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Obsessed: Breaking the OCD Cycle (Revisited)
Anita is no stranger to anxiety, but her spirals are mostly short lived. In this episode she meets folks who often get caught in loops of extreme wor…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sobbed: Why We Cry (Revisited)
Anita usually feels better after a good, long cry. But why is that? She explores that question with a poet who spent years diving deeply into the sci…
2 years, 5 months ago
Normalized: Speaking Up About Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction affects as many as 30 million people in the U.S. — yet the fears of not being “normal” prevent folks from speaking up about it. …
2 years, 5 months ago
(Self) Helped: Inside The Industry That Wants To Change Your Life
Anita is committed to self-improvement but skeptical of self-help. She brings her qualms and questions to the experts: Kristen Meinzer, a podcaster w…
2 years, 5 months ago
Stuttered: Diversifying The Way We Speak (Revisited)
Stuttering occurs in every culture with a spoken language. So why do many communities treat it as a source of shame? Two speech-language pathologists…
2 years, 6 months ago
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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 months ago