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Self-Care vs. Self-Soothe, is there a difference?
Well… is there? Self-soothe is the act of calming yourself or intentionally seeking to down regulate your nervous system or decompress. Self-care is any activity that you do deliberately in order to take care of your mental, emotional, and physical health. You could say self soothing is under the umbrella of self-care but it does not encompass all of it. It’s helpful to differentiate between these two concepts. It’s taken me a long time to
Self-Care vs. Self-Soothe, is there a difference?
Well… is there? Self-soothe is the act of calming yourself or intentionally seeking to down regulate your nervous system or decompress. Self-care is any activity that you do deliberately in order to take care of your mental, emotional, and physical health. You could say self soothing is under the umbrella of self-care but it does not encompass all of it. It’s helpful to differentiate between these two concepts. It’s taken me a long time to
