Healing: Stories about getting better
b'In this week\\u2019s episode, both our storytellers share tales of getting back on their feet, both literally and figuratively.\\nPart 1: After Natalia Reagan gives up on her dreams of being a scientist, a devastating accident changes everything.\\n Part 2: As Jaclyn Siegel researches eating disorders she struggles with her own.\\nNatalia Reagan is an anthropologist, primatologist, comedian, science communicator, host, actress, producer, podcaster, professor, writer, and monkey chasing weirdo. She was a comedy writer and correspondent on Neil deGrasse Tyson\\u2019s StarTalk, regular host of the StarTalk All-Stars podcast, a science correspondent on Thrillist\\u2019s Daily Hit, a skeptic on Travel Channel\\u2019s Paranormal Caught on Camera, and she was the co-host on Spike TV\\u2019s 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty. Natalia was also a writer and host for Discovery\\u2019s DNews, Seeker, and TestTube as well as an animal expert on Nat Geo Wild\\u2019s Everything You Didn\\u2019t Know about Animals. For her master\\u2019s fieldwork, she conducted a survey of the Azuero spider monkey in rural Panama. She has also published chapters in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Primatology (including \\u201cThe Copulatory Postures of Nonhuman Primates\\u201d), ACS\\u2019s Hollywood Chemistry, and Congreso de Antropolog\\xeda Paname\\xf1a. After grad school, Natalia began producing science comedy videos covering such titillating topics as the evolution of boobs, butts, balls, and Bigfoot. Her passion includes combining science and comedy to spread science literacy while inducing spit takes. She currently lives a pants-optional lifestyle in LA and teaches biological anthropology at Cal State Dominguez Hills. \\nJaclyn Siegel, PhD, is a postdoctoral research scholar at San Diego State University, where she works as the project director of the PRIDE Body Project, an NIH-funded eating disorders prevention program for sexual minority men. Jaclyn holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on body image, gender, and sexuality, primarily as they relate to everyday life, including the workplace and romantic relationships. \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'