It all started on the toilet.

Yes. Really.

Kirsten was flushing her bowels, wearing a Care Bears shirt, while her cats stared at her like judgmental therapists with fur.

She messaged Teresa. Teresa laughed. And said: “Sarcastic CareCats.”

That spark lit the first match. And a Swamp was born.

Not a brand. Not a business.

A strange, soft space where coping could become creative.

Where therapy didn’t feel like therapy.

Where skills, story, sarcasm and symptoms could co-exist, messily, beautifully, and with glitter in unfortunate places.

Kirsten poured years of lived experience, trauma recovery, and therapeutic training into stories and workbooks.

Teresa brought chaos, heart, voice acting, and a powerful need to make healing accessible.

Then came Chris with 10+ years of editing experience, a calming presence, a voice like dusk, and the shared reality of EDS, POTS, MCAS and cPTSD.

That’s when everything changed.

From two people on a voice call to a team making full episodes, sleep stories, skill guides and a whole emotional ecosystem. We’ve now reached thousands of people worldwide.

We’re tired. We’re brilliant. And we’re still here.

And this is why we do it:

This is our mission:

🧠 To make mental health, trauma, neurodivergence and chronic illness visible and speakable, without shame.

🛠 To turn emotional chaos into something creative, weird, and healing.

💬 To tell stories that feel like recognition, not diagnosis.

👂 To offer community, compassion, and a CareCat who probably needs therapy more than you do.

🪷 To remind you that healing can look like a swamp, foggy, funny, glittery, broken, blooming.

This is a swamp for the chronically complex.

We’re not here to fix you.

We’re here to sit in the fog with you and maybe hand you a frog-shaped coping mechanism.

You’re not too broken.

You’re exactly enough.

Welcome home.