Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development.

This week on MHM we are talking about MADAME MIM from THE SWORD IN THE STONE

Joining us this week is special guest Jennifer Levine (she/her/they/them). Jennifer is a listener of the MHM podcast and advocated to have Madame Mim on our Disney Villains Season. They’re an Intersex activist and clinical patient recruitment specialist working in CNS disorders, which includes Bipolar Depression, Depression, Schizophrenia, Migraine, and Binge Eating Disorder to name a few. She is a cinephile and avid fandom enthusiast. Her latest TV obsessions include From, Agatha All Along, and Felicity, but she is a diehard Lost, Agents of SHIELD and The West Wing fan. She can be found most places @jennlevine.

Follow Jen: https://www.instagram.com/jennlevine

In this episode, Jenn shares why Madame Mim is so important to her. Madame Mim lives in isolation, meaning that she was either shunned by society or chose to live that way. She didn’t ask for Wart to drop into her chimney!

Questions, themes, and topics we touch on include:

• The only 10 mins of screentime we get of the villain

• Loneliness, isolation, and community needs

• How the intersex experience relates to Madame Mim’s

• How Madame Mim fits into the archetypal "wicked witch" persona

• Acceptance and self-awareness as tools for mental wellness

• Applying lessons from the movie to real-life situations

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Music by: Little HB @nothallieberry

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Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.

Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Multiverse: A podcast where we mindfully break down your pop culture favs and discuss them through the lens of self care, mental health, and personal development.

This week on MHM we are talking about a rarely talked about the villain from “The Great Mouse Detective,” RATIGAN! HB & LB agree that this is one of Disney’s most underrated movies and think it deserves more attention and appreciation…

As always, in addition to discussing our memories and experiences with the film as a whole, we also delve into Ratigan’s motivations, personality traits, background, and manipulative nature, highlighting the dark themes and complex dynamics in the movie. We also relate Ratigan's behavior to real-life experiences with volatile personalities, discussing the mental health implications, and consider whether a redemption arc is possible for such a character.

Questions, themes, and topics we touch on include:

• Ratigan’s iconic voice actor

• The dark threads of Disney

• This movie’s ties and parallels to Sherlock Holmes

• Dealing with a volatile, unpredictable caregiver/parent

• Healing from growing up with hypervigilance

Resources:

• Minor Sherlock Holmes Characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Sherlock_Holmes_characters

• The Professor’s Portrait: https://great-mouse-detective.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Padraic_Ratigan

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Mental Health Multiverse podcast and for spending time with us!

If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, feel free to share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review.

SUPPORT US:

Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/MentalHealthMultiverse

Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mhmthepod

CONNECT WITH US:

Email us: mhm.thepodcast@gmail.com

Subscribe to MHM on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mentalhealthmultiverse

Follow Heather: www.instagram.com/heatherboddy

Follow Marisa: www.instagram.com/littlebent_notbroken

Follow MHM on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mhmthepodcast

Music by: Little HB @nothallieberry

Your Hosts:

Heather (HB): Heather is an inclusive fitness coach helping self-proclaimed nerds who feel like they don’t “fit in” in fitness create healthier habits by using pop culture and fandom to make fitness more accessible and fun.

Marisa (LB): Marisa is a trauma-informed perfectionism recovery coach helping people turn down the volume on the inner critic and turn up the volume on their compassionate inner voice to help them become the kind, understanding adult they needed growing up.