Shivani seth biography of williams

Self-care is in danger of gradually meaning nothing. The phrase has been picked up by capitalistic structures and has become related to indulgence, rather than radical care.

Think of the images or descriptions of self-care you’ve encountered recently and they’ll likely involve bubble baths, wine, candles or something else that can be bought or commodified. And don’t get me wrong, I like most of those things.

Shivani seth biography of williams

But they’re not a curative for anything except perhaps stiff muscles or sobriety.

In this way, our society has done self-care a disservice, because we’ve made it smaller than it has the potential to be. In trying to define and commodify it, the dominant culture has forced self-care to exist in a smaller space than it might otherwise inhabit.

This isn’t a new phenomenon.

Sambhavna seth parents

Corporations have co-opted movements and radical thought for decades. And marginalized people have pushed back.

Self-care doesn’t come from this capitalistic root. It’s based in the idea that there is nothing