Little Dark One - Mindless Tranquility

Ciara D
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Little Dark One - Mindless Tranquility is a podcast built around the stories behind a memoir I’m working to bring into the world. I share real experiences, reflect on what they meant, and explore how they connect to identity, abandonment, and emotional intensity. Along the way, we talk about simple tools to help regulate emotions when things feel overwhelming. This isn’t about having all the answers; it’s about understanding ourselves a little better, one conversation at a time. If you’ve ever felt too much, too deeply, or not fully understood… this space is for you.

Episodes

  1. May 6

    Episode 6 - Temporary Worlds

    Some people learn social connection naturally. Some of us learn it through survival. In this episode, I talk about growing up isolated after coming to the U.S., learning people through relationships instead of community, and what happens when your entire world becomes one person at a time. I also talk about how strange it still feels to be seen publicly now, through Threads, this podcast, and people responding kindly to honesty after a lifetime of expecting rejection. This episode is about attachment, identity, loneliness, masking, and slowly learning how to exist around people in a healthier way.

    8 min

  2. May 3

    Episode 5: Feeling Without Seeing

    In this episode, I talk about aphantasia, and what it’s like to not see images in my mind. What started as a simple realization turned into something deeper… understanding why my memories feel fragmented, emotional, and not visual. This is a reflection on memory, perception, and why I describe things by how they feel… not how they look.

    4 min

  3. Apr 30

    Episode 4: What Stayed

    In this episode, I go back to the beginning, Chile, childhood, and the memories that remain. Not a perfect timeline. Just fragments. Feelings. Textures. Small things that stayed. A reflection on memory, dissociation, aphantasia, and the strange tenderness of remembering only pieces.

    3 min

  4. Apr 29

    Before I Had the Words

    In this episode, I talk about what it felt like before I understood trauma when emotions would shift quickly and small things felt overwhelming and how, without the words, I just thought… this is who I am this is about learning later in life that there were actually reasons for it and what it feels like to finally start putting words to it

    5 min

  5. Apr 25

    When There’s No Answer

    This one is about why I started writing… not from a plan, but from a place of confusion, hurt, and trying to understand things that didn’t have answers. It’s about how writing became a way to slow everything down… and start making sense of it. If you’ve ever sat with questions that don’t have clear answers… this might resonate.

    4 min

  6. Apr 23

    Talking Into the Quiet

    This is my first recording… I didn’t plan it. I just hit record. It’s a little chaotic… a little honest… and probably more real than it should be. If you’re here listening… thank you.

    2 min
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Little Dark One - Mindless Tranquility is a podcast built around the stories behind a memoir I’m working to bring into the world. I share real experiences, reflect on what they meant, and explore how they connect to identity, abandonment, and emotional intensity. Along the way, we talk about simple tools to help regulate emotions when things feel overwhelming. This isn’t about having all the answers; it’s about understanding ourselves a little better, one conversation at a time. If you’ve ever felt too much, too deeply, or not fully understood… this space is for you.

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