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    We need to move on from self-care to something that cannot be captured by capitalism | Brigid Delaney

    Rather than just seeing ourselves, we need to recognise that our health and fates are inextricably linked to our fellow human beings and find collective care
    by Brigid Delaney Jan 30, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘Self-care was very appealing for women who were overwhelmed...women who were burning out. Which is basically most women.’ Photograph: Alex Tihonov/PR

    Any chance that my hope the odious phrase “self-care” would be expelled from popular use this new decade disappeared when I saw the cover of this month’s Cosmopolitan (UK) magazine.

    The cover star is Lena Dunham and the strapline is “on sex, love and self-care”. That she is talking about self-care in terms of a health problem (endometriosis) that took 13 years before it was diagnosed – and left her serious health problems,

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