>
On the latest episode of Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast, she delved into the poetry of celebrity parenting guru, Dr. Shefali Tsabary – including reading lines about how women feel a ‘manic compulsion to be perfect’ and an ‘obsession with being voted popular’.
On the latest episode of the Spotify podcast, in which the Duchess, 41, welcomed her close friend, the First Lady of Canada, Sophie Trudeau, as her main guest, she read Sacred Dreams, a poem by the best-selling Indian born, in New York-based author and clinical psychologist – who also considers Oprah a fan.
Other guests on the podcast included actor Pamela Adlon and Saturday Night Live comic Sam Jay.
In the 55-minute podcast entitled “Good Wife/Bad Wife, Good Mom/Bad Mom” - the ninth in the series – Meghan read the passionate poem in full, including the last line: ‘I’m ready to wake up in my renaissance’.
dr. Shefali describes herself as a “wisdom teacher” and clinical psychologist, who uses Eastern mindfulness to help people cope with modern stress.
Scroll down for video
The Duchess of Sussex heard the poem Sacred Dreams read by famed parenting guru Dr. Shefali Tsabary, 49, born in India but lives in New York, in the latest episode of her Spotify podcast
Poetic justice? In the 55-minute podcast, Meghan read Dr. Shefali in full – including the lines: ‘I’m ready to awaken to my renaissance’ (Pictured: Dr. Shefali Tsabary)
Part of the poem contained the lines: ‘There comes a time in a woman’s life when her desire to belong to the crowd dissolves.
“When her manic urge to be perfect evaporates, and her obsession to become popular rips her guts apart.”
The Duchess of Sussex, who currently lives in her $14 million mansion in California with her husband Prince Harry, 38, and their two children, Archie, three, and Lilibet, one, released her latest episode on Tuesday.
The podcast also featured clips from an interview with Dr. Shefali on how women are seen – and how Eastern mindfulness can help; the pair discussed the “disgust and shame” women can often feel.
Doctor Shefali said to Meghan: ‘We have fallen into the trap that, as a modern woman, we can do anything. Now that sounds like a liberating message, but it’s not that liberating, I’d go so far as to boldly say it’s poisonous.
We fall into these misguided beliefs about who we should be, these personas of perfectionism and grandiose delusion that we can do it all.
“The pendulum swings the other way to great self-denial, disgust and shame, that’s the other side of that pendulum.
The US-based author has authored four books, all of which have topped the New York Times bestsellers list, including The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family are especially loved by A-listers, including Oprah Winfrey.
Meghan Markle’s star guest on her new Spotify podcast is First Lady of Canada Sophie Trudeau. Pictured in a photo booth in 2016
The Duchess of Sussex was clearly also a big fan of her work and urged her listeners to take Dr. Shefali on taking the pursuit of perfectionism to heart.
The expert said: ‘Do not destroy your essence for this illusion of perfectionism or this image of The Good Lady of the good mother, for those are only images of their Illusions.
‘The best mother and the best woman you can be is the authentic one who is deeply connected to her own knowledge and who takes no effort that Silence requires.
Meghan Markle (pictured with Prince Harry and their kids) has shared a glimpse of her ‘whirlwind’ morning routine in her latest Spotify podcast episode
It takes rest, it takes relaxation and, you know, most women in their fifties and sixties learn this.’
Meghan Markle’s star guest on her new Spotify podcast is First Lady of Canada Sophie Trudeau – alongside Pamela Adlon and Sam Jay.
The friends talked about the challenges of parenting and being a partner for two famous men in an episode called “Good Wife/Bad Wife, Good Mom/Bad Mom.”
Meghan introduces her friend Mrs. Trudeau, calling him a “humanitarian mother” whom she met in Toronto about seven years ago during the city’s fashion week, when she starred in Suits.
She said: “Sophie has become a dear friend and someone I think has the strength that comes from embracing your Humanity, even in spite of all this pressure from family, home and public, maintaining that sense of self as she takes on the mantle.” of what comes with being a parent and a husband’.
Markle and Canada’s First Lady became friends while Meghan Suits was filming. The Duchess of Sussex became part of Toronto’s ‘platinum elite’, which also included their mutual friend Jessica Mulroney.
They posed together in 2016 on a Toronto rooftop bar in the exclusive Soho House.
And it was the husband of Mrs. Trudeau, who has been Prime Minister of Canada since 2015, who urged his country to welcome the Sussexes after they emigrated from the UK. They would later move to LA.