Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads

G-Rex and Dirty Skittles, Bleav

”Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads” is a podcast that emerged from G-Rex’s personal mental health journey, starting with a breakdown in 2022. Supported by her wife, 988, and a higher power, G-Rex found healing and vowed to destigmatize mental health struggles. With best friend Dirty Skittles, the podcast tackles life’s challenges with humor and honesty, emphasizing the importance of open dialogue. Listeners join their engaging discussions on relationships, parenting, pop culture, and mental health, gaining practical tips and a sense of community. Through laughter and camaraderie, the podcast offers empowerment and solidarity, reminding everyone that it’s okay not to be okay and encouraging reaching out for support. Ultimately, ”Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads” is a beacon of hope, humor, and companionship, advocating for mental health awareness and inclusivity.

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20 episodes
Updated Thursday
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Thursday · 47 min
David on Burnout, Anxiety, and Finding Humor Five Minutes From a Meltdown
Author David Meyer joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles for a candid conversation about burnout, anxiety, creative pressure, and using humor to protect your mental health. From self-care and overthinking to empathy, resilience, and making art without waiting for confidence, this episode offers relatable insight for anyone feeling five minutes from a meltdown.
Tuesday · 53 min
Justin on Healing the Shadow: From Addiction and PTSD to Emotional Freedom
Justin Shaw joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to share how he moved through addiction, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, and religious trauma by embracing shadow work, spiritual healing, and emotional awareness. This powerful mental health conversation explores how to stop reacting from old wounds, reclaim your identity, and create lasting emotional freedom without dogma or toxic positivity.
July 30 · 34 min
Part 2: Diandra on Workplace Mental Health, FMLA, and Building a More Human Workplace
In Part 2, Diandra Ford-Wing joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles for an honest discussion about workplace mental health, FMLA, burnout leave, toxic leadership, and the challenges employees face when returning to work after a crisis. Together, they examine grief in the workplace, emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and the need for more compassionate, human-centered leadership.
July 28 · 29 min
Part 1: Diandra on Grief, Burnout, and the Mother Who Saved Her Life
In Part 1 of our Season 19 opener, Diandra Ford-Wing joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to share her powerful journey through grief, workplace burnout, depression, and surviving a suicide attempt. This emotional mental health conversation explores therapy, losing a parent, bereavement support, and how storytelling through her novel Red Bird became a path toward healing.
July 21 · 43 min
Coming Home to Yourself: Season 18’s Biggest Mental Health Lessons
In this Season 18 finale, G-Rex and Dirty Skittles revisit eight powerful conversations about mental health, emotional healing, self-love, trauma recovery, healthy masculinity, neurodivergence, food freedom, and resilience. Together, they uncover one shared lesson: healing often begins when we stop running from ourselves, listen to what our bodies and emotions are telling us, and find our way back home.
July 16 · 51 min
Anat’s Journey from Rock Bottom to Self Love Feel Your Feelings and Rewrite Your_Story
Anat Peri shares how hitting rock bottom led her to self-love, emotional healing, and the courage to rewrite the childhood patterns shaping her life. In this powerful mental health conversation, G-Rex and Dirty Skittles explore inner child healing, nervous system regulation, codependency recovery, and why learning to feel your feelings can change everything.
July 14 · 41 min
Alan’s Truth-Telling Journey from Childhood Trauma to Emotional Freedom
Alan Katz, former writer and producer for HBO’s Tales From the Crypt, shares how childhood trauma, self-blame, and a suicidal crisis shaped his mental health journey. In this powerful conversation with G-Rex and Dirty Skittles, Alan reveals how truth-telling, emotional healing, and reconnecting with his younger self helped him find freedom and purpose.
July 9 · 36 min
Part 2: Michael’s Road to Gratitude: Mental Health, Rare Disease Advocacy, and Life Beyond Survival
In Part 2, Michael Caprio returns to talk with G-Rex and Dirty Skittles about life after FAP surgery, rare disease advocacy, gratitude, family genetics, and rebuilding mental health beyond survival. This emotional conversation explores colorectal cancer awareness, chronic illness, patient advocacy, and how sharing your story can help others feel less alone.
July 7 · 27 min
Part 1: Michael’s Bump in the Road: FAP, Surgery, Anxiety, and the Fight to Keep Going
Michael Caprio joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to share his powerful mental health journey after being diagnosed with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, a rare hereditary condition tied to colorectal cancer risk, at just 18 years old. In Part 1, Michael opens up about FAP, surgery, ostomy recovery, anxiety, medical trauma, and the fight to keep going when life takes a terrifying turn.
