This is an IHeart podcast.

Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff Never Told You, a protection of IHeart Radio.

And today's episode is based on my current life status.

And things are not wonderful here in Samland, just to be real honest.

Your girl is on arthritis meds, eye meds due to some type of contact-related infection.

Y'all, I haven't been able to wear my contacts and my glasses are odd and everything's a little blurry and a little too intensive.

Everything's fine. And yes, I have isolated myself for a few weeks now. My partner has been gone

doing family emergency things, so I am really alone.

And my physical and social outlet is temporarily on hiatus because other people want to go on vacation.

J.K., I'm proud of them. You do you. Go on that vacation. Anyway, so it feels a bit bleak over here and again, Sam Land.

This, I know, this is starting to sound like a bitch and whine, but it isn't. I promise I'm going

somewhere with this actual episode. You know how we do. We get some things that are a little more

research. This is not as heavily researched as a typical episode

because we are still reeling from the Dragon Khan birthday, holidays,

holidays, and then more chaos as it goes.

But I thought I would talk about what I just went down this little rabbit hole

of how women may handle stress and then also

self-soothing and comfort habits. Now, I am bringing in this term self-soothing and comfort habits.

I'm going to interchange those words and terms, and I'm not necessarily being completely scientific

when I'm talking about these things, and we are more talking about the habits or rituals

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