Self Care, Self Destruction & Self Delusion: What Self Love Is and Is Not!
To My Sisters
To My Sisters
4.9 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Lighting candles, taking long relaxing baths, luxury holidays and affirmations - in the 21st century, many of these activities are associated with self-care and self-love. But, in an era where we are often focused on what self-care looks like rather than feels like, how can we learn to love and take care of ourselves in a way that does not feed our destruction or cause delusion?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.6 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Light and breezy. |
| 0:16.2 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
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| 0:25.1 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.3 | This episode is brought to you by NHS Blood and Transplant. |
| 0:36.2 | Okay, so September was a busy month. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm sure your diaries were pretty full. |
| 0:40.7 | We've been in the middle of travelling, speaking, working and a whole bunch of bits and pieces. |
| 0:46.2 | But did you know that it was Sickle Cell Awareness Month? |
| 0:49.0 | There's a reason why this really matters to us and potentially for you as well. |
| 0:53.3 | But first, let's just explain what it |
| 0:55.3 | means for patients with sickle cell, for those who might not be sure. It's a serious lifelong condition |
| 1:00.7 | caused by unusually shaped red blood cells. It can be severely painful and life limiting. But well-matched |
| 1:06.8 | blood from a donor helps patients to live life to the full. So why does this matter to us so much? |
| 1:12.5 | There is currently a real need in the UK for people of Black Heritage to give blood regularly |
| 1:17.6 | to help treat Black patients with sickle cell. Sickle cell can affect anyone but is more common in |
| 1:23.2 | people of Black Heritage and is the fastest growing inherited blood disorder in the UK. We urgently need |
| 1:29.3 | new donors of Black Heritage to help fight sickle cell and regularly give blood to help save and |
| 1:34.4 | improve lives. The NHS needs 250 blood donations a day to help people affected with sickle cell. |
| 1:41.5 | That's a whole lot of blood. So you can understand why there's the need |
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