This week, we’re getting real about the messy, beautiful truth of womanhood — the kind that comes with laughter, hormones, healing, and a whole lot of heart.
📅 Episode drops Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at 3 AM ET 🎧 From PMDD to Peace: Heather’s Journey of Therapy, Humor, and Healing
Heather Hendrie’s story is one of raw honesty. She’s a therapist, an author, and a bestselling creator who turned decades of pain, confusion, and misdiagnosis into a movement that’s part laughter and part liberation. She’s proof that humor and healing aren’t opposites. Sometimes, they’re the same damn thing.
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🔥 What’s Up with G-Rex & Dirty Skittles
G-Rex here 👋. Fall has officially packed up her pumpkins and left the building, and winter is settling in for real here in Upstate New York. Think socks, sweats, and something heavier than a hoodie. Hats, gloves, and a “nope, I’m not going outside” attitude. And honestly, I’m not even mad about it.
Working from home means I get to hibernate without guilt, and this year, I’m leaning all the way in. I’m calling it my intentional stillness era: finishing my book, polishing the apps I’m building for small business and mental wellness, and doing some early dreaming for 2026. (Yes, I said 2026, because planning is how I calm my chaos.)
Oh, and for anyone who knows me well, brace yourself. I’m cleaning my office. Like, top-to-bottom, bins-and-baseboards level cleaning. I can hear some of you falling out of your chairs right now. But don’t worry, I’m in a good headspace, or at least working on it. Business has slowed a bit (thanks, economy), but I’m using that space to reset, breathe, and prep to launch my Joy Shift course to testers soon. I’m also finally finishing the book series Dirty Skittles got me hooked on, which is saying something, because she’s got impeccable taste in stories and snacks.
Speaking of snacks, Dirty Skittles is thriving in her own cozy way down in Georgia. It’s finally chilly enough for socks and slippers, and she’s back to baking bread like a woman possessed. Every week she sends photos that look straight out of The Great British Bake Off, and I swear, if we lived closer, I’d weigh 3,000 pounds. The woman could open a bakery called “Therapy in a Loaf” and make a fortune.
Podcast-wise, life is full and good. We’re recording our final session for the year in December, and somehow, wild as it sounds, we’re completely booked through 2026. Yep, already waitlisting guests for 2027.
💭 We’re still all about conversations that heal through humor and honesty, so if there’s a guest or topic you’d love to hear us explore, hit reply and tell us. We’d love to hear what’s on your mind.
🔥 Special Shout-Out: Women Supporting Women
🌟 Meet Angie Hawkins
Angie Hawkins is an Inner Glow Coach who helps high-achieving women stop dimming their light to be loved, and start loving themselves so deeply the world can’t help but reflect it back.
She’s also the author of Running in Slippers, a raw memoir about finding resilience after emotional rock bottom. Through her Unshakable You masterclass and one-on-one coaching, Angie helps women break free from “not enough” and finally feel at home in their own skin.
Use this to pause, process, and unpack what this conversation brings up for you, because sometimes peace starts with simply naming what hurts.
🎤 Episode Spotlight: From PMDD to Peace
Some stories crack you open in ways you don’t see coming. This is one of them.
When Heather Hendrie joined us, she didn’t just talk about PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder). She embodied what it means to face something misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and dismissed for far too long, and turn it into art, advocacy, and laughter that heals.
For decades, Heather lived inside a cycle of confusion and chaos, riding waves of severe depression, anxiety, and shame that no doctor could explain. Like so many women, she was told to “tough it out,” to take another antidepressant, to stop being “so emotional.” But Heather knew something deeper was at play.
When she finally uncovered the truth — that her body wasn’t betraying her, it was speaking to her — everything changed. The diagnosis of PMDD didn’t fix everything, but it gave her a language, a map, and a mission.
From there, she built something extraordinary.
Heather took the stories that once made her feel broken and turned them into the Awfully Hilarious book series, a collection of essays that blend truth, humor, and vulnerability in a way that makes you laugh, cry, and feel less alone, often at the same time. What started as a joke between friends (“we should just staple these stories together!”) became a national bestseller and a global community built on one powerful idea: 👉 Shame can’t survive when we tell the truth out loud.
In this conversation, we talk about how laughter became her greatest coping tool, the link between hormones, identity, and mental health, why therapy isn’t just about tears but about curiosity, and how she’s helping women stop apologizing for their humanness.
