Your new favorite slice of life podcast. Follow the adventures, hand-me-down therapy advice, and general shenanigans of polyamorous witch, PTSD sur-thriver, & ADHD goblin Cassafrass.
Dropping another hot, fresh, and ready episode of Punapologetic Podcast! Another guest this week, chatting with my friend and all around awesome dude Brandyn Gallagher M.Ed about the importance of decolonization work and the parts we all have to pay in the version of reality we are co-creating!
22 Jun 2026
Ketayours
Cassafrass dives into the topic of ketamine therapy with first time guest and long time spouse Dreamkiller!
Note: This episode is reflective of our personal experiences and is not medical advice. To determine if ketamine therapy is right with you, consult your medical and therapy providers.
15 Jan 2026
Speak the Truth, Even When Your Voice Shakes & It Makes Your Mom Super Mad
TW: Mentions of CSA, family violence & current events in US
Cassafrass dives into processing grief around a favored childhood aunt while recounting the story of how she provided critical support for the doing the hardest thing imaginable: blowing the whistle on my creepy stepdad.
28 Oct 2025
Two Teenage Girls Once Saved My Life: A Lore Drop
Cassafrass gives a detailed retelling of the parent/child DV incident that was their launchpad into independent young adulthood, and how two 17 year old girls were instrumental in saving their life that night.
TW: DV, CSA mentions
18 Sept 2025
Ketamine Redux: Tales from Two Years After
Cassafrass is dropping more details about the massive shifts they've noticed in how they experience reality since finishing experimental ketamine treatment in 2023.
CW: References to parent/child DV
11 Sept 2025
Corporate Clowns & GenZ Crowns - The Turning Point of the Love-olution
Cassafrass digs into how AI isn't coming to steal your job but layoff-happy CEOs might be and how GenZ is leading the way in the Love-olution. They also include practical tips on ways *you* can build community to sustain yourself through the fall (of the empire).
4 Sept 2025
Trauma Trigger Toolbox
Cassafrass drops a bunch of knowledge nuggets about how to recover during an active trigger episode, with a real life example of how they recently employed these techniques to cope with a surprise brain gremlin!
3 Apr 2024
Tragic Optimism, Post Traumatic Growth, & Dem Emotional Gainz
Cassafrass discusses recovering from an unexpected trigger episode, continues to extoll the virtues of their experimental mental health treatment, and explores the concepts of Tragic Optimism and Post Traumatic Growth.
Sources: Starbucks (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/heres-why-starbucks-faces-over-11-billion-value-loss/articleshow/105802409.cms?from=mdr)& McDonalds (https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2024/03/361418/mcdonalds-loses-7-billion-in-boycott-over-israel-support)boycott info, letthemeatcereal.info (https://letthemeatcereal.info/)
12 Feb 2024
Oops That Zoom Meeting Retraumatized Me
Cassafrass dives into their experiences with the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program, and how having all of that dredged back up unexpectedly in a cameras-on Zoom meeting is currently mugging their mental health in the back alleys of their brain.
24 Jan 2024
How I Turned One Bad Day into One Great Life
Cassafrass Lore Drop episode! Hear about how one terrible, no good, very bad day changed the trajectory of my entire life. Hypnosis, affairs, and layoffs, Oh My!
The Oh Wonder video that became the catalyst for me changing every single thing in my life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGREQvK-dQ
18 Jan 2024
K is for Ketamine
Cassafrass pops back up out of the ether to detail their experience and healing with ketamine therapy, and not at all explain where they've been for the last 18 months. :)
13 Jul 2022
Secure Self-Attachment (This is Not a Bondage Safety Episode)
Hello queerdos & podfidantes! I've missed you but I'm BACK and I'm here to make that everybody's problem! Let's break down Jessica Fern's Polysecure HEART system for building a secure attachment with ourselves.
And I forgot to record my gratitudes, but for consistency's sake:
1. Pain. I'm thankful for what I learn from the pain I experience, and I'm glad af I'm a Scorpio and can transmute that sh*t into Big Empress Energy.
2. I'm extremely grateful for my ability to build new connections and to learn from existing ones.
3. I am grateful for my ability to recognize my own toxicity and for my commitment to growing through what I'm going through.
Sources for this week include:
Polysecure (https://www.jessicafern.com/), by Jessica Fern
Building Secure Attachment With Yourself (https://www.kcresolve.com/blog/building-a-secure-attachment-with-yourself)
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (http://www.pete-walker.com/complex_ptsd_book.html), by Pete Walker
Fuck That: An Honest Meditation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY)
30 Mar 2022
Beat the AI to Self-Awareness in 5 Easy Steps!
Episode 3 of the Punapologetic Podcast finds our favorite feral philosopher laying out 5 sounds-easy-but-actually-requires-shadow-work steps for cultivating self awareness.
*Note - technical issues responsible for late upload. Was not able to fully prooflisten to the episode, so apologies for any quality issues! I just didn't want y'all to have to wait any longer.
Resources for Self-Awareness research:
Benefits of self awareness
The Power of Self-Awareness | William L. Sparks | TEDxAsheville (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9qVa4LoJx8&t=11s)
What to do if you don’t *like* what you become aware of?
Become your own life coach (Being your Own Life Coach | John Muldoon | TEDxShanghaiAmericanSchoolPuxi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFxOOEyhUE))
Design Your Life (5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA))
Why raising your vibration increases serendipity. | Joanna McEwen | TEDxUniversityofBrighton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLSsqCI7NIE)
How to use Quantum Physics to Make Your Dreams Your Reality | Suzanne Adams | TEDxUNO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RuCfTiCDjs)
16 Mar 2022
Self-Love is End Game Content, Ya Noob
Hellllloooooo Punapologists and welcome back for episode 2! Cassie gives you a little primer for why polyamory is a part of their life, and gives you a couple of action items for working with self awareness and self compassion on your journey to battle the end game boss content that is self-love!
9 Mar 2022
Gratitude Ain't a Sidequest, Y'all
On this inaugural episode of the Punapologetic Podcast, Cass talks about their journey to joy through gratitude.
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Sources:
Brene Brown on Gratitude & Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IjSHUc7TXM&ab_channel=UMNCSH (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IjSHUc7TXM&ab_channel=UMNCSH)
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