From after school programming, to social media, therapist expectations, and more, on today’s episode, Emma and Hannah discuss the self-help landscape of our society. Do we need to be constantly improving? Are we problems to be solved? Or, can we ACTUALLY find the answers to everything within ourselves?

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Show Notes

2:02 - It’s eclipse season, baby!

7:13 - Pop psychology popping up on our social feeds…

8:08 - On the idea that people are problems to be solved…and maybe we aren’t problems?

10:52 - You don’t have to be improving constantly…

13:27 - We do not need to make an identifier someone’s entire personality

14:57 - The Instagram therapy landscape and highlighting what’s “wrong”

17:06 - High achievers as self saboteurs - and how steeped self-improvement is in capitalism

20:53 - On being predisposed to thinking there is something wrong with us…

22:36 - Every single day after school, we watched Oprah Winfrey

26:14 - I’m not going to tell you who to be - and the culture of quick fixes

28:52 - On allowing yourself to be with yourself

29:36 - Have you been proud of yourself today?

32:07 - Pause, notice, check in with yourself