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Podcast: The Mental Offload Podcast
Episode: When Gratitude is B*******
Description: Gratitude. It's touted as the solution for so many of the ills of modern living. And the promise is a good one: more contentment, more mindfulness of the good things (and good relationships) in our lives. Sounds wonderful, right? Except when it's used as a way to paper over our legitimate complaints, unfairness and bias, or disparities in the mental load. There's a whole industry built on gratitude practices. But in this episode, we look at where it also becomes a tool of patriarchal control and self-gaslighting. A way of telling women to "...