Real Self-Care: A New Perspective
Dr. Pooja Lakshmin and moderated by Lauren Smith Brody
Join Spark Your Health for a timely conversation with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin on topics from her latest book, Real Self-Care. Dr. Lakshmin will explain why our understanding of self-care is incomplete at best and manipulative at worst. Fixing your troubles isn’t simple as buying a new day planner. We cannot meditate our way out of a 40-hour work week without childcare. In fact, these faux self-care practices keep us looking outward, comparing ourselves with others or striving for perfection. Real self-care is not a thing to do — it’s a way to be. When we practice it, we shift our relationships, our workplaces, and our broken systems. You can expect to learn more about why women are primed to practice faux self-care, how to uncover what you are really seeking beneath the surface of faux self-care, how to get started in a new direction of caring for yourself and why it matters. Join us to gain new perspective on what it truly means to take care of yourself.
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