Episode 6: Sydney Wright & Traci Foster

Outside The Spotlight

Traci and Sydney talk about becoming aware of mental health issues as adults, generational and community conversations relating to mental health, regulating and understanding emotions, complex PTSD, anxiety, eating disorders, depression, working in mental health, somatic experiencing, grounding, medication intolerance, the importance of acknowledging and understanding physiological dysregulation, positives that come out of the difficult journey, self-compassion, speaking through metaphor and accessible language, giving yourself permission to rest, working with your nervous system or against it, “othered culture”, interdependence, learning about yourself through relationships, hope, disassociation, using alcohol and drugs for fun vs to escape, family, the legalization of cannabis, and looking for love.

Interspersed throughout the discussion are a few performances of original works by these artists, with poetry from Traci and music from Sydney.

Content/Trigger Warnings include language, eating disorders, suicide, death/grief, car accident resulting in serious injury, disassociation, sexual violence, substance use/abuse, alcoholism and domestic violence.