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Have We Been Doing Self-Care All Wrong?

By Angelica Puzio — 2021

To understand how the term “self-care” has evolved, I dug into the history of the phrase. The term has origins in medical research, but its leap from academia to public awareness can be traced back to the Black Panther Party and Black feminist writers.

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The Search for Common Ground

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Radical Self Care: Alicia Garza

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The BIPOC Community Garden—Connecting Food and People through Gardening

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For My People

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Howard Thurman Lost Lectures - Love or Perish

Howard Thurman Lost Lectures - Love or Perish

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The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leading Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural Congregations

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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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