Something Positive for Positive People
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Something Positive for Positive People
Hosted by Courtney W. Brame, Something Positive for Positive People is a 501c3 nonprofit organization supporting people navigating herpes stigma. We offer 1-1 support calls for people who need help with sharing their status with potential partners. We offer virtual events, support groups, and advoca...
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SPFPP 399: What Herpes Taught Me About God
I had every intention of making my last podcast episode being on this topic but I was called to take a different route based on the direction this epi...
SPFPP 398: Practicing Perfection
I interview _Laurentellsstories (Instagram page) who reached out to me yesterday. She and I recorded today and spoke about what inspired her to tell h...
SPFPP 397: What Herpes Taught Me About Addiction
I interviewed a man named John who speaks with me about his experience in recovery for sex addiction. We open with me challenging him on how he introd...
SPFPP 396: What Herpes Taught Me About Sex
Herpes has taught me more about sex than any of my sex education teachers, girlfriends, educators, have. And honestly I can't even say it's sex I've l...
SPFPP 395: Southern Charm
Hailing all the way from Alabama, well, actually Florida, but Alabaman roots, our guest this week. Jade is the founder of Essentially Prepped, integra...
SPFPP 394: Preaching What I Practice
"I really didn't realize how ashamed I was about how happy I am". In this episode I reflect on just how much I've pushed down my happiness both public...
SPFPP 393: Herpes Support Groups
In this episode, I talk through what SPFPP support groups are, how they started, and what people can expect when they join. I share how these spaces a...
Spfpp 392: Navigating Rejection With Herpes - Attach And Release
Jealousy, rejection, and other perceived negatives are broken down not as bad things, but as infinite potential. Take something that makes you jealous...
SPFPP 391: Who Helps the Helper?
Our guest is a therapist specializing in DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), but when she was diagnosed with HSV-2, she found herself in unfamiliar te...
SPFPP 390: Herpes Changed Me
After a herpes diagnosis, dating can feel daunting, but community can change everything. In this episode, I sit down with Rachel to expand on her expe...
SPFPP 389: When the Bold Meets the Brave
The excitement for this one right here is representative of what SPFPP is all about. I've been getting rejected left and right for grants and I THINK...
SPFPP 388: The More We Do A Thing
Our guest this week shares insights about sharing her diagnosis with her therapist, which led her to SPFPP. This is one of those episodes I would call...
SPFPP 387: Herpes Support and Education Platform
Make sure you’re able to watch the video on this if you can. This isn’t an interview or experience episode, it’s a hard launch of the revised and easi...
SPFPP 386: Help!
The title may have been a lil dramatic lol. I’m catching myself get repetitive with these podcasts and I notice guests haven’t been appearing lately....
SPFPP 385: In the Thick of it
This one is heavy. We talk about suicide with someone in the Ideation aspect of it. I'm not a mental health professional nor do I have any licenses or...
SPFPP 385: Life is But a Dream
My grandpa had this dream my mom told me about that I was a preacher. As somebody whose spiritual values align WAY off from anything remotely related...
SPFPP 384: Can You Be Nonmonogamous if You Have Herpes?
Yes. For those who like the short version of things, you absolutely can be Nonmonogamous if you have herpes. I talk from my own personal experience in...
SPFPP 383: My Story
This episode I wanted to just have something to reference for people who want to know my experience. Usually support calls bring in questions about me...
SPFPP 382: Closed Mouths Don't Get Fed with Goddess Bats
Closed mouths don’t get fed! SO LADIES AND FEMMES SHOOT YOUR SHOT!
In this conversation with Goddess Bats (@actuallybats), we talk about various...
SPFPP 381: Herpes and Bipolar - Stigma on Stigma
When I tell you all that this was an unexpected conversation, I cannot tell you how . . . surprised I was. You'll hear it in the interview how shocked...
SPFPP 380: Transmuting Stigma into Healing - Lessons from Depression
In this episode, I reflect on what it means to hold my rhythm, even when it’s challenging AF. If you been keeping up, you know I been big on talking a...
SPFPP 379: Dating with Herpes - Should you Only Date People with the Same Type?
In this vulnerable and insightful episode of Something Positive for Positive People, Courtney Brame speaks with Jhivan, who shares their experience na...
SPFPP 378: Declaration of Remembrance
2025 took me through it. The woman I thought I was building a future with left. I moved in with my grandma, then into my own spot, and just when I sta...
SPFPP 377: Shades of Nonmonogamy
In this intimate conversation, Melissa LeSane opens up about the messiness of living through transition—stepping away from her role as a therapist, na...
SPFPP 376: I Don't Miss My Ex - The Stigma of Breakups
There's a stigma about breakups that you're only supposed to remember and recall the negative so you stay away, heal, don't go back. Especially for me...
SPFPP 375: Queering Masculinity - From Performance to Presence
bell hooks defined "queer" as a way of describing oneself without being confined by fixed definitions or labels. It's about acknowledging one's authen...
SPFPP 374: Storytelling for Stigma Minimization - Live from STI Engage 2025
Last time I was at STI Engage it was in 2019 where I submitted an abstract on how people living with herpes could find psycho-social support for their...
SPFPP 373: Something Smooth About an Orbit
MAN! I forgot what I said the episode title would be but it rhymed and it was cold ya'll! You'll hear it in the episode.
In this solo episode, I...
SPFPP 372: Shaking the Dust Off
This was quite a conversational car ride with my friend/board member, Dr. Amber Sophus. We were talking about how people with different income levels...
SPFPP 371: Presence Over Performance
What does it mean to live in alignment—with your identity, your energy, and your story? In this soulful episode of Something Positive for Positive Peo...
SPFPP 370: The Spiritual Significance of Stigma Through an Atomic Lens
In this defining solo episode, Courtney Brame shares the atomic model that’s become the foundation of his purpose, presence, and practice. Drawing fro...
SPFPP Episode 369 Season 1 Finale: Letting Go of the Herpes and Other Things
This episode marks the end of an era. Since 2017, the SPFPP podcast has held space for people navigating herpes stigma—but now, it’s time for a shift....
SPFPP 368: The Eulogy of the Ego
In this raw and introspective solo episode, Courtney shares a deeply personal reflection on grief, growth, and the identity he's releasing after the e...
SPFPP 367: Herpes and Nonmonogamy - Integrated Identities for Vulnerability
This episode features a real, open convo with Tamar Weir—someone I connected with through her honesty about living with herpes and navigating non-mono...
SPFPP 366: What Herpes Taught Me About Anger
I recorded this episode on the 12-year anniversary of my herpes diagnosis. In it, I talk openly about the grief I've been processing following a recen...
SPFPP 365: Step Back for a Comeback
This episode is an unfiltered look at what happens when you hit a wall. I’ve been grieving, burned out, and realizing just how much I’ve neglected my...
SPFPP 364: Minimizing Stigma in Medical Settings
Courtney Brame returns to the SPFPP podcast with an exciting update—his first-ever in-person clinician training simulation focused on minimizing herpe...
SPFPP 363: Transcending the Relationship Spectrum into Softness
In this episode of Something Positive for Positive People, I sit down with Holly Estrada, a sex worker and advocate for destigmatization, to explore h...
SPFPP 362: Gratitude for Herpes - There is Light in There Too
In this episode of Something Positive for Positive People, Courtney Brame speaks with Melissa, a Yoga Therapy client, about her journey of emotional a...
SPFPP 361: What Are the Herpes Transmission Rates?
In this episode of Something Positive for Positive People, also known as the herpes podcast, I cut through the noise surrounding herpes transmission r...