Self-care is nothing new. It's a concept said to have been kicked around since Ancient Greece. Of course, like everything we have the intended purpose and the abused definition that has made self-care all too confusing. 

Of course, we can't argue that it's natural to define self-care in your own way. And many people and different groups have throughout generations. But I think the latest definition of self-care that looks more like self-indulgence confuses the real meaning of what self-care means. 

In the shuffle of bath bombs and structured routines, we can lose ourselves or fail to find ourselves, which means we've not participated in self-care but rather self-indulgence. Don't get me wrong, I love the word indulgence just as much as you, and there is nothing wrong with a nightly bath, an occasional massage, or getting your nails done. 

Those are all well and good, necessary and caring for yourself in some way but we can't let self-indulgence steel what needs to be the real and accurate definition of self-care - which means to know yourself enough to know how to care for yourself. 

Not to care for yourself in a way someone else has defined - because this isn't a picture of you but of you slapping someone else's needs onto yourself. The truth of the matter is, there are a lot of people making big money with the new idea of self-care and making you buy into the idea that this is the path to health. 

I'm clearly on a rant - but I think this needs to be crystal clear. 

Self-care is not defined by the world but by you - by knowing yourself, the whole of who you are and then caring for that being in the way that brings you life. Can it look like self-indulgence, absolutely - but it doesn't often start there. It begins by knowing yourself - the real being under all of the masks. 

So how do we do that? Inside this podcast, I talk about the importance of digging up what self-care means to you and why this is important. I also show you how to learn more about your true self using the Enneagram. It's the start of The Ennea-Health Series, and it all begins right here.

 

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