My problems with “selfcare” nowadays. Too focused on sheet masks, essential oils, vacations, spending money. I think it’s become a way for brands to make us think we need to buy more things, and I don’t like it. Buying things won’t make us happy, and with all the debt the average person now has, I think it’s better if we focus on things that can actually improve our mood, not just things we have to buy to make us “look” happy. You know?
Her fix is to do things to improve things for her future self and I LOVED this!
Simple, small, and more importantly free (or little cost) things!
For example, we could make that doctor appt today so it’s off our list for tomorrow, or do our laundry tonight so that we don’t have to deal with it tomorrow, setting up automatic deposits into our savings accounts so we have money for a getaway, etc
All of this stuff we are doing to help future us will make more time for the things we want to do tomorrow! Cool idea I thought.
What’s your favorite thing to do for your future self? Mine is to clean my apartment before I go on vacation or go away for work. That way when I come back all tired and with all that dirty laundry, I don’t feel overwhelmed. Everything is put away and I have the space to unpack and get settled back in. Can you think of other ways we can rethink self care? I want to make sure all of this buy buy buy messaging doesn’t poison our thoughts and make self care seem impossible.

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