Self-Care Is Not a Spa Day — Here's What a Psychologist Says It Actually Is

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Apr 10, 2025 · 40m

The bubble bath version of self-care has failed most people — not because they are not trying but because it was never designed to build the resilience, the community, or the alignment with personal values that genuine wellbeing actually requires. Dr. Ashley Poklar is a licensed clinical psychologist who has spent her career bridging the gap between psychological research and the daily chaos most people are actually living — and what she shares with Lisa Urbanski about how to find your own purposeful self-care pathway rather than following someone else's prescription, how community support…