#171 How To Take Care of Yourself Without Falling Into the Trap of “Self-Care”
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Author Rachel Norman joins me to talk about how Christians can have a biblical and balanced view of putting others first while taking care of ourselves. Should we just practice more “self-care” and put our happiness first? Or should Christians take care of themselves so that they have the energy to help others? Rachel has a popular blog for Christian moms but has so much wisdom to offer Christians in general. Her new book, If Mama Ain’t Happy comes out Oct. 18th.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, sad note. The whole reason people had to make like a self-love phenomenon is because nobody |
| 0:04.5 | actually loves the things about themselves that aren't good. Oh, I can just don't. Right? Yeah, |
| 0:10.0 | you don't. That's good. Yeah, I'm done. We have to be convinced to love those things, right? |
| 0:16.1 | You have to be convinced to think it's okay to have some of these things we know are not okay. |
| 0:21.7 | So then it's like you get this whole spiral. You're like, okay, I feel like, you know, |
| 0:25.8 | whether it's I'm just depressed or I'm anxious or I'm know that I'm being selfish or I'm doing |
| 0:30.8 | something wrong. And so I feel ashamed and it's like, okay, we're going to have a whole crusade |
| 0:35.2 | against feeling bad or, you know, it's just this like confusing spiral of I kind of like to call |
| 0:42.8 | it like emotional whack-a-mole. |
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