Drinking Tea with Monsters is back! This week we open with the ant hill sugar conundrum taking over social media, declare our obsession with Target’s Thanksgiving stuffing pretzels and Trader Joe’s seasonal range, because fall is for grocery stores and snacks.
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This week’s OCD segment covers real event OCD, what it is, how it differs from regular guilt or regret, why the brain fixates on things that actually happened, and why “but it really did happen” makes it one of the most misunderstood OCD subtypes.
We close with St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower, saint of chronic illness, her life, her Story of a Soul, and why a 19th-century Carmelite nun’s philosophy about small acts of love is one of the most quietly radical things we’ve covered on this show.
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