I really hate how all the "reduce stress" articles always wind up saying the same stuff, and it always feels like there's an assumption of middle class free time and income. The whole thing seems so paternalistic and dismissive that maybe there's stuff I really can do which I frustratedly feel like I can't.
@Leucrotta It's not accessible to most people. Who tf can make time for daily yoga when you're underpaid, half your class has COVID at any given time and won't mask up, your Zoom doesn't work because your internet is too slow because you can't pay for faster, and you get up to do it anyway and you pop out your back? They're happy to sell you salt lamps and crystals. (Not that those things are bad in and of themselves, but they're not a well-paying job, or union protections so you don't throw your back out in the first place, or better internet access treated as a public utility). 2/2
@Leucrotta Some friends of mine and I were talking on FB about how "self care ideas" is another example of making individuals responsible for their own socially created situations+trying to solve social issues with extreme individual capitalism, all to a dysfunctional degree.1/2