All of our systems are designed to put the burden on us to take care of ourselves. What if we adopted the Care Manifesto, and we could start to take care of each other?
I recently became a caregiver to my partner due his acute transverse myelitis. If I hear someone say to me one more time, "make sure you take care of you" I am going to scream. I know they probably mean well, but I don't even know what that means. It reminds me of someone telling me when I was raising my three children - I had a newborn, a two year old, and a four year old - that I just needed a nice long bubble bath.
I loved this piece and it is good to know about the Care Manifesto. It makes all the difference to know you are not alone with life's challenges, and to experience the joy in helping and being helped. Creative solutions emerge from these networks of care.
Toxic self-care is out! Promiscuous care is in! I thought this was so insightful, and I'm often thinking about how to widen the circle of concern and care in our lives to take in our whole community: "in the U.S. and the U.K, inadequate state funding and sexist and racist disdain for caregivers has made people more fearful and more focused on looking after “their own.”
Our scarcity mindset puts a laser focus on our own kids and family in sometimes toxic ways. Love these ideas to break out of that. Also, I want your pre-kid life!
I recently became a caregiver to my partner due his acute transverse myelitis. If I hear someone say to me one more time, "make sure you take care of you" I am going to scream. I know they probably mean well, but I don't even know what that means. It reminds me of someone telling me when I was raising my three children - I had a newborn, a two year old, and a four year old - that I just needed a nice long bubble bath.
I loved this piece and it is good to know about the Care Manifesto. It makes all the difference to know you are not alone with life's challenges, and to experience the joy in helping and being helped. Creative solutions emerge from these networks of care.
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Toxic self-care is out! Promiscuous care is in! I thought this was so insightful, and I'm often thinking about how to widen the circle of concern and care in our lives to take in our whole community: "in the U.S. and the U.K, inadequate state funding and sexist and racist disdain for caregivers has made people more fearful and more focused on looking after “their own.”
Our scarcity mindset puts a laser focus on our own kids and family in sometimes toxic ways. Love these ideas to break out of that. Also, I want your pre-kid life!