Weirdly Helpful

What Weirdly Helpful makes

Topics mindfulness, life advice, self-help, wellness, mental health

Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) is a short, weekly infusion of delightful, unexpected and effective ways to make life slightly and sometimes profoundly better. In each episode a different contributor offers an odd experiment, a silly ritual, a curious practice that you’ll find weirdly helpful. Stuff like howling when you're despondent, eating oranges in the shower and flushing your adversary down the toilet (metaphorically)! Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Mike Mills, someone who howls like a wolf when they're lonely, Sarah Polley, Katie Crutchfield from Waxahatchee, Merrill Garbus from Tune-Yards, Ann Friedman, adrienne maree brown, Lulu Miller from Radiolab, someone who hums on elevators, Cassandra Jenkins, someone who flushes their psychic trespassers down the toilet, Mark Bittman, someone who started a quarter-cake club with her neighbors, Zak's wife, child, best friends and YOU (tell Zak what you find weirdly helpful at 844-935-2378).

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