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Sharing – You Can’t Breathe Through a Broken System

This is our reality:

Why mindfulness isn’t enough when your world is on fire

https://quietlybecoming.substack.com/p/you-cant-breathe-through-a-broken

Mindfulness and other self-care techniques are great for helping us through the day-to-day of living in a stressful world. I’m not arguing against any of those things. But, they are a distraction from the systemic issues that Salwa addresses so well:

You can’t meditate your way out of a housing crisis. You can’t stretch your way through poverty. And no amount of journaling will quiet the anxiety that comes from not knowing if you can feed your kids this week.

Like her, I am all for doing what you need to for self-care, whatever that looks like for you. But we cannot simply prescribe better self-care practices to people who need our society to stop harming them.

Until we recognize that and fight for those changes, we are falling short in advocating for better mental health for everyone.

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