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Sharing – Creating a Self-Care Plan to Survive Stressful Times
This is, undoubtedly true for women, but I would add that for men, we have been taught that achievement and professional success matter, not self-care, and thus the lessons in the article are equally true. A lot of women feel guilty about a self-care plan — we have been taught to put others first. But,…
Sharing – Nature helps mental health, research says—but only for rich, white people?
See, it’s easy to tell people who live pretty comfortable lives what a difference some time in nature can make for their anxiety or other issues. People living in poverty or dealing with racism every day might not get the same benefit from an afternoon hike. We don’t know what impact it would have, because we’ve mainly only been testing in relatively wealthy countries with relatively wealthy subjects.
We should be considering all of the societal and environmental obstacles that exist for people when it comes to mental health challenges. I suspect it’s only very recently that we’ve begun to do that, so any of our typical “advice” about self-care might not be appropriate until we’ve done more.
Link – Duggar Sisters Sue Over Breach of Privacy
Whatever your opinion of the family and their beliefs, the girls were underage victims who deserved the anonymity that we would expect any underage victim to get. If we allow this to go just because they were famous, or we don’t really like the family anyway, then we are sending the message that not every child who was sexually abused deserves their privacy.