July 2 · 37 min
Part 2: Michelle Petties on Body Trust, Emotional Healing, and Life After Diet Culture
Michelle Petties returns for Part 2 to explore body trust, emotional healing, self-care, and life after diet culture. This episode helps listeners understand fear-based eating, weight regain anxiety, and how writing, belief, community, and self-compassion can support lasting food freedom.
June 30 · 28 min
Part 1: Michelle Petties on Rewiring Your Brain for Food Freedom and Emotional Healing
Michelle Petties joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to talk about food addiction, emotional eating, food noise, and how our old stories shape our relationship with hunger. In this powerful mental health conversation, Michelle shares how brain rewiring, self-awareness, and emotional healing can help listeners move toward food freedom and break free from shame-based diet culture.
June 23 · 45 min
Brandon Siler on Brain Health, Suicide Prevention, and Breaking the Stigma for Men
Former NFL linebacker Brandon Siler joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles for a powerful Men’s Mental Health Month conversation about brain health, suicide prevention, athlete mental health, and breaking the stigma around men asking for help. Brandon shares his journey from the NFL to mental health advocacy, using brain mapping, neurofeedback, addiction recovery support, and veteran services to help others heal from invisible injuries and reclaim their lives.
June 16 · 44 min
Jason Lange on Men’s Mental Health, Vulnerability, and Why Every Man Needs a Men’s Group
Jason Lange joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles for a powerful conversation about men’s mental health, vulnerability, emotional healing, and why every man needs a men’s group. Through his own story of isolation, somatic therapy, fatherhood, and embodied men’s work, Jason shows how safe male community can help men stop pretending they’re fine and start showing up fully in life, love, and healing.
June 11 · 46 min
Dominic Petty on Healing Relationship Trauma, Self-Acceptance, and Finding Inner Peace
Dominic Petty joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to explore healing relationship trauma, building self-acceptance, and finding inner peace through emotional intelligence and trauma-informed coaching. This episode offers practical insight into breaking unhealthy relationship cycles, understanding emotions as data, and creating healthier connections without losing yourself.
June 9 · 53 min
Dr. Mark Sherwood: Becoming a Hope Dealer Through Functional Medicine
Dr. Mark Sherwood joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles for a powerful conversation on functional medicine, mental health, resilience, grief, and becoming a “hope dealer” after life’s hardest hits. This episode explores whole-person healing, mindset, faith, forgiveness, and why you are more than your diagnosis, trauma, or pain.
June 4 · 59 min
Nancy Gilette Pt. 2: Co-Regulation, Declarative Language, and Parenting Autistic Kids
In part two, Nancy Gilette shares practical autism parenting strategies, including co-regulation, declarative language, visual referencing, and RDI tools for supporting autistic and neurodivergent children. G-Rex and Dirty Skittles explore how parents can reduce overwhelm, build trust, and create stronger parent-child connection without parenting from panic.
June 2 · 48 min
Nancy Gilette Pt. 1: Autism Support, Parent Burnout, and Building Real Connection
Kicking off Season 18, Nancy Gilette joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to talk about autism support, parent burnout, neurodivergent parenting, and why behavior is communication. This episode offers compassionate tools for parents of autistic children who want to move from survival mode into real connection, emotional regulation, and family wellness.
May 26 · 38 min
Season 17 Recap: G-Rex and Dirty Skittles Talk Toxic Relationships, Joy, and Mental Health Recovery
No image — got you. Season 17 wraps with G-Rex and Dirty Skittles reflecting on powerful mental health conversations about toxic relationships, shame, suicide prevention, burnout, chronic pain, grief, parenting, joy, and emotional healing. This Season 17 recap of *Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads* celebrates the guests, lessons, laughs, and growth moments that remind us healing is messy, nonlinear, and absolutely possible.
May 19 · 38 min
Jacintha Field on Helping Kids Regulate Big Feelings After Trauma
Jacintha Field joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to share how trauma, solo parenting, sobriety, and her son’s emotional dysregulation led her to create Happy Souls Kids, a mental health platform helping children build self-regulation, emotional literacy, and resilience. This powerful episode offers parents, caregivers, and educators practical tools for supporting child anxiety, big feelings, mindful parenting, and trauma-informed healing.
May 14 · 52 min
Kathryn Henry Turns Grief Into Another F*cking Growth Opportunity
Kathryn M. Henry joins G-Rex and Dirty Skittles to talk about grief healing, resilience, spirituality, suicide survival, and finding signs of love after losing her wife Lisa. Through her memoir A Dime to Say I Love You, Kathryn shows how vulnerability, self-love, and “Another F*cking Growth Opportunity” can help us keep choosing joy after loss.