Heather doesn’t shy away from the uncomfortable parts — from medical gaslighting to suicidal ideation to the loneliness that comes with not being believed. But she also reminds us that joy is defiance, humor is healing, and there’s magic in turning your pain into purpose.
This episode isn’t just a story about PMDD. It’s a mirror for anyone who has ever felt unseen in their struggle, and proof that the most powerful healing often begins with the words, “me too.”
🧭 Resources Mentioned
These are the tools, links, and communities Heather mentioned or inspired in this week’s episode:
• Awfully Hilarious Anthology Series — raw, funny, healing stories that help women feel less alone: heatherhendrie.com/books • IAPMD (International Association for Premenstrual Disorders) — education, support groups, and treatment resources for PMDD and PME: www.iapmd.org • True Nature Wilderness Therapy — Heather’s practice blending nature, counseling, and humor for deep healing: truenaturewildernesstherapy.com • Maavee Wellness App — your free $20 credit to explore wellness tools and mental health resources: https://lnk.gomaavee.com/inourheads • The Awfully Hilarious Community — a growing movement for women sharing stories that end shame. Follow on Instagram: @heather.hendrie
👥 Meet Our Guest — Heather Hendrie
Heather Hendrie isn’t just an author. She’s a storyteller, a therapist, and a truth-teller who refuses to let silence have the last word.
She’s the Amazon #1 Bestselling author behind the Awfully Hilarious anthology series, books that dive headfirst into the taboos of womanhood: dating disasters, periods, sex, and the messy middle between laughter and pain. Each story she curates is an act of rebellion against shame, and an invitation for women to feel seen in their most unfiltered, human moments.
But Heather’s work doesn’t stop at the page. As a Nature-Based Therapist and founder of True Nature Wilderness Therapy in Whistler, British Columbia, she helps people reconnect with themselves through the grounding power of the outdoors. Her sessions often happen under open skies — walking, breathing, and laughing — reminding her clients that healing doesn’t always happen in a sterile office. Sometimes, it happens in the forest, surrounded by trees and truth.
Her journey began long before the accolades. For over thirty years, Heather battled undiagnosed PMDD, navigating the rollercoaster of mental health struggles that left her questioning her worth and sanity. What she discovered — and now teaches — is that the body keeps the score, but it also holds the wisdom.
Heather’s voice is raw, funny, and refreshingly real. She’s the kind of guest who can talk about trauma, therapy, and menstruation, and somehow have you laughing through tears by the end of it. Her work has become a lifeline for those who’ve felt dismissed by medicine, misunderstood by society, or silenced by shame.
She’s currently writing her memoir, Where the F is My Red Tent, a brutally honest exploration of PMDD, womanhood, and the healing that happens when we finally start talking about the things we were taught to hide.
Heather’s message is simple but radical: Healing isn’t always pretty, but it’s always possible.
PMDD affects 1 in 20 menstruating people, and most go undiagnosed for over ten years.
You can’t heal what you keep hidden.
Humor and vulnerability can coexist beautifully.
Every story told out loud becomes a lifeline for someone else.
💪 Actionable Steps
Track your emotional and physical cycles. Your body has patterns worth knowing.
Replace shame with curiosity. Ask, “What’s my body trying to tell me?”
Schedule something that makes you laugh out loud this week.
Read Awfully Hilarious and let yourself relate, even to the messiest parts.
Share your story, even the awkward bits, with one safe person. Healing loves company.
💬 Listener Engagement
Did Heather’s story make you laugh, cry, or rethink what healing looks like? Reply to this email or tag us on IG @grex_and_dirtyskittles. We’d love to feature your reflections in next week’s newsletter.
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❤️ Closing Remarks
If you take one thing from this week’s episode, let it be this: you don’t have to carry your story alone.
Heather reminded us that healing doesn’t always look graceful. Sometimes, it’s crying in the shower, then laughing five minutes later. Sometimes, it’s talking about what once felt untouchable. Sometimes, it’s giving yourself permission to just be — messy, human, and still healing.
Wherever you are right now, whether you’re holding on tight or barely hanging in, know this: you matter. You are not broken. You are becoming. You are not behind. You are rebuilding, breath by breath, story by story.
Keep finding the light in the cracks. Keep laughing when you can, crying when you need to, and loving yourself through all of it.
We’re right here with you, always — one honest, beautifully human conversation at a time.
With love, warmth, and gratitude, G-Rex & Dirty Skittles Changing the way we talk about mental health, one real, brave, beautifully human conversation at a time.
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