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Thanks For Asking — 233 episodes

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This Story Doesn’t Have A Happy Ending: Losing a Sibling to Opioid Overdose with Steph Wittels Wachs

2

Polyamory Is Easier When One Of Them Is Dead: Answering Widow Questions with Rebecca Woolf

3

He Was A Mirror Of Me: Trauma, Memories, and Family Myths Changing Lives

4

457. Crusty Soul Energy with Elizabeth Kott

5

Help! I Was Dumped By A Widow

6

456. Is This a 90s Summer? with Jo Piazza

7

The Best at Suffering Award: Maggie Smith on Life After Divorce and Letting Go of Perfection

8

9 Things You Need To Hear If You're Struggling: Laura McKowen on addiction, guilt, and recovery

9

A Bluebird Day with Laura McKowen

10

SUMMER OF SURRENDER: Let’s give up, girls

11

Uprooted: What Can Happen When a Black Child Is Transracially Adopted by a White Family?

12

Nothing Starts on Sunday but Birth Control with Courtney Maum

13

What happens after Viral Fame? Rebecca Black can tell you.

14

Happyish Complicated Father’s Day to all who struggle to celebrate! with Dayna Kathan

15

A Spiritual Hug with Nadia Bolz-Weber

16

There’s an Alien Inside Me: Medical Misogyny, a Rom-Com, and Struggles with Infertility

17

The Summer Reading List with Kate Baer

18

It's (still) Okay To Laugh (and crying is still cool, too)

19

Creativity is For Everyone (The Artist’s Way with Elizabeth Kott)

20

What Is Happening and Where Are We? with Catherine Newman

21

Dancing for the Devil: Dr. Edith Eger on Surviving the Holocaust and Turning Trauma Into Purpose

22

Getting Married Again Doesn’t Make You A Bad Widow with Leslie Harter-Berg

23

IGTBO: A Goose-Forward Home with Sharon McMahon

24

Advice-cast: The Worst Thing to Say When Someone’s Grieving, Feeling like a Loser at Work, and Trying to Love Your Body When No One Else Loves Theirs

25

Food, Forgiveness and the Cost of Being Thin: A Conversation with Geneen Roth

26

Baja Blast Your Body (feat. Ralph)

27

Honest Motherhood with Libby Ward

28

Friends To The End: Cancer, Friendship and Grief

29

How you {really} are: Aging parents, falling out of love with your work, disappointing gender reveals, secondhand embarrassment and being the worst mom in the world

30

A Daily Dose of Wonder with Kelly Corrigan

31

AI Deadbots Want To Cure Your Grief

32

I Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant

33

Middle School Divorcee | It's Going to be OK with Elise Loehnen

34

Wind Phone (Part 3)

35

Dead Sibling Society (Part 1)

36

Under a Cloud of Loss

37

There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 2)

38

There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 1)

39

Wind Phone (Part 2)

40

Okay Boomers

41

The Return of Ralph: It’s Going to be OK

42

Update: The Fat Guy with the Alcohol

43

How Do You Grieve Someone Who Isn’t Dead with the Antlers

44

When Grandma and Grandpa Die, Can I Have Their iPad? with Kate Kennedy

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Normalize “bad women” with Rebecca Woolf

46

IGTBO: Widow Weddings, Sleepovers, and My Dead Uncle’s Sweater

47

The Wind Phone: Part 1

48

Happyish Holidays 2025

49

Goodbye, 2025

50

Baby Wants a Gas Mask

51

Your Pettiest Crimes with Caroline Moss

52

The Grief Album of the Year with Will Anderson

53

AITA: I Want to Leave My Dying Boyfriend

54

THANKS-giving

55

How to Con a Catfish

56

Talking to My Dead Husband with Psychic Medium Laura Lynne Jackson

57

Digitally Crushed by Grief

58

Help, My Parents Are Hoarders!

59

Should I Go Back to Work? with Kate Kennedy

60

I’m Getting in the Casket With You w/Caroline Moss

61

The IBS in Me Recognizes the IBS in You w/Caroline Moss

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From The Archives: October 8, 1988

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Prescription for a Widow

64

22 & Struggling (is it just me??)

65

You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late Part 2(with Cheryl Sparks)

66

You're Not Too Old, It's Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)

67

Gen Z Dating is Weird: Your Calls

68

Dead People Lore

69

Patients Over Profits

70

TFA x IMO: Michelle Obama Told Me I'm Not a Loser!

71

The Widower (Girl, run)

72

Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1

73

Giving Away the Farm

74

Update: How to Lose Your Name with Hayley Paige (Cheval)

75

Tales of a Type B

76

Pull over on the freeway, it's a PowerPoint Emergency! | Corporate Horror Stories Pt. 2 with Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip

77

Health Insurance Horror Stories

78

Everyone is Lying To You: influencer culture with Jo Piazza

79

Signs from the Other Side

80

I Was the Other Woman... And He Died

81

How Do I Trust in Love When My Heart Has Been Broken?

82

UnWorld with Jayson Greene

83

What Do People Do All Day?

84

S3: I've Made a Huge Mistake

85

S3: Emergency! Banner Ads!

86

Corporate Horror Stories

87

Help, I Said the Wrong Thing!

88

Finding Meaning In The New Age of Anxiety

89

Pep Talks 2

90

What It’s Like to Be a Brain Surgeon, with Dan Heath

91

Her Parents Skipped Her Wedding(Estrangement)

92

Pep Talks

93

You’re Lonely: What’s the prescription? An Interview with author Julia Hotz, author of The Connection Cure

94

Embarrassing Stories

95

How Do You Care for Yourself?

96

Angry and Grieving

97

Issa Rae on Friendships That Need to Go, from IMO

98

Out of The Void, Into The Dating Pool

99

IGTBO, TFA (Part 2)

100

Some Regrets

101

Creativity, Burnout and Life Beyond Productivity with Maria Bowler

102

I Hate My Friend’s Partner…What Do I Do About It?

103

Worrying, Fresh Retirement and Movie Extras

104

AI Wife

105

Your Mama's Kitchen: John Legend

106

Are You Lonely?

107

The Kindness of Strangers

108

Interdependence, Trump Flags, and Taylor Swift

109

The Year of Less: Vision Boards, Awards, What’s Next in 2025

110

You're Not Lazy, You're Overwhelmed (feat. Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius)

111

I Will Do Better feat. Charles Bock

112

Update: Behind The Scammer feat. Celisia Stanton

113

Am I grieving right? With Dr. Katherine Shear

114

Happyish Holidays: The Worst Thanksgiving Ever?

115

AITA: Happyish Holidays Edition

116

“Seahorse Dad” from Refamulating

117

You don’t talk about telescopes? And other questions to distract yourself from Election Day anxiety (with Kate Kennedy!)

118

Forces Of Nature: A Conversation On Childhood Trauma with Gina Demillo Wagner

119

Interview: Making and keeping friends as a grown-up with Marisa Franco

120

More (More, More!) Obituaries

121

TTFA Anthologies: Two Letters- A Widow Remembers Her Husband With Two Letters

122

TTFA Anthologies: Stories of Suicide & Loss

123

The Resilience Myth with Soraya Chemaly

124

Now

125

Becoming Fairy Godmother: Egg Donation and Creating A New Kind of Family

126

Your Favorite Obituaries

127

More Than A Survivor: Rape, Activism and what comes next with Sarah Super

128

Terrible, Thanks For Everything!!

129

Time Capsule: The Silver Chain - Episode 1: The Silver Chain

130

The One That Got Away

131

Time Capsule: The Silver Chain - Trailer

132

Grudge Book is Back!

133

The First Stone: Cheating, shame and a series of unfortunate men

134

“Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything?” from Search Engine

135

86 Sundays

136

The Christmas Curse (Happyish Holidays 2023)

137

Loving into the Future

138

The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

139

Eat, Pray, Leave

140

...Always

141

Everything, All Of You...

142

The Trauma Sponge

143

Claire Has A Secret

144

The Teachers Are Not Alright

145

Still A Family

146

Meet The Sharents

147

From the Archives: About Bob

148

From The Archives: Nathan

149

From The Archives: Ripped From the Headlines

150

From the Archives: Witness

151

From the Archives: If/Then

152

From the Archives: The Broken Places

153

From the Archives: Not The Bummer Olympics

154

Wide Open Spaces

155

The Final Quince

156

Courtney's Secret Garden

157

Jamie The Good Times Gal

158

The Trail

159

Gifted and Terrible

160

Should I Have Kids?

161

Nora Needs a New Dad

162

Debt, Lies, and Other Things Our Parents Leave Us

163

How To Lose Your Name

164

Into The Void

165

Your Happyish Holiday Traditions

166

Happyish Holidays 2022

167

Blocked and Reported

168

Army Wife

169

Between Two Widows

170

After The Headlines

171

Bad Vibes Only

172

Update: The Beautiful Ones

173

Para-Mom

174

Overthinking About You

175

Born Fat

176

Anything Can Happen

177

Independence Days

178

The Missing Puzzle Piece

179

Asking for a Friend

180

Saved As Draft

181

Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

182

Girlboss or Bust

183

How Long Should Grief Last?

184

Brettina Has BPD

185

Motherless Day

186

Widowed*

187

How’s It Going In There? 2022 Edition

188

The Della Diaries

189

Lacuna

190

Tell Me About Them

191

Liam and the Letters

192

The Scammer Speaks

193

Self-Portrait of My Own Misery

194

26 Pages

195

These Are Your Confessions

196

In Absentia

197

We’re Supposed to Be Four

198

October 8, 1988

199

Behind The Scammer

200

War Stories

201

Why Are You Up?

202

The Grudge Book

203

Her Name Was Heather

204

The Gift

205

Cynthia

206

Happyish Holidays 2020

207

Miss North Dakota

208

Ride Through It

209

For The Next Ten Minutes

210

I See Big Things For You

211

What Happened to You? (Part 3)

212

What Happened to You? (Part 2)

213

What Happened to You? (Part 1)

214

A Face In The Crowd

215

The Bride Price

216

The Treatment

217

Happyish Holidays 2018

218

Heather

219

Soooo OCD

220

Two Letters

221

Route 91

222

Happyish Holidays 2017

223

What Does All This Loss Mean?

224

Chapter 2

225

Forever Alone? (Part 2)

226

Forever Alone? (Part 1)

227

Best Friends Forever

228

Semper Fi

229

Unbroken

230

Help Me Remember

231

Happyish Holidays

232

In Love and Memory

233

Sad Nora and the Secret Baby