What Self-Care Is (And What It Isn’t) [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/21/164:00 AM

There are many misconceptions about self-care. For instance, many of us assume that self-care means engaging in activities that are “good for us” (which we may or may not even enjoy). We assume self-care is going to the gym or lifting weights or running outside. It’s meditating for 30 minutes. It’s getting a massage. It’s practicing yoga every day.

And so you do all these things. But you don’t enjoy them. In fact, you might even dread them. Which really means that these activities aren’t self-care for you. Because self-care isn’t a should. It isn’t something we force ourselves to do.

[For more of this story, written by Margarita Tartakovsky, go to http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...is-and-what-it-isnt/]

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