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Smooched: Why You'll Never Forget Your First Kiss
Anita's highly-anticipated (and highly-awkward) first kiss was in eighth grade … but she remembers it like it was yesterday! A scientist tells her wh…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sobbed: Why We Cry
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, 7 months ago
Delivered (Part Two): No More Postpartum Silence (Revisited)
Anita treasures sleep and moments of silence. So when she hears typical narratives of early parenthood that include unending cries and restless night…
2 years, 8 months ago
Delivered (Part One): Supporting A Post-Baby Body (Revisited)
Anita has been around enough postpartum folks to know that there's a whole lot they felt unprepared for when it came to how their physical bodies wou…
2 years, 8 months ago
Obsessed: Breaking The OCD Cycle
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, 8 months ago
(Un)Circumcised: How Parents Decide
It's a small procedure, but a big question. Anita talks with a urologist about what medical advice to consider while making the circumcision decision…
2 years, 8 months ago
Decided: Child-Free By Choice
Anita has interrogated so many aspects of parenthood. But how about the decision to become a parent at all? She talks with three women about making t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Scented: Life According To Your Nose (Revisited)
Anita sniffs out what's so fascinating about the science of smell — and gets her mind blown. A psychologist shares why smell is our most emotional se…
2 years, 9 months ago
Stuttered: Diversifying The Way We Speak
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, 9 months ago
Naked: No Clothes, No Problem (Revisited)
Anita learns about non-sexual, social nudity and why opting to live life mostly in the nude could actually make her think about her body LESS. [This …
2 years, 9 months ago