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Self Care: Selfishly Important? I'm all about that #selfcaresunday life Is it just me or has self-care taken over social media lately? We have become a society obsessed with taking time out to care for yourself, relax after a stressful day or reward ourselves for completing a project. Now it is, of course, beneficial and mostly well deserved, but do we take self-care too far? Can we argue going for a manicure or massage is more self-indulgence than self-care? Where does Self Care Originate from? The term 'Self-care' has been around for centuries and it's a concept said to have even been used by the Ancient Greeks. Of course, it has been used in vastly different ways ever since. It originally had a dark history, as it was theories and practices of self-governance which controlled African American women and men and their right to determine their own futures. Since, it has gone through a resurgence, with a revival of the term during the 60's which
