The Myth of Self-Care: How Community Care Saves Lives

We hold up self-care as the ultimate way for humans to take care of themselves. This goes for providers as well as clients and everyone in between. But self care is not always possible or enough. Self-care is an issue of privilege and when people can’t engage in self-care due to time or money constraints or even lack of bandwidth, it can perpetuate a negative spiral of low self worth and low self esteem. Community is how we not only recover, but also how we stay recovered.