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  • The Christmas Curse (Happyish Holidays 2023)

    If your holiday season is feeling less sparkly, less warm, less…happy, you’ve come to the right place! Every year we make an episode about the bad, terrible and subpar side…

    December 12, 2023

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  • Your Happyish Holiday Traditions

    The happyish holiday season can be whatever the heck you want it to be, no matter what pressures you feel from family and friends and society. So, here’s to creating…

    December 20, 2022

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  • Happyish Holidays 2022

    ‘Tis the season! Our terrible holiday tradition is back, this time with more of your painful, sad, awkward holiday stories. Plus: boundary setting advice from Melissa Urban and a fiery…

    December 13, 2022

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  • Happyish Holidays 2020

    This episode features conversations with people doing the best they can in difficult circumstances. Like Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, whose husband Dr. Paul Kalanithi was a notable and rising brain surgeon…

    November 24, 2020

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  • Happyish Holidays 2018

    We’re back with our third annual Happyish Holidays episode!

    November 27, 2018

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  • Happyish Holidays 2017

    Lauren’s brother died at Thanksgiving. Her mother died at Christmas. So … this time of year is not exactly joyous for her. And it’s not all that fun for a…

    November 28, 2017

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  • Happyish Holidays

    Two days after Nora’s husband Aaron died, she celebrated Thanksgiving with her family. Well… maybe not “celebrated.”

    December 12, 2016

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