Self-care isn’t an excuse to tune out.
amid a stressful news cycle. It’s common advice, advice I deploy often as a mental health writer. But not this time. Not for white people.
This sentiment is egregious for many reasons, especially considering that the concept of self-care as we celebrate it today wasby and for Black people in order to survive in a world that cares disproportionately about white health and well-being. Seeing this advice persist now—and seeing white mental health, white feelings, and white self-care continue to be prioritized and centered—got me thinking a lot about the role self-care can and should play in the lives of white people at this moment.
This might sound weird to you if your personal definition of self-care is all sheet masks and bubble baths, but when mental health professionals talk self-care, they really mean a whole host of behaviors and actions we can take to support our mental and emotional well-being. Often, self-care isn’t soothing and pleasant—it’s work.
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