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Rhonda Johnson's avatar

I feel like this spa, massage, some person catering to me mentality (and I do like a good massage) can create, if we don’t recognize it, is a colonize and capitalized being where the only way to be alone and rest and relax and seek God, can only come from paying for a service to do so.

Someone else serving me has to occur for me to find peace.

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes's avatar

Yes! It makes caring for ourselves a class privilege rather than the inherent right of every person.

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Candace M Lewis's avatar

This was so helpful to reflect upon what is needed in my own self care versus how capitalism and corporations have co-oped self care and are constantly telling me what I need for self care and how much it’s going to cost me!!! To your point I’m pro spa and travel and I want it to come from internal motivation and not externally driven.

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes's avatar

I love spas and travel too, but now see them as the cherry on my self-care sundae!

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