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Separated: Growing Up With An Incarcerated Father (Revisited)
Anita reconnects with the woman who changed her thinking on incarceration: her beloved college thesis adviser Ashley Lucas. Ashley reflects on her fa…
2 years, 2 months ago
Popped: Adult Acne In The 'Perfect Skin' Era
Dealing with pimples and blackheads in middle school is practically a right of passage. But when acne is a defining feature of your adulthood... it’s…
2 years, 3 months ago
Cared: The Last Decades Of Our Lives
More Americans are living into their 90s and 100s than ever before, and it blows Anita's mind that so few people are talking about it! She meets a 94…
2 years, 3 months ago
Gripped: The Passion For Pole Dancing
Anita walked away from her first pole dancing class slightly bruised … but very intrigued. She talks with a veteran stripper about the history and po…
2 years, 3 months ago
Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)
Anita has fallen down her fair share of wellness rabbit holes [including a certain alliterative family's beauty and shapewear brands...]. Wellness in…
2 years, 3 months ago
Inherited: Healing From Generational Trauma (Revisited)
Anita has been unpacking intergenerational trauma ... thanks, in part, to Hollywood. Seeing herself in movies like "Turning Red" and "Everything Ever…
2 years, 3 months ago
Complicated: Healing from Complex PTSD
What happens when trauma occurs not as a single isolated event, but millions of smaller, ongoing incidents? Guest host Anisa Khalifa talks with an ar…
2 years, 4 months ago
Traveled: The Lives Of Third Culture Kids
As a child of two immigrants, Anita has a tumultuous relationship with the question: "Where are you from?" So, too, do many third culture kids — peop…
2 years, 4 months ago
Adored: How Fandoms Build Community
Guest host Anisa Khalifa first became a fan in high school. She gets an explanation from a psychologist about how being in fandoms benefits mental he…
2 years, 4 months ago
Masked: Coming Out As Autistic In Adulthood
Many autistic people assigned female at birth remain undiagnosed at 18, so what's it like to get an autism diagnosis in your adulthood? Anita meets t…
2 years, 4 months ago