Real Self Care with Dr Pooja Lakshmin
Power Hour
Adrienne Herbert
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Pooja Lakshmin MD is a psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health; a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine; the founder of Gemma, the digital community focused on women’s mental health and equity; and a contributor to The New York Times.
Her new book Real Self Care: Powerful Practices to Nourish Yourself From the Inside Out is out now in all book stores online and in-store, a paradigm-shifting program for practicing real self-care that will empower, uplift, and maybe even start a revolution.
She has spent thousands of hours taking care of women struggling with burnout, despair, depression, and anxiety in her clinical practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of mental health and gender, helping women and marginalized groups heal from the tyranny of faux self-care, while exposing the systems that have gotten us here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author. |
| 0:10.2 | Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, |
| 0:16.5 | change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates |
| 0:22.5 | them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and |
| 0:28.8 | inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional |
| 0:33.7 | goals. |
| 0:39.5 | Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Today's guest is a psychiatrist, New York Times contributor and author. |
| 0:50.4 | Her new book, Real Self-Care, is encouraging us all to rethink what well-being and self-care is really all about. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Puga Lakshman. Thank you so much for |
| 0:56.2 | having me, Adrienne. I'm super excited to be here. Oh, me too. And there's so many things that we're |
| 1:01.4 | going to talk about today. I think that the well-being industry, the wellness industry, the self-care |
| 1:06.2 | movement has, of course, had some really positive impact for a lot of people, but it also has come, I think, with a lot of challenges. |
| 1:14.6 | And I'm just excited to explore all of the things with you today. |
| 1:18.6 | I want to talk about the idea of self-care and what it really is and what it really means and how we can prioritize our well-being. |
| 1:25.6 | I want to talk about the guilt that many people feel |
| 1:28.3 | when it comes to prioritizing themselves |
| 1:31.3 | and prioritizing their own well-being. |
| 1:33.3 | I want to talk about burnout and how people can recover from burnout |
| 1:37.3 | because I think there's a lot of conversation about what burnout is, |
| 1:40.3 | but not so much advice on what to do and how to recover and loads of other things as well. |
| 1:47.0 | But I think a great place to start, Pujah, would be to hear a little bit about your journey and your experience. |
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