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Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
Pooja Lakshmin MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, New York Times contributor, and a leading voice at the intersection of mental health and gender, focused on helping women and people from marginalized communities escape the tyranny of self-care. In 2020, Lakshmin founded Gemma — a physician led women’s mental health education platform centering impact and equity. She maintains an active private practice, where she treats women struggling with burnout, perfectionism, and disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression and anxiety. Having gone down the rabbit hole of extreme wellness herself, Real Self-Care is Lakshmin's answer to the juice cleanses, the gratitude lists, and the bubble baths -- not only to care for ourselves for real but, in turn, to transform our broken culture.
REAL SELF-CARE: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included) is 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 revolution.
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Women's Mental Health Specialist and Author of REAL SELF-CARE
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Good Morning America - Dr. Pooja Lakshmin talks about new book, ‘Real Self-Care’
The psychiatrist challenges readers to reevaluate self-care routines and encourages setting boundaries, developing self-compassion, identifying values and finding balance.
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NPR Code Switch - This is what "real self-care" looks like
"You can't meditate yourself out of a 40-hour work week with no childcare and no paid sick days," says Dr. Pooja Lakshmin. But when you're overworked and overwhelmed, what can you do?
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Washington Post - Self-care may be tough for some. Here are 4 ways to make it work.
Acknowledge emotional barriers; align self-care with emotional needs; consider micro-breaks; and find a self-care buddy.
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“Pooja is the voice of an entire generation of people who have been left out and even harmed by the superficial "wellness" game."
Kaz J. Nelson, MD, DFAPA, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School -
“This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a concrete set of principles to rely on as we declare independence from these systems.”
Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity
