[ENCORE EPISODE] Anne Lamott: Radical Self-Care Changes Everything

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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**SPECIAL ENCORE PRESENTATION IN SUPPORT OF WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY**

Anne Lamott is the celebrated author of many books of fiction, essays, and memoirs. Her works include Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Crooked Little Heart. In this special edition of Insights at the Edge originally recorded for The Self-Acceptance Summit, Tami Simon speaks with Anne about acts of “radical self-care” and how they are essential for anyone’s well-being. Anne talks about self-acceptance as an inherently feminist concept, especially around issues of body image and self-esteem. Finally, Anne and Tami discuss how it is necessary to fully accept oneself before being able to show up for others, and why modern society often argues the opposite.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners of Insights At The Edge get 10% off their first month at www.betterhelp.com/soundstrue.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
0:06.9	Today is a rebroadcast of one of my favorite episodes.
0:11.7	I hope you enjoy.
0:13.7	Today my guest is Annie Lamont.
0:17.2	Annie is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen books of fiction, nonfiction, and collected essays,
0:24.0	known for her honest, insightful, and humorous approach to subjects such as faith, loss, and the creative process.
0:33.1	She's the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Stitches, Bird by Bird, and Hallelujah Anyway, Rediscovering Mercy,
0:44.0	where she argues that kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm
0:51.7	and generous heart, the greatest prize of all. This is a special episode
0:56.8	of Insights at the Edge, in which we are broadcasting Annie Lamont's session that was originally
1:02.7	part of Sounds True's self-acceptance summit. In this episode, Annie and I spoke about what she
1:09.8	refers to as radical self-care and how it is the
1:13.9	foundation of all true health and healing. We also talked about her own challenges with self-esteem
1:20.4	and issues related to body image and what it's taken for her to develop a sense of true
1:26.4	belonging in which she's able to welcome
1:29.0	all of herself and others and receive such welcoming in return.
1:35.4	We also talked about how women are trained to put other people first and how self-acceptance
1:42.0	is actually a feminist issue and a prerequisite for truly being there for
1:47.9	others. Here's my conversation with Annie Lamont. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. In honor of
1:59.1	World Mental Health Day this October, we're joining with our friends
2:03.5	at Better Help to celebrate and thank all of the therapists in our lives. When I was in college,
2:11.6	that is, dropping out of college, therapy was a lifeline. Quite honestly, I don't know if I would be here without it.
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