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Dec
Hugh Ellis I have often had issues with the ‘self-care industry’ and the self-care posts of ‘influencers’ on social media. For a start, some of its favorite things to say seem patently untrue. ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup.’ Except throughout my youth, I witnessed people pouring from very empty cups; it was the most disadvantaged, marginalized, run-down, beat-down-upon people I saw taking care of others. Certainly not the upwardly-mobile types who could ‘afford’ to. ‘You can’t love others unless you love yourself.’ Is this true? Who totally, unreservedly loves themselves in these confusing times? Yet we still manage…