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834: Dr. Tanmeet Sethi: Joy Is Your Birthright in 2024


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Tanmeet Sethi is one of my favorite people I met in 2023. We immediately hit it off and found the sweetest friendship that feels like we have known each other forever. I have had the opportunity to listen to my dear friend Tanmeet talk about joy as a form of resistance multiple times this year. Every time my capacity for joy - especially in hard seasons - expands exponentially. I chose this episode to share as a Best Of episode as an invitation to you. I invite you to let joy in the new year- as your birthright and as a form of resistance. This interview will guide you on how to do that. 

Tanmeet Sethi, MD, is the author of Joy Is My Justice: Reclaim What Is Yours. She is also a board-certified Integrative Family Medicine physician who has spent the last 25 years on the frontlines locally and globally practicing primary care and trauma work with the most marginalized communities. As a mother, she has received the impossible news that her youngest son has a fatal degenerative disease. She weaves together the expertise of both acquired knowledge with lived experience and translates them accessibly through the blend of ancient spiritual traditions and modern neuroscience. She is trained in Psychedelic Medicine, Integrative and Functional Medicine, and is a clinical researcher of psilocybin at the University of Washington.


Listen in to hear Tanmeet share:

  • How she came to embrace joy as an act of resistance and self-identify as a Joy Activist 
  • How she has navigated mothering her son, Zubin, who was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disease at age 3
  • The expansiveness of joy vs the narrow path of suffering
  • The important difference between happiness and joy
  • What her joy practice looks like when every day she sees there is something new to lose as her son’s condition worsens
  • How to fight against whitewashed wellness (“looking on the bright side” or “finding the silver lining" and how this dampens our power)
  • How to show up for people in your life who are going through grief - and things to avoid saying
  • The role of our nervous system in joy
  • How can we all step into joy activism and make your joy revolution your own

  • Links mentioned:

    • Connect with Tanmeet: www.tanmeetsethimd.com
    • Tanmeet’s Book: Joy Is My Justice
    • Tanmeet on IG
    • Tanmeet on FB

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