So, one really cool thing about living in the times that we do is that we have the whole world at our fingertips. Smartphones give us near-instant access to any person we want to talk to, any fact we want to know, or any game we want to play. We have found the vaccine for boredom.
To continue from last week’s Intro to Self-Care, I want to talk about isolation for this week’s theme of the week. It might not seem like the most logical progression, but I think that to actually talk about self-care, we first have to look under the hood and think about some of the underlying factors.
There’s a lot of literature out there on how to care for yourself, but not a lot on why it’s important (or not?). Therefore here’s my intro to self-care, and why it has become an issue in my humble opinion.