The birth of ‘healing practices’ as plastered all over social media and advertising, risks perpetrating a need to ‘fix’ ourselves
What started out as a collective sharing of individuals seeking to move beyond traumatic experiences and insecurities has turned into a different beast entirely.
The message from business ads and influencers promoting self-care and self-improvement is a deviation of what we should be hearing – not ‘you will be fine if you improve yourself’ but instead ‘if you improve yourself you’ll be ok’. Of course, there is merit in being the best we can be, but the constant message that’s being reinforced is that we are perpetually falling short. It’s easy to see why you might start beating yourself up mentally and emotionally when its comes to the changes we need to make but perhaps can’t.I don’t feel broken. Like most of us, my life isn’t a study in smooth sailing.
There’s pressure from brands and social media to make sure all our mental energy is taken up with things – services, validation, effort, self-improvement. And it threatens to conceal what isvaluable – walks in nature, time with friends, speaking to professional therapists, being creative, escapism…
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