Real self-care : a transformative program for redefining wellness (crystals, cleanses, and bubble baths not included) /
"From women's mental health specialist and New York Times contributor Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a long-overdue reckoning with the contradictions of the wellness industry and a paradigm-shifting program for practicing real self-care that will empower, uplift, and maybe even start a revoluti...
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[New York] :
Penguin Life,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: the tyranny of faux self-care
- Empty calories: faux self-care hasn't saved us
- Why it's hard to resist the seduction: the ways we turn to faux self-care
- The game is rigged: you're not the problem
- Part II: real self-care happens on the inside
- Taking back the reins: the four principles of real self-care
- Real self-care requires boundaries: moving past guilt
- Real self-care means treating yourself with compassion: permission to be good enough
- Real self-care brings you closer to yourself: building your real self-care compass
- Real self-care is an assertion of power: claiming what's yours and remaking the system.