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This International Self-Care Day, we have a special guest host—writer Ashley C. Ford (IG: @smashfizzle). In this episode, we're honoring self-care’s social justice roots. By looking back on where the concept comes from, we can better understand what it means in our own lives and how we've grown.

Takeaways:

1- Self-care was popularized in 1960's activist circles during the civil rights movement.

2- We can look back on those origins and let them inform our own self-care today.

3- Ask yourself who influences your self-care and how it helps you show up for what you believe in.

Daily Mantra: I embrace self-care from the past to the present.

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