Real Self-Care

I checked this new book out of the library. The subtitle is Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included.

I’m not a fan of social media so don’t follow influencers on Instagram. As well I haven’t been a fan of traditional self-care that is touted like cleanses and bubble baths.

My only self-care I’ve persisted in engaging in is going out socially with friends and eating healthful food and engaging in some kind of exercise.

If I remember right the self-care industry is a billion-dollar business.

Who can afford to buy products marketed as wellness tools. These products don’t instill actual health over our lifetimes.

What I think that the MD author doesn’t connect is the dot dot dots that are connected: If self-care products gave us optimal health why are women getting cancer heart disease and diabetes routinely in America today?

The promise of a product to make us feel better is an empty promise.

Far better to cook yourself a healthful meal from a recipe to share with friends at your dining table. Sharing a meal promotes health and wellbeing.

Nobody’s making a quick buck when you do that. There’s no money to be made in capitalist America when each of us is inherently well and doesn’t need fixing.

I say: buy a new shirt or blouse to feel good. Old-fashioned fashion therapy is one kind of self-care as recommended in the Allison Bornstein guide Wear It Well that I reviewed here.

The fall is coming in two weeks. The time to edit our closets and bring the fall clothes front and center on the rod is here.

Does the saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” apply here. Likely likely the rod to hell is hung with failed purchases.

In a coming blog entry I will talk about the wonder of editing our wardrobes.

“In with the new out with the old!” Why wait until New Year’s Eve to celebrate.