Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.