Grief doesn’t cancel your DMV appointment. Your AC can leak, your driver’s license can expire, and apparently three slices of pie now require a financial consultation.
This week on Currently Cringing, Anisha Ramakrishna talks about life at 42 after losing her grandfather, the unexpected emotion of renewing her driver’s license, and writing a cookbook that he was alive for the beginning of.
Plus: therapy for grief, eldest daughter guilt, people pleasing, imposter syndrome, and learning to set boundaries without feeling like you’ve disgraced six households. Anisha also starts reading the Bhagavad Gita, immediately needs help with page one, and explains why holiday comfort eating began at Halloween this year.
Come for the hormonal chin acne, outrageous food prices, and AI job anxiety. Stay for an honest conversation about missing your biggest fan while everyday life keeps demanding paperwork.
What do you do when it’s the worst day of your life, your driver’s license expires, and the AC starts leaking? On this episode of Currently Cringing, Anisha Ramakrishna (Family Karma) gets real about grief one month after losing her grandfather, from the finality of a cremation to the surreal moment her 73-year-old dad hands over a manila folder containing her birth certificate, her first passport, and her grandfather’s name listed as guardian on both. In between, the comedy of trying to function while falling apart: a brand new rental where everything keeps breaking, a millennial landlord abroad who sends repairmen within the hour, AC technicians who refuse shoe covers and track mud through a freshly cleaned house, and a DMV appointment at forty-two with two hormonal chin pimples and every document from the history of her life. Then the deeper stuff. Therapy every other day with an intergenerational committee of two therapists, eldest daughter trauma, people pleasing, imposter syndrome, and why your discomfort should never be someone else’s comfort. Plus writing a cookbook where her grandfather was alive for the appetizers chapter and gone for the rest, buying the Bhagavad Gita at an airport in India and not understanding the first two sentences, and the 3am passage that finally brought some peace. Sometimes I love you is just someone’s coming to clean the floor, go lie down. Topics covered: grief after losing a grandparent, coping with loss, therapy for grief, eldest daughter syndrome, people pleasing recovery, imposter syndrome, hormonal acne in your forties, DMV license renewal, landlord and renting stories, millennial life, Bhagavad Gita for beginners, Indian American family, and finding humor in hard times. New episodes weekly. Join the Cringe Club at currentlycringingpodcast.com.
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