How wonderful that the messages we hear online, from friends, and from (healthy) workplaces now include the importance of self-care. However, the notion of self-care has turned into its own sort of trend…to the point that it has become an excuse for unhealthy behaviors.

Our relationship to our bodies is simultaneously the most intimate, connected, informed relationship and the most volatile, time-consuming, and fragile one. Our bodies are wise. They house intuition and cues; they know.