From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host, Jody Powell.

In this hour, we'll be listening to stories of moments of TLC, moments of receiving or giving care that ultimately translates to love.

Self-care has become a bit of a buzzword recently, but there's something to it.

A moment to set aside time to see to yourself, to press pause on your watch, even when no one else around

wants to.

Our first story comes from Frida Weiselle.

Frieda told this at our plate again, Slam, a night where we celebrate stories we've heard,

loved and wanted you to hear too.

This was told in New York City, where WNYC is a media partner of the Moth.

Here's Frida.

So I grew up in the Southmar Hasidic community, which is a segment of Orthodox Judaism that is very

concerned with preserving traditions from before the Holocaust. And one of the customs that my

grandparents brought to the United States when they came here after World War II as refugees

was the tradition that married women shaved their heads and kept

it shaved for life. Another tradition was that our marriages were arranged. So when I was 18, my

parents picked out a match for me, an 18-year-old sidelock, dark-haired boy from Yeshiva, whom I met a total of three times before we got married.

And the morning after the wedding, I was to be transformed into the look of the married woman.

The first shave is performed by the mother, so the morning after my mother came to my apartment,

my young husband left for

morning prayers, and she came to change my entire look. She pulled over a brand new kitchen chair

to the brand new vanity mirror. Everything in my apartment was spanking new. There was popery everywhere, monogram towels.

It was the beyond of bed bath and beyond.

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