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Stronger Together: When Self-Care Becomes Community Care
By Alicia Wallace — 2021
Self-care has become a buzzword, a mantra, and a commodity over the past few years. The upside is that people are learning to take responsibility for their own well-being in a variety of ways.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.