Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet, and person who loves to talk about money.

And one of the things that we talk about quite a lot on this channel, I have issued several rants on this subject,

to a surprising amount of residence, is the concept of self-care. This is a concept that I

think is amazing in theory, but is often in practice, especially on places like social media,

really bastardized into something that, in my opinion, only heightens the extent to which we are

often atomized and distance from each other and responsible

for issues which often are much more systemic than individualized in nature. Put simply,

it's often the case that you just can't self-care your way out of certain things. And more

importantly, if a version of self-care only exists to reinforce the same toxic hyper-capitalist structures that put us in that

position in the first place, it's probably not a long-term solution to anything.

Now, obviously, as we've discussed on the channel, things like a glass of champagne or a

slice of cake or a bubble bath can be really enjoyable.

But they're also not often what we mean when we're talking about self-care

in a way that's meaningful and helpful in the long term, and perhaps most importantly,

structurally beneficial to people besides just yourself.

Because, again, a lot of this sort of Instagram-ified self-care is often targeting the most

privileged people in society to begin with.

So I say all of this to say,

we are always on the search for a version of self-care that is pragmatic and holistic and reaches

a lot wider than just whatever we can pull out our wallet and happen to buy. My guest today is the

founder of Inner Workout and the author of the forthcoming book by that same name. We'll talk about it and it will be linked for pre-order in the description.

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