lowkey I feel like a lot of people my age & younger think selfcare is like “treat yourself to new outfit” or “put on a facemask” or “have an extra scoop of ice cream” but i cannot stress enough that sometimes selfcare is “brushing your teeth” and “cleaning your room” and “eating some fruit” or “going for a walk”
It’s not just about the frivolous ‘treat-yourself’ stuff. most of the time it’s about actually taking care of your body’s basic needs
“Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.”
if you told me on election night 2016 that in 2020 under an impeached-but-acquitted trump administration, 115,000+ would be dead and 44 million unemployed from a global pandemic, and during pride month 2020, while the pandemic still rages on basically unchecked, they would roll back protections against medical and insurance discrimination of lgbtq people on the anniversary of the pulse massacre, a week before he gives a speech on race in tulsa on juneteenth, two weeks after he teargassed protesters who were outside the white house fighting to end police brutality and racism, i would have said, “why do you think i’m crying so hard i can barely breathe.”
