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EPISODE · Mar 29, 2026 · 48 MIN

What if exhaustion is a design problem?

from Woman Uncaged · host Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz

Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to Woman Uncaged! This is Episode 11 of Season 5. Your back tightens, your jaw clenches, your brain won’t stop spinning and you reach for the fastest fix. We get it. Today, we're taking a hard look at where our energy really comes from and why so many “self-care” routines are actually more like self-recovery from a life that’s designed to drain us.We start with a deceptively simple question sparked by regular massages: how would we need to live so we don’t need so much recovery just to function? From there we unpack the difference between sustainable self-care and the commercial solutions we’re trained to buy, including the subtle way hustle culture and rigid schedules teach women to feel guilty for rest. We also talk about digital overload and share one of our favorite signals that contraction is taking over.If you want more energy without more hacks, press play. Then subscribe, share this with a friend who’s running on empty, and leave a review so more women can find these conversations. What’s one change that would help you stop buying back your own time?Resources:Book: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne SimardSupport the show~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul   ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/~Linda's Wild Woman in the Burbs: https://lindasewalliuskatz.substack.com/Support the Show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2281161/supporters/newEmail us: [email protected]. We love hearing from you! 

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Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Woman Uncaged! This is Episode 11 of Season 5. Your back tightens, your jaw clenches, your brain won’t stop spinning and you reach for the fastest fix. We get it. Today, we're taking a hard look at where our energy really comes from and why so many “self-care” routines are actually more like self-recovery from a life that’s designed to drain us. We start with a deceptively simple question sparked by regular massages: how would we ...

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