Most people don't need a live-in nurse, in their homes or in their heads They need someone who loves them to fling the doors open and say "it's a beautiful day, let's climb trees by the lake"
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I really dislike "self-care" culture, not because I think it's too indulgent but because it often feels like it's framing the relationship a person should have with themselves like that of a chronically ill patient + a live-in nurse
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If anything, "self-care" isn't indulgent *enough.* It'd be reeeally indulgent to quit your job & take on an entirely new career, move somewhere you've always wanted to live or find a life partner who is actually nice to you most of the time
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When I hear "self-care": so you give yourself a reward for doing normal ass, everyday things that people have been doing for centuries, but you have determined you need an additional reward for it? It's like a weekly participation trophy.
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IMO an increasing mass is suffering for lack of reasons to drag themselves out of bed. Fewer have religion, children, a job that produces an obvious real-world output. Most people sense that spackling a spa day over that isn't going to fix anything, but don't know what else to do
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"Self-parenting" - it makes me always wonder why one needs to take care of oneself to that extreme, instead of passing these tasks around communally. I've never seen anyone made happy via self-care.
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Not sure if we're all thinking the same thing when talking about "self-care," but there's often a very-real thing that happens to parents where we forget about our own physical and emotional needs.
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Similar wavelengths. People have trouble articulating or defending the idea of wanting themselves and the people they care about to flourish, and so end up expressing it in the socially acceptable form of an obligation secreted from the rest of life.https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1164787136979075072 …
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i wasn’t either until i hit 50 and actually needed to take care of myself to be happy
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i can see why people do it if they're ill to the point where their goals are just getting through life for most people, the processes inherent to self care should be a part of a healthy approach to larger goals
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It's probably because self-care has originated from chronically ill communities, urging each other to like, take showers and eat food once in a while even though it's hard.
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