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Infamous

Self-Care Is Awesome and Also a Scam

Infamous

Sony Music

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Relationships, Entertainment News

3.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Fashion writer Amy Larocca joins Vanessa to unpack the modern wellness obsession—from expensive self-care gadgets to Ozempic and glow culture. They dig into Amy’s book How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time and ask when wellness became a moral obligation. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts  Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.5

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0:30.0

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0:48.9

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0:55.9

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0:58.5

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1:02.4

Campside Media.

1:10.8

Welcome back to infamous a Sony music entertainment and campside media production.

1:16.6

We are here this week with Amy LaRaca, who is a writer that I have known forever and ever, who is excellent.

1:24.5

She has written an incredible book called How to Be Well, and the subhead is

1:29.6

navigating our self-care epidemic, one dubious cure at a time. It's pink, the book, but then

1:37.8

there's a sort of ironic candle that's smoking with black smoke.

1:44.6

And there's a sticker on the candle that says, relax.

1:48.3

So it's an incredible history of wellness.

1:51.7

What is even that word?

1:53.3

How did we get to this place where everything can be fixed by like a Biorei pour strip?

2:00.2

It's a catch-all phrase for what ails us, or is it actually

2:04.0

what ails us? And in this holiday season, I'm sure all of us have been thinking about this a lot,

2:08.9

because to be honest, when I'm looking to try to buy people things, now I'm often thinking

2:14.5

to myself, what's a nice little self-care thing I can give them?

2:18.8

Should I give them a candle?

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