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Sep 30, 2024 2 min

Sometimes You Need a Break from Your Brain

from Rethinking Wellness Hosted by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com In this solo episode, Christy discusses how evidence-based mind-body practices like yoga and meditation can be essential for balancing overactive minds, helping us shift out of our intellects and into different modes of being—but they can also act as a gateway into the more out-there parts of wellness culture, where we get exposed to ideas and protocols that are lacking evidence and riddled with pseudoscience. This episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the full episode! Get full show notes and references here. Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it online or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore.

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