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Hot & Healing This Week: TikTok Ban, The American Happiness Decline, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Masculine Energy’ Comment, PFAs, and Imposter Syndrome

Jan 19, 2025

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#187 - Welcome to this week’s Hot and Healing—your ultimate weekly dose of wellness, curated for the modern wellness girls balancing healing and hustling. Expect everything hot in the world of wellness - trends, tools and insights - as well as my favorite podcast picks, social clips and articles of the week to help you heal, faster.

This week, I dive into:

✨ The TikTok Ban: Exploring the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision and why I won’t be heading to Red Note anytime soon.

✨ Mark Zuckerberg’s Call for “Masculine Energy” in Workplaces: Why this triggered me, the ongoing gender pay gap, and how stress impacts female nervous systems in male-dominated environments.

✨ The Rise of Experiential Podcasts: From soundscapes to guided relaxations, is this the future of the podcasting space?

✨ America’s Happiness Decline: Why the U.S. slipped out of the top 20 happiest countries and how holistic wellness might bridge the gap.

✨ PFAs in Apple Watch straps and activewear: The hidden health risks of “forever chemicals” and how to make safer swaps.

✨ Viral TikTok That Hit Hard: The pressure to achieve vs. the inability to celebrate success. Imposter syndrome, toxic productivity, and why so many of us feel like it’s never enough.