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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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 3 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 …
3 years, 3 months ago
Stimulated: How Vibrators Became America's Favorite Sex Toy
True or false? Victorian doctors invented the vibrator to cure women's "hysteria" by bringing them to sexual climax. The answer may surprise you...as…
3 years, 3 months ago
Singled: Inside The Only-Child Family
Anita has many close friends who defy all stereotypes about only children. But when it comes to thinking about having her own kids, she still can't s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dreamed: Inside Your Night Brain (Revisited)
The name Embodied came to Anita in a dream, and she's on a quest to figure out how that happened. She talks to a dreamworker about strengthening the …
3 years, 4 months ago
Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell
Anita has fallen down her fair share of wellness rabbit holes [including a certain alliterative family's beauty and shapewear brands...]. Wellness in…
3 years, 4 months ago