Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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On this week’s episode of the podcast, we interview psychiatrist, author, and founder of Gemma Women, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin. Dr. Lakshmin founded Gemma Women for the purpose of educating women on cultural and social structures that impact their mental health. Gemma also provides community groups, evidence-based conversations, and courses covering topics such as stress, inequity, and structural violence. In her new book, Real Self-Care, she discusses personal experiences that led her to create this transformative movement to redefine wellness.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with a fellow psychiatrist,
0:18.4	Pooja Lakshman, and she is someone I've known for a while on social media. She does a lot
0:25.8	of women's mental health, perinatal, postpartum, anxiety depression, self-help for physicians, and she wrote a
0:36.4	book called Real Self Care, and so it was a good time to finally get you on the podcast. Welcome to
0:44.6	the podcast. It's so great to be here, Dave. I'm so excited that we're finally getting to be
0:49.7	face-to-face virtually, though. I'm excited for this conversation. Yeah, I was, it's like when I started
0:56.1	reading your book, I was expecting something very different, and I was almost like shocked by some
1:03.8	aspects of your story. For example, like right in the beginning where you're talking about being a
1:08.4	part of that, what sounded like a cult for like two years, and really looking for self-help in the
1:14.3	extremes. Yeah, do you want to mention anything about that? Yeah. It's probably about the best
1:20.8	place to start, but it was like, I appreciate it's funny because as I was writing the book,
1:29.2	and I'll say for folks that are just meeting me for the first time, you know, like Dave was saying,
1:33.1	I'm a psychiatrist, a board certified psychiatrist, I'm a clinical assistant professor at George
1:37.4	Washington University. I graduated residency in 2016, so I've been practicing for what are we
1:44.1	were in 23 now, so like six or seven years, and I have a private practice in women's mental health,
1:50.2	but then I also supervise in FGW. We have a clinic called five trimesters, and in about 2018,
1:56.9	was when I started my Instagram account and started doing this social media thing as a psychiatrist,
2:02.0	and that's when Dave and I connected, and my Instagram account, which is what led me to writing for
2:08.4	the New York Times, which then led me to getting this book deal, and so it's like, that's my professional
2:15.9	identity now, and I'm 39 years old, but a decade ago, when I was in my late 20s, I blew up my life,
2:23.9	basically, and I started the book with this in an introduction, because I kind of just wanted to
2:29.0	put it out there as like, this is where I'm coming from, and you know, my parents are Indian,
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