The Tyranny of Self-Care: When Meditation Apps and Yoga Can't Fix Burnout | Pooja Lakshmin

In some kind of spiritual movements or wellness movements, we tend to kind of exalt the person who has overcome the obstacle. And forget that there's gonna be more obstacles. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true.

And yet, for many of us, our thought strengthen or empowers us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity. Jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. For about six years, Ginny and I went back and forth between Columbus and Atlanta every month to care for both our mothers.

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