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So what's the difference between self-care and self-nurture? Here's why I'm trying to embrace self-nurture and am leaving self-care behind.
I talked about it in episode 187 of the podcast.

It can be very surface level, the concept of self-care. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-focused-less-on-self-care-and-more-on-self-nurture-to-progress…

Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.

What can we do that nurtures us? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-focused-less-on-self-care-and-more-on-self-nurture-to-progress-our-hoarding-recovery/…

Self-care has become very commodified https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-focused-less-on-self-care-and-more-on-self-nurture-to-progress-our-hoarding-reco…

🆕 Podcast ep 187: What if we focused less on self-care and more on self-nurture to progress our hoarding recovery? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-foc…

New: Podcast ep 187: What if we focused less on self-care and more on self-nurture to progress our hoarding recovery? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-f…

The way I see self-nurturing is that it's deeper, it's more compassionate to ourselves, it's more sustainable and also it's more personalised. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

If you're trying to justify a purchase you don't need, it's very easy to say is this self-care? Sure! https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-focu…

If the self-care information we are hearing is all about something we have to buy or something we have to spend money on or something that's being marketed at us, that's not actually what the spirit of self-care should be about. https://www.

It's exhausting to try and fix. There's a lot of work. There's a lot of thinking. There's a lot of decisions to make. There's a lot of emotional stuff to dredge through to try and get through it. https://www.

Hitting your podcast app in a couple of hours, I talk about self-care vs self-nurture in the context of #HoardingDisorder
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