Best Of: What Does It Take To Really Treat Ourselves With Care?

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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While the term self-care was reimagined in the 1980s by Black civil rights activist and feminist Audre Lorde, the concept has been co-opted and commercialized.

Has the pandemic changed how we view self-care? What do we get wrong about it? And what does it take to really take care of ourselves?

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0:00.0	And the morning I drink my coffee, stand in the sun, listen to the birds, write in a gratitude
0:12.6	journal, and I've been a random nature study throughout the day taking photos.
0:18.5	Those are some of the things I do for self-care.
0:21.5	The past two years have been stressful.
0:24.9	In September 2020, more than a quarter of US adults reported symptoms of depression.
0:30.4	That's a three-fold increase from before the pandemic began.
0:34.0	For people with lower incomes or those who lost a job or loved one, the rates were even
0:38.7	higher.
0:39.8	The upheaval and uncertainty of the pandemic means that for some of us, taking care of and
0:45.0	treating ourselves is more important than ever.
0:47.9	Now the treat yourself mentality is nothing new.
0:50.5	You're probably familiar with this Parks and Recreation scene.
0:53.3	Once a year, Don and I spend a day treating ourselves.
0:56.3	What do we treat ourselves to?
0:57.6	Clothes.
0:58.6	Treat yourself.
0:59.6	Fragrance.
1:00.6	Treat yourself.
1:01.6	Massage.
1:02.6	Treat yourself.
1:03.6	Mimosas.
1:04.6	Treat yourself.
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