Amy LaRocca

You might know her only virtually, but she shares enough about herself for you to understand that she is simultaneously ambitious and content. She has so much advice on how you might be more like her, with her working definition of tincture and her pretty pill case full of pretty pills. She is beautiful, tranquil, fertile, productive. She is pure of intention, heavy metals. Food dies and dread.

Yeah, I think when you look at the fact that we're being asked to spend or being told, really, that we are on this cycle of self-improvement that requires that in order to be this well woman, in order to be the ideal woman, we need to be spending a lot of money and being perpetually dissatisfied with our natural state is something that I think is an exhausting and dangerous idea.

Yeah, I think when you look at the fact that we're being asked to spend or being told, really, that we are on this cycle of self-improvement that requires that in order to be this well woman, in order to be the ideal woman, we need to be spending a lot of money and being perpetually dissatisfied with our natural state is something that I think is an exhausting and dangerous idea.

Yeah, I think when you look at the fact that we're being asked to spend or being told, really, that we are on this cycle of self-improvement that requires that in order to be this well woman, in order to be the ideal woman, we need to be spending a lot of money and being perpetually dissatisfied with our natural state is something that I think is an exhausting and dangerous idea.

You're always trying to be something more. You're always trying to be a better version. And this book is fascinating. The writer is named Joan Brumberg, and she goes through journal entries of young girls. And it's like, you know... always girls are thinking, how am I going to be a better woman? How am I going to be more attractive, more appealing? How am I going to make people like me more?

You're always trying to be something more. You're always trying to be a better version. And this book is fascinating. The writer is named Joan Brumberg, and she goes through journal entries of young girls. And it's like, you know... always girls are thinking, how am I going to be a better woman? How am I going to be more attractive, more appealing? How am I going to make people like me more?

You're always trying to be something more. You're always trying to be a better version. And this book is fascinating. The writer is named Joan Brumberg, and she goes through journal entries of young girls. And it's like, you know... always girls are thinking, how am I going to be a better woman? How am I going to be more attractive, more appealing? How am I going to make people like me more?

How am I going to be a better version of myself? And so much of wellness is about that. I became very interested in this notion that there is this kind of self that's the ideal self and And one of the ideas I became very fixated on, I started listening to a lot of wellness podcasts as I was doing my research. And so many of them were focused on this idea that you could get back to yourself.

How am I going to be a better version of myself? And so much of wellness is about that. I became very interested in this notion that there is this kind of self that's the ideal self and And one of the ideas I became very fixated on, I started listening to a lot of wellness podcasts as I was doing my research. And so many of them were focused on this idea that you could get back to yourself.

How am I going to be a better version of myself? And so much of wellness is about that. I became very interested in this notion that there is this kind of self that's the ideal self and And one of the ideas I became very fixated on, I started listening to a lot of wellness podcasts as I was doing my research. And so many of them were focused on this idea that you could get back to yourself.

And they were often pitched to women at really crucial points. pivot points in women's lives you've just had a baby get back to yourself you're approaching menopause get back to yourself as if there was some fixed idea of what the idealized self should be and rather than saying these are really important transitions in a woman's life you should roll forward.

And they were often pitched to women at really crucial points. pivot points in women's lives you've just had a baby get back to yourself you're approaching menopause get back to yourself as if there was some fixed idea of what the idealized self should be and rather than saying these are really important transitions in a woman's life you should roll forward.

And they were often pitched to women at really crucial points. pivot points in women's lives you've just had a baby get back to yourself you're approaching menopause get back to yourself as if there was some fixed idea of what the idealized self should be and rather than saying these are really important transitions in a woman's life you should roll forward.

You should roll into and embrace the new identity. It was always like, no, no, no, no. There's this fixed point that you should strive to return to. This sense of loss, this sense that you are always lacking and always chasing is really just common language that I think we as women have just

You should roll into and embrace the new identity. It was always like, no, no, no, no. There's this fixed point that you should strive to return to. This sense of loss, this sense that you are always lacking and always chasing is really just common language that I think we as women have just

You should roll into and embrace the new identity. It was always like, no, no, no, no. There's this fixed point that you should strive to return to. This sense of loss, this sense that you are always lacking and always chasing is really just common language that I think we as women have just

Absolutely. So I think something about right now is that there's a real sense of loss of faith in the institutions that we expect to guide us and the leaders that we expect to guide us when it comes to things like health. And I think you see that... Like traditional medicine, like a loss in faith. A loss of faith in traditional medicine.

Absolutely. So I think something about right now is that there's a real sense of loss of faith in the institutions that we expect to guide us and the leaders that we expect to guide us when it comes to things like health. And I think you see that... Like traditional medicine, like a loss in faith. A loss of faith in traditional medicine.

Absolutely. So I think something about right now is that there's a real sense of loss of faith in the institutions that we expect to guide us and the leaders that we expect to guide us when it comes to things like health. And I think you see that... Like traditional medicine, like a loss in faith. A loss of faith in traditional medicine.

And something that really intrigues me is that you get that on both sides of the political spectrum. So everyone is trying to prepare you for the end of the world. It's just different ideas about why the end of the world is coming and different ideas about why there are no experts. Right.