#916 - Freya India - Why Modern Women Feel More Lost Than Ever

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Freya India is a writer and journalist focussed on female mental health and modern culture. Are modern women okay? With rising statistics on declining happiness, life satisfaction, and marriage rates, it’s clear that the younger generation is facing serious challenges. What are the biggest issues modern women are dealing with, and how can they start to overcome them? Expect to learn why so many girls are drawn to therapy culture, if girls raised in religious families seem to be doing better than liberal secular girls, why so many people are addicted to social media, how social media is reshaping the fundamental nature of relationships, is Gen Z actually living in an imaginary world, and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get a 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do you think so many girls are drawn to therapy culture?
0:04.0	Oh, I think it's a lot of things.
0:06.9	I do think this is kind of a cliche thing to say now,
0:09.6	but I do think therapy culture has replaced religion.
0:14.9	And that's not a new thing to say.
0:16.4	People have been saying that for a long time.
0:18.0	So Christopher Lash was writing about that in the 70s.
0:22.2	Frank Farudy writes about it really well now. But in recent years, since social media,
0:27.0	I would say, therapy culture has just escalated to the point where I think young women don't see
0:34.4	it as a worldview. They just see that as kind of life. So they interpret everything
0:39.3	through this therapeutic lens. So their lives, their relationships, their emotions. And I think it has
0:47.1	elevated to the level of religion. So you think of all the kind of characteristics of religion, we just mimic them with therapy culture.
0:57.0	So instead of praying, we just repeat our positive affirmations.
1:01.0	Instead of seeking salvation, you'll go on like a healing journey.
1:07.0	Instead of like, you know, resisting temptation from the devil, you'll reframe your intrusive thoughts.
1:15.5	And so I think for young women in particular who are becoming less religious, this kind of therapeutic worldview has completely replaced that void.
1:24.7	What does a therapeutic worldview consist of?
1:28.2	What does that mean?
1:31.8	Like seeing problems in your life,
1:37.9	kind of pathologizing problems and experiences as something medical,
1:43.6	rather than I'm just experiencing this emotion or kind of age-old anxiety now it's become a medical issue.
1:47.1	So things like talking in the language of attachment styles and trauma
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