Helen Frankenthaler, Round Trip, 1957

A continuing conversation regarding self-care. If you missed the Substack post on the topic, here it is.

Let's Try Creative Self-Care Instead of a Hot Bath

Amber Vitti Hill

Ever since the great pandemic of 2020, we have been inundated with the “rules of self-care”: morning routines romantically filmed with dreamy filters for YouTube, calls for daily 90-minute yoga sessions and artisanal hot tea, long showers and nature walks, mani/pedis and massages. These all sound wonderful and healing, but when you break those activitie…

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I also mention a couple of other things in this podcast you may want to check out:

1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Helen Frankenthaler, American Abstract Expressionist
3. Show Your Work, Austin Kleon

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