Is Your “Self-Care” Serving You?

Madison Schott
5 min readDec 11, 2021

Why society’s version of self-care is dangerous.

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Self-care is such a buzzword nowadays. We call almost anything “self-care”. Drinking a glass of wine? Self-care. Dining at a fancy restaurant? Self-care. Buying a new outfit? Self-care. But when do we stop calling everything “self-care”?

I think self-care is extremely important, but only when used as it is meant to be used. Wikipedia…

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Madison Schott

Analytics Engineer @ ConvertKit, author of the Learn Analytics Engineering newsletter and The ABCS of Analytics Engineering ebook, health & wellness enthusiast