Currently Cringing

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...

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...

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 phy...

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 sa...

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...

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-ho...

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...

This week on Currently Cringing , one tiny test strand becomes the hero of the entire episode when I discover that Japanese hair straightening could have quite literally made me bald. Two months after a salon owner refused to straighten my entire head, my hairstylist finds the test piece underneath my hair completely broken off. Rejection is protection, ladies — and sometimes it is the only thing...

The Lindsay Clancy trial has officially consumed my life. After five weeks of spiritually attending Massachusetts Superior Court from my laptop, closing arguments are over, the jury is deliberating, and apparently I’m supposed to just… go about my day? Absolutely not. This week on Currently Cringing, we’re talking about the Lindsay Clancy trial, Kevin Reddington’s closing argument, the bizarre rea...

Get the Degree Before the Ring: Trad Wives, Financial Dependence, and Why Marriage Is Not a Life Plan This week on Currently Cringing , Anisha realizes her ultimate rich-person fantasy is not a yacht, a private jet, or a house in the English countryside — it is becoming a permanent career student with no professional objective whatsoever. Law school for fun. Art history for dinner parties. Torts i...

The Lindsay Clancy trial is far more complicated than the headline. In this deep dive, we break down what Lindsay actually pleaded, the alleged confessions, postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility, the forensic and digital evidence, Patrick Clancy’s testimony, her psychiatric treatment, the medical malpractice allegations, and the questions emerging as the trial unfolds. This isn’t about...

The month-long Italian birthday extravaganza is officially over—but apparently getting home required one final humiliation. On this episode of Currently Cringing , we’re leaving Italy for one last day in Zurich, where I’m already on my period, my joints hurt, I don’t feel well, and my definition of sightseeing has become buying exceptional Swiss fruit and cheese and going home . We need to discuss...

Portofino Is Smaller Than Costco & I’m Retiring From Beach Clubs And just like that, we’ve reached the final stop of our month in Italy: Liguria, Santa Margherita Ligure, Portofino and the Italian Riviera —where the pesto is perfect, the water is crystal clear, and apparently a luxury vacation can still involve fighting a seagull for your smoked salmon. Anisha gives her completely unfiltered g...

Luxury isn’t always luxurious. Anisha celebrates her husband’s 40th birthday on the coast of Sicily, only to discover that paying thousands for a five-star beach club still means fighting for lounge chairs, overhearing strangers’ family drama and questioning what “luxury” even means anymore. She shares her brutally honest reviews of Taormina, European beach clubs, why privacy is the ultimate luxur...

Anisha doubles down on her most controversial luxury-travel opinion: the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection is not a yacht. It is a very expensive cruise, and for the same money, you may be better off chartering privately in Croatia, Turkey, Montenegro or Albania. Then the Italy trip continues from Sardinia to Sicily, where Anisha breaks down her personal travel philosophy: the destination matters, but...

Anisha’s luxury Italy trip continues in Sardinia , where a supposedly restorative vacation includes a medication-free migraine experiment, a secret Hilton hotel in Porto Rotondo, a high-speed RIB boat ride through Costa Smeralda, a catastrophic Day One period, and a surreal confrontation with a mystery family and their intimidating bodyguard in Porto Cervo. First, Anisha explains why she briefly d...

This episode starts before we even leave Miami, when a Japanese hair straightening appointment almost leaves me bald and a hairstylist unknowingly saves my entire trip. From there, we’re off to Milan for my husband’s 40th birthday before making our way to Sardinia, one of the most expensive luxury destinations in Europe. Along the way, we talk about what luxury travel actually looks like when the...

I disappeared for three weeks, and today is the first day I’ve truly felt like myself again. Something unexpected happened after I got home, and one day I’ll share the full story. I’m just waiting until I’m completely on the other side of it because I want to tell it with the perspective it deserves. For now, we’re rewinding to where it all began. Welcome to Part 1 of my Italy series. In this epis...

This week on Currently Cringing , Anisha spirals from booking a Japanese hair straightening appointment to questioning the meaning of life after smashing an ant. After years of avoiding pools, oceans, humidity, and basically any activity involving joy, she’s finally surrendering to the fact that she married a man whose love language is water. Which means boats, beaches, Italy, and accepting that s...

After six years of discussing dating disasters, ghosting, heartbreak, situationships, and every form of romantic chaos imaginable, we finally made it to the wedding. In this episode, Anisha recaps an unforgettable four day Indian wedding weekend celebrating friend of the show Aditya and his bride. What begins as a simple wedding recap quickly turns into a saga involving thousands of dollars of mis...

By now you've heard about the MV Hondius — the luxury expedition cruise ship that departed Argentina on April 1st (an omen), visited some of the most remote islands on earth that haven't even been fully rendered on Google Maps, and returned with three deaths, eleven confirmed cases of the Andes strain of hantavirus, and passengers currently being monitored in biocontainment units at Emory Universi...

This week on Currently Cringing , Anisha spirals after an Instacart delivery leaves her kitchen smelling like weed and her fridge full of radishes instead of beets. From broccolini confusion and emotionally disappointing blueberries to why fruit in America tastes chemically depressed compared to Thailand, Slovenia, Japan, and Shanghai, this episode becomes an unexpectedly hilarious breakdown of mo...

This week Anisha is recording with what she describes as a tiny Victorian child mining coal directly behind her left eye, which is honestly a metaphor for everything we're about to discuss. It started with Chanel putting Babitha Mandava in what looked like a CVS run outfit at the Met Gala while Zendaya got architecture, narrative, and cinema. One Instagram comment later and the internet decided An...

If your effort is exceeding your contract, this episode is your intervention. This week Anisha is back with the unfiltered truth on dating red flags, situationship accountability, and why effort should always match the terms of the arrangement. First up: the baby and toddler profile photo as a personality tell — and why it predicts chaos every single time. Then, Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thomps...

What started as a casual snack run almost ended in a full Victorian tragedy. Anisha breaks down the staircase incident heard round the household — silky lounge pants, airborne guacamole, knees meeting wooden edges, and the humbling reality that the most dangerous thing in your life is your own comfort wear. Then things get interesting. The appliances keep breaking in a brand new house, a medium so...