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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 Importance of Self-Efficacy

I think there's a way in which we sometimes, I see maybe because I came from the social justice world, I see this way in which being aware of structural problems can become disempowering. So that sort of internalized learned helplessness of like, everything's bad everywhere. You know, and hopelessness. When you're just I think like, who taught me this? And who does it benefit when I think this way? Like we think we're being realistic. Yeah. It's not always like realism isn't always cynical. It isn't always pessimistic.

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