Self-care is taking a shower because it’s been three days and self-care is taking a shower because the warm water feels nice and self-care is not taking a shower even though it’s been a few days because you’re not up to it. Self-care is battening down the hatches and getting that project out of the way and self-care is calling or texting or going out with your friends and self-care is avoiding all contact and watching netflix for hours. Self-care is taking yourself out to dinner and self-care is making a healthy fruit smoothie and self-care is only eating top ramen. Self-care is all of these things and more because the primary term in self-care is self. The principle of radical self-care is doing what you need to do whether it’s considered “productive” or not. Self-care means different things to different people at different times and that is all valid! Self-care is a tool that each person uses in their own way. The one thing self-care is not is something you can define for anybody else.
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