Announcing! The Re-Release of Traumatized Motherfuckers

Announcing! The Re-Release of Traumatized Motherfuckers

How do people find hope in the darkest times? This episode shares one creator’s messy, honest answer by talking about a huge shift for the CPTSD podcast, *Traumatized Motherfuckers*. You’ll hear the story of how, five years ago, a wave of harassment and fears about legal backlash pushed hundreds of episodes behind a paywall.

The host explains that moving the archive to a subscription space allowed for "more personal shares and discussions about abuse tactics" and helped build a private trauma community, while also making it possible to survive financially on the work. But there’s been a quiet ache ever since, because, as they put it, "the whole point of this podcast was getting cognitive and emotional health information to the people who couldn't access it normally." Now, that ache has turned into action.

The episode announces that as many past shows as possible from the last six years are being re-released on a separate stream simply called *Traumatized Motherfuckers*. Legal safety still matters, so some research-heavy episodes will stay on the subscription platform, but the aim is clear: get hard-won knowledge about trauma, anxiety, abuse patterns and self-understanding back into wider reach.

You’ll also get a candid look at the moral tug-of-war between valuing one’s labour and keeping support accessible, plus some dark humour about being a "work hoe till I go" in a shaky economy.

Listeners are asked to rate, review, share, and follow as no-cost ways to support this renewed effort, and reminded that the show, much like its audience, "exists, and now it needs to be tended to." If you’ve ever felt torn between needing help and affording it, or between wanting to speak and needing to stay safe, this episode might hit close to home. Are you ready to revisit six years of trauma conversations with fresh ears?