Reality Check My Life

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Reality Check My Life is a soul-deep, no-b******t, sacredly irreverent podcast by Gin—eclectic alchemist, sacred trickster, and spiritual truth-teller. Here, we talk healing, grief, sex, spirit, shadow, comedy, and consciousness—all filtered through the messy beauty of real life. This isn’t your basic healing podcast. It’s Holy WTF moments, raw awakenings, soul surgery, and real-time resurrection. Come for the truth. Stay for the sacred chaos. Love is the greatest currency of all… and this is your reality check.

  1. Shadow Snack E9: What to Expect When They Become Adults

    14H AGO · BONUS

    Shadow Snack E9: What to Expect When They Become Adults

    Reality Check My Life | Shadow Snack | E9: What to Expect When They Become Adults When authority dissolves—but responsibility doesn’t No one prepares parents for this part. Not when authority dissolves.Not when guidance becomes “control.”Not when love gets rewritten as interference. In this Shadow Snack, we talk about what really happens when children become adults—and the emotional rupture that follows. Because adulthood doesn’t arrive all at once.And neither does separation. This episode explores: why the parent-child contract becomes ambiguous after 18 how responsibility remains while authority disappears why parents suddenly become villains in stories they didn’t write how resentment, scapegoating, and role confusion emerge why some adult children blow up relationships to make leaving easier and why parents are rarely warned about this developmental fault line This isn’t about blaming adult children.And it’s not about shaming parents. It’s about naming a transition so destabilizing that most families mistake it for personal failure. What you’re experiencing isn’t cruelty.It’s a predictable developmental rupture—one we never talk about. 🎧 Shadow Snack E9 doesn’t offer fixes.It offers clarity.

    28 min
  2. Shadow Snack E8: Master of the House

    16H AGO · BONUS

    Shadow Snack E8: Master of the House

    Reality Check My Life | Shadow Snack | E8: Master of the HouseWhy parents think they’re in control—and why they’re notWe’re told parents are the masters of the house.That they set the rules. Shape the outcomes. Hold the authority.But what if that story is backwards?In this Shadow Snack, we name a truth most parenting books won’t touch:parents don’t actually control the system — they regulate it.From birth through adolescence, families quietly reorganize themselves around:dysregulationattachment needsdevelopmental differencesthe child who needs the most, loudest, or longestParents become infrastructure.Children become emotional gravity wells — unintentionally, unconsciously.This episode explores: how authority is mistaken for regulation, why the “capable child” becomes a load-bearing wall, how invisible labor accumulates without recovery, why self-erasure gets normalized as love, and why so many parents feel exhausted, unseen, and disoriented by the time their kids grow upThis isn’t about blaming children.It’s about naming a system that quietly consumes parents while calling it “good parenting.”If this episode makes you uncomfortable, that’s not failure.That’s recognition.🎧 Shadow Snack E8 is not gentle.It is honest. Link is in the comments. #ShadowSnack #MasterOfTheHouse #ParentingTruths #InvisibleLabor #EmotionalLabor #FamilySystems #ParentBurnout #CapableChild #LoadBearingChild #ParentingUnfiltered #MidlifeParents #UnspokenTruths #RealityCheckMyLife

    19 min
  3. Midnight Snack E41: Strap Up, Sweetheart — You Save Yourself

    18H AGO · BONUS

    Midnight Snack E41: Strap Up, Sweetheart — You Save Yourself

    Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E41: Strap Up, Sweetheart — You Save Yourself(Midnight Snack | Follow-up to “I’m a Damsel, I’m in Distress, I Can Handle It”) This Midnight Snack is for the people who don’t look like they’re struggling—because they’ve gotten very good at making life look fine. For the ones who became strong not to be admired,but so things wouldn’t fall apart. In this episode, Gin speaks candidly about: what happens when clarity arrives after the runway is gone the grief of being three months from losing everything after years of extraction how masking and “having it together” become survival skills why competence often makes people invisible to help the quiet exhaustion of being the only witness to your own endurance This isn’t about wanting to be rescued.It’s about wanting relief without auditioning. If you’ve ever felt unignorable by being unneeding for too long—this one is for you. 🎙️ Midnight Snacks are intimate, late-night reflections—lived experience spoken out loud so others can recognize themselves and leave with medicine. 🔗 realitycheckmylife.com📸 Instagram: @reality.check.my.life

    32 min
  4. Midnight Snack E40: If Money Makes You Feel Like You’re in Trouble

    19H AGO · BONUS

    Midnight Snack E40: If Money Makes You Feel Like You’re in Trouble

    Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E40: If Money Makes You Feel Like You’re in Trouble Tonight isn’t about budgeting.It’s not about debt payoff plans.It’s not about “getting your life together.” It’s about something quieter. Something most of us never say out loud. Why does opening your bank app feel like you’re about to getyelled at? Why does sending a simple financial email make your stomachdrop? Why do perfectly competent adults suddenly feel twelve yearsold when money comes up? In this soft, late-night conversation, Gin explores thenervous system side of money — the childhood tone, the old fear, the“principal’s office” feeling so many of us carry without realizing it. Because maybe you’re not bad with money. Maybe you’re just bracing. If you grew up around stress, scarcity, hustle culture, orshame… this one might feel like coming home. Pour some tea.Let the house get quiet.You’re not in trouble anymore. You’re just learning how to feel safe.

    13 min
  5. Midnight Snack E39: I’m a Damsel. I’m in Distress. I Can Handle It.

    20H AGO · BONUS

    Midnight Snack E39: I’m a Damsel. I’m in Distress. I Can Handle It.

    Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E39: I’m a Damsel. I’m in Distress. I Can Handle It. There’s a certain kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much…but from doing everything alone for too long. This Midnight Snack isn’t a lesson.It’s a late-night reflection from the middle of real life — about what happens to a nervous system over time when: • you lose your primary source of regulation• you’re expected to give without reciprocity• and your suffering quietly goes unseen because you’re “the one who handles it” This episode is spoken from lived experience — not as a warning, not as advice, and not as a call to fix anything. Just an honest naming of what it costs to always be capable…and what it feels like when the infrastructure finally cracks. If you’ve ever laughed something off while carrying more than anyone realized,this one might feel familiar. No takeaways.No moral.Just truth — shared gently, in the dark.

    15 min
  6. Midnight Snack E38: But Wait… There’s More

    FEB 11 · BONUS

    Midnight Snack E38: But Wait… There’s More

    Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E38: But Wait… There’s More This week felt like a cosmic sitcom narrated by Billy Mays. Broken tibia.Cancer scare.Tow truck.Tampered car.Water heater rebellion.Sleep deprivation.Dog diapers. BUT WAIT — THERE’S MORE. And yet… When something you love is hurting, everything else gets very quiet. In this Midnight Snack, Gin pulls up a chair and talks about:– what actually matters when life gets real– caregiver exhaustion and the sharp edges of sleep deprivation– the difference between “a pet” and a Soul Dog– and how crisis clarifies what’s noise and what’s sacred This isn’t a sermon.It’s a kitchen-table check-in. Sometimes the Reality Check isn’t profound.Sometimes it’s just:“Oh. This is what actually matters.” 🐾 realitycheckmylife.com@reality.check.my.life Theme song lyrics by: Mad Madame GinMusic & Arrangement by: Mureka

    23 min
  7. Table Talk Mini S3E0: When Unhealed Kids Run City Hall

    FEB 11 · BONUS

    Table Talk Mini S3E0: When Unhealed Kids Run City Hall

    Reality Check My Life | Table Talk Mini | S3E0: When Unhealed Kids Run City Hall(aka: Look At Me Now Syndrome) What happens when authority lands in the hands of people who haven’t done their inner work? You don’t get stewardship.You get control. In this short, porch-side Table Talk, Gin pulls back the curtain on a pattern most of us feel but rarely name: how unprocessed childhood wounds show up in leadership, governance, and the everyday decisions that shape our communities. Because sometimes it’s not about crime.It’s not about revenue.It’s not even about policy. Sometimes it’s just…third grade with a budget. This isn’t a political rant.It’s a nervous-system conversation. About the difference between:🌿 service vs importance🌿 connection vs control🌿 regulated leaders vs fear-based decisions Because healed people plant gardens.Unhealed people install cameras. And once you see it… you can’t unsee it. Pour a cup of something warm.Sit down at the table.Let’s talk about what real leadership actually feels like. #TableTalk #RealityCheckMyLife #NervousSystemHealing #SacredActivism #ConsciousLeadership #TraumaInPower #CommunityCare #RegulationIsRevolution #FieldTender #SoulDoula #SmallTownLife #InnerWork #LanternLight #TheShadowsHaveSnacks#We'llkeeptheenlightenmenton

    5 min
  8. Shadow Snack E7: Brains Come in Flavors, Not Rankings • Different Wiring, Same Worth

    FEB 4 · BONUS

    Shadow Snack E7: Brains Come in Flavors, Not Rankings • Different Wiring, Same Worth

    Reality Check My Life | Shadow Snack | E7: Brains Come in Flavors, Not Rankings • Different Wiring, Same Worth Not all brains run the same operating system. Some of us were born divergent.Some of us were rewired by life.Some of us are both. And somehow…the internet turned that into a competition. Who has it worse.Who counts more.Who’s “really” neurodivergent. Yeah… no. Tonight we’re not doing the Suffering Olympics. We’re sitting at the kitchen table with the porch light on and talking like humans. In this two-part Shadow Snack, Gin gently (and a little spicy) unpacks neurodivergence through a compassionate, nervous-system lens: 🌿 Developmental wiring (Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory processing, learning differences)🌊 Acquired neurodivergence (PTSD, CPTSD, trauma brains, survival wiring)⚡ Neurological conditions we forget to include (Tourette’s, epilepsy, motor & electrical differences)🧠 ADHD nuance — developmental vs trauma-driven executive dysfunction❤️ And why none of this is a hierarchy Because different isn’t broken.And suffering isn’t a contest. Brains come in flavors.Not rankings. If you’ve ever felt:too muchtoo sensitivetoo scatteredtoo intensetoo exhaustedtoo “why can’t I just be normal” This one’s for you. Porch light’s on.The shadows have snacks.Pull up a chair.

    29 min
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Reality Check My Life is a soul-deep, no-b******t, sacredly irreverent podcast by Gin—eclectic alchemist, sacred trickster, and spiritual truth-teller. Here, we talk healing, grief, sex, spirit, shadow, comedy, and consciousness—all filtered through the messy beauty of real life. This isn’t your basic healing podcast. It’s Holy WTF moments, raw awakenings, soul surgery, and real-time resurrection. Come for the truth. Stay for the sacred chaos. Love is the greatest currency of all… and this is your reality check.

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  • Creator
    Mad Madame Gin
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    330
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Mad Madame Gin
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    Reality Check My Life