Shows Referenced in this weeks Weekly Podcast Digest

🎬 The Nightmare Upstairs: What Happened to Ty and Bryn

Available on Hulu

Trigger warning: child abuse.

A deeply difficult but compelling documentary exploring alleged child abuse, custody conflict, and family trauma.

This viewing came with full emotional hazard lights on, but felt important and incredibly well produced despite being hard to sit through.

Topics explored: ✨ child abuse ✨ family trauma ✨ custody systems ✨ documentary storytelling ✨ difficult media

Watch: Hulu https://www.hulu.com/

🎧 The Raw and The Cooked

Episode 213 “Micro Habits: The Tiny Behaviors That Hold Your Home Together”

An unexpectedly practical pivot into home management and domestic systems.

This podcast focuses on home life organization, routines, and creating sustainable systems that support everyday life without requiring perfection or Pinterest-level executive functioning.

The featured episode breaks down small, repeatable household behaviors and frames them through the lens of habit-building and realistic home management.

Equal parts helpful and mildly humbling.

Topics explored: ✨ home management ✨ domestic systems ✨ routines ✨ micro habits ✨ sustainable structure ✨ realistic habit building

📚 Book Mentioned

Atomic Habits — James Clear

Referenced throughout the conversation around micro habits and creating manageable systems that work in real life.

A reminder that meaningful change often happens through small, repeatable actions—not dramatic overnight reinventions.

Connect: Show Website: https://daraboxer.com/category/family-rhythms/

🎧 NICU Heroes Podcast

Season 7, Episode 51 “When Birth Doesn’t Go as Planned: A Doula-Informed Approach to Trauma”

Back on the doula train.

This episode explores birth trauma, trauma-informed care, and emotional support during difficult birth and NICU experiences. The conversation resonated deeply—particularly around the emotional realities families face when birth becomes medicalized or complicated.

Topics explored: ✨ birth trauma ✨ NICU experiences ✨ trauma-informed care ✨ doulas ✨ emotional labor in healthcare ✨ moral injury ✨ compassionate care inside broken systems

Connect: Hand to Hold / NICU Heroes Podcast https://handtohold.org/nicu-heroes-podcast/

👩‍⚕️ Creator Mentioned

Mary Farrelly

The NICU Translator

Connect: The NICU Translator https://thenicutranslator.com/

Instagram: @thenicutranslator