Re-thinking self-care, with Pooja Lakshmin

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

Pandora Sykes

Society & Culture

4.6 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Pooja Lakshmin MD is a psychiatrist and writer, specialising in women's mental health. The founder of digital women's health platform Gemma, she is a regular contributor to The New York Times, where she writes about wellness and self-care (amongst other subjects) about which she is currently writing a book. We talk about what the business of wellness gets wrong, what real self-care looks like and the difference between burnout and despair. Follow Pooja's work, here: https://www.instagram.com/womensmentalhealthdoc/ Gemma's first all digital course on dealing with mom guilt, martyr-mode, and perfectionism can be found here: https://gemmawomen.com/unloadmomguilt

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0:00.0	Before we start this episode, I wanted to let you know that I will be in conversation with the brilliant author and broadcaster Candice Brathwaite at the Lyric in Soho on the 1st of November, talking all about the themes of this podcast and more.
0:13.2	You can book tickets at feign.com.ukh, forward slash Pandora.
0:18.4	It's been co-opted and there's been all these different iterations, but one tidbit that I, that came out of my research was that in 2016, Google searches for self-care actually peaked right after the November election in the United States, which I think is not a coincidence. Again, I think as our world becomes more chaotic,
0:40.4	we're all looking for something that can ground us.
0:44.7	And we're all, to be fair, I mean, I do this too.
0:47.2	We're all looking for some sort of like magical solution
0:49.8	that's going to take away the external chaos.
1:03.4	Thank you. that's going to take away the external chaos. You're listening to Doing It Right with me, Pandora Sykes, a podcast that I talk to experts
1:09.6	about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.
1:13.1	There's no such thing as the right life, but what might we be getting wrong?
1:17.8	In this series, I'll be exploring the ins and outs of sex, self-care and sadness, and lobbing
1:24.4	big questions at my guests like, could a four-day work week ever really take off?
1:29.3	Why is society getting lonelier?
1:32.3	And what would a fair justice system look like?
1:35.3	This is a podcast that asks what can we do to live life better,
1:40.3	not just for ourselves, but for everyone.
1:43.3	Pooja Lakshman is a psychiatrist and writer specialising in perinatal psychiatry and women's mental health and the founder of Digital Women's Health Platform Gemma.
1:54.0	She is also a regular contributor to the New York Times, where she writes about wellness and self-care, amongst other subjects, and on which she is
2:01.6	currently writing a book. I am fascinated by the business of wellness and how it sells self-care
2:07.5	back to us in the form of green juices and vagina candles. Hi, Gwyneth. And it's something I wrote
2:14.3	about at length in my own book in an essay called The Dream Catchers.
2:18.6	So I was really excited to talk to Pooja about the psychiatry underpinning it.
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