Currently Cringing

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.grief podcast, losing a grandparent, eldest daughter syndrome, people pleasing, therapy podcast, Bhagavad Gita beginners, DMV stories, comedy podcast for women, Indian American podcast, Anisha Ramakrishna, Family Karma, Currently Cringing#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popcultureSend this episode to the friend who feels guilty choosing herself, still calls her dad for important documents, or deserves a little comfort food after a very long year.Follow Currently Cringing with Anisha Ram on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

I’ve been drinking through my grief, and before anyone panics, this is not a cry for help. It’s a dinner invitation. In this episode of Currently Cringing, I talk about how cooking, cocktails and entertaining have become a second form of therapy while I grieve, because when you have ten things on the stove, your intrusive thoughts have to make a reservation. My New York storage unit finally landed in Miami, and an eight-foot folding picnic table and six metal chairs sent me straight back to my twenties, hosting eight-course dinners for ten to fifteen people in an alcove studio with no dining room and zero respect for the fire code. I get into growing up in an Indian family where nobody taught the women to cook because we were told to read and earn money instead, being a Food Network kid wondering who Ina Garten’s Jeffrey actually is, recipe testing for my cookbook by turning dinner parties into focus groups, and why we’ve convinced ourselves our homes need to look like a Vogue home tour before we’re allowed to invite anyone over. Then cooking tried to kill me. My husband and I have a long-running theory that jalapeños have lost their heat, and the spiciest one we’ve ever had was at a pizza place in Park City, Utah, of all places. This week I finally found jalapeños that hot again, made stuffed jalapeño poppers without gloves, and gave myself Hunan hand, a capsaicin skin burn that left my hands on fire for 72 hours and felt eerily like vulvodynia, hand edition. Consider this your PSA to wear gloves. It’s an episode about grief, community, hosting without perfect furniture, and finding the parts of yourself that only went quiet for a while. Cookbook out 2028, $40, gloves sold separately. Stay spicy and stay cringe.grief, cooking through grief, cooking as therapy, coping with loss, dinner party ideas, hosting at home, entertaining tips, jalapeño poppers, Hunan hand, jalapeño burn, capsaicin burn on hands, spicy jalapeños, Park City Utah, New York in your twenties, alcove studio, Ina Garten, Indian family, cookbook, cocktails, vulvodynia, comedy podcast, women’s podcast, Anisha Ramakrishna, Anisha Ram, Family Karma, Currently Cringing#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture

I haven’t recorded in a while, and this episode is the reason why. My grandfather, my second parent, my biggest fan and the man named as my guardian on my birth certificate, is no longer with us. This is the most personal episode of Currently Cringing I’ve ever made. I talk about grief in a way I didn’t understand until I lived it: the panic attacks, the sleepless nights, and the moment I realized I couldn’t get through this alone. I cover anticipatory grief and why it didn’t prepare me at all, my fear of prolonged grief, and why I now see two therapists, one of them every day. I talk about grieving in India, where the whole community shows up, and then coming home to America and feeling the emptiness. I talk about my sister staying on the phone with me for seven hours a night, my girlfriends rallying around me, and my husband sleeping downstairs with the lights on so I wouldn’t be alone. I also talk about the privilege of having time to grieve when so many people are back at work three days later, and why we need to stop putting deadlines on grief. This is also a love letter to a grandfather who lived a full life, not just a long one, and who left me decades of letters, emails and videos. If you’ve lost a parent, a grandparent, a partner or a pet, this one is for you. You’re allowed to feel exactly what you’re feeling. One hour at a time. And yes, we still have to cringe.If you’re struggling with grief, please reach out to a licensed therapist or a local grief support service.grief, losing a grandparent, grief podcast, anticipatory grief, prolonged grief, grief and therapy, panic attacks, coping with loss, death of a grandfather, mental health podcast, support system, grief has no timeline, Anisha Ramakrishna, Family Karma, Currently Cringing#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture

My husband offered to help with my pelvic floor therapy. “Babe, I’m board certified.” Yes, but a vascular surgeon is not qualified to direct this department. Please respect the hiring process.In this follow-up to the vulvodynia episode, Anisha tells you what finally healed her: pelvic floor physical therapy. After a month in bed that no doctor could fix, two of her best friends stepped in: a physician and her seven-months-pregnant wife, a pelvic floor physical therapist. They picked up their baby’s crib, opened their practice at 7:30 on a Sunday night, and treated her for three hours for free. Her husband sat in the back of the room on a work Zoom the whole time.We get into:• What pelvic floor PT can actually involve, internal work included (nobody tells women anything)• You don’t need to have had a baby to have pelvic floor dysfunction• How jaw clenching, TMJ, stress and side sleeping can all end up in your pelvis• Why Kegels aren’t the answer when you’re already clenching everything• Meeting the Kiwi: not a sex toy, basically a Theragun for your pelvic floor• Six sessions later: no more vulvodynia, no more nerve pain, even fewer headaches• A love letter to female friendship: the outfit-check FaceTime, the “have you eaten?” friend who sends a Wendy’s baked potato, and the restaurant-bathroom bestie who now hates ChadIf you’re dealing with pelvic pain, vulvodynia, neuropathy or symptoms nobody can explain, this one’s for you. Then call the women in your life and tell them you love them.This episode is Anisha’s personal experience and comedy, not medical advice. Pelvic floor therapy is different for everyone, so talk to a qualified clinician about your own care.🎧 Follow Currently Cringing, rate the show, and send this episode to the friend who’d drop everything for you.pelvic floor physical therapy, pelvic floor dysfunction, vulvodynia, vulvodynia treatment, pelvic pain, neuropathy, TMJ, internal pelvic floor therapy, women’s health podcast, comedy podcast, female friendship, millennial women, Miami#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture

For years, I thought my hip pain, migraines, joint pain, periods, mattress problems and increasingly bizarre symptoms were completely unrelated.Then my vagina caught on fire.Not metaphorically.This summer, I went from traveling through Italy to barely being able to walk. My legs were throbbing, my feet felt like bricks, my vulva was burning, and somehow everything looked completely normal. I saw doctors and specialists, had MRIs and bloodwork, tried acupuncture, went down terrifying medical rabbit holes—and eventually found myself learning words I had somehow made it to 42 without ever hearing: vulvodynia, pelvic floor dysfunction and pudendal nerve pain.And somehow this story involves five mattresses, perimenopause, Mounjaro, a $20 kettlebell, a horsehair bed, a broken Swiss Air business-class seat, my asshole, TikTok, and a seven-month-pregnant physical therapist who saw me at 9 p.m. on a Sunday.Because apparently my hip, vagina, migraines, period and entire left side had been in a group chat for years—and nobody thought to add me.This is the full story of the strangest medical mystery I’ve ever experienced, what finally helped me, and why women need to talk about the embarrassing symptoms we’re quietly Googling at 2 a.m.Because we’ll discuss Botox, Ozempic, periods, bowel movements, sex and childhood trauma—but apparently the vulva is where we draw the line?Topics include: vulvodynia, pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic pain, pudendal nerve pain, pelvic floor physical therapy, perimenopause, chronic pain, migraines, Mounjaro and women’s health.This episode describes my personal experience and is not medical advice. Vulvar and pelvic pain can have many causes and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare professional.#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture

What happens when the life you pictured for yourself doesn’t happen the way you thought it would, or doesn’t happen at all?This week on Currently Cringing, we’re talking about the quiet grief nobody really prepares you for: grieving an imagined future. The wedding, the baby, the house, the career, the friendship, the version of yourself you were certain you’d become, and the invisible timelines that somehow became deadlines.We get into ambiguous loss, milestone birthdays, fertility and aging, social media comparison, family and cultural expectations, the 2 a.m. spiral after someone else’s engagement announcement, and why you can be genuinely happy with your life while still grieving the life you didn’t get.And because apparently I cannot experience an emotion without eventually turning it into a business analysis, we’re also looking at the ROI of letting go. What does continuing to emotionally fund an expired plan cost you in time, money, attention and energy? And what becomes possible when you finally stop negotiating with a reality that has already sent its final terms?Sometimes letting go isn’t giving up. Sometimes it’s admitting: I wanted this. It mattered to me. And it didn’t happen the way I thought it would.Nobody sends flowers for a future that didn’t happen. Maybe we should.Currently Cringing with Anisha Ramakrishna is a comedy podcast about relationships, marriage, aging, culture, money, ambition, friendship, family, and all the deeply unserious things we somehow take very seriously.Episode topics: grief, ambiguous loss, life transitions, letting go, unmet expectations, milestone birthdays, aging, relationships, fertility, career changes, social media comparison, Indian family expectations, finding purpose, starting over, and accepting when life doesn’t go according to plan.#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture

Listeners heard something disturbing in the background of my podcast. Then one listener in France messaged me with an even stranger detail: she thinks the mysterious voice is speaking French.There is only one problem. I record this podcast alone. In my house.So naturally, my husband and I opened the doors, lit the sage and Palo Santo, respectfully asked whoever—or whatever—is apparently guest-hosting the podcast to leave, and absolutely did NOT schedule a séance. I am trying to have fewer supernatural interactions, not expand the spiritual calendar.Then we need to discuss why August Virgos and September Virgos may basically be different species, the astrology of decans, and why Virgo season has personally declared war on me.Also: Apple has unveiled its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, starting around $2,000—and apparently reaching roughly $3,000 at the highest storage tier. Who is paying used-car money for a phone whose party trick is closing?Plus, the increasingly terrifying AI safety conversation: researchers leaving major AI companies, warnings about artificial intelligence and human extinction, what actually happened when OpenAI models breached testing boundaries and accessed Hugging Face systems, and why women in their 30s, 40s and 50s should understand AI even if they hate it.And because this episode desperately needs lighter subject matter: the Minnesota State Fair, Pronto Pups, butter sculptures, fried food on GLP-1s, why I may have missed my state-fair window forever, and the hypocrisy of millennial wellness.Because apparently I won’t eat a Dorito with Red 40, but I will inhale Fabuloso, drink Coke Zero, wash my hands seventeen times and call it health.We’re talking ghosts, astrology, the Apple iPhone Duo, AI safety, OpenAI, Hugging Face, state fairs, GLP-1 life, millennial wellness and surviving a genuinely difficult season with a little humor.Send this episode to the friend who would sage the house with you—but absolutely refuse to attend the séance.#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture

First, we need to discuss the mysterious noises showing up in the podcast because apparently Currently Cringing now has an unpaid paranormal co-host. I wish I were kidding.Then we’re getting into something far scarier: why we keep going back to people who already showed us exactly who they are.If somebody pulls away, let them. If they become weird, cold, inconsistent, confused, “need space,” or suddenly need to focus on healing/their career/their dog — stop providing disaster relief to a situation you did not create.Because sometimes closure isn’t maturity. Sometimes it’s emotional customer service for someone who barely qualified for the perk.We’re talking about why rejection makes us beg for explanations, why loneliness can make terrible people look appealing again, why peace feels strangely boring after chaos, and why the hardest part of having boundaries isn’t leaving — it’s staying gone when your calendar is empty.And this doesn’t just apply to dating.It’s the toxic friend you cut off and suddenly reconsider six months later because everyone else is busy. The “convenience friend” you don’t actually like but who lives eight minutes away. The person who’s hilarious at dinner but leaves you emotionally hungover for three days. The relationships we keep because history, proximity and loneliness convince us they’re more valuable than they actually are.Some people are appetizers. Stop promoting them to entrées.In this episode:• Why behavior is often the closure you’re looking for• Why “I miss you” does not mean “I’ve changed”• The difference between returning and repairing• Why loneliness has absolutely terrible taste in people• The quiet period that happens after you finally cut toxic people off• Why familiar dysfunction can feel safer than unfamiliar peace• Dating confusion, mixed signals and screenshot forensic analysis• Adult friendships, convenience friends and social scarcity• Why history does not equal quality• How to stop reopening doors you closed for a reason• And why a smaller table with fewer psychopaths might actually be the goalLeave people where they left you.Not everyone who once had access to you deserves access forever.Sometimes growing up is simply realizing that four people who genuinely love you are worth more than twelve people you constantly have to recover from.Welcome to the smaller table.#FunnyPodcast #Relatable #ComedyPodcast #FunnyGirls #GirlsPodcast #WomenPodcast #MillennialPodcast #femalepodcast #popculture