The Dark Side of Self Care: Popular Practices You Should Rethink NOW!
Everywhere you go, you'll hear people preaching various self care practices. However, a lot of them can actually be detrimental to your actual wellbeing, even though they sound great in theory!
How come?
When deciding on which self care practices (if any) to implement in your life, the first step is to have self awareness. Meaning that something that is great for MY mental health, could be making things worse for YOU (and vice versa of course).
Let me give you an example:
One of the common pieces of advice for "self care" and avoiding burnout is to do less, take it easy, take time off of work and so on. It's something that would work wonders for some people to relax, reset themselves and feel much better.
Not for me though.
I'm wired to be active!
Meaning, I feel at my BEST when I'm testing my capabilities. I get excited when I'm working on projects I'm passionate about (even when it's 14 hours in a day)! Put me on a beach somewhere to relax and get tanned, and I'll be bored out of my mind within an hour!
That's just one example.
Another thing you will often hear people say is to retreat into your own shell and have more "You time". However, for a lot of people, they'd feel much better when they instead spend that time volunteering & helping other people! Isolating one's self can again be detrimental to your mental health.
And so, knowing yourself is the first step so that you can decide how to best take care of YOU! Take every self care practice with a grain of salt, evaluate it, test it and see what works for you specifically.
Never take advice blindly, without proper thought and evaluation!
And that includes advice from me.
Timestamps:
00:00 Is "Self Care" Hurting You?
00:57 Why Self Awareness is the Key
03:45 My Worst Fear
04:34 What is Success?
05:07 Never Let People Say THIS!
06:20 The Work/Life SCAM
07:28 Success Has Never Been This Easy!
08:40 Be Self Aware of This Thing
09:45 The Truth About Haters
10:26 The YES Mentality
11:25 Haven't Found Your Passion Yet?
12:23 Self Awareness in Self Care
13:46 Am I Introverted or Extraverted?
15:21 Should You Focus on Yourself?
16:52 Where Does Happiness Come From?
18:27 The ULTIMATE Form of Self Care
19:49 Run TOWARDS Problems!
21:30 The GAME of Life
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