Brian is a licensed, private practice therapist in New Jersey. We talk about the catastrophic effect miso can have on families, alexithymia, which is the difficulty of describing and expressing our emotions, tactile triggers, unwanted arousal, how the stress of miso might affect our bowel movements. It's a wide-ranging and eye-opening conversation. We even talk about one incident where he physically attacked a friend at school growing up. Brian's practice --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Down...
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 18
Lauren is a freelance graphic designer in Florida. This is Lauren’s first conversation with someone who understands misophonia, which is always a special occasion, we talk about the wedge this caused growing up between herself and her parents, relationships, having friends and partners trigger her on purpose, the effects of anxiety medication on misophonia, and looking back at how miso put her in some really dark places growing up. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misoph...
Dec 14, 2022•53 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Ben is a high school sophomore in Utah. Ben’s miso got significantly worse this past year and so he’s been grappling with that at school. We talk about his efforts to voluntarily try exposure therapy as a way to habituate to triggers, self-triggers, improv theatre and some lessons it brings for dealing with miso, plus we talk about miso and the holidays as well as talking with his grandfather about PTSD from war experiences, and what he thinks of Ben’s miso. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! D...
Dec 08, 2022•49 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Olivia, an art student in Australia. Olivia is relatively new to learning about misophonia but of course, she has had it for years. We talk about possible relations to OCD and autism, using ASMR for positive sounds, misophonia grief, having an alpha-male dad and a lot more. There is a content warning, near the beginning of the episode there is talk of child on child molestation. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophonia Podcast app! For iOS and Android Podcast episodes...
Dec 02, 2022•52 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Eric had a pretty unique and difficult childhood growing up. As you’ll hear, he was always taken care of by his parents, but as the day progressed, there was often alcohol abuse and then some quite disturbing mental illness in his parents would reveal themselves. This was naturally very confusing for a child and led to many of the issues Eric has experienced since then. He’s actually only relatively recently seeked out therapy. We get into all that, we talk about chronic vs. singular trauma, goi...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 6Ep. 14
You may know Michael from his Facebook Group “Misophonia Treatment Tracker”. Michael has been pursuing treatment for his misophonia for over 40 years. He’s got a wealth of knowledge and experience and has had a lot of time to think about this condition and its effects on our minds, bodies, and relationships. We talk about a lot of stuff in this fascinating conversation: obviously his origin story, his family life growing up and marriages since then, we get into primal therapy, internal family sy...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Deanna is from Pasadena, California. She is a food stylist and prop assistant in the entertainment industry in LA, and we talk a lot about misophonia and relationships, partners, roommates, friends, and co-workers. We also talk about misophonia in relation to other conditions and what she has learned from them to cope with miso, including medication. Plus being HSP, living in a tough environment growing up and of course many other experiences that are all too familiar to us. --- Support the podc...
Nov 03, 2022•59 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Lynn is a music and entertainment lawyer in New York. She doesn’t have the normal mouth sound triggers many of us do - hers are more machine-oriented. We talk about HSP, her career as a therapist before going into law, how different cultures react to misophonia and other mental health conditions, as well as our recommendations for quiet kitchen appliances. I also give Lynn my thoughts on how to eat if and when we have a meal in NY. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misoph...
Oct 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Sara Bidler is a licensed marriage and family therapist and somatic experiencing practitioner, who also has misophonia, and is the parent of a child with misophonia. We get into her history growing up with misophonia, being an HSP (highly-sensitive person), her current focus on the nervous system and its relationship with misophonia, family systems and unresolved past experiences, her many theories and coping methods that she uses with clients in her practice, and just so much more. Sara's pract...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Makayla has misophonia and was also recently diagnosed with autism. This is a long one where we talk about Misophonia’s place in neurodivergent culture, her experience growing up with miso and now having the language to express to others how she feels, her coping methods, how she focuses on her nervous system, and we end with some thoughts on the empathetic superpowers misophones can demonstrate to the world. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophonia Podcast app! For i...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Marcelo is a composer of avant-garde music who now lives in Germany. We talk about his origin story against the backdrop of turmoil in his home country of Chile, and in his own home. Being triggered, sometimes on purpose, by his own mother, being punished for his condition in Catholic school. And we spend a lot of time ruminating on expressing misophonia through art. He has even weaved some of his triggers into the music he writes. Marcelo's YouTube Channel --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Do...
