Real Self-Care A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

Dr. Pooja Luxman is the author of the bestselling book, Real Self-Care.

Real selfcare is actually all of the decisions that you made to get to that place of going to sleep at 9 p.m.

When you're practicing these principles and you're applying them to your life, you feel like you have choices. You're able to actually take a step back when somebody asks you for something or asks you to do something and consider it.

It's like a thermometer that I have in the book. It's like you're assessing yourself.

The book manuscript was due that by the time I rolled into the TV room where my husband had been watching TV for half an hour...

Her debut book, Real Self-Care, Crystals, Cleanses and Bubble Baths Not Included.

Real Self-Care is an NPR best book of 2023 and a national bestseller.

And I include a statistic in the book it was from Weight Watchers ironically where they looked at 2000 women and found that nearly half started criticizing themselves even before 9:30 in the morning.

I was like, no, no, no, it's fine. It's just one night.

And in turning that away she was actually, she was rejecting that community.

Your message is that real self-care is not a thing to buy or to do. It's a way to be.

And that is why I wrote this book, Real Self-Care, to redefine, especially for us as women.

I write about this in the introduction of Real Self Care because I wanted to put it front and center.

And so this was a decade ago. And so that deeply informs real self care. And is why you know, what I came to learn is that, again, real self care, real wellness has to happen within your own life.

My goal with real self-care and with Gemma is like, I just want women to know like this isn't our fault.