Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl Review, OCD Community with the IOCDF, and the Origins of Gothic Literature at Strawberry Hill House

This week on Drinking Tea with Monsters, the podcast about OCD and other, less scary monsters, Leela and Pri give their very necessary take on Taylor Swift’s new album drop, The Life of a Showgirl. Are we the last people on Earth to share our take on TS12? Probably! Do we still have hot takes? Absolutely. Then we lace up our sneakers for One Million Steps for OCD, a walk and community-building event by the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Leela and Pri share why community is essential in the healing journey with OCD, and how you can get involved. Later, Leela recounts her spooky Sunday evening with Profs & Pints and The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic, diving into the eerie idea of haunted houses as characters in folklore and ghost stories. And finally, Pri takes us across the pond to Strawberry Hill House in England, the whimsical gothic castle that inspired The Castle of Otranto, the first-ever gothic novel by Horace Walpole. Learn how this quirky estate gave birth to gothic literature as we know it. LINKS TO STUFF I'm, like, totally obsessed with... Lauren Graham's Walk of Fame Ceremony. The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift OCD International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) One Million Steps for OCD Tangent The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic! Profs and Pints DTWM Strawberry Hill House The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Contact Us IG: @drinkingteawithmonsters EMAIL: [email protected] OCD Resources IOCDF Psychology Today Looking for another cozy listen? 🎧 Check out Leela's other podcast, No Dating Till You're Married, an audiobook podcast. Gilmore Girls meets Crazy Rich Asians. Contact Us 📱 IG: @drinkingteawithmonsters 📧 EMAIL: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.