This week, Gelb is joined by Heather Havrilesky - author, advice columnist, and wasteland warrior of the scrappy LA hills - to discuss the poisonous messages that our culture at large tries to tattoo onto the insides of our eyelids. You know the ones. You NEED: more money, a bigger house, a better mate, perfect hair, skin, and nails, genitals that smell like a rose garden, to lose/gain 10 lbs, to stop being sad, to look on the bright side, to really ENJOY cooking, to take up axe throwing, etc. Heather calls bullshit on the myth of constant self-improvement and and challenges us to accept ourselves as we are, in this very moment, inadequacies and all.
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You Are Here (Facing Reality ft. Heather Havrilesky)

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It’s a tale as old as time, and it’s true for almost every person on the planet: there are times when we’re just not feeling good about our bodies. But hopefully there are even more times when we are feeling great about them! This week, Hannah Hart talks with Dr. Hanne Blank about healing our relationships to our bodies and better understanding what forces shape our body image. Here’s to having a better time in our bodies and inventing a world where that’s easier for everyone to do.
Thanks so much to Dr. Blank for joining us for this episode! For more, follow her @hanneblank on Twitter and find her many excellent books at bookshop.org, in your local bookstore, or anywhere books are sold.
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Body-ody-ody, Mind, and Spirit ft. Dr. Hanne Blank

Most of us are lucky enough to have our sense of smell intact in this post-Covid world, and we have our likes and dislikes when it comes to different scents. But maybe our interactions with scent can go deeper. In today's episode, Hannah Hart talks with Dr. Tracey Marks to learn more about her experience as a psychiatrist, as well as her expertise in the complementary field of aromatherapy. Come along to learn a bit about the way scent can affect our brains and how it plays a part in our mental health tool kit.
To learn more about Dr. Marks, please visit her website www.markspsychiatry.com, or follow her on IG or TikTok @drtraceymarks. Preorder her book "Why Am I So Anxious?" at www.getmypreorder.com before 8/16/22 or find it anywhere books are sold after that.
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Aromatherapy? It's Complementary! ft. Dr. Tracey Marks

If you’re putting in the good work of your weekly therapy sessions and still hitting big bumps between them, maybe there’s room for a little more play in your life! Whether you’re working on being more present, building better relationships, boosting your mood, or another mental health goal, play exercises that snap you out of the routines that don’t serve you could be a good tool to have on hand. Today, Hannah Hart is joined by Dr. Clay Drinko, whose methods give us more insight into how opening ourselves to play can lower the stakes and bring us back down to earth. Let's play!
Learn more at playyourwaysane.com, where you can buy Clay's book and also subscribe to his newsletter for new free games each month. Catch him on social media @playyourwaysane on Instagram.
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This Is Your Brain on Play ft. Clay Drinko, PhD

Firstly, we are 100% pro-science. Secondly, let’s have some fun. We’re examining seven pop psychology findings that were later debunked in more rigorous clinical trials. But how do we FEEL about each of them? And what can we learn about ourselves by examining those feelings? The Hannahs are on the case!
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(un)Busting Pop Psychology Myths

Have you ever taken a yoga class that ended with a singing bowl? Did it make you feel a certain kind of way? There’s a reason for that! In today’s episode, Hannah Hart and Dr. Mariel Buqué explore the ways sound medicine can be incorporated into your everyday life and/or your healing journey to help regulate your body’s responses to stress.
Thanks so much to Dr. Mariel Buqué for lending us her expertise and her extremely soothing voice for this episode. You can find more at her website www.drmarielbuque.com, YouTube @DrMarielBuqué (her "Break the Cycle" podcast is great!), and Instagram @dr.marielbuque.
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You Are Here (Facing Reality ft. Heather Havrilesky)

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