Over the past year or so, whenever the word “self care” enters my personal sphere–which, over the past year, has been an unsettling amount of times–I can’t help but roll my eyes a little bit. I don’t mind it, in theory! It’s just that “self care,” in most of its present-day iterations, often seems to be code for “forgo all of your professional and personal duties in favor of sitting on a couch in a face mask and watching Netflix,”

Over the past year or so, whenever the word “self care” enters my personal sphere–which, over the past year, has been an unsettling amount of times–I can’t help but roll my eyes a little bit. I don’t mind it, in theory! It’s just that “self care,” in most of its present-day iterations, often seems to be code for “forgo all of your professional and personal duties in favor of sitting on a couch in a face mask and watching Netflix,”

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