to/xbeovel.ois)

Art cover - Jen (@jendoodler on Instagram)

We started off talking about money, but we ended up talking about the sanctity of life. And Disney. 

Some people say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. For our mom, it's a tea brewed in cockroach exoskeletons. Listen as we take a deeper dive into the measures our mom has taken to address some of our ailments. 

Thu was mad when we recorded this. In classic chaotic family fashion, going on vacation isn't as relaxing as it sounds. At least for half of us. 

We're all handling COVID differently. Some of us are picking up new hobbies. Like our mom, who decided she was going to catch a swarm of bees. 

Welcome to Things I Learned From My Mama! This is a podcast about all things mama related. We want to share stories, whether ours or your own that you choose to share with us, about moms. These stories can be heartwarming, heartbreaking, tense, joyful, sad, upsetting, awkward, strange, mysterious, and more, as long as they've got to do with your mama! The stories that we share are not restricted to biological mothers, nor are they restricted to a specific gender; they can be chosen mothers, adoptive mothers, mother figures, single mothers, siblings who mother, and anyone else who has stepped into a mother role. We encourage you all to submit your own stories about your mothers to our subreddit r/thingslearnedfrommama. 

We hope you enjoy, and we'll see you in the next episode!