Oct 02, 2022•58 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Chelsea is a licensed marriage and family therapist who provides traditional, and faith-based counseling to individuals and couples through her private practice, Grace Christian Counseling. Chelsea has misophonia, which of course comes up in her practice. This was a really lovely and wide-ranging conversation, often going in directions that rarely get explored on the podcast, like her connection to her faith and how it informs her therapy practice, her focus on chronic illness, the concept of gr...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Robert reached out via email earlier this year desperate to tell others his experience growing up with miso, being triggered by a specific sound from one family member, and the intense repercussions of it. Robert shares my interest in the ramifications of misophonia on relationships and psychology. He was basically ostracized from his family from a young age and that more or less remains to this day, many decades later. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophonia Podcast...
Sep 10, 2022•52 min•Season 6Ep. 6
This is an interview I’ve been really looking forward to sharing. It’s one that really hit me hard as we were talking, and for several weeks since. Jennifer has been reflecting on the effect misophonia has had on her own life and her relationships with others going back decades to when she was a little girl who was best friends with her parents. That relationship changed suddenly and never recovered. This story was surreal and emotional for me to listen to because many of us understand and can r...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Like my previous guest, Annie is also a student of neuroscience who entered the field to make an impact on misophonia, inspired by her own experiences. And her experiences have been unrelenting, but I was constantly struck by her resilience. It seems every time her life and misophonia took a small step forward, something quickly puts her two steps back. We talk about chaos in the home, negative responses from family, stepfamily and classmates at school, deep internalized shame, physiologically s...
Jul 31, 2022•54 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Grace is a college student majoring in neuroscience, hoping to make an impact on misophonia. We talk about childhood trauma, dealing with high school and getting accommodations, the evolution of her parents understanding of her miso, and the many dimensions of guilt and shame about our reactions and the way they affect those around us. --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophonia Podcast app! For iOS and Android Podcast episodes, background sounds, a trigger journal, a pa...
Jul 22, 2022•57 min•Season 6Ep. 3
This week I’m talking to Courtney from Baltimore. She talks about being a new mom and not being triggered by her child, but wondering what the future holds. We talk about various forms of mimicry or humming over sounds as coping methods. And of course we delve into her past, growing up going to Catholic schools and her penchant for being clean and orderly, always hearing the voice of guilt, where that all came from, and what if anything those might have to do with misophonia! This is a great one...
Jul 18, 2022•47 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Hello Season 6! Samantha is a therapist based on LA, who now focuses on misophonia. She doesn’t actually have miso, but her husband does, and so do both of her kids. So she has had to learn quickly and she basically lives with miso 24/7 in her personal life and professional life. We get to hear all about the miso origin stories of her family members, when and why she decided to go all in on miso after having a successful career in more traditional therapy, and of course I talk to Samantha about ...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Season 5 Finale! Starting next week I’ll the kicking off season 6 with fresh new conversations. This was a special interview though that I’m specifically releasing for the finale because I got to catch up with an old friend and co-worker. Colin was actually a mentor of mine almost exactly 13 years ago when I started a new job in a new career. I was actually also new to learning about misophonia. Little did I know we’d be talking on a podcast 13 years later sharing our misophonia stories with wha...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 30
This was one of the most memorable interviews from the last batch I recorded late last year. Annie has been through a lot, and has thought really deeply about miso and their comorbid conditions ranging from complex PTSD, bipolar, and substance abuse. We talk about all that and how they overlap and don’t overlap, we talk about a fascinating topic of internal family systems, medication, and a bit about their zine writing. Etsy shop --- Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophon...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 29
Today I talk to Tania, who is a translator based in Helsinki, Finland, but grew up in Barcelona. This is the first time Tania has talked to anyone else who has misophonia. She was not in a sympathetic home and is mocked and shamed to this day by her parents. We talk about those experiences, life in different countries, living with her partner now, and the message she has for parents that have children with misophonia. Short but powerful episode. Enjoy! Support the podcast on Patreon! Download th...
Jun 18, 2022•41 min•Season 5Ep. 28
Gabe is a student of classical guitar up in northern Washington State. Our conversation touched on the effect of music on his life within and outside of misophonia, how difficult it is to communicate such a ridiculous sounding condition to others, including family, how it has affected relationships with others, and the power of our misophonia community. Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophonia Podcast app! For iOS and Android Podcast episodes, background sounds, a trigger...
Jun 13, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 27
Allison lives in Tacoma Washington and works for as a biologist for a science agency there. Allison has misophonia and a number of her family members also have it, some in denial, but it’s all over her family. We talk about the dynamics there, what family events are like, what it was like growing up before any of them knew this was a thing, and then we also talk about her workplace and being nudged back into the office. Allison is also an artist and I’ll link to her Instagram in the show notes b...
May 25, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 26
Leanne put her money where her mouth is and bought a large 6 acre property in rural North Carolina where she could be away from her misophonia triggers. We talk about all her challenges that finally led her to buy some isolation, we talk a lot about the challenges she has had at work as a nurse. She has had to deal with a surprising amount of pushback, mockery, and gaslighting for her misophonia, sometimes from the most unlikely places. Through it all though Leanne has always taken the high grou...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 25
Assal works in engineering at Uber in Seattle but has an unusual background. She is the first person I’ve interviewed who has been detained in another country due to geopolitical tensions when she was stuck in Iran for a few years. She was actually born there and grew up in the Middle East, and we talk about life with misophonia in that part of the world. We talk about tea delivery boys, punching a boyfriend, and weird suggestions by therapists. Despite the things about being a prisoner in anoth...
May 09, 2022•56 min•Season 5Ep. 24
Chloé runs the @misophoniamemes Instagram account you know and love. This is a rare opportunity to hear her story, her coping tips, her thoughts on the misophonia community and the advice she shares with people. @misophoniamemes is not her main deal, not by a mile, she is quite a multi-talented individual acting, singing, hosting her own podcasts. Please check out all her links below: Website Instagram YouTube TikTok @misophoniamemes Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophon...
May 05, 2022•59 min•Season 5Ep. 23
Soledad lives out near Milan, Italy. She is an instructor of Kundalini yoga and we talk about how that affects her misophonia reactions. She actually uses it to help people in Italy cope with misophonia. We talk about a lot more than that though. Soledad has some really wise and thoughtful things to say about how it feels, how others make us feel, and how we make others feel. A link to her website is below - it’s in Italian but you can use your browser to translate it for you. https://www.misofo...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Joannie hails from southern Minnesota. She’s in her mid-fifties and wanted to come on in part to talk about the role she thinks hormones have played throughout her life in relation to her misophonia. We go back to her normal, happy childhood, and find out how misophonia developed, how she dealt with being a single mother with misophonia and how it affected her relationship with her kids, some experiences with substance abuse and rehab. We also discuss what’s it like to live between two generatio...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 21
Nathan is 19 and lives in Columbia. He's taking a break after high school and focusing on art and design. We talk about his experiences with misophonia in Columbia, fried food, and his plans for the future. Nathan also triggers himself a lot so that is an interesting aspect that comes up occasionally in episodes. I have links to all of Nathan’s accounts and his store below. Links: Personal Instagram - Art Instagram - YouTube - Redbubble Store - Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the offici...
Mar 26, 2022•55 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Today I talk to Jessica who is a senior in college and we talk about living on campus, being in class and all her coping tips. She just found out about miso a few years ago and we talk about how she brought it up with her parents (who were her first triggers). Support the podcast on Patreon! Download the official Misophonia Podcast app! For iOS and Android Podcast episodes, background sounds, a trigger journal, a panic button, and tons of resources on all things miso. Absolutely free! --- Web: h...
Mar 09, 2022•39 min•Season 5Ep. 19
