REAL Self-Care: Burnout Is Not Your Fault & the Way Out with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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REAL Self-Care: Burnout Is Not Your Fault & the Way Out with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin Psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin shows us how to tell the difference between the Faux Self-Care we’ve been sold versus the Real Self-Care we desperately need. Discover: How to incorporate boundaries through the power of the pause and how to navigate the post-boundary ick with ease; A simple tool to know whether you are being driven by your goals or driven by your values (and how to find and start living by your values today); and Whether you might be in ‘martyr mode,’ and the key to getting out of it. About Pooja: ⁠Dr. Pooja Lakshmin⁠ is a board-certified psychiatrist, author, keynote speaker, and a contributor to The New York Times. Her debut book, ⁠REAL SELF-CARE: Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble-Baths Not Included⁠, is an NPR Best Book of 2023 and a national best-seller. Pooja serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine, and maintains an active private practice where she treats women struggling with burnout, perfectionism, and disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression, anxiety and ADHD. She frequently speaks, advises and consults for organizations on mental health and well-being. Pooja writes the weekly Substack newsletter, ⁠Real Self-Care⁠. IG: ⁠@poojalakshmin To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, loves, welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:14.0	Today, we are going to prove to you that everything you know, and we've been sold about self-care is horseshit.
0:27.8	Okay? We are going to figure out why we have the wrong ideas about self-care, what we can do to
0:36.0	replace those wrong ideas and get some things in place that will
0:41.7	really make us feel like we are caring for ourselves. Okay. The person who's going to help us do that,
0:49.6	because we sure as hell know I am not going to lead us in that discussion is Dr. Puja Lakshman, who is a board
0:58.6	certified psychiatrist, author, keynote speaker, contributor to the New York Times, her debut book,
1:06.0	Real Self-Care, Crystals, Cleenses, and Bubble Baths Not Included. So good. Don't turn this off. You get to
1:14.2	keep your crystals. Okay. So just stay with us. Real self-care is an NPR best book of
1:20.9	23 and a national bestseller. Pooja serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at
1:26.8	George Washington University School of Medicine
1:29.0	and maintains an active private practice where she treats women struggling with burnout,
1:34.5	perfectionism, disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression, anxiety, and ADHD.
1:40.8	You are in the right place. Pooja, thank you for being here.
1:44.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:46.4	Both of you.
1:46.7	I'm so excited to be here.
1:48.0	How would you like us to refer to you?
1:49.5	You know what?
1:50.1	Please call me Pooja.
1:51.3	I like to be Pooja.
1:52.5	Okay.
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