We’ve been conditioned to see our needs as inconvenient, to shrink ourselves, to avoid asking for help until we’re at a breaking point. But community care isn’t about convenience; it’s about compassion.

In this episode, Caitlin Liz Fisher explores what it means to allow ourselves to have nice things—to believe we are worthy of care, comfort, and support. Through a vulnerable story about buying new glasses and unlearning shame around “being expensive,” Caitlin invites us to reflect on the deep conditioning many of us carry about being a “burden.”

 “Don’t talk to people who act like your burdens are a huge inconvenience to them. We are here, in this human life, to be a little bit of a burden to other people — that’s part of being alive. That’s what community care is: showing up and doing something even if you don’t really want to, because it matters, because it’s important, because people deserve the help.” - Caitlin Liz Fisher

PS - We’re not meant to do life alone. Ask for help. Offer help. Be a little bit of a burden—and let that be okay. That’s how community care works. That’s how we heal!

What We Explore in This Episode

• The internalized shame of being “too expensive” or “a burden”
• How family dynamics and scarcity mindsets shape our self-worth
• Why it’s hard for many of us to accept care or spend money on ourselves
• Community care as an antidote to shame
• Doing things before it becomes an emergency — emotionally, physically, or financially

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