Ep #333: “No One Is Coming to Save You” Is Baloney

Feminist Wellness

Béa Victoria Albina

Lifecoaching, Mental Health, Holistic, Feminist, Self-improvement, Fatigue, Alternative Health, Feelingstuckinlife, Spirituality, Healthygut, Health & Fitness, Mindbodyconnection, Guthealth, Connectionsbetweenthoughtsandhealth, Education, Ibs, Gutmicrobiome, Feminism

4.9 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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#333: The phrase "no one is coming to save you" gets thrown around social media like gospel truth, wrapped in empowerment packaging that sounds like it should light a fire under you.

Maybe it even worked for a moment when you needed to snap awake and take charge of your own life. But there's something deeply problematic lurking beneath this seemingly motivational message.

Join me this week as I unpack why this messaging is particularly dangerous in times of rising fascism and manufactured division.

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1:08.7	Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. I thought through exactly what I wanted to say for the Fourth of July. And I want to talk about this phrase that's been going around on social media and it gets shared like it's some kind of like gospel truth. And it's the I find
1:30.7	problematic idea. No one is coming to save you. You've heard it. I mean, Jesus, you've probably
1:38.0	even said it. So many of us have. And listen, maybe it lit a fire under you in a moment when you desperately needed someone to help you
1:47.6	snap yourself awake, to like actually take charge in your own life. And listen, I get it. There's a slice.
1:56.2	There's an angle of that idea that sounds like empowerment. You are responsible for your own life. No one's
2:04.6	going to do your sits bath or send that email you're terrified of sending or sit on the meditation
2:10.1	cushion for you. But, and this is a massive but here, I take serious umbrage with that phrase,
2:19.7	because here's what they don't say when they just say, no one's coming to save you. That phrase doesn't exist in some
2:24.8	neutral self-help vacuum. It comes wrapped in the suffocating, soul-crushing packaging
2:31.8	of white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal individualism.
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