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Tanmeet Sethi: “Joy is For Mothers: How You Can Find Joy Amidst the Hardest and Busiest of Times”

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder if it’s possible to feel joy—even when life is at its hardest as a mother? In this life-changing session, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi opens up about facing unimaginable challenges as a mom and what she has learned about feeling joy alongside the pain. Dr. Sethi will also teach science-backed, practical ways we as mothers can move thorugh hard times bette with joy--yes, joy--along for the ride. This session will help you discover why joy is an act of resistance, how to find hope in the hardest moments, and practical steps to reclaim your aliveness—no matter what you’re facing. ⁠Get the Basic Pass⁠ to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written.  FREEBIE for all: Your Integrative Physician newsletter on Substack BONUS raffled off to All-Access Pass Holders: Joy is My Justice book Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as senior faculty for The Center for Mind Body Medicine. Her first book, Joy Is My Justice, (Hachette, 2023) is a radical call to claim Joy as our birthright and the deepest liberation we can know. She is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington and a primary clinical investigator there on the sacred plant medicine, psilocybin.  FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,

0:06.2

The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,

0:11.9

habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available

0:17.1

on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and

0:22.1

audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the

0:27.4

conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now

0:33.4

on to our special session.

0:44.0

Thank you. on to our special session. Fadmit Setti, welcome to the More for Mom's Conference.

0:47.2

It's such a joy to have you.

0:49.6

I'm really, really happy to be here with you.

0:53.0

We're going to be talking about joy, speaking of which.

0:55.1

I didn't even mean to do that.

0:56.4

But hey, we have to tie that in where we can.

1:00.1

We're going to be talking about joy in the midst of hardship, of busyness, of stress, of anxiety, of all the hard that life brings to us.

1:08.7

And you've been so open about your own life story, both in your book

1:13.0

and in your work, about the trauma and the tragedy, really, that you have experienced time

1:17.4

and time again, including as a matter. And we'll talk a little bit about that today, but I did

1:22.1

want to begin with, even with that and knowing that, how do you know that joy is for all of us, especially as mothers?

1:34.3

Yeah, I love this question.

1:37.1

I think that what I know for sure after 27 years of caring for patients in all kinds of crisis and suffering is that none of us,

1:47.9

none of us, no matter what your situation is, move forward without a sense of hope and capacity

1:55.7

that we can thrive. And we often, what I think I've learned in 27 years is that we often put the joy as the

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