55. When Did Personal Growth Become Another Way of Saying You're Not Enough?

Miss Reign · Sep 24, 2026 · 17m

You've read the book. Done the journaling. Optimized the morning routine. Identified your attachment style, your Enneagram, your nervous system state. You've been in your healing era, your unbothered era, your soft life era, your next chapter era.

And after all of it..do you feel done yet?

This episode turns the camera around on the self-help industry itself.

Because the industry isn't built to make you feel done. It's built to make you feel close to done. Close enough to keep consuming. But never quite there.

Sociologist Frank Furedi's research on therapeutic culture shows how the self-help…