Episode 25

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7th Nov 2025

Disaster Diaries: A1C Wins, Caregiver Weight, and Friday Fuel

Welcome back to Disaster Diaries from The High-Functioning Disaster.

Today starts messy and ends honest: Sacha oversleeps a 7:40 a.m. doctor visit, speed-runs out the door, and lands in a weird lab limbo until results get faxed over. The headline: A1C = 4.8 — low end of normal and a hard-won win. 🙌

From there, it’s real-life roulette: running Mom’s schedule (and emotions) while she heads to brain testing for possible dementia, improvising a Miracle Morning in the car (all-in-one, minus the exercise), and asking Brandon to tag in so they can still make the appointment. The day drains fast, but a session with Sacha’s coach helps unlock stuck emotions (ugly cry included), followed by a restorative nap, dog drama courtesy of time-keeper Rhea the Airedale, and plans to close the night with a grounding yin yoga flow.

It’s not glamorous. It’s not linear. But it’s a good reminder that wins can coexist with wipeouts — and that showing up still counts.

Mentioned in this episode

  • Primary-care check, A1C 4.8 (labs via outside lab)
  • Miracle Morning (all-in-one) on the go
  • Caregiving + dementia screening logistics
  • Coaching session + emotional release
  • Yin yoga plan for the evening
  • Weekend reset: groceries, football (Colts)

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🧭 Key Takeaways

  • A messy morning can still deliver a meaningful win.
  • Caregiving requires tag-teaming and flexible expectations.
  • Your body keeps score — move, nap, or breathe as needed.
  • Integrity = doing what you promised yourself, even gently.
  • Wins (like a great A1C) are worth celebrating, especially on hard days.

⚠️ Content Note:

Caregiver stress, medical talk (A1C, labs), fatigue, and brief profanity. Gentle, reflective tone with mentions of dementia testing for a parent.

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Disaster Diaries, The High-Functioning Disaster, Sacha Holder, daily audio journal, A1C, diabetes check, primary care visit, outside lab, Miracle Morning, caregiver stress, dementia testing, emotional release, coaching session, yin yoga, fatigue, weekend reset, Colts football, resilience, honest storytelling

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The High-Functioning Disaster
High-functioning on the outside. Hot mess on the inside.
You’ve got the color-coded calendar, the competent job persona, the “I’m fine!” mask down to an art—and a mental load heavy enough to throw out your back. Meanwhile, life? That's a hot mess express—total chaos with zero chill and a full tank of emotional baggage. And what makes it even worse? Nearly no one’s talking about it.

Welcome to The High-Functioning Disaster, a podcast for people who are doing their best to hold it together while navigating burnout, grief, trauma, anxiety, caretaking duties, family drama, body image issues, and a to-do list that never quits.

Host Sacha Holder isn’t the disaster (neither are you!)—life is. And this show is about making space for that truth and giving ourselves permission to say it out loud. Every week, Sacha explores what it means to be deeply human in a world that keeps demanding more. Sometimes she’s flying solo, sometimes she brings along guests and friends—but the vibe is always real, raw, unfiltered, and grounded in radical self-acceptance and permission to be human.

We talk boundaries. Body image. Mental health. Emotional labor. The moments where everything feels like too much—and the ones where we catch our breath and keep going.

This isn’t a self-help podcast. It’s a self-permission podcast.
Permission to be exhausted.
To not have it together.
To be honest about what’s hard—without needing to package it as a “lesson.”

Because you don’t need fixing.
You need space to fall apart—and still be seen.
Because some of us are just trying to make it through the day.
And here? That’s more than enough.
New episodes every Monday. Come as you are. Seriously.
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Sacha Holder

Sacha Holder is a project manager, podcast host, and bariatric patient who’s not here to pretend it’s all perfect. With over a decade of professional experience and a whole lot of lived experience, she creates podcasts that tell the truth about what it means to live, heal, and grow — through chaos, and curveballs, while keeping it together (mostly).

She’s the voice behind Life in the Bari Lane, a bite-sized bariatric podcast for real people navigating post-op life, and The High-Functioning Disaster, a show about showing up even when everything feels like too much. Through humor, honesty, and zero judgment, Sacha builds community through conversation — because no one should have to figure it out alone.