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285. True Self-Care: A Conversation with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

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The Benefits of Self Care

Women are socialized to never feel like they're entitled to use their own time or their own money to do anything, or to relax. I think the whole reason that we're like, oh, massage is self care is like, that is a label that makes us feel somewhat like it's okay. And so that like, validates the fact that maybe we just sometimes want a massage or just want to watch whatever it is that you feel guilty doing otherwise. This gives you like a justification for work.

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