Even Tacos Fall Apart

About Even Tacos Fall Apart

The "Even Tacos Fall Apart" talk show includes interviews with actual mental health professionals and conversations where real people talk about the messy side of mental illness, disabilities, wellness and life in general. My goal is to normalize mental health conversations and reduce the stigma around illnesses. We all struggle at different times in our lives, but that doesn't mean we're unlovable - after all, Tacos Fall Apart and WE STILL LOVE THOSE! mommafoxfire is a MH advocate and variety gaming streamer on Twitch: twitch.tv/mommafoxfire tacosfallapart.com

Publisher

MommaFoxFire

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2020

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

202 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Addiction & Mental Health with The Cynical Therapist (Elle Anzalone)

   This one's for anyone who's dealt with addiction up close, loves someone who has, or just wants a real, unfiltered take on mental health from someone who's lived it and helps others through it too. More info, resources & ways to connect - https://www.tacosfallapart.com/podcast-live-show/podcast-guests/the-cynical-therapist This episode of Even Tacos Fall Apart brings on Elle, known online as The Cynical Therapist, for a raw and unfiltered conversation about addiction and mental health. Elle is a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed advanced alcohol and drug counselor who calls herself an "anti-therapist," ditching the stiff, clinical energy of traditional therapy for something warmer, funnier, and a lot more honest. She talks openly about her own recovery from alcoholism, including getting sober after her third DUI, relapsing after a decade, and rebuilding her sobriety from the ground up. The conversation covers a lot of ground. Elle breaks down what AA is like from the inside, the good and the cultish, and why it saved her life even when parts of it made her uncomfortable. She talks about the real reasons people turn to substances, including pain, boredom, and emptiness, and how cultural environment shapes what "normal" drinking or using even looks like growing up. She also digs into the dangerous myths around addiction, like the idea that it only touches certain kinds of people, when in reality it cuts across every background, income level, and profession. There's a frank breakdown of what treatment actually looks like, from medically supervised detox for alcohol and benzo withdrawal to the wild cost differences between inpatient programs, outpatient options, and everything in between. Elle and MommaFoxFire don't hold back on the state of the American healthcare system either, calling out insurance companies, reimbursement rates, and the absurd gap between what treatment costs and what people can actually afford. The two also get into conditions that often show up alongside addiction, like OCD and eating disorders, and talk through the difference between self-harm and addictive behavior. Elle shares her take on stages of change, why willpower alone rarely fixes anything, and why she believes therapy should be seen as strength building instead of a sign something is broken. Toward the end, the conversation shifts into practical territory. Elle offers real talk on building a well-being routine that actually holds up, including setting achievable goals, creating structure without rigidity, limiting news and social media intake, and making space for people who make you laugh. It's grounded advice from someone who has lived through the hard stuff herself and works with people navigating it every single day. This episode is for anyone who wants a therapist's perspective without the sterile, buttoned up delivery. Elle brings humor, bluntness, and genuine compassion to topics that usually get talked about in hushed, careful tones. Whether you're in recovery, love someone who is, or just want a smarter and more human take on addiction and mental health, this conversation delivers. Even Tacos Fall Apart is a podcast about real conversations with real people, mental health, personal growth, and the messy stuff nobody else wants to talk about out loud.

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Survival, Shame & Erectile Dysfunction with Gaylen Wilson

   This one's for anyone who's ever gone quiet about a problem instead of talking about it, and for the partner on the other side wondering why the distance keeps growing. More info, resources & ways to connect - https://www.tacosfallapart.com/podcast-live-show/podcast-guests/gaylen-wilson Gaylen Wilson almost died three times before his heart finally gave out for good, and then a stranger's heart gave him twenty more years. In 2014 a virus attacked his heart while he was on the road doing computer field service work with his wife Heather. A physician's assistant misdiagnosed it as pneumonia without ever ordering a chest x-ray. Gaylen kept working. Weeks later, in a clinic in Corpus Christi, doctors told him he didn't have pneumonia at all. He had congestive heart failure, and it had been quietly destroying his heart the entire time he thought he was recovering. His ejection fraction, the measure of how much blood his heart could actually pump, had dropped to five percent. A healthy heart runs fifty to sixty. What followed was three and a half years of end stage heart failure. A defibrillator implant. A night when it fired and shocked him back into rhythm while Heather lay next to him, unaware how close she'd come to losing him in his sleep. Half an hour after he finally told her he probably had two to three months left, the hospital called. A heart was available. He went into surgery at four in the morning and came out with a thirty eight year old heart in his sixty one year old body. That transplant is the reason Gaylen exists in the online world he built. He calls it his insane need to pay the blessing forward, and it shows up in everything from the free dating site he runs to the dozens of books he's written to the erectile dysfunction support communities he now leads. Gaylen had developed ED at forty four, long before his heart failed, and he watched it wreck marriage after marriage in the groups he moderates. What he found wasn't a bedroom problem. It was men going silent, pulling away from the women who loved them, convinced that losing their ability to perform meant losing their worth. He doesn't buy the idea that this is a character flaw. He calls it a nervous system in fight or flight, a primal fear of losing the relationship that ends up sabotaging the relationship instead. That's the same insight behind the Monument Method, the coaching framework he and Heather built together after nearly two and a half decades of marriage, including the hardest years of his life. It leans on attachment theory, the idea that most fights between partners have nothing to do with what's actually being said and everything to do with a threat the nervous system thinks it's under. Gaylen and Heather built a set of tools around that, including a shared word they use to stop a fight cold and turn back toward each other instead of away. This conversation covers survival, misdiagnosis, shame, sex after sixty, why silence is the real enemy for men dealing with ED, and what it actually takes for a marriage to become a refuge instead of a battlefield. If you've ever watched someone you love go quiet on you, or gone quiet yourself, this one is worth your time.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Performing "FINE" - The Emotional Cost of Performing Wellness While Secretly Struggling with Lisa Lacy

   This one's for anyone who's mastered the art of looking fine while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. More info, resources & ways to connect - https://www.tacosfallapart.com/podcast-live-show/podcast-guests/lisa-lacy Lisa Lacy spent three decades in corporate education and healthcare consulting before she started writing about the things most people keep locked away: addiction, psychosis, trauma and what she calls identity masking, the gap between who you actually are and who you become just to get through the day. She's also written her debut memoir, Notes from a Certified Mad Woman, along with a companion guide, and she joined MommaFoxFire on Even Tacos Fall Apart to talk about performing fine and what it actually costs. This episode digs into the difference between adapting to a room and disappearing inside a mask. Lisa is clear that we all shift a little depending on where we are. You don't bring the same energy to a board meeting that you bring home to your partner. That's normal. The dangerous mask is the polished one, the six figures and the perfect blended family on social media while you're falling apart behind the scenes in total silence. Lisa and MommaFoxFire talk about why high functioning people often get checked on the least. When you're the one who gets everything done, everyone assumes you're fine, so nobody asks. Lisa breaks down why shame keeps people quiet even when they know something is wrong, and she gives real language for closing that gap: acknowledgement, awareness and observation. She makes the case that just noticing the pattern is most of the work. They cover how to support a high functioning person in your life without making things worse, starting with asking permission before you share an observation instead of walking in with unsolicited advice. Lisa also lays out what actually makes someone a safe person to open up to, someone with a track record of lifting you up instead of draining you or judging you. Lisa gets honest about her own ten year recovery journey, starting inpatient rehab at forty, and she talks through psychosis from the inside, what it's like to live inside another reality that felt completely real while it was happening. She pushes back on the idea that mental health struggles make someone defective or that struggling is some kind of moral failure. It's real. It exists. That's it. There's a lot of practical stuff in here too. Lisa is a martial artist with belts in three disciplines and she connects that training to staying regulated instead of reactive. She talks about the power of a long exhale when anxiety hits, why building your coping toolbox before you hit a low matters more than scrambling for it in the moment, and why she believes emotional intelligence, especially willingness and curiosity, matters more for a good life than IQ ever will. This one hits close to home for anyone who has ever looked completely fine on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside. Lisa's bottom line carries the whole episode: always one more day, always one more try. Today is not the day to give up.

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• Shannon Addison
• Genese Smith
• Rob Walker
• Keldamuzik Diva
• Michelle Ho

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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