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How “Busyness” Stops us From Meaningful Connection

1 month ago | thedoubleshift.substack.com | Katherine Goldstein |Pooja Lakshmin MD |Anne Petersen |Shannon Watts

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On a beautiful early spring Saturday in March, I didn’t have much planned for myself and my 5-year-old twins, so I made an impromptu decision to take them to the farmers market. I sat and drank iced coffee as they played in a kid-friendly boulder area near the market near Durham, NC’s Central Park. I decided I was just going to enjoy the sunshine and consciously not look at my phone.
A New Kind of Forensics

2 months ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen |Pooja Lakshmin MD

This week’s episode of is one I’ve been wanting to do since we first launched the pod — interrogating all the ways “self-care” has shown up in workplace trainings and family dynamics and anti-burnout advice since 2020. Of course I asked to be the co-host, because no one is as clear-eyed and compassionate when it comes to why we need self-care — and why brands and workplace trainings are so bad at actually providing it. Listen here or click the magic button to listen wherever you get your podcasts.
'My father had plastic surgery. Now he wants me and my mother to get work done'

Jan 22, 2025 | jessicadefino.substack.com | Jessica Defino |Pooja Lakshmin MD

The next installment of Ask Ugly, my monthly beauty advice column for the Guardian, is here!Hi Ugly,My father is falling down a plastic surgery rabbit hole and trying to drag everyone around him down with it. He’s in his late 50s and, in the past year, he got his first cosmetic surgery and made a whole fuss about the results.
Therapy Takeaway

May 25, 2023 | therapytakeaway.substack.com | Pooja Lakshmin MD

What the Hell is “Strength” Anyway? therapytakeaway.substack.com
issue #181 - the unroutine one

May 21, 2023 | hitha.substack.com | Pooja Lakshmin MD

I’ve fallen out of my routines. It’s happened before. It’ll happen again. But this is one of the first times where I’m not beating myself about it, and letting myself drift to help build new ones. And while I don’t think the sheer amount of reality TV is something that will become a part of the new routine (though it has helped soothe my spiraling mind these past few weeks), I’ve very much enjoyed every single second.