Building Resilience: Self-Care as More Than Maintenance

The term "self-care" has come to mean everything from taking a bubble bath to getting your bikini line waxed and is an area of spending that tends to get a free pass when modern women examine their cash flow.

The truth is that self-care has nothing to do with appearance and has everything to do with building resilience as an act of political defiance.

In this episode, Kelley Long, financial coach and money activist, gets into the nuance of this growing multi-billion dollar industry, with gentle thoughts on where we might be able to strengthen our emotional and financial resistance, by calling this spending what it really is: personal grooming and maintenance.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:
- ⁠The Gospel of Wellness⁠, by Rina Raphael:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gospel-of-wellness-gyms-gurus-goop-and-the-false-promise-of-self-care-rina-raphael/17867609

- ⁠Outwitting the Devil⁠, by Napoleon Hill, annotated by Sharon Lechter:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/outwitting-the-devil-the-secret-to-freedom-and-success-napoleon-hill/G6Xk4MV2e5ojFdw5