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Compulsive sexual behavior has many names and no one clear diagnosis. But what is agreed upon is that when sex prohibits you from living life the w...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 58:23
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...
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- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.
- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 58:23
In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 54:30
AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 58:23
OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 58:23
In surrogate partner therapy, a therapist, a surrogate partner and a client work together to understand and help resolve the client’s challenges wi...
- Added: Oct 04, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Twenty some years ago, when I lived in Eastern Washington, I was out at a lake one busy summer day, enjoying the heat of an Indian summer. I wasn't...
- Added: Sep 03, 2023
- Length: 07:12
Not every eviction is equal.
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 08:57
process started when a funeral is needed
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 08:51
sunlight is used as medicine
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 09:01
In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 53:50
The Nocturnists’ Emily Silverman tells a story about how medical school satisfied much of her curiosity about the human body—but how some mysteries...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 44:24
Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 40:08
Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 46:55
Hospitalist PJ Lally reflects on a time he got a second chance at life.
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 47:19
OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 53:32
You never know what you've got until it's gone.
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- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 09:55
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Sometimes what we remember from our childhood is confused with the stories other people tell us. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 01:03
When I moved from Melbourne to Italy I was faced with a difficult decision: take my cat Ombra with me, submitting her to a gruelling 26-hour flight...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 01:17
- Added: May 08, 2022
- Length: 01:02