Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast with me Psychotherapist Anna Martha.

I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your emotional well-being.

Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast.

Today I want to completely turn self-care on its head for you.

I want to completely change the way that you feel about it.

My understanding of self-care has really transformed actually recently over this last couple of years. I used to think of self-care

as the bubble baths and the spa days now I am all for those things but I

realize also what I had been doing is thinking of self-care is having a shower,

going for a wee when I needed it, drinking enough water and I had yes, I've ticked the self-care box.

Had a glass of water, tick self-care done, had a shower today, tick self-care done.

Guys, mums! How have we turned these fundamental building blocks of self-respect into acts of self-care, something to applaud ourselves for. You know, I think meeting our

very basic needs need not be termed self-care but self-respect. I don't see my

husband celebrating when he gets out of the shower thinking that he has ticked the

self-care box of the day and applauding himself for it.

You know, so often these things were just fundamentals.

You know, rest being clean, kind of personal hygiene, brushing your teeth, having the shower,

drinking the water eating the food.

Those are not acts of self-care.

They are fundamental basic acts of self-respect. Even prisoners in prison

are afforded those things. To show you how imperative these basic acts are for our worth, I want you to think about if you were to deny your child water,

if you were to deny your child rest,

if you were to deny your child nourishing food at a meal time, how many

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