Mental Health is Horrifying

Gather 'round sisters, as we leave lavender but our garden gates and bury our abusive exes under the rose bush!
In this episode, I explore Practical Magic (1998), its portrayal of intimate partner violence, and the balm of sisterhood.
I will be discussing intimate partner violence in this episode, so please take special care when listening.
I talk about:
How intimate partner violence is defined
The complex reasons that make it hard to "just leave" a violent relationship
The mental health impacts of intimate partner violence
How Gillian is able to access the internal and external resources required to leave
How sisterhood aids Gillian in attachment repair and healing
How the magician and 9 of swords tarot cards demonstrate the difficulty in leaving abusive situations, even if you have a lot of resources
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Tarot for Creative Therapists — Join this course designed for mental health professions who want to learn how to confidently and ethically incorporate tarot into clinical work. (https://candisgreen.podia.com/tarot-for-creative-therapists)
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Theme music is by Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras via pixabay
All sound effects and music via pixabay
Practical Magic (1998)
Government of Canada Fact Sheet: Intimate Partner Violence
Homicide leading cause of death for pregnant women in U.S. - Harvard School of Public Health
Support someone I know who is being abused - Refuge

I say this with my full chest — Undertone was not lying when it said that it is "the scariest movie you'll ever hear." And I cannot un-hear it!
In this spoiler-free episode, I explore Undertone (2025) and the psychology of sound.
I talk about:
How sound can help us form secure attachments 
The psychology behind "therapist voice"
How sound helps regulate our nervous systems
Why we are naturally drawn to live music as a primal act
How silence can help grow your brain
How the 8 of wands tarot card helps us explore our relationship to silence and the unknown 
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Tarot for Creative Therapists — Join the waitlist for this course designed for mental health professions who want to learn how to confidently and ethically incorporate tarot into clinical work. (https://candisgreen.podia.com/tarot-for-creative-therapists)
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Theme music is by Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras via pixabay 
Thunder by Music by John Britton from Pixabay
All sound effects and music via pixabay 
Undertone (2025)
See ‘Undertone’ with Dolby Atmos, or You’ll Miss Half the Horror

Enhancing the Raw Sound of ‘Undertone’ – with David Gertsman and Jon Lawless

Ian Tuason haunted his own house when making his new horror film

Bady SL. The voice as a curative factor in psychotherapy. Psychoanal Rev. 1985 Fall;72(3):479-90. PMID: 3931132. 
Soma CS, Knox D, Greer T, Gunnerson K, Young A, Narayanan S. It's not what you said, it's how you said it: An analysis of therapist vocal features during psychotherapy. Couns Psychother Res. 2023 Mar;23(1):258-269. doi: 10.1002/capr.12489. Epub 2021 Nov 18. PMID: 36873916; PMCID: PMC9979575. 
Sawamura, Yasuaki, Why We Overstimulate Ourselves: How Sensory Overload Blocks Memory and Weakens Learning (March 31, 2025). 
How Music Resonates in the Brain

Gentle Whispering ASMR 
Moonlight Cottage ASMR

I was there! I was a teenager, there to experience the genius marketing surrounding The Blair Witch Project. It signalled a new era for horror, while the movie itself mirrors a complete uncertainty about reality. 
In this episode, I explore found footage horror The Blair Witch Project (1999) and how it portrays collective psychosis. 
I talk about:
How an entire generation thought The Blair Witch Project was real (and what that was like!)
How the genius marketing around the film created a sort of collective psychosis
Current political and cultural unrest, and whether we are in a period of collective psychosis today
How hypernormalization causes us to freeze and live out of alignment with our values
How the 7 of cups tarot card showcases feelings of disillusionment and uncertainty
How to use an ACT Matrix to identify your values, how you may have moved away from them, and how to find your way back
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 virtual psychotherapy for Ontario residents, along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club. 
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Theme music is by Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras via pixabay 
All sound effects and music via pixabay 
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Man Vs. Machine by Anthony Milton in Toronto Life
For three weeks last spring, ChatGPT convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. Now he’s suing OpenAI, claiming its product dragged him down a rabbit hole of lies, caused him to spiral into delusion and destroyed his reputation
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DeBord
‘The Blair Witch Project’ at 20: Why It Can’t Be Replicated by Jake Kring-Schreifels in The New York Times 

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real by Adrienne Matei in The Guardian

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, Netflix’s newest horror series, begs the question — do you really want to marry this guy, or do you just feel like you have to?
In this spoiler-free episode, I explore bridal anxiety and the curse of heteronormative expectations.
I talk about:
How weddings are psychologically supercharged events
Pressures placed on fulfilling heteronormative traditions
How Rachel's nightmares and unconscious are expressed 
Korea's 4B movement
How the 9 of swords tarot card highlights what happens when we ignore our gut
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 virtual psychotherapy for Ontario residents, along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club. 
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen on Netflix 
Theme music is by Sound Gallery by Dmitry Taras via pixabay 
All sound effects and music via pixabay 
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung by C.G. Jung

‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Is Not What You Expect by Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter

‘Import young women’ to lift birth rate, South Korean mayor suggests by AFP, CTV News

Lestat and Louis have one of the most complicated, twisted relationships in literature and film. And it brings up the topic of energy vampires – what do you do when you’re in a relationship with someone who is just draining you? 
In this episode, I explore Interview With The Vampire (1994) and the psychology of energy vampires. 
I talk about:
What is an energy vampire?
How shame and dissociation present within energy vampires
What happens when you choose to be in a relationship with an energy vampire?
How the tarot cards the king of pentacles and five of swords represent the relationship between Lestat and Louis
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Show Notes:
Want to work together? I offer 1:1 virtual psychotherapy for Ontario residents, along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club. 
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
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