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Is your self-care actually just selfishness? #selfcare #motivation #purpose

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SoulWords—Rabbi Shais Taub

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Is self-care actually making people more selfish? Certainly, people use this term self-care to give themselves license to be very selfish. And in fact, they become indignant toward anyone who even questions their selfishness. And yet, at the same time, there is a legitimate concept of self-care. Like, for instance, if you don't sleep, you're not going to be productive the next day. So, is it selfish to sleep and to call that self-care? So, here's how you get clarity. Don't ask yourself what self-care you need. Ask yourself what you're going to do with your self-care after you get it. In other words, if the purpose of self-care is just more self-care, then yeah, it's abjectly selfish and it serves no purpose. But if the purpose of self-care is in order to energize yourself to be able to be more useful to others, to serve a purpose outside of yourself, greater than yourself, then ultimately, even the self-care isn't self, it's about something greater than self. So, that's what you should ask yourself. Once I take care of myself, what am I going to turn around and do better because of that?