Self-care is looking after your own health and spirits deliberately. Practise self-care.
The word has been taken over by advertising, which sells baths as a substitute for rest. Real self-care is sleep, food and saying no rather than anything that can be bought.
1nounself-careLooking after your own health and spirits deliberately.
“His self-care amounted to one walk a day and it worked.”
self-care is a practice.
Self plus care; the term came from nursing and social work before it reached advertising.
Middle English
self
English
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English, today
self-care
From self + care. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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