Hello and welcome to another episode of IWay with Jamida Jamil, a podcast against shame.

Today's episode is continuing on my desire for us to take information that we find empowering and use it to regain bits and bits

and more autonomy in our lives. We live in a society where our government don't

always take the best care of us, I think that's fair to say, that always take the best care as to I think that's fair to say that always take the best care as to

what's in our food or really making us understand the harms of social media or

being on screens all of the time or not exercising and we kind of all have a bit of a

surface level understanding of that but we don't have anyone really fully

stressing to us how bizarre and stressful our lifestyles are.

You know, I talk about this all the time that Esther Perel discusses our rising anxiety

and our rising depression and and how we always see that as a kind of

pathology that we as individuals are sick and we never go what is the cause of this rise in all of these things?

Can it just be a pathology or are people having a very normal reaction to a sick society?

Is there something wrong with our lifestyles?

Because when you look at big cities like New York or London or Los Angeles or wherever,

often the rates of depression and anxiety can be much higher than they are in some places like Italy or certain parts of Spain.

There is something to the way as society runs that obviously is going to impact the way people feel and maybe this is an all sickness

in us as much as in our society.

So how can we as individuals who aren't really being cared for or catered to, who often have doctors who don't even make us think about this.

How are we supposed to protect ourselves?

We can't just drug everything away.

I'm a big fan of medication and, you know, mainstream meds,s etc but there has to be a more holistic

approach and the reason I love today's guest is because he is a very legitimate

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