Is Self-Care Enough?

a poem

Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
The Brain is a Noodle

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Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

YES!
To self-care
but also

YES
to community care

with an emphasis
on increasing
connection and
relationships
that make self-care
much easier
and vice versa.

#WritingPrompt: balancing self-care and community care

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Hi, I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and self-care is important, let’s never erase that. But, the way that companies are pitching evermore heavy workloads and portraying that issue as an individual lack of resilience to stressor is SO insidious. Watch for that language as it creeps up. Don’t be the person who pushes this idea forward.

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Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
The Brain is a Noodle

Filling in the cracks on conflicting self improvement advice and translating how these can work for a more diverse audience ✨ Icon by: @jkbarts #WEOC writer.