Self-Care Self-care is how you nurture and restore your mind, body, and spirit. The key word here is “self,” so making time to care for yourself is entirely up to you. Don’t confuse self-care, however, with treating yourself to lavish gifts and pampering yourself. In some instances you may choose for that to be a part of your regimen, but real acts of self-care have little to do with spending money. Instead, they’re about showing up for yourself by setting boundaries.
i came into contact with “self-care” concept when i attended Union and speaking about my burnout and crash from CAIR coupled with Whittier Law i couldn’t figure out how to function. the two gifts from MLI at Union were the idea of self care and the Julia Cameron book The Artists Way. and this was after Occupy movement but before the Black Lives Matter summers of unrest that came in 2018, but i think BLM started in 2013 after Trayvon Martin was murdered. MLI happened in 2015 for me. So self care was already being introduced into the social consciousness and i didn’t run into it until MLI the summer of 2015. It was before I went to Pakistan but after my trip to Central America.
