Healing is Hilarious with Rachel LaForce

Seth Rogen is suddenly in Sephora. Men are spending more per Botox visit than women. Jennifer Lawrence launched a haircare brand built around “unbothered” beauty. Druski is about to become the first digital creator to host SNL. And one slow-motion Obama mic toss has the internet talking about “aura.” Five wildly different stories. One question: in the most manufactured era in human history, why ar...

Good American’s creator pop-up backlash. Paris Hilton’s ADHD event and the fight over doing awareness “correctly.” Victoria’s Secret returning with new language around an old fantasy. Kids being blamed for living online after we made the real world harder to access. And the midterm argument over third-party voting. This week on Healing Is Hilarious, Rachel LaForce asks what it actually takes for c...

Shane Gillis calls women “whores” on SNL and people rush to defend the joke. The new White House press secretary’s legal credentials become a national credibility question. HBO brings Girls back a decade later. The internet keeps insisting reality split in 2020. And creators are quietly turning themselves into media companies. This week on Healing Is Hilarious, Rachel LaForce looks at five wildly...

Women are projected to control $113 trillion in global investible wealth by 2030. Films written by women are showing stronger median returns. WAGs are turning proximity to sports culture into brands of their own. Fertility is becoming something financial systems are actually being built around. And somehow, despite all available evidence, women are still getting involved with Elon Musk. This week...

Your attention might be the most valuable thing you keep giving away for free. This week, Rachel connects the Cornell sexual-assault allegations and the question of who gets believed; the attention economy; the internet's obsession with cortisol, dopamine, nervous-system regulation and "eldest daughter" language; the viral period-blood + moon-water plant rabbit hole; and a tiny SNL m...

This week on Healing is Hilarious, Rachel LaForce connects five stories that look completely unrelated - until they don't. Molly Simms and Bobbi Brown raise questions about creative ownership, while independent creators are challenging what happens when bigger media companies enter territory they say looks suspiciously familiar. HELLO ALEX COOPER AND UNWELL. Zelda Williams' fight against A...

Reality has an image problem. This week, Rachel connects Sydney Sweeney’s latest controversy, five of six female acting Emmy winners being over 50, Little Tikes draining the color from childhood, Mitch McConnell returning to the Senate and a beauty magazine using AI-generated women to sell real women cosmetic procedures. The pattern? Real women are too sexual, older women are treated as disposable...

Why are we still so uncomfortable with women who are more than one thing at once? This week, Alanis Morrisette reveals how profoundly unwell she was while remaining highly functional. Pamela Anderson wears makeup again - and somehow breaks the internet’s new purity standard. Ashley St. Clair alleges Elon Musk tried to purchase her silence. Alex Cooper’s Unwell empire faces business setbacks and di...

THIS IS AN OLD EPISODE FROM 2024. In case you have managed to randomly find your way here, Hi! I'm Rachel LaForce. I am a Comedian and Cultural Commentator. My show Healing is Hilarious is about Connecting the Headlines to Human Behavior. However - this past week - this human got really sick and I was in bed all week - SO! Enjoy this evergreen episode from 2024.What I LOVE about evergreen mess...

Why do we have so many opinions about women? This week on Healing Is Hilarious , Rachel LaForce connects five seemingly unrelated headlines to one cultural pattern: our obsession with deciding what women should be. Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House after the birth of her second child. Alex Cooper's Unwell beverage line is winding down. Selena Gomez and her mental-health company Wonde...

This week, Rachel is clocking five stories that seem completely unrelated: backlash surrounding Mikayla Nogueira’s POV Beauty heading to Sephora, Alix Earle making the jump from TikTok to Netflix, Disney+ bringing TikTok creators onto its platform, a proposed New York bill that would give shoppers a discount for using self-checkout, and the staggering success of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode. But undernea...

There is a version of you who knows exactly how to look capable, confident, desirable, certain and completely fine - even when you are running on fumes. And because the performance works, nobody interrupts it. They applaud it. In this evergreen episode of Healing Is Hilarious, Rachel LaForce breaks down the five ways the Performance Trap shows up in our culture and our lives: performing productivi...

Companies spent years promising AI would replace people. Now some are discovering that experience, judgment and context were doing more work than the spreadsheets could see. ChatGPT is moving into health. Myspace may be coming back. Canva’s founders are betting billions on trust. And The Odyssey turned an online culture war into a global box-office event. These stories look unrelated. They are not...

Who gets to decide what a story means - the person living it, the person reporting it, or the person who benefits when we believe their version? This week on Healing Is Hilarious, Rachel LaForce connects five seemingly unrelated headlines: Andrew and Tristan Tate’s arrest and extradition proceedings, Jon Ossoff’s calm dismantling of political evasion, Anne Hathaway’s “buzzer-beater” pregnancy at 4...

This week on  Healing is Hilarious , Rachel explores a surprising pattern hiding beneath the week's biggest headlines: what if culture doesn't change through one massive revolution, but through a thousand tiny no's? From Meta reversing course after public backlash to the EU challenging addictive social media design, an Emmy nomination for a creator-led show, questions of trust in the A...

This week on  Healing Is Hilarious , Comedian, Creator and Cultural Commentator Rachel LaForce connects the biggest headlines to the human experience. From Meta admitting it miscalculated AI after massive layoffs, to billionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson revealing an unexpected autoimmune diagnosis, to the internet's obsession with Taylor Swift's wedding, Hilary Duff becoming the new face of...

April Showers bring May flowers, and this month -  we're all playing in the garden! May brings a renewed sense of celebration and magnetism. The excitement, the freedom, the "I'm ready to go now" energy has arrived. I felt this month's energy arrive almost like a school. In any school, there are multiple classes happening at any given time. While our collective energy is the...

April is a baddie and idk whether to love her or fear her, but either way, April is the month for decision. Who are you? How are you ready to show up? And where do you want to go? You don't have to have all of the answers, but it is time to get moving! March energy was relentless. Forcing more and more pressure, asking you to get honest about your true desires. Will you get burned in the fire...

Your March energy reading is here! March is the month of “and suddenly!”. This is the changing of the guards that we have been working towards. Allllll of your internal work has led to the shifts taking place this month. Perspective, discernment, agency and clarity will be your guiding light this month. Your inner world is finally materializing in your outer world. Enjoy it.  SUPPORT THIS PODCAST...

If you’re a reality tv fan - this episode is for YOU!  After just crossing 8 years alcohol free myself, I was lucky enough to do a cross collaboration with the king of Atlanta, the hilarious, Ronndell Smith and his podcast - Finally Sober.  We had the pleasure of interviewing the often misunderstood, but always honest reality tv stars Damian Powers. Damian rose to fame after the first season of Lo...

This February energy reading explores trust built through experience, intentional forward movement, and the role of play in discovering what comes next. Rather than revisiting the past or gathering more information, this month supports intentional action rooted in clarity. This reading is for anyone who feels a cycle has closed and senses that momentum is available without force. February acts as...

January’s energy is for those who have already done the work but are still wondering why everything hasn’t arrived yet. The message is clear: this “void” is the recalibration before momentum hits. Rachel breaks down why fixing, forcing, and over-explaining will only hurt your own feelings, how destiny is already locked in for 2026, and why slow, embodied confidence is the fastest path forward. If...

In this episode of Healing Is Hilarious , comedian–intuitive Rachel LaForce breaks down what it actually looks like to follow the “calling” you can’t deny anymore — the one Elsa-style voice pulling you into the unknown. Blending tarot, real-time energy reading, and comedic cultural clarity, Rachel explores why December ushers in a new beginning, how self-trust becomes your wealth, and why you can’...

In the final month of the year, we’re stepping onto a cosmic stage you can finally own that you have earned. December arrives as equal parts summit, spotlight, and soft landing - a month where things click not because you force them, but because you’ve finally done enough inner work to receive what’s been circling you for years. Rachel explores the power of curiosity, the divine timing of your bre...

This Thanksgiving episode is your reminder that you’re the winner you’ve been waiting for. As the energy of 2026 starts spinning into view, Rachel breaks down the identity shift arriving between now and March. From shedding since 2020 to learning to trust yourself to locking into your next level without waiting for validation, this episode is a hilarious, high-frequency pep talk for anyone